Wikipedia:Piòla-Archivi-4

Commons photo Challenge

Cartelli bilingue? feste di Paese? Eventi culturali seri? Sbizzarritevi:

commons:Commons:Photo_challenge/Submitting#2017_.E2.80.93_February_.E2.80.93_Multilingualism

Più bella la foto, maggiore la diffusione. Si vince solo un gagliardetto.--Alexmar983 (ciaciarade) 07:02, 2 Fër 2017 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31, 15 Fër 2017 (UTC) • Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 mar 2017 (UTC) • Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Find out more about the movement strategy process
• Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

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

05:10, 18 mar 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:36, 7 Avr 2017 (UTC) • Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua • Get help

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 17:34, 11 Avr 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

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

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

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

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 Avr 2017 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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Hello,

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

A quick note on the implementation:

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

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

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 16:52, 19 Avr 2017 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Expansions

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

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

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 maj 2017 (UTC)

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

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

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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19:14, 3 maj 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:41, 8 maj 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 maj 2017 (UTC)

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua • Get help

21:09, 16 maj 2017 (UTC)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Mersì! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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21:05, 23 maj 2017 (UTC)

Piedmontese Input Method

Un saluto a tutti, vi scrivo perché ci sono novità su quanto si discuteva qui. Eravamo rimasti che avevo caricato su GitHub la proposta di modifica, poi mi avevano segnalato degli errori di indentazione sul codice che non riuscivo a trovare. Tra una cosa e l'altra ho perso di vista la questione ed è passato un bel po' di tempo... L'altro giorno però m'è arrivata via mail la notifica che i tizi che sviluppano il tool in questione han sistemato da soli e han già anche caricato le modifiche al codice! Dunque prossimamente dovrebbe funzionare anche qui. Quando l'avevo fatto per vec.wiki passarono una decina di giorni tra la modifica al codice e l'effettiva possibilità di usare la novità sulla wiki, ma c'è da dire che all'epoca il tool era in manutenzione perché aveva qualche rognetta, dunque m'aspetto che stavolta i tempi siano più brevi. A presto.--GatoSelvadego (ciaciarade) 15:19, 4 giu 2017 (UTC)

Tnx, i proveroma a dovrelo. --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 17:18, 4 giu 2017 (UTC)

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,o	ó
\A	À
\E	È
\I	Ì
\O	Ò
\U	Ù
,E	É
:E	Ë
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^g	ĝ
^l	l̂
^r	r̂
:a	ä
^G	Ĝ
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<vec>Bon, me par che le funsione tute (manca calcosa?). Co se scrive par che ghe sia un problema co le L e le R co'l capel, ma dopo co se publica le vien fora come che le ga da vegner fora, me par. PS: volevo metare sta tabèla anca so mediawiki (so la pàgina ndove che la ga da ndar) ma no se riese. PPS: se ghe xe dimande feme un fis-cio.</vec>--GatoSelvadego (ciaciarade) 22:26, 10 giu 2017 (UTC)

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

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

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 21:39, 8 giu 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

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

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

Read and translate the full message

Mersì! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33, 29 giu 2017 (UTC)

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

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

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

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:33, 20 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Passaggio da Tidy a RemexHTML: c'è del lavoro da fare

Scusate l'italiano anche se di origini piemontesi non so scrivere in piemontese :) Segnalo la discussione it:Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Passaggio da Tidy a RemexHTML: c'è del lavoro da fare su it.wikipedia. La questione riguarda tutte le wiki. L'elenco degli errori lo trovate in questa pagina. Il problema principale sono gli errori ad alta priorità in Table tag that should be deleted. Credo che il problema sia legato ai template {{Prinsipi}} e {{Fin}}, se potete darci un'occhiata. Se non sapete come fare potete chiedere su it.wikipedia dove avviso di questo messaggio. --ValterVB (ciaciarade) 19:05, 24 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Premesso che avvolgere l'intero contenuto di una voce in un table è assolutamente sconsigliato, Stamp:Prinsipi va corretto così:

{{#if: {{{Tìtol|}}}
  |{{Test koiné|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
  |{{Test koiné sempi}}
}}
{| style="float:left; width:100%;"
|-
| valign="top" |


<noinclude>
[[Categorìa:Stamp dla man drita]]
[[Categorìa:Stamp condissionaj]]
</noinclude>

mentre Stamp:Test koiné così:

<includeonly><div style="width: 450px; border:solid blue 1px; margin: 1px;">
<table cellspacing="0" style="border:solid red 1px; margin: 1px; width: 448px; background: lightblue;">
<tr>
<td rowspan="3" style="width: 45px; height: 28px; text-align: center;">[[Figura:Drapò piemontèis.png|78px]]</td>
<td style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 2pt 0pt 0pt 4pt; line-height: 1em; color: black;">'''[[{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Artìcol prinsipal]] an [[lenga piemontèisa]]'''</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 1pt 0pt 0pt 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: black;">Version an parlà locaj: [[Wikipedia:Astësan:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Astësan]] [[Wikipedia:Bielèis:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Bielèis]] [[Wikipedia:Canavzan:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Canavzan]] [[Wikipedia:Langhèt:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Langhèt]] [[Wikipedia:Lissandrin:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Lissandrin]] [[Wikipedia:Monfrin:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Monfrin]] [[Wikipedia:Noarèis:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Noarèis]] [[Wikipedia:Valsesian:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Valsesian]] [[Wikipedia:Valsusin:{{{Tìtol|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|Valsusin]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 1pt 0pt 0pt 4pt; line-height: 1.25em; color: black;">Për amprende a dovré 'l sistema dle parlà locaj [[Agiut:Parlà locaj|ch'a varda sì]]</td>
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| {{localurl:Bielèis:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Bielèis|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Canavzan:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Canavzan|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Langhèt:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Langhèt|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Lissandrin:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Lissandrin|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Monfrin:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Monfrin|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Noarèis:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Noarèis|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Valsesian:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Valsesian|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
| {{localurl:Valsusin:{{{Tìtol|gnun}}}}} = {{Valsusin|Tìtol={{{Tìtol}}}}}
}}</includeonly><noinclude>
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[[categorìa:stamp për la classìfica lenghìstica dij test]]
[[categorìa:stamp condissionaj]]
</noinclude>

Poi in Stamp:Fin c'è quel div di chiusura da correggere in </div>. Fatto ciò, controlliamo il risultato.--Sakretsu (ciaciarade) 20:25, 24 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Buongiorno, rispondo senza problemi in italiano, ci mancherebbe. Sto provando a capire in cosa consistano le modifiche necessarie ma ammetto tutta la mia ignoranza in campo di programmazione... qualche anima buona potrebbe darmi una breve ripetizione a prova di tonto? Rileggendo le discussioni di qualche tempo fa, era già emersa una certa inadeguatezza dello stamp:Fin che rende ostica la lettura da smartphone. Purtroppo ho l'impressione che, al pari mio, anche gli altri amministratori della Wikipedia Piemontèisa non siano molto ferrati in materia (o se lo sono risultano un po' assenti). Ho modificato gli Stamp Prinsipi e Fin nel modo suggerito da Sakretsu (per ora ho lasciato in sospeso lo Stamp:Test koiné) ma al momento non mi sembra che si vedano cambiamenti nella lista delle pagine che presentano errori. Scusate ancora, grazie per l'interessamento e ancor più grazie se saprete aiutarmi. --Lissànder (ciaciarade) 20:30, 25 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Le mie modifiche tentano solo di assicurare che tutti i tag HTML siano disposti e si susseguano correttamente. Tidy vi sta correggendo gli errori HTML in automatico, ma quando si passerà a RemexHTML quelli di alta priorità renderanno le voci illegibili. Le pagine con errore sul Prinsipi stanno calando lentamente; tuttavia mi serve che aggiorni anche il Test koiné per via di altri problemi minori. Quanto al Fin, viene inserito solo assieme al Prinsipi? Se sì, posso unire i due template ed evitare che l'intera voce sia posta in un table (cosa immotivata). P.S. per piacere, rispondimi wikilinkando il mio nome utente per farmi arrivare la notifica "di là", grazie.--Sakretsu (ciaciarade) 22:18, 25 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Grazie ancora Sakretsu, sono partito correggendo i tre template che mi hai segnalato e sto provando a correggere poco alla volta gli errori minori. Prinsipi e Fin viaggiano sostanzialmente sempre insieme ma si stava pensando di modificare Fin perché con la sua fascia laterale disturba abbastanza la lettura da smartphone, al momento rimanderei l'unione dei due template, a meno che la presenza dei due template all'inizio e alla fine non risulti particolarmente problematica (è questo che intendi quando ti riferisci alle voci inserite in un table? non ho capito bene quella parte). Grazie ancora, Lissànder (ciaciarade) 21:11, 27 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Sì, per ottimizzare i contenuti dovreste rivedere quella fascia laterale per piazzarla semplicemente a fine voce orizzontalmente (in questa maniera Prinsipi e Fin diventerebbero indipendenti). Comunque vi ho sistemato anche il template Stamp:DemogFR e adesso siete messi benissimo. Ciao.--Sakretsu (ciaciarade) 21:58, 27 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Pensavo proprio a una modifica del genere, prima o poi penso che sarà implementata. Grazie mille per l'aiuto! --Lissànder (ciaciarade) 22:23, 27 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Template Stamp:Utent bogianen

C'è da fare una piccola modifica a questo template. C'è da sostituire il tag <center> con <div align="center"> e il corrispondente tag di chiusura </center> con </div>, serve un admin

Bele fàit! [Fatto, grazie mille!]

Improved search in deleted pages archive

Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua

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

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

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

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

Mersì! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 Luj 2017 (UTC)

Template laterale nelle voci

Ciao a tutti, come al solito scusate l'italiano. Vista la discussione poco sopra vorrei rinnoivare il mio invito di qualche anno fa, quando non raccolse abbastanza consenso, ad eliminare il template laterale presente in ogni voce, che dovrebbe essere lo Stamp:Fin. A mio parere danneggia il Progetto in molti modi, e non apporta nessun beneficio. Intanto per ora non funziona correttamente, lasciando una colonnina inutilizzabile sotto di se per tutta la lunghezza della pagina; punto due, tutti i link che incorpora sono linkati già nella pagina principale, che è la più visitata del sito e quella dove normalmente ci si aspetterebbe di trovarli, quindi sono già accessibili; terzo, non c'entrano nulla con le voci, e nonostante questo occupano spazio al loro interno, creando seri problemi di visualizzazione con altri template e con le immagini; quarto, il template è pensato per incoraggiare la contribuzione, ma un utente che volesse scrivere in piemontese già si trova spesso alle prese con una poca dimestichezza con il computer, le regole di Wikipedia e il suo editor di pagine, figuriamoci imparare a mettere correttamente un template nelle nuove voci, questo secondo me può scoraggiare e avere un effetto controproducente, senza contare che alla fine avremmo alcune voci con il template e altre no. Ultimo ma non ultimo, questo template a mio modestissimo avviso rende tutta la Wikipedia in piemontese con un'apparenza di progetto poco serio, amatoriale, sembra uno di quei siti parrocchiali con mille link in ogni pagina, tenuto insieme dalla pro loco di qualche paesino, e toglie alla lingua piemontese (sempre a mio avviso) la dignità che merita nel panorama di Wikipedia. Nessun'altra Wikipedia infatti, nemmeno quelle con 50 voci, hanno niente di simile. Noi dobbiamo offrire dei contenuti enciclopedici in lingua piemontese, e il sito deve non solo essere, ma anche apparire serio e i contenuti facilmente fruibili (non immagino nemmeno cosa succeda accedendo da uno smartphone). E allora nelle pagine di contenuto lasciamo i contenuti, e mettiamo i link utili in pagina principale e nelle pagine di aiuto. La mia proposta quindi è di rimuoverlo del tutto dalle voci, io ci vedo solo effetti (molto) negativi e nessuno positivo. Avviso chi ha preso parte alla discussione precedente sui template. :-) --Phyrexian ɸ 07:03, 5 Aos 2017 (UTC)

Ah, non avevo fatto caso a cosa rimandassero quei link. Effettivamente non ci dovrebbero proprio essere.--Sakretsu (ciaciarade) 08:24, 5 Aos 2017 (UTC)

Proseguo in italiano, anche se un po' a malincuore perché non è nello spirito di questa Wiki e vorrei evitare che diventasse una sezione distaccata regionale della wiki italiana (che ammiro e sostengo, scrivo senza alcuna polemica). Personalmente non sono un sostenitore dello Stamp:Fin, principalmente perché ostacola la lettura da smartphone (cosa non prevedibile ai tempi in cui il template era stato creato) e anche perché condivido il dubbio estetico-funzionale segnalato da Phyrexian (anche se si entra nel campo della soggettività). Rispetto alle Wiki maggiori, quella piemontèisa nasce con un grosso limite che è inutile nascondere: purtroppo il piemontese è una lingua morente, parlata sempre di meno (soprattutto da persone con poca dimestichezza informatica) e con un grosso problema di trascrizione che lo rende ostico a tutti noi "nativi" italiani o spagnoli (le o che si leggono u, ecc...). Credo che l'intento di chi in passato abbia voluto inserire quel template in ogni pagina fosse proprio quello di insistere sulle regole base della lingua perché è impossibile contribuire a un progetto collettivo se non si mantiene viva una base di regole comuni che rendano mutualmente comprensibili i contenuti delle pagine. Nei primi anni della wiki, una buona parte delle attività degli amministratori consisteva nel tradurre in piemontese corretto i testi di chi scriveva "a orecchio" e non era un'attività sostenibile, e per di più poteva rimanere in tanti utenti il dubbio che quelle modifiche fossero arbitrarie e che non rispecchiassero il piemontese che avevano in mente. Per quanto mi riguarda, sono dell'idea che sia ancora necessario un rimando alle regole base di scrittura della lingua. Si potrebbero incorporare le tre o quattro voci di natura prettamente grammaticale all'interno dello Stamp:Prinsipi, che al momento ha più l'obiettivo di gestire le varianti locali. Sorgono però due tipi di problema:

• il primo nuovamente estetico: quei rimandi andrebbero orientati orizzonalmente per evitare di avere un'altra volta una colonna inutilizzabile a destra, sarebbe meglio allinearli al riquadro azzurro a inizio pagina o sarebbe possibile inserirli a fondo pagina? Allungare troppo quel riquadro orizzontale potrebbe però ostacolare in un modo diverso la lettura da smartphone?
• il secondo problema sarebbe di tipo pratico: quasi tutte le pagine contengono lo Stamp:Fin. Bisognerebbe intervenire manualmente per eliminare il template dalle pagine? Sarebbe un lavoro immane.

Ah, rimarrebbe anche un altro problemino... io dal punto di vista informatico non avrei proprio idea di come fare. Grazie per questa discussione, mi auguro che vi contribuiscano anche altri utenti attivi (sempre che ci siano e che ci leggano). Buona giornata, Lissànder (ciaciarade) 10:05, 5 Aos 2017 (UTC)

Condivido che sarebbe molto meglio scrivere in piemontese, ma appunto gli altri partecipanti alla discussione non comprenderebbero nulla, e a me richiederebbe uno sforzo eccessivo scrivere, e già in questo periodo non ho tempo per Wikipedia. A margine, questo wiki esiste per produrre un'enciclopedia in piemontese, che quindi è la lingua che va usata nelle pagine di contenuto, mentre le discussioni sono solo uno strumento, e se per mandare avanti la baracca, considerati tutti i ben noti problemi della lingua piemontese, è necessario discutere anche in lingue diverse, ben venga, quello che conta è scrivere le voci.

Tornando al template Fin, come già detto io sarei per eliminarlo totalmente, perché come dice Lissànder è stato creato in una stagione del sito con delle problematiche differenti. Adesso il numero di utenti attivi è ridotto quasi a zero, quindi anche la problematica del correggere l'ortografia si è fatta molto meno pressante (per non dire nulla), e in ogni caso un nuovo utente che scrivesse una voce "ad orecchio" dubito che si darebbe la pena di seguire tutti quei link, qualcuno dovrebbe comunque correggere la sua voce e linkargli le pagine giuste, e per fare questo non serve avere un template in ogni voce. Ribadisco che tutti quei link devono certamente essere presenti nella pagina principale, su questo non ci piove. Per rimuovere il template da migliaia di pagine in realtà basterebbe programmare un bot, possiamo chiedere su it.wiki per comodità e qualcuno può passare qui a fare pulizia, una volta raggiunto il consenso, nessun lavoro immane quindi. :-) Integrare il Fin nel Prinsipi non mi pare una buona idea, primo perché il secondo template ha appunto uno scopo differente, secondo perché io continuo a vederci solo effetti negativi e nessun vantaggio. --Phyrexian ɸ 18:08, 9 Aos 2017 (UTC)

Mah, còs i veule ch'iv disa, a sarà përchè l'heu vistla nasse, ma mi i son afessionà a coj stamp (template). --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 19:42, 9 Aos 2017 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 21:06, 17 Stè 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

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

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

Background

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

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

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

Why not watchlists

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

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

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

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 Stè 2017 (UTC)

Assemblea WMI a Torino il 14 ottobre

Segnalo la pagina del raduno e per chi è socio WMI anche la possibilità di decidere i temi della non conferenza mattutina, qui in "wikina"--Alexmar983 (ciaciarade) 05:31, 29 Stè 2017 (UTC)

presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory and asking for a vounteer in Piemontèis Wikipedia

Hello everyone,

My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.

I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Piemontèis Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Piemontèis Wikipedia much more multicultural. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Piemontèis Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :). If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (ciaciarade) 22:21, 9 Otó 2017 (UTC) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Mersì!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 nov 2017 (UTC)

Gboard an piemontèis

Gboard, l'App për Android ëd Google, a l'ha amplementà 'l supòrt pël la Lenga Piemontèisa, comprèis le funsion ëd sugeriment. A smija che bon-a part dël vocabolari a sia stàit pijà dai test ëd la Wikipedia. Compliment a tùit! --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 11:17, 17 Dze 2017 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 Dze 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

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

MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 10:46, 21 Dze 2017 (UTC)

itWikiCon 2018: sondaggio per il coinvolgimento della comunità

Ciao a tutti! Come alcuni di voi sapranno, stiamo organizzando la seconda edizione di itWikiCon dopo quella di novembre 2017. Anche quest'anno abbiamo intenzione di chiedere un conference grant a Wikimedia Foundation: per fare ciò, e per raccogliere il consenso della comunità abbiamo preparato un questionario anonimo che siete tutti invitati a compilare. Potete trovarlo a questo link (il questionario è ospitato da Google, ma non richiede alcuna autenticazione). Per rispondere avete tempo fino a venerdì 2 febbraio 2018, ore 22.00 (CET).--Ferdi2005 (ciaciarade) 17:40, 7 gen 2018 (UTC)

Mersì, --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 20:55, 7 gen 2018 (UTC)

Registrazioni di utenze in automatico

Salve, mi chiedo se anche a voi è successo un qualcosa di particolare ieri. Una cosa che non riesco a capire è che si registrano utenze globali in automatico, a me è successo che mi ci si sono collegate ad altri progetti wikipedia che non le ho collegate io stesso, ma non so chi o cosa fa tutto questo??? qualcuno ne sa qualcosa? ho scritto su meta. --S4b1nuz E.656 (ciaciarade) 09:07, 11 Fër 2018 (UTC)

A l'é 'l funsionament normal dël SUL (Single Unified Login). S'it ses colegà (logged in) e it vas dzor na wiki anté it ses mai andait, për prima còsa at crea l'utensa. --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 17:33, 11 Fër 2018 (UTC)

ecco le risposte su meta (anche se non riesco a capirci quasi niente), in pratica parlano di manutenzione o un qualcosa del genere... --S4b1nuz E.656 (ciaciarade) 17:20, 12 Fër 2018 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (ciaciarade) 14:28, 12 mar 2018 (UTC)

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

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

Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 24 Avr 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 maj 2018 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Expansions

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

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

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 maj 2018 (UTC)

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

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Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 giu 2018 (UTC)

Wikisource an piemontèis

A l'é nassuje la Wikisource an piemontèis: http://pms.wikisource.org. A l'è già staita giontà, ant la pàgina d'intrada, com un dij proget frej.

--Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 20:07, 13 giu 2018 (UTC)

Strategia WMI - incontro 7 luglio 2018 a Milano

Il giorno 7 luglio 2018 c'è il primo degli incontri organizzati da WMI per definire le strategie. La riunione è aperta anche ai nono soci, ed è previsto che sarà replicata in altre città italiane per venire incontro a chi abita in altre zone. [1]. Potrebbero diventare l'ottima occasione per chiedere di inserire nella strategia generale di WMI le attività svolte nelle lingue regionali dai vari progetti wikimediani. Del resto il 2019 è stato dichiarato dall'ONU l'anno internazionale delle lingue autoctone -Mizardellorsa (talk) 03:53, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

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

19:19, 10 Luj 2018 (UTC)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 Luj 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

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

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

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

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

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

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

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 6 Aos 2018 (UTC)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 Aos 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

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

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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

13:33, 6 Stè 2018 (UTC)

Aperte le iscrizioni per itWikiCon 2018

Ciao a tutti. Da venerdì 16 a domenica 18 novembre 2018, Como ospiterà la seconda edizione di itWikiCon. Da ora e fino al 7 novembre è possibile registrarsi seguendo le istruzioni presenti a questo link. Nella stessa pagina trovate anche le istruzioni per richiedere una borsa di partecipazione e il relativo regolamento. Le richieste per le borse possono essere presentate fino al 20 ottobre.
Ulteriori informazioni logistiche si trovano sul sito dell'evento, mentre il programma (non ancora definitivo) è disponibile su meta: ItWikiCon/2018/Programma
Ne approfitto anche per ricordarvi che potete votare per scegliere il logo di itWikiCon, in questa pagina.
Per qualsiasi domanda potete scrivere qui, oppure a Ysogo e, per questioni relative al programma, CristianNX, Civvì e Ruthven. --Superchilum (ciaciarade) 07:17, 7 Otó 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

11:06, 30 Otó 2018 (UTC)

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

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

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Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Mersì!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 nov 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 nov 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 nov 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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

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

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

Mersì!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 Dze 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 10:13, 27 Dze 2018 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

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

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

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 gen 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 Fër 2019 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
• Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
• JSTOR – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 17:40, 13 mar 2019 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

10:56, 8 Avr 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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

Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it :)

Hello all,

Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of Wikidata, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles. This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.

This is the reason why the Wikidata Bridge project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.

The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of development will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.

In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.

Here’s the planned timeline:

• From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
• From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
• Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
  • We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
  • but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of the first test round.
  • Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
  • Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.

In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.

If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:

• Read and help translating the documentation pages
• Follow the updates and participate in the first feedback loop
• Talk about it with your local community

More ideas will be added on this page along the way

If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them on the main talk page. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.

Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:03, 24 giu 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 08:03, 16 Aos 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

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

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

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

Johan (WMF)

14:18, 21 Aos 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

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

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

How can you help?

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

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

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

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

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 Stè 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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

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

We would like individual feedback on the following:

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

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

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

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

As well as the following constraints:

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

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

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

Mersì! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

07:18, 16 Otó 2019 (UTC)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.

Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 Otó 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

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Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 16:57, 31 Otó 2019 (UTC)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 14:16, 27 nov 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

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

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (ciaciarade) 06:15, 18 gen 2020 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

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

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

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 gen 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

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

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:15, 26 Fër 2020 (UTC)

Sistemà jë stamp Prinsipi e Fin. Considerassion

Jë stamp {{Prinsipi}} e {{Fin}} a son stàit sistemà an manera da pi nen creé problem ant la visualisassion dzor sviciofonin (smartphones). An pràtica lòn ch'a-i càpita a l'é che ij doi stamp a son pi nen visualisà dzor sviciofonin, e sòn-sì a s'oten con la diretiva <div class="nomobile">...</div>.

Le preuve a son stàite fàite dzor costi ambient:

• dzor ij desktop Windows 7 e Windows 10, con i navigador Chrome e Explorer: tut OK, a resta tut com prima;
• dzor un Android Samsung, con ij navigador Chrome e Internet: tut OK, jë stamp a ven-o pi nen fòra;
• dzor l'App "Wikipedia" për Android, butà a disposission ufissialment da Wikimedia. Tut OK, jë stamp a ven-o pi nen fòra, ma a son agiornà con vaire ore ëd ritard, miraco a-i é cheicòs ch'a va an "cache" da cheiche part.

Le lession amparà da costa esperiensa e le indicassion ch'as peulo desse a son coste:

• dël 2008 a l'era stait-ie dle discussion con dij trolls ch'a rivavo da IT-WIKI, e che a contestavo ël fait che as dovrava dzortut ël piemontèis standard (o koiné);
• antlora a l'era butasse an pé jë stamp {{Prinsipi}} e {{Fin}}, con ël but ëd përmëtte ëd contribuì 'dcò ant le diferente variant dël piemontèis, ma fasend an manera che tute le vërsion ëd na vos a contèisso mach sempre për un-a (e a l'era anda-ie un bel sfòrs ëd programassion);
• belavans, ant ël temp a l'era dësmentiasse 'l but originari dij doi stamp, e a l'era ancaminasse a dovreje an tute le vos, combin che le vos a fusso mach sempre an piemontèis standard e fasèissa pròpi nen da manca djë stamp;
• as propon che, da adess an anans, ij doi stamp a sìo dovrà mach se na vos a l'é scrivùa ant na variant diferenta dal piemontèis standard (donca, scasi mai);
• as propon ëdcò che, se un a veul gavé jë stamp da na vos esistenta e che a sia mach an piemontèis standard, a peussa felo con sò còmod.
• (per vëdde esempi d'artìcon con pi vërsion, ch'as varda për esempi Àfrica o Cristòfo Colomb).

--Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 12:39, 6 maj 2020 (UTC)

I l'hai provà 'dcò mi su col navigador Chrome an Android e col navigador Safari an sl'iPhone. Jë stamp as vogo pì nen, con l'ecession ëd le pàgine ch'a l'han lë stamp {{Prinsipi|Tìtol=.....}}, 'me cola 'd Cristòfo Colomb cità sì-dzora. I savìa nen la stòria djë stamp, che tristëssa fé tut cost ciadel për ij caprissi 'd chi a l'ha mai dàit squasi gnun contribut. L'intension però a l'era giusta e as sa mai che prima o dòp a podran torna esse dovrà për na bon-a càusa. I son d'acòrdi a dovreje mach pì andova ch'a sìo necessari. Cerea, --Lissànder (ciaciarade) 20:07, 6 maj 2020 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 Luj 2020 (UTC)

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Feedback on movement names

Ciao. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua if necessary. Mersì!

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

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

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:42, 2 Luj 2020 (UTC)

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

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:10, 9 Luj 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): we want to hear from you.

Ciao. Apologies that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following message may be available on Meta. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua. Mersì!

At times, our contributor communities and projects have suffered from a lack of guidelines that can help us create an environment where free knowledge can be shared safely without fear. There has been talk about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time.

Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced a Community Culture Statement, asking for new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.

The universal code of conduct will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, and will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe. It is of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC and its values. We should think about what we want it to cover or include and what it shouldn’t include, and how it may create difficulties or help our groups.

This is the time to talk about it. Before starting drafting the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you and to solicit the opinions and feedback of your colleagues. In order for your voice to be heard, we encourage and invite you to read more about the universal code of conduct (UCoC) and then write down your opinions or feedback on the discussion page.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcome to translate the universal code of conduct main page from English into your respective local language. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation 16:42, 22 Luj 2020 (UTC)

Cambiare l'orario del server di questa Wiki

Ciao a tutti, scusatemi per l'italiano. Ho notato che su questa Wiki viene utilizzato quello di Londra (UTC), vorrei proporre di cambiare l'orario da quello di Londra a quello di Roma (CET/CEST).

Ho pensato che si può tenere una votazione su questa pagina (mi è venuta in mente solo quella) perché si potrebbe includere alcune Wiki regionali che hanno ancora l'orario di Londra, anche per lasciare un evidenza quando andrò a fare una richiesta su Phabricator. Che ne pensate? --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 16:22, 29 Luj 2020 (UTC)

Gentile S4b1nuz E.656, chiedo scusa per il ritardo nella risposta, sono stato lontano dalla wiki per qualche settimana. Per quanto mi riguarda, appoggio la tua proposta. Non saprei bene come procedere, ma la questione non mi pare controversa (si tratterebbe di adottare il fuso orario in uso in Piemonte). Dragonòt ti 't l'has chèich problema a viré l'orari ofissial dla Wiki? Personalmente, sulla pagina meta.wikimedia procederò esprimendo l'opzione di "Support" personale. Per dichiarare la proposta accettata a livello di Wiki PMS aspetterei ancora un pochino (fine agosto sarebbe accettabile?) per dare modo ad altri di esprimere un parere. Nel caso in cui nessuno si opponesse, considererei la proposta accettata. Saluti, --Lissànder (ciaciarade) 13:00, 18 Aos 2020 (UTC)

[@ Lissànder] Cerea, grazie per il tuo parere. Certo, aspetto con pazienza altri pareri da questa Wiki senza fretta. Saluti e buona giornata! --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 15:22, 21 Aos 2020 (UTC)

Cerea, i l'heu dàit ël mè Support an sla pàgina dla votassion. --Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 20:34, 25 Aos 2020 (UTC)

La fin dël mèis a l'é rivà, i dirìa ch'as peussa porté anans l'arcesta 'd viré l'ora. I l'hai modificà la pàgina dla votassion an ëscrivend che la propòsta a l'é stàita acetà. / La fine del mese è arrivata, direi che si possa portare avanti la richiesta di cambiare l'ora. Ho modificato la pagina della votazione scrivendo che la proposta è stata accettata. Cerea, --Lissànder (ciaciarade) 10:31, 31 Aos 2020 (UTC)

Ciao a tutti, ho chiuso la votazione su Meta come Proposta accettata per questa Wiki. Ora la richiesta è disponibile su Phabricator includendo questa wiki e altre 4. Quando il fuso orario di quello di Roma (anche conosciuto come quello di Berlino) verrà applicato, vi avviserò appena posso. Buona giornata a tutti. --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 13:18, 17 Stè 2020 (UTC)

Ciao a tutti. Vi volevo semplicemente avvisare che alla fine è stato aggiornato l'orario del server per questa Wiki, buona serata a tutti! --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 20:40, 22 Stè 2020 (CEST)

Mersì. Un ringrassiament ëd cheur për la colaborassion. Dragonòt (ciaciarade) 10:25, 26 Stè 2020 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:14, 6 Aos 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 Aos 2020 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
• Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
• RILM – Music encyclopedias

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 Stè 2020 (UTC)

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Invitation to participate in the conversation

Ciao. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua. Mersì!

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 Stè 2020 (UTC) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

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Ciao. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Mersì! --Quiddity (WMF)

23:22, 29 Stè 2020 (CEST)

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

Ciao. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua.

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

Mersì! Qgil-WMF (talk) 19:17, 7 Otó 2020 (CEST)

Partecipate alla tavola rotonda sui progetti fratelli alla ItWikiCon!

Ciao a tutti! Alla prossima ItWikicon, che si svolgerà online il weekend del 24-25 ottobre prossimi, ci sarà una tavola rotonda sui progetti fratelli (comprese le diverse versioni linguistiche) il sabato dalle 11.30 alle 13.15 (maggiori informazioni qui). L'idea è di analizzare insieme punti di forza e criticità dei diversi progetti e riflettere su strumenti comuni che possano potenziarne il funzionamento, in particolare nei collegamenti tra di loro. Sarebbe bello avere un'ampia partecipazione da parte di utenti attivi nei progetti fratelli, quindi vi invitiamo a presenziare :-) è aperto a tutti e non è necessario registrarsi (quindi si può tranquillamente restare anonimi). Cogliamo l'occasione per confrontarci insieme! --Superchilum (ciaciarade) 23:08, 12 Otó 2020 (CEST)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 19:11, 21 Otó 2020 (CEST)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

Ciao. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. Mersì! --Quiddity (WMF)

23:10, 5 nov 2020 (CET)

Sondaggio 2021 dei desideri della comunità

Inizia il sondaggio 2021 dei desideri della comunità! Il sondaggio serve alla comunità per decidere su che cosa il Community Tech team debba lavorare il prossimo anno. Incoraggiamo chiunque ad avanzare proposte entro la scadenza del 30 novèmber e a commentare le proposte altrui per aiutare a migliorarle. Le comunità voteranno le proposte tra l'8 dzèmber e il 21 dzèmber.

Il Community Tech team presta particolare attenzione agli strumenti destinati agli editori di Wikimedia con più esperienza. Puoi avanzare proposte scrivendo in qualsiasi lingua. Ci penseremo poi noi a tradurle per te. Grazie, non vediamo l'ora di leggere le tue proposte!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 05:46, 20 nov 2020 (CET)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

Ciao!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Aiutaci a tradurre nella tua lingua. According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.

As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.

A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.

By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Martin Urbanec (discussion) 12:49, 24 nov 2020 (CET)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:39, 30 nov 2020 (CET)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

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

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:55, 7 Dze 2020 (CET)

Sondaggio 2021 sui desideri della comunità

Tutti gli utenti registrati sono invitati a votare nel sondaggio 2021 sui desideri della comunità. Puoi votare da adesso fino 21 dicembre per tutti i vari desideri che preferisci.

Nel sondaggio vengono raccolti i desideri sui nuovi strumenti o sui miglioramenti di strumenti già esistenti per i contributori esperti. Dopo la votazione faremo del nostro meglio per esaudire i tuoi desideri. Inizieremo con quelli più popolari.

Noi, Community Tech, siamo uno dei team della Wikimedia Foundation. Creiamo e miglioriamo gli strumenti di modifica e moderazione dei progetti wiki. Ciò su cui lavoriamo viene deciso in base ai risultati del sondaggio sui desideri della comunità. Puoi inviare i desideri una volta l'anno. Dopo due settimane puoi votare quelli che ti interessano di più. Successivamente sceglieremo dal sondaggio i desideri su cui lavorare. Alcuni desideri possono essere gestiti da sviluppatori volontari o da altri team.

Aspettiamo il tuo voto. Grazie!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:21, 11 Dze 2020 (CET)