Wikiorðabók:Potturinn/Eldri umræður 2

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Takk :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 6. janúar 2008 kl. 21:35 (UTC)

samþykkt

1. !íS¡ --Égg ^{(Fressinn nacazmati)} --8. janúar 2008 kl. 02:10 (UTC)
2. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 25. febrúar 2008 kl. 10:56 (UTC)

á móti

1. —

• Takk fyrir Thogo; [1], --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14. janúar 2008 kl. 13:49 (UTC)

Fallbeyging í portúgölsku Wikiorðabókar

Hæ! Ég þarf hjálp með fallbeyginguna orðsins "líkjör"... það er ekki í Orðabóki Háskólans, og ég kann ekki fallbeyginguna þess. Er fallbeygingin þess rétt í portúgölsku Wikiorðabókar (hér: pt:líkjör)? --LipeFontoura 17. janúar 2008 kl. 16:59 (UTC)

Halló, sjáðu nú greinina líkjör, kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17. janúar 2008 kl. 17:12 (UTC)

Takk! --LipeFontoura 18. janúar 2008 kl. 00:49 (UTC)

Leturgerð

Er það bara ég eða er leturgerðin hérna á öllu frekar funky? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 25. febrúar 2008 kl. 10:58 (UTC)

Hah, nei, hérna notum við bara sjálfgefið leturgerð, kannski er það vandamál við vefskoðara þinn? Kannski vilt þú senda mér skjáskot. Opera og Firefox virka bara vel. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 25. febrúar 2008 kl. 12:36 (UTC)

Ó, fyrirgefðu. Ég skil ekkert hvað málið var. Ég var ekki að nota minn vafra, heldur einhvern í skólanum, sem hefur verið eitthvað undarlega stiltur. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 27. febrúar 2008 kl. 01:52 (UTC)

Ekkert mál :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 27. febrúar 2008 kl. 01:55 (UTC)

Nafnorðasnið

Ég vona að það sé í lagi að ég búi til flokk fyrir nafnorðasniðin, til að hafa þau öll á sama stað. Þá á ég við snið eins og -is-nafnorð-, -en-nafnorð-, -da-nafnorð- og því um líkt. Alltaf gott að flokka hluti. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 27. febrúar 2008 kl. 03:47 (UTC)

Takk. Það er mjög góð hugmynd, sniðin {{-is-}}, {{-es-}}, o.s.frv. eru þegar flokkuð. Öll önnur eru vonandi að finna á Wikiorðabók:Listi yfir snið. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 27. febrúar 2008 kl. 10:18 (UTC)

Boðháttur í aðalsagnbeygingarsniði

Ég tek eftir því að víða (ef ekki víðast) er fyllt út í boðháttinn í sniðinu með stýfðum boðhætti (sem í stað semdu). Þetta form kann að vera gagnlegt fyrir málfræðinga en fyrir almenna notendur þá efast ég um að þetta sé sérstaklega gagnlegt enda sýnir hann ekki nútímalegt mál. Stýfði boðhátturinn birtist ekki nema í gömlum eða fornlegum textum. Ítarlega sagnbeygingarsniðið býður uppá stýfða boðháttinn og á hann ágætlega heima þar. Er ekki í lagi að breyta þessu þegar ég rekst á þetta? --Dresib 11. apríl 2008 kl. 02:33 (UTC)

Ég skil, í lagi. takk fyrir. --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 11. apríl 2008 kl. 02:41 (UTC)

Upptalning

Þegar þýðingar og merkingar eru upptaldar er notað [1] en á ensku Wiktionary er # notað. Þetta er notað á þýsku Wiktionary og í sumum tilfellum á þeirri spánsku en ég velti því fyrir mér hvort að þetta sé í raun hefðubundið í íslenskum orðabókum? Ég hef allavega ekki rekið mig á þetta annarsstaðar. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 1. maí 2008 kl. 18:51 (UTC)

Tölur eru notaðar til að tengja saman skilgreiningar og samheiti, andheiti, yfirheiti, etc. og þýðingar. Samanberðu til dæmis hræða eða einfaldur, að tölusetja þannig væri ekki mögulegt ef # hefði verið notað. --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 1. maí 2008 kl. 22:15 (UTC)

Allt í fína. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 2. maí 2008 kl. 14:31 (UTC)

Flokkun orða

Mér finnst ekki nógu sniðugt að t.d. þýsk (eða önnur) nafnorð fari í flokkinn Nafnorð og svo líka í flokkinn þýsk nafnorð. Flokkurinn þýsk nafnorð ætti að vera í flokkinum nafnorð, eins og hann er nú þegar, en þýsku nafnorðin ættu bara að vera í honum en ekki líka í nafnorðsflokkinum. Því annars verða sá flokkur sprengfullur og það hefur heldur ekkert upp á sig. Þetta fyrirkomulag er til dæmis notað á ensku Wiktionary; sjá en:Category:Nouns. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 1. maí 2008 kl. 21:21 (UTC)

xx-nafnorð eru í báðum flokkum af því að flokkar eins og Flokkur:Nafnorð o.s.frv. eru mjög áhugaverðir fyrir málamenn eða málvísindamenn. Fyrir alla aðra notendur eru til flokkar viðskila eftir tungumálum. Finnst þér betra að flokka þessa flokka eins og Flokkur:Þýsk nafnorð í Flokkur:Nafnorð eftir tungumálum til dæmis? --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 1. maí 2008 kl. 22:31 (UTC)

Afsakaðu, en ég átta mig ekki alveg á því sem þú ert að segja (er eitthvað tregur í dag). Mér finnst bara nóg að hafa þetta í einum flokki, það er að segja þýsk nafnorð, vegna þess að sá flokkur er svo sjálfur í flokknum þýska og nafnorð, svo þetta er í raun endurtekið 2 sinnum. En annars er þetta ekkert stórmál. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 1. maí 2008 kl. 23:30 (UTC)

Forsíðan okkar

Mér finnst að það mætti alveg endurhanna forsíðuna. Ekki að hún sé ljót eða slíkt, en hún er bara einum of lík þýsku forsíðunni og ég er ekki alveg að fíla það. Ég veit um snildar hönnuð ef fólk er til í þetta. Eitt sem ég væri til að sjá á forsíðunni og það er talning fyrir orð á ákveðnum tungumálum. Eitthvað eins og:

Fjöldi skýringa orða á:

spænsku: 188

íslensku: 177

þýsku: 161

pólsku: 152

ensku: 123

Ég náði í þessar tölur. Þetta myndi sína gæði og styrk verkefnisins á þessum tungumálum. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 2. maí 2008 kl. 02:05 (UTC)

Steinninn er að búa til nýja forsíðu hérna, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 2. maí 2008 kl. 12:26 (UTC)

Þá tala ég bara við hann. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 2. maí 2008 kl. 14:30 (UTC)

Skortur

Okkur vantar, að ég held, snið sem hefur Derived terms sem texta eins og er notað á ensku Wikiorðabókinni. Dæmi um það sem ég er að tala um:

{{-de-}}
{{-de-forsetning-}}
'''ab''';
:[1] [[frá]]
:[2] [[af]]

==== Derived terms ====
* [[ab und zu]]

{{-de-atviksorð-}}
'''ab''';
:[1] [[af]]
:[2] [[niður]]

--Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 2. maí 2008 kl. 23:43 (UTC)

Jú, það er rétt, ég nota bara "{{-sjá-einnig-}}", en mér finnst að "derived terms" hljómaði betra, er til góð þýðing? --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 3. maí 2008 kl. 06:15 (UTC)

Afleidd hugtök stakk einhver upp á. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 4. maí 2008 kl. 04:32 (UTC)

Afleidd hugtök eða Afleitt orð hvort finnst þér betra? --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 4. maí 2008 kl. 07:04 (UTC)

Ég er búinn að vera hugsa aðeins um þetta og ég áttaði mig á því að þetta eru yfirleitt ekki stök orð eða hugtök heldur eru þetta yfirleitt orðasambönd svo kannski væri best að segja Afleidd orðasambönd? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 4. maí 2008 kl. 07:19 (UTC)

Mhm, mér finnst "ab und zu" til dæmis er ekki "derived term" en "orðtak/orðasamband", {{-orðtök-}} er til, "derived" fyrir "ab" væri "abschlagen" "abbrechen" o.s.frv., hvað gerum við við orðin eins og "fugl-> fuglafræði, fuglahræða, ..."; "svefn -> svefnfriður, svefnró, svefnherbergi, svefnklefi, svefnlaus, ..." finnst þér gott að við notum "Afleidd orðasambönd" fyrir þau líka? kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 14:14 (UTC)

Afleiddar merkingar kannski? En allavega er Afleidd orð nokkuð gott. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 5. maí 2008 kl. 15:54 (UTC)

„afleiddar merkingar“ hljómar vel, finnst mér, takk fyrir :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 22:51 (UTC)

Er það þá ákveðið? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 06:43 (UTC)

Já, er það í lagi? Ég setji sniðið {{-afleiddar merkingar-}} þegar inn í MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning, kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 7. maí 2008 kl. 10:05 (UTC)

En eigum við að nota það alfarið eða líka afleidd orðasambönd? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 9. maí 2008 kl. 11:18 (UTC)

Notkun á -xx- sniðunum

Þegar við notum sniðin -xx- til þess að fá nafn tungumála í greinina sem fyrirsagnir ætti ekki að nota sama sniðið oftar en einu sinni. Það er heimskulegt að skrifa til dæmis:

-is-
-is-nafnorð-
eign (kvenkyn)

-is-
-is-sagnorð-
eignast

Heldur ætti þetta að vera:

-is-
-is-nafnorð-
eign (kvenkyn)

-is-sagnorð-
eignast

Annars er þetta ruglandi og það tekur OF MIKIÐ PLÁSS. Einnig er þetta bara óþarfa vinna. Ég hef tekið eftir því að flest allar síður nota fyrr aðferðina. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 3. maí 2008 kl. 01:18 (UTC)

Mér finnst það ekki ruglandi en greinilegt, hvort orð er lokuð grein. En ef þú vilt bara skrifa:

-is-
-is-nafnorð-
eign (kvenkyn)

-is-sagnorð-
eignast

er það bærilegt. Ég hef gert það svona fyrir WiktionaryZ (OmegaWiki) en ég missti vonina um að vera flutt inn til OmegaWiki.

Gerðu svo vel bara aðskildu ólík túngumál við {{2x----}}

Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 3. maí 2008 kl. 06:07 (UTC)

Afhverju þarf að aðskilja þau með þessu sniði? Þau eru núþegar aðskilin með -xx- sniðinu þar sem að þetta eru allt fyrirsagnir. Það er bara aukavinna, þar af auki er sniðið ummm... ljótt. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 3. maí 2008 kl. 16:38 (UTC)

Mér finnst það greinilegra, ég notaði bara litinn fallbeygingarsniðsins sem var þegar til. Ennfremur þetta snið inniheldur <br clear="all">. Ég breyti sniðinu núna en þú mátt breyta því einnig ef þú vilt. Sniðið {{-xx-}} er hausinn orðsins og {{2x----}} er fóturinn orðsins. (Samanberðu anda til dæmis). Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 3. maí 2008 kl. 23:19 (UTC)

Ég er nú eiginlega sammála Stefáni. Mér finnst að það ætti bara að vera eitt {{-xx-}} á hverri síðu. --Steinninn 4. maí 2008 kl. 15:19 (UTC)

Í lagi, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 4. maí 2008 kl. 17:47 (UTC)

Ha, mér finnst það ennþá ruglandi: samanberið [2] og [3], mér finnst að það vanti aðgreiningu :( --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 4. maí 2008 kl. 21:56 (UTC)

Ég átta mig ekki alveg á því. Ef þú t.d. lítur á efnisyfirlitið þá er það fullkomlega aðgreint þar, eins og vera ber. Það ætti ekki að setja nafnorð undir íslensku og sagnorð svo aftur undir aðra fyrirsögn af íslensku þar sem að bæði eru, ja, íslenska og sama málið ætti bara að koma fyrir einu sinni, eins og sést vel á ensku Wikiorðabókinni. Ímyndaðu þér ef við hefðum síðu eins og þessa, hverning heldur þú að hún liti í samanburði við þessar sem hafa sama tungumálið mörgum sinnum í röð, körsamlega chaotisch! Í fyrirsögnunum er langt strik sem nær út að enda síðunar á báðar hliðar og það er í raun aðgreiningin. Ég veit ekki hverju fjólublátt strik bætir við þetta nema bara að það brýtur upp stílinn. Ég hef aldrei séð svona fyrirkomulag áður í orðabókum. Viva la resistance! --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 4. maí 2008 kl. 22:27 (UTC)

Já, ef þetta er ekki nógu skýrt þá ættum við að laga útlitið á sniðunum. Í efnisyfirlitinu er þetta nokkuð skýrt. --Steinninn 5. maí 2008 kl. 00:42 (UTC)

Í efnisyfirlitinu er það skýrt en ekki í greininni sjálfri. Á en.wikt eru oftast engar beygingar eða tilvísanir, bara 1. ... 2. ... og ekkert meira, engu að síður en.wikt notar ---- á milli tungumálanna. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 12:04 (UTC)

ES. mér finnst ekki allt gott sem en.wiktionary er að gera og mig langaði ekki að vinna í íslenskri eftirlíkingu enska wikiorðabóksins. (fyrirgefið, kannski er ég núna bara mjög svekkt. ;( sjáið [4] og [5]) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 12:13 (UTC)

Hvernig finnst ykkur [6], Snið:---- er notað á milli orðflokkanna. Að nota bara ---- er ekki góð hugmynd, vegna þess. Auðvitað megið þið breyta {{----}} eða {{2x----}} ef ykkur finnst það ljótt! kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 13:26 (UTC)

Við ættum í rauninni bara að taka það besta frá hverju verkefni en að vera með einhverjar eftirlíkingar. Hverning finnst þér hlutirnir á Wikipedia til dæmis? Þeir eru í raun alveg eins, finnst þér {{2x----}} vanta á milli fyrirsagna þar? Það síðasta sem við viljum gera er að svekkja þig, þú ert uppáhaldið okkar. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 5. maí 2008 kl. 16:08 (UTC)

Hehe, að taka það besta frá hverju verkefni finnst mér mjög góð hugmynd ;) Þið hafið rétt fyrir ykkur með {-xx-}. Mér finnst bara eitthvað (t.d. {{----}}) vantar núna á milli orðflokkanna og eitthvað annað (t.d. {{2x----}}) á milli tungumálanna. Ég man ekki hvernig hlutirnir á Wikipedia eru. Ef þér finnst sniðin ljót það er ekkert stórmál, bara breyttu þeim, Wikiorðabókin er wiki-verkefni. Og takk fyrir hlýleg orð til mín , --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. maí 2008 kl. 22:00 (UTC)

Ég mæti með því, ef þú hefur ekki gert það nú þegar, að þú kynnir þér Nýtímalegt þemað í stillingunum. Mér finnst það persónulega flottasta og stílhreinasta sniðið og þar eru fyrirsagnirnar þannig að ég tel að þér myndi finnast engin frekari þörf á að greina þetta eitthvað frekar í sundur. Ég væri einnig til í að taka upp þá umræðu að gera Nútímalegt að sjálfgefnu þema hérna á íslensku Wikiorðabókinni. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 03:40 (UTC)

Nei, ég nota bara þemað "EinBók", og ég væri á móti að nota "Nútímalegt" að sjálfgefnu þema af því að margar javascript-stillingar virka ekki með því. :( --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 7. maí 2008 kl. 10:24 (UTC)

Það er allt í lagi. Ég nota það og hef ekki enn tekið eftir því að einhverjir eiginleikar séu horfnir. Ég tók allavega eftir því að TranslateWiki.net tók þetta upp sem sjálfgefið þema, veit ekki hvað aðrir munu gera. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 8. maí 2008 kl. 23:58 (UTC)

Könnun

Ég hef verið að gera slatta af síðum en áður en ég fór í það skoðaði ég aðrar og tók mér nokkrar til fyrirmyndar. Ég hef verið að velta því fyrir mér hvort að við ættum að vera að telja upp orðið oftar en í titil síðunnar. Persónulega finnst mér það vera í góðu lagi og þá sérstaklega þegar Wikiorðabókin stækkar og síðurnar verða lengri þá gleymir maður kannski á hvaða orði maður er á og þarf þá að fletta alla leiðina upp aftur á titil síðurnar. Ég gef dæmi:

{{-de-}}
{{-de-lýsingarorð-}}
'''allein''';
:[1] [[einsamall]]

eða

{{-de-}}
{{-de-lýsingarorð-}}
þá myndi ekkert vera hér;
:[1] [[einsamall]]

Ég hef tekið eftir því að á ensku Wikiorðabókinn eru þau alltaf talin upp aftur og ef um sagnorð er að ræða þá er to bætt við þau sem yrði að hjá okkur, spurning hvort að við ættum að gera það líka? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 03:49 (UTC)

Er það venjulega gert á íslensku, að skrifa sagnirnar og "að" í orðabókum? Á þýsku er það ekki gert.

@telja upp orð:

í íslenskum greinum við skrifum bara orð en einnig aukaupplýsingar eins og "veik/sterk beyging", kyn, fall sem er tekið, sjáðu til dæmis veður, skrifa, o.s.frv.

Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 7. maí 2008 kl. 09:59 (UTC)

Lýsingarorð og kyn

Það tíðkast að þýða lýsingarorð alltaf á karlkyn í íslensku - af einhverji karlrembuástæðu - en stundum er það svo að sum lýsingarorð eru sérstaklega ætluð öðru kyni en karlkyninu. Hverning ætti maður þá að höndla það? Ég gef dæmi: orðið tot yrði þýtt á íslensku sem dauður, samt leyfi ég mér að líta svo á að þetta eigi við um konur þá líka, sem yrði dauð. Annað dæmi: orðið allerbester yrði í flestum orðabókum þýtt sem langbestur en nú er það svo að einnig er til allerbeste. Hverning þýðist það, langbestur líka? Eða eigum við að víkja út frá þeim reglum sem við erum vön og segja langbest? Ég er persónulega hlyntur því að öll lýsingarorð yrðu þýtt yfir á íslensku í hvorugkyni. Ég reykna mað því að þegar þetta verkefni hefur stækkað margfalt að þá munum við hafa orð í öllum kynum, í öllum föllum, í öllum tíðum, í öllum tölum og á öllum tungumálum; en á þá alltaf að þýða í karlkynið? Viva la women. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 03:57 (UTC)

Já, mér finnst best að þýða bara á karlkyn í íslensku. Á spænsku hvorugkynið til dæmis er ekki til. Við þýðum á karlkyn og í greinunum t.d. "tot" eða "bueno" sýnum við beygingar. --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 7. maí 2008 kl. 07:11 (UTC)

Fleirtölunafnorð

Hvað gerum vér við nafnorð sem eru í fleirtölu, ég ekki rekist á slíkt enn?

Er þetta málið:

{{-de-}}
{{-de-nafnorð-}}
'''Alimente''' fleirtöluorð;
:[1] [[framfærslufé]]
:[2] [[meðlag]]

Eða hvað? Ég vissi ekki hvað ég átti að gera í þessu dæmi og í orðinu Alpen. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 06:19 (UTC)

Já, "fleirtöluorð" eða bara "ft." og kyn ef það er vitað. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 7. maí 2008 kl. 06:50 (UTC)

Annars veit ég ekki með þessi blessuðu kyn í þýsku, þau virðast vera svona mállýsku bundin. Ég styðst bara við orðabækur en ég veit ekkert hvað þær styðjast sjálfar við. Varstu búin að taka eftir þessu sem ég var að dunda mér við um daginn? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 12:23 (UTC)

Ættum við kannski að búa til snið fleirtöluorð; (fleirtöluorð)? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 8. maí 2008 kl. 20:55 (UTC)

Já, það finnst mér góð hugmynd. Fleirtöluorð í þýsku eru oftast án kyns, það er ekki mögulegt til að ákveða kynið, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 8. maí 2008 kl. 22:23 (UTC)

Kynsnið

Ættum við að búa til snið fyrir kyn hvers máls? Eitthvað eins og -is-kk.- og -de-kvk.-? Það væri þá hægt að sjá öll hvougkyn ákveðins máls og því um líkt og hafa svo yfirflokk sem yrði með öll kk og kh o.s.f.v. málsins. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 7. maí 2008 kl. 12:40 (UTC)

Er kannski ekkert vit í þessu? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 8. maí 2008 kl. 20:50 (UTC)

Hm, kannski er það of margbrotið fyrir notendur :S --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 8. maí 2008 kl. 22:18 (UTC)

Bendillinn

Er ekki hægt að koma því á að bendillinn sé alltaf í leitarglugganum þegar maður fer á síður og þá sérstaklega forsíðuna? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 8. maí 2008 kl. 21:51 (UTC)

Forskeyti og hvað annað

Erum vér með einhver snið fyrir forskeyti? Hverning vilja menn hafa þetta? Eigum við bara að skella þessu í snið forskeyti? Það sem ég á við, ef ég hef rétt fyrir mér, orð eins og Anfangs-, eða allavega orð sem er oft skeytt á önnur þó að þetta dæmi megi hugsanlega tejast til nafnorða. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 9. maí 2008 kl. 10:59 (UTC)

Hvernig finnst þér heiti eins og {{-is-forliður-}}? Ég notaði það fyrir orðið "svefn-" til dæmis, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 9. maí 2008 kl. 11:38 (UTC)

Works fine for me. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 9. maí 2008 kl. 11:48 (UTC)

Rétt skilgreining

Er það rétt hjá mér að segja ab und zu vera atviksorð, þó svo að í því sé t.d. samtenging? Ég fylgdi bara ensku síðunni sem flokkar every now and then sem atviksorð. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 9. maí 2008 kl. 11:16 (UTC)

Já, það er rétt, ab und zu er atviksorð, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 9. maí 2008 kl. 11:24 (UTC)

Stats

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hollenska	2350	1833
oksítanska	0
úkraínska	1153
enska	12607
franska	2352
katalónska	353
spænska	2355
íslenska	17830	10563

Jcwf 13. maí 2008 kl. 04:04 (UTC)

Try sorting! ;-)

And this updates itself!

Now, why didn't I think of that? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 13. maí 2008 kl. 15:16 (UTC)

Ah, now I understand, thanks good idea :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13. maí 2008 kl. 15:39 (UTC)

Fyrirlestur um Wikipedia á ráðstefnu um stafrænt frelsi

Sjá http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Fyrirlestur_um_Wikipedia_.C3.A1_r.C3.A1.C3.B0stefnu_um_stafr.C3.A6nt_frelsi

Það væri gott að fá athugasemdir (á Wikipedia spjallsíðunni) um Wiktionary sem hægt væri að nefna í þessum fyrirlestri. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (spjall) 2. júní 2008 kl. 23:55 (UTC)

Nauðsynleg viðbót

Okkur vantar svona, helst á öll wiki-verkefnin. Þessi viðbót virkar þannig að ákveðnir notendur geta merkt breytingar sem góðar breytingar, svo þegar venjulegur, oftast óinnskráður, notandi er að lesa grein þá sér hann góðu breytinguna, jafnvel þótt svo að aðrir hafi breytt þar á eftir. Ekki rugla þessu við flýtiminnið. Þetta er gert svo að ef annar notandi skemmir grein, eða klúðrar einhverju, þá mun sú breyting ekki sjást ef greinin hefur einhverja ákveðna breytingu merkta sem góða breytingu. --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 11. júlí 2008 kl. 05:58 (UTC)

Já, ókei, þetta finnst mér mjög góð hugmynd, takk, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 28. nóvember 2008 kl. 00:07 (UTC)

bugzilla:16476, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 28. nóvember 2008 kl. 00:34 (UTC)

1. Samþykkt --ÉggO ^{(Fressinn nacazmati)} 11. janúar 2009 kl. 11:27 (UTC)
2. Samþykkt--Pharamp (spjall) 14. janúar 2009 kl. 20:16 (UTC)
3. Samþykkyt --Ooswesthoesbes (spjall) 15. janúar 2009 kl. 13:07 (UTC)
4. Samþykkt --LipeFontoura (spjall) 16. janúar 2009 kl. 22:48 (UTC)
5. Samþykkt ––SvartMan (spjall) 19. janúar 2009 kl. 23:20 (GMT)
6. Samþykkt --Ivocamp96 ^{(I don't speak iceland)} 24. janúar 2009 kl. 14:38 (UTC)
7. Samþykkt --Malafaya (spjall) 14. mars 2009 kl. 16:06 (UTC)
8. Samþykkt -- Alison (spjall) 2. mars 2010 kl. 12:07 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Hi. It would be great if someone could add pronunciation info (with IPA) to the Icelandic words. Anyone willing to do it? :) Malafaya (spjall) 26. ágúst 2008 kl. 00:30 (UTC)

Hello, I am sorry but I don't speak IPAish :( --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 26. ágúst 2008 kl. 01:01 (UTC)

[7] - And I thought Dutch had a difficult pronunciation... For Dutch there exists a pdf-file containing the pronunciation for many words, maybe there's one for Icelandic too. But I fear that Icelandic, which has about 5× less speakers than Limburgish, is a too small language, unfortunately :( --Ooswesthoesbes (spjall) 15. febrúar 2009 kl. 13:56 (UTC)

undirsíður

Halló, undirsíður virkja ekki í aðalnafnarými , t.d.: baka -> baka/sagnbeyging, dásamlegur -> dásamlegur/lýsingarorðsbeyging, en það væri mjög hentugt.

Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 23. desember 2008 kl. 17:18 (UTC)

1. samþykkt --ÉggO ^{(Fressinn nacazmati)} 25. desember 2008 kl. 01:03 (UTC)
2. samþykkt --Manie (spjall) 13. janúar 2009 kl. 20:02 (UTC)

• bugzilla:16808, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 27. desember 2008 kl. 15:39 (UTC)

Bot approval for inital sighting of authoritative pages

Note: The following process has already been requested by Spacebirdy (see Notandaspjall:Melancholie#stabile_Versionen, knowing it from dewikt), this is just to inform the whole community:

I am User:Melancholie, bureaucrat and sighter on the Alemannic Wikipedia, SysOp and sighter on the German Wiktionary and operator of MelancholieBot for example. I want to apply for the "editor" right (= sighter) also on this wiki:

The reason for this request is that I do have a bot script available that can help you with the initial sighting process ("FlaggedRevs") for foolproof pages! Why? Not-yet-flagged pages will appear with a red exclamation mark, even if a sighter edited it. A sighter will have to sight it afterwards, even if the page has only been edited by absolutely trustworthy users in past! That's much much unneeded work!

My script will minimize and fasten up your extra work on this by sighting (flagging, marking) the latest revision of all reliable and clean pages (templates, images, articles; redirects) automatically, based on a user whitelist!

1. Step #1:
   • Currently, only all SysOps of your wiki are on this list.
   • If you could confirm that your flagged bots did and still are working well (in respect of hidden spam/vandalism) I will add them too, what would be very important for the efficiency within the article namespace!
2. Step #2:
   • Furthermore, please confirm that the content contributions of your sighters have been - respectivaly are (the latest revision gets flagged only) - free of spam and vandalism. With adding also all sighters to the whitelist, you could have the biggest benefit in respect of unnecessary work you will not have to do manually on your own!
   • Are there any reliable users (or bots/static IPs), that are not yet allowed to sight?

You will be able to have an eye on that process all the time at Special:Log/review, by the way! But first I have to have the right to flag (sight) on this wiki.

By the way: If you should have any general problems (layout etc.) with the FlaggedRevs extension, please let me know.

You can see how it works, at huwiki and frnews for example (list).

I will start the process following Notandaspjall:Melancholie#stabile_Versionen and Notandaspjall:Melancholie#Liste. --- Best regards, Melancholie (spjall) 1. apríl 2009 kl. 21:36 (UTC)

Phase #1 now flags all pages that got only edited by SysOps, see Special:Log/review/Melancholie! --Melancholie (spjall) 2. apríl 2009 kl. 00:54 (UTC)

Thanks for Your work, this is perfect. Yes the flagged bots on this wiki are all ok, also the sighters, we had some good edits from IPs too, but they are dynamic and atm. I can't think of other users whos revisions should be automatically flagged than the ones that already have editor flags. Thanks again and best regards, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 2. apríl 2009 kl. 13:09 (UTC)

Phase #2, SysOps+bots, is running; see Special:Log/review/Melancholie. --- Best regards, Melancholie (spjall) 2. apríl 2009 kl. 21:18 (UTC)

The third and last run is active (SysOps+bots+sighters), see Special:Log/review/Melancholie. --- Kind regards, Melancholie (spjall) 4. apríl 2009 kl. 10:31 (UTC)

The whole process has been finished, now 93.4 % of articles are flagged; see stats. --- Best regards, Melancholie (spjall) 5. apríl 2009 kl. 19:35 (UTC)

Thank You very much for the great job You did for is.wiktionary! Best regards, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 5. apríl 2009 kl. 23:55 (UTC)

nýtt nafnrými: samheitasafn

Mig langar að stinga upp á nýju nafnrými: samheitasafn (samheitaorðabók, á ensku "thesaurus"...). Mér finnst að það væri mjög gott fyrir söfn eins og Viðauki:Veðurorð. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 1. maí 2009 kl. 12:57 (UTC)

• bugzilla:18643

meta:Wiktionary/logo/refresh/proposals

For your information. Conrad.Irwin (spjall) 10. maí 2009 kl. 10:33 (UTC)

Stafsetningarorðabók byggð á Wikiorðabókinni.

Ég var að hefja vinnu við stafsetningarorðabók sem byggð er á hunspell kerfinu, sama kerfi og OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Chrome og fleiri forrit nota. Orðabókin notar orðalista sem má finna hér, http://elias.rhi.hi.is/pub/is/, sem grunn og bætir orðum í Wikiorðabókinni við hann. Eins og er eru íslensk nafnorð í nefnifalli sótt úr Wikiorðabókinni að undanskyldum Stubbum, skáldamáli, fornum orðum og stafrófinu. Næsta verk er að túlka fallbeygingarform Wikiorðabókarinnar yfir í endingaform hunspell, síðan sækja sagnorð, lýsingarorð, o.s.frv. Heimasíða verkefnisins er hér, https://launchpad.net/hunspell-is, þar sem hægt er að nálgast kóða. Áhugasamir geta haft samband við nifgraup hjá gmail.com. Kv. Björgvin. --Nifgraup (spjall) 14. september 2009 kl. 18:22 (UTC)

Halló, takk fyrir að láta okkur vita, það er mjög gott verkefni að því er virðist, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14. september 2009 kl. 18:37 (UTC)

Vinna er komin á fullt skrið á https://launchpad.net/hunspell-is, vonandi verður fyrsta útgáfa gefin út á næstu vikum eða mánuðum. --Nifgraup (spjall) 28. október 2010 kl. 01:42 (UTC)

Þetta er farið að virka, ný heimasíða verkefnisins er hér: https://github.com/nifgraup/hunspell-is. Nifgraup (spjall) 8. nóvember 2011 kl. 23:53 (UTC)

Fyrsta útgáfan hefur litið dagsins ljós: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-project Nifgraup (spjall) 20. mars 2012 kl. 17:38 (UTC)

Frábært :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20. mars 2012 kl. 17:47 (UTC)

Ég hef útvíkkað verkefnið sem inniheldur nú einnig samheitaorðabók, https://groups.google.com/group/hunspell-is/browse_thread/thread/4a8917a203d0d521 Nifgraup (spjall) 8. ágúst 2012 kl. 23:57 (UTC)

Fyrsta útgáfan sem inniheldur samheiti úr Wikiorðabókinni er komin út: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-project/releases/2012.09.01 Nifgraup (spjall) 1. september 2012 kl. 23:24 (UTC)

Aftur er verkefnið útvíkkað, nú er hægt að málfræðigreininga orð. Einnig er eru öll beygingarsnið túlkuð. Sjá: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/hunspell-is/jXqDGeRXNWA/Sz1dGZSl1IkJ --Nifgraup (spjall) 22. ágúst 2014 kl. 20:02 (UTC)

Varstu að leita af á leitarniðurstöðusíðu

Það skar í augun þegar ég sá setninguna: Varstu að leita af [orð]?

Maður leitar AÐ orði, rétt eins og maður leitar AÐ sokkunum sínum. Maður leitar ekki AF neinu.

— Þetta óundirritaða innlegg var skrifað af 157.157.119.142 (spjall) · framlög ° breyting

Halló, það er ekki mistök okkar en betawiki:s (hérna). Á betawiki eru gert allar íslenskar þýðingar allra wiki-verkefna. Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 26. september 2009 kl. 13:41 (UTC)

Orðskiptingar

Í íslensku eru orðskiptingareglur tiltölulega einfaldar, en engu að síður koma upp tilfelli þar sem maður getur verið í vafa. Íslenskar orðabækur sýna yfirleitt ekki orðskiptingar—gagnstætt því sem við sjáum til dæmis í ensku.

Nú er það svo að þrátt fyrir tiltölulega einfaldar reglur, þá er það nokkur fjöldi orða, einkum samsettra og orða af erlendum uppruna, sem geta valdið vafa. Ég hef verið að brjóta um Nýja testamentið í nokkrum útgáfum sl. rúm tvö ár og hef rekið mig á ýmis vandamál af þessu tæi. Það er því tillaga mín að í framsetningu atriðisorða verði sett orðskiptingarmerki þar sem við á eða að sérstakur orðskiptingarreitur verði settur upp.

Hvað finnst ykkur? Er þetta eitthvað sem ég get hjálpað til við? Ég hefði gjarnan viljað koma á ákveðinn stað þeim niðurstöðum sem ég hef komist að og bera undir sérfræðingana hér.

Með kveðju.

Böðvar Björgvinsson

PS: Vonandi er í lagi að skrifa hér á íslensku…

— Þetta óundirritaða innlegg var skrifað af Bodvar (spjall) · framlög °

Halló og velkominn, góð hugmynd að setja inn orðskiptingar í greinarnar - spurning er bara hvar. Kannski eins og í "sagnorð" eða í "ákveðinn"? Hvað finnst ykkur?

Kær kveðja, --geimfyglið _(:> )=|

Logo vote

(Sorry for writing in English. Please translate this message if possible.) The Wiktionary logo vote is set to start 2009-12-07 00:01. Any translations of the voting page must be done before then. The first round will continue until 2009-12-31 23:59 at which point the second round will last until 2010-01-31 23:59. Please note that after this vote, each Wiktionary will hold their own vote whether to accept the winning logo, and none will change to the new logo without a 60% majority of Wiktionaries deciding to do so. Other Wiktionaries still need to be notified about the vote, so please help post messages into other Wiktionaries. Thank you. --User:Yair rand 27. nóvember 2009 kl. 07:38 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

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Snið lýsingarorð

Ég tók eftir því að sniðið fyrir lýsingarorð inniheldur ekki fallbeygingar. Var þetta viljandi eða eitthvað sem gleymdist? -Kjarrval (spjall) 12. maí 2010 kl. 17:13 (UTC)

Halló og velkominn. Ekki rétt, Snið:Snið Lýsingarorð inniheldur lýsingarorðsbeygingar og Snið:lýsingarorðsbeyging er bara notað fyrir þær. Eða um hvaða snið ertu að tala? Bless, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13. maí 2010 kl. 06:46 (UTC)

Tók bara eftir einfalda sniðinu en ekki því sem var ítarlegra - sem var einmitt það sem ég var að spá í. -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 14. maí 2010 kl. 19:53 (UTC)

Aukning á orðaforða Wiktionary

Ég var að klára B.Sc. lokaverkefnið mitt í máltækni þar sem ég smíðaði nokkur tól og var að spá hvort nýta mætti eitthvað af þeim tólum til að auka við orðaforða hins íslenska Wiktionary.

Þá var ég aðallega að spá í að smíða tól sem safnar orðmyndum af völdum vefjum, tilreiðir þau og safnar í gagnagrunn. Síðan væri þessi grunnur afstemmaður við þær orðmyndir sem eru hér nú þegar á Wiktionary og eftir væru þær sem á vantar. Síðan væri hægt að koma þessum orðmyndum á framfæri til sjálfboðaliða sem gætu bætt þeim við Wiktionary eftir hentisemi. Þeim væri raðað eftir því hversu tíðar þær eru svo að algengustu orðin ættu að rata hingað fyrst. Með smá vinnu er hægt að ná yfir öll algengustu orðin.

Því miður er tæknin ekki svo góð að það sé hægt að finna út stofn orða beint út frá afbrigðum þeirra sem þýðir að sjálfboðaliðar yrðu sjálfir að sjá um að finna út og skrá niður beygingar. Þetta er auðvitað hugmynd sem ég er að kasta fram til ykkar en hún er vel framkvæmanleg. Eina málið væri að ákveða hvernig ætti að standa að því að koma því sem safnast inn í Wiktionary.

E.S. Kynning á lokaverkefninu næsta miðvikudag ef einhver hefur áhuga á að mæta: http://www.ru.is/deildir/tolvunarfraedi/news/75/nr/25129

-Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 14. maí 2010 kl. 20:24 (UTC)

Vegna einskis sýnilegs áhuga af hálfu notenda hér hef ég ákveðið að setja þetta verkefni í bið. -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 13. júlí 2010 kl. 03:57 (UTC)

Flokkur:Forngríska

The Flokkur:Forngríska, is it supposed to be Ancient Greek (code: grc) or Katarevousa Greek? The interwiki links point to the latter one although the name makes me believe it's the former. Malafaya (spjall) 6. mars 2011 kl. 14:59 (UTC)

forngríska is just Ancient Greek, I have added a wrong interwikilink because I obviously wrongly must have thought the links I added were that too. Best, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 9. mars 2011 kl. 18:51 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

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Ágæta orðabók

Ég vissi ekki hvert ég átti að senda þessi skilaboð þannig að ég ákvað að setja þau hér, þá getur þú lesandi góður komið þeim til skila til rétts viðtakenda. Ég er í félagi í fagfélagi og við erum með stórt og gott fagorðasafn sem hefur verið í smíðum síðustu 30 árin tæplega eða svo. Ég hef löngum sé fyrir mér einskonar wiki síðu sem hluti af heimasíðu félagsins sem leyfir öllum að koma með tillögur að þýðingum og þýða orð. Hugmyndin er að ef 100 manns þýða saman eitt orð þá getur komið mikið af rökstuðningi og mikið af tillögum fyrir ólíka notkun þess eina orðs. Ég er að velta fyrir mér hvort Wikiorðabók hugbúnaðurinn henti fyrir þessa vinnu. Ég er einnig að velta fyrir mér leyfismálum. Nú myndi ég glaður vilja setja þessa vinnu inn í wikiorðabók verkefnið með sjálfvirkum hætti. ... ég læt þetta duga í bili, en hugmyndin er að virkja alla sem vettlingi geta valdið til að fá frjálst orðasafn útgefið án þess að skemma fyrir fagfélögunum að geta samið við hefðbundnar orðabækur um útgáfu fagorða. (kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is)

Þessi spurning var sett inn á samfélagsgáttina en mér finnst hún meira eiga heima hér svo ég afritaði hana setti hingað.- Bragi H (spjall) 8. október 2011 kl. 12:34 (UTC)

Terms of Use update

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The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 27. október 2011 kl. 00:56 (UTC)

Breyting á upphlaðstenglum

Ég legg til að breyta tenglinum til að hlaða inn skrá á Melding:Uploadnologintext og Melding:Common.js þannig þeir tengi á http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard?lang=is --Snaevar (spjall) 26. nóvember 2011 kl. 00:59 (UTC)

Takk fyrir, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 26. nóvember 2011 kl. 08:00 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 21. desember 2011 kl. 13:05 (UTC)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 15. janúar 2012 kl. 00:15 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 12. febrúar 2012 kl. 15:05 (UTC)

Leiðbeiningar??

Hvar eru leiðbeiningar um hvernig maður skráir inn ný orð eiginlega??

Rename Dferg --> MarcoAurelio

Hello. Sorry for posting in English. I'd be most grateful if somebody could rename this account to User:MarcoAurelio. See confirmation for this request. I accidentally SUL-logged here so User:MarcoAurelio would need to be usurped first. Sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards. --Dferg (spjall) 5. mars 2012 kl. 20:50 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 2. júní 2012 kl. 01:04 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 5. júní 2012 kl. 18:23 (UTC)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

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The mobile view of this project and others will soon become the default view on mobile devices (except tablets). Some language versions of these projects currently show no content on the mobile home page, and it is a good time to do a little formatting so users get a mobile-friendly view, or to add to existing mobile content if some already exists.

If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is June 21.

To contact the mobile team, email mobile-feedback-llists.wikimedia.org.

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 16. júní 2012 kl. 08:31 (UTC)

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Extension:Babel og málkassar.

Nú er til viðbótin Babel sem getur komið í stað málkassana. Ætlar is.wiktionary að nýta sér þessa viðbót eða halda áfram að búa til málkassa?--Snaevar (spjall) 17. júní 2012 kl. 00:20 (UTC)

Af hverju ekki að nýta sér þessa viðbót. Hún hljómar vel. --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17. júní 2012 kl. 04:16 (UTC)

Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

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Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19. júlí 2012 kl. 20:09 (UTC)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)6. september 2012 kl. 02:00 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

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As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 10. september 2012 kl. 13:24 (UTC)

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Framburðarorðabókin

Framburðarorðabókin, http://www.malfong.is/?pg=framburdur, er aðgengileg undir CC-BY leyfi. Væri ekki upplagt að eitthvert vélmennið bætti við framburði við hvert orð? Nifgraup (spjall) 18. september 2012 kl. 16:39 (UTC)

Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

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All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 16. október 2012 kl. 02:59 (UTC)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 19. janúar 2013 kl. 15:23 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

• Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
• Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
• Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 30. janúar 2013 kl. 20:32 (UTC)

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Samsett lýsingarorð sem enda á viðliðnum -ær

Er að vandræðast með beygingarsnið fyrir samsett lýsingarorð sem enda á viðliðnum -ær. Samanber, einær, fjölær, elliær osf. sem táknar aldur eða tíma. Þessi orð virðast fallbeygjast eins og nafnorð en bæði í veikri og sterkri beygingu og öllum kynjum en ekki í stigum eins og lýsingarorð almennt. Er til eitthvað sérstakt snið fyrir þessi orð? Bragi H (spjall) 6. febrúar 2013 kl. 17:25 (UTC)

snið fyrir þessi orð eru nú til :-)

sjáðu Hjálp:Lýsingarorðsbeygingar (okkur vantar ennþá margar lýsingarorðsbeygingar) (og líka einær, fjölær, o.s.frv), --geimfyglið :^╡ 6. febrúar 2013 kl. 21:32 (UTC)

Takk fyrir þetta. Bragi H (spjall) 7. febrúar 2013 kl. 09:51 (UTC)

Stigbreytingarsnið fyrir atviksorð

Gæti einhver vanur sniðahöfundur búið til snið fyrir stigbreytingu atviksorða?. Er ekki vanur að gera snið og það væri betra ef vön manneskja sæi um þetta. Flest atviksorð stigbreytast, sbr. umfjöllun á Wikipedia greininni um atviksorð. - Svavar Kjarrval

Geimfyglið var svo gott að búa til sniðið. -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 12. mars 2013 kl. 12:58 (UTC)

:) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 12. mars 2013 kl. 19:22 (UTC)

Iðorðasöfn í Wiktionary

Sæl. Lengi hefur verið talað um að koma upp íslenskt iðaorðasafn um hjólreiðar og reiðhjól. Hingað til hef ég hugsað mér að Wikibooks væri góður vettvangur til að byrja verkefnið á. Kannski væri þetta í upphafi einungis listi 40 orða með þýðingu á t.d. ensku og dönsku. En svo fór ég að efast um að Wikibooks væri rétti vettvangurinn (sem er kannski óþarfi ), en hugsaði allavega til Wiktionary. Eru dæmi um iðorðasafnaverkefni hér ? Það væri mjög gott að geta kallað fram listi hjólreiðaorða, og mér sýnist að flokkun gæti tæknilega séð nýst til þess ? -Morten7an (spjall) 13. mars 2013 kl. 17:52 (UTC)

Sæll, nei, til eru bara Samheitasafn:Íslenska og Viðauki:Íslenska, ekkert íðorðasafn. Með kveðju, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13. mars 2013 kl. 18:03 (UTC)

Það kæmi alveg til greina að mínu mati að nota flokkakerfið. Gera yfirflokkinn Flokkur:Íðorðasöfn og þar undir til dæmis Flokkur:Hjólreiðaorðasafn o.s. frv. Ég er ekki viss um að hrár orðalisti sé gott innlegg á Wikibooks en kannski ef það er eitthvað meira kjöt á beinunum eins og umfjöllun og skýringar við hvert orð. --Bjarki S (spjall) 13. mars 2013 kl. 18:24 (UTC)

Ekki er gott að nota flokkakerfið. Betri væri að nota nafnrúmið "viðauki" (til dæmis Viðauki:Íslenskt íðorðasafn). Að bæta öðrum flokkum en málfræðiflokkum við greinirnar er rugl í mínum augum. Með kveðju, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13. mars 2013 kl. 19:08 (UTC)

Líklega rétt. Viðaukanafnarýmið hentar ágætlega fyrir þetta. --Bjarki S (spjall) 14. mars 2013 kl. 00:06 (UTC)

Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

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Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 13. mars 2013 kl. 20:00 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Undirbúningur að stofnun Wikimedia félags á Íslandi

Fundur sunnudaginn 7. apríl 2013 á Glætunni kl. 12:30.

Mættir

Bjarki Sigursveinsson (Bjarki S á wiki)

Svavar Kjarrval (Svavarl á wiki)

Bragi Halldórsson (Bragi H á wiki)

Efni

Stofnun deildar innan FSFÍ í stað formlegs Wikimedia félags

Tryggvi hjá FSFÍ bað Svavar um að gera tillögu að breytingum á lögum FSFÍ svo hægt væri að vera með deildir innan þess og hefur hann skilað því af sér um helgina. Sennilega þyrfti samt aðalfund FSFÍ til að gera þær breytingar.

Getum samkvæmt Wikimedia samt sem áður stofnað sjálfstætt félag og haft stöðu user group en þurfum ekki að vera undir FSFÍ. Samstarf við FSFÍ er ekki nauðsynlegt gagnvart Wikimedia.

Niðurstaða

Einróma ákvörðun fundarins er að stofna sér félag strax og fá kennitölu fyrir félagið. Sótt um stöðu user group, en reyna að fá að nota nafnið Wikimedia Ísland (Wikimedia Iceland). Fordæmi er til vegna Wikimedia Ghana sem er nafn á fyrirhuguðu user group í Ghana. Reyna að koma því við að lög félagsins væru samkvæmt reglum Wikimedia um chapter upp á að einfalda breytingu yfir í chapter síðar.

Bjarki tekur að sér að fara yfir núverandi drög að lögum og sjá hvort þau standist kröfur Wikimedia og íslenskra yfirvalda. Gera ráð fyrir þriggja manna stjórn ef það flýtir fyrir en núverandi drög að lögunum gera ráð fyrir sex stjórnarmeðlimum.

Umsókn Wikinews um aðstoð við að skrá Wikinews á Íslandi

Bjarki er búinn að vera í sambandi við Laura Hale sem hafði samband við okkur í gegnum póstlistann "Icelandic Wikipedia discussion" <wikiis-l@lists.wikimedia.org>. Wikinews er að skoða hvað það myndi tákna fyrir þau að vera skráð hérlendis ef þingsályktunartillagan sem Alþingi samþykkti um rétt blaðamanna og uppljóstrara gengur eftir.

Ákveðið að halda næsta fund eftir mánuð nema ef eitthvert tilefni kemur upp sem væri ástæða til að flýta honum.

Fundi slitið.

Fundarritari

Bragi Halldórsson

-Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 9. apríl 2013 kl. 20:56 (UTC)

Proposal of a pronunciation recording tool

Hello, Rahul21, a developer, offers to develop a pronunciation recording tool for Wiktionary, helped by Michael Dale as part of GSoC. The tool would allow to record and add audio pronunciations to Wiktionary entries while browsing them (see background discussion on Wiktionary-l). Please read and comment the proposal! Regards, Nemo 9. apríl 2013 kl. 22:39 (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 24. apríl 2013 kl. 04:50 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

(Distributed via global message delivery 30. apríl 2013 kl. 18:35 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)

Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [8] [9]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [10]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [11]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [12]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [13]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [14] [15]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [16]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [17]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [18]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [19]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [20]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [21].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [22]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • 20. maí 2013 kl. 20:45 (UTC)

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Trademark discussion

Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

Tillaga um að Wikidata-væða Wiktionary verkefnin

Vildi benda á þessa tillögu um að Wikidata-væða Wiktionary. Þar sem íslenska inniheldur nokkuð margar beygingar og reglur, þá er viðeigandi að áhugafólk héðan taki þátt í umræðunni. Umræðan á póstlista Wikidata. -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 19. júní 2013 kl. 16:30 (UTC)

X!'s Edit Counter

(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 23. júní 2013 kl. 04:36 (UTC)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 4. júlí 2013 kl. 12:35 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 23. júlí 2013 kl. 13:22 (UTC)

HTTPS for users with an account

Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 20. ágúst 2013 kl. 19:15 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 24. september 2013 kl. 02:39 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

• Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 4. október 2013 kl. 18:45 (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 8. október 2013 kl. 20:19 (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

• Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
• VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
• Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 5. nóvember 2013 kl. 20:07 (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.

We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

لطرش أحمد الهاشمي → لطرش احمد الهاشمي

Current Name: لطرش احمد الهاشمي

Reaname to:لطرش أحمد الهاشمي (contribs • logs • Renaming)

Reason:i want the same name in all wikimedia project

Confirmation:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Archive151#لطرش أحمد الهاشمي → لطرش احمد الهاشمي

--لطرش احمد الهاشمي (spjall) 16. desember 2013 kl. 15:21 (UTC)

Oke, i can do that tomorrow, --geimfyglið :^╡ 16. desember 2013 kl. 22:14 (UTC)

Done, though the sense of renaming accounts with 0 contributions is not making any sense at all, but there you go... --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17. desember 2013 kl. 13:11 (UTC)

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16. janúar 2014 kl. 06:47 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 21. febrúar 2014 kl. 22:00 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikiorðabók better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

• Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
• Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
• Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
• Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 28. febrúar 2014 kl. 19:44 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 13. mars 2014 kl. 21:56 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

• April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
• April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

• Summary of changes and FAQ
• Discussion page for feedback or questions
• Post on blog.wikimedia.org

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

Pronunciation Recording

Visual workflow draft for pronunciation recording gadget; If you have trouble watching this video here, watch it on vimeo. A more extensive/explanative version is available.

Dear Wiktionary community!

About me

My name is Rainer Rillke, and I have been volunteering at Wikimedia Commons for 3 years now, gathering experience around media files. I've been always interested in how things work and how one could improve them.

The idea

One idea that appeared last Summer was allowing the recording of small chunks of speech, uploading that to Wikimedia Commons in the background and including this into a Wiktionary entry without having the hassle doing everything by hand or installing additional software. That idea led to the foundation of MediaWiki extension PronunciationRecording during the Google Summer of Code. However, this was not completed; instead development is stale for over 5 months now.

My proposal

To make this going to work, so Wiktionary has an immediate benefit of this feature, I would like to provide the work done so far as a gadget and add some more work in regard to usability. You can see my plan at m:Grants:IEG/Finish Pronunciation Recording. And more importantly, you can give me a hand, if you are interested by writing your comments.

Thanks and kind regards --Rillke (spjall) 7. apríl 2014 kl. 17:25 (UTC)

This message was delivered based on commons:User:Rillke/gmd/prg. Translation fetched from: commons:User:Rillke/prg/en -- Rillke^(q?) 17:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 23. maí 2014 kl. 21:29 (UTC)

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 19. júní 2014 kl. 21:54 (UTC)

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21. ágúst 2014 kl. 17:35 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 21. ágúst 2014 kl. 22:15 (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 2. september 2014 kl. 16:52 (UTC)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9. september 2014 kl. 16:22 (UTC)

MIKILVÆGT: Endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda

Halló. Ný stefna um fjarlægingu sérstakra réttinda (stjórnenda, möppudýra og þess háttar) var nýlega samþykkt af altæku samfélagi wmf verkefna (samfélagið hérna fékk tilkynningu um þá umræðu). Samkvæmt stefnunni fara ráðsmenn yfir virkni stjórnenda á minni verkefnum. Eftir okkar bestu vitund, hefur wiki-verkefnið þitt ekki ferli þar sem sérstök réttindi eru afturkölluð hjá óvirkum aðgöngum. Þetta þýðir að ráðsmennirnir munu sjá um þetta á þessum wiki samkvæmt nýju stefnunni um endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda.

Við höfum fundið út að eftirfarandi notendur séu óvirkir (engar breytingar og aðgerðir í meira en 2 ár):

1. Francis Tyers (stjórnandi)
2. Piolinfax (stjórnandi)
3. Steinninn (stjórnandi)
4. לערי ריינהארט (stjórnandi)

Þessir notendur munu fá tilkynningu bráðlega sem biður þá um að hefja umræðu ef þeir vilja halda einhverjum eða öllum réttindum sínum. Ef notendurnir svara ekki, þá verður réttindin þeirra afturkölluð af ráðsmönnum.

Hinsvegar, ef samfélagið hér vill annað hvort búa til sína egin stefnu um óvirka notendur sem myndi koma í staðinn fyrir altæku stefnuna, komast að annari niðurstöðu um óvirka notendur með sérstök réttindi eða hefur nú þegar stefnu sem við höfum ekki tekið eftir, vinsamlegast tilkynntu ráðsmönnum um það á meta-wiki svo við vitum að ekkert þurfi að gera varðandi endurskoðun réttinda á þínum wiki. Takk, Rschen7754 23. október 2014 kl. 02:03 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 26. október 2014 kl. 18:04 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 14. nóvember 2014 kl. 17:34 (UTC)

MIKILVÆGT: Endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda

Halló. Ný stefna um fjarlægingu sérstakra réttinda (stjórnenda, möppudýra og þess háttar) var nýlega samþykkt af altæku samfélagi wmf verkefna (samfélagið hérna fékk tilkynningu um þá umræðu). Samkvæmt stefnunni fara ráðsmenn yfir virkni stjórnenda á minni verkefnum. Eftir okkar bestu vitund, hefur wiki-verkefnið þitt ekki ferli þar sem sérstök réttindi eru afturkölluð hjá óvirkum aðgöngum. Þetta þýðir að ráðsmennirnir munu sjá um þetta á þessum wiki samkvæmt nýju stefnunni um endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda.

Við höfum fundið út að eftirfarandi notendur séu óvirkir (engar breytingar og aðgerðir í meira en 2 ár):

1. BiT (stjórnandi)

Þessir notendur munu fá tilkynningu bráðlega sem biður þá um að hefja umræðu ef þeir vilja halda einhverjum eða öllum réttindum sínum. Ef notendurnir svara ekki, þá verður réttindin þeirra afturkölluð af ráðsmönnum.

Hinsvegar, ef samfélagið hér vill annað hvort búa til sína egin stefnu um óvirka notendur sem myndi koma í staðinn fyrir altæku stefnuna, komast að annari niðurstöðu um óvirka notendur með sérstök réttindi eða hefur nú þegar stefnu sem við höfum ekki tekið eftir, vinsamlegast tilkynntu ráðsmönnum um það á meta-wiki svo við vitum að ekkert þurfi að gera varðandi endurskoðun réttinda á þínum wiki. Takk, Rschen7754 13. janúar 2015 kl. 05:02 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wikiorðabók.org: (allir) Breyta síðum

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like is.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1. mars 2015 kl. 22:32 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 4. mars 2015 kl. 20:01 (UTC)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13. mars 2015 kl. 19:47 (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

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

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

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

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

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

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

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

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

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

19. júní 2015 kl. 22:00 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

20. júní 2015 kl. 02:21 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 24. júlí 2015 kl. 05:08 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

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

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Snið:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalSnið:@wikimediaSnið:dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 31. júlí 2015 kl. 23:43 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

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

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Snið:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalSnið:@wikimediaSnið:dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 1. ágúst 2015 kl. 02:36 (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

• Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
• Join a small group conversation.
• Learn more about this consultation.

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19. ágúst 2015 kl. 00:48 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 2. september 2015 kl. 18:12 (UTC)

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 2. september 2015 kl. 19:17 (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4. september 2015 kl. 20:52 (UTC)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22. september 2015 kl. 21:01 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28. september 2015 kl. 16:56 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 9. nóvember 2015 kl. 21:57 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10. nóvember 2015 kl. 10:48 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

Please help translate to your language

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

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 1. desember 2015 kl. 14:38 (UTC)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

• Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
• Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
• Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
• Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18. desember 2015 kl. 20:58 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Hjálp

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

Please help translate to your language

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 5. janúar 2016 kl. 01:50 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

Please help translate to your language

Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 18. janúar 2016 kl. 19:06 (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Please help translate to your language:

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31. mars 2016 kl. 17:47 (UTC)

Server switch 2016

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

They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April.
On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.

• There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17. apríl 2016 kl. 21:08 (UTC)

JavaScript

Hi. I can see that this project has old JavaScript that needs to be updated. I would happily make the required updates myself, but I would have to – at least temporarily – become an admin here to do that (because the relevant pages are in the MediaWiki namespace). I have already made these updates on a number of Swedish projects and one Norwegian project, so it would be very easy for me to do this. If no one does anything, a lot of JavaScript-related tools will break later this year. Does the community want me to make these updates? Nirmos (spjall) 31. maí 2016 kl. 19:40 (UTC)

I would be glad if you did, I doubt Melancholie is active anymore and he was my source for getting the Javascript fixed, so yes, please, --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 1. júní 2016 kl. 08:37 (UTC)

Hello, Spacebirdy. Is there page for admin nominations where you would like me to make a formal request, or is it enough that no one has opposed to this after some time? Nirmos (spjall) 2. júní 2016 kl. 01:22 (UTC)

Hi, we have Wikiorðabók:Stjórnendur, but we just leave it here and wait a bit if no one opposes, after that I can promote you, afterwards you need to ask on Meta to revoke the sysop again. Kind thanks again for your help :) --geimfyglið _(:> )=| 2. júní 2016 kl. 07:04 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-29. júní 2016 kl. 13:06 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-1. júlí 2016 kl. 03:05 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

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

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

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5. júlí 2016 kl. 15:25 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Vista síðu” button to “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”. “Gefa út síðu” will be used when you create a new page. “Gefa út breytingar” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[23][24]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Vista síðu” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Vista síðu” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9. ágúst 2016 kl. 18:03 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12. september 2016 kl. 15:08 (UTC)

Wikidata for Wiktionary: let’s get ready for lexicographical data!

Hello all,

Sorry for writing this message in English, please feel free to translate it in your own language below.

The Wikidata development team will start working on integrating lexicographical data in the knowledge base soon and we want to make sure we do this together with you.

Wikidata is a constantly evolving project and after four years of existence, we start with implementing support for Wiktionary editors and content, by allowing you to store and improve lexicographical data, in addition to the concepts already maintained by thousands of editors on Wikidata.

We have been working on this idea for almost three years and improving it with a lot of inputs from community members to understand Wiktionary processes.

Starting this project, we hope that the editors will be able to collaborate across Wiktionaries more easily. We expect to increase the number of editors and visibility of languages, and we want to provide the groundwork for new tools for editors.

Our development plan contains several phases in order to build the structure to include lexicographical data:

• creating automatic interwiki links on Wiktionary,
• creating new entity types for lexemes, senses, and forms on Wikidata,
• providing data access to Wikidata from Wiktionary
• improving the display of lexicographical information on Wikidata.

During the next months, we will do our best to provide you the technical structure to store lexicographical data on Wikidata and use it on Wiktionary. Don’t hesitate to discuss this within your local community, and give us feedback about your needs and the particularities of your languages.

Information about supporting lexicographical entities on Wikidata is available on this page. You can find an overview of the project, the detail of the development plan, answers to frequently asked questions, and a list of people ready to help us. If you want to have general discussions and questions about the project, please use the general talk page, as we won’t be able to follow all the talk pages on Wiktionaries. If you don’t feel comfortable with English, you can write in your own language and hopefully someone will volunteer to translate.

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30. september 2016 kl. 20:10 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6. október 2016 kl. 01:34 (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 (spjall) / MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 13. nóvember 2016 kl. 23:59 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 14. nóvember 2016 kl. 00:11 (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 "Sjálfkrafa virkja flesta beta-eiginleika".

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14. desember 2016 kl. 19:32 (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.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 15. febrúar 2017 kl. 20:31 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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, 9. mars 2017 kl. 19:44 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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

18. mars 2017 kl. 05:09 (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, 7. apríl 2017 kl. 03:37 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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 (spjall) 11. apríl 2017 kl. 17:34 (UTC)

Cognate & automatic interlanguage links

Hello all,

(I'm sorry to write in English, feel free to translate in your own language below)

From April 24th, a new interlanguage link system will be deployed on all Wiktionaries. This extension, Cognate, automatically links the pages with the same title between the Wiktionaries. This means they no longer have to be added in the pages of the main namespace.

This new feature has been developed by Wikimedia Deutschland as the first step of the project Wikidata for Wiktionary, but does not rely on Wikidata.

To allow the feature to operate, all the former interlanguage links have to be removed from the wikitext. You can do this by using a bot, as it was done on Wikipedia in the past. If you leave them in they will overwrite the automatic links.

During the development we had a lot of discussions with Wiktionary editors to understand their needs, but it's possible that some automatic links don't work as you would expect. If you find some bugs or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to add a sub-task on Phabricator or add a message on this talk page.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

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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3. maí 2017 kl. 19:14 (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) 8. maí 2017 kl. 14:41 (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) 16. maí 2017 kl. 14:44 (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.

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16. maí 2017 kl. 21:10 (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

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23. maí 2017 kl. 21:06 (UTC)

Enable sitelinks on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: From June 20th, we are going to store the interwiki links of all the namespaces (except main, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you have any question or concern, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 1. júní 2017 kl. 08:38 (UTC)

MIKILVÆGT: Endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda

Halló. Ný stefna um fjarlægingu sérstakra réttinda (stjórnenda, möppudýra og þess háttar) var nýlega samþykkt af altæku samfélagi wmf verkefna (samfélagið hérna fékk tilkynningu um þá umræðu). Samkvæmt stefnunni fara ráðsmenn yfir virkni stjórnenda á minni verkefnum. Eftir okkar bestu vitund, hefur wiki-verkefnið þitt ekki ferli þar sem sérstök réttindi eru afturkölluð hjá óvirkum aðgöngum. Þetta þýðir að ráðsmennirnir munu sjá um þetta á þessum wiki samkvæmt nýju stefnunni um endurskoðun á virkni stjórnenda.

Við höfum fundið út að eftirfarandi notendur séu óvirkir (engar breytingar og aðgerðir í meira en 2 ár):

1. Stalfur (möppudýr, stjórnandi)

Þessir notendur munu fá tilkynningu bráðlega sem biður þá um að hefja umræðu ef þeir vilja halda einhverjum eða öllum réttindum sínum. Ef notendurnir svara ekki, þá verður réttindin þeirra afturkölluð af ráðsmönnum.

Hinsvegar, ef samfélagið hér vill annað hvort búa til sína egin stefnu um óvirka notendur sem myndi koma í staðinn fyrir altæku stefnuna, komast að annari niðurstöðu um óvirka notendur með sérstök réttindi eða hefur nú þegar stefnu sem við höfum ekki tekið eftir, vinsamlegast tilkynntu ráðsmönnum um það á meta-wiki svo við vitum að ekkert þurfi að gera varðandi endurskoðun réttinda á þínum wiki. Takk, Rschen7754 13. júní 2017 kl. 01:06 (UTC)

Sitelinks are enabled on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages (outside main namespace)

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: Since yesterday, we are able to store the interwiki links of all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Important: even if it is technically possible, you should not link Wiktionary main namespace pages from Wikidata. The interwiki links for them are already provided by Cognate.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you encounter any problem or find a bug, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 21. júní 2017 kl. 08:28 (UTC)

Enabling Page Previews

Enabling Page Previews

Hello,

Based on the positive results of a series of quantitative and qualitative tests, the Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable the Page Previews feature for 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. However, we realize the needs of the Wiktionary community will not be satisfied by the current implementation of the feature. We are interested in developing separate previews for Wiktionary that will display the wiktionary definition of an item, as well as an image, if available.

We'd like to invite some discussion around interest in this feature, as well as the requirements and elements that would make it useful for the Wiktionary community.

CKoerner (WMF) 6. júlí 2017 kl. 15:02 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Takk! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25. júlí 2017 kl. 18:39 (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, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 27. júlí 2017 kl. 16:56 (UTC)

Columns for references

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Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 11 September 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. --User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

1. september 2017 kl. 18:23 (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.

Takk!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20. nóvember 2017 kl. 22:07 (UTC)

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

Hello all,

(Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.)

One year ago, the Wikidata team started deploying new automatic interwiki links for Wiktionaries. Today, the links for the main namespace are automatically displayed by a Mediawiki extension, and the links for other namespaces are stored in Wikidata. You can find the documentation here (feel free to help translating it in your language).

We would like to know if you encountered problems with the system, if you would have suggestions for further improvements. This could be for example:

• Some automatic links don’t work as expected
• Some problems you encountered with entering links (for non-main namespace) in Wikidata
• Some new features you’d like to have, related to links

To give feedback, you have two options:

• Let a message on this talk page
• Let a message here. If you do so, please mention me with the {{ping}} template, so I can get a notification.

Our preferred languages are English, French and German, but you can also let a message in your own language if you feel more comfortable with it.

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24. apríl 2018 kl. 10:24 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7. maí 2018 kl. 14:54 (UTC)

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

Hello,

Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate the content of this message below.

After several years discussing about it, and one year of development and discussion with the communities, the development team of Wikimedia Germany has now released the first version of lexicographical data support on Wikidata.

Since the start of Wikidata in 2012, the multilingual knowledge base was mainly focused on concepts: Q-items are related to a thing or an idea, not to the word describing it. Starting now, Wikidata stores a new type of data: words, phrases and sentences, in many languages, described in many languages. This information will be stored in new types of entities, called Lexemes, Forms and Senses.

The goal of lexicographical data on Wikidata is to provide a structured and machine-readable way to describe words and phrases in multiple languages, stored in a same place, reusable under CC-0. In the near future, this data will be available for Wiktionaries and other projects to reuse, as much as you want to.

For now, we’re at the first steps of this project: the new data structure has been released on Wikidata, and we’re looking for people to try it, and give us feedback on what is working or not. Participating to this project is the opportunity for you to have a voice in it, to make sure that your needs and requests are taken in account very early in the process, and to start populating Wikidata with words in your language!

Here’s how you can try lexicographical data on Wikidata:

• First of all, if you’re not familiar with the data model, I encourage you to have a look at the documentation page. If you’re not familiar with Wikidata at all, I suggest this page as a start point.
• You can also look at the Lexemes that already exists (search features will be improved in the future).
• When you feel ready to create a word, go on d:Special:NewLexeme.
• If some properties that you need are missing, you can suggest them on this page (if you’re not sure how to do it, just let a message on the talk page and someone will help you).
• The main discussion page is d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data. Here, you can ask for help, suggest ways to organize the data, but also leave feedback: if you encounter any bug or issue, let us know. We’re looking especially to know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.

In any case, feel free to contact me if you have a question or problem, I’ll be very happy to help.

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 23. maí 2018 kl. 12:20 (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

• The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
• Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
• Readers care about page issues and consider them important
• Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12. júní 2018 kl. 20:58 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

10. júlí 2018 kl. 19:19 (UTC)

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12. júlí 2018 kl. 08:45 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 30. júlí 2018 kl. 13:08 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

Screenshot of the Hub view

Sorry for writing this message in English. Feel free to help translate it below.

Hello all,

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback about Cognate, the system allowing interwikilinks between Wiktionaries (on main namespace). Several community members gave some suggestions, one of them was to provide statistics about these interwikilinks.

The Wikidata team is pleased to present you the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard, a website presenting a lot of interesting information about how Wiktionaries are connected to each others. You can find there, for example:

• the most interlinked Wiktionary entries not having a page on your Wiktionary
• the number of interlinks between each possible pair of Wiktionaries
• visualizations of the relationships between different Wiktionaries

To learn more about the tool, you can have a look at the documentation (please help us translating it in your language!). The interface of the tool itself can also be translated in other languages by using this page.

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14. ágúst 2018 kl. 13:08 (UTC)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Stjórnendur viðmóts) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27. ágúst 2018 kl. 12:39 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. 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 do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre 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, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. 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 up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. 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 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• 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 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. 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:Johan(WMF) (talk)

6. september 2018 kl. 13:33 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

30. október 2018 kl. 11:06 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Example of improvements

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Takk!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13. nóvember 2018 kl. 19:34 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

22. nóvember 2018 kl. 18:13 (UTC)

Advanced Search

Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 26. nóvember 2018 kl. 11:02 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

Takk!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6. desember 2018 kl. 20:03 (UTC)

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

Dear all,

Sorry for posting this message in English and last minute notification. The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is an yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Tremendous Wiktionary User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wiktionary needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement.

For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is very close to 24 hrs. The last date for registration is 17 December 2018. As a last minute effort, there is a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit created.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wiktionary-l mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh 16. desember 2018 kl. 05:56 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 27. desember 2018 kl. 10:12 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14. janúar 2019 kl. 09:41 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 16. janúar 2019 kl. 18:44 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 21. febrúar 2019 kl. 15:01 (UTC)

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April

You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

8. apríl 2019 kl. 10:56 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Takk! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12. apríl 2019 kl. 17:35 (UTC)