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2018
Καλή χρονιά σε όλους!--University (συζήτηση) 18:38, 1 Ιανουαρίου 2018 (UTC)
Το "logo" είναι ανορθόγραφο
Το "logo" είναι ανορθόγραφο
Επίσης το "επικοινονήστε" γράφεται επικοινωνήστε. Έλεος θέλετε να κάνετε και "επιστήμιο
Editing News #1—2018
Διαβάστε αυτό το μήνυμα σε άλλη γλώσσα • Εγγραφή στο πολύγλωσσο ενημερωτικό δελτίο
Γνωρίζατε ότι πλέον μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε το οπτικό εργαλείο διαφορών σε οποιαδήποτε σελίδα;
Μερικές φορές είναι δύσκολο να διακρίνουμε σημαντικές αλλαγές σε μια διαφορά κώδικα wiki. Αυτό το στιγμιότυπο οθόνης διαφορών κώδικα wiki (πατήστε για μεγέθυνση) δείχνει ότι οι παράγραφοι έχουν αναδιαμορφωθεί αλλά δεν τονίζει την αφαίρεση λέξης ή την προσθήκη μιας καινούριας φράσης.
Αν ενεργοποιήσετε τη λειτουργία Beta «⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽», θα έχετε μια καινούρια επιλογή. Θα σας δώσει ένα νέο πλαίσιο στην κορυφή κάθε σελίδας διαφορών. Αυτό το πλαίσιο θα σας επιτρέψει να επιλέξετε οποιοδήποτε σύστημα διαφορών σε οποιαδήποτε επεξεργασία.
Κάντε κλικ στο κουμπί εναλλαγής για αλλάξετε μεταξύ διαφορών οπτικών και κώδικα wiki.
Στην οπτική διαφορά, θα επισημανθούν προσθήκες, αφαιρέσεις, νέοι σύνδεσμοι και αλλαγές μορφοποίησης. Άλλες αλλαγές, όπως αλλαγή μεγέθους μιας εικόνας, περιγράφονται στις σημειώσεις στην άκρη.
Αυτό το στιγμιότυπο εμφανίζει την ίδια επεξεργασία με διαφορά κώδικα wiki. Η οπτική διαφορά επισημαίνει την αφαίρεση μιας λέξης και την προσθήκη μιας νέας πρότασης.
Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε και να βοηθήσετε στη μετάφραση του εγχειριδίου χρήσης το οποίο έχει περισσότερες πληροφορίες για το πώς να χρησιμοποιήσετε τον Οπτικό Επεξεργαστή.
Από το τελευταίο ενημερωτικό δελτίο, η Ομάδα Επεξεργασίας έχει περάσει το μεγαλύτερο μέρος του χρόνου υποστηρίζοντας τη λειτουργία επεξεργαστή κώδικα 2017, η οποία είναι διαθέσιμη μέσα στον οπτικό επεξεργαστή ως Λειτουργία Beta και με τη βελτίωση του εργαλείου οπτικής διαφοράς. Ο πίνακας εργασίας τους είναι διαθέσιμος στο Phabricator. Μπορείτε να βρείτε συνδέσμους για το έργο που τελειώνει κάθε εβδομάδα στη mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Οι τωρινές τους προτεραιότητες είναι στο να διορθώνουν σφάλματα προγραμματισμού, στο να υποστηρίζουν τον επεξεργαστή του κώδικα wiki του 2017 και να βελτιώνουν το εργαλείο της diff οπτικής .
Πρόσφατες αλλαγές
- Ο επεξεργαστής κώδικα wiki 2017 είναι διαθέσιμος ως λειτουργία Beta για επιτραπέζιους υπολογιστές. Έχει την ίδια γραμμή εργαλείων με τον οπτικό επεξεργαστή και μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει την υπηρεσία citoid και άλλα σύγχρονα εργαλεία. Η ομάδα έχει συγκρίνει την απόδοση διαφορετικών περιβαλλόντων επεξεργασίας. Έχουν μελετήσει τον χρόνο που χρειάζεται για να ανοίξει η σελίδα και να αρχίσει η πληκτρολόγηση. Η μελέτη χρησιμοποιεί δεδομένα για περισσότερες από ένα εκατομμύριο επεξεργασίες κατά τους μήνες Δεκέμβριο και Ιανουάριο. Έχουν γίνει κάποιες αλλαγές για να βελτιωθεί η ταχύτητα του επεξεργαστή κώδικα wiki 2017 και του οπτικού επεξεργαστή. Πρόσφατα, ο επεξεργαστής κώδικα 2017 άνοιξε ταχύτερα για τις περισσότερες επεξεργασίες, και ο επεξεργαστής κώδικα 2010 ήταν ταχύτερος για κάποιες αλλαγές. Περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα δημοσιευτούν στο mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- Το οπτικό εργαλείο diff αναπτύχθηκε για τον οπτικό επεξεργαστή. Πλέον είναι διαθέσιμο για όλους τους χρήστες του οπτικού επεξεργαστή και του κώδικα wiki του 2017. Όταν επανεξετάζετε τις αλλαγές σας, μπορείτε να εναλλάσσετε μεταξύ του κώδικα wiki και των οπτικών diffs. Μπορείτε επίσης να ενεργοποιήσετε την καινούρια Λειτουργία Beta για τα "Οπτικά diffs". Η Λειτουργία Beta σας επιτρέπει να χρησιμοποιήσετε το οπτικό diff για να δείτε τις επεξεργασίες άλλων στο ιστορικό και να Special:RecentChanges. [1]
- Ο κώδικας wiki για επισημάνσεις σύνταξης είναι διαθέσιμος ως Λειτουργία Beta για τον επεξεργαστή κώδικα wiki 2017 και για τον επεξεργαστή κώδικα wiki 2010. [2]
- Η υπηρεσία citoid μεταφράζει αυτόματα URL, DOI, ISBN, και αριθμούς PubMed id σε πρότυπα παραπομπών κώδικα wiki. Είναι πολύ δημοφιλές και χρήσιμο για τους συντάκτες, αν και μπορεί να είναι λίγο δύσκολο να προσαρμοστεί. Το wiki σας μπορεί να έχει αυτή την υπηρεσία. Παρακαλείστε να διαβάσετε τις οδηγίες. Μπορείτε να ζητήσετε από την ομάδα να σας βοηθήσει να ενεργοποιήσετε το citoid στα δικά σας wiki.
Ας δουλέψουμε μαζί
- Η ομάδα θα μιλήσει για εργαλεία επεξεργασίας σε μια επερχόμενη συνάντηση για μετρήσεις και δραστηριότητες του Ιδρύματος Wikimedia.
- Τα Wikibooks, το Wikiversity και άλλες κοινότητες μπορεί να έχουν τον οπτικό επεξεργαστή ως προεπιλογή στους συνεισφέροντες. Αν η κοινότητα σας το επιθυμεί τότε παρακαλείστε να επικοινωνήσετε με τον Dan Garry.
- Το πλαίσιο
<references />μπορεί να εμφανίσει μεγάλες λίστες παραπομπών αυτόματα σε στήλες σε ευρείες οθόνες. Αυτό κάνει ευκολότερη την ανάγνωση υποσημειώσεων. Μπορείτε να ζητήσετε υποστήριξη πολλών στηλών για τα δικά σας wiki. [3] - Εάν δεν διαβάζετε αυτό το ενημερωτικό δελτίο στην προτιμώμενη γλώσσα, τότε παρακαλούμε να μας βοηθήσετε με τις μεταφράσεις! Εγγραφείτε στην λίστα επικοινωνίας μεταφραστών ή επικοινωνήστε μαζί μας άμεσα μέσω του contact us, ώστε να μπορέσουμε να σας ειδοποιήσουμε όταν θα είναι έτοιμο το επόμενο ενημερωτικό δελτίο. Σας ευχαριστούμε!
20:56, 2 Μαρτίου 2018 (UTC)
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Update on page issues on mobile web
Update on page issues on mobile web
Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
- The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
- Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
- Readers care about page issues and consider them important
- Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.
Global preferences are available
Το χαρακτηριστικό γενικές προτιμήσεις (Global preferences) είναι τώρα διαθέσιμο. Μπορείτε να ορίστε τις γενικές προτιμήσεις, μεταβαίνοντας στη νέα ειδική σελίδα global preferences. Επισκεφθείτε τη σελίδα mediawiki.org για πληροφορίες σχετικά με τον τρόπο χρήσης τους και για να αφήσετε σχόλια -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
19:19, 10 Ιουλίου 2018 (UTC)
Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
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Hi all,
I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 Ιουλίου 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
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Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group, interface-admin, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 13:08, 30 Ιουλίου 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
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Hi all,
as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Διαχειριστές διεπαφής) 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) 12:39, 27 Αυγούστου 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
Διαβάστε αυτό το μήνυμα σε άλλη γλώσσα • Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας
Το Ἰδρυμα Wikimedia θα κάνει δοκιμές στο δευτερεύον του κέντρο δεδομένων. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο θα διασφαλιστεί ότι η Βικιπαίδεια και τα άλλα wiki του Wikimedia θα μπορούν να παραμείνουν ενεργά ακόμα και μετά από μία καταστροφή. Για να σιγουρευτούμε ότι όλα λειτουργούν, το Τμήμα Τεχνολογίας του Wikimedia πρέπει να πραγματοποιήσει μια προγραμματισμένη δοκιμή. Η δοκιμή αυτή θα δείξει αν μπορεί να γίνει εναλλαγή αξιόπιστα από το ένα κέντρο δεδομένων στο άλλο. Χρειάζονται πολλές ομάδες, τόσο για την προετοιμασία της δοκιμής, αλλά και για να είναι διαθέσιμες για να διορθώσουν τυχόν απροσδόκητα προβλήματα.
Οι τεχνικοί θα στρέψουν όλη την κυκλοφορία προς το δευτερεύον κέντρο δεδομένων την Τετάρτη, 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018. Την Τετάρτη, 10 Οκτωμβρίου 2018, η κυκλοφορία θα επανέλθει στο κύριο κέντρο δεδομένων.
Δυστυχώς, λόγω κάποιων περιορισμών του MediaWiki, δεν θα υπάρχει δυνατότητα επεξεργασίας όταν γίνει η εναλλαγή. Ζητούμε συγγνώμη για την αναστάτωση, και καταβάλλουμε προσπάθειες να ελαχιστοποιηθεί στο μέλλον.
Για ένα σύντομο διάστημα, θα μπορείτε να διαβάσετε όλα τα wiki, αλλά όχι να τα επεξεργαστείτε.
- Δεν θα μπορείτε να επεξεργαστείτε τίποτα μέχρι και μία ώρα την Τετάρτη, 12 Σεπτεμβρίου και την Τεράρτη, 10 Οκτωμβρίου. Η δοκιμή θα ξεκινήσει στις 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, και στη Νέα Ζηλανδία στις 02:00 NZST την Πέμπτη 13 Σεπτεμβρίου και Πέμπτη 11 Οκτωμβρίου).
- Αν προσπαθήσετε να επεξεργαστείτε ή να αποθηκεύσετε μια σελίδα εκείνη την ώρα, θα δείτε ένα μήνυμα σφάλματος. Ελπίζουμε ότι δεν θα χαθούν επεξεργασίες εκείνη την ώρα, αλλά δεν μπορούμε να το εγγυηθούμε. Αν δείτε το μήνυμα σφάλματος, παρακαλούμε περιμένετε να επανέλθουν όλα στο κανονικό. Τότε θα μπορέσετε να αποθηκεύσετε την επεξεργασία σας. Ωστόσο προτείνουμε να κρατήσετε ένα αντίγραφο των αλλαγών σας, για παν ενδεχόμενο.
Άλλες παρενέργειες
- Οι εργασίες στο υπόβαθρο θα είναι πιο αργές και κάποιες μπορεί να ακυρωθούν. Οι κόκκινοι σύνδεσμοι πιθανώς να μην ενημερώνονται όσο γρήγορα ενημερώνονται συνήθως. Αν δημιουργήσετε μια σελίδα που ήδη συνδέεται από κάπου αλλού, ο σύνδεσμος θα παραμείνει κόκκινος για περισσότερο χρόνο από ό,τι συνήθως. Κάποια σενάρια που κάνουν ώρα να τρέξουν θα πρέπει να σταματήσουν.
- Για τις εβδομάδες 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 και 8 Οκτωμβρίου 2018 οι κώδικες θα κολλάνε. Οι μη-ουσιαστικές αναπτύξεις κώδικα δεν θα γίνονται.
Το έργο αυτό μπορεί να αναβληθεί εάν είναι απαραίτητο. Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε το πρόγραμμα στο wikitech.wikimedia.org. Οι όποιες αλλαγές θα ανακοινωθούν στο πρόγραμμα. Θα υπάρξουν περισσότερες ειδοποιήσεις σχετικά με αυτές τις δοκιμές. Παρακαλούμε μοιραστείτε αυτή την πληροφορία με την κοινότητά σας. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
13:33, 6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
θέματα
Μόνο λήμματα ΣΧΕΤΙΚΆ με συγκεκριμένα εκπαιδευτικά θέματα επιτρέπονται εδώ στο Βικιεπιστήμιο;--Нежданный (συζήτηση) 10:57, 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
The GFDL license on Commons
This has been posted here because your wiki allows local file uploads. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας.
Commons will no longer allow uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL license and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.
There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.
The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. — Alexis Jazz, distributed by Johan using MassMessage
18:11, 20 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey
Έρευνα Επιθυμιών της Κοινότητας.
Γεια σε όλους,
Η Community Wishlist Survey (Έρευνα Επιθυμιών της Κοινότητας) είναι η διαδικασία όπου οι κοινότητες Wikimedia αποφασίζουν σε τι θα εργαστεί η Community Tech του Wikimedia Foundation τον επόμενο χρόνο.
Η ομάδα Community Tech εστιάζει σε εργαλεία για έμπειρους συντάκτες Wikimedia. Μπορείτε να αναρτήσετε τεχνικές προτάσεις από τώρα ως τις 11 Νοεμβρίου. Οι κοινότητες θα ψηφίσουν τις προτάσεις μεταξύ 16 Νοεμβρίου και 30 Νοεμβρίου. Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε περισσότεα στη σελίδα έρευνας επιθυμιών.
/User:Johan (WMF)11:05, 30 Οκτωβρίου 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [4]
Let's work together
- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Σας ευχαριστούμε!
14:17, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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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.
Σας ευχαριστούμε!
Community Wishlist Survey vote
The Community Wishlist Survey. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.
/User:Johan (WMF)18:13, 22 Νοεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
Advanced Search
New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.
Σας ευχαριστούμε!
Διόρθωση σημαντική
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Σωστή παρατήρηση.--Μπιλίμπιν (συζήτηση) 10:24, 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.
To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Imagine... the sum of all love!
--MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 10:12, 27 Δεκεμβρίου 2018 (UTC)
FileExporter beta feature
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.
No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
18:38, 16 Ιανουαρίου 2019 (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:
- First, sign up your group here.
- 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.
- 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:
- When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
- What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
- What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
- What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
- What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
- 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.
Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April
10:56, 8 Απριλίου 2019 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
18:32, 23 Ιουλίου 2019 (UTC)
Υπευθυνοι
Θα ήθελα περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τους υπεύθυνους τμημάτων. Ευχαριστώ jul.pith@yahoo.gr
Τίτλος Ἱστοσελίδας
Θεωρῶ, ὅτι ὁ τίτλος τῆς Ἱστοσελίδας "ΒΙΚΙΕΠΙΣΤΜΙΟ" θά πρέπει νά διωρθωθεῖ σέ 'ΒΙΚΙΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ" . Ἄν δέν κάνω Λάθος ...
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 08:03, 16 Αυγούστου 2019 (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)14:19, 21 Αυγούστου 2019 (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!
Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
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Γεια σας. 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.
Σας ευχαριστούμε! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)
07:15, 16 Οκτωβρίου 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
Edit Cards
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
Toolbar
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
11:13, 29 Οκτωβρίου 2019 (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!
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 (συζήτηση) 06:14, 18 Ιανουαρίου 2020 (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!
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) 14:14, 26 Φεβρουαρίου 2020 (UTC)
Προσθήκη δομής και σχολικού εκπαιδευτικού υλικού
Λόγω του Covid-19 το Ινστιτούτο Εκπαιδευτικής Πολιτικής σε συνεργασία με Υπουργείο Παιδείας και τον Οργανισμό Ανοιχτών Τεχνολογιών (ΕΕΛΛΑΚ) ενδιαφέρεται να διαθέσει δημόσια προσβάσιμο εκπαιδευτικό υλικό σε όλα τα σχολεία της χώρας. Σκέφτομαι ότι η δράση αυτή είναι μια εξαιρετική ευκαιρία για τον εμπλουτισμό του Βικιεπιστήμιου, το οποίο άλλωστε παρέχει την κατάλληλη βάση για το σκοπό αυτό. Τις επόμενες ώρες είναι πιθανό να δημιουργήσω ένα πρότυπο της δομής στην οποία μπορεί να αναρτάται το υλικό (βαθμίδα, τάξη, μάθημα). Τις σχετικές σελίδες θα τις προσθέσω στην κατηγορία Σχολικό υλικό, ώστε να μπορούμε εύκολα να τις ξεχωρίζουμε. Θα εκτιμούσα όποιες βελτιωτικές προτάσεις ή σκέψεις έχετε.
Λογότυπο
Ζήτησα τη διόρθωση του λογοτύπου, διότι όπως έχει αναφερθεί εδώ δύο τουλάχιστο φορές, έχει τυπογραφικό λάθος. Παρακαλώ σημειώστε ότι συμφωνείτε (π.χ. υπογράφοντας "I concur with the fix proposed in T248391"). Μπορεί η συμφωνία του Συμβουλίου να απαιτηθεί για να γίνει η διόρθωση.
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new απάντηση tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch 
these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
19:28, 8 Απριλίου 2020 (UTC)
Βικιεπιστήμιο: ειλικρινά τώρα;
Ονομάσατε τη σελίδα σας Βικιεπιστήμιο και στην πρώτη σελίδα γράφετε το επικοινωνήστε με "ο" ;;;
'Καλι επιτιχοία'Έντονο κείμενο !!!!!
Editing news 2020 #2
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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Εργαλεία συζήτησης". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
20:36, 17 Ιουνίου 2020 (UTC)
Feedback on movement names
Γεια σας. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας if necessary. Σας ευχαριστούμε!
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, 19:52, 2 Ιουλίου 2020 (UTC)
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.
Editing news 2020 #3
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
- More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
12:56, 9 Ιουλίου 2020 (UTC)
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 [1] 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 [2]. 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 [3]. 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) 20:13, 9 Ιουλίου 2020 (UTC) - 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:Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.
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, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
- 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 week of September 1st, 2020. 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.
Invitation to participate in the conversation
Γεια σας. 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. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας. Σας ευχαριστούμε!
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, 17:55, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)Wiki of functions naming contest
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Γεια σας. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Σας ευχαριστούμε! --Quiddity (WMF)21:13, 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)
Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
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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.
Σας ευχαριστούμε! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:10, 7 Οκτωβρίου 2020 (UTC)
Important: maintenance operation on October 27
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Το Ἰδρυμα Wikimedia δοκιμάζει την εναλλαγή μεταξύ των πρωτευόντων και δευτερόντων κέντρων δεδομένων του. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο θα διασφαλιστεί ότι η Βικιπαίδεια και τα άλλα wiki του Wikimedia θα μπορούν να παραμείνουν ενεργά ακόμα και μετά από μία καταστροφή. Για να βεβαιώσουμε ότι όλα λειτουργούν ομαλά, το Τμήμα Τεχνολογίας της Wikimedia πρέπει να πραγματοποιήσει ένα προγραμματισμένο τεστ. Το τεστ αυτό θα δείξει αν μπορεί να γίνει αξιόπιστα η αλλαγή από το ένα κέντρο δεδομένων στο άλλο. Χρειάζονται πολλές ομάδες τόσο για την προετοιμασία του τεστ, όσο και για την αντιμετώπιση τυχόν απροσδόκητων προβλημάτων.
Οι τεχνικοί θα γυρίσουν όλη την κυκλοφορία πίσω προς το πρωτεύον κέντρο δεδομένων την Τρίτη, 27 Οκτωβρίου 2020.
Δυστυχώς, λόγω κάποιων περιορισμών του MediaWiki, δεν θα υπάρχει δυνατότητα επεξεργασίας κατά την ανακατεύθυνση. Ζητούμε συγγνώμη για την αναστάτωση, και καταβάλλουμε προσπάθειες να ελαχιστοποιηθεί στο μέλλον.
Για ένα σύντομο χρόνικό διάστημα, θα μπορείτε να διαβάσετε όλα τα wiki, αλλά όχι να τα επεξεργαστείτε.
- Η επεξεργασία θα είναι αδύνατη ως και για μία ώρα την Τρίτη 27 Οκτωβρίου. Η δοκιμή θα ξεκινήσει στις 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 17:00 ΕEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, και στη Νέα Ζηλανδία στις 02:00 NZST την Τετάρτη 28 Οκτωβρίου).
- Αν προσπαθήσετε να επεξεργαστείτε ή να αποθηκεύσετε μια σελίδα εκείνη την ώρα, θα δείτε ένα μήνυμα σφάλματος. Ελπίζουμε ότι δεν θα χαθούν επεξεργασίες εκείνη την ώρα, αλλά δεν μπορούμε να το εγγυηθούμε. Αν δείτε το μήνυμα σφάλματος, παρακαλούμε περιμένετε μέχρι να επανέλθουν όλα στο κανονικό. Τότε θα μπορέσετε να αποθηκεύσετε την αλλαγή σας. Ωστόσο προτείνουμε να κρατήσετε ένα αντίγραφο των αλλαγών σας, για κάθε ενδεχόμενο.
Άλλες παρενέργειες
- Οι εργασίες στο υπόβαθρο θα είναι πιο αργές και κάποιες μπορεί να ακυρωθούν. Οι κόκκινοι σύνδεσμοι πιθανώς να μην ενημερώνονται όσο γρήγορα ως συνήθως. Αν δημιουργήσετε μια σελίδα που ήδη συνδέεται από κάπου αλλού, ο σύνδεσμος θα παραμείνει κόκκινος για περισσότερο χρόνο από ό,τι συνήθως. Κάποια διεργασίες που απαιτούν ώρα να εκτελλεστούν θα αναγκαστούν να σταματήσουν.
- Η ανάπτυξη κώδικα θα παγώσει για την εβδομάδα της 26 Οκτωβρίου 2020. Οι μη-ουσιαστικές ενημερώσεις στον κώδικα δεν θα γίνονται.
Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
Γεια σας. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. Σας ευχαριστούμε! --Quiddity (WMF)
22:11, 5 Νοεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)
H Δημοσκόπηση Επιθυμιών της Κοινότητας 2021 έχει τώρα ανοίξει! Η δημοσκόπηση αυτή αποτελεί την μέθοδο μέσω της οποίας οι κοινότητες αποφασίζουν σε τί θα εργαστεί η ομάδα Community Tech μέσα στην επόμενη χρονιά. Ενθαρρύνουμε όλους να συμβάλλουν με προτάσεις μέχρι τις 30 Νοεμβρίου, ή να σχολιάσουν τις υπάρχουσες προτάσεις ώστε να βελτιωθούν. Οι κοινότητες θα μπορούν να ψηφίσουν τις προτάσεις μεταξύ 8 Δεκεμβρίου και 21 Δεκεμβρίου.
Η ομάδα Community Tech εστιάζει σε εργαλεία για έμπειρους συντάκτες. Μπορείτε να συντάξετε προτάσεις σε οποιαδήποτε γλώσσα, και θα τις μεταφράσουμε για εσάς. Ευχαριστούμε και ανυπομονούμε να δούμε τις προτάσεις σας!
18:11, 20 Νοεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)
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!
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) 10:55, 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)
We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
15:58, 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)
Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
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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, 15:16, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2021 (UTC)
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 projectgrantsΠρότυπο:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 08:01, 28 Ιανουαρίου 2021 (UTC)
IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, 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 logged actions for more than 2 years):
- ZaDiak (bureaucrat, administrator)
The user 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, Einsbor (συζήτηση) 09:11, 2 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!
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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 (συζήτηση) 13:25, 6 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 (UTC)
Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally
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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, Βικιεπιστήμιο 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) 14:12, 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 (UTC)
Wikifunctions logo contest
01:51, 2 Μαρτίου 2021 (UTC)
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Καλησπέρα, λέγομαι Ανυφαντάκη Γωγώ και είμαι τελειόφοιτος του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών της θεολογικής σχολής. Αναζητώ εργασία στο site σας. Κάνω ιδιαίτερα μαθήματα σε παιδάκια γυμνασίου στα αρχαία ελληνικά, έκθεση, λογοτεχνία και ιστορία. Σε αναμονή για την απάντησή σας. Στοιχεία επικοινωνίας: 6943114552 gogoanifantaki@gmail.com Σας ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων. Με εκτίμηση, Ανυφαντάκη Γωγώ.
Ερώτημα
Λέτε ότι ζητάτε υπεύθυνα άτομα για κάποια τμήματα. Μπορείτε να δώσετε περισσότερες πληροφορίες; Τι ακριβώς ζητάτε; Ευχαριστώ.
Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2
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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.
Line numbering coming soon to all wikis
Από τις 15 Απριλίου, μπορείτε να ενεργοποιήσετε την αρίθμηση γραμμής σε ορισμένους συντάκτες wikitext - προς το παρόν στο χώρο ονομάτων προτύπων, σύντομα θα έρθουμε σε περισσότερους χώρους ονομάτων. Αυτό θα διευκολύνει τον εντοπισμό αλλαγών γραμμής και την αναφορά σε μια συγκεκριμένη γραμμή στις συζητήσεις. Αυτοί οι αριθμοί θα εμφανιστούν εάν ενεργοποιήσετε τη δυνατότητα επισήμανσης σύνταξης (επέκταση CodeMirror), η οποία υποστηρίζεται στους συντάκτες wikitext 2010 και 2017.
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να βρείτε σε αυτή τη σελίδα του έργου. Ο καθένας καλείται να δοκιμάσει τη λειτουργία και να δώσει σχόλια σε αυτήν τη σελίδα.
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.
Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
- Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
- 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
- Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
- Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
- Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)
--MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 23:06, 11 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)
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;
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 (συζήτηση) 04:18, 16 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)
On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
Editing news 2021 #2
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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 "Εργαλεία συζήτησης" 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.
14:14, 24 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)
Server switch
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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.
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, 29 June 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 30 June).
- 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 week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review
The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.
Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:
- Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)
- Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
- Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end
Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
20:55, 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
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.
Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021
Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:
- Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
- Are ready to find compromises.
- Focus on inclusion and diversity.
- Have knowledge of community consultations.
- Have intercultural communication experience.
- Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
- Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org with questions.
Server switch
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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.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (συζήτηση) 00:46, 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
Talk to the Community Tech
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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) (συζήτηση) 03:04, 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open
Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.
Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.
The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.
Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>
Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>
We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>
Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>
Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>
Best,
Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
Learn how Movement Strategy Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans
Movement Strategy Implementation grants now provide more than $2,000 USD to put Movement Strategy plans into action. Find out more about Movement Strategy Implementation grants, the criteria, and how to apply.
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 13:30, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.
- The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
- The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
- The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).
The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.
If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.
With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team
15:53, 5 Νοεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
Bot policy
Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable) or bots that fix double redirects. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.
This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. If you use or prefer to use a dedicated project page for handling bot flag requests, that is also acceptable. Please read the text at Meta-Wiki before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Thank you for your consideration. --Rschen7754 21:00, 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections
- You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
- What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
- What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.
Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?
Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msg wikimedia.org.
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Ευχαριστώ. Xeno (WMF) 17:18, 27 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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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 (συζήτηση) 13:14, 9 Ιανουαρίου 2022 (UTC)