Wikikilden:Kontoret

Kontoret

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Wikidata is here!

Hey everyone :)

As previously announced we have just enabled interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This means from now on you no longer have to maintain the links in the Wikitext but can maintain them together with the links for Wikipedia, Commons and Wikivoyage on Wikidata. You will still be able to keep them locally though if you want to. Local interwiki links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata. You do not yet have access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of an author. That will come in a future deployment. I will let you know when I have a date for it.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good first step. It also has a list of people familiar with both Wikisource and Wikidata who are able to help you out. That is also a good place for any issues or bugs you encounter.

I'm really excited to welcome you all to Wikidata! I hope it will become a great help for Wikisource.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) via MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 14. jan. 2014 kl. 22:07 (CET)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16. jan. 2014 kl. 07:47 (CET)

Access to data in Wikidata

Hey :)

(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)

Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more interesting is access to the data in Wikidata like the date of birth of an author or the year a book was published. We have planned this for February 25th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new opportunities for you.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good place to find help.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 27. jan. 2014 kl. 14:51 (CET)

Frigör Bokhylla

För en vecka sedan deltog jag i #hack4no, ett evenemang i Oslo arrangerat av Kulturrådet, där jag bland annat lärde mig om Nasjonalbibliotekets API. Som mitt tävlingsbidrag gjorde jag en sida i Prosjekt Runeberg som förtecknar de digitaliserade verk hos NB som är äldre än 1890, men ännu (felaktigt?) markerade som inte fria. Jag hoppas att ni vill hjälpa till att identifiera författare och ge feedback till NB om vilka verk som borde släppas fria. Här är ett exempel på sådan feedback. --LA2 (diskusjon) 14. feb. 2014 kl. 01:18 (CET)

När och varför dog Wikikilden?

I de 50 dagar som gått sedan jul 2013, har inga sidor blivit korrekturlästa i no.wikisource. Projektet verkar nu helt dött. Vad hände? --LA2 (diskusjon) 14. feb. 2014 kl. 01:41 (CET)

Hei. Det er ikke helt dødt her enda, men det er nok riktig at aktiviteten har gått ned. Dessverre ser det ikke ut til at nye bidragsytere kommer til. Kåre-Olav (diskusjon) 8. mar. 2014 kl. 14:41 (CET)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 21. feb. 2014 kl. 23:00 (CET)

You can now access the data on Wikidata

Hey folks,

We have just enabled data access to Wikidata for Wikisource (except old-wikisource). This means you can now access data like the date of birth of an author or the ISBN of a book. You can do this in two ways. The first one is a parser function. You can use it like {{#property:capital}} or {{#property:P36}}. The second one is Lua. The documentation for that is at mw:Extension:WikibaseClient/Lua

If you have any questions you will find help at d:Wikidata:Wikisource and its talk page.

I hope you'll use this to do some kick-ass things on Wikisource ;-)

Cheers Lydia Pintscher 25. feb. 2014 kl. 20:54 (CET)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

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

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

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 28. feb. 2014 kl. 20:44 (CET)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 13. mar. 2014 kl. 22:56 (CET)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

Rett i muren

Ok. Jeg har opprettet en konto, funnet ut at boken jeg ønsker å legge inn ikke eksisterer på Wikisource fra før, begynt å lese introduksjonssidene i den tro at jeg var et oppegående menneske med litt over gjennomsnittlige dataferdigheter, og gått rett i muren. For enten har jeg utviklet en akutt suboptimal evne for tekstforståelse, eller så er ikke introduksjonstekstene egnet til å hjelpe andre enn dem som kan dette systemet godt fra før. Jeg forsøker deretter å kikke litt rundt på andre ferdige bøker her på Wikisource for å se om jeg blir klokere ved å klikke på redigeringsfanene, men nei... Spørsmålene blir bare flere av det. Og ikke finner jeg svarene på introduksjonssidene. Det jeg etterlyser, er rett og slett en kort og grei tekst som sier noe om hvordan boken skal se ut i redigeringsvinduet I EN HELHET. Da hjelper det ikke at jeg på introduksjonssidene får informasjon om mange forskjellige elementer, for jeg vet jo ikke hvordan de skal virke sammen med hverandre. I min ungdom likte jeg å bygge modellfly i plast, og da fulgte det med en monteringsanvisning som viste hvordan bitene skulle limes sammen med hverandre. Jeg hadde neppe kommet noen vei hvis jeg kun hadde fått informasjon om den enkelte plastbit. Jeg skal ikke bruke utestemme her, men jeg hadde vært takknemlig om noen kunne vise meg en slik monteringsanvisning for Wikisource, altså en oversikt som loser meg gjennom punkt for punkt. Under "Grunnleggende fremgangsmåte" i "Legge inn tekster" heter det at jeg skal begynne med å legge inn topp-malen (uten at det sies noe om hvordan dette gjøres), jeg skal legge inn teksten under dette og formatere den slik jeg ønsker (dette kan jeg lese meg til på andre sider), og at jeg skal legge til en bunn-mal hvis teksten synes å være for lang til å synes i et vindu. Vel, jeg vet ikke hvordan jeg legger til en bunn-mal (når jeg klikker på bunn-malens link får jeg beskjed om at den uansett ikke skal brukes hvis jeg velger å bruke en eller annen pages-tag), og jeg vet heller ikke hva som menes med "for lang til å synes i et vindu". Så skal jeg avslutte med å lagre. Hva med resten av bokens tekst, da? Under "Avansert fremgangsmåte" kommer flere oppfordringer uten noen som helst forklaring på selve fremgangsmåtene. Så blir jeg sittende igjen med mange tanker om HVA som skal gjøres, men ingen informasjon om HVORDAN det skal gjøres, eller HVOR jeg skal lete for å finne informasjon om løsningene. Ja, jeg kunne sikkert funnet ut av alt dette ved å bruke veldig lang tid på å rote rundt på alle mulige og umulige sider her inne, men det var vel ikke DET som var hensikten med introduksjonssidene? Stig Ove Voll (diskusjon) 6. mai 2014 kl. 02:33 (CEST)

Hei og velkommen til Wikikilden. Du har rett i at hjelpesidene våre ikke er særlig brukervennlige for øyeblikket. Dette skyldes at det har vært ganske store tekniske forandringer siden de første hjelpesidene ble skrevet, og at det for tiden er så få brukere her at det ikke har vært kapasitet til å oppdatere dem. Kort fortalt bruker vi nå et eget system som heter «Proofreadpage», som brukes til å sammenstille bilder og korrekturlest tekst. Her kan du lese litt om dette systemet. Ellers har engelsk Wikisource mye bedre hjelpesider enn oss.

Jeg ser at du vil arbeide med Charles Gordon-boken, så jeg har hjulpet deg litt på vei. For det første har jeg lastet opp hele boken i én fil fra Internet Archive til Commons: File:Charles Gordon som Christen og Soldat.djvu. Deretter har jeg laget en såkalt indeks-side: Indeks:Charles Gordon som Christen og Soldat.djvu, som inneholder lenker til sidene som skal fylles med tekst. Her kan du sette inn teksten din på hver enkelt side. Hvis du trenger hjelp til maskinlesning av teksten (OCR) kan vi hjelpe deg med det også. Jeg har begynt litt på side 3 for å vise hvordan det gjøres. Etterhvert som du fyller inn teksten vil den dukke opp her.

Håper dette hjelper deg litt på vei. Jeg tror det beste er at du spør på denne siden hvis det er noe du lurer på, så får du svar ganske raskt. Kåre-Olav (diskusjon) 7. mai 2014 kl. 21:02 (CEST)

Wikimedia-nytt, mars 2014

Highlights fra Wikimedia Foundation Report og Wikimedia engineering report for mars 2014 samt annet fra Wikimediabevegelsen

• Wikimedia Foundation fremhever
  • Ny Betafunksjon: Hovercards gir forhåndsvisning av artikler
  • Freskere typografi : Nytt utseende for tekst på Wikimedia sites
  • Utkast for årsplan lagt ut til drøfting i samfunnet og FDC
• Statistikk og trender
• Finanser
• Andre "highlights" fra Wikimedia movement
  • Årets bilde
  • Wikimedia Russia oppnår endringer i russiske copyright- og åndsverkslover

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Wikisource meetup at Wikimania 2014

Wikimania 2014 will be held in London this August and it will be a great opportunity to discuss how to use the recently created Wikisource Community User Group to coordinate and to better promote Wikisource. We would like to invite the participants of each Wikisource language community to showcase the projects has been working in the past year and, of course, learn from each other experiences. See you there? Sign up in the meeting page.
—The preceding MassMessage was sent by Micru on behalf of the Wikisource Community User Group.--13. mai 2014 kl. 08:59 (CEST)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 23. mai 2014 kl. 23:29 (CEST)

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Using only UploadWizard for uploads

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

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

• local "Last opp fil" restricted to the "Administratorer" group (for emergency uploads) and
• the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

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

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

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

Nemo 19. jun. 2014 kl. 15:09 (CEST)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 19. jun. 2014 kl. 23:54 (CEST)

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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

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

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

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21. aug. 2014 kl. 19:35 (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22. aug. 2014 kl. 00:15 (CEST)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 2. sep. 2014 kl. 18:52 (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

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

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

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

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 26. okt. 2014 kl. 19:04 (CET)

VIKTIG: Gjennomgang av administrative aktiviteter

Hallo. En ny policy vedrørende fjerning av rettigheter for administratorer, byråkrater o.a. er nettopp trådt i kraft global community consensus (Deres nettsamfunn har fått melding om den pågående diskusjonen).

I tråd med denne policyen følger stewardene med på administrative aktiviteter på mindre wikier. Så vidt vi er kjent med, har deres wiki ingen formell prosess for å fjerne "avanserte rettigheter" ved langvarig inaktivitet. Dette innebærer at stewardene vil ordne dette i tråd med de nye admin activity review oversikter over administratoraktiviteter.

Vi har funnet at følgende brukere kan ansees inaktive (ingen redigeringer og ingen logget aktivitet i mere enn 2 år)

1. Eirik (administrator)
2. Kjetil Svenheim (administrator)
3. Tokle (administrator)

Disse brukerne vil motta melding snart, om at de må ta det opp med wikisamfunnet om de ønsker å beholde rettighetene. Hvis henvendelsen ikke blir besvart, vil stewardene fjerne rettighetene.

Men nettsamfunnet står fritt til å skape egne prosedyrer. Det kan også ha skjedd at vi ikke har fått med oss allerede eksisterende prosedyrer. I så fall: Meld fra til stewards on Meta-Wiki slik at vi ikke kjører prosedyren på deres Wiki. Takk! Rschen7754 4. nov. 2014 kl. 05:22 (CET)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 14. nov. 2014 kl. 18:34 (CET)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, desember 2014

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia blog for desember 2014, om et utvalg av activities of the Wikimedia Foundation og andre viktige hendelser fra Wikimediabevegelsen.

• Hvordan vi fikk Wikipediaredigering til å gå dobbelt så raskt
• "Top 10 most edited pages on English Wikipedia in 2014"
• Wiki Loves Earth 2014 vinnerne:
• Wikipedia’s aller første års- video
• En vennlighetskultur
• Global impact: The Wikipedia Library og Persian Wikipedia
• Om å legge inn kunnskaper fra innfødte samfunn

Help is welcome for translating the January 2015 Wikimedia Highlights, too.

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[Global proposal] m.Wikikilden.org: (alle) Redigere sider

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like no.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1. mar. 2015 kl. 23:33 (CET)

Inspire-kampanjen for å forbedre mangfold og innhold

I mars organiserer vi Inspire-kampanjen som søker å fremme og støtte nye ideer for å forbedre kjønnsubalansen på Wikimedia-prosjektene. Mindre enn 20 % av Wikimedias bidragsytere er kvinner, og mange viktige emner mangler fortsatt dekning på prosjektene våre. Vi inviterer alle wikimedianere til å delta. Om du har en idé som kan hjelpe til å fikse dette problemet er du velkommen til å involvere deg i dag! Kampanjen varer til 31. mars.

Alle forslag er velkomne – forskningsprosjekter, tekniske løsninger, samfunnsorganiserings- og utrekningsinitiativer, eller noe helt nytt! Finansiering fra Wikimedia Foundation er tilgjengelig for prosjekter som trenger det. Konstruktive og positive tilbakemeldinger til ideer settes pris på, og samarbeid oppmuntres – din erfaring kan hjelpe andres prosjekter til live. Bli med i Inspire-kampanjen og hjelp til å forbedre Wikimedia-prosjektenes dekning av verdens kunnskap. MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 5. mar. 2015 kl. 00:34 (CET)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13. mar. 2015 kl. 20:45 (CET)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10. apr. 2015 kl. 18:13 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, februar 2015

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia bloggen i februar 2015. De dekker utvalgte aktiviteter og hendelser hos WMF og andre av WMs undergrupper.

• Love on the Wikis
• A WikiLove story (En WikiLove-historie).
• Hvem lenker til Wikipedia?
• Hva er Wikipedia Zero? (VIDEO)
• Delta i "Wikimedia strategy consultation"
• "Black History Month" edit-a-thons håndterer Wikipedia’s multikulturelle gap
• Wiki Loves Africa fotokonkurransens vinnerbilder offentliggjøres

Help is welcome for translating the March 2015 Wikimedia Highlights, too.

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Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia. Your project is one of the next ones:

• 18. May: Farsi Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, Hebrew Wikipedia
• 1. June: Italian Wikipedia, all remaining Wikisource

We hope to have it rolled out nearly everywhere by the end of June 2015.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

How to use it, once it is enabled:

• Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
• Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

Cheers Lydia Pintscher 13. mai 2015 kl. 17:19 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia-nytt, april 2015

Her er de viktigste postene fra highlights fra Wikimedia bloggen fra april 2015.

• Nye tillegg for Wikipedia iOS app hjelper leserne til å søke, utforske og dele kunnskap.
• Wiki Learning holder massivt edit-a-thon ved Tec de Monterrey i Mexico City
• De første Wikipedia TV spots og bevissthetsskapende kampanje i Kamerun (VIDEO)
• Kjendisfotograf Allan Warren deler sine blinkskudd med Wikipedia
• Den nye "Wikipedia store" er i gang
• En Wikimedianer anmoder Europaparlamentet om reform av copyright-lovgivningen
• Delta i Wiki Loves Earth 2015: hjelp til med å fange inn vår naturarv

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 25. mai 2015 kl. 07:19 (CEST)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

(Sorry for writing in English.)

I have previously announced the arbitrary access feature here. It is now enabled for you.

More background information: When using data from Wikidata on most Wikipedias and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This has technical reasons. This limitation has now been removed for your project.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to Wikidata:Contact the development team.

How to use it:

• Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital (Property:P36) from the item about Germany (Q183)
• Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

I hope you'll make great things with this and that it will make your work on this project easier.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 1. jun. 2015 kl. 16:10 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

20. jun. 2015 kl. 00:00 (CEST)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

20. jun. 2015 kl. 01:43 (CEST)

Wikimedia-nytt, mai 2015

Her er de viktigste toppnotisene fra Wikimedia bloggen for mai 2015

• Møt "the Inspire"- stipendiatene som arbeider for å utjevne kjønnsgapet på Wikimedia
• "A dark side of comedy": John Oliver ber TV-publikum om å vandalisere Wikipedia artikler U.S. politikere
• "Fundraising made in Germany": hva Wikimedia Deutschland har funnet fram til
• Uzbekisk Wikipedias storbidragsyter: Kamarniso Vrandečić
• Den aller første WikiArabia conference samler Wikipedianere i Tunis for å samle og dele erfaringer
• Wikimania og forskjellen mellom online- og offline-kulturer

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 23. jun. 2015 kl. 20:45 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 24. jul. 2015 kl. 07:07 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 24. jul. 2015 kl. 09:25 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. aug. 2015 kl. 01:42 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. aug. 2015 kl. 03:15 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19. aug. 2015 kl. 01:09 (CEST)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 2. sep. 2015 kl. 20:12 (CEST)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4. sep. 2015 kl. 22:52 (CEST)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22. sep. 2015 kl. 23:01 (CEST)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28. sep. 2015 kl. 18:57 (CEST)

Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015

Her er de viktigste høydepunktene fra Wikimedia blog fra august 2015.

• Hundrevis av “black hat” - konti blokkert på engelsk Wikipedia etter en større etterforskning
• Jakten på Tirpitz
• Mitt liv som autistisk Wikipedianer
• Content Translation (Innholdsoversettelse) oppdateringer fra Wikimania 2015
• Bruk av Wikipedia for å ta vare på innfødte språk i Colombia
• Når kulturarv får digitalt liv

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Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

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

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 9. nov. 2015 kl. 22:57 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10. nov. 2015 kl. 11:47 (CET)

Wikimediahøydepunkter i oktober 2015

Her følger høydepunktene fra Wikimedia blog i oktober 2015.

• Wikipedias verdensomspennende gjennomslag hedret med Spanias Princess of Asturias Award
• Å skape endringer et skritt av gangen: Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez
• Oktobermilepælen innbefatter Wikidatas 15-millionte "item"
• Distriktsrett godtar regjeringens begjæring om å avvise Wikimedia versus NSA, anke i kjømda
• Kinesisk Wikipedia blir mere etnologisk dekkende

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 17. nov. 2015 kl. 21:01 (CET)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. des. 2015 kl. 15:39 (CET)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18. des. 2015 kl. 21:59 (CET) • Please help translate to your language • Hjelp

Password Strength RFC

Hei

Vi har stertet en RFC på Meta for å øke kravene til brukerpassord for brukere med adgang til å redigere MediaWiki:Common.js, ha adgang til Checkuser og/ eller til Oversight.

Denne typen konti får tilgang til følsomme områder av våre nettsteder, og kan gjøre stor skade i feil hender. Kravet er for øyeblikket at passordet er minimum en bokstav langt. vi vil foretrekke å gjøre om dette til at passordet må være minimum 8 bokstaver/tegn og i tillegg ikke være et av de mest vanlig brukte.

By increasing requirements on passwords for accounts with high levels of access, we hope to make Wikimedia wikis more secure for everyone. Please read the full text of the proposal here, and make your voice heard at the RFC.

Takk

(på vegne av WMFs sikkerhetsteam) BWolff (WMF) (diskusjon) 21. des. 2015 kl. 09:12 (CET)

Delivered using the distribution list

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

Please help translate to your language

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 18. jan. 2016 kl. 20:06 (CET)

Wikimedias høydepunkter, desember 2015

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i desember 2015.

• Wikipedia feirer 15 år med fri kunnskap.
• Femten år siden, var Wikipedia et veldig annet sted: Magnus Manske
• Gjøre våre visningstall lett tilgjengelige
• Kort sagt

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Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, januar 2016

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i januar 2016.

• Maskinoversettingsverktøyet har nå blitt brukt til å lage over 50 000 artikler.
• Hvem redigerer Wikipedia?
• “Wikipedia is a testament to what we can create together as a global community”: Sara Mörtsell
• Kort sagt

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 29. feb. 2016 kl. 21:45 (CET)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, februar 2016

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i februar 2016.

• Romantisisme og musikk fra det 19. århundre på Wikimedia Commons
• Hva er TPP? Det problematiske partnerskapet
• #BlackLifeMatters edit-a-thon styrker Wikipedias artikler om svarte menneskers historie
• Kort sagt

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 22. mar. 2016 kl. 20:10 (CET)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Please help translate to your language:

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31. mar. 2016 kl. 17:47 (CEST)

JavaScript

Hej. Jag ser att det här projektet har gammal JavaScript som behöver uppdateras. Saker och ting kommer gå sönder senare den här månaden om ingenting görs. Jag fixar gärna det här, men jag skulle i så fall – åtminstone tillfälligt – behöva bli administratör här. Vill gemenskapen att jag uppdaterar gammalt JavaScript på det här projektet? Nirmos (diskusjon) 8. apr. 2016 kl. 22:56 (CEST)

Server switch 2016

Wikimedia Foundation kommer til å teste sitt nyeste datasenter i Dallas. Dette vil sikre at Wikipedia og andre Wikimedia-wikier vil fortsette å fungere selv etter en katastrofe. For å passe på at alt fungerer som det skal, kommer Wikimedias teknologiavdeling til å utføre en planlagt test. Denne testen vil teste om det er mulig å bytte fra et datasenter til et annet uten store problemer. Det vil kreve mye arbeid for å forberede testen og fikse eventuelle problemer.

De vil flytte all trafikk over til det nye datasenteret tirsdag 19. april.
På torsdag 21. april kommer de til å flytte trafikken tilbake til det primære datasenteret.

Dessverre, grunnet noen begrensninger i MediaWiki, må alle redigering i løpet av disse to byttene måtte stoppe. Vi beklager eventuelle forstyrrelser og problemer dette vil skape, og skal prøve å forhindre dette så mye som mulig i fremtiden.

Du vil kunne lese, men ikke redigere, alle wikiene i et kort tidsrom.

• Du vil ikke kunne redigere artikler i et tidrom på cirka 15 til 30 minutter tirsdag 19. april og torsdag 21. april, fra klokken 14:00 UTC/GMT (16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
• Hvis du prøver å redigere eller lagre sider i dette tidsrommet, så vil en feilmelding dukke opp. Vi håper og tror at ingen redigeringer vil gå tapt i disse minuttene, men vi kan ikke garantere noe. Hvis du ser feilmeldingen, vent inntil alt er tilbake som normalt. Deretter skal du kunne redigere som vanlig igjen. Men vi anbefaler at du lagrer en kopi av arbeidet ditt, for sikkerhets skyld.

Andre ting verdt å nevne:

• Bakgrunnsjobber kan ta lengre tid og noen kan bli avbrutt eller terminert. Røde lenker vil ikke bli oppdatert like fort som normalt. Hvis du lager en artikkel som er lenket til et annet sted, så vil lenken være rød lengre enn vanlig. Noen script som tar lang tid på kjøre vil bli stoppet.
• Det vil være en kodefrys i uken som inneholder 18. april. Ingen ikke-essensielle kodeutrullinger vil finne sted.

Denne testen var opprinnelig planlangt utført den 22. mars. 19. april og 21. april er de nye datoene. Du kan lese planen på wikitech.wikimedia.org. De vil poste eventuelle endringer i den planen. Det vil komme flere varsler angående dette. Vennligst del denne informasjonen med samfunnet ditt. /Johan (WMF) (diskusjon) 18. apr. 2016 kl. 00:27 (CEST)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, mars 2016

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen fra mars 2016.

• Den nye alkemien: Vi gjør nettsjikane om til Wikipediaartikler om kvinnelige aktivister
• En ny mekanisme hjelper til med å finne det du trenger på Wikimedia-sidene
• Jimmy Wales forteller «South by Southwest» at fellesskap er nøkkelen til Wikipedias fremtid
• Kort sagt

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 22. apr. 2016 kl. 21:18 (CEST)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, april 2016

Her er de viktigste postene fra highlights fra Wikimedia bloggen fra april 2016.

• Finn, prioriter og anbefal: Et artikkelanbefalingssystem som fyller hull i kunnskapen på Wikipedia
• First-ever Wikimedia Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• A strike against freedom of panorama: Swedish court rules against Wikimedia Sverige (Et slag mot panoramafriheten: Svensk rettsinstans går imot Wikimedia Sverige)
• Kort sagt

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 27. mai 2016 kl. 00:21 (CEST)

Oversette Den lille prinsen

Den lille prinsen er en av historiens mest leste bøker, og forfatteren døde i 1944. Det burde derfor være mulig å lage en fri oversettelse basert på den franske originalen. Boken er ganske kort og ikke veldig tung i språket, men jeg kan dessverre ikke noe fransk. Noen som syns det høres ut som et spennende prosjekt? Engelsk wikisource er visst basert på amerikansk lov, og der har ikke verket falt i det fri ennå, men det påvirker vel ikke oss? --Anders J. 15. jun. 2016 kl. 12:22 (CEST)

Har begynt, men noen som vet hvordan dette bør legges inn her på wikikilden? --Anders J. 13. aug. 2016 kl. 16:20 (CEST)

Open call for Project Grants

Please help translate to your language:

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

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5. jul. 2016 kl. 17:25 (CEST)

Save/Publish

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

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

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Publiser siden” and “Publiser endringer”.

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9. aug. 2016 kl. 20:02 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12. sep. 2016 kl. 17:08 (CEST)