विक्षनरी:चौपाल/अंग्रेजीभाषा दूतावास

Preparation of Fundraiser 2007

Hi, this is just a first introduction message to tell you: there is more to come. I am dealing with the Project Management of the Fundraiser 2007 and therefore will search for contacts of wikimedians who can help us to do our tasks on all projects. I am actually also building the structure for the fundraiser on Meta. We will need people who help to design buttons, translate texts of buttons, documents, sitenotices etc. Should you feel you want to co-operate please let me know. You can reach me on my meta user page or by e-mail at scretella (at) wikimedia (dot) org. If you wish to notify us that you would like to co-operate on translations, it would be nice if you used e-mail and copied the e-mail to me and Aphaia (aphaia (at) gmail (dot) com). Thank you for your attention and I hope to meet you soon! Cheers :-) -- 4 September 2007 Sabine

Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here on Wikipedia to use your language for your language profile, but if you would log in to for example the English language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. Infact, of the 1792 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 135 messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of over 75 extensions, with 981 messages.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator priviledges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on meta and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Cheers! Siebrand@Betawiki २२:४०, २० सितम्बर २००७ (UTC)

RfC: Indic Sysop Proposal

Kindly take a moment to read the Indic Sysop proposal in meta and express your opinion. Thanks --160.83.72.207 १९:५४, १५ अक्तूबर २०१० (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

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

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

MediaWiki:Gadget-searchbox.js

नमस्ते, I've installed fr:MediaWiki:Gadget-searchbox.js from pl:MediaWiki:Gadget-searchbox.js. It adds the text treatment functions: "go to line n°", "change the capitalization", "search and replace" (eventually "replace all"). JackPotte २१:०६, ९ फ़रवरी २०११ (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

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

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison ००:५२, २७ अक्टूबर २०११ (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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

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

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

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation १३:०२, २१ दिसम्बर २०११ (UTC)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

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

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

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

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

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery ००:१२, १५ जनवरी २०१२ (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

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

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). १५:०३, १२ फ़रवरी २०१२ (UTC)

Update on IPv6

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

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

What this means for your project:

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

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

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

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

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ०१:०१, २ जून २०१२ (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee १८:२०, ५ जून २०१२ (UTC)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the instructions on Meta)

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

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

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

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation ०८:३०, १६ जून २०१२ (UTC)

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

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Hi,

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

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

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation २०:०७, १९ जुलाई २०१२ (UTC)

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आने वाले वर्ष में विकिमीडिया दान के दस लाख से अधिक डॉलर तय करने में मदद करें

नमस्कार,

जैसा कि आप में से कई जानते हैं, विकिमीडिया ट्रस्टीस बोर्ड ने हाल ही में उस प्रणाली में महत्वपूर्ण तब्दीलियाँ शुरू की हैं जिससे की विकिमीडिया आंदोलन के भीतर धनराशी वितरित किया जा रही है। इसी के हिस्से के तौर पर, एक नयी समुदाय के नेतृत्व वाली फंड प्रसार समिति (Funds Dissemination Committee- FDC) अभी स्थापित की जा रही है। २०१२-१३ में पहले से ही अपनी सिफारिशें से फाउंडेशन, अध्याय और अन्य पात्र संस्थाओं के बीच १० लाख से अधिक अमेरिकी डॉलर के वितरण के बारे में इस समिति के निर्णय मार्गदर्शन करेंगे।

इस समय सात सक्षम, जानकार और भरोसेमंद समुदाय के सदस्यों को प्रारंभिक फंड प्रसार समिति के लिए स्वयंसेवक के रूप में आवश्यकता है। यह सितंबर से अपना काम शुरू करने की सम्भावना है। इसके अलावा, एक समुदाय के एक सदस्य को फंड प्रसार समिति की प्रक्रिया के लिए लोकपाल के तौर पर भी मांग है। यदि आप समिति में शामिल होने में रुचि रखते हैं, तो स्वयंसेवकों के लिए आमंत्रण को पढ़ें। नामांकन १५ अगस्त को बंद करने की योजना बनाई गयी है।

अनसूया सेनगुप्ता, निर्देशक, विश्व अध्यन अथवा दानवित्रण, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन. (हिन्दी अनुवाद के लिए धन्यवाद्: Hindustanilanguage--ASengupta (WMF) (वार्ता) १७:५६, २३ जुलाई २०१२ (UTC)

Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

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

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)०१:५७, ६ सितम्बर २०१२ (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

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

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

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

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

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

--Lydia Pintscher १३:२१, १० सितम्बर २०१२ (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

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

Please watch for problems with:

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

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

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

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) ०२:५६, १६ अक्टूबर २०१२ (UTC)

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

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

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

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

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

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Localise your wiki logo

The official localisable Wiktionary logo

Hello! It was noted that Wiktionary in this language has not yet adopted a localised/translated logo: it's really a pity for a dictionary project!
We are trying to help Wiktionaries adopt a locally-adapted logo, by taking the technical difficulties on us. What we need from you is just the preferred translation of the name and motto, "Wiktionary" (if translated) and "The free dictionary": you can add them to the logo list, by editing it directly or commenting on the talk page; you can also add a note if you don't want the localised logo.
Of course, you can also create the logo and make the necessary requests on bugzilla yourself, if you prefer so.
Feel free to translate this message and to move/copy/forward it where appropriate; you can also reply on my talk. Thanks, Nemo १५:३२, ३ नवम्बर २०१२ (UTC)

Localise your wiki logo

The official localisable Wiktionary logo

Hello! It was noted that Wiktionary in this language has not yet adopted a localised/translated logo: it's really a pity for a dictionary project!
We are trying to help Wiktionaries adopt a locally-adapted logo, by taking the technical difficulties on us. What we need from you is just the preferred translation of the name and motto, "Wiktionary" (if translated) and "The free dictionary": you can add them to the logo list, by editing it directly or commenting on the talk page; you can also add a note if you don't want the localised logo.
Of course, you can also create the logo and make the necessary requests on bugzilla yourself, if you prefer so.
Feel free to translate this message and to move/copy/forward it where appropriate; you can also reply on my talk. Thanks, Nemo १५:५७, ३ नवम्बर २०१२ (UTC)

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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

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

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

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

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

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

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

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation २०:२७, ३० जनवरी २०१३ (UTC)

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

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

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

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

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

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Proposal of a pronunciation recording tool

Hello, Rahul21, a developer, offers to develop a pronunciation recording tool for Wiktionary, helped by Michael Dale as part of GSoC. The tool would allow to record and add audio pronunciations to Wiktionary entries while browsing them (see background discussion on Wiktionary-l). Please read and comment the proposal! Regards, Nemo २२:३९, ९ अप्रैल २०१३ (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)

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

Hello!

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

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

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

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) ०४:४४, २४ अप्रैल २०१३ (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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[en] Change to section edit links

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

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

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

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

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [१] [२]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [३]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [४]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [५]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [६]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [७] [८]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [९]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [१०]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [११]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [१२]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [१३]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [१४].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [१५]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • २०:३९, २० मई २०१३ (UTC)

Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom २०:३९, २० मई २०१३ (UTC)

Trademark discussion

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

Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions

On June 11, 2013, the Universal Language Selector (ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way of configuring and delivering language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Runab १४:०८, ५ जून २०१३ (UTC) (posted via Global message delivery)

X!'s Edit Counter

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation ०४:३२, २३ जून २०१३ (UTC)

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Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). १३:१७, २३ जुलाई २०१३ (UTC)

HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). १९:०९, २० अगस्त २०१३ (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). ०२:३२, २४ सितम्बर २०१३ (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) १८:३९, ४ अक्टूबर २०१३ (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana २०:१२, ८ अक्टूबर २०१३ (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) २०:०१, ५ नवम्बर २०१३ (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) ०६:४६, १६ जनवरी २०१४ (UTC)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) २२:००, २१ फ़रवरी २०१४ (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

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

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

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation १९:४४, २८ फ़रवरी २०१४ (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) २१:५६, १३ मार्च २०१४ (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

Pronunciation Recording

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

Dear Wiktionary community!

About me

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

The idea

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

My proposal

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

Thanks and kind regards --Rillke (वार्ता) १७:२५, ७ अप्रैल २०१४ (UTC)

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

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) २१:२९, २३ मई २०१४ (UTC)

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Using only UploadWizard for uploads

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.

Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. I propose to have

• local "चित्र अपलोड करें" restricted to the "प्रबंधक" group (for emergency uploads) and
• the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.

All this will get done around 2014-07-03.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create MediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo १३:०९, १९ जून २०१४ (UTC)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) २१:५४, १९ जून २०१४ (UTC)

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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

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

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

-- JurgenNL (talk) १७:३५, २१ अगस्त २०१४ (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk २२:१५, २१ अगस्त २०१४ (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १६:५२, २ सितम्बर २०१४ (UTC)

Change in renaming process

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

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

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

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

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 September 2014 16.22 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

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

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

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

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) १८:०४, २६ अक्टूबर २०१४ (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— १७:३४, १४ नवम्बर २०१४ (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.विक्षनरी.org: (सभी) पृष्ठ सम्पादित करें

MediaWiki mobile

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo २२:३४, १ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २०:०१, ४ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) १९:४५, १३ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W १६:१२, १० अप्रैल २०१५ (UTC)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

२२:००, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

२३:४१, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०५:०७, २४ जुलाई २०१५ (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०८:४०, २४ जुलाई २०१५ (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २३:४२, ३१ जुलाई २०१५ (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०१:४०, १ अगस्त २०१५ (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) १८:१२, २ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) १९:१३, २ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. २०:५२, ४ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources २१:०१, २२ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) १६:५६, २८ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) २२:२८, २८ सितम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

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

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २१:५७, ९ नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam १०:४८, १० नवम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Harassment consultation

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १४:३९, १ दिसम्बर २०१५ (UTC)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०१:५०, ५ जनवरी २०१६ (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १९:०६, १८ जनवरी २०१६ (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें:

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) १५:४७, ३१ मार्च २०१६ (UTC)

Server switch 2016

विकिमीडिया संस्थान नए डाटा केन्द्र को डेल्लास में परीक्षण करने जा रहा है। यह निश्चित करना चाहता है कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि को किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। इसे निश्चित करने कि यह पूरे तरह से काम करेगा, विकिमीडिया तकनीकी विभाग इसके लिए एक परीक्षण की योजना बना रहा है। जिससे यह पता चले कि एक डाटा केन्द्र से दूसरे डाटा केन्द्र में ले जाना सुविधाजनक है या नहीं। इसके लिए कई दल की आवश्यकता है, जो इस परीक्षण के लिए तैयार रहें और किसी भी परेशानी को ठीक करने के लिए उपलब्ध रहें।

यह नए डाटा केन्द्र में मंगलवार, 19 अप्रैल को स्थानांतरित हो जाएगा।
गुरुवार, 21 अप्रैल को यह पहले के डाटा केन्द्र में वापस आ जाएगा।

लेकिन कुछ सीमितता के के कारण मीडियाविकि में उन दो बदलाव के दौरान कोई भी सम्पादन नहीं हो सकेंगे। हम इस असुविधा के लिए खेद प्रकट करते हैं, और भविष्य में इसे कम करने का प्रयास करेंगे।

कुछ समय के लिए सभी विकि में आप केवल पढ़ सकेंगे, लेकिन लिख नहीं पाएंगे।

• आप मंगलवार, 19 अप्रैल और गुरुवार, 21 अप्रैल को 14:00 UTC (19:30 IST) केओ 15 से 30 मिनट के लिए कुछ भी नहीं लिख पाएंगे।
• इस समय के दौरान यदि आप कोई सम्पादन करने की कोशिश करते हैं, तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम यही उम्मीद करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई भी सम्पादन नहीं छूटेगा, लेकिन हम भरोसा नहीं दिला सकते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई दे, तो कृपया सब कुछ ठीक होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। उसके बाद आप अपने सम्पादन को सहेज सकते हैं। लेकिन, हम आपको यही सुझाव देते हैं कि आप अपने बदलाव को सहेजने से पहले कॉपी या नकल कर रखे।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• कुछ आंतरिक कार्य धीमी गति से कार्य करेंगे और कुछ बन्द हो हो सकते हैं। लाल कड़ी सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं होंगे। यदि आप कोई लेख बनाते हैं जो पहले से ही कहीं पर जोड़ा गया है तो वह लाल रंग की कड़ी पहले से अधिक समय तक वैसे ही रहेगा। कुछ बहुत लम्बे समय तक चलने वाले स्क्रिप्ट रुक जाएँगे।
• 18 अप्रैल के सप्ताह में कोड भी रुक सकते हैं। कोई भी गैर-अनावश्यक कोड भी स्थान पर नहीं स्थापित होंगे।

यह परीक्षण 22 मार्च को वास्तविक रूप से स्थापित होगा। 19 और 21 अप्रैल नए तिथि हैं। आप तिथि को wikitech.wikimedia.org में भी पढ़ सकते हैं। इस तिथि में यह कई बदलाव को डालेंगे। इस दौरान और भी सूचनाएँ प्राप्त होंगी। कृपया इस सूचना को अपने विकि समुदाय को भी दें। /Johan (WMF) (वार्ता) २२:१७, १७ अप्रैल २०१६ (UTC)

A new "Welcome" message

Hello everyone. Apologies for using English on this page. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें. धन्यवाद!

This is a heads-up about a change which was announced in Tech News: Add the "welcome" dialog (with button to switch) to the wikitext editor.

In a nutshell, this will soon provide a one-time "Welcome" message in the wikitext editor which explains that anyone can edit, and every improvement helps. The user can then start editing in the wikitext editor right away, or switch to the visual editor. This is the equivalent of an already existing welcome message for visual editor users, which suggests the option to switch to the wikitext editor. If you have already seen this dialog in the visual editor, you will not see the new one in the wikitext editor. It won't say "Wikipedia" here ;)

• The current site-wide configuration of the visual editor stays the same.
  • Nothing changes permanently for users who chose to hide the visual editor in their Preferences, or for wikis where it's still a Beta Feature, or for wikis where certain groups of users don't get the visual editor tab, etc.
  • This wiki features a Single Edit Tab system; if you're not sure you know or remember how that works, you can read the guide (which details, among other things, how to switch between editors from the buttons on the toolbar); you can change your editing settings at any time, by the way.
  • There is a slight chance that you see a few more questions than usual about the visual editor. Please refer people to the documentation or to the feedback page, and feel free to ping me if you have questions too! I had also written a very quick intro to the visual editor, in case anyone is interested.

• Finally, I want to acknowledge that, while not everyone will see that dialog, many of you will; if you're reading this you are likely not the intended recipients of that dialog, so you may be confused or annoyed by it—and if this is the case, I'm truly sorry about that. Please feel free to cross-post this message at other venues on this wiki, if you think it will avoid that other users feel caught by surprise by this change.

If you want to learn more, please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133800; if you have feedback or think you need to report a bug with the dialog, you can post in that task (or at mediawiki.org if you prefer).

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, --Elitre (WMF) १५:२९, १७ मई २०१६ (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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)-१३:०६, २९ जून २०१६ (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

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

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-०३:०५, १ जुलाई २०१६ (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें:

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) १५:२५, ५ जुलाई २०१६ (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “पृष्ठ सहेजें” button to “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित करें” and “बदलाव प्रकाशित करें”. “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित करें” will be used when you create a new page. “बदलाव प्रकाशित करें” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[१६][१७]

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 “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित करें” and “बदलाव प्रकाशित करें”.

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 “पृष्ठ सहेजें” 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 “पृष्ठ सहेजें” 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 “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित करें” and “बदलाव प्रकाशित करें”.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) १८:०२, ९ अगस्त २०१६ (UTC)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १५:०८, १२ सितम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें:

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) २०:१०, ३० सितम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) ०१:३४, ६ अक्टूबर २०१६ (UTC)

Password reset

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

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

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

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

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (वार्ता) / MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ००:००, १४ नवम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ००:११, १४ नवम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

Help test offline Wikipedia

नमस्कार! विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन आपकी सहायता के लिए, ऑफलाइन लेख पढ़ना मुनकिन करना चाहती है। आप ऑफलाइन लेख सेव करने के बाद आपके फ़ोन से दुसरो को शेयरभी कर सकते हे । हमे ये सुविधा उपयोगी हे इसकी खोज पाठक अनुसंधान की दौरान हुई। इस संदर्भ में आपकेलिए कुच नमूने तैयार किये हे। आप ये नूमनों का परिक्षण कर सकते हे। अगर आपको इन नमूनों में रुचि हे तो हमें संपर्क करें। आपका परिक्षण करना बहुत उपयोगी होगा। अधिक जानकारी के लिए मेटा पृष्ठ पढ़े Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) २०:०७, २९ नवम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

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

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

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

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "सभी नई बीटा सुविधाओं को स्वचालित रूप से सक्षम करें".

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) --१९:३३, १४ दिसम्बर २०१६ (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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)

यह सन्देश, "हम आपको आंदोलन रणनीति बातचीत में शामिल होने के लिए आमंत्रित करते हैं (जो अब से १५ अप्रैल तक चलेगी)", निकोल ऐबर के द्वारा १५ मार्च २०१७ को भेजा गया था।

प्रिय विकिमीडियन/विकिपीडियन:

आज हम विकिमीडिया की दुनिया के भविष्य में भूमिका को परिभाषित करने और उस भूमिका को पूरा करने के लिए एक सहयोगी रणनीति विकसित करने के लिए एक व्यापक चर्चा शुरू कर रहे हैं। आपको वार्तालाप में शामिल होने के लिए नम्र रूप से आमंत्रित किया जाता है।

भाग लेने के कई तरीके हैं, मौजूदा वार्तालाप में शामिल होना या अपनी खुद की वार्तालाप शुरू करना :

ट्रैक ए (संगठित समूह): आपकी सहबद्ध संस्था, समिति या अन्य संगठित समूह (वह समूह जो विकिमीडिया आंदोलन का समर्थन करते हैं) के साथ चर्चाएं।

ट्रैक बी (व्यक्तिगत योगदानकर्ता): मेटा पर या आपके स्थानीय भाषा या परियोजना विकी पर।

यह तीन वार्तालापों में से पहली वार्तालाप है, और यह अबसे 15 अप्रैल तक चलेगी। चक्र 1 का उद्देश्य आंदोलन के भविष्य पर चर्चा करना और संभावित दिशाओं के आसपास प्रमुख विषयों को उत्पन्न करना है। अगले 15 सालों में हम क्या बनाना चाहते हैं या एक साथ हासिल करना चाहते हैं?

आपके साथ मिलकर चर्चा करने के लिए हम आपका स्वागत करते हैं और हमारे आंदोलन के सभी हिस्सों से व्यापक और विविध भागीदारी की उम्मीद करते हैं।

• आंदोलन रणनीति प्रक्रिया के बारे में अधिक जानकारी प्राप्त करें
• चर्चा समन्वयक बनने के लिए स्वयंसेवा के बारे में अधिक जानें

भवदीय

निकोल ऐबर (ट्रैक ए लीड), जेमी अंस्टी (ट्रैक बी लीड), और शमूलियत सहारा टीमें

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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

Read this message in another language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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)

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Cognate & automatic interlanguage links

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

यह संदेश विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनाव समिति की और से है।अनुवाद उपलब्ध हैं।

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन न्यासी बोर्ड के लिए २०१७ के चुनावों में पात्र मतदाताओं के लिए मतदान शुरू हो गया है।

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन का न्यासी बोर्ड संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में 501(c)(3) पंजीकृत गैर-लाभकारी संगठन विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन का अंतिम शासी निकाय है। विकीमीडिया फाउंडेशन कई विविध परियोजनाओं जैसे कि विकिपीडिया और कॉमन्स का प्रबंधन करती है।

मतदान चरण १ मई ००:०० यूटीसी से १४ मई 23:59 यूटीसी तक चलेगा। वोट करने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। उम्मीदवारों और चुनावों के बारे में अधिक जानकारी के लिए मेटा-विकी पर २०१७ न्यासी बोर्ड चुनाव पृष्ठ पर जाएँ।

चुनाव समिति की ओर से,
केटी चैन, चेयर, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनाव समिति
जो सदरलैंड, सामुदायिक अधिवक्ता, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन

मीडियाविकी संदेश वितरण • अनुवाद • मदद लें

१९:१४, ३ मई २०१७ (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:४१, ८ मई २०१७ (UTC)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:४४, १६ मई २०१७ (UTC)

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

इस संदेश के अनुवाद मेटा-विकी पर उपलब्ध हैं

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनाव समिति की ओर से हमें घोषणा करते हुए प्रसन्नता हो रही है कि २०१७ विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन फंड प्रसार समिति और फंड प्रसार समिति लोकपाल चुनावों के लिए स्वयं नामांकन स्वीकार किए जा रहे हैं। कृपया २०१७ विकीमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनावों के पोर्टल पर पर उम्मीदवारों के लिए विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन की तरफ से पत्र पढ़िए।

फंड प्रसार समिति
फंड प्रसार समिति (एफडीसी) पात्र संस्थाओं के लिए विकिमीडिया आंदोलन को आवंटित करने के तरीके के बारे में सिफारिशें करती है। पाँच पदों के लिए चुनाव हो रहे हैं। इस भूमिका के बारे में अधिक जानकारी एफडीसी चुनाव पृष्ठ पर पाई जा सकती है।

फंड प्रसार समिति लोकपाल
निधि प्रसार समिति लोकपाल को एफडीसी प्रक्रिया के बारे में शिकायतों और प्रतिक्रिया प्राप्त होती है, वह न्यासी बोर्ड के अनुरोध पर शिकायतों की जाँच करता है और न्यासी बोर्ड के लिए सालाना आधार पर जाँच और प्रतिक्रिया का सार देता है। एक पद के लिए चुनाव हो रहे हैं। इस भूमिका के बारे में अधिक जानकारी एफडीसी लोकपाल चुनाव पृष्ठ पर पाई जा सकती है।

उम्मीदवारी जमा करने की समय २८ मई (२३:५९ यूटीसी) तक होगा।

हम २८ मई तक उम्मीदवारों को पूछने के लिए प्रश्न भी स्वीकार करेंगे। आप मेटा-विकी पर अपने प्रश्न जमा कर सकते हैं। जब सवाल प्रस्तुत करने की अवधि २८ मई को समाप्त होगी, तब चुनाव समिति उम्मीदवारों के सवालों के जवाब तैयार करेगी।

इस प्रक्रिया का लक्ष्य विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन फंड प्रसार समिति की पाँच समुदाय-चयनित सीटों और एक समुदाय-चयनित लोकपाल पद को भरना है। बोर्ड द्वारा ही नियुक्तियों के लिए चुनाव परिणाम का उपयोग किया जाएगा।

एफडीसी चुनावों का पूरा कार्यक्रम इस प्रकार है: सभी तिथियाँ 'समावेशी' हैं, अर्थात् पहले दिन (यूटीसी) की शुरुआत से अंतिम दिन के अंत तक।

• १५ मई (००:०० यूटीसी) – २८ मई (२३:५९ यूटीसी) – नामांकन
• १५ मई – २८ मई – उम्मीदवारों से प्रश्न पूछने का समय
• २९ मई – २ जून – उम्मीदवार प्रश्नों के जवाब देंगे
• ३ जून – ११ जून – मतदान अवधि
• १२-१४ जून – मतों की जाँच
• १५ जून – चुनाव परिणामों की घोषणा के लिए संभावित तारीख

इस वर्ष के चुनावों के बारे में अधिक जानकारी २०१७ विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनावों के पोर्टल में पाई जा सकती है।

कृपया अपने परियोजना की चौपाल पर चुनाव के बारे में एक नोट पोस्ट करने के लिए स्वतंत्र महसूस करें। चुनाव से संबंधित कोई भी प्रश्न मेटा पर चर्चा पृष्ठ पर पोस्ट किया जा सकता है, या चुनाव समिति की मेलिंग सूची में भेजा जा सकता है, board-electionswikimedia.org.

चुनाव समिति की ओर से,
केटी चैन, चेयर, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चुनाव समिति
जो सदरलैंड, कम्युनिटी एडवोकेट, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन

मीडियाविकि संदेश वितरण द्वारा पोस्ट किया • अनुवाद • मदद लें

२१:०६, २३ मई २०१७ (UTC)

Enable sitelinks on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages

Hello,

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

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

Long version available and translatable here.

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) ०८:३९, १ जून २०१७ (UTC)

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

Hello,

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

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

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

Long version available and translatable here.

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

Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०८:२८, २१ जून २०१७ (UTC)

Enabling Page Previews

Enabling Page Previews

नमस्ते,

Based on the positive results of a series of quantitative and qualitative tests, the Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable the Page Previews feature for this project.

Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. However, we realize the needs of the Wiktionary community will not be satisfied by the current implementation of the feature. We are interested in developing separate previews for Wiktionary that will display the wiktionary definition of an item, as well as an image, if available.

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

CKoerner (WMF) १५:०२, ६ जुलाई २०१७ (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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.

धन्यवाद! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) १८:४०, २५ जुलाई २०१७ (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) १६:५६, २७ जुलाई २०१७ (UTC)

Columns for references

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें • Read this in another language

Hello,

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

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

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

१८:२३, १ सितम्बर २०१७ (UTC)

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) ००:३४, १२ नवम्बर २०१७ (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

मोबाइल वेब रीडर के लिए नया पीडीएफ प्रिंट के लिए सुविधा

पाठक वेब टीम इस हफ्ते एक नई सुविधा की तैनाती कर रही है ताकि मोबाइल वेबसाइट पर लेखों के पीडीएफ संस्करणों को डाउनलोड करना आसान हो।

मेक्सिको, नाइजीरिया और भारत में नये रीडर टीम के द्वारा किए गए शोध से हाइलाइट किए गए क्षेत्रों में बेहतर ऑफ़लाइन कार्यक्षमता प्रदान करना था। टीमों ने मोबाइल पीडीएफ़ के लिए एक प्रोटोटाइप बनाया, जिसका मूल्यांकन उपयोगकर्ता अनुसंधान और समुदाय प्रतिक्रिया द्वारा किया गया था। प्रोटोटाइप मूल्यांकन को सकारात्मक प्रतिक्रिया और परिणाम प्राप्त हुए, इसलिए विकास जारी रखा जायेग।

प्रारंभिक तैनाती के लिए, यह सुविधा एंड्रॉइड पर गूगल क्रोम ब्राउज़र पर उपलब्ध होगी। भविष्य में आने वाले अन्य मोबाइल ब्राउज़र के लिए समर्थन किया जयेग। क्रोम के लिए, यह सुविधा मूल एंड्रॉइड प्रिंट कार्यक्षमता का उपयोग करेगी। उपयोगकर्ता PDF के रूप में एक वेबपेज डाउनलोड कर सकते हैं। छोटे स्क्रीन के लिए अनुकूलतम पठनीयता सुनिश्चित करने के लिए इन पीडीएफ के लिए मोबाइल प्रिंट शैलियों का उपयोग किया जाएगा।

यह सुविधा बुधवार, 15 नवंबर से उपलब्ध है। अधिक जानकारी के लिए, MediaWiki.org पर प्रोजेक्ट पेज देखें।

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २२:०७, २० नवम्बर २०१७ (UTC)

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

To give feedback, you have two options:

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

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

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १०:२३, २४ अप्रैल २०१८ (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

8 मई से उन्नतखोज आपके विकी में बीटा सुविधा के रूप में उपलब्ध होगी। यह सुविधा एक उन्नत पैरामीटर फॉर्म के माध्यम से खोज पृष्ठ को बेहतर बनाती है और मौजूदा खोज विकल्पों को हर किसी के लिए अधिक दृश्यमान और सुलभ बनाने का लक्ष्य रखती है। उन्नतखोज डब्लूएमडीई टेकनिकल विशिज द्वारा एक परियोजना है। प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को सुविधा का परीक्षण करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया जाता है और हम उम्मीद करते हैं कि यह आपके काम में अच्छी तरह से आपकी सहायता करेगा!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:५४, ७ मई २०१८ (UTC)

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

Hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १२:२०, २३ मई २०१८ (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

मोबाइल वेब पर पृष्ठ समस्याओं के बारे में अद्यतन

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार। रीडर वेब दल ने हाल ही में मोबाइल वेबसाइट पर पृष्ठ समस्या टेम्पलेट्स को उजागर करने पर काम करना शुरू कर दिया है। वर्तमान में पृष्ठ सामग्री वाली समस्याओं के बारे में विवरण आम तौर पर मोबाइल वेबसाइट पर छिपे हुए हैं। इससे पाठक उनके द्वारा पढ़े जाने वाले पृष्ठों की विश्वसनीयता से अनजान रह जाते हैं। इस परियोजना का लक्ष्य मोबाइल वेब पर किसी लेख के भीतर विशेष समस्याओं के बारे में जागरूकता में सुधार करना है। ऐसा हम पृष्ठ समस्याओं के दृश्य स्टाइल को बदलकर करेंगे।

अब तक हमने डिजाइन और कार्यान्वयन पर एक प्रस्ताव तैयार किया है। हम प्रस्तावित डिजाइनों पर उपयोगकर्ता परीक्षण भी कर पाए। अब तक के परीक्षणों के परिणाम सकारात्मक हैं। हमने जो जाना है उसका त्वरित सारांश यहाँ दिया गया है:

• नया तरीका प्रतिभागियों के बीच पृष्ठ समस्याओं के बारे में जागरूकता बढ़ाता है। विशेष रूप से तब जब वे गहन मूल्यांकन/आलोचनात्मक अंदाज़ में हों।
• पृष्ठ समस्याएँ पाठकों को समझ में आती हैं और वे समझते हैं कि ये कैसे काम करते हैं।
• पाठक पृष्ठ समस्याओं के बारे में परवाह करते हैं और उन्हें महत्वपूर्ण मानते हैं।
• विकिपीडिया की पृष्ठ समस्याओं के बारे में सीखने को लेकर पाठकों की भावनाएँ अत्यधिक सकारात्मक थीं।

हमारा अगला कदम इन परिवर्तनों को लागू करना शुरू करना होगा। हम विकास शुरू करने से पहले आपके किसी भी प्रकार की चिंताओं, विचारों और सुझावों के लिए आप तक पहुंचना चाहते थे। कृपया परियोजना पृष्ठ पर जाएँ जहाँ हमारे पास इस बारे में और अधिक जानकारी और नमूने हैं कियह कैसा दिखेगा। कृपया वार्ता पृष्ठ पर प्रतिक्रिया दें।

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २०:५८, १२ जून २०१८ (UTC)

Global preferences are available

वैश्विक प्राथमिकताएं अब उपलब्ध हैं, आप उन्हें अपनी नई वैश्विक प्राथमिकताएं पृष्ठ पर जाकर सेट कर सकते हैं। देखें: उन्हें उपयोग करने के बारे में जानकारी के लिए mediawiki.org पर जाएं और प्रतिक्रिया दें। -- Keegan (WMF) (वार्ता)

१९:१९, १० जुलाई २०१८ (UTC)

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

(कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें)

Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) ०८:४५, १२ जुलाई २०१८ (UTC) (via global message delivery)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

(कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें)

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) १३:०८, ३० जुलाई २०१८ (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

Screenshot of the Hub view

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १३:०८, १४ अगस्त २०१८ (UTC)

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

(कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (अन्तरफलक प्रबंधक) 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) १२:३९, २७ अगस्त २०१८ (UTC) (via global message delivery)

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

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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.

वे बुधवार, १२ सितम्बर २०१८ को सारे ट्रैफ़िक को दूसरे डेटा केन्द्र में स्थानांतरित करेंगे। बुधवार, १० अक्तूबर २०१८ को यह पहले के डेटा केन्द्र में वापस आ जाएगा।

लेकिन मीडियाविकि में कुछ सीमितता के कारण उन दो बदलाव के दौरान कोई भी सम्पादन नहीं हो सकेंगे। हम इस असुविधा के लिए खेद प्रकट करते हैं, और भविष्य में इसे कम करने का प्रयास करेंगे।

कुछ समय के लिए सभी विकियों को आप केवल पढ़ सकेंगे, लेकिन सम्पादित नहीं कर पाएंगे।

• आप बुधवार, १२ सितम्बर और बुधवार, १० अक्टूबर को एक घंटे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर पाएँगे। 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).
• इस समय के दौरान यदि आप कोई सम्पादन करने की कोशिश करते हैं, तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम उम्मीद करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई भी सम्पादन नहीं छूटेगा, लेकिन हम इसका भरोसा नहीं दिला सकते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई दे, तो कृपया सब कुछ ठीक होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। उसके बाद आप अपने सम्पादन को सहेज सकते हैं। लेकिन, हम आपको यही सुझाव देते हैं कि आप अपने बदलाव को सहेजने से पहले कॉपी कर लें, शायद ज़रूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• कुछ आंतरिक कार्य धीमी गति से कार्य करेंगे और कुछ बन्द हो सकते हैं। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं होंगी। यदि आप कोई ऐसा लेख बनाते हैं जो पहले से ही कहीं पर जुड़ा हुआ है तो वह लाल रंग की कड़ी पहले से अधिक समय तक वैसे ही रहेगा। कुछ बहुत लम्बे समय तक चलने वाले स्क्रिप्ट को रोका जाएगा।
• १० सितम्बर २०१८ और ८ अक्तूबर २०१८ के सप्ताहों में कोड फ़्रीज़ेज़ होंगे। अनावश्यक कोड स्थापित नहीं होंगे।

अगर आवश्यकता पड़ी तो यह परियोजना स्थगित की जा सकती है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। किसी भी बदलाव की सूचना अनुसूची में दी जाएगी। इस बारे में और भी सूचनाएँ प्राप्त होंगी। कृपया इस सूचना को अपने समुदाय के साथ साँझा करें। /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

१३:३३, ६ सितम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें.

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)

११:०६, ३० अक्टूबर २०१८ (UTC)

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

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

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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.

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) १९:३४, १३ नवम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

सामुदाय इच्छासूची सर्वेक्षण. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें.

सभी को नमस्कार,

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)

१८:१३, २२ नवम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) ११:०२, २६ नवम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

Interested by a translation editor for your project?

Hello, sorry for speaking in English. Please translate this if you can.

As you may know, there exists a gadget that allows to add translation to Wiktionary projects very easily. This gadget already exists on a few projects (en.wikt, fr.wikt, etc.).

Skalman and I are considering creating a gadget that would be suitable to various wiktionary projects, including yours. I have a few questions for you:

1. Would you be interested in such a tool?
2. Is there anyone (preferably a sysop) that would be up to cooperate for the implementation of such a gadget?

Looking forward to hearing from you, --Automatik (वार्ता) २१:११, २ दिसम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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.

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २०:०३, ६ दिसम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

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

Dear all,

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

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

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

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh ०५:५६, १६ दिसम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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 (वार्ता) १०:१२, २७ दिसम्बर २०१८ (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

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

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

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) ०९:४१, १४ जनवरी २०१९ (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

१८:४०, १६ जनवरी २०१९ (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. User:रोहित रावत

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MarcoAurelio (वार्ता) ११:३१, २७ जनवरी २०१९ (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) १५:०१, २१ फ़रवरी २०१९ (UTC)

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

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

१०:५६, ८ अप्रैल २०१९ (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. धन्यवाद! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) १७:३५, १२ अप्रैल २०१९ (UTC)

आंदोलन रणनीति 2030 चर्चा सारांश मार्च - अप्रैल

अप्रैल 2019 तक की सामुदायिक चर्चा प्रकाशित हो चुकी है। इसे आंदोलन रणनीति 2030: हिंदी सामुदायिक रिपोर्ट अप्रैल 2019 पर पढ़ा जा सकता है। धन्यवाद। RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १४:१३, १४ मई २०१९ (UTC)

Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

Hello fellow Wikimedians,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help me in translating this message to your language.

I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working in them and what are the areas that needs more support.

If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest, Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from you.

You can read the Privacy Policy for the Survey here

Please find the link to the Survey at: https://forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A

P.S. If you have been involved in multiple campaigns/contests, feel free to submit the form multiple times.

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.

-- SGill (WMF) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०६:०९, २५ जून २०१९ (UTC)

आंदोलन रणनीति 2030 चर्चा सारांश जून

जून 2019 तक की सामुदायिक चर्चा प्रकाशित है। इसे आंदोलन रणनीति 2030: हिंदी सामुदायिक रिपोर्ट जून 2019 पर पढ़ा जा सकता है। धन्यवाद।RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) ११:२०, १ अगस्त २०१९ (UTC)

विकिमीडिया आंदोलन रणनीति 2030 सर्वेक्षण

नमस्कार! सदस्यों के लिए अनाम प्रतिक्रिया के लिए हमने विकिमीडिया आंदोलन रणनीति सर्वेक्षण तैयार किया है। वार्ताओं को सुविधाजनक बनाने के लिए हमने 9 विषयगत क्षेत्र बनाए हैं, जिनमें से प्रत्येक में प्रश्न दिए गए हैं जो संबंधित विषयगत क्षेत्र पर कार्य कर रहे कार्य समूह द्वारा बनाए गए हैं। आपके उत्तर आंदोलन के भविष्य के लिए सिफ़ारिशों को विकसित करने में कार्य-समूह दल को सूचित करेंगे। अंत में कुछ जनसांख्यिकीय सवालों के अपवाद के साथ, प्रश्न लंबे उत्तर वाले होते हैं और कार्य समूह द्वारा आपके परिप्रेक्ष्य को बेहतर ढंग से समझे जाने के लिए जो भी संदर्भ सहायक होता है, उसे देने के लिए आपका स्वागत है।यदि आप सर्वेक्षण के संदर्भ के बारे में अधिक जानना चाहते हैं, तो कृपया संबंधित पेज पर संबंधित पेज को पढ़ें। सर्वेक्षण में आगे बढ़ने के लिए कृपया इस लिंक पर जाएँ। धन्यवाद।--RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) ११:२०, १ अगस्त २०१९ (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team ०८:०३, १६ अगस्त २०१९ (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

१४:१९, २१ अगस्त २०१९ (UTC)

आंदोलन रणनीति 2030 मसौदा अनुशंसाएँ चर्चा सारांश

मसौदा अनुशंसाओं का चर्चा सारांश प्रकाशित है। इसे आंदोलन रणनीति 2030: मसौदा अनुशंसाएँ चर्चा सारांश पर पढ़ा जा सकता है। जल्द ही ट्यूनिस में हुए हार्मोनाइजेशन स्प्रिंट में कार्य समूहों द्वारा बनाए दुसरे संस्करण को साझा किया जाएगा। धन्यवाद। RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १८:२०, २३ सितम्बर २०१९ (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) १७:१४, ३० सितम्बर २०१९ (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

नमस्ते. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

धन्यवाद! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

०७:१५, १६ अक्टूबर २०१९ (UTC)

Community Wishlist 2020

The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on November 11, 2019, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.

This year, we’re exclusively focusing on smaller projects (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). We want to help these projects and provide meaningful improvements to diverse communities. If you’re a member of any of these projects, please participate in the survey! To submit proposals, see the guidelines on the survey page. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

IFried (WMF) १९:३०, ४ नवम्बर २०१९ (UTC)

आंदोलन रणनीति 2018-20 अगले चरण

नमस्कार! सभी सदस्यों को नववर्ष की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएँ! समुदाय के लिए आंदोलन रणनीति के लिए कुछ नए अपडेट हैं। हम मसौदा सिफ़ारिशों के एक संश्लेषित सेट पर सामुदायिक बातचीत के अंतिम दौर की तैयारी कर रहे हैं। अभी तक इन अनुशंसाओं में लेखकों और रणनीति टीम द्वारा सामुदायिक विचारों और प्रतिक्रिया को सम्मलित करने का काम चल रहा है।

नए कदम

सिफ़ारिशों के लेखक कार्यकारी समूहों द्वारा उत्पादित 89 सिफ़ारिशों को संगठित करने के लिए काम कर रहे हैं। कुछ सप्ताह पहिले बर्लिन में मसौदा सिफ़ारिशों को तैयार करने के लिए लेखकों का सम्मेलन हुआ और इन सिफ़ारिशों को 20 जनवरी तक समुदाय के साथ साझा किया जाएगा। परिवर्तन के लिए कई क्षेत्रों को सिफ़ारिशों में परिलक्षित किया गया है, और लेखकों ने इन क्षेत्रों का मूल्यांकन करके उन्हें क्लस्टर का रूप दिया जिसका लक्ष्य परिवर्तन की दिशा को रेखांकित करना और एक सेट के तौर में प्रस्तुत करना है जिसे स्पष्ट रूप से समझा जा सके।

अगला चरण

हम इस नए संश्लेषित संस्करण पर समुदाय के साथ चर्चा करेंगे और लेखकों के साथ-साथ विकिमीडिया फ़ाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ़ ट्रस्टीज़ को समुदाय के विचारों को साझा करेंगे तांकि यह स्पष्ट हो सके कि आगे बढ़ने से पहले क्या अंतिम बदलाव किए जाने चाहिए। रणनीति को और अधिक परिष्कृत करने में आपके विचार अमूल्य होंगे और इसके लिए 20 जनवरी से फरवरी तक 30 दिनों की अवधि के लिए सामुदायिक चर्चा का यह अंतिम चरण शुरू होगा।

सभी सदस्यों से अपने विचारों को साझा करने का अनुवेदन है - आप अंतिम मसौदा सिफ़ारिशों पर कैसे और कहॉं चर्चा करना चाहेंगे। यह किसी कॉनफेरेन्स या मीटिंग का एक अंश हो सकता या रणनीति सैलून के माध्यम से, ऑनलाइन बातचीत में शामिल हो कर, या संबंधित चर्चाओं से मीटिंग रिपोर्ट के रूप में हो सकता है।

अब तक आपके द्वारा दिए सभी योगदानों के लिए धन्यवाद! हम आशा करते हैं कि आप अपने विचारों को अगले ड्राफ्ट और अंतिम सिफ़ारिशों में परिलक्षित करते हुए देखेंगे। यह आंदोलन की समीक्षा करने और सिफ़ारिशों को अंतिम रूप देने से पहले उनपर अंतिम सिफ़ारिशें देने का एक अवसर होगा। धन्यवाद! RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १८:१६, ३ जनवरी २०२० (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Mahitgar (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --علاء (वार्ता) २०:२४, ७ जनवरी २०२० (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०६:१४, १८ जनवरी २०२० (UTC)

आंदोलन रणनीति 2030 अनुशंसाएँ

नमस्कार! 2017 में, हमने अपने लिए एक महत्वाकांक्षी लक्ष्य निर्धारित किया था: 2030 तक, विकिमीडिया मुक्त ज्ञान के पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र का आवश्यक बुनियादी ढाँचा बन जाएगा, और जिसकी भी यह प्रतिबद्धता है वह हमारे साथ जुड़ने में सक्षम होंगे।

तो हम वहाँ कैसे पहुंच सकते हैं? इस सपने को कैसे साकार किया जाए, इसके लिए हमारे आंदोलन ने अनुशंसाओं में हमारे भविष्य के लिए विचारों का विश्लेषण, चर्चा और शुद्धीकरण किया है। ये रेखांकित करते हैं कि हम कैसे संपोषणीय और समावेशी रूप से विकसित हो सकते हैं। वे ऐसे तरीके पेश करते हैं जिनसे हम नए अवसरों से अधिकतम लाभ उठा सकते हैं तथा आज एवं कल की चुनौतियों का सामना कर सकते हैं। और हम एक सेवा के रूप में ज्ञान की समानता तथा ज्ञान के लिए कैसे कोशिश कर सकते हैं। जिससे हर व्यक्ति - जो पहले से हमारे आंदोलन में है और जो कोई भी इसमें शामिल होना चाहता है - मुक्त ज्ञान तक पहुंच को सुनिश्चित करने, साझा करने और सक्षम बनाने में कारगर भूमिका निभा सकता है।

अनुशंसाओं के पन्ने पर, आपको आंदोलन रणनीति दस्तावेज़ का पहला संस्करण मिलेगा, जिसमें बदलाव के लिए 13 सिफ़ारिशें शामिल हैं, और वह सिद्धांतन मौजूद हैं जो एक प्रक्रिया अवलोकन, और परिवर्तन की एक कथा को रेखांकित करते हुए यह स्पष्ट करते हैं कि सिफ़ारिशें कैसे कनेक्ट होती हैं और एक रूप में हमारी रणनीतिक दिशा के साथ संरेखित करने के लिए सहायक हैं।
आप मूल सामग्री को हिंदी में पढ़ सकते हैं। अंग्रेजी संस्करण में एक लंबा "सिद्धांत" अनुभाग शामिल है और प्रत्येक अनुशंसा के लिए "क्यों" और "कैसे" अनुभागों का विस्तार किया गया है, जो अतिरिक्त तर्क और संदर्भ प्रदान करते हैं। इसके अलावा, यह सामग्री प्रत्येक अनुशंसा के लिए "सामुदायिक इनपुट" पर अधिक विस्तृत अनुभागों से लिंक करती है। ये जानकारियाँ आंदोलन से आई हैं और ऑनलाइन चर्चाओं के साथ-साथ दुनिया भर के रणनीति सैलून में और विकिपीडिया पर ऑफ़लाइन भी सामने रखी गईं।

सिफारिशों की सामग्री बहुत अन्योन्याश्रित है। यह समझने के लिए कि सिफारिशें एक-दूसरे से कैसे जुड़ती हैं, हम पहले बदलाव की कथा पढ़ने का सुझाव देते हैं। हम आपको प्रत्येक सिफारिश को पढ़ने और अपने समुदाय या संदर्भ के दृष्टिकोण से समीक्षा करने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं। यदि आप योगदान देना चाहें, तो कृपया प्रत्येक अनुशंसा के वार्ता पृष्ठ पर या अपने भाषा समुदाय के भीतर सक्रिय मंचों पर अपने विचार पोस्ट करें। सिफारिशों को रेखांकित करने वाले विचारों और उनके विकास की जानकारी के लिए, कृपया सिद्धांतों के खंड को पढ़ें। अंत में, प्रक्रिया और भविष्य के कदम अनुभाग उन चरणों को रेखांकित करते हैं जो हमें यहाँ तक लेकर आएँ हैं और आगे क्या होगा।
इस सामग्री में परिवर्तन की कथा और प्रत्येक सिफारिश का एक संक्षिप्त अवलोकन है। प्रत्येक सिफ़ारिश के वार्ता पृष्ठ पर आप अपने विचार छोड़ सकते हैं। धन्यवाद। RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १८:२०, २० जनवरी २०२० (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) १९:०१, २२ जनवरी २०२० (UTC)

विकिमीडिया 2030 आंदोलन रणनीति: अगले चरण

सभी को नमस्कार, आंदोलन रणनीति सिफ़ारिशों पर प्रतिक्रिया साझा करने के लिए एक सप्ताह की समयविधि रह गई है।
आंदोलन रणनीति प्रक्रिया का एक प्रमुख केंद्र आंदोलन का विश्लेषण और अनुसंधान कर भविष्य के लिए लक्ष्यों को प्राप्त कर रणनीतिक दिशा के साथ संरेखित करना है और इसके लिए किस प्रकार के परिवर्तनों की आवश्यकता है, यह समझने के लिए सामुदायिक चर्चाओं का यह चरण चल रहा है।

समयविधि

24 फरवरी से शुरू होने वाला सप्ताह: इस सप्ताह में आंदोलन प्रतिक्रिया से सारांश प्रस्तुत करेंगे। इस समय के दौरान टिप्पणी और चर्चा जारी रखने के लिए आपका स्वागत है।
2 मार्च से शुरू होने वाला सप्ताह: हम मेटा पर उपरोक्त रिपोर्ट प्रकाशित करेंगे ताकि समुदायों को रिपोर्ट की समीक्षा करने का मौका दिया जा सके जिसमें वह यह साझा कर सकें कि क्या यह रिपोर्ट समुदाय के विचारों को सही ढंग से दर्शा पाने में समर्थ है। इसके लिए अंतिम तिथि 6 मार्च है। इसके रिपोर्ट को अंतिम रूप दिया जाएगा और इसे सामुदायिक प्रतिक्रिया के सारांश के रूप में प्रकाशित किया जाएगा।

अगले कदम

हम रणनीति सिफ़ारिशों के अंतिम दस्तावेज़ों की भाषा में सुधार करेंगे ताकि इनका अनुवाद करना अधिक स्पष्ट और आसान हो। हम सामुदायिक प्रतिक्रिया की समीक्षा करेंगे (यह पहले ही शुरू हो चुका है)। यदि हमें विशेष परिवर्तनों के लिए व्यापक समर्थन अथवा सुधार के लिए गैर-विवादास्पद सुझाव आते हैं, तो हम संबंधित समायोजन करेंगे। कुछ विषय या सिफ़ारिशें हैं जो विभिन्न संदर्भों में एक अलग प्रभाव डालती हैं, जिसमें ऑनलाइन समुदायों और आंदोलन के संगठित भाग शामिल हैं। इसका मतलब यह है कि यहां प्रतिक्रिया काफी मिश्रित हो सकती है, क्योंकि एक सेटिंग में काम करने वाले दूसरे में काम नहीं कर सकते हैं। कार्यान्वयन योजनाओं को विकसित करते समय इन पर अधिक विस्तार से विचार किया जाएगा।कोर टीम का उद्देश्य मार्च के अंत में सिफ़ारिशों को अंतिम रूप देकर इन्हें प्रकाशित करना है।

सामुदायिक बातचीत में शामिल होने के लिए समय निकालने के लिए एक बार फिर धन्यवाद, हम आपकी प्रतिक्रिया प्राप्त करने के लिए उत्सुक हैं। RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १६:४५, १४ फ़रवरी २०२० (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) १४:१५, २६ फ़रवरी २०२० (UTC)

विकिमीडिया 2030 आंदोलन रणनीति: अंतिम चरण

नमस्कार! पूर्व-अंतिम आंदोलन रणनीति सिफ़ारिशों के लिए खुली, सुगम सामुदायिक चर्चाएँ 21 फरवरी, 2020 को समाप्त हो गई। इन चर्चाओं में भाग लेकर अपनी प्रतिपुष्टि साझा करने के लिए आपका बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद।

आगे क्या होगा
हमने संचलन भर से प्राप्त प्रतिपुष्टि को संक्षेप में संकलित किया है और इसकी एशिया रिपोर्ट और वैश्विक रिपोर्ट मेटा पर प्रकाशित की गई है। यह रिपोर्ट 13 सिफ़ारिशों के समर्थन और विरोध के प्रमुख क्षेत्रों का संक्षिप्त अवलोकन, सिद्धांत, और समग्र रूप से दस्तावेज़ को बेहतर बनाने के तरीके प्रदान करती है। यह रिपोर्ट और लिंक की गई सामग्री को अगले सप्ताह सिफ़ारिशों को अंतिम रूप देने के लिए लेखक को प्रदान किया जाएगा।

फीडबैक का एकीकृतरण और सिफ़ारिशों का अंतिम रूप
सिफ़ारिशों का अंतिम संस्करण बनाने के लिए समुदायों से आई विस्तृत प्रतिक्रिया, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन के न्यासी बोर्ड का मार्गदर्शन और समीक्षकों द्वारा प्रदान प्रतिपुष्टि की समीक्षा और विश्लेषण किया जाएगा।इसके लिए पूर्व कार्य समूहों के सदस्यों और एक रणनीति सैलून समुदाय आयोजक, कोर टीम और विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन चीफ ऑफ स्टाफ रयान मर्कले, न्यूयॉर्क शहर में 10 से 12 मार्च तक काम करेंगे। इस बैठक के पश्चात, स्पष्टता के लिए सामग्री और भाषा की समीक्षा करके उसे अनुवादित किया जाएगा, जिसका अंतिम रूप मार्च के अंत में प्रकाशित किया जाएगा।

विकिमीडिया फ़ाउंडेशन के न्यासी बोर्ड से अपडेट
विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ़ ट्रस्टीज़ ने आंदोलन रणनीति सिफ़ारिशों के अंतिमपूर्व संस्करण की समीक्षा की है आंदोलन रणनीति सिफारिशों का संस्करण। पिछले हफ्ते, उन्होंने सिफ़ारिशों पर विचारों को रेखांकित करते हुए एक बयान प्रकाशित किया।

यदि आप आंदोलन रणनीति के बारे में और अधिक जानकारी पाना चाहते हैं, तो कृपया हमारे अक्सर पूछे गए सवालों के पृष्ठ पर अवश्य जाएँ। धन्यवाद। RSharma (WMF) (वार्ता) १४:२६, ५ मार्च २०२० (UTC)

संपर्क सूत्र निर्वाचन २०२० सूचना

संपर्क सूत्र के कार्यकाल को सुव्यवस्थित वार्षिक (१ अप्रैल से ३१ मार्च) रूप देने के लिए वर्तमान संपर्क सूत्र सर्वसम्मति से एक वर्ष की अवधि से पूर्व ३१ मार्च २०२० को ही अपने वर्तमान कार्यकाल की समाप्ति की सहमति प्रदान करते हैं। इसके साथ ही हम नए संपर्क सूत्र के चुनाव की प्रक्रिया प्रारंभ कर रहे हैं। १५ दिनों की इस प्रक्रिया में अगले ७ दिन तक कोई भी न्यूनतम योग्यता रखने वाला सदस्य संपर्क सूत्र के लिए स्वयं को संपर्क सूत्र पृष्ठ पर नामांकित कर सकता है या मत व्यक्त कर सकता है। संपर्क सूत्र निर्वाचन प्रक्रिया में भागीदारी के लिए सदस्यों का स्वागत है। अनिरुद्ध कुमार (वार्ता) १८:२६, १४ मार्च २०२० (UTC)

Feedback on movement names

नमस्ते. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें if necessary. धन्यवाद!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, ०१:०९, ३ जुलाई २०२० (IST)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) ०१:४३, १० जुलाई २०२० (IST) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) १४:४३, ६ अगस्त २०२० (IST)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें |

विकिमीडिया संस्थान अपने दूसरे दत्त-सामग्री केन्द्र का परीक्षण करने जा रहा है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

वो मंगलवार, १ सितम्बर २०२० को पूरा यातायात द्वितीयक आँकड़ा केन्द्र पर बदल देंगे।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते Trizek (WMF) (talk) १९:१९, २६ अगस्त २०२० (IST)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

नमस्ते. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें. धन्यवाद!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, २३:२५, १० सितम्बर २०२० (IST) 

Wiktionary sitelinks dashboard: URL update

Hello all, and sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.

The Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard presents interesting data about the extension powering your sitelinks. I just wanted to let you know that the URL of this tool changed: it is now accessible at https://wiktionary-analytics.wmcloud.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ . The former URLs, https://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ and https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ , will be disabled on September 25th. Don't forget to update your documentation pages accordingly.

If you have questions about the tool or the URL switch, feel free to ping me. Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १७:१६, १४ सितम्बर २०२० (IST)

Wiki of functions naming contest

नमस्ते. नवीन विकिमीडिया विकि प्रकल्प का नाम चुनने में कृपया सहायता करें। यह प्रकल्प अथवा परियोजना एक ऐसी विकि होगी जहाँ समुदाय फलनों के संग्रह पर एक साथ काम कर सकेगा। समुदाय नये फलन निर्मित कर सकता है, उनके बारे में पढ़ सकता है, उनपर चर्चा कर सकता है अथवा उन्हें साझा किया जा सकता है। इनमें से कुछ ऐसे फलनों को भाषा-स्वतंत्र विकिपीडिया लेख बनाने के लिए प्रयुक्त किया जायेगा जिन्हें अमूर्त विकिपीडिया प्रकल्प के भाग के रूप में किसी भी भाषा में प्रदर्शित किया जा सकता है। लेकिन फलनों को विभिन्न अन्य परिस्थितियों में भी प्रयुक्त किया जा सकेगा।

इसके लिए दो स्तर का मतदान होगा, जिसमें प्रत्येक में सदस्यों की वैध समीक्षा होगी। इसपर मतदान 29 सितम्बर और 27 अक्टूबर को आरम्भ होगा। हमारा लक्ष्य 8 दिसम्बर तक प्रकल्प का अन्तिम नाम चयन करना होगा। यदि आप इसमें भाग लेना चाहते हैं तो कृपया मॅटा-विकि पर अधिक जानें और अभी मतदान करें। धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

०२:४६, ३० सितम्बर २०२० (IST)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

नमस्ते. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

धन्यवाद! Qgil-WMF (talk) २२:४१, ७ अक्टूबर २०२० (IST)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने पहले और दूसरे डाटा केन्द्रों में बदलाव का परिक्षण करता है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

वो मंगलवार, २७ अक्टूबर २०२० को पूरा यातायात प्राथमिक आँकड़ा केन्द्र पर पुनः बदल देंगे।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते -- Trizek (WMF) (talk) २२:४२, २१ अक्टूबर २०२० (IST)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

नमस्ते. अनुस्मारक: कृपया नवीन विकिमीडिया विकि प्रकल्प - फलनों का संग्रह, का नाम चुनने में सहायता करें। निर्णायक मतदान आज से आरम्भ हो रहा है। अन्तिम नामों की सूची Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions है। यदि आप इसमें भाग लेना चाहते हैं तो कृपया मॅटा-विकि पर अधिक जानें और अभी मतदान करें। धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

०३:४१, ६ नवम्बर २०२० (IST)

2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण

अब 2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षणखुल चुका है! यह सर्वेक्षण के द्वारा समुदाय कम्युनिटी टेक (Community Tech) अगले साल के लिए काम तय करता है। हम आपको ३० नवम्बर तक नए प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत करने के लिए या अन्य प्रस्तावों पर टिप्पणी कर उन्हें बेहतर बनाने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं। समुदाय ८ दिसम्बर और २१ दिसम्बर के बीच प्रस्तावों पर मतदान करेंगे।

कम्युनिटी टेक टीम (Community Tech team) अनुभवी विकिमीडिया संपादकों के लिए साधनों पर केंद्रित है। आप किसी भी भाषा में प्रस्ताव लिख सकते हैं, और हम उन्हें आपके लिए अनुवाद करेंगे। आपका धन्यवाद! हम आपके प्रस्तावों को देखने के लिए उत्सुक हैं!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) १०:४६, २० नवम्बर २०२० (IST)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) २०:१०, ३० नवम्बर २०२० (IST)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १६:२५, ७ दिसम्बर २०२० (IST)

सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण 2021

हम सभी उपयोगकर्ताओं को 2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण पर मतदान करने के लिए आमंत्रित करते हैं। आप अब से २१ दिसम्बर तक जितने चाहें उतने विभिन्न विषयों के लिए मतदान कर सकते हैं।

सर्वेक्षण में, अनुभवी संपादकों के लिए नए और बेहतर उपकरणों की इच्छा एकत्र की जाती है। मतदान के बाद, हम आपकी इच्छाओं को पूरा करने की पूरी कोशिश करेंगे। हम सबसे लोकप्रिय विषयों के साथ शुरुआत करेंगे।

कम्युनिटी टेक विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन की टीमों में से एक हैं। हम संपादन और विकी मॉडरेशन टूल बनाते और सुधारते हैं। हम जो काम करते हैं, उसे कम्युनिटी विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण के परिणामों के आधार पर तय किया जाता है। साल में एक बार, आप नए विषयों को जमा करवा सकते हैं। दो सप्ताह के बाद, उन विषयों वोट कर सकते हैं, जिनमें आप सबसे अधिक रुचि रखते हैं। उस के बाद काम करने के लिए सर्वेक्षण से हमारी टीम इच्छाएं चुनती है। कुछ इच्छाएँ स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स या अन्य टीमों द्वारा दी जा सकती हैं।

हम आपके वोटों का इंतजार कर रहे हैं। धन्यवाद!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

२१:१३, ११ दिसम्बर २०२० (IST)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

नमस्ते. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें. धन्यवाद!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, २०:४६, २७ जनवरी २०२१ (IST)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsसाँचा:atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १३:३१, २८ जनवरी २०२१ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १८:५५, ६ फ़रवरी २०२१ (IST)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, विक्षनरी currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) १९:४२, १८ फ़रवरी २०२१ (IST)

Wikifunctions logo contest

नमस्ते. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

०७:२१, २ मार्च २०२१ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.

Drafting Committee: Call for applications

The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.

To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.

2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators

From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.

To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.

-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) ०३:५६, ६ अप्रैल २०२१ (IST)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

Example

From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors.

More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) २०:३८, १२ अप्रैल २०२१ (IST)

Suggested Values

From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.

More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) १९:३८, २२ अप्रैल २०२१ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समाचार
अंक 1, 2021 जुनपूरा न्यूजलेटर पढ़ें

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सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समाचार के पहले अंक में आपका स्वागत है! यह न्यूज़लेटर विकिमीडियन को नए कोड के विकास में शामिल रहने में मदद करेगा, और प्रासंगिक समाचार, शोध, और यूसीओसी से संबंधित आगामी घटनाओं को वितरित करेगा।

कृपया ध्यान दें, यह यूसीओसी न्यूजलेटर का पहला अंक है जो सभी पाठकों और परियोजनाओं को पहल की घोषणा के रूप में दिया जा रहा है। यदि आप चाहते हैं कि भविष्य के मुद्दे आपके वार्ता पृष्ठ, चौपाल, या किसी विशिष्ट पृष्ठ पर पहुँचाए जाएँ जो आपको उपयुक्त लगे, तो आपको यहाँ सदस्यता लेने की आवश्यकता है।

आप हमारे प्रिय समुदाय को एवं हम सभी को सुरक्षित रखने के लिए समाचार का प्रसार करने और नए आचरण के बारे में जागरूकता पैदा करने के लिए न्यूजलेटर के अंको का अपनी भाषाओं में अनुवाद करके हमारी मदद कर सकते हैं। कृपया अपना नाम यहां जोड़ें अगर आप चाहते हैं कि ड्राफ्ट अंक को पहले से ही अनुवाद किया जाए। आपकी भागीदारी मूल्यवान और प्रशंसनीय है।

• संबद्ध चयन परामर्श – मार्च और अप्रैल 2021 में यूसीओसी संबद्ध परामर्श में भाग लेने के लिए सभी आकारों और प्रकारों के विकिमीडिया सहयोगियों को आमंत्रित किया गया था। (पढ़ना जारी रखें)
• 2021 प्रमुख परामर्श – विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन ने व्यापक विकिमीडिया समुदाय से यूसीओसी प्रवर्तन के बारे में इनपुट का अनुरोध करने के लिए अप्रैल और मई 2021 में प्रवर्तन प्रमुख प्रश्न परामर्श आयोजित किए। (पढ़ना जारी रखें)
• गोल मेज़ चर्चा – यूसीओसी सहजकर्ता टीम ने यूसीओसी प्रमुख प्रवर्तन प्रश्नों पर चर्चा करने के लिए मई 2021 में दो 90-मिनट लंबी सार्वजनिक गोल मेज चर्चा की मेजबानी की। अधिक बातचीत निर्धारित हैं। (पढ़ना जारी रखें)
• चरण 2 मसौदा समिति – यूसीओसी के चरण 2 के लिए मसौदा समिति ने 12 मई 2021 को अपना काम शुरू किया। उनके काम के बारे में और पढ़ें। (पढ़ना जारी रखें)
• डिफ ब्लॉग – 2021 की पहली तिमाही में हुई स्थानीय परियोजना परामर्श के दौरान प्रत्येक समुदाय से दिलचस्प निष्कर्षों और अंतर्दृष्टि के आधार पर यूसीओसी सहजकर्ताओं ने कई ब्लॉग पोस्ट लिखे। (पढ़ना जारी रखें)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०९:४९, १६ जून २०२१ (IST)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

इसे अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • इस बहुभाषी समाचार पत्र हेतु सदस्यता सूची

When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "चर्चा उपकरण" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (वार्तालाप)

१९:४५, २४ जून २०२१ (IST)

Server switch

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने पहले और दूसरे डाटा केन्द्रों में बदलाव का परिक्षण करता है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते SGrabarczuk (WMF) ०६:४९, २७ जून २०२१ (IST)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.

However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.

We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.

A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet

We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.

We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!

Feedback

• What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
• How would you like to use our new sandbox?
• What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
• What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ०५:५४, ७ सितम्बर २०२१ (IST)

Server switch

Read this message in another language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. 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 back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. 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 Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
• 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.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.

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. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (वार्ता) ०६:१६, ११ सितम्बर २०२१ (IST)

Talk to the Community Tech

Read this message in another language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello!

As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
• Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
• Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
• Questions and answers

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
• One tap mobile
  • +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
  • +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
• Dial by your location

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (वार्ता) ०८:३४, ११ सितम्बर २०२१ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १८:४५, ९ जनवरी २०२२ (IST)

सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण 2022

अब 2022 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षणखुल चुका है!

यह सर्वेक्षण के द्वारा समुदाय कम्युनिटी टेक (Community Tech) अगले साल के लिए काम तय करता है। हम आपको २३ जनवरी तक नए प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत करने के लिए या अन्य प्रस्तावों पर टिप्पणी कर उन्हें बेहतर बनाने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं।

समुदाय २८ जनवरी और ११ फ़रवरी के बीच प्रस्तावों पर मतदान करेंगे।

कम्युनिटी टेक टीम (Community Tech team) अनुभवी विकिमीडिया संपादकों के लिए साधनों पर केंद्रित है। आप किसी भी भाषा में प्रस्ताव लिख सकते हैं, और हम उन्हें आपके लिए अनुवाद करेंगे। आपका धन्यवाद! हम आपके प्रस्तावों को देखने के लिए उत्सुक हैं! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ००:१३, ११ जनवरी २०२२ (IST)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikसाँचा:@wikimedia.org.

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Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १०:२०, २२ फ़रवरी २०२२ (IST)

Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

• Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
• Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
• and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).

All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) १८:०८, २८ फ़रवरी २०२२ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २०:११, १४ मार्च २०२२ (IST)

Coming soon: Improvements for templates

Fundamental changes in the template dialog.

Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.

• project page, talk page

In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.

• project page, talk page

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) १६:४३, २९ अप्रैल २०२२ (IST)

संपादन समाचार 2022 #1

अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • बहुभाषी समाचार पत्र हेतु सदस्यता सूची

इस नए उपकरण के साथ नए संपादक अधिक सफल थे।

नया विषय उपकरण एडिटर्स को चर्चा पृष्ठों पर नए == सेक्शन == बनाने में मदद करता है। इस नए उपकरण के साथ नए संपादक अधिक सफल हैं। आप रिपोर्टपढ़ें सकते हैं। जल्द ही, संपादन विभाग यह सभी संपादकों को 20 विकिपीडिया में पेश करेगी, जो परीक्षण में भाग लेती थी। आप इसे Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion पर बंद कर पाएंगे।

Whatamidoing (WMF) ००:२५, ३ मई २०२२ (IST)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २१:४२, ४ जुलाई २०२२ (IST)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

Request for more time to discuss the change

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ०९:४५, २२ सितम्बर २०२२ (IST)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

नमस्ते

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

धन्यवाद! Community Tech, STei (WMF) २२:१४, १५ दिसम्बर २०२२ (IST)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for चर्चा उपकरण.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "विषय जोड़ें" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for चर्चा उपकरण on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with चर्चा उपकरण. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "बदलाव प्रकाशित करें". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (वार्ता) ०४:५५, २३ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने पहले और दूसरे डाटा केन्द्रों में बदलाव का परिक्षण करता है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

पूरा यातायात १ मार्च पर चालू रहेगा। परिक्षण १४:०० UTC बजे आरम्भ होगा।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते |

• आप बुधवार १ मार्च २०२३ को एक घण्टे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर सकोगे।
• यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन अथवा सहेजने का प्रयास करेंगे तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम आशा करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई सम्पादन लुप्त नहीं होगा लेकिन हम इसकी प्रत्याभूति नहीं करते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देता है तो कृपया सब कुछ सामान्य होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। तब आपको अपने सम्पादन सहेजने चाहिए। लेकिन, हम अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप अपने परिवर्तनों की एक प्रति पहले ही बना लें,जिसकी शायद जरूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• पृष्ठभूमि की नौकरियां धीमी होंगी और कुछ को स्खलित किया जा सकता है। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं हो सकती हैं। यदि आपने कोई लेख निर्मित किया है जो पहले से कहीं जुड़ा हुआ है, तो कड़ी सामान्य से अधिक समय तक लाल रहेगी। कुछ लम्बे समय तक चलने वाली लिपि रुकी रहेंगी।
• हम अपेक्षा करते हैं कि कोड परिनियोजन अन्य किसी सप्ताह की तरह ही होगा। यद्यपि, कुछ विषयानुसार कोड यथासमय बन्द रह सकेगा यदि सम्बंधित संक्रिया की तदुपरांत आवश्यकता होगी।
• गिटलैब 90 मिनट के लिए अनुपलब्ध होगा।

यदि आवश्यक हो तो इस परियोजना को स्थगित किया जा सकता है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। अन्य परिवर्तन की अनुसूची में घोषणा की जायेगी। इस बारे में और सूचनाएं आएंगी। सभी विकि-प्रकल्पों पर यह संक्रिया आरम्भ करने से 30 मिनट पहले एक बैनर दिखाया जायेगा। कृपया यह सूचना अपने समुदाय के साथ साझा करें।

Trizek (WMF) (वार्ता) ०२:५१, २८ फ़रवरी २०२३ (IST)

विकिमेनिया २०२३ स्वागत कार्यक्रम प्रस्तुतियाँ

क्या आप विकिमैनिया २०२३ में एक व्यक्तिगत या आभासी सत्र आयोजित करना चाहते हैं? शायद कोई व्यावहारिक कार्यशाला, कोई चर्चा, कोई मज़ेदार प्रदर्शन, कोई आकर्षक पोस्टर, या कोई यादगार झटपट बातचीत? २८ मार्च तक जमा करें. विकिमनिया में एक समर्पित हाइब्रिड भाग होगा, वस्तुतः या फिर पहले से रिकॉर्ड की गई सामग्री का स्वागत है। यदि आपके कोई प्रश्न हैं, तो कृपया १२ या १९ मार्च को होने वाली बातचीत में शामिल हों, या wikimania@wikimedia.org पर ईमेल लिखें, या टेलीग्राम पर संपर्क करें। अधिक जानकारी विकी पर उपलब्ध है।

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इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने पहले और दूसरे डाटा केन्द्रों में बदलाव का परिक्षण करता है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

पूरा यातायात २६ अप्रैल पर चालू रहेगा। परिक्षण १४:०० UTC बजे आरम्भ होगा।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते |

• आप बुधवार २६ अप्रैल २०२३ को एक घण्टे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर सकोगे।
• यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन अथवा सहेजने का प्रयास करेंगे तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम आशा करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई सम्पादन लुप्त नहीं होगा लेकिन हम इसकी प्रत्याभूति नहीं करते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देता है तो कृपया सब कुछ सामान्य होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। तब आपको अपने सम्पादन सहेजने चाहिए। लेकिन, हम अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप अपने परिवर्तनों की एक प्रति पहले ही बना लें,जिसकी शायद जरूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• पृष्ठभूमि की नौकरियां धीमी होंगी और कुछ को स्खलित किया जा सकता है। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं हो सकती हैं। यदि आपने कोई लेख निर्मित किया है जो पहले से कहीं जुड़ा हुआ है, तो कड़ी सामान्य से अधिक समय तक लाल रहेगी। कुछ लम्बे समय तक चलने वाली लिपि रुकी रहेंगी।
• हम अपेक्षा करते हैं कि कोड परिनियोजन अन्य किसी सप्ताह की तरह ही होगा। यद्यपि, कुछ विषयानुसार कोड यथासमय बन्द रह सकेगा यदि सम्बंधित संक्रिया की तदुपरांत आवश्यकता होगी।
• गिटलैब 90 मिनट के लिए अनुपलब्ध होगा।

यदि आवश्यक हो तो इस परियोजना को स्थगित किया जा सकता है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। अन्य परिवर्तन की अनुसूची में घोषणा की जायेगी। इस बारे में और सूचनाएं आएंगी। सभी विकि-प्रकल्पों पर यह संक्रिया आरम्भ करने से 30 मिनट पहले एक बैनर दिखाया जायेगा। कृपया यह सूचना अपने समुदाय के साथ साझा करें।

MediaWiki message delivery ०६:११, २१ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

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Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
• Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) ००:३१, २७ अप्रैल २०२३ (IST)

Automatic citations based on ISBN are broken

Apologies if this message does not reach you in your favorite language. You can help translate it centrally at Meta. Thanks for your help.

We have recently become unable to access the WorldCat API which provided the ability to generate citations using ISBN numbers. The Wikimedia Foundation's Editing team is investigating several options to restore the functionality, but will need to disable ISBN citation generation for now.

This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts, such as the autofill button on refToolbar. Please note that all the other automatic ways of generating citations, including via URL or DOI, are still available.

You can keep updated on the situation via Phabricator, or by reading the next issues of m:Tech News. If you know of any users or groups who rely heavily on this feature (for instance, someone who has an upcoming editathon), I'd appreciate it if you shared this update with them.

Elitre (WMF), on behalf of the Editing team.

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०१:१५, १२ मई २०२३ (IST)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, ०९:५१, २७ मई २०२३ (IST)

नई चुनाव समिति के सदस्यों की घोषणा

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं।

More languages • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

हमें यह घोषणा करते हुए खुशी हो रही है चुनाव समिति के नए सदस्यों और सलाहकारों को ईमेल करें। चुनाव समिति विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज़ के लिए समुदाय- और संबद्ध-चयनित ट्रस्टियों का चयन करने की प्रक्रिया के डिजाइन और कार्यान्वयन में सहायता करती है। खुली नामांकन प्रक्रिया के बाद, सबसे मजबूत उम्मीदवारों ने बोर्ड से बात की और चार उम्मीदवारों को चुनाव समिति में शामिल होने के लिए कहा गया। चार अन्य उम्मीदवारों को सलाहकार के रूप में भाग लेने के लिए कहा गया था।

उन सभी समुदाय सदस्यों को धन्यवाद जिन्होंने विचार के लिए अपने नाम प्रस्तुत किए। हम निकट भविष्य में चुनाव समिति के साथ काम करने के लिए उत्सुक हैं।

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ़ ट्रस्टीज़ की ओर से,

RamzyM (WMF) २३:३०, २८ जून २०२३ (IST)

Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki

नमस्ते!

Apologies if this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.

This wiki will soon be able to use the inline audio player implemented by the Phonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing audio links that play on click.

With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:

<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the English Wiktionary below.

{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}

Could become:

<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to read about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this talk page.

Thank you!

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०७:५६, २७ जुलाई २०२३ (IST)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, २१:०५, २८ अगस्त २०२३ (IST)

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इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने पहले और दूसरे डाटा केन्द्रों में बदलाव का परिक्षण करता है। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे। यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि सबकुछ सही काम कर रहा है, विकीमीडिया टेक्नोलॉजी विभाग को एक योजनाबद्ध परीक्षण की आवश्यकता है। यह परीक्षण दिखाएगा कि वे एक डेटा सेंटर से दूसरे डेटा सेंटर पर विश्वसनीय तरीके से जा सकते हैं या नहीं। परीक्षण की तैयारी और किसी अनपेक्षित समस्या के समाधान के लिए कई टीमों की आवश्यकता होगी।

पूरा यातायात २० सितम्बर पर चालू रहेगा। परिक्षण १४:०० UTC बजे आरम्भ होगा।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते |

• आप बुधवार २० सितम्बर २०२३ को एक घण्टे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर सकोगे।
• यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन अथवा सहेजने का प्रयास करेंगे तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम आशा करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई सम्पादन लुप्त नहीं होगा लेकिन हम इसकी प्रत्याभूति नहीं करते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देता है तो कृपया सब कुछ सामान्य होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। तब आपको अपने सम्पादन सहेजने चाहिए। लेकिन, हम अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप अपने परिवर्तनों की एक प्रति पहले ही बना लें,जिसकी शायद जरूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• पृष्ठभूमि की नौकरियां धीमी होंगी और कुछ को स्खलित किया जा सकता है। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं हो सकती हैं। यदि आपने कोई लेख निर्मित किया है जो पहले से कहीं जुड़ा हुआ है, तो कड़ी सामान्य से अधिक समय तक लाल रहेगी। कुछ लम्बे समय तक चलने वाली लिपि रुकी रहेंगी।
• हम अपेक्षा करते हैं कि कोड परिनियोजन अन्य किसी सप्ताह की तरह ही होगा। यद्यपि, कुछ विषयानुसार कोड यथासमय बन्द रह सकेगा यदि सम्बंधित संक्रिया की तदुपरांत आवश्यकता होगी।
• गिटलैब 90 मिनट के लिए अनुपलब्ध होगा।

यदि आवश्यक हो तो इस परियोजना को स्थगित किया जा सकता है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। अन्य परिवर्तन की अनुसूची में घोषणा की जायेगी। इस बारे में और सूचनाएं आएंगी। सभी विकि-प्रकल्पों पर यह संक्रिया आरम्भ करने से 30 मिनट पहले एक बैनर दिखाया जायेगा। कृपया यह सूचना अपने समुदाय के साथ साझा करें।

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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) २२:१२, ९ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

२०२४ विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज़ चयन नियम पैकेज की समीक्षा करें और टिप्पणी करें।

संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित किया गया हैं।

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सभी को नमस्कार,

कृपया अब से २९ अक्टूबर २०२३ तक विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज चयन नियम पैकेज की समीक्षा करें और टिप्पणी करें। चयन नियम पैकेज चुनाव समिति द्वारा पुराने संस्करणों पर आधारित था और २०२४ बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज चयन में इसका उपयोग किया जाएगा। अभी अपनी टिप्पणियाँ प्रदान करने से उन्हें एक सहज, बेहतर बोर्ड चयन प्रक्रिया प्रदान करने में मदद मिलेगी। मेटा-विकी पृष्ठ पर अधिक जानकारी हैं।

धन्यवाद,

Katie Chan
चुनाव समिति के अध्यक्ष

०६:४३, १७ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in three weeks?

Read this in your language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें • Please tell other users about these changes

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

Global preferences

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 14 November. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (वार्ता) ०६:३९, २६ अक्टूबर २०२३ (IST)

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) १८:०१, १३ दिसम्बर २०२३ (IST)

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.

Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.

The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.

For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति चार्टर के लिए चार्टर पर मतदान करें

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

मैं आज यह घोषणा करने के लिए आपसे संपर्क कर रहा हूँ कि सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू4सी) के लिए मतदान की अवधि अब खुली है। समुदाय के सदस्य अब 2 फरवरी 2024 तक [SECUREPOLLVOTELINK] मतदान कर सकते हैं और सिक्योरपोल के माध्यम से चार्टर के बारे में टिप्पणियाँ प्रदान कर सकते हैं। आपमें से जिन लोगों ने यूसीओसी प्रवर्तन दिशानिर्देश के विकास के दौरान अपनी राय व्यक्त की है, उन्हें यह प्रक्रिया परिचित लगेगी।

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति चार्टर का वर्तमान संस्करण अनुवाद के साथ मेटा-विकी पर है।

चार्टर पढ़ें, मतदान करें और इस नोट को अपने समुदाय के अन्य लोगों के साथ साझा करें। मैं विश्वास के साथ कह सकता हूँ कि U4C निर्माण समिति आपकी भागीदारी के लिए तत्पर है।

यूसीओसी (UCoC) प्रोजेक्ट टीम की ओर से

RamzyM (WMF) २३:३९, १९ जनवरी २०२४ (IST)

सार्वभौम आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति के चार्टर पर मतदान का अंतिम दिन

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

मैं आपको यह याद दिलाने के लिए आज आपसे संपर्क कर रहा हूँ कि सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू4सी) चार्टर के लिए मतदान की अवधि 2 फरवरी को समाप्त हो जाएगी। समुदाय के सदस्य अब 2 फरवरी तक अपना वोट डाल सकते हैं और सिक्योरपोल के माध्यम से चार्टर के बारे में टिप्पणियाँ प्रदान कर सकते हैं। आपमें से जिन लोगों ने यूसीओसी प्रवर्तन दिशानिर्देश के विकास के दौरान अपनी राय व्यक्त की है, उन्हें यह प्रक्रिया परिचित लगेगी।

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति चार्टर का वर्तमान संस्करण अनुवाद के साथ मेटा-विकी पर है।

चार्टर पढ़ें, मतदान करें और इस नोट को अपने समुदाय के अन्य लोगों के साथ साझा करें। मैं विश्वास के साथ कह सकता हूं कि U4C बिल्डिंग कमेटी आपकी भागीदारी के लिए तत्पर है।

शुभकामनाएँ,

RamzyM (WMF) २२:३१, ३१ जनवरी २०२४ (IST)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) २३:५४, १२ फ़रवरी २०२४ (IST)

यू४सी चार्टर अनुसमर्थन की रिपोर्ट और यू४सी उम्मीदवारों का आह्वान अब उपलब्ध है

संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित किया गया है। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

मैं आज आपको दो महत्वपूर्ण जानकारी देने हेतु लिख रहा हूँ। सबसे पहले, सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू४सी) चार्टर अनुसमर्थन से टिप्पणियों की रिपोर्ट अब उपलब्ध है। दूसरे, यू४सी के लिए उम्मीदवारों का आह्वान अब १ अप्रैल, २०२४ तक खुला है।

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू४सी/U4C) एक वैश्विक समूह है जो यूसीओसी का न्यायसंगत और सुसंगत कार्यान्वयन प्रदान करने के लिए समर्पित है। समुदाय के सदस्यों को यू४सी के लिए अपने आवेदन जमा करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया जाता है। अधिक जानकारी और यू४सी की जिम्मेदारियों के लिए, कृपया यू४सी चार्टर की समीक्षा करें।

चार्टर के अनुसार, यू४सी हेतु १६ सीटें हैंः आठ बड़ी सीटों पर समुदाय और आठ क्षेत्रीय सीटें, यह सुनिश्चित करने के लिए कि यू४सी आंदोलन की विविधता का प्रतिनिधित्व करता है।

अधिक पढ़ें और अपना आवेदन मेटा-विकी पर जमा करें।

यूसीओसी (UCoC) प्रोजेक्ट टीम की ओर से

RamzyM (WMF) २१:५५, ५ मार्च २०२४ (IST)

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड के न्यासी के चयन २०२४

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं।

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सभी को नमस्कार,

इस वर्ष, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड के न्यासियों में से 4 (चार) समुदाय और एफिलिएट-चयनित न्यासियों का कार्यकाल समाप्त हो जाएगा [1]। बोर्ड इस वर्ष की चयन प्रक्रिया में भाग लेने और उन सीटों को भरने हेतु मतदान करने के लिए पूरे आंदोलन को आमंत्रित करता है।

चुनाव समिति फाउंडेशन के कर्मचारियों (स्टाफ) [2] के सहयोग से इस प्रक्रिया की निगरानी करेगी। बोर्ड गवर्नेंस कमेटी ने उन ट्रस्टियों से एक बोर्ड चयन कार्य समूह बनाया, जो 2024 में उम्मीदवार नहीं हो सकते समुदाय - और एफिलिएट-चयनित ट्रस्टी चयन प्रक्रिया में डेरियस जेमीलनियाक, नतालिया टिम्किव, एसरा अल शाफेई, कैथी कोलिन्स और शनि इवेनस्टीन सिगलोव सम्मिलित हैं। [3] समूह को 2024 ट्रस्टी चयन प्रक्रिया के लिए बोर्ड की निगरानी प्रदान करने और बोर्ड को सूचित रखने का कार्य सौंपा गया है। चुनाव समिति, बोर्ड और कर्मचारियों की भूमिकाओं पर अधिक विवरण यहाँ उपलब्ध हैं [4]।

प्रमुख नियोजित तिथियाँ हैं:

• मई 2024: उम्मीदवारों और प्रश्नों के लिए आव्हान
• जून 2024: एफिलिएट ने 12 उम्मीदवारों को शॉर्टलिस्ट करने के लिए मतदान किया (यदि 15 या उससे कम उम्मीदवार आवेदन करते हैं तो कोई शॉर्टलिस्टिंग नहीं) [5]
• जून-अगस्त 2024: अभियान अवधि
• अगस्त के अंत/सितंबर 2024 की शुरुआत: दो सप्ताह की सामुदायिक मतदान अवधि
• अक्टूबर-नवंबर 2024: चयनित उम्मीदवारों की पृष्ठभूमि की जाँच
• दिसंबर 2024 में बोर्ड की बैठक: नए न्यासियों का पदभार ग्रहण

2024 चयन प्रक्रिया के बारे में इस मेटा-विकी पृष्ठ पर अधिक जानें - जिसमें विस्तृत समयरेखा, उम्मीदवारी प्रक्रिया, अभियान नियम और मतदाता पात्रता मानदंड सम्मिलित हैं, और अपनी योजना बनाएँ।

चुनाव स्वयंसेवक'

2024 की चयन प्रक्रिया में सम्मिलत होने का दूसरा तरीका चुनाव स्वयंसेवक बनना है। चुनाव स्वयंसेवक चुनाव समिति और उनके संबंधित समुदाय के बीच एक सेतु हैं। वे यह सुनिश्चित करने में सहायता करते हैं कि उनके समुदाय का प्रतिनिधित्व हो और उन्हें मतदान के लिए प्रेरित करें। इस मेटा-विकी पेज पर कार्यक्रम और इसमें सम्मिलित होने के तरीके के बारे में अधिक जानें।

सदर,

डेरियस जेमीलनियाक (शासन समिति अध्यक्ष, बोर्ड चयन कार्यकारी समूह)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] भले ही 4 सीटों के लिए आदर्श संख्या 12 उम्मीदवार हैं, लेकिन 15 से अधिक उम्मीदवार होने पर शॉर्टलिस्टिंग प्रक्रिया शुरू हो जाएगी क्योंकि हटाए गए 1-3 उम्मीदवार बहिष्कृत महसूस कर सकते हैं और यह बहुत काम का होगा। एफिलिएट को उम्मीदवार सूची से केवल 1-3 उम्मीदवारों को हटाने के लिए शॉर्टलिस्टिंग प्रक्रिया को अंजाम देना होगा।

MPossoupe_(WMF)०१:२७, १३ मार्च २०२४ (IST)

आपका विकी जल्द ही केवल-पढ़ने के लिए उपलब्ध होगा।

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने डेटा केंद्रों के बीच ट्रैफ़िक को स्विच करेगा। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे।

पूरा यातायात २० मार्च पर चालू रहेगा। परिक्षण १४:०० UTC बजे आरम्भ होगा।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते |

• आप बुधवार २० मार्च २०२४ को एक घण्टे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर सकोगे।
• यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन अथवा सहेजने का प्रयास करेंगे तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम आशा करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई सम्पादन लुप्त नहीं होगा लेकिन हम इसकी प्रत्याभूति नहीं करते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देता है तो कृपया सब कुछ सामान्य होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। तब आपको अपने सम्पादन सहेजने चाहिए। लेकिन, हम अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप अपने परिवर्तनों की एक प्रति पहले ही बना लें,जिसकी शायद जरूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• पृष्ठभूमि की नौकरियां धीमी होंगी और कुछ को स्खलित किया जा सकता है। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं हो सकती हैं। यदि आपने कोई लेख निर्मित किया है जो पहले से कहीं जुड़ा हुआ है, तो कड़ी सामान्य से अधिक समय तक लाल रहेगी। कुछ लम्बे समय तक चलने वाली लिपि रुकी रहेंगी।
• हम अपेक्षा करते हैं कि कोड परिनियोजन अन्य किसी सप्ताह की तरह ही होगा। यद्यपि, कुछ विषयानुसार कोड यथासमय बन्द रह सकेगा यदि सम्बंधित संक्रिया की तदुपरांत आवश्यकता होगी।
• गिटलैब 90 मिनट के लिए अनुपलब्ध होगा।

यदि आवश्यक हो तो इस परियोजना को स्थगित किया जा सकता है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। अन्य परिवर्तन की अनुसूची में घोषणा की जायेगी। इस बारे में और सूचनाएं आएंगी। सभी विकि-प्रकल्पों पर यह संक्रिया आरम्भ करने से 30 मिनट पहले एक बैनर दिखाया जायेगा। कृपया यह सूचना अपने समुदाय के साथ साझा करें।

Trizek (WMF), ०५:३०, १५ मार्च २०२४ (IST)

प्रथम यू४सी के सदस्यों का चयन करने के लिए अभी मतदान करें

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

मैं आपको यह बताने के लिए लिख रहा हूँ कि सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू४सी) के लिए मतदान की अवधि अब से लेकर ९ मई, २०२४ तक चल रही है।मतदान और मतदाता पात्रता के बारे में अधिक जानने के लिए मेटा-विकी पर मतदान पृष्ठ पर देखें।

सार्वभौमिक आचार संहिता समन्वय समिति (यू४सी) एक वैश्विक समूह है जो यूसीओसी का न्यायसंगत और सुसंगत कार्यान्वयन प्रदान करने के लिए समर्पित है। समुदाय के सदस्यों को यू४सी के लिए अपने आवेदन जमा करने के लिए आमंत्रित किया गया था। अधिक जानकारी और यू४सी के उत्तरदायित्वों के लिए, कृपया यू४सी चार्टर की समीक्षा करें।

कृपया इस संदेश को अपने समुदाय के सदस्यों के साथ साझा करें ताकि वे भी भाग ले सकें।

यूसीओसी (UCoC) प्रोजेक्ट टीम की ओर से,

RamzyM (WMF) ०१:५१, २६ अप्रैल २०२४ (IST)

31 मई को 16:00 UTC पर भाषा समुदाय की बैठक के लिए साइन-अप करें

सभी को नमस्कार,

भाषा समुदाय की अगली बैठक कुछ हफ़्तों में योजनाबद्ध है — 31 मई को 16:00 UTC पर। अगर आपको इसमें रुचि है, आप इस विकि पृष्ठ पर साइन-अप कर सकते हैं।

यह एक प्रतिभागी-संचालित बैठक है, जहाँ पर हम कई परियोजनाओं के संबंध में भाषा-विशिष्ट अपडेट्स बाँटते हैं, भाषाई विकियों से संबंधित तकनीकी समस्याओं की सामूहिक रूप से चर्चा करते हैं, और संभावित समाधान खोजने के लिए साथ काम करते हैं। उदाहरणस्वरूप, आखिरी बैठक में शामिल विषय थें मशीन अनुवाद सेवा (MinT) और वो भाषाएँ और मॉडल्स जो इस समय इसके द्वारा समर्थित हैं, Kiwix दल की ओर से स्थानीयकरण के प्रयास, और बंगाली विकिस्रोत पर संख्यात्मक छँटाई में आने वाली तकनीकी चुनौतियाँ।

क्या आपके पास अपनी परियोजना के संबंध में तकनीकी अपडेट्स बाँटने के लिए किसी विषय का विचार है? कोई समस्या है जो आप बैठक के दौरान चर्चा में उठाना चाहते हैं? क्या आपको अंग्रेज़ी से किसी दूसरी भाषा में अनुवाद में कोई सहायता चाहिए? कृपया ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org पर मुझे संपर्क करें और यहाँ इस दस्तावेज़ पर कार्यसूची में प्रविष्टियाँ जोड़ें।

हम आपकी भागीदारी की प्रतीक्षा कर रहे हैं!

MediaWiki message delivery ०२:५३, १५ मई २०२४ (IST)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) ०७:५६, २२ मई २०२४ (IST)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) १३:४५, ३ जून २०२४ (IST)

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर का अंतिम पाठ अब मेटा पर उपलब्ध है

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

नमस्कार,

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट के चार्टर का अंतिम पाठ अब आपके पढ़ने के लिए २० से अधिक भाषाओं में मेटा पर उपलब्ध है।

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर क्या है?

विकिमीडिया आंदोलन का चार्टर एक प्रस्तावित दस्तावेज है जो विकिमीडिया आंदोलन के सभी सदस्यों और संस्थाओं के लिए भूमिकाओं और उत्तरदायित्वों को परिभाषित करता है, जिसमें आंदोलन प्रशासन के लिए एक नए निकाय - वैश्विक परिषद - का निर्माण भी सम्मिलित है।

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर “लॉन्च पार्टी” में सम्मिलित हों

जून २०, २०२४ को १४.००-१५.०० UTC (आपका स्थानीय समय) पर “लॉन्च पार्टी” में सम्मिलित हों। इस कॉल के दौरान, हम अंतिम चार्टर के रिलीज़ होने का उत्सव मनाएंगे और चार्टर प्रस्तुत करेंगे। अपना मत देने से पहले चार्टर के बारे में जानें और इसमें सम्मिलित होएं।

आंदोलन के चार्टर के अनुसमर्थन का मत

मतदान सिक्योरपोल पर २५ जून, २०२४ को ००:०१ UTC पर प्रारम्भ होगा और ९ जुलाई, २०२४ को २३:५९ UTC पर समाप्त होगा। कृपया मतदाताओं हेतु जानकारी और पात्रता विवरण के बारे में मेटा पर और अधिक पढ़ें।

यदि आपके कोई प्रश्न हों, तो कृपया मेटा के वार्ता पृष्ठ पर अपनी टिप्पणी दें अथवा एमसीडीसी को mcdc@wikimedia.org पर ईमेल करें।

एमसीडीसी की ओर से,

RamzyM (WMF) १४:१५, ११ जून २०२४ (IST)

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर को अनुमोदित करने के लिए मतदान प्रक्रिया प्रारम्भ है - अपना मतदान करें

आप इस संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित पा सकते हैं। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

नमस्कार,

विकिमीडिया आंदोलन के चार्टर को अनुमोदित करने के लिए मतदान अब प्रारम्भ हो चुका है। विकिमीडिया आंदोलन का चार्टर विकिमीडिया आंदोलन के सभी सदस्यों और संस्थाओं के लिए भूमिका और उत्तरदायित्वों को परिभाषित करने वाला एक दस्तावेज है, जिसमें आंदोलन के प्रशासन के लिए एक नए निकाय - ग्लोबल काउंसिल - का निर्माण भी सम्मिलित है।

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट के चार्टर का अंतिम संस्करण मेटा पर विभिन्न भाषाओं में उपलब्ध है और आपके पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ पीडीएफ प्रारूप में संलग्न है।

मतदान सिक्योरपोल पर २५ जून, २०२४ को ००:०१ UTC पर प्रारम्भ होगा और ९ जुलाई, २०२४ को २३:५९ UTC पर समाप्त होगा। कृपया मतदाताओं हेतु जानकारी और पात्रता विवरण पर और अधिक पढ़ें।

चार्टर को पढ़ने के बाद, कृपया यहाँ मतदान करें और इस नोट को आगे साझा करें।

यदि आपके पास अनुसमर्थन हेतु मतदान के बारे में कोई प्रश्न हैं, तो कृपया चार्टर के चुनाव आयोग से cec@wikimedia.org पर संपर्क करें।

सीईसी की ओर से,

RamzyM (WMF) १६:२२, २५ जून २०२४ (IST)

विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर के अनुमोदन हेतु मतदान शीघ्र ही समाप्त हो रहा है

संदेश को मेटा-विकी पर अतिरिक्त भाषाओं में अनुवादित किया गया है। कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

नमस्कार,

यह एक अनुस्मारक है कि विकिमीडिया मूवमेंट चार्टर की पुष्टि हेतु मतदान की अवधि ९ जुलाई, २०२४ को २३:५९ UTC पर समाप्त हो जाएगी।

यदि आपने अभी तक मतदान नहीं किया है, तो कृपया सिक्योरपोल पर लिंक पर मतदान करें।

चार्टर के चुनाव आयोग की ओर से,

RamzyM (WMF) ०९:१७, ८ जुलाई २०२४ (IST)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) ०५:३३, १० जुलाई २०२४ (IST)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) २३:२३, १८ जुलाई २०२४ (IST)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) ०८:१७, २७ जुलाई २०२४ (IST)

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) २१:००, ६ अगस्त २०२४ (IST)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०४:५०, २३ अगस्त २०२४ (IST)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

Original message at wikimedia-l. You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) १९:३७, २ सितम्बर २०२४ (IST)

अपना मत दें: २०२४ न्यासी बोर्ड के लिए मतदान करें!

सभी को नमस्कार,

२०२४ न्यासी बोर्ड चुनाव के लिए मतदान की अवधि अब प्रारम्भ है।बोर्ड में चार (४) सीटों के लिए बारह (१२) उम्मीदवार हैं।

उनके कथन पढ़कर और उनके सामुदायिक प्रश्नों के उत्तर द्वारा उम्मीदवारों के बारे में अधिक जानें।

जब आप तैयार हों, और मतदान करने के लिए SecurePoll मतदान पृष्ठ पर जाएँ । वोट ३ सितंबर ००:०० यूटीसी से १७ सितंबर २३:५९ यूटीसी तक चालू है।

आपके मतदान हेतु पात्रता की जाँच करने के लिए, कृपया मतदाता पात्रता पृष्ठ पर जाएँ।

सादर,

चुनाव समिति और बोर्ड चयन हेतु कार्यकारी समूह

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १७:४५, ३ सितम्बर २०२४ (IST)

आपका विकी जल्द ही केवल-पढ़ने के लिए उपलब्ध होगा।

इस संदेश को अन्य भाषा में पढ़ें • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन अपने डेटा केंद्रों के बीच ट्रैफ़िक को स्विच करेगा। इससे यह सुनिश्चित होगा कि विकिपीडिया और अन्य विकिमीडिया विकि किसी विपत्ति के बाद भी ठीक से काम करे।

पूरा यातायात २५ सितम्बर पर चालू रहेगा। परिक्षण १५:०० UTC बजे आरम्भ होगा।

दुर्भाग्यवश, कुछ सीमाओं के कारण मीडियाविकि को बदलाव के समय सभी तरह के सम्पादनों को रोक देना चाहिए। हमें असुविधा के लिए खेद है और हम भविष्य में इसे न्यूनतम करने पर काम कर रहे हैं।

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सभी विकिज़ लघु समय के लिए पढ पायेगे लेकिन इसे संपादित नही कर सकते |

• आप बुधवार २५ सितम्बर २०२४ को एक घण्टे तक सम्पादन नहीं कर सकोगे।
• यदि आप इस समय के दौरान सम्पादन अथवा सहेजने का प्रयास करेंगे तो आपको एक त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देगा। हम आशा करते हैं कि इस समय के दौरान कोई सम्पादन लुप्त नहीं होगा लेकिन हम इसकी प्रत्याभूति नहीं करते। यदि आपको कोई त्रुटि सन्देश दिखाई देता है तो कृपया सब कुछ सामान्य होने तक प्रतीक्षा करें। तब आपको अपने सम्पादन सहेजने चाहिए। लेकिन, हम अनुशंसा करते हैं कि आप अपने परिवर्तनों की एक प्रति पहले ही बना लें,जिसकी शायद जरूरत पड़े।

अन्य प्रभाव:

• पृष्ठभूमि की नौकरियां धीमी होंगी और कुछ को स्खलित किया जा सकता है। लाल कड़ियाँ सामान्य गति से अद्यतन नहीं हो सकती हैं। यदि आपने कोई लेख निर्मित किया है जो पहले से कहीं जुड़ा हुआ है, तो कड़ी सामान्य से अधिक समय तक लाल रहेगी। कुछ लम्बे समय तक चलने वाली लिपि रुकी रहेंगी।
• हम अपेक्षा करते हैं कि कोड परिनियोजन अन्य किसी सप्ताह की तरह ही होगा। यद्यपि, कुछ विषयानुसार कोड यथासमय बन्द रह सकेगा यदि सम्बंधित संक्रिया की तदुपरांत आवश्यकता होगी।
• गिटलैब 90 मिनट के लिए अनुपलब्ध होगा।

यदि आवश्यक हो तो इस परियोजना को स्थगित किया जा सकता है। आप अनुसूची को wikitech.wikimedia.org पर भी पढ़ सकते हैं। अन्य परिवर्तन की अनुसूची में घोषणा की जायेगी।

कृपया यह सूचना अपने समुदाय के साथ साझा करें।

Trizek_(WMF), १५:०७, २० सितम्बर २०२४ (IST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.साँचा:tracked

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ००:२८, २८ सितम्बर २०२४ (IST)

Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony ०८:५०, ६ अक्टूबर २०२४ (IST)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

२०२४ विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ़ ट्रस्टीज़ चुनाव के प्रारंभिक परिणाम

सभी को नमस्कार,

२०२४ विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज चुनाव में भाग लेने वाले सभी लोगों को धन्यवाद। 180 से अधिक विकी परियोजनाओं के करीब 6000 समुदाय के सदस्यों ने मतदान किया है।

निम्नलिखित चार उम्मीदवारों को सबसे अधिक मत मिलेः

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

हालाँकि इन उम्मीदवारों को वोट के माध्यम से स्थान दिया गया है, फिर भी उन्हें न्यासी बोर्ड में नियुक्त करने की आवश्यकता है। उन्हें एक सफल पृष्ठभूमि जाँच भी उत्तीर्ण करनी होगी और उपनियमों में उल्लिखित योग्यताओं को पूरा करना होगा। दिसंबर २०२४ में अगली बोर्ड बैठक में नए ट्रस्टियों की नियुक्ति की जाएगी।

मेटा-विकी पर परिणामों के बारे में अधिक जानें.

सादर,

चुनाव समिति और बोर्ड चयन हेतु कार्यकारी समूह

MPossoupe_(WMF) १३:५६, १४ अक्टूबर २०२४ (IST)

आंदोलन की कई समितियों में सम्मिलित होने के लिए स्वयंसेवकों की खोज

प्रत्येक वर्ष, आमतौर पर अक्टूबर से दिसंबर तक, आंदोलन की कई समितियाँ नए स्वयंसेवकों की खोज करती हैं।

समितियों के बारे में उनके मेटा-विकी पृष्ठों पर अधिक पढ़ें:

• संबद्धता समिति (AffCom)
• ओम्बड्स कमीशन (OC)
• केस रिव्यू कमेटी (CRC)

समितियों के लिए आवेदन १६ अक्टूबर २०२४ को खुलेंगे। संबद्धता समिति के लिए आवेदन १८ नवम्बर २०२४ को बंद होंगे, और लोकपाल आयोग और केस समीक्षा समिति के लिए आवेदन २ दिसम्बर २०२४ को बंद होंगे। मेटा-विकी पर अपॉइंटमेंट पेज पर जाकर आवेदन करने का तरीका जानें। अपने किसी भी प्रश्न के लिए बातचीत पृष्ठ पर पोस्ट करें या cst@wikimedia.org को ईमेल करें।

समिति की सहायता टीम के लिए,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) ०४:३९, १७ अक्टूबर २०२४ (IST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) १६:५९, २२ अक्टूबर २०२४ (IST)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team १०:४१, २९ अक्टूबर २०२४ (IST)