विक्शनरी:चावडी

मी विक्शनरीचा प्रचालक आहे अधून मधून इथे येतच असतो. काही अडचणी असल्यास इथे जरूर नमुद कराव्यात. सर्व प्रकारच्या प्रतिक्रिया प्रतिसाद शंका प्रश्न पृच्छा मनमोकळेपणाने नमुद करावेत.

या प्रकल्पास अधीक वेळ देऊ शकेल अशा समन्वयकांची आवश्यकता आहे जे नवीन सदस्यांचे स्वागत करतील आणि त्यांना संपादनात सहाय्य करतील तसेच मराठी विषयाचे अभ्यासक विद्यार्थी शिक्षक यांना संपर्क करून ह्या प्रकल्पास गती देऊ शकतील अशा स्वयंसेवी समन्वयकांची नितांत आवश्यकता आहे.

Mahitgar (चर्चा) ०२:५३, ९ मे २०१६ (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation २०:४०, ३० जानेवारी २०१३ (UTC)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. २०:१०, १३ मार्च २०१३ (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Proposal of a pronunciation recording tool[संपादन]

Hello, Rahul21, a developer, offers to develop a pronunciation recording tool for Wiktionary, helped by Michael Dale as part of GSoC. The tool would allow to record and add audio pronunciations to Wiktionary entries while browsing them (see background discussion on Wiktionary-l). Please read and comment the proposal! Regards, Nemo २२:४१, ९ एप्रिल २०१३ (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators[संपादन]

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

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

Hello!

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

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

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

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) ०५:०२, २४ एप्रिल २०१३ (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming[संपादन]

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

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[en] Change to section edit links[संपादन]

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

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

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

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

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हॉटकॅट सुविधा[संपादन]

जावास्क्रिप्ट आधारीत सुविधांचे तांत्रिक अंगाने सुरक्षाविषयक प्रगत परिक्षण करू शकेल इतपत तांत्रिक पाठबळ मराठीविकिंकडे नाही.पण दाक्षिणात्य विकिपीडियांकडे काही अंशी अशा स्वरूपाचे पाठबळ उपलब्ध असू शकते अथवा फ्रेंच अथवा जर्मन विकिपीडियाकडे सुद्धा तांत्रिक मनुष्यबळ उपलब्ध असू शकते आणि युरोपीयन युनियन सायबर सुरक्षेबाबत अधीक सजगही आहे. चांगल्या सुविधांची मराठी विकिंची गरज पहाता अशा जावास्क्रिप्ट आधारीत सुविधा ज्या इंग्रजी + जर्मन अथवा फ्रेंच+ एका दक्षिणात्य भाषेकडे असेल अशा तांत्रिक सुविधा मराठी विकिंवर आणाव्यात असा प्रस्ताव आहे.

त्याचाच भाग म्हणून मराठी विक्शनरीवर हॉटकॅट सुविधा आणण्याचे प्रस्ताव ठेवत आहे.

Mahitgar (चर्चा) ०८:१४, १८ मे २०१३ (UTC)

Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions[संपादन]

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

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

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

Future software changes

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

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Trademark discussion[संपादन]

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

Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions[संपादन]

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

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Runab १४:१०, ५ जून २०१३ (UTC) (posted via Global message delivery)

X!'s Edit Counter[संपादन]

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.—cyberpower ^Chat_Automation ०४:४७, २३ जून २०१३ (UTC)

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Pywikipedia is migrating to git[संपादन]

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). १३:३३, २३ जुलै २०१३ (UTC)

दीर्घकाल अकार्यरत प्रचालक/प्रशासक आपोआप पदमुक्ती कालावधी प्रस्ताव[संपादन]

नमस्कार,

प्रस्तावना[संपादन]

साचा:प्रस्तावना

धोरण प्रस्ताव[संपादन]

अ)या धोरण प्रस्तावाच्या कार्यकक्षेच्या मर्यादा: कार्यरत प्रचालकांचा कार्यावधी (पर्याप्त अतीदीर्घता जपून) एकुण कार्यावधी किती असावा याची वेगळी चर्चा मराठी विकिपीडियावर भविष्यात होऊ शकते.परंतु मूळ विकिपरंपरेने कार्यरत प्रचालकांचा कार्यावधी हा सध्या नेहमी करताचा आहे. या विशीष्ट प्रस्तावात कार्यरत प्रचालकांचा संबंध नाही.

तर्क (लॉजीक): धोरणात नेमकेपणा ठेवणे.

१) दीर्घकाल अकार्यरत प्रचालक/प्रशासक स्वयमेव(आपोआप) पदमुक्ती कालावधी: सलग सहा(६) वर्षे एकही संपादन अथवा एकही प्रचालकीय कार्य या दोन्ही पैकी एकही गोष्ट नाही असे प्रचालक/प्रशासक जबाबदारीतून पदमुक्ततेस आपोआप पात्र समजावेत. (माझे व्यक्तीगत मत हि अनावश्यक गोष्ट आहे,तर्कपूर्ण नाही, पण वर प्रस्तावनेत म्हटल्या प्रमाणे मी इतरांच्या भावनिक आग्रहाचा आदर करू इच्छितो)

तर्क (लॉजीक):आपोआप पदमुक्तीचे मुख्य तर्क, ज्या अर्थी एखाद्या सदस्याने प्रचालक पदाची जबाबदारी घेतली, त्या अर्थी त्याने किमान स्वरूपाची उपस्थिती दाखवली पाहीजे.
विरूद्धतर्क (लॉजीक):जर एखाद्या सदस्याने संपादनच केले नाही तरी सदस्यता रहाते.असे न वापरलेले सदस्य खाते पडीक राहील्यास योगदान मिळत नसले तरी काही नुकसानही नाही म्हणून सदस्य खाते (काही अपवाद सोडल्यास) नेहमी करता असते.तद्वतच प्रचालक/प्रशासकाने इतर प्रचालक कार्यरत असताना अधिकार वापरले नाहीत तर फायदा नसला तरी वस्तुत: खाते पडीक राहील्यास सरळ स्वरूपाचे कोणते नुकसानही नाही.
विरूद्धतर्क (लॉजीक): उलटपक्षी विवीध क्षेत्रातील अनुभवी प्रचालकांनी आत्मसात केलेल्या कौशल्या पासून विकिपीडियाच वंचीत होऊ शकतो.जसे मिडियाविकि नामविश्वातील .jsपाने आतापर्यंत सहसा प्रचालक सदस्य कोल्हापुरींनी केली. सुभाष राऊतांना मुखपृष्ठावरील छायाचित्रे बदलती ठेवता येतात इतर सदस्य त्यात फारसा रस दाखवत नाहीत. सदस्य संतोष दहिवळांना विवीध सुविधात रस आहे. सदस्य श्रीहरी मराठे आणि अभय नातू यांना कालगणना हा किचकट विषय व्यवस्थीत माहिती आहे. संकल्प द्रविडाम्ची स्वत:ची कौशल्ये आहेत.नरसिकरांप्रमाणे रिटायरमेंटनंतर किंवा इतर कामा नंतर प्रचालक सदस्य वापस येऊ शकतात त्यांच्या कौशल्याचा सुयोग्य फायदा मराठी विकिपीडियास होत रहावा म्हणून ६ वर्षांच्या अनुपस्थितीचा मध्यम कालावधी निवडला आहे.

२) असे दीर्घकाल अकार्यरत प्रचालक/प्रशासक स्वयमेव(आपोआप) पदमुक्ती कालावधीस अनुसरून पदमुक्त झालेले प्रचालक/प्रशासक अथवा स्वत:हून राजीनामा दिलेले सदस्य पुन्हा कार्यरत होऊन प्रचालक/प्रशासक पद विनंती केल्यास त्यांची विनंती प्रचालक मंडळाने ग्राह्य धरल्यास आणि स्वीकृती अधिकाऱ्यांना(प्रशासक) स्विकार्ह झाल्यास त्यांची प्रचालक पदावर सरळ फेर नियूक्ती करतील.

तर्क (लॉजीक):परत कौल टाळण्याचा उद्देश लोकशाहीकरण टाळणे हा होय.
विरूद्ध तर्क: इंग्रजी विकिपीडियात प्रशासक स्वत:च फेर नियूक्ती करतात.प्रचालक मंडळ विशीष्ट मताकडे कललेले असेल तर इतर कारणांनी नकार देऊ शकते.

३) कोणत्याही मराठी विकि(मिडिया)प्रकल्पावर कोणत्याही कारणाने प्रचालक संख्या भविष्यात फार घटली तरी किमान एक मराठी भाषी प्रचालक सदैव शिल्लक राहीलाच पाहीजे, नवीन प्रचालक नियुक्ती नंतर अथवा एखादा जुना प्रचालक वापस आल्या नंतरच अशा प्रकल्पावरचा प्रचालक दूर केला जाऊ शकेल.

तर्क (लॉजीक):मराठी विकिप्रकल्पांवर अमराठी लोकांचे नियंत्रण टाळणे
विरूद्धतर्क:सूचवा

४) सर्व निवृत्त प्रचालक/प्रशासक ( कोणत्याही विशेषाधिकारा शिवाय,) निमंत्रित सदस्य समजले जातील आणि त्यांच्या मतांचा सुयोग्य आदर विकिपीडिया /विक्शनरीजाणत्यांसदस्यां प्रमाणे राखला जाईल.

तर्क (लॉजीक): निवृत्त प्रचालक/प्रशासकांच्या अनुभवाचा मराठी विकिपीडियास फायदा होत रहावा
विरूद्धतर्क:सूचवा

सामर्थ्य,दुर्बलता,संधी आणि जोखीम विश्लेषण (स्वॉट ॲनालिसीस) सिनॉप्सीस[संपादन]

खालील मजकुरास {{स्वॉट |मजकूर =............... ............. |लिहिणारा =Mahitgar }} दाखवा-लपवा साचा लावण्यात काही तांत्रीक अडचण आली.तांत्रीक त्रुटी दुर करून साचा पुन्हा लावून देण्यास साहाय्य हवे आहे ही नम्र विनंती.

क्रमांक	प्रस्ताव	सामर्थ्य	दुर्बलता	संधी	जोखीम
१	दीर्घकाल अकार्यरत प्रचालक/प्रशासक स्वयमेव(आपोआप) पदमुक्ती कालावधी: सलग सहा(६) वर्षे एकही संपादन अथवा एकही प्रचालकीय कार्य या दोन्ही पैकी एकही गोष्ट नाही असे प्रचालक/प्रशासक जबाबदारीतून पदमुक्ततेस आपोआप पात्र समजावेत.	प्रचालक कार्यरत होतील आणि आपल्या अनुभवाचा विकिपीडियास उपयोग करून देतील असा सकारात्मक दृष्तीकोण,कालावधी पुरेसा दीर्घ ठेवल्यामुळे अप्रत्यक्ष लोकशाहीकरणाच्या प्रक्रीयेस सुयोग्य खीळ बसते	प्रचालक पदाच्या काटेरी मुकूटाचा एकदा अनुभव घेऊन चुकलेला चांगला निवृत्त प्रचालकही पुन्हा ही जबाबदारी नको म्हणून विनंती करणारच नाही अशी शक्यता	अकार्यरत प्रचालक नवीन प्रचालक होणाऱ्यास अडकाठी आहेत असे नाही त्यामुळे दृश्य संधी दिसत नाहीत	नव्या संधी नसल्यामुळे तत्संबंधी जोखीमही दिसत नाही.भविष्यात माहीत नसलेल्या काळात प्रचालक पदातील रस पुर्णत: कमी होत गेल्यास प्रचालक संख्या कमी होत जाऊन मराठी प्रकल्पांवर अमराठी लोकांचे अप्रत्यक्ष नियंत्रण येण्याची शक्यता खासकरून कमी कामचालू असलेल्या विकिक्वोट अथवा विकिव्हॉयेज इत्यादी प्रकल्पातून संभवू शकते.जसे कोकणी प्रकल्पाकरता कन्नड लिपीचा अथवा रोमन लिपीचा आग्रह धरला जातो आहे
२	प्रचालक मंडळाने ग्राह्य धरल्यास आणि स्वीकृती अधिकाऱ्यांना(प्रशासक) स्विकार्ह झाल्यास त्यांची प्रचालक पदावर सरळ फेर नियूक्ती	प्रचालक कार्यरत होतील आणि आपल्या अनुभवाचा कौशल्याचा विकिपीडियास उपयोग करून देतील असा सकारात्मक दृष्तीकोण,कालावधी पुरेसा दीर्घ ठेवल्यामुळे अप्रत्यक्ष लोकशाहीकरणाच्या प्रक्रीयेस सुयोग्य खीळ बसते	१)प्रचालक मंडळ एका विशीष्ट विचारगटाकडे कललेले असेल तर नको असलेले जुने प्रचालक टाळू शकते २) जुने प्रचालक मोठ्या गॅप नंतर वापस येत असतील तर मध्यंतरीच्या काळातील निती आणी तंत्रज्ञानातील चर्चातील बदलांशी अवगत नसण्याची शक्यता	जुन्या प्रचालकास अवगत अनुभव आणि कौशल्याचा सहज उपयोग	जुना प्रचालक हि सर्व प्रक्रीया आणि जबाबदारी नको म्हणून विनंती करणारच नाही अशी शक्यता
३	किमान एक मराठी भाषी प्रचालक सदैव शिल्लक राहीलाच पाहीजे	मराठी विकिप्रकल्पांवर अमराठी लोकांचे नियंत्रण टाळणे	मेटावरील अमराठी मंडळी सहजपणे हस्तक्षेप करू शकणार नाहीत	मराठी विकिप्रकल्पांवर अमराठी लोकांचे नियंत्रण टळते	सूचवा
४	सर्व निवृत्त प्रचालक/प्रशासक ( कोणत्याही विशेषाधिकारा शिवाय,) निमंत्रित सदस्य समजले जातील	जुन्या प्रचालकास अवगत अनुभव आणि कौशल्याचा सहज उपयोग	सदस्यांत भेदाभेद करणारा अजून एक ॲडीशनल स्तर तयार होण्याची शक्यता	जुन्या प्रचालकास अवगत अनुभव आणि कौशल्याचा सहज उपयोग	नाराज जुन्या प्रचालकांकडून अप्रस्तुत भूमिका जाणीवपुर्वक पुढे केल्या जाण्याची दुर्मीळ शक्यता

प्रस्ताव कालावधी[संपादन]

प्रस्ताव मांडणी ६ ऑगस्ट
स्वयंशाबीत नसलेल्या नवागत सदस्यांशिवाय चर्चेचा एक दिवस ७ ऑगस्ट

तर्क आणि उद्देश (१, नवागत सदस्यांना विकिपीडिया /विक्शनरी नितीचा परीचय होण्यास किमान दिवसाचा कालावधी लागेल, २ चर्चेच्या किमान सुरवातीस जाणीव पुर्वक उत्पाताचे प्रकार टळावेत.)

८ ऑगस्ट ते १४ ऑगस्ट सर्व सदस्यांचा चर्चा सहभाग आणि सर्वसहभागाची चर्चा समाप्ती
१५ ऑगस्ट तार्कीक उणीवा अभ्यास आणि जाणत्यांकडून तर्कसंगत भूमिकांचा स्विकार
१६ ऑगस्ट प्रशासकांची अंतीम भूमिका मांडणी आणि प्रस्तावाचे अंतीम प्रारूप कौल पानांकरीता उपलब्ध
१६ ऑगस्ट ते १८ ऑगस्ट सर्व मराठी विकिप्रीकल्पांवर कौल
कौलास प्रशासकीय स्वीकृती आणि मेटा प्रतिपालकांना प्रशासकांचा अभिप्रेत कालावधीच्या आत मराठी विकि धोरणाचा निरोप.

पूर्व पक्ष विरोधी दृष्टीकोण[संपादन]

(भारतीय ऐतिहासीक वैचारीक चर्चा परंपरेत विरोधी पक्षाची भूमिका पूर्वपक्षात मांडली जाई आणि त्या नंतर तर्कपुर्ण चिकित्सक चर्चा केली जाई त्या परंपारेचे निर्वहन करण्याच्या दृष्टीने हा छोटासा प्रयत्न)

तटस्थ दृष्टीकोण[संपादन]

प्रस्ताव समर्थन पक्ष[संपादन]

जाणत्या सदस्यांनी स्विकृत केलेल्या तर्कसंगत भूमिका , तर्कसंगत नसल्या मुळे जाणत्या सदस्यांनी अस्विकृत केलेल्या भूमिका[संपादन]

प्रशासक अंतीम भूमिका[संपादन]

हा प्रस्ताव स्विकारला गेला आहे. धन्यवाद.

Mahitgar (चर्चा) ०४:०१, १३ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (UTC)

HTTPS for users with an account[संपादन]

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). १९:२७, २० ऑगस्ट २०१३ (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo[संपादन]

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). ०२:५४, २४ सप्टेंबर २०१३ (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications[संपादन]

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) १८:५९, ४ ऑक्टोबर २०१३ (UTC)

(via the Global message delivery system) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.[संपादन]

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana २०:३४, ८ ऑक्टोबर २०१३ (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) २०:२१, ५ नोव्हेंबर २०१३ (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), २०:२१, ५ नोव्हेंबर २०१३ (UTC)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy[संपादन]

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) ०६:४७, १६ जानेवारी २०१४ (UTC)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use[संपादन]

Hello all,

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

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments[संपादन]

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

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

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

Hope to have your participation,

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

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment[संपादन]

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

Changes to the default site typography coming soon[संपादन]

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

Pronunciation Recording[संपादन]

Play media

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

Dear Wiktionary community!

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

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

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

Thanks and kind regards --Rillke (चर्चा) १७:२६, ७ एप्रिल २०१४ (UTC)

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

Using only UploadWizard for uploads[संपादन]

Hello! It was noted that on this wiki you have less than 10 local files. Presumably, you therefore don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or illegal uploading. I propose to

have local upload restricted to the "प्रचालक" group (for emergency uploads) and
the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

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

I'll get this done in one week from now.

If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list.
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo २०:३८, १९ मे २०१४ (UTC)

Media Viewer[संपादन]

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

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

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki[संपादन]

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions[संपादन]

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

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

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

Process ideas for software development[संपादन]

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

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

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Grants to improve your project[संपादन]

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

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

Meta RfCs on two new global groups[संपादन]

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

Global AbuseFilter[संपादन]

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— १७:३४, १४ नोव्हेंबर २०१४ (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wiktionary.org: (सर्व) पाने संपादा[संपादन]

MediaWiki mobile

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo २२:३२, १ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content[संपादन]

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

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

Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २०:०२, ४ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

SUL finalization update[संपादन]

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) १९:४६, १३ मार्च २०१५ (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules[संपादन]

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W १६:१३, १० एप्रिल २०१५ (UTC)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections[संपादन]

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HTTPS[संपादन]

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

२२:००, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)

HTTPS[संपादन]

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

/Johan (WMF)

२३:४१, १९ जून २०१५ (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images[संपादन]

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

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

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images[संपादन]

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १२:०९, २४ जुलै २०१५ (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?[संपादन]

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

Why get involved?[संपादन]

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

More information[संपादन]

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:४२, ३१ जुलै २०१५ (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?[संपादन]

Why get involved?[संपादन]

More information[संपादन]

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०७:५७, १ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?[संपादन]

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?[संपादन]

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site[संपादन]

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

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

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site[संपादन]

Hi all,

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) १९:१५, २ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants[संपादन]

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

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

Thanks,

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

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals![संपादन]

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

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

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

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals![संपादन]

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

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources ००:२८, २३ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report[संपादन]

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) १६:५७, २८ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २१:५८, ९ नोव्हेंबर २०१५ (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed[संपादन]

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

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

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

Harassment consultation[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign[संपादन]

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:३९, १ डिसेंबर २०१५ (UTC)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15![संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon![संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०१:४९, ५ जानेवारी २०१६ (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

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

No editing twice this week[संपादन]

Wikimedia Foundation आपल्या नवीन विदाकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. सध्याच्या विदाकेन्द्रात काही आपत्ती आल्यास या विदाकेन्द्रामुळे विकिमीडियाचे प्रकल्प बंद न पडता सेवारत ठेवता येतील. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

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

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

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

You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April. No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /Johan (WMF) (चर्चा) २२:२५, १७ एप्रिल २०१६ (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-१३:०६, २९ जून २०१६ (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:

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

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) १५:२५, ५ जुलै २०१६ (UTC)

Save/Publish[संपादन]

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

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

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “पानाचे प्रकाशन करा” and “बदल प्रकाशित करा”.

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

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

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

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

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

RevisionSlider[संपादन]

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

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

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) २०:११, ३० सप्टेंबर २०१६ (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0[संपादन]

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) ०१:३५, ६ ऑक्टोबर २०१६ (UTC)

Password reset[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

Adding to the above section (Password reset)[संपादन]

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

Help test offline Wikipedia[संपादन]

Hello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback, check out the page on Meta! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) २०:०८, २९ नोव्हेंबर २०१६ (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --१९:३१, १४ डिसेंबर २०१६ (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, २०:३०, १५ फेब्रुवारी २०१७ (UTC) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, १९:४३, ९ मार्च २०१७ (UTC) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

०५:०९, १८ मार्च २०१७ (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, ०३:३६, ७ एप्रिल २०१७ (UTC) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • Get help

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

Read this message in another language • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १७:३३, ११ एप्रिल २०१७ (UTC)

Cognate & automatic interlanguage links[संपादन]

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरी प्रकल्पांवर चर्चासत्र[संपादन]

मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरी हे लोकसहभागातून ज्ञान निर्मितीचे उपक्रम आहेत. अनेकांनी विधायक सहभाग घेतल्यास, एकमेकांशी सौजन्याने वागल्यास व चुका दुरुस्त करत राहिल्यास किती उत्तम दर्जाची विश्वसनीय माहिती संकलित होऊ शकते ह्याचे इंग्रजी, जर्मन, जपानी, कोरियन असे अनेक विकिपीडिया हे उत्तम उदाहरण आहेत. भारतीय लोक फेसबुक, व्हॉटसअप, ट्विटर इ. सोशल मिडिया खूप हाताळतात, पण २१ भारतीय भाषांत हा प्रकल्प सुरु झाला असूनही त्यांनी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरीकडे दुर्लक्ष केलेले आहे.बहुभाषीय भारतात तर ह्या प्रकल्पाचा प्रभावी विस्तार करणे खूपच समयोचित आहे.

हे उद्दिष्ट समोर ठेवून विविध विषयातील ज्ञान आणि विश्वसनीय माहिती मराठीतून सर्व समाजाला सहजपणे व मुक्तपणे उपलब्ध व्हावी यासाठी मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरी या प्रकल्पांमध्ये सुव्यवस्थित योजना बनवून काम करण्याची गरज आहे. यासाठी रावत नेचर अकॅडमी , गोखले राज्यशास्त्र व अर्थशास्त्र संस्था यांनी पुढाकार घेतला आहे. तांत्रिक सहकार्य द सेंटर फॉर इंटरनेट अँड सोसायटी करत आहे. या विषयावर प्रात्यक्षिकांसह चर्चासत्र पुणे येथे गोखले संस्थेमधील सेमिनार हॉलमध्ये २९ एप्रिल २०१७ रोजी दुपारी ३ ते ६ या वेळेत आयोजित करण्यात आले आहे. सर्वांना सदर निमंत्रण.
-सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) ०९:५०, २८ एप्रिल २०१७ (UTC)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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१९:१४, ३ मे २०१७ (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View[संपादन]

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:४२, ८ मे २०१७ (UTC)

RevisionSlider[संपादन]

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

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

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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२१:०९, १६ मे २०१७ (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections[संपादन]

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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२१:०६, २३ मे २०१७ (UTC)

Enable sitelinks on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages[संपादन]

Hello,

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

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

Long version available and translatable here.

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) ०८:३८, १ जून २०१७ (UTC)

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

Hello,

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

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

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

Long version available and translatable here.

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

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

Enabling Page Previews[संपादन]

Enabling Page Previews

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Thanks. I will give my feed back in couple of days. This is a small project. In principle you are welcome to test the new feature here at this project. Mahitgar (चर्चा) ११:२९, १० जुलै २०१७ (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons[संपादन]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Columns for references[संपादन]

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • Read this in another language

Hello,

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

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

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

१८:२३, १ सप्टेंबर २०१७ (UTC)