Vikipedio:Diskutejo/Diversejo

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Diversejo

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Amendo al la regularo pri tuja forigado

En Vikipedio:Regularo pri tuja forigado#Artikoloj mi proponas modifi jenon:

• Unuigi, purigi kaj plibonigi la erojn A1 kaj A3 sub la nomo «Malplena artikolo» kaj kun jena teksto: «Tre mallongegaj artikoloj. Ankaŭ artikoloj konsistantaj nur el teĥnikaj aferoj (kategorioj, interlingvaj ligiloj, sekcititoloj sen enhavo en sekcio, informkesto ktp.) aŭ nur de aldonaj informoj (bildoj, sekcioj Vidu ankaŭ, Eksteraj ligiloj, Literaturo). Se artikolo multe superas kadron de vortara difino kaj trivialaj informoj, tiam ĝi ne plenumas tiun ĉi kriterion». Por ne ŝanĝi numerojn de la A-eroj ekde A4, anstataŭ A3 skribi la frazon «Unuigita kun A1».
• Kompletigi la eron A11 per la frazo «Ankaŭ artikoloj pri temoj (en tiu nombro objektoj kaj personoj) evidente nemenciindaj».

Gamliel Fiŝkin 03:09, 1 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Por: (ni parte diskutis ĉe VP:DA) Dankon pro via propono.--Salatonbv (diskuto) 04:35, 2 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Por: --Vikiano (diskuto) 13:13, 5 dec. 2016 (UTC)

A1-A3 Kontraŭ: Mi konsideras la du konceptojn (kunteksto por A1 kaj enhavo por A3) sufiĉe distingaj por havi 2 apartajn erojn. Mi komprenas, ke pluraj eroj povus eventuale esti kunigitaj (eble eĉ ĉiuj en unu eroj "Maltaŭga"), sed tio ĉi ne estas tia kazo. Krome, la proponita nomo «Malplena artikolo» laŭ mi ne spegulas la sencon, ĉar artikolo povas esti "plena" je senkuntekstaj informoj kaj teĥnikaj aferoj kaj tiel forigenda laŭ la nuntempaj difinoj. --KuboF (diskuto) 00:51, 6 dec. 2016 (UTC)

A11 Kontraŭ: En nia Vikipedio okazas ardaj diskutoj pri menciindeco kaj kompreno pri ĝi multe varias inter niaj kontribuantoj. Kutimaj kriterioj kvazaŭ ne validas kaj artikoloj post diskutado restas neforigitaj pro manko de konsento. Anstataŭ ŝanĝi kriterion pri tuja forigo mi preferus starigi kontroleblan kriterion por diskutado pri forigoj. Povus esti "temo estas konsiderata kiel nemenciinda se ne estas trovitaj almenaŭ 2 sendependaj, netrivialaj, fidindaj fontoj" aŭ simile.

Komento: Estas alia punkto. VP:K1 eble ne plu estas necesa. Estas serio da "forigendaj" kategorioj postulita de RG72 ĉe VP:FA. Se ili estas tute tujforigendaj, diskuto estas nenecesa uzante VP:K1. Tamen, se oni alidirektas per Ŝablono:Kategoria alidirekto, administrantoj ne devas diskuti aŭ forigi tiajn kategoriojn, kiuj ne estas gramatike eraraj sed nur malplenaj.--Salatonbv (diskuto) 19:36, 2 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Komento: Eble ne necesas atentigi pri unuigo de kriterioj, cetere la nombro de la kriterioj ne estas vicorda... Espereble mi komprenas la aferon ĝuste. Sufiĉus unuigi A1 kun A3 kaj redakti la sekcion forigante el ĝi la mallongigon {{MLL|VP:A3}}. Mi proponus ankaŭ aldoni ligojn kun paĝoj, kiuj klarigus konceptojn kiel menciindecon. La paĝo havas entute malmultajn ligilojn. --Vikiano (diskuto) 13:13, 5 dec. 2016 (UTC)

@Vikiano: Rilate al vicordo: la nombrado respegulas vicordon en aliaj Vikipedioj (la plej gravaj inspiroj estis la angla kaj la slovaka Vikipedioj) por bona interkongrueco. Rilate al malmulteco de ligiloj en la paĝo: redaktu kun kuraĝo! Se vi povas plibonigi iun paĝon, faru tion, eĉ se temas pri regulo (nu, tiuokaze iom pli pripensu, eble unue demandu en la diskuto, sed certe faru ;). --KuboF (diskuto) 00:57, 6 dec. 2016 (UTC)

@KuboF:Dankon por la klarigoj! Post la fino de la balotado mi aldonos ligilojn. Amike, Vikiano (diskuto) 15:41, 6 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Komento: Saluton! Ĉu estas ankoraŭ estonteco por tiu ĉi diskuto? Vikiano (diskuto) 08:48, 9 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Password reset

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (diskuto) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 23:59, 13 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Traduko

Mi pardonpetas ke ĉi tiu mesaĝo estas en la angla.

Ni havas problemon kun atakantoj kiuj kaptas uzantokontojn kun privilegiitaj uzantorajtoj (ekzemple, administrantoj, burokratoj, kaŝantoj, kontrolantoj). Verŝajne, tio povas esti pro malfortaj aŭ ripete uzataj pasvortoj.

Membroj de la komunumo laboras kune kun membroj de multaj teamoj ĉe la Fondaĵo Vikimedio por solvi ĉi tiun problemon.

Dume ni petas ke ĉiu rigardu la pasvortojn kiujn li aŭ ŝi elektis por siaj vikiaj kontoj. Se vi scias ke vi elektis malfortan pasvorton, aŭ se vi elektis pasvorton kiun vi uzas ie aliloke, bonvolu ŝanĝi ĉi tiujn pasvortojn.

Elektu fortajn pasvortojn — kun longeco de ok aŭ pli signoj, kun literoj, ciferoj kaj interpunkcio. Joe Sutherland (diskuto) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 23:59, 13 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Tradukis Gamliel Fiŝkin 04:19, 14 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 00:11, 14 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Traduko

Bonvolu akcepti miajn pardonpetojn — tiu unua linio devus esti legata kiel «Helpu kun tradukoj!». Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 00:11, 14 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Tradukis Gamliel Fiŝkin 04:24, 14 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Invito legi ampleksigitan artikolon

Saluton! Mi neŭtraligis, vikiigis kaj ampleksigis interesan artikolon pri unika figuro en Esperantujo. Temas pri João Custódio Machado. Bonan legadon! Vikiano (diskuto) 16:08, 29 nov. 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-49

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• En Special:ActiveUsers vi povas elekti vidigeblajn uzantojn el specifaj uzantaj grupoj. [1]
• Specialan:UserRights estas nun videbla de ĉiuj. Antaŭe nur tiuj kiu povus ŝanĝi uzantajn rajtojn povis vidi ĝin. Aliaj uzantoj ricevis eraro-mesaĝon. [2]
• ORES nun povas montri kun malsamaj koloroj kiom probable difektontan estos redakto al la vikio. Tio funkcias por lingvojn, kiuj trejnis ORES por rekoni difektantajn redaktojn. [3]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• Vi nun vidos kategoriojn kun 0 paĝoj en Special:Categories. Antaŭe vi ne vidis malplenajn kategoriojn tie. [4]
• La nova versio de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 7a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 8a de decembro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

• Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la VisualEditor teamo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 6an de decembro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• La 2016a enketo pri komunuma dezirolisto decidos kion la teamo de komunuma teknologio laboros dum sekvanta jaro. Vi voĉdonas por deziroj sur la enketo paĝo ĝis la 12a de decembro. Vi povas vidi kion okazis pri deziroj de lasta jaro sur la 2015a rezulta paĝo.

Teknologia novaĵoj preparita far tekaj ambasadoroj kaj poŝtita de roboto • Kontribui • Traduki • Akiri helpon • Provizi retroinformadojn • Aboni aŭ malaboni.

18:07, 5 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Ĉu publika deklaro aŭ proklamo havas kopirajton?

Kp. la komenton de KuboF kaj liajn ŝanĝojn ĉirkaŭ 20:14, 8 dec. 2016. --Lu (diskuto) 08:21, 10 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Organizado de la Regulara Afero en Vikipedio

Saluton! Jen diskuto pri la temo. Mi invitas vin al ĝi. Koran dankon! Vikiano (diskuto) 16:32, 12 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Uzantoj kiu havas Yahoo retpoŝtaj adresoj ne povus uzi Specialaĵo:Retpoŝti_uzanton sendi retpoŝtojn. Tio ĉi nun estis riparita. Retpoŝtoj nun venos el @wikimedia.org adreso. Uzantoj, kiuj ricevas retpoŝton far vi ankoraŭ respondos al via retpoŝta adreso kaj eblos vidi ĝin. [5]
• You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [6]
• Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [7]

Problemoj

• Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [8]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• La nova versio de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 14a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 15a de decembro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

• Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la VisualEditor teamo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 13an de decembro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Teknologia novaĵoj preparita far tekaj ambasadoroj kaj poŝtita de roboto • Kontribui • Traduki • Akiri helpon • Provizi retroinformadojn • Aboni aŭ malaboni.

19:29, 12 dec. 2016 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.

We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Aŭtomate ŝalti plejparton de betaj funkciojn".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31, 14 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Proponata regulo «Supozu bonajn intencojn»

La regulpropono «Supozu bonajn intencojn» ekzistas jam dum kvar jaroj, sed ĝis nun konservas statuson de propono. Inter la ligiloj al ĝi mi ne trovis diskuton por oficialigi ĝin. Kaj mi opinias, ke la teksto estas mallonga kaj diras preskaŭ nenion; tial mi tradukis (kun modifoj) la koncernan oficialan regulon de la ruslingva Vikipedio.

Jen du proponataj tekstoj:

• la menciita malnova propono estas legebla ĉe Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn,
• alia propono dume situas ĉe Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn/Alia propono.

Ni konsideru tiujn du tekstojn por elekti kaj eble poluri iun el ili. Rezulte ni elektu el du eblecoj.

• Se rezulte de diskuto la komunumo preferos la malnovan tekston, ĝi iĝos oficiala regulo aŭ rekomendo; la ŝablono «propono» supre de ĝi estos anstataŭita per respektiva ŝablono. Tiam la alia teksto iĝos rifuzita regulpropono, kiu restu sur sia nuna loko sed estu indikita per respektiva ŝablono «rifuzita regulpropono» (ĝi ankoraŭ ne ekzistas, mi kreos ĝin je la fino de ĉi diskuto).
• Se rezulte de diskuto la komunumo preferos la novan tekston, ĝi iĝos oficiala regulo aŭ rekomendo, kaj la malnova iĝos rifuzita regulpropono. Tiam la malnova teksto estu alinomita en subpaĝon (ekzemple, Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn/Malnova teksto), kaj la nova estu alinomita sur la lokon kie nun la malnova estas; ambaŭ tekstoj estu indikitaj per respektivaj ŝablonoj.

Do, bonvolu diskuti ĉi tie. Gamliel Fiŝkin 02:42, 15 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Por

(Por) Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn/Alia propono.--DidCORN la 19-a de decembro 2016, 14:35 (UTC) (duobla voĉo)@DidCORN:

1. Por: Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn/Alia propono.--La nova versio de l'artikolo ne estas pura invento de Gamliel estas traduko de la samtema artikolo en la rusa versio pri kiu ekzistas pluraj aliaj ligiloj.--DidCORN la 20-a de decembro 2016, 18:25 (UTC)
2. Malforte por: la malnova versio, Vikipedio:Supozu bonajn intencojn. Verdire, la manko de vigla diskutado (aŭ de multnombra konsento) montras laŭ mi ke tiu regulo estas verŝajne jam subkomprenata de aliaj reguloj. Sed mi ne estas kontraŭ la aldono de tiu regulo (en ia formo); mi preferas la malnovan version, pli mallongan sed ankaŭ pli klaran.--Rdelre (diskuto) 12:15, 24 dec. 2016 (UTC)
3. Forte por: --Lingveno (diskuto) 21:05, 27 dec. 2016 (UTC)
4. Por: la nova propono. Ankaŭ mi opinias, ke la nova teksto estas nenecese longa. Povas esti, ke Gamliel tion celis, pro la baloto... estas pli facile forstreki ol aldoni tekston. Pro la fakto ke la titolo de la rekomendo per si mem klarigas ĝin, mia menso rifuzis tralegi... (malgraŭ tio mi tralegis). Oni tuj komprenas: kiam nenio signas malhonestecon, tiam mi sopozu bonan intencon. Krome mi proponas poluri ie kaj ie la tekston. Mi ne scias, ĉu poluro povus fariĝi nun aŭ nur post la baloto. Vikiano (diskuto) 16:56, 29 dec. 2016 (UTC)
5. Por: la nova propono; mi ĵus legis ĝin. Jan sewi (diskuto) 21:48, 11 jan. 2017 (UTC)
6. Por: Mi ne vidas problemon en la longeco, multaj artikoloj estas eĉ pli longaj. Alaŭdo ۩ ✉ ₪ 19:51, 18 jan. 2017 (UTC)
7. Por: ~★ nmaia ^d 12:24, 22 jan. 2017 (UTC)
8. Por: la nova versio, ne gravas se ĝi estas longeta. --Theomanou (diskuto) 14:46, 15 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Kontraŭ

1. (Kontraŭ) ambaŭ. En la angla vikipedio ĉi tiu regulo estas tro ofte uzata por eviti ĉian kritikon pri intencoj. Ĝi iĝas facila maniero forbati kritikojn laŭ supozo tro naiva. Hodiaŭ oni bone scias, ke ŝtatoj kaj firmaoj dungas armeojn de gantopupoj. Kial supozi bonajn intencojn, sciante tion? Mi ne diras, ke tio ne estas bona sugesto, sed ĝi nek estu universala regulo; la situacio ne estas tiom simpla. Jan sewi (diskuto) 11:01, 20 dec. 2016 (UTC)

   Ekzemple se grupo de individuoj konstante nuligas redaktojn, kiuj rilatas al politikistoj ŝatataj de ili, oni ne rajtas pridemandi iliajn intencojn. Tio estas tre bedaŭrinda kaj naiva regulo, kiun ni ŝajne ne devas kopii de alilingvaj vikipedioj, aŭ voĉdono ne okazus. Jan sewi (diskuto) 10:32, 27 dec. 2016 (UTC)

   Iliaj intencoj vere ne estas gravaj. Grava estas ĉu uzanto bone redaktas, ne kial. Eble nur vi pensas ke politikistoj estas ŝatataj de ili sed vere ili pensas ke nuligita teksto estas malenciklopedia. Marek Mazurkiewicz (diskuto) 18:42, 27 dec. 2016 (UTC)

2. Kontraŭ: la nova propono. Ĝi estas multe tro longa. --Hans Eo (diskuto) 15:13, 25 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Komentoj

Komento: Mi ĝenerale konsentas ke ni bezonas interkonsento pri la temo. Mi ankoraŭ konsentas kun malnova teksto. Mi ne certas ĉu ni bezonas longan tekston. Marek Mazurkiewicz (diskuto) 11:02, 25 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Komento: Pardonon, ke mi faris sekciojn "por" kaj "kontraŭ", sed ili ne ŝajnas funkcii. Ni klare diru por la "nova" aŭ "malnova" regulo.--Salatonbv (diskuto) 02:06, 28 dec. 2016 (UTC)

• La malnova teksto diras preskaŭ nenion; ĝi miavide estas preskaŭ, kiel tio estas elokvente nomata en la rusa lingvo, sendenta. Rdelre, Hans Eo kaj Marek Mazurkiewicz, ĉu vi kredas, ke regulo devas diri plejparte nur la fakton, ke ĝi ekzistas? Jan sewi, vi absolute pravas rilate la malnovan tekston, sed ĉu vi legis la novan? Vikiano, dankon pro la subteno, sed kion konkrete vi opinias superfua, sendamaĝe forviŝebla? Salatonbv, Vikipedio ne estas demokratio, kaj decidoj estu farataj per esplorado de argumentoj, ne per kalkulado de voĉoj. Gamliel Fiŝkin 19:53, 11 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Ni eble ne bezonas la ŝablonojn: "1 por", "2 por", "3 por"... Ĉar ni ne konas la opiniojn ĝis ni legas "por la nova propono" aŭ "kontraŭ la malnova propono".-Salatonbv (diskuto) 21:58, 11 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Responde: Estimata @Gamliel Fishkin: mi elturniĝis iom primitive... tamen mi elturniĝis. Mi aldonis la nunan version de la teksto al ties diskutpaĝo kaj poste redaktis ĝin, tiel ke vi povu kompari... Bv. vidi: Vikipedia diskuto:Supozu bonajn intencojn/Alia propono#Redaktopropono. Vikiano (diskuto) 04:21, 5 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Repripense: Mi relegis la komenton, kiun mi aldonis al mia pora voĉo decembre... se mi skribus ĝin nun, mi skribus alie. La teksto ne estas tiel nenecese longa, kiel mi skribis. Jam pasis longa tempo de kiam Gamliel proponis voĉdonadon. Kio mankas por ke la regulo ekvalidu? Vikiano (diskuto) 08:25, 9 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Anticipa rezulto

Mi pardonpetas al ĉiuj pri mia longa silento.

La kolego DidCORN argumentas, ke la pli nova teksto estas bazita sur la spertoj de aliaj lingvaj sekcioj de Vikipedio. Ankaŭ la kolego Vikiano subtenas la novan tekston; komence li opiniis ĝin iom tro longa kaj polurinda, sed post centtaga prinensado li venis al la konkludo, ke la pli nova teksto estas ideala. La kolegino Jan sewi komence oponis ambaŭ tekstojn; post tralego de la nova teksto ŝi forstrekis sian antaŭan opinion kaj subtenis la novan tekston. La kolegoj Alaŭdo kaj Theomanou subtenas la novan tekston, aparte dirante, ke ĝia ioma longeco ne estas problemo.

La kolegoj Lingveno kaj nmaia subtenas la proponon ĝenerale, ne indikante sian preferon al la malnova aŭ al la nova teksto.

La kolegoj Rdelre, Hans Eo kaj Marek Mazurkiewicz oponas la novan tekston. Tamen ilia sola argumento kontraŭ ĝi estas ĝia longeco. Nu, tio estas ne argumento sed emocio. La plej mallonga teksto estas teskto ankoraŭ ne verkita. Tamen ja ne estas trafa ideo entute ne havi regulojn.

Sume mi vidas argumentadon por la nova teksto.

La kolego Salatonbv provis anstataŭi argumentadon per voĉdonado; poste li mem vidis, ke voĉdonado de funkcias. Vikipedio ne estas demokratio. Tamen se iu tamen kredas ke voĉoj estas pli gravaj ol argumentoj, do jen:

• tri voĉoj (Hans Eo, Marek Mazurkiewicz, Rdelre) por la malnova teksto;
• ses voĉoj (Alaŭdo, DidCORN, Gamliel Fiŝkin, Jan sewi, Theomanou, Vikiano) por la nova teksto;
• du voĉoj (Lingveno, nmaia) por la propono ĝenerale.

Do, se neniu prezentos novajn argumentojn (N.B.: ne emociojn, sed argumentojn), post kelkaj tagoj mi skribos la rezulton ĉi tie, kaj la nova (pli longa) teksto iĝos oficiala regulo de Vikipedio en Esperanto.

Se iu havas kion diri, bonvolu diri tion nun.

Gamliel Fiŝkin 01:11, 1 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Verdire, Gamliel Fishkin, ĉu mia sola argumento estas la longeco? Ne: mi parolis ankaŭ pri klareco. Ĉu mi proponis havi nenian regulon? Ne, mi nur favoris la malnovan tekston (anstataŭ la nova) kiel oficialan regulon.

Tamen mia voĉdono estis "malforta" (malforta subteno por la malnova teksto kaj malforta opono al la nova). Mi vidas kelkajn problemojn en la nova teksto, sed nur malgravajn. Do, baze de la komentoj de la plimulto de la voĉdonantoj, mi taksas ĝuste ke vi igas la novan tekston oficiala, kaj ni vidos poste en ĝia diskutpaĝo ĉu vere necesos klarigoj aŭ plibonigoj.--Rdelre (diskuto) 08:37, 1 jan. 2018 (UTC)

La "nova regulo" estas tipa burokrata elpensaĵo kaj nepre tro longa. Neniu legas tiajn. Kaj ĉiuokaze validas diversaj konsiloj pri afabla konduto kaj la rekomendo ignori regulojn.

Tech News: 2016-51

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Novaĵoj pri teknologio

• Pro la ferioj, la sekvanta afero de novaĵoj pri teknologio estos elsendita je la 9a januaro 2017.
• La verkistoj de la teknika informilo petas vian opinion. Ĉu vi akiris la informon ke vi deziris dum tiu jaro? Ĉu ni mankis gravan teknikan informaĵon dum 2016? Kio informospeco venis tro malfrue? Bonvolu diri al ni! Vi povas skribi per via lingvo. Dankon!

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Administrantoj kaj traduk-administrantoj nun povas uzi Specialaĵo:Paĝlingvo sur vikioj kun la traduka kromaĵo. Tio ĉi signifas ke vi povas indiki kion lingvon uzas la paĝo. La traduka kromaĵo uzos tiun lingvon kiel la fonta lingvo kiam vi tradukas. Antaŭe tio estis ĉiam defaŭlte al lingvo de la vikio. Tio ĉi estis kutime Angla. [9]
• Vikioj konektitaj al Vikidatumoj nun povas uzi la funkcioj de sintaksa analizilo {{#statements: }} por akiri formatitan datumon. Vi ankaŭ povas uzi {{#property: }} por akiri krudan datumon. Vi povas vidi la diferencon inter la du ordonoj. Estas ankaŭ similaj novaj funkcioj en Lua. [10]

Problemoj

• Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [11]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• Neokazas novan version de MediaWiki ĉi tiu semajno. Ankaŭ nekokazos novan version de MediaWiki dum la sekvanta semajno.

Kunvenoj

• La sekvanta renkontiĝo kun la VisualEditor teamo estos je la 3a januaro je la 20a horo (UTC). Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al ellaborantoj kiujn cimojn vi opinias kiel la plej gravaj. Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• La 2016a Enketo pri komunuma mendolisto estas farita. Ĝi decidas kion la teamo de komunuma teknologio laboros dum 2017. Vi povas konsulti la rezultojn.

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20:33, 19 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Invito al Vikivojaĝa karavano

Partoprenu la Decembran Vikivojaĝan Karavanon!

Sciante, ke pluraj homoj ĉi tie interesiĝas pri vojaĝado (kutima Esperanta okupo), mi invitas vin al redaktado de nova frata projekto de Vikipedio - Vikivojaĝo!

Dum Decembro aldone okazas Vikivojaĝa Karavano - virtuala redakta maratono. La afero estas simpla - ĉiutage dum difinita tempo (nun tio estas 21a ĝis 31 de Decembro) redaktu Vikivojaĝon almenaŭ 1-foje. Fine de la (ĉiumonata) karavana etapo estos elektita "vojaĝanto" de la monato.

Se tamen vi preferas resti en Vikipedio, pripensu aldoni ligilon al Vikivojaĝo en artikoloj pri geografia objekto, kiel ekzemple tiu ĉi pri Bratislavo, kiu ligas al incubator:Wy/eo/Bratislavo. Avantaĝe por tio uzu la ŝablonon {{Projektoj|v=Nomo de geografiaĵo}}

Se vi ŝatus rekomendojn pri plibonigindaj temoj, jen ili:

• pro UK 2017:
  • Azio > Sud-Koreio > Seulo
• pro IJK 2017:
  • Afriko > Togolando > Aneho

Se vi havas vojaĝeman amikon esperantiston, nepre ĝin informu!

Mi antaŭgojas saluti plurajn el vi dum la karavano! --KuboF (diskuto) 17:09, 21 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Deziro plejkora

Tre estimataj Viki-anoj, mi TUTKORE vin salutas ĉi-jarfine... Mi deziras al vi sanon kaj kuraĝon! Pasas nun Kristnasko... inspirate de la dato mi deziras al vi ĉiuj amon, fratecon kaj amikecon. Precipe mi ĝojas, ke ĉi-jare mi povis tiel lerni de vi ĉiuj... kaj kunlabori kun nia komuna vikio. Amike kaj frate, Vikiano (diskuto) 18:20, 23 dec. 2016 (UTC)

WMCON17

Saluton al ĉiuj! Baldaŭ finiĝas aliĝperiodo al WMCON17 kaj ĝis la 5-a de januaro ni elektu nian reprezentanton de ELiSo. Kandidatiĝas mi kaj KuboF. --Lingveno (diskuto) 19:26, 29 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Football team

Hello. Sorry for writing in English. Is the article Futbalteamo in the correct wikidata item? Please check d:Q15944511 and d:Q476028. Xaris333 (diskuto) 01:52, 1 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I editted the description of the second item to match it with the definition. However, in our Wikipedia it seems that we currently don't really distinguish between these two. Regards, Alaŭdo ۩ ✉ ₪ 20:00, 18 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Ĉu estas alia (nuntempa) denaskulo en Vikipedio?

Laŭ ĉi kategorio, estas ni ok denaskuloj. Sed eble ili ŝercas, aŭ jam mortis (rete aŭ "karnmonde"). Ne mensogu, mi kaj Dio scios, kaj scio estas povo, laŭ saĝulo. Ne donu povon senpage, uloj. Psiĥedelisto (diskuto) 15:44, 4 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Kiam mi estis infaneto, mia patrino instruis Esperanton al mi. Sed mi multjare ne uzis ĝin, do mia nivelo ne estas tial bona. Koracio (diskuto) 18:13, 21 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Vi nun povas uzi datenaroj en Vikimedia Komunejo. Vi povas vidi ekzemplon kiu estas uzanta ĉi tiu fonto. [12]
• Estas nova elektebla beta trajto de vikiteksta modo por la vida redaktilo. Vi povas provi ĝin nun.
• Kiam vi ĝisdatigas paĝon kun tradukoj en vikioj kun la tradukila kromprogramo la ekzistantaj tradukoj estos markitaj kiel malnoviĝintaj anstataŭ forigitaj. [13]
• La nova versio de MediaWiki estis eldonita al ĉiuj vikioj lastsemajne (kalendaro).
• MoodBar estis forigita de la Vikimediaj vikioj. [14]
• La tuja opcio por la Tipsy aviza ilo estis forigita. Aldonaĵoj kaj uzantaj skriptoj, kiuj uzas ĝin devas esti ĝisdatigita. [15]

Problemoj

• Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [16]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• Ne estas nova versio de MediaWiki ĉi tiu semajno pro la Pintokunveno de vikimediaj disvolvistoj.

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19:12, 9 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Speaks Your Language

Hello all and sorry for writing this message in English. It is my pleasure to inform you about the launch of the Wiki Speaks Your Language initiative with the goal of enriching the Wikimedia projects with freely licenced audio (and video) files documenting spoken examples of every language, language variety and dialect in the world.

The idea originates from the curiosity of many readers viewing language articles not only to read about the language but also to hear how does it sound. In most of the cases, our language articles lack such files and readers usually end up searching videos on YouTube, notwithstanding that we have the capacity as a movement and the resources to meet their wish.

The initiative lists three possible ways of acquiring the freely licenced audio (and video) files: 1) by adapting existing audio and video files on Wikimedia Commons (mostly from the Spoken Wikipedia projects), 2) by liberating existing audio and video files from the repositories of GLAM and educational institutions, and 3) by engaging Wikimedia communities, GLAM and educational institutions in the recording of new audio and video files.

In the first phase of the initiative, the easiest way to start is by working with the resources we already have and therefore my proposal and kind request to the Esperanto Wikipedia community is to get involved in adapting existing videos from the Spoken Wikipedia project. There are some useful tips on what the existing files should be adapted to. The adapted files should be categorised under "Category:Wiki Speaks Esperanto", tagged with WSYL template and added to the list of languages.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (diskuto) 14:09, 15 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017

Sorry for writing in English.

Dear Esperanto community,

Last year your community participated at CEE Spring in Esperanto Wikipedia and we invite you to participate in this year's contest! Local organisers, please subscribe to the mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.bg/mailman/listinfo/ceespring-localorganisers, add your community at the Meta page with the participants and discuss this year's edition of the contest on its talk page (Talk:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017/Participants). There you will also find information on some of the things expected from the local organisers. We are looking forward to reading from you soon!

On behalf of the international organisers, -- Ата (diskuto) 21:52, 16 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now upload WebP files to Commons. [17]

Problems

• video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [18]

Changes this week

• There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [19]
• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [20]
• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [21]
• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [22]
• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [23]
• Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [24]
• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [25]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:24, 16 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Ĉu li ja mortis?!

Legeblas ekde hodiaŭ sur la uzantopaĝo de Pino, ke li mortis! Ĉu iu havas detalojn pri la okazaĵo?! Ĉu li ja mortis?! Vikiano (diskuto) 23:53, 19 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@Vikiano kaj @Pino: Fek, fek, kaj fek ! Povas ne mi kredi ĝin. Volas ne mi kredi ĝin. Trovis mi nenion serĉante ĵuse nomon veran lian. Malbeleco kia !
Sed skribis kiu mesaĝon tiun? —LLarson (dirita & farita) 23:35, 20 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@LLarson: La subskribo estas propre lia... Vikiano (diskuto) 16:55, 21 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@Vikiano kaj @Pino: Vidas ja mi la subskribon « lian », sed tiuj, kiuj vivas plue, subskribas ne 😔 —LLarson (dirita & farita) 17:42, 21 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@Vikiano: kontrolis mi la novaĵon fuŝaĉan kaj do veras ja. Mesaĝis geedzo lia al mi detalojn, inter kiuj, ke mortis li la 19‑an de januaro 2017. Adiaŭas malfeliĉe mi al vi, pino. —LLarson (dirita & farita) 21:44, 21 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@LLarson: Kondelencon al la edzo! Valora kolego! Preĝe kaj fide † Vikiano (diskuto) 12:58, 22 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Terurega novaĵo. Mi tre ege bedaŭras scii pri lia forpaso. Dankon al li pro lia agado ĉi tie kaj kondolencojn al lia familio. Mi enmetis la ŝablonon pri forpasintaj vikipediistoj en lia uzantpaĝon, tamen mankas iom da informo pri la loko kaj lando. Mi scias ke estas absurdaĵo, tamen se iu scias tian informon bve skribu ĝin en la ŝablono. -- Remux - Mi neniam forgesos ke mi enamiĝis al la plej bela floro Ĉu mi povas helpi vin iel? 02:26, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Terure :( --Lingveno (diskuto) 02:40, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Gazeto Le-bien-Public publikigis sciigon pri lia morto: Avis de décès de Dominique JACQUIN. --Dominik (diskuto) 03:29, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Alia sciigo kun loko de morto (Beaune): Avis de décès et obsèques de Dominique JACQUIN. --Dominik (diskuto) 09:29, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Mi ĵus konis ke li mortis. Ĉu ĉi tiu redakto estis vera [26]? Mi ne povus kredi: Ĉu eble lia konto estis hakita?? Ĉu oni kreu la artikolon Dominique Jacquin?--Salatonbv (diskuto) 10:33, 16 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Vi povas vidi liston de la ŝablonoj dum paĝa redaktado per la vida redaktilo. [27]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 24 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 25 januaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 26 januaro (kalendaro).

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20:14, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

Plej Lasta tech sciigo de la Wikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj influos vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• La fasadoj de administrado por OAuth nun ŝajnas iomete malsama. [28]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• ElectronPdfService estos ebligita defaŭlte en Meta kaj la germana Vikipedio. Tio ĉi estas nova vojo akiri artikolojn kiel PDFaj dosieroj vi povas elŝuti. Ĝi venos al pli da vikioj poste. [29]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 31 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 1 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 2 februaro (kalendaro).

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• La teamo de komunuma teknologio disvolvos pli da iloj por pritrakti turmentadon de Vikimediaj redaktantoj. La celo estas doni al la komunumoj pli bonajn ilojn por trovi, raporti kaj taksi turmentadon. Ili ankaŭ laboros pri pli da efikaj forbanantaj iloj. [30][31]
• La Vikimedia teknika komunumo verkas enketo pri mendolisto de disvolvantoj. Disvolvantoj povas proponi ideojn antaŭ 31 januaro 23:59 <acronym title="Universala Tempo Kunordigita">UTC</acronym>. Tio estas baldaŭ.

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18:45, 30 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Specialaj signoj

Saluton !

Mi pardonpetas por mian malbonan Esperanton.

Mi demandis min se estus ebla klakebligi specialajn Esperantajn signojn en la menuo « Specialaj Signoj » kiam oni redaktas. Cxiumomente ne estas Esperanta menuo, tamen estus (almenaux por mi) la plej bona maniero de skribi cxiojn. Atendonta, mi uzos {{X}}.

Ankaux, cxu estas ebla de peti iu pri relegi miajn redaktajxojn ? Mi certas ke mian Esperanton ankoraux ne estas suficxe bone, sed Vikipedio estas bonega maniero por lerni, do mi ne scias kion fari pri gxi. ^^

Kore, --Orikrin1998 (diskuto) 13:33, 31 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Saluton @Orikrin1998:! Unue, mi deklaras ke via Esperanto estas sufiĉe bona por komprendi! :-) Ĉu vi uzas la konfiguradon de la lingvo-agordoj? Jen priskribaj bildoj pri kiel agordi. Simple - Klaku la dentrado-bildeton en la maldekstra kolumno por lingvaj agordoj! Espere estus helpema! -- Yekrats (diskuto) 16:02, 31 jan. 2017 (UTC)

@Yekrats: Ahhh, bonega ! Dankon ! --Orikrin1998 (diskuto) 17:39, 31 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-06

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Problemoj

• La protokolo pri bloko foje montris blokojn kiel estanta multe pli longa ol ili estis. Tio nun estis korektita. [32]

Ŝanĝoj dum tiu semajno

• Vikimediaj paĝoj nun estos pli bonaj pri montri bildojn kiam vi komunigas ilin per socia amaskomunikilaro. Plie, la priskriboj estos malsamaj. Vi povas vidi ekzemplon laŭ antaŭa kaj posta versio. [33]
• Estas kelkaj ŝanĝoj al la OOjs UI. Kelkaj malnovaj funkcioj ne plu efikas aŭ ne efiki kiel ili antaŭe. Tio povus esti rompŝanĝo. [34]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 7 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 8 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 9 februaro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

• Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 7 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• Tidy estos anstataŭigita poste dum tiu jaro. Anstataŭe, la HTMLa 5 sintaksanalizanta algoritmon estos uzita por purigi malbonan HTML en vikiteksto. Tiu kaŭzos problemojn en multe da vikioj. Ili devas esti korektita antaŭe. Vi povas vidi se via vikio ankoraŭ havas ion korektendan ĉi tie por unu el la HTMLaj problemoj. Ĉi tiu listo ne pritraktas ĉiujn problemojn. Vi povas legi pri pli da problemoj. [35][36]

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19:45, 6 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

• Eventfluos estas nova vojo montri aktivecon en Vikimediaj vikioj. Nuntempe ĝi funkcias kun la abonfluo de lastatempaj ŝanĝoj. Ĝi traktos pli da aferoj poste. Ĝi anstataŭigos RCStream. Iloj kiuj uzas RCStream devus adapti al Eventfluoj antaŭ la 7a julio. [37]

Problemoj

• La Firefogg povas kaŭzi problemojn kun la alŝuta helpilo. Tio ne estos riparita, ĉar Firefox ne subtenos Firefogg en la estonteco. La alŝuta helpilo ne plu longe funkcios kun Firefogg. [38]
• Datenbazoj de Ilaj laboratorioj kaj Vikimediaj laboratorioj estos funkcitene dum 15a februaro. Tio komencos ĉe 17:00 (UTC) kaj daŭros ĉirkaŭ ses horoj. Kelkaj iloj povus havi problemojn dum aŭ post tiam. [39]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [40]
• La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 14 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 15 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 februaro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

• Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 14 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

• Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj estos ebligitaj por ensalutantaj uzantoj en la kataluna, greka, rusa kaj itala Vikipedioj en la mezo de februaro. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj montras al legantoj mallongan parton de ligita artikolo kiam ili ripozas ilian kursoron sur la ligo. Tio estas por helpi ilin kompreni kion ĝi temas proksimume sen foriri la artikolon ili legas. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj estis antaŭe nomita Hovercards. Ĝi estos disponigita al pli da vikioj poste dum tiu printempo. [41]
• La mendolisto de disvolvantoj estas listo kie disvolvantoj prioritatigas ilojn ke ili bezonas. La voĉdonado fermas ĉe la 14a de februaro 23:59 (UTC). Tiu procedo estas nur por disvolvantoj.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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18:06, 13 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

• Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
  • Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
• Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
  • Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
• Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
  • Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
• Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
  • Introduction of williamsworks
• Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
  • The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
• Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
  • Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

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Tech News: 2017-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [42]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [43]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [44]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [45]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [46]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [48]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [49][50]

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19:55, 27 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [51]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [52]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [53]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [54]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [55]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [56]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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23:23, 6 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Catalan culture challenge

Estas organizita nova traduk-konkurso en:Wikipedia:Catalan culture challenge (1-15 marto 2017). --Dominik (diskuto) 04:03, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Aŭgusta puĉo

Mi komencas skribi ĉi tie, ĉar evidente komentoj ĉe la korektoj jam ne sufiĉas por komprenigi al ĝia aŭtoro Liberapensulo liajn erarojn. Li nuligis mian lastan redakton kaj nomis mian konduton vandalismo, do mi devas min turni al la komunumo.

Do, kial mi reskribis tiun ĉi artikolon kaj insistas je mia versio:

1. Lingvaĵo estas terura, ofte preskaŭ ne komprenebla. La aŭtoro fuŝas ĉion — finaĵojn, nombrojn, gramatikon, sintakson. Mi tre dubas ke oni rajtas verki artikolojn en la lingvo, kiun oni regas tiom malbone.

2. Pluraj eraroj fuŝas ĉion kaj foje trompas la leganton. Oni legas en la origina versio:

• Puĉistoj planis atako de Supera Soveto de Rusio nokte el la 20-a de aŭgusto, sed pro la rezisto de rusia civitanoj, atako estis malsukcesinta.
  • Tamen la atako tute ne okazis, do ĝi ne povis alfronti "la civitanan reziston" kaj "malsukcesi".

• Kun revolucioj de 1989, Aŭgusta puĉo estas fama kaj sukcesa evento de civitana rezistado en la Historio de USSR kaj soclialismaj ŝtatoj.
  • Ĉu iu krom la aŭtoro pretas nomi la puĉon ekzemplo de la "civitana rezistado"?

• Aŭgusta puĉo estas sola civitana rezistado en la Historio de USSR.
  • Mi jam diris, ke la puĉo ne estas civitana rezistado, sed ĉi-foje haveblas alia grava eraro, ĉar en historio de Sovetunio estas pluraj ekzemplo de la vera civitana rezistado, inkluzive de manifestacioj, ribeloj, strikoj ktp. Ekzemple Ribelo de laboristoj en Novoĉerkassk.

• Ankaŭ, puĉo finis regulon de sovetia centra registaro, rezultis en fino de Sovetunio.
  • La puĉo ne finis funkciadon (kio estas "regulo" ĉi-foje?) de la federacia registaro, ĉar ĝia celo estis fortigi ĝin kaj savi Sovetunion de disfalo. Eĉ ne unu federacia ministro estis arestita. Sovetunio disfalis ne sekve de la puĉo, sed sekve de ĝia fiasko.

• La puĉistoj planis atakon de Supera Soveto de Rusio nokte de la 20-a de aŭgusto, kun specialaj unuoj de KGB "Alfa" kaj "Vimpel". Sed la atako ne okazis, ĉar la komandantoj de tiuj taĉmentoj kontraŭis ĝin por eviti civilulajn perdojn.
  • Komandestro de "Alfa" Viktor Karpuĥin refutis tion, asertis ke li simple ne ricevis la ordonon kaj konfirmis ke li "plenumus ĝin kiel soldato". Mi konfirmis tion kun ligilo kaj redaktis kun mencio de ambaŭ versioj, sed la aŭtoro persiste refutas eĉ tion, kun argumento: "Memoru, "plenumus ĝin kiel soldato" fakte signifas "plenumus masakri popolon". Ĉu ni esprimas ĉi tie niajn politikajn vidpunktojn aŭ verkas enciklopediajn artikolojn?

Resume. Mi petas haltigi fuŝadon fare de Liberapensulo pri tiu ĉi artikolo kaj insistas ke demandas la komunumon, ĉu la aŭtoroj kun tiom malalta lingvonivelo entute rajtas verki artikolojn en la enciklopedio? Hieraŭ mi komencis redakti alian artikolon, kreitan de li Ekonomio de Sovetunio. Dum la tuta vespero mi sukcesis fari nur duonon de la laboro, ĉar la lingvaĵo estas terura kaj enhavo kun pluraj fuŝoj. Mi ne certas ke mi havos tempon plu fari tion, do pluaj monstraĵoj restos en sia origina stato.--RG72 (diskuto) 05:34, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Dankon por via "specaj" vortoj, Kara RG72. As you mentioned about my terrible, short language, I'll explain in English, (or perhaps if you don't understand english, I'll KINDLY explain in Russian, your home language.)
First of all, Esperanto Wikipedia isn't RUSSIA. I'm not Russian, so, I enoughly explained about reasons of my edit. But you don't listen or explain about your thoughts, instead of that you just erasing the articles, which I wrote.
Secondly, YOUR PATRIOTISM isn't standard for every wikipedian wirters. I checked your reference, but there wasn't no mention about "acting like a soldier". And you just call me stupid, but actually, you should check the reference, at least.
And finally, RESPECT ANOTHER PERSON, RG72. Your real stupidity is, your disrespect for so-called foreigner. I'm new at here, but you just condemned me, insulted me. I want to you ask something: are you mad?
And by the way, Russians are so rude for another people? Don't make me blame and insult you, RG72. You're in here because of your disrepectful action. Show some respect for another person in official discussion.
-- Liberapensulo.

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Hieraŭ mi skribis mian pozicion en la angla, sed bedaŭrinde, ĝi similas ke vi ne komprenas la anglan, do mi klarigos mian pozicion en Esperanto. Jen mia respondo al via akuzoj:

• Puĉistoj planis atako de Supera Soveto de Rusio nokte el la 20-a de aŭgusto, sed pro la rezisto de rusia civitanoj, atako estis malsukcesinta.
  • (PRI KLARIGO) Tamen la atako tute ne okazis, do ĝi ne povis alfronti "la civitanan reziston" kaj "malsukcesi".

: Mi konsentis pri via demando, do mi aldonis redakton. Estas poste redaktinta de vi, kaj mi korektis ĝin, kiel tiu enhavo:

La puĉistoj planis atakon de Supera Soveto de Rusio nokte de la 20-a de aŭgusto, kun specialaj unuoj de KGB "Alfa" kaj "Vimpel". Sed la atako ne okazis, ĉar la komandantoj de tiuj taĉmentoj kontraŭis ĝin por eviti civilulajn perdojn. Generalo Aleksandr Lebed raportis pri la planota atako al Jelcin, dum la komandanto de "Alfa" Viktor Karpuĥin rifuzis ĝin. Poste Karpuĥin memoris tion ke li ne ricevis ordonon, kaj li raportis miloj civitanoj kolektiĝis antaŭ Supera Soveto de Rusio. Laŭ lia memorio, Kruĉkov ne ordonis atakon.

Tial, ĉi solviĝis, RG72.

• Kun revolucioj de 1989, Aŭgusta puĉo estas fama kaj sukcesa evento de civitana rezistado en la Historio de USSR kaj soclialismaj ŝtatoj.
  • Ĉu iu krom la aŭtoro pretas nomi la puĉon ekzemplo de la "civitana rezistado"?

: Mi aldonis por referenco Civitana rezistado en la Orienteŭropaj kaj Sovetaj Revolucioj, do ĉi povas legi kion estas civila rezisto.

Origine, mi planis skribi artiklon civila rezisto, sed vi ne bezonas observi min, RG72.

• Aŭgusta puĉo estas sola civitana rezistado en la Historio de USSR.
  • (PRI POLITIKA VIDO) Mi jam diris, ke la puĉo ne estas civitana rezistado, sed ĉi-foje haveblas alia grava eraro, ĉar en historio de Sovetunio estas pluraj ekzemplo de la vera civitana rezistado, inkluzive de manifestacioj, ribeloj, strikoj ktp. Ekzemple Ribelo de laboristoj en Novoĉerkassk.

: Mi klarigas, kio estas Civitana rezistado denove, RG72. "Civitana rezistado" estas refuzo kaj ĝia rezistada movado kiel protestoj, kontraŭ maljusto de Ŝtato. Ribelo de laboristoj en Novoĉerkassk estas, nature, civitana rezistado. Kantata revolucio, nature, civitana rezistado. Kaj protestoj dum la puĉo, nature, estas civitana rezistado.

Civitana rezistado signifas rezistado kontraŭ la maljusto de Ŝtato, tial tiuj protestoj dum la puĉo, estas fama ekzemplo de civitana rezistado, kaj vi do korektis. Ekde vi ne komprenis, kio mi klarigis, mi rekomendas libron de "Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions" de Adams Roberts. Tio helpas vian komprenon.

• Ankaŭ, puĉo finis regulon de sovetia centra registaro, rezultis en fino de Sovetunio.
  • (PRI POLITIKA VIDO) La puĉo ne finis funkciadon (kio estas "regulo" ĉi-foje?) de la federacia registaro, ĉar ĝia celo estis fortigi ĝin kaj savi Sovetunion de disfalo. Eĉ ne unu federacia ministro estis arestita. Sovetunio disfalis ne sekve de la puĉo, sed sekve de ĝia fiasko.

: Aŭgusta Puĉo estis tre simila kun Kornilova puĉo en 1917: Ambaŭ celis renversi modera registaro, sed ili malsukcesis kaj registaro perdis la fidon de radikaluloj.

Post la puĉo, Gorbaĉov perdis sian potencon. En septembro 1991, eĉ Jelcin haltigis paroladon de Federacia Prezidanto kiel prezidanto de Federacia regiono. (Foto) Ĝis decembro, Federala Registaro decidis nur unu aferon: recogntion de sendependeco de baltaj ŝtatoj de Ŝtata Soveto. Ĝi montras bone, kial Federala Registaro estas disfaldigita.

• La puĉistoj planis atakon de Supera Soveto de Rusio nokte de la 20-a de aŭgusto, kun specialaj unuoj de KGB "Alfa" kaj "Vimpel". Sed la atako ne okazis, ĉar la komandantoj de tiuj taĉmentoj kontraŭis ĝin por eviti civilulajn perdojn.
  • (PRI POLITIKA VIDO) Komandestro de "Alfa" Viktor Karpuĥin refutis tion, asertis ke li simple ne ricevis la ordonon kaj konfirmis ke li "plenumus ĝin kiel soldato". Mi konfirmis tion kun ligilo

: Post vi redaktis ĝin, mi legis vian referencon. En via referenco, Gazeta "Bojennoje Obozrenie", Karpuĥin ne diris li preapared agi kiel soldato, sed nur preta fari tion. Eĉ li memoris ke Kruĉkov havas menson por ne ordigi tian decidon. Sed vi akuzas min, ĝi ne havas politikajn. fakte, Karpuĥin mortis en 2003, do ni povas konfirmi lian pozicion nur per referencoj. kaj ekzemple, intervjuo kun Literaturnaja Gazeta estas bona ekzemplo ke li ne bonvenigis ordon de atako, almenaŭ. Tial, vi uzantis malgustan referencon.

Do, mi skribis pri kiu vi akuzas. Kaj cetere, jen aldona informoj por tion:

• Vikipedio ne malpermesas la partoprenon de uzanto pro sia kompatinda lingvo. Ne sufiĉas kazon por malpermeso kaj Vikipedio rekomendas korekti ĝin.
• Vi konfuzante pri gramatikaj eraro kaj politikaj temoj. Vi ne akuzu min pro sed ankaŭ por politika afero. Memoru, Vikipedio ne reprezentas neniun landon. Speciale por Esperanto. Sed vi devas klarigi pri tio: Mi konfesas ke mia grammatics estas lageto, sed vi ne bezonas ripari ĝin, ĉar vi ne estas respondeco. (Kaj nur mi redaktis 4 artikoloj) Politika diferenco ne povas pravigi vian insulton. En tiu kazo, tio signifas "interrompa redaktado", kaj ĝi povas esti sankciita de administrantoj. Precipe vi rompis tri Revert regulo unue, do vi devus konsideri pri tio.
• Vi regule sekvis miajn agadojn kaj intervenis ŝin. Mi dankas pro tio, tamen, mi volas rimarki lin, li ne bezonas tion fari. Ĝis nun, mi skribis nur kvar artikoloj, ne miloj. Do, haltigu viglado.

Mi ne volas fari Via problemo, RG72. Sed mi estas tre kolera pri via malĝentila sinteno. Do, ĉi tie estas via elekto. Paca interkonsento aŭ Formala Inspekto kaj Leĝa afero.
-- Liberapensulo.

Ekonomio de Sovetunio

Denove temas pri terura lingvaĵo kaj enhavaj fuŝoj. Mia lasta redakto estis nuligita kun argumentoj, kiujn mi ne kapablas kompreni. Eble aliaj vikipediistoj sukcesos. Detaloj en Diskuto:Ekonomio de Sovetunio, mi kopias ilin sube:

Mi klarigas la lastajn redaktojn:

• La Granda patriota milito estis ne Sovetia-Germana milito, sed milito de Sovetunio kontraŭ Nazia Germanio kaj ties aliancanoj, inkluzive de: Finnlando, Hungario, Slovakio, Hispanio, Japanio, Italio kaj aliaj.
• Mi forigis la frazon pri nomumo de la politikistoj, ĉar tio havas nenian rilaton al la ekonomio de Sovetunio.--RG72 (diskuto) 06:08, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

• La Granda patriota milito estis ne Sovetia-Germana milito, sed milito de Sovetunio kontraŭ Nazia Germanio kaj ties aliancanoj, inkluzive de: Finnlando, Hungario, Slovakio, Hispanio, Japanio, Italio kaj aliaj.
  

: Granda patriota milito estas oficiala nomo de Sovetunio kaj Rusio por Okcidentfront en dua mondmilito. En Germanio, "Granda patriota milito" estas "Okcidentkampanjo(Ostfeldzug)" aŭ "Rusiamilito(Russlandfeldzug)". Se mi nomas tiun militon kiel "Rusiamilito", vi jesas? Laŭ via metodo, En mondo, "Patrioto" ne estas Sovetunio. Termino "Germana-soveta milito" kaj "Soveta-germana milito", kaj "Okcidentfront"(Oficiala nomo de tiu milito en aliaj vikipedioj, kiel angla kaj franca.) estas neŭtrala nomo por tiu milito.

• Mi forigis la frazon pri nomumo de la politikistoj, ĉar tio havas nenian rilaton al la ekonomio de Sovetunio.
  

: Vi forigis "reformistajn" politikistojn. Tiuj polikistoj estis ĉefaj estroj de Perestrojko. Kiel mi skribis, Perestrojko estis parto de Ekonomia reformo, kaj kontraste Andropov, Perestrojko enhavas ekonomian reformon. Vidu juroj, kio kreiĝis dum Perestrojko.

Pri la Granda patriota milito.

Se la termino uzata en la sovetia kaj poste en la rusia historiografio ĝenas vin pro iu nekomprenebla kialo uzu alian nomon, agnoskitan de la okcidentaj historiistoj — la Dua mondmilito, sed ne inventu proprajn, erarajn nomojn. Alikaze vi devos listigi plurajn militojn kaŭzintajn detruon de la okcidenta parto de Sovetunio: la Sovetia-Germana milito, Sovetia-Finnlanda milito, Sovetia-Hungara milito, Sovetia-Itala milito, Sovetia-Slovaka milito, Sovetia-Rumana milito, ktp. Ĉu vi almenaŭ komprenas kernon de la afero?--RG72 (diskuto) 16:28, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Pri la politikistoj.

• La artikolo nomiĝas Ekonomio de Sovetunio, do parolu pri la ekonomiaj aferoj, ne pri nomumo de la politikistoj, pakto Molotov-Ribbentrop kaj aliaj. Vi jam uzas periodojn el la politika historio, kio estas dubinda afero, do almenaŭ ne impliku ĉi tien politikajn eventojn senbezone.--RG72 (diskuto) 16:28, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Pri la verboj "opinii" kaj "halti" konsultu vortarojn kaj vi komprenos kial mi forigis viajn "opini" kaj "halti (ion)".--RG72 (diskuto) 16:39, 8 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Dankon, do I klarigas kio vi pridemandis pri tiujn punkton, ne en mia vido, en vido de spertuloj.

• La artikolo nomiĝas Ekonomio de Sovetunio, do parolu pri la ekonomiaj aferoj, ne pri nomumo de la politikistoj, pakto Molotov-Ribbentrop kaj aliaj. Vi jam uzas periodojn el la politika historio, kio estas dubinda afero, do almenaŭ ne impliku ĉi tien politikajn eventojn senbezone.

: En mondo, milito en Sovetunio havas multajn nomojn. Ekzemple, Britia historisto Richard Overy nomas kiel "Rusia milito", kaj Amerika milithistoristo David Glantz nomas tiun milition kiel "Germana-soveta milito". Ili estas ĉefaj historistoj, kio studis profesie tiun militon. Por Sovetunio, nature, Granda milito de Patrioto estas Granda milito de Sovetunio. Por aliaj, Patrioto estas ne Sovetunio. (Ekzemple, Ukrainio sanĝis tiun nomon kiel simple "Dua mondmilito".) Kaj, tiu milito fariĝis en Orienteŭropo, do laŭ vi diris, tiu milito povas nomi simple "Milito en Orienteŭropo dum la dua mondmilito" kaj pli simple "Milito en Orienteŭropo", kiel vi skribis pri "Milito en Afganistano" (Soveta-afgana milito).

• La artikolo nomiĝas Ekonomio de Sovetunio, do parolu pri la ekonomiaj aferoj, ne pri nomumo de la politikistoj, pakto Molotov-Ribbentrop kaj aliaj. Vi jam uzas periodojn el la politika historio, kio estas dubinda afero, do almenaŭ ne impliku ĉi tien politikajn eventojn senbezone.

: Ĉar Andropov regis Sovetunion nur por 2 jaroj, sed historistoj ofte taksi ke li preparis reformon por Sovietunion. Kiel mi skribis en la artikolo, ekonomia rekonstrutado en Sovetunio, Perestrojko komenciĝis de Gorbaĉov kaj aliaj reformistoj. Tiu estis ebla, ĉar Andropov promociis lian poston en Partio. En tiu tempo, konservativuloj forte subtenis Romanov, kiel posteulo de Ĉernenko. Sed danke kun Andropova subteno, tiuj burokratoj povis komenci ekonomian restrukturadon. Kaj kiel vi scias, juroj inter 1986 kaj 1988 sangis ekonomion de unio.

Do eble ni povas ripari ĝin ĝuste 'Andropov promociis plurajn politikistojn, kiuj kondukis ekonomia restrukturado, kiel Jakolvev'. (Li estis direktoro de IMEMO)

RG72, mia laboro pri sovetia ekonomio estaspeze bazita sur libroj "Ekonomia Historio de Sovetunio "de rusia-britia ekonomisto Aleksander Nove kaj "Ekonomia Historio de Rusio" de rusia ekonomisto Tatjana Timoshina. Speciale libro de Tatyana nuntempe uzas en rusaj universitatoj por enkonduko de ekonomia disvolviĝo de via lando. Do resume, mi skribis ĉi tiun artikolon kiel ekonomia studento kun alia observo. Mi pensas ĉi estas kviete bela, kombinante tiujn malsamajn opiniojn.

-- Liberapensulo

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

• Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
  • Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
• Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
  • Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
• Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
  • Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 mar. 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Tech News: 2017-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [57][58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [59]
• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [60][61]

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15:25, 13 mar. 2017 (UTC)

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

• Find out more about the movement strategy process
• Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

05:09, 18 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [62]
• DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [63]
• You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [64]
• The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [65]
• The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [66]

Problems

• On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [67]

Changes this week

• When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [68]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 marto at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [69]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [70][71]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).

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14:46, 27 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Konservi paĝon button now says Publikigi la paĝon or Publikigi la ŝanĝojn on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publikigi la paĝon is when you save a new page and Publikigi la ŝanĝojn when you edit an existing page. [72]
• The tracking category Kategorio:Paĝoj kun ŝablonaj iteracioj is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [73]
• English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [74]

Problems

• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [75]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [76]

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17:53, 3 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

• April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
• April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
• April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
• May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
• May 15–19 – Board vote checking
• May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

• Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
  • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

• Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
  • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:36, 7 apr. 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Tech News: 2017-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [77]

Changes this week

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [78]
• New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [79]
• The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [80]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
• RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:34, 10 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 17:33, 11 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [81]
• You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [82]
• The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [83]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

• There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 aprilo at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [84]
• From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [85][86]

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19:32, 17 apr. 2017 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.

A quick note on the implementation:

• For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
• For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
• For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.

You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 16:52, 19 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Peto legi ampleksigitan artikolon Apopleksio

Karaj, dum la lastaj semajnoj mi intense prilaboris la artikolon "Apopleksio", kaj iom post iom puŝis ĝin super la limo de 30.000 bitokoj - ĉar ĝi estas unu el la plej havendaj 1000 artikoloj. Nun ĝi fine havas la verdan trafiklumon! Bedaŭrinde mi spertas pri medicino, sed estas novulo rilate vikipedion. Povas esti ke la formo ne bonas, kaj kompreneble verŝajne troveblas diversaj tajperaroj ... Pro tio mi petas vi pli spertajn vikipediitojn legi la artikolon kaj laŭeble akcepti la ŝanĝojn (aŭ plibonigi la erarojn :-) ). Dankon! --Anina (diskuto) 08:53, 23 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Gratulon pro la bela kaj interesa artikolo tiom teknika. Mi tralegis ĝin, korektetis malmultajn tajperaretojn kaj aldonis ligilojn. Nun ĝi estas sufiĉe kompleta. Se vi deziras pluigi tiun belan agadon, aliaj havendaj artikoloj de la plej necesa kategorio Kategorio:Havendaj artikoloj malpli grandaj ol 10 kB atendas vin, ekzemple Alzheimer-malsano, Cerbo, Kardiovaskula sistemo, Korinfarkto ktp. Ĝis kaj dankon.--kani (diskuto) 12:16, 29 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [87]
• When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [88]

Problems

• Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [89]

Changes this week

• The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [90]
• Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [91]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 24 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The content translation tool works again. It was turned off because of a database problem. [92]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [93][94]

Problems

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [95]
• The Publikigi la ŝanĝojn, Antaŭrigardo and Montri la ŝanĝojn buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [96]

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19:49, 1 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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19:14, 3 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:29, 8 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Kaŝi enkategoriigon de paĝoj in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Disvolvu atentaron por montri ĉiujn koncernajn ŝanĝojn in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [97]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [98]

Changes this week

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [99]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [100][101]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [102][103]

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02:24, 9 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Antaŭvidi viajn ŝanĝojn".

In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [104]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [105]
• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [106]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [107]
• The Kategorioj item has been moved to the top of the Paĝaj opcioj menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [108] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [109]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [110]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [111]
• The Speciala signo menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [112]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [113]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [114]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [115]
• The kind of button used to Antaŭrigardo, Montri la ŝanĝojn, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [116]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [117]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Dankon!

—Elitre (WMF)

18:05, 12 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.

One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.

The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.

We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.

We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.

You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

Tech News: 2017-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [118]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [119]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [120]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [121]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [122][123]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [124][125]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [126][127]

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21:48, 15 maj. 2017 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:39, 16 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.

You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.

Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:

• Healthy, Inclusive Communities
• The Augmented Age
• A Truly Global Movement
• The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
• Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem

On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to your language • Get help

21:08, 16 maj. 2017 (UTC)

m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 21:45, 21 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [128]

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22:02, 22 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.

The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

• May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
• May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
• May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
• June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
• June 12–14 – Vote checking
• June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results

More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help

21:05, 23 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Lingva noto

Mi sensuckese provis aldoni iun lingvan noton ĉe Jonas Hanway. Ĉu iu scias, kiel fari tion? Narvalo (diskuto) 19:37, 24 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Vidu Vikipedio:Notoj. --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 18:02, 17 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [129]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [130]

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12:18, 30 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Konkurso: Translating Ibero-America 2017

Por tradukemuloj estas anoncita nova konkurso en junio 2017: Translating Ibero-America 2017. Ju pli da partoprenantoj, des pli bone! --Dominik (diskuto) 04:28, 4 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [131]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [132]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [133]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [134]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [135]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [136]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [137]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [138]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [139]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [140][141]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [142]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:04, 5 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [143]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [144]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [145]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [146]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [147][148]

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15:29, 12 jun. 2017 (UTC)

CEE Meeting

Saluton al ĉiuj! Restas nur du tagoj ĝis la fermiĝo de la registrado al Wikimedia CEE Meeting, sed ni ankoraŭ ne havas reprezentanton de ELiSo. Bonvole, sube diskutu la kanditatojn. --Lingveno (diskuto) 13:54, 13 jun. 2017 (UTC)

• Mi ankoraŭ ne partoprenis en la evento kaj volus tion fari. Mi jam havas sperton en reprezentado de ELiSo kaj faras multon por nia uzantogrupo, do mi volus. --Lingveno (diskuto) 13:54, 13 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [149]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [150]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [151]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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15:44, 19 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Voĉdono al nova administranto

Se vi ankoraŭ ne voĉdonis, bonvolu iri al Vikipedio:Administrantoj/kandidatoj/RG72.--Salatonbv (diskuto) 18:15, 20 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [152]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [153]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [154]

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15:38, 26 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Forigi artikolon pri mi

Saluton. Mi ne konsentas kun la apero de artikolo kun informoj pri mi kaj mia vivo. Kiel forigi tion mi petas. Dankojn

Pri kiu temas? --Dominik (diskuto) 18:02, 30 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [155]

Changes this week

• Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
• There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [156]

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15:32, 3 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Diskuto:Arno Lagrange

Estimatoj,

Mi nur mallonge vizitetas, kaj tuj foriros, do bonvolu ne atendi mian pluan partoprenon en ĉi tiu diskuto. Tamen, mi volus atentigi vin, pri ĉi tio, kaj ke la "kelkaj semajnoj" jam antaŭ longe pasis. En la anglalingva projekto (kie mi kutimas kontribui) estas fortaj reguloj kontraŭ ĉi tiaj informoj sen kontrolebla fonto, kaj mi demandas min ĉu ankaŭ la Fondaĵo Wikimedia havas regulojn pri minimumaj normoj por ĉiuj projektoj rilate al tiaj aferoj. Dankon pro via atento. --Money money tickle parsnip (diskuto) 01:03, 5 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Mi ĵus tuj forigis la aserton laŭ niaj propraj reguloj, ĉar tiu ne publike kontrolebla fonto valoras nenion. Por fari aserton pri seksa misuzo de infanoj estas bezonata multege pli bona fonto ol tio. Se iu trovas bonan fonton, bonvolu remeti la aserton kun tiu fonto. Robin van der Vliet (diskuto) (kontribuoj) 11:12, 7 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Anglalingvaĵoj

Saluton. Mi gapas ke oni enmetas tiom da anglalingvajoĵ en esperantan Vikipedion, nome tiaj Tech News. Eble ie estas klarigo por tio. Sed ĉu tio estas iel utila? Mi vidas ke neniu respondas al tio. Foje estas malmultaj kontribuoj en Diskutejo. Des pli se oni trudas fremdan lingvon.--kani (diskuto) 17:17, 9 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Kial okazis tiu suba fuŝo?--kani (diskuto) 17:20, 9 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Mi pensas ke tiuj novaĵoj estas liveritaj al ĉiuj Vikipedioj. Sed mi pensas ke en grandaj Vikipedioj, kutime rapide estas homo, kiu tradukas ĝin. Robin van der Vliet (diskuto) (kontribuoj) 22:47, 9 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [157]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 julio. It will be on all wikis from 13 julio (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 julio at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [158]
• We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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15:07, 10 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.

• Comparison of old and new styles
• 
  Buttons before the change
• 
  Buttons after the change

However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [159]

Problems

• On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [160]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [161] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [162]

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22:58, 17 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.

Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:33, 20 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [163][164][165]
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [166]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 julio. It will be on all wikis from 27 julio (calendar).
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [167]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 julio at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 julio at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

• New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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15:57, 24 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [168]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [169]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [170]

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21:45, 31 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [171]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [172]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Retpoŝtu al mi ankaŭ pri redaktetoj de paĝoj" at the bottom of "Uzanto-datumoj" in your preferences if you want to. [173]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [174]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [175]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [176][177]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [178][179]

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21:45, 7 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [180]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [181][182]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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23:28, 14 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [183][184]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [185]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [186]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [187]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [188]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:00, 21 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Pola Asocio Eŭropo - Demokratio - Esperanto

Ĉu la artikolo pri Pola Asocio Eŭropo - Demokratio - Esperanto estas konforma al la reguloj de la Esperanta Vikipedio? Se ne, kiel oni povus plibonigi ĝin? --Fiskot (diskuto) 08:52, 24 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Alŝuti dosierojn

Kial la Esperanta Vikipedio permesas alŝuti dosierojn nur al la Komunejo? Mi kontrolis kelkajn aliajn Vikipediojn, kaj tiuj (inkluzive de la Angla) ebligas facile "lokan" alŝuton. --Surfo 10:12, 28 aŭg. 2017 (UTC) Kiel mi povas alŝuti bildojn por uzo nur en la Esperanta Vikipedio? --Surfo 12:03, 29 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [189][190]
• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [191]

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [192]

Changes later this week

• You can block users from sending you notifications. [193]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [194]
• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [195]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:09, 28 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.

Recent changes

• The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [196][197]

Problems

• Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Disvolvu atentaron por montri ĉiujn koncernajn ŝanĝojn" in your preferences and see if it helps. [198]

Changes later this week

• New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [199]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. You can use the web chat. [200]

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22:14, 4 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Ignoru regulojn

@Surfo: poluris ĝin. Vikiano (diskuto) 11:22, 6 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [201]
• The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [202]
• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [203]

Problems

• Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [204]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [205]

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19:15, 11 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Alia "vikipedio" ?

http://vikipedio.org/

Ĉu aliaj rajtas uzi la nomon "vikipedio" ? --Forstbirdo (diskuto) 06:06, 17 sep. 2017 (UTC)

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 21:06, 17 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [206][207]
• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [208]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.

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15:31, 18 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.

To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.

Background

In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.

Why not watchlists

Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:

• Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
• Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
  • The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
• By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
• Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with CTRL+F or cmd+F when you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [209][210]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [211]

Changes later this week

• You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [212]
• Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [213]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
• You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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15:59, 25 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [214]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Aŭtomate ŝalti plejparton de betaj funkciojn" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [215]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [216]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [217]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [218]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [219]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [220]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [221]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [222]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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14:21, 9 okt. 2017 (UTC)

presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory and asking for a vounteer in Esperanto Wikipedia

Hello everyone, My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.

I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Esperanto Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Esperanto Wikipedia much more multicultural. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Esperanto Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :). If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (diskuto) 14:21, 10 okt. 2017 (UTC) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Help in a study improving Esperanto text for Editors

We are researchers at the University of Southampton and Lyon, working on supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia.

We need your help! We worked on generating text in your language, and want to understand the quality of the text and how editors would interact with the text. Therefore, we set up a questionnaire here

https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/25256

It will show information and we want to ask you to edit based on the fact and text shown - without using any external tools. It will help us understand how facts are put in words and how to interact with the existing text.
The survey has 30 questions, but if you just want to answer part of the questions, that’s absolutely fine. If you use the save option, you can also come back anytime and edit it. The survey is open until 25/10/2017.

We want to improve the existing mw:Extension:ArticlePlaceholder, deployed in Esperanto Wikipedia, and generally the quality of automatic text in Esperanto. Thank you very much for your participation. It will help to bring the support for Esperanto online a lot forward!
If you have any comments and questions, please feel free to reach out to us!

Lucie-Aimée Kaffee+ kaffee@soton.ac.uk (User:Frimelle)
Hady Elsahar++ hady.elsahar@univ-st-etienne.fr
Pavlos Vougiouklis+ pv1e13@ecs.soton.ac.uk

+ University of Southampton
++ Université de Lyon

PS: There is a second part looking at text quality, here: https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/25235

Thanks,

--Frimelle (diskuto) 16:06, 12 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Franca revolucio

Mi ĵus faris kelkajn aldonojn al la artikolo Franca revolucio de 1789 per mallongiga traduko el la Franca Vikipedio, por ke ĝi estu almenaŭ kronologie kompleta. Kaj la parto, kiun mi tradukis, kaj tio, kio jam estis verkita, ankoraŭ bezonas kontrolon lingvan kaj enhavan kaj aliajn plibonigojn, se iu volos fari tion.

Mi ne ĝenos la Vikipedianaron pri ĉiu artikolo, kiun mi tradukos, sed mi ne ĉiam provos traduki artikolon tiel gravan.

Arbarulo (diskuto) 02:55, 14 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Ĉu Tisbe ĉu Tizba ?

Ekzistas ambaŭ paĝoj Piramo kaj Tisbe kaj Piramo kaj Tizba. Unu troas.

Taŭgus ĉu kunfandi ambaŭ ĉu anstataŭigi unu per alidirektilo.

--Jean-François Clet (diskuto) 20:30, 14 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [223][224]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [225]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [226]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [227]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [228]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:31, 16 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Vikipedia trejnado dum JES 2017/2018 en Pollando

Saluton. Mi kaj Venca24 gvidos trejnadon pri Vikipedio (aŭ eble Komunejo) dum la novjara E-renkontiĝo JES okazonta en Ŝĉecino, Pollando. Pliaj informoj estas en Vikipedio:Vikipedia renkontiĝo.

Se vi estos tiam proksime, venu al JES (kaj prenu ankaŭ vian amikon :)

Por tiu trejnado mi planas monpeti ĉe la Vikimedia Fondaĵo, kiel ni faras en la organizo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio. Se ankaŭ vi ŝatus estontece trejni, prelegi aŭ io simila (kaj havi repagitajn kostojn), kontaktu nin ;-) --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 17:50, 17 okt. 2017 (UTC)

• Dankon ke vi faras tion. Marek Mazurkiewicz (diskuto) 06:20, 18 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [229]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [230]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [231]

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18:18, 23 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [232]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:20, 31 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Alinomado de "Metodistoj" en "Metodismo"

Saluton,

Mi ne komprenas kial la paĝo pri metodismo titoliĝas «Metodistoj». Ĉu ne indus alinomi ĝin? Mi ne povis tion fari, ĉar la paĝo «Metodismo» jam ekzistas (kaj alidirektas al «Metodistoj»); probable tie staras laboro por administranto (pardonu ^^).

Amike,
--Theomanou (diskuto) 19:29, 2 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Metodismo estas nur alidirekta pagxo, do mi povas forigi gxin pro teknika forigo. Cxu iu kontrauxas?--Salatonbv (diskuto) 12:38, 4 nov. 2017 (UTC)

 Farite--Salatonbv (diskuto) 05:46, 7 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [233]

Changes later this week

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [234][235]

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18:45, 6 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34, 12 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [236]
• A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [237]
• Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [238]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [239]

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19:19, 13 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [240]
• The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [241][242][243]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [244][245]

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19:18, 20 nov. 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Dankon!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [246]
• You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [247]
• You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [248]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:30, 27 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Vikio Amas ZEOjn: Helpo serĉata

senframa

Salutegon! Mi emas kunorganizi konkurson pri ZEOj. Mi jam kreis en Commons la paĝon Commons:Wiki Loves ZEOs 2018 pri la konkurso kaj nun prilaboras stipendiopeton (Grants:Project/Rapid/ELiSo/Vikio Amas ZEOjn). Ĝis nun mi laboris sola, sed mi bezonas nun pliajn manojn. Ĉu iu interesiĝas pri kunhelpi? Mi listigas la farendaĵojn:

• Traduki la paĝon pri la konkurso

La paĝo Commons:Wiki Loves ZEOs 2018 enhavas la dokumentadon de la konkurso pri kio ĝi estas kaj kiel partopreni. La konkurso celas ĉefe Esperantujanon sed ne ekzistas baro por partoprenontoj ekster Esperantujo. Por tio ni bezonas traduki la tekstojn de la paĝo al naciaj lingvoj. Ju pli da lingvoj des pli facile atingi partoprenantojn.

• Juĝistoj

Ĉu vi fakas pri fotado? Ni bezonas teamojn el minumume 3 juĝistoj por elekti la gajnontojn.

• Endas pretigi la liston de Zamenhof/Esperanto-objektoj

Krei en la tabulojn novan kolonon kaj aldoni la kodon de la ZEO. Ĉi tio estas arbitra, ĉar ĝis nun ne ekzistas kompleta listo de ZEOj aŭ oficiala kodlisto. La ŝablono estas landokodo-numero (Ekzemple gr por Grekio kaj 001 por la unua ZEO en la listo, tiel gr-002 estas la dua ZEO de la listo de ZEOj en Grekio).

• Finpretigi la stipendiopeton Grants:Project/Rapid/ELiSo/Vikio Amas ZEOjn

Kion da partoprenantoj ni atendas? Kiom da fotoj ni esperas atingi? Kaj ĉefe revizii la kostojn de la konkurso.

La konkurso okazigos dum aŭgusto kaj daŭros la tutan monaton. Tiel eblos konigi ĝin dum la UK de Lisbono. Ĉu iu pretas helpi? -Sahaquiel9102 Saluton el Kolombio! | Unu mondo, Unu Lingvo ---> Mia Diskutpaĝo 15:52, 4 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Mi ja partoprenus kaj povas helpi tradukante. ~★ nmaia ^d 13:51, 5 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Bonege, mi dankas. Mi povas iri al la paĝo en Commons kaj redakti. Vi povas aldoni vian lingvon en la ŝablono, aldonu |pt= kaj tie vian tradukon. --Sahaquiel9102 Saluton el Kolombio! | Unu mondo, Unu Lingvo ---> Mia Diskutpaĝo 15:41, 9 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [249]
• You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [250]
• There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [251]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
• Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [252]
• Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [253][254]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
• The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [255]

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17:50, 4 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Blocking tools consultation

Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.

How can you help?

1. Share your ideas on the discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
2. Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
3. Help with translation.
4. If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.

We are looking forward to learning your ideas.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 23:23, 7 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [256]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [257]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [258]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Vidi la novajn ŝanĝojn ekde $1" link is now more prominent. [259]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [260]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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17:58, 11 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [261]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 decembro at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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15:26, 18 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Konsultado de stipendipetoj

Saluton!

Ni scias, ke por multaj el vi tio estas longa vojaĝo kaj tia ĉi partopreno povas esti signifa ŝargo por familia buĝeto. Ankaŭ pro tio la Fondaĵo Vikimedio provizas limigitan kvanton da stipendioj, pro kio ni tre dankas!

En la laborgrupo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio ni por niaj subtenantoj provizas specialan servon - konsultadon de stipendipetoj! Se vi ŝatus scii opinion de tiuj, kiuj jam plurfoje sukcesis ricevi stipendion, nun vi havas la oportunon! Por ke ni povu konsulti viajn petojn kaj vi havu ankaŭ tempon por entekstigi niajn rekomendojn, sendu al ni vian tekston ĝis la 18a de Januaro!

La formularon estas ĉe https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNW6oqmLDe9KUGcjGitGTrB4Xyqxr9FBhBIxyKtzdZLr49Nw/viewform

Atentigo: Tiu ĉi konsultado estas volontula agado de aktivuloj de Esperanto kaj Libera Scio; ĝi estas sendependa de la organizantoj de Vikimanio. Se vi volas peti stipendion sen konsultado, sekvu la instrukciojn en la oficiala retejo: wm2018:Scholarships/eo

Multan sukceson pri via stipendio kaj ni esperas, ke ni multaj renkontiĝos en Kaburbo!

nome de la komisiono (KuboF Hromoslav, Ziko, Psychoslave kaj Remux), --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 22:10, 8 jan. 2018 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (diskuto) 10:46, 21 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Kristnasko

Ĝojan Kristnaskon kaj bonan novjaron! Koracio (diskuto) 11:36, 23 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Haleluja! --Dominik (diskuto) 12:16, 23 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikidata, the "konservi" button when you edit is now called "publikigi". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Konservi paĝon" to "Publikigi la ŝanĝojn". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [262][263]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [264]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [265]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [266][267]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [268]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Ekskludi la elektitajn" in "Nomspacoj" did not work for "Konservitaj filtriloj" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [269]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [270]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [271]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [272]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [273][274]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [275]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Priskribo de fonta teksto en la interfaco

Gesinjoroj,

Estas problemeto en la interfaco. En la ĉefa paĝo, kiun oni ne rajtas redakti, oni povas almenaŭ vidi la fontan tekston per la ligilo "vidi vikitekston", kaj ĉe aliaj paĝoj oni povas redakti ĝin per la ligilo "redakti fonton". Sed kial uzi du apartajn vortojn ("fonto" kaj "vikiteksto") por la sama afero? Por uzantoj kiuj pli alkutimiĝis al WYSIWYG-aj redaktiloj, fonta teksto povus esti iom fremda koncepto, do oni ne eĉ pli konfuzu la aferon malhelpe uzante diversajn terminojn por nomi ĝin. Bonvolu elekti unu kaj uzi ĝin egale en la du lokoj. Dankon. --Per flugiloj de furzita vento (diskuto) 07:14, 15 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [276]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [277]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [278][279]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [280][281]

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18:45, 15 jan. 2018 (UTC)