Wikipedia:Praothoek/Archief/8

Hartog of hertog?

Wat zo'j eerder zegen hartog of hertog? Ik kan gien bronnen vienen, mer veur mien geveul zo'k eerder hartog gebruken. Hoe is dat bie joe in t plat? Servien (overleg) 15:24, 19 mei 2016 (CEST)

Hartog, op gevuul. Ni'jluuseger (overleg) 11:10, 17 feb 2017 (CET)

Hartog, ja Woolters (overleg) 20:35, 17 feb 2017 (CET)

Artikelantallen naor dialektgroep (juni 2016)

Antal artikels naor dialektgroep: Tweants: 1.059 Achterhooks: 821 West-Veluws: 726 Grunnegs: 521 Stellingwarfs: 518 Drèents: 421 Sallaands: 288 Oost-Veluws: 227 Urkers: 20 Oostfreisk: 8 Graofschopper plat: 2 Eemslaands: 1

Meeste artikels derbie (sinds juli 2015): Tweants: +58 (liek ebleven) Sallaans: +18 (2 plekken estegen) West-Veluws: +7 (liek ebleven) Oost-Veluws: +5 (2 plekken ezakt) Drèents: +3 (1 plekke estegen) Stellingwarfs: +2 (1 plekke ezakt) Grunnegs: +1 (1 plekke estegen) Achterhooks: +1 (1 plekken estegen) Urkers: 0 (2 plekken ezakt)

Antekeningen:

• t Twents steet nog altied mit stip op ene, wat de artikelantallen angeet.
• t Sallaands hef nao t Twents de meeste artikels derbie ekregen.
• Urk is effen op vakansie went daor hebben gien nieje artikels eschreven.
• Niet alle artikels op disse wiki staon in-edeeld in n dialektgroep (jaortallen enz. niet).

Groetnis Servien (overleg) 01:51, 3 jun 2016 (CEST)

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 other projects, so it would be very easy for me to do this. If no one does anything, some JavaScript-related tools will break later this year. If you want me to make these updates, you can grant me admin rights and I will make the updates as soon as I can. Nirmos (overleg) 07:44, 4 jun 2016 (CEST)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 17:31, 10 jun 2016 (CEST)

Oproep sprekers WCN

Beste mensen, de Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland vindt in 2016 op 19 november plaats. We verwachten weer zo'n 100+ deelnemers die naar Utrecht zullen komen. Heb je een idee voor het programma? Denk je al aan een lezing, een discussiegroep of een andere bijdrage over een onderwerp dat je boeit? Kijk dan naar onze oproep voor sprekers. Ziko (overleg) 12:55, 14 jun 2016 (CEST)

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)-15:06, 29 jun 2016 (CEST)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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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)-05:05, 1 jul 2016 (CEST)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 16:10, 1 jul 2016 (CEST)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Invogen" menu and click the "Referensylyste" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Invogen" in the dialog to insert the Referensylyste. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Bewarken" and "Bronkode bewarken" tabs into a single "Bewarken" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Bewarkingsveld" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Syde uutgeaven" button will say "Syde uutgeaven". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Bedankt!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 19:20, 3 jul 2016 (CEST)

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) 17:25, 5 jul 2016 (CEST)

Belangrijk: Beoordeling beheerdersactiviteit

Hallo. Recentelijk is een nieuw beleid aangenomen over het verwijderen van "extra bevoegdheden" (beheerder, bureaucraat, enz.) door een gemeenschappelijke consensus (uw gemeenschap heeft een aankondiging van het overleg ontvangen). Volgens dit beleid worden de activiteiten van de moderators op kleinere wiki's beoordeeld door de stewards. Voor zover wij weten, heeft uw wiki nog geen formeel proces om de "extra bevoegdheden" van inactieve gebruikers te verwijderen. Dit betekent dat deze taak zo lang wordt uitgevoerd door de stewards volgens de Beoordeling beheerdersactiviteit.

We hebben vastgesteld dat de volgende gebruikers voldoen aan de inactiviteitscriteria (geen bewerkingen en geen gelogde acties in de afgelopen twee jaar):

1. Kening Aldgilles (moderator)

Deze gebruikers ontvangen binnenkort een bericht, waarin hen gevraagd wordt het binnen de gemeenschap aan te geven als zij enkele of alle van hun rechten willen behouden. Als de gebruikers niet reageren, zullen hun geavanceerde rechten door de stewards worden ingetrokken.

Wil jullie gemeenschap haar eigen activiteitsbeoordelingsproces vaststellen, dat voor gaat op het globale proces, willen jullie een andere beslissing nemen met betrekking tot deze inactieve gebruikers met rechten of hebben jullie hier al een beleid voor dat niet bekend is bij de stewards, wil je dit dan aangeven op het berichtenbord van de stewards op Meta-Wiki, zodat we weten dat we niet verder hoeven te gaan met het beoordelen van de rechten op jouw wiki. Hartelijke dank. --Rschen7754 09:01, 14 jul 2016 (CEST)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Syde uutgeaven” button to “Syde uutgeaven” and “Wysigingen uutgeaven”. “Syde uutgeaven” will be used when you create a new page. “Wysigingen uutgeaven” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

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 “Syde uutgeaven” and “Wysigingen uutgeaven”.

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 “Syde uutgeaven” 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 “Syde uutgeaven” 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 “Syde uutgeaven” and “Wysigingen uutgeaven”.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:04, 9 aug 2016 (CEST)

Wikipedia to the Moon working phase

Dear Low Saxon Wikipedia language community,

First of all, I am sorry to write this in English.

You may already have heard about Wikipedia to the Moon: A team of scientists called the “PT Scientists” are going to send a space craft to the moon in 2017 and they want to take Wikipedia along with them. Because Wikipedia is so big, we cannot send all of it to the moon. That is why the international Wikipedia-community has voted to send all “Featured Articles and Featured Lists“ from all languages in Wikipedia.

“Featured Articles“ is a category in many language versions of Wikipedia that collects the very best articles in that language. Your community does not currently have a „Featured Articles“ category. Ideally, we want to take every language on Wikipedia to the moon and we also want to take the best articles in your language. That is why we would like you to tell us what the very best articles in your language are.

There are two ways you could do this:

1) You could introduce the categories “Featured Article” and “Featured List” in your language version of Wikipedia and vote for the best articles and put them in the category. We will take every article that is tagged as a “Featured Article” or a “Featured List” to the moon

2) You could vote for the best articles in your language version of Wikipedia and put them all on one a new Wikipedia page. If you let us know where we can find that list here, we will also take the articles to the moon.

The deadline for Wikipedia to the Moon is 31 October 2016. After that date, we will put all the Featured Articles and Lists onto a special disc and give it to the “PT Scientists.” They will take the Wikipedia articles into space next year.

--Denis Schroeder (WMDE) (overleg) 16:44, 17 aug 2016 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
• World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
• Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
• American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
• Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:38, 30 aug 2016 (CEST)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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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) 17:08, 12 sep 2016 (CEST)

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) 22:11, 30 sep 2016 (CEST)

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) 03:35, 6 okt 2016 (CEST)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[3]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[4] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[5]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[6]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[7]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[8] In the future, the "Syde uutgeaven" button will say "Syde uutgeaven". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[9]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Bedankt!

—Elitre (WMF)

19:49, 15 okt 2016 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
• OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
• Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
• ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
• Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

• EBSCO - Many new databases added
• Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:30, 1 nov 2016 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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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 (Oaverleg) / MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 01:00, 14 nov 2016 (CET)

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 (overleg) 01:11, 14 nov 2016 (CET)

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 "Automatisk alle betafunktys ansetten".

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) --20:32, 14 des 2016 (CET)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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

06:09, 18 mrt 2017 (CET)

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

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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 (overleg) 19:34, 11 apr 2017 (CEST)

Reisbeurzen voor Wikimania in Montreal

Van 9 - 13 augustus vindt in Montreal Wikimania plaats, de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst georganiseerd voor en door de gemeenschap van vrijwilligers die actief zijn in de Wikimedia-projecten. Zoals gebruikelijk stelt Wikimedia Nederland weer een aantal reisbeurzen beschikbaar voor Wikimedianen die erbij willen zijn. Dit kunnen volledige beurzen zijn voor reis én verblijf, of een beurs voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 5 mei door het sturen van een mail naar info(at)wikimedia(punt)nl. Graag aangeven of je een volledige beurs of een deel-beurs aanvraagt. Leg s.v.p. ook uit waarom jouw deelname voor jou én voor de Wikimedia-beweging belangrijk is. SRientjes (overleg) 14:31, 13 apr 2017 (CEST)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

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

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

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

-DBrant (WMF) 10:41, 14 apr 2017 (CEST)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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Hello,

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

A quick note on the implementation:

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

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

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 18:52, 19 apr 2017 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
• Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
• Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
• Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions

• Gale – Biography In Context database added
• Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:52, 2 mei 2017 (CEST)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help 21:14, 3 mei 2017 (CEST)

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) 16:41, 8 mei 2017 (CEST)

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Wysigingen nåkyken".

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

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

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

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

Recent changes

• A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [10]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [11]
• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [12]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [13]
• The Kategoryen item has been moved to the top of the Sydinstellingen menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [14] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [15]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [16]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [17]
• The Speciale teykens menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [18]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [19]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [20]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [21]
• The kind of button used to Bewarking nåkyken, Verskil bekyken, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [22]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [23]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Bedankt!

—Elitre (WMF)

20:05, 12 mei 2017 (CEST)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can either add your feedback on the talk page on Wikidata, or add a comment here. I’ll follow this discussion to make sure that all of your feedback is taken into account. However, it would be better to write your message on the central Wikidata page so everyone can read your input.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (overleg) 17:31, 15 mei 2017 (CEST)

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) 16:44, 16 mei 2017 (CEST)

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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23:08, 16 mei 2017 (CEST)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Hello all,

(Help met het vertalen in uw taal)

The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Bedankt! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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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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23:06, 23 mei 2017 (CEST)

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

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

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 00:15, 8 jun 2017 (CEST)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Bedankt! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:33, 29 jun 2017 (CEST)

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:23, 11 jul 2017 (CEST)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

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

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

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 00:32, 21 jul 2017 (CEST)

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.

Bedankt! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:39, 25 jul 2017 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 23:06, 17 sep 2017 (CEST)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

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

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

Background

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

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

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

Why not watchlists

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

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

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

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:35, 20 sep 2017 (CEST)

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 01:34, 12 nov 2017 (CET)

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.

Bedankt!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 23:07, 20 nov 2017 (CET)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 20:24, 20 des 2017 (CET)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

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

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 11:46, 21 des 2017 (CET)

Grunningse Wikipedia

Moin leuj, ennige van oans hebt 't bericht al had, mar ik wul 't hier ok nog wel effen ter sproake breangen. Op Meta-wiki hef d'r ene vraagd um ne Wikipedia in 't Grunnings. Ik bin doar zelf nich veur, en ik heb doar ook zegd woarum nich. Mar dee figuur hoalt wal ne discussie op dee, al is-e al joaren oald, nog altied actueel is: mutten wie wal alle Nederlands-Nedersaksische dialecten, dee oondereen soms toch wal slim verscheelt, op een project hollen? En zo ja, woarum dan nich tehope met de "gewone" Nedersaksische Wikipedia? Ie köant d'r hier of doar oawer discussieern. Hoo meer leu met verstaand van zaken zik d'rin meangt, hoo better. Steinbach (overleg) 19:53, 17 feb 2018 (CET)

Beursaanvragen Wikimedia Nederland

Beste allen,

Actieve Wikimedianen kunnen bij Wikimedia Nederland een beurs aanvragen voor deelname aan Wikimania en de Wikimedia Hackathon. Dit kunnen volledige beurzen zijn voor reis, entree én verblijf, of een beurs voor een deel van de kosten.

De Hackathon zal dit jaar in Barcelona plaatsvinden van 18-20 mei. Registratie voor de Hackathon blijft open totdat de maximum capaciteit is bereikt. Wacht dus niet te lang met je alvast in te schrijven. Stuur je aanvraag voor een beurs uiterlijk 15 maart naar info-at-wikimedia.nl. Leg in je aanvraag uit wat je door deelname aan de Hackathon hoopt te realiseren, en geef aan of je een beurs wilt voor alle kosten, of voor een deel daarvan.

Wil je (misschien voor het eerst) Wikimania meemaken? Van 18-22 juli vindt in Kaapstad Wikimania plaats. Voor Wikimania geldt dat WMNL dit jaar naast ervaren Wikimania-bezoekers ook twee Wikimedianen zou willen steunen die nog nooit naar Wikimania zijn geweest. We verwachten dat we in april met de aanvraagprocedure kunnen starten, als de Wikimedia Foundation heeft bekend gemaakt wie zij een beurs zullen geven. Hou De Kroeg en de Vereningswiki in de gaten en begin alvast na te denken waarom deelname voor jou én voor de Wikimedia-beweging belangrijk is.

Zoals altijd: je hoeft geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland om voor een beurs in aanmerking te komen.

Voor vragen kan je mailen naar info-at-wikimedia.nl

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Michelle Boon (overleg) 21 feb 2018 14:00 (CET)

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

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

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

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

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

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [24]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [25]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [26]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Bedankt!

—Elitre (WMF)

21:56, 2 mrt 2018 (CET)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (overleg) 15:24, 12 mrt 2018 (CET)

Wiki-logo

Ik heb een nye versy van et wiki-logo emaakt, in de Nysassiske Skryvwyse, mid de name "Wikipedia" (so as et officieel hit) in plåtse van "Wikipedie". De name was vanof 2009 "Wikipedie" (gebrukelike uutsprake: "wiki·péé·dy", howel de uutsprake "wiki·pe·dý" korrekter ewest had, in et woord 'encyklopedy' ligt de klemtoon ouk up de lätste lettergreape). Et likt myn dan ouk makkeliker üm et voart gewoon "Wikipedia" te nömen so as et officieel ouk hit, mid as underskrivt "De vrye encyklopedy". HYR vind jy de by-ewürken versy. Wat vinden jülen hyrvan? Ik höyre et grege sodat de anpassingen up et logo to-epast künnen wörden. Servien (overleg) 22:06, 13 mrt 2018 (CET)

Ik nömen et altyd al wikipedia. ;) Låt gån. Woolters (overleg) 13:41, 16 mrt 2018 (CET)

Et het jå overal 'wikipedia', wrümme solle wy et opyns aans duun? In onse nye skryvwyse sol et dan indåd 'wikipedya' wesen. Dår sol y et sekers in veranderen künnen, lekt my better. 'Wikipedya - de vrye encyklopedy'. Duun! sol ik seggn. NGolds20 (overleg) 22:27, 16 mrt 2018 (CET)

"Wikipedya" is nå myn meyning ni so paslik. Dat deade nå en uutspråke as [vikipe'di:a] uutseygen, wat ik myndage noch ni höyrd hev. Or segget jüm dat so up de nedderlandske kante? Leyver dat normale "Wikipedia", wat de lüde al kennet. Dat nye logo vinde ik smuk so. :) Ujanairi (overleg) 11:52, 17 mrt 2018 (CET)

Wikipedya is wat ampart, låten wy et mär up et origineel holden, Wikipedia, ouk in de NL en DE ortografy steet -ia al vöär een lange i-klank. Servien (overleg) 12:18, 17 mrt 2018 (CET)

Up de düütske kante stayt dat '-ia' eygens echt vöär de [ia]-uutspråke. Man dat kan den je wedder elkeyn so leasen, as dat in den eygen dialekt höyrt. Ujanairi (overleg) 12:45, 17 mrt 2018 (CET)

Dat is by uns nyt anders ;-). As wy et der dan oaver eens binnen, dan sal ik et versöök indynen üm et an te låten passen. Servien (overleg) 22:28, 17 mrt 2018 (CET)

Wikimania Beurs

Beste allen,

Van 18-22 juli vindt in Kaapstad Wikimania Wikimania plaats. Actieve Wikimedianen kunnen bij Wikimedia Nederland een beurs aanvragen voor deelname aan Wikimania. Dit kunnen volledige beurzen zijn voor reis, entree én verblijf, of een beurs voor een deel van de kosten.

Wikimedia Nederland zou graag dit jaar, naast ervaren Wikimania-bezoekers, twee Wikimedianen steunen die nog nooit naar Wikimania zijn geweest.

Wil je Wikimania (misschien voor het eerst) meemaken, dan kan je met dit formulier een beurs aanvragen. De deadline voor het aanvragen is 23 april om 9:30

Zoals altijd: je hoeft geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland om voor een beurs in aanmerking te komen.

Voor vragen kan je mailen naar info(@)wikimedia.nl

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Michelle Boon (overleg) 14:48, 9 apr 2018 (CEST)

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

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Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.

A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.

Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 24 apr 2018 (CEST)

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) 16:53, 7 mei 2018 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
• Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
• Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

• Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
• Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
• Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:03, 30 mei 2018 (CEST)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Help met het vertalen in uw taal 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) 22:58, 12 jun 2018 (CEST)

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)

21:19, 10 jul 2018 (CEST)

hun/hen/eer/eur/öar..

Godendag even*. Ik doo* myn beste ümme de nye skryvwyse te gebruken. Want, jå, ik see de waerde der wal van in. Neet dat ik der helemåle* noch wat van make, mar, hoppe dat et med de tyd in et skryven der van sülv* van kümt (kyke vöäle af van anderen, wårdöär ik bange binne dat ik myn eygen* dialekt helemåle* verlögene*.. ). Et is baseert* op* de etymolgy. Nu gebruukt* se by uns in de buurte (Banthum) 'eer' vöär asse wy 'hun' ov* een koppel mensen* an wyst*. In et Twents* is dat gelööv* ik een 'eur' ov* 'öar'. Mar wat is nu de etymologiske afkumst van dit woord? In het* Engels* hebt* ze* 'their', wat ungevear gelyke klinkt, mar dat is weyr* een samen smelten* van 'they are' of ovkumstig* uut et Oldnoors*. Lekt my dan dat et Düütske* 'ihre' -wat dacht ik verwest når so wal* 'hun' as 'höör (sy-vrouwe)- uut et sülvde* holt esneyden is as 'eer/hun'. Mar verder kan ik neet kummen med de link når et Saksisk*, kan et Saksiske* algeyns* neet vinden.. Wår kümt dit woord vort*? NGolds20 (overleg) 18:33, 12 jul 2018 (CEST)

Sülvde berichy, mar in de olde, vertröwde skryvwyse. haha, want ik hoppe ouk hyr med 'n beaty kommentaar te krygen over ho as ik et doo, vergelykigs materiaal:

Goeindag eem. Ik doewe mien beste umm' de ni-je skriefwieze te gebruukn. Want, joa, 'k zieë de weerde der wal van in. Nie da'k der heelmoale nog wat van make, mar, hoppe dat't met de tied in 't skrievn der vanzölf van kump (kieke veule of van aandern, woardeur ik bange binne da'k mien eingn dialekt heelmoale verluengne.. ). 't Is ebaseert op de etymologie. Now gebruukt ze bi-j oos in de buurte (Banthum) 'eer' veur asse wi-j 'hun' of 'n koppel méénsn anwiest. In't Twents is dat gleu'k 'n 'eur' of 'öar'. Mar wa's now dan de etymologiese ofkomps van dit woord? In't Engels hebt ze 'their', wat ong'veer glieke klink, mar da's weer 'n saamsmöltn van 'they are' of ofkompsig uut't Oldnoors. Lek mi-j dan dat't Duutse 'ihre' -wat dach'k verwes noar zowal 'hun' as 'heur (zi-j-vrouwe)'- uut't zölde holt esneedn is as 'eer/hun'. Mar verder kan'k nie komm met de linke noar't Saksies, kan't Saksiese agis-nie vinn.. Woar kump dit woord vot? NGolds20 (overleg) 18:46, 12 jul 2018 (CEST)

Höi NGolds20! Good dat jy noch altyd beasig binnen mid de skryvwyse. Ik begrype dat jy lastig vinden üm de skryvwyse good an te leyren, ik leyr selv ouk aldöär nye dingen oaver de skryvwyse, en de taalkunde derachter. Wat wel et vöärdeyl is van disse skryvwyse, is dat kleine uutspraakverskillen neet gauw et skrivtbeald veranderen (so wördt et stellingwarvske "stien", et grönningske "stain" of et veluwske/sallandske "steen" up deselvde wyse eskreaven (steyn). Et woord "ear", kümt ouk in andere sassiske dialekten en kümt van oldsassisk iru / iro (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iru#Old_Saxon), in et twentsk is et inderdåd "öär", by myn: "höär". Et engelske "their" kümt inderdåd van et oldnoorske "þeirra" (þeir = hei; NL: hij) dat et oldengelske "hiera" vervüng.

Ik heb wat verbeateringen by juuw tekste esetted (as jy mid de muuspyle oaver de stearne gån dan seen jy myn tekste), miskyn dat jy dår wat an hebben. Een pår globale reygels:

• geografiske benamingen krygen een höyvdletter
• geografiske ofleidingen krygen een kleine letter (lykas in de skandinaviske talen), bv. Salland, mär sallandsk, sallander.
• et neaderlandske -isch, is in NSS -isk, ouk wår et neaderlandsk et vrogger had, bv. menschen = mensken.
• vöär et sallandsk is <ey> = NL ee, <ea> = twentske "ea" (so as in leaven, of lèven in andere spellingen), <ei> = NL ei, <ae> in woorden as kaese, waerde, laeg, ens., <ee> = NL ie, bv. deep, deev, ens.
• de verleaden tyd is altyd -d of -ed (neet -t so as in et NL), edansd, by plosiven (p, b, t, d, k) kümt der een -e- tüsken, so kryg jy bv. ehoaped, ekrabbed, evatted, ewyded, emaked).
• de meyrvoldsform "wy warkt" wördt "wy warket" (mid -e- dertüsken), dårdöär kümt et ouk meyr oavereyne mid "wy warken" (neet de eynigste readen vöär dee ekstra e trouwens). Myn komplimenten, et geyt ju alderbest of! (H) Servien (overleg) 23:51, 12 jul 2018 (CEST)

• • Ik hadde u algeyns(?) neet bedanked. Hebbe der vöäl an ehad.

Mar dat agis-/aggees( niet), dat kümt toch jå van algeens? Had ik toch so bedached. Düs denke dan dat et eskreaven müt wörden as algeyns, wår ik et sol uutsprekken as aggis- of aggees- (en de nie(t), wat der vake achter an kümt. Wårdöär et vake wear klinkt as agginni, haha). Bij Meertens steyt et as under et swolsk dialekt (algeens niet- agees nie) http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/ewnd/boeken/zoek_woorden NGolds20 (overleg) 16:08, 18 aug 2018 (CEST)

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) 19:44, 30 jul 2018 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.

TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

• It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
• It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
• Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
• All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.

You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.

This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 23:28, 6 aug 2018 (CEST)

Verkleinensuutgangen- en umlauten NSS

Vråggy: ho müt ik de verkleinensuutgangen- en umlauten skryven, in dee Nysassiske Skryvwyse? Hyrunder heb ik van elke uutgang dree up een rye eset med wat vöärbeyldwoorden, üm eaven myn vråge, hoppelik, te verdüdeliken. Noh, dit bint dat sallandske uutgangen (vechtdalsk: (teagenwoordig: -ie (sunder n düs) achterenden). Årdig uutebreid de vråge estelled. Mar der bint der ouk so vöäle förms. Vöäral in Westerhaar en dee kanten up an, segget sy sowat alles med verkleinensförms, düs vöär dat volk is et heylemåle händig, haha. In et twentks en achterhooksk heb y wear de -ke(n) en/of -je(n) achterenden. (In sallandsk altyden -ie(n)).

• 'zunne-zunnegie ', 'bolle (stute/bol)-böllegie ', 'vrouwe-vröwgie '

Skryv y dat as:

• 'sünne-sünnegy/-ty'?, 'bolle-böllegy/-ty'?, 'vrouwe-vrö(u)w(e)gy/-ty /vrouw(e)gy/-ty'?

• 'peerd-péérdtie ', 'woord-weurdtie ', 'hond-hundtie (ouk: höndtie) ',

Skryv y dat as:

• 'paerd-paerdty/peardty/päärdty'?, 'woord-wöördty/wöärdty/wöyrdty'?, 'hund-hündty/höndty'?

• 'boom-beumpie ', 'doeme-duumpie ', 'leev'n-leev'mpie '

Skryv y dat as:

• 'Boum- böum-/böömpie/-ty'?, 'dume-düümpy/-ty'?, 'leaven-leavenpy/-ty'?

• 'Huus-huzie (in twentsk (Almelo): 'hoes-huuske )' ', 'fietse-fietsie ', 'kalf-kälvie '

Skryv y dat as:

• 'huus-hüsy'?, 'fytse-fytsy', 'kalv-kälvy'?

Of mooier: jongen-jochie skryv y den dan as jungen-jungenty/-gy of jungy?

NGolds20 (overleg) 15:38, 18 aug 2018 (CEST)

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 (tüskenvlakbeheyrders) 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) 14:40, 27 aug 2018 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Serieus ruumte veur dialekten

Dialekten bin de basis van et Nedersaksies. Veur de meensken die zo'n dialekt schrieven kunnen, bin de gongbaore schriefwiezen vaeke al een kleine uutdaoging. Wi'j moeten ze daorbi'j anvieteren en niet bange maeken. Dat begint mit de schriefwieze in et eigen dialekt. Et Nederlaans, Engels, Fries, Duuts en Frans hebben ienhiedstaelen (wat de schrieftael angaot), mar dat is per definisie niet altied een veurdeel. In Noorwegen is verscheidenhied de standaord. Die verscheidenhied warkt dus ok bi'j grotere taelen en ze bin zowel in woord as schrift een verrieking veur et Nedersaksies.

Dus:

• Om de dialekten iene veur iene te eren.
• Om meensken an te vieteren Nedersaksies te schrieven.
• Om oonze rieke verscheidenhied te eren.

Stel ik veur:
Veur elk dialekt een eigen veurblad (portaol is gien veurblad) en bovenan oons Wiki-veurblad een verwiezing te maeken naor de dialektversies (liek as dat et gevaal is veur de twie kunstmaotige schriefwiezen van Servien en kammeraoden).

Mit vrundelike groeten,

Stellingwerver

Veur

• --Stellingwerver (overleg) 21:06, 30 aug 2018 (CEST)

Tegen

• Der müt inderdaad seriöös rüümte koamen vöär de neadersassiske språke. Dat bereik y döär samen, språkbreyd en eyndüdig når buten te treyden. Mooy dat Stellingwerver oaver Noorwegen begint: dår hebbet se inderdaad ginne standaard språke, mär wal ne standaard skryvwyse, wår ydereyne et eygene dialekt med kan undervangen. Rüümte vöär et neadersassisk bereik y nit med een eksklusyv stellingwarvske vöärsyde. Dit is een encyklopedia, ginne steyde vöär navvelståren en selvuphemmeling. Hyr geyt et üm kennisoaverdracht, nit üm de stellingwarvske Bergveld-skryvwyse alleyne. By skryven geyt et üm de boadskap, nit üm et fonetisk vasteleggen van ne språke. Dår hebbet wy ja et Internationale Klankenskrivt vöär. Med de Nysassiske Skryvwyse kan een stellingwarver dat up syn stellingwarvsk leysen en een twent up syn twentsk en nen westfaalsken up syn westfaalsk. Een akcent kümt der by et uutsprekken wear uut. Dårnöäst is ydereyne up disse wiki noch altyd vry üm de eygene skryvwyse te volgen, düs ouk de Bergveld-hobbyskryvwyse. De Nysassiske Skryvwyse bereiket et hele gebeyd. De stellingwarvske alleyn de Stellingwarven. Stellingwerver stelt vöär üm de kråm dee der nu is (med 10 döärverwyssyden per artikel ümdat et net nit in de gode spelling is), gewoon so döär te setten. Dår kan ik et nit med eyns weasen. Dårnöäst sküt Stellingwerver disse skryvwyse al af vöärdat hee sik der good in verdeped hevt. Ç'est le ton qui fait le musique, üm et mär es up syn Plat te seggen. Woolters (overleg) 11:05, 31 aug 2018 (CEST)
• Jy hebben gelyke dat der ruumte müt weasen vöär de verskillende dialekten, dee ruumte büdt Wikipedia ouk. Der binnen mär min Wikipedias wår jy in meyr as eyne dialekt/skryvwyse terechte künnen. Wy hebben der as wiki-gemeynskap vöär eköäsen üm wat meyr up standardisaty an te gån in plaatse van allemåle versnipperde skryvwyses te gebruken in unse systeemteksten, en ouk up et vöärblad. Unse dialekten formen allemåle underdeyl van eyn taal, en uut uns ougpunt passen dår neet twintigdusend verskillende skryvwyses binnen (et neaderlandsk hevt ouk mär eyne skryvwyse). Et is neet te verklåren dat et dialekt van Wolvege een heyl andere benådering hevt vöär et skryven van woorden as dat van Wanneperveane of selvs in Geteren (wår der twey skryvwyses möägelik binnen), en in Nyevenne is der wear een andere skryvwyse (sücht). Wy hebben de Algemene Nedersaksiese Schriefwieze der noch nåst ümdat dat speciaal up et neaderlandsk-neadersassisk is to-espitsd. De Nysassiske Skryvwyse is to-espitsd up et neadersassisk van Neaderland én Düütskland. As wy vöär elke dialektgrup een vöärblad mütten anmaken, hebben wy voord 15 vöärbladen, dee allemåle etselvde mütten weasen (en dee neet allinnig mär oaver höär eigen regio gån, de wearld is grouter as allinnig mär de Stellingwarven, de Veluwe of Twente), voord krygen wy noch 159 vöärbladen ümdat der eyne van Noordwolde neet uut de voten kan mid et dialekt van Holtpa. Vöär de düdelikheid, artikels mag jy noch altyd in eyn van de andere officiele skryvwyses skryven. Servien (overleg) 22:43, 31 aug 2018 (CEST)

• Ik binne der ouk med van meaning dat de regionale verskillen beholden blyven müt. Mar indåd, so as et hyrboaven al esegged is, is et jå höäste unmöägelik üm yts as Wikipedia alleyne ümme de taal te låten gån. Uutendelik skryve wy hyr ümme informaty an lüde döär te doon. So breyd möägelik düs. Mar in unse eigen taal en dårmed ouk unse denk-/vöölwyse. (A'k veur mi-jzölf schrieve doe'k dat gwoon nog in't Plat in de Nederlaanse schriefwieze, umda'k met't Plat en't Nederlaans beidn wies binne). En al dee hunderden skryvwysen en al die düsenden varianten wat y hebt in et sassisk, kryg y der hyrsoot wal een prüttelgy van. Pas had Martin ter Denge et up syn podcast (up youtube kanaal Sassisk Werldspråke) et sülvs oaver een standaard-sassisk. So verre wil ik noch neet gån, mar et is seakers interessant en misskyn wal nöydig. Mar dan müt der wal teagen oaver kummen dat der dårnöäst rüümte blevt ümme mooi spöäls med uwen eigen plat te skryven. Binne manks wal bange dat de NyNassiske Skryvwyse dat betty vordnemt. Mar dår is ouk wal rüümte med te vinden denk ik. Alleyne neet up wikipedia, wår et gewoon 'dröyge' oaver informaty geyt. Ik gelöyve wal dat vöäle verskillen jüüste oaverleaving gevt, so as dat in de natuur ouk warkt. Mar der müt ouk eynheid kummen/weasen, anders is et elk-eyne up sichsülven en besteyt der düs geyn good ekosysteem. Ik neige toch når wal gewoon eyne vaste skryvwyse, vöär et heyle sassiske gedo. Een skryvwyse wat u de rüümte gevt ümme mooi uwen eigen taal te skryven én misskyn sülvs een standaard-sassisk, wat dan wear vöär handel en informaty gebrüükt 'müt' wörden. Dårümme is de NySassiskee Skryvwyse denk ik wal een mooi begün. Ümdat dissend up et Oldassisk en de Hanse skryvtradity an terügge geyt. Een rechte lyne uut de geskydenisse uut. Wal heb y gelyke dat de NSS (in et begün) een noch groutere drempel kan weasen vöär lüde ümme sassisk te skryven, ümdat et årdig wat mööite vrögt üm et u eigen te maken. NGolds20 (overleg) 00:50, 1 sep 2018 (CEST)

Klopt, NGolds20. Ik sol as eyrst beginnen mid ANS ümdat et årdig kortby et neaderlandsk ligt en makkeliker te leyren is, van dår uut kün jy juuw eigen verdepen in NSS. Gelukkig is NSS wel good te leasen, ouk al heb jy der geen kennis van. Servien (overleg) 15:39, 6 sep 2018 (CEST)

Diskussie

Was et d'r niet mit iens, mar een kleine meerderhied is veur (d'r bin now ienkeer niet zo vule schrievers hier). Veur mi'j is et trouwens klaor mit de Wikipedie as de verscheidenhied nog meer tekot daon wodt. Groeten --Stellingwerver (overleg) 22:24, 4 sep 2018 (CEST)

Was jy al begünnen mid Wikipedia dan? Ik see een artikel van juuw hand uut juni 2018 (Weperbult), evolgd döär een heyle diskussy oaver de skryvwyse, mär dårvöär was juuw lätste konstruktive bydrage van 2014. Ik snap et heyle gedo ouk neet so, buten et vöärblad ümme kün jy alles gewoon in de Stellingwarver Schriefwieze, Urker Skreefweze, Drèentse Schriefwieze, Grunneger Spèllen, ens. skryven. Et vöärblad hevt altyd mär in eyn dialekt ewesd (mid een artikel van de maond in de verskillende dialekten, wat uutendelik te arbeidsintensiv was wårdöär wy dermead up-ehölden binnen). Volgens myn heb jy ju eigen ouk neet eyns in de skryvwyse verdeped, neam bv. et woord holden, in myn dialekt is dat houw[e]n, in et tweants holdn, hoaldn, hooldn, in et stellingwarfsk hoolden of holden, mär in et NSS skryven wy holden; myn dialekt wikt dårin noch et meyst of van de uutspråke (by myn: uutspraak[e]). Et is effen een knoppe ümmesetten, en neet gelyk so vaastroest blyven hokjesdenken. Jammer as jy neet an Wikipedia willen bydragen, mär wy künnen ju neet dwingen. Groetnis Servien (overleg) 00:07, 6 sep 2018 (CEST)

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)

15:33, 6 sep 2018 (CEST)

Authority Control

Please work on adding 'Authority control' on version NL of the encyclopedia . Without it editors seem to have a tendency to write personal opinions.DDupard (overleg) 11:44, 19 sep 2018 (CEST)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Help met het vertalen in uw taal.

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)

12:06, 30 okt 2018 (CET)

Vöärstel: Wiki-Sprints

Is et een idey dat wy med mekander een bepåld underwarp uutkyset en dåt bv. ne weake so vöäle möägelik artikels oaver te maken? So kryget wy eyvenwicht in de dialektdekking van de underwarpen en köänet wy ouk medeyne flinke döärströyming upwekken. Wy hebbet allemål unse interesses, wårdöär der töt nu too ne skelle verholding is in et antal artikelen per kategory. Gevt ouk wear ne geleygenheid üm der online wat andacht vöär te vrågen. Wat dücht ulüde? Woolters (overleg) 10:33, 31 okt 2018 (CET)

Knooierd

Wie hebt hier ien of aand're keerl die oos een bettie in de malink nemp deur hele pagina's te verwiedern en ni-je an te maken met stomme verhaalties en onlogische foto's d'r in. Zie lätste wyseningen. ‎90.145.155.220 is zien webadres (ofziets) en zonet hef he een gebruker an-emaakt: Sanderdunning ‎. Wat mu'j doarmet? NGolds20 (overleg) 19:37, 1 nov 2018 (CET)

Ik sag et ouk al vöärby kummen, hee hevt årdig sitten knooien mär bedankt vöär et döärgeaven. Ik heb hüm voorddalik eblokkeerd vöär de kummende pår månden. Servien (overleg) 00:27, 2 nov 2018 (CET)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [27]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Bedankt!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:17, 2 nov 2018 (CET)

Platdüütsk en Neadersassisk

Hebbet wy nu so een mooie nye skryvwyse, ümme al de sassiske dialecten eyne te maken. Mar der beståt noch wal twey wikipedia's! Et is seaker een heyle klute wark ümme dee as eyne te krygen?! Gewoon under 'sassisk'. Is dat een plan vöär de tookumst? Dachte dat ik der wal eyns eyne oaver ehöyrt (eleasen) hadde. NGolds20 (overleg) 20:37, 4 nov 2018 (CET)

Tja, ne skryvwyse hebben is eyn. Nu müt wy lüde noch oavertügen üm ne te gebruken. Y hebbet by dee stemming van een paar weaken eleaden al seen wo strabant as lüde köänet weasen, selvs as wy uutlegget wat de vöärdeylen sint. In düütskland sit noch ne strabantere fraktioon, dee gerne de Sass'sche Schrievwies vöär heilig holdet. Woolters (overleg) 09:22, 5 nov 2018 (CET)

Haha oke, ik dachte al dat ik te hoapvul wasse. NGolds20 (overleg) 17:21, 17 nov 2018 (CET)

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.

Bedankt!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 13 nov 2018 (CET)

intellektueler/verstandiger neadersassisk

Wille neet te klagen höyr, ouk neet vanuut de höygte doon. Mar wat wel een tendensk up disse Wikipedia is, is dat lüde bynå alleyne mar skryvet oaver oustneaderlandske plaatsyns en gebruken. Ik do der sülv ouk wel an med höyr, mar dat is denk ik nu eynmål een ding wat lüde doot (wanneyr as sy Plat pråtet -'kultureel' gebruket); dat sy alleyne mar nöält oaver hün eigen dörpyn en eigen gebruken en eigen taaltyn en eigen mensken. Mar müttet wy et Plat neet 'gewoon' gebruken? So as alle talen gebruket wördet? Låtet wy meyr oaver et dageliks leaven, krumme tenen, gevlecht hår, kearls en vrouwlüde, wark, handel, ekonomy, politik, psychology, leavensbeskouwing, künst, godsdeenst, en so meyr, gån te skryven. Ho müt et Plat anders uut dee folklore-sfäär kummen? As wy et Plat gewoon so breyd möägelik gebruket, dan künnet wy ouk nye woorden en begrippen uutvinden/terüghalen/lenen, dee wy in een wat 'intellektueler' gesprek gebruken künnet. Kan an my persoonlik liggen, mar ik vind et mangs noch wel mööilik ümme een wat leavensbeskouweliker gesprek med eyne te holden (of hyr te skryven) in myn eigen dialekt. Ümdat ik geyn vöärbealden hebbe van ho dat müt! (ümdat lüde in et Plat alleyne mar oaver et olde en et eigene hebbet, én der geyn mööilike teksten te vinden bint in et neadersassisk, alleyne mar Nijntje, wat stripboken en gedichtyns.. De Bybelsvertalings bint noch wel interessant dårin, ümdat der toch teologiske en godsdeenstige woorden/begrippen mosten vertaalt wörden). Hyr is disse Wikipedia nu net machtys mooi vöär. Noh. Wat ik eaven kwyt wolde. haha. Gebruukt et nu so breyd as möägelik! Of wat vind ulüde dervan? misskyn stel ik my unmündig an höyr. NGolds20 (overleg) 16:47, 17 nov 2018 (CET)

Heylemål med eyns. Probeyr ik ouk al tyden. Toch hebbet wy hyr al mooie artikels dee dat wat uutdepet: tyd, filosofie, sociology, esw. Mär ouk bv. Rihanna. Ansluten by de beleyving van de jögend is dücht my ouk belangryk. Mär van de andere kante sint dee lokale dinge wal et eyrste wår as lüde når söyket as et oaver sassisk geyt. So is et my ouk egån. Düs dee artikels müt der ouk weasen. Woolters (overleg) 10:54, 19 nov 2018 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Help met het vertalen in uw taal.

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)

19:13, 22 nov 2018 (CET)

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) 12:03, 26 nov 2018 (CET)

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.

Bedankt!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:03, 6 dec 2018 (CET)

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 (overleg) 11:13, 27 dec 2018 (CET)

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) 10:41, 14 jan 2019 (CET)

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)

19:49, 16 jan 2019 (CET)

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) 16:01, 21 feb 2019 (CET)