विकिपीडिया:चावडी/प्रगती/जुनी चर्चा ११

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

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

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

Future software changes

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

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Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions

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

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Runab १९:३९, ५ जून २०१३ (IST) (posted via Global message delivery)[reply]

११ जून नंतर तपासावयाच्या/करावयाच्या गोष्टी

विवीध जिओग्राफीक लोकेशन्स वरून अंकपत्त्यांना मराठी निवडणे किती सोपे/अवघड जाते.
सध्या अंकपत्त्यांना आपोआप दिसणारा पऱ्याय हिंदी बंगाली असे दिसते त्या एवजी तो मराठी हिंदी असा यावयास हवा.
गल्फच्या भाषात मराठीचा पर्याय दिसतो आहे
मराठी विकिपीडियावरील सहाय्य पानाची लिंक असण्याची सोय हवी खास करून ऑनलाइन स्क्रिन बोर्ड उपलब्ध होई पर्यंत अत्यंत आवश्यक.
नारायम एवजी यूएलएसचे स्क्रिन शॉट जोडणे

माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) २२:४७, ५ जून २०१३ (IST)[reply]

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Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

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Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for ' accounts at the . Cheers, ०३:१७, १७ जून २०१३ (IST)

X!'s Edit Counter

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.—cyberpower ^Chat_Automation १०:१७, २३ जून २०१३ (IST)

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पाच हजारागणिक लेखांचा आकार

! क्र.	लेख	आकार (बाइट्स)	क्र.	लेख	आकार (बाइट्स)	क्र.	लेख	आकार (बाइट्स)	क्र.	लेख	आकार (बाइट्स)
१	‎इस्रायलचा इतिहास	२२
५,०००	‎ग्रॅहाम थोर्प	२०५	१५,०००	‎ब्रिटिश बेटे	६२०	२५,०००	‎शिरोळ विधानसभा मतदारसंघ	१,७१८	३५,०००	जुलै २	५,३६२
१०,०००	चुरू	४२४	२०,०००	सिमोने पेपे	१,०६८	३०,०००	टकमक किल्ला	२,५६२	३९,७५९	नवनाथ कथासार	९,४१,८१२

चावडी प्रगती वर मागच्या वेळी २५नव्हे-१२ ते २५ जाने-१३ या दोन महिन्याच्या कालावधीचे अभय नातूंनी मांडलेले आकडे पाहीले असता १,७०० अदमासे बाईट्स आकाराचे लेख १९,००० व्या क्रमांकाच्या आसपास रेंगाळत होते,गेल्या ५ महीन्यात तो आता २५,००० पर्यंत वर सरकल्याचे दिसते;हा फरक निश्चितपणे नोंद घेण्या जोगा आहे.
विकिपीडियातील निव्वळ मजकुराच्या ओळीचा (वाक्याचा नव्हे) साईज साधारणत: ७०० बाईट्सच्या आसपास जातो.दोन परिच्छेद निव्वळ मजकुराचा साईज साधारणत: ४,००० बाईट्स पर्यंत जातो.तीन ते चार परिच्छेदाचा निव्वळ मजकुराचा आकार साधारणत: ७,००० बाईट्स पर्यंत जातो.
७,००० बाईट्स परिच्छेद मजकुराचा लेख अगदीच याद्यांनी अथवा भल्या मोठ्या माहिती चौकटीनेच भरला नसेल तर वाचकाला पुरेस वाचनीय मिळाल्याच समाधान देण्याची शक्यता असू शकते.
विशेष:मोठी_पाने सूची तपासली असता टायबीअरिअस हा ६,९९९ बाईट्सचा लेख मोठी पाने सूचीच्या ३५२७व्या क्रमांकावर आहे.
अर्थात या ३५०० लेखातही बरच मोठ प्रमाण मोठ्या याद्यांच,विकिस्रोत मध्ये जाण्यास योग्य अथवा ज्ञानकोशीय लेखन शैली नसलेल्या लेखनाच आहे.
मराठी विकिपीडियावरील ४,००० बाईट्स पर्यंतच्या बऱ्याच लेखांच स्वरूप अद्याप केवळ माहितीचौकटी अथवा यादी स्वरूपाच आहे.

माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) १२:०६, ३ जुलै २०१३ (IST)[reply]

१,७०० अदमासे बाईट्स आकाराचे लेख १९,००० व्या क्रमांकाच्या आसपास रेंगाळत होते,गेल्या ५ महीन्यात तो आता २५,००० पर्यंत वर सरकल्याचे दिसते

याचे मुख्य कारण म्हणजे आंतरविकि दुव्यांचे विकिडेटामध्ये झालेले केन्द्रीकरण. मराठी विकिपीडियावरील अनेक लेखांचा आकार आंतरविकि दुव्यांमुळे मोठा दिसत होता.

हे दुवे काढले गेल्यामुळे आकार कमी दिसला तरी तो मजकूराच्या आकाराच्या जवळ आलेला आहे. काही काळाने पुन्हा अदमास घेतल्यास निव्वळ प्रगतीची कल्पना येईलच.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) १९:२४, ३ जुलै २०१३ (IST)[reply]

>>आंतरविकि दुव्यांचे विकिडेटामध्ये झालेले केन्द्रीकरण<< हा मुद्दा मी लक्षात घेतला नव्हता.

या मुळे काही सकारात्मक बाबी नजरेस येत नसाव्यात. कारण नवीन रिकाम्या लेखांच्या निर्मितीस बऱ्या पैकी आळा बसला आहे. आपण रिकाम्या लेखांना वगळूनही काही संख्या कमी झाली आहे. मजकुरात भर घालण्याचेही प्रयत्न झाले आहेत >हे प्रयत्न पुरेसे आकडे वारीत न दिसण्याच एक कारण यातील काही मजकुराची भर जाणत्यांच्या नव्या छोट्या लेखांसोबत पडत आहे.एकुण डेप्थ ५०च्या पुढे नेण्यात हातभार लागत आहे असे दिसते.

सध्या म्हणजे ३,५०० लेख ७,००० बाईट्सच्या पेक्षा अधिक , अंदाजे ३००० लेख ४००० ते ७००० बाईट्सच्या ब्रॅकेट मध्ये दिसताहेत.(संदर्भ:मोठी पाने क्र.६४५९: ‎खबरदार (चित्रपट) ‎[४,००० बाइट]); बाकीच्या अंदाजे ३३००० लेखांची अगदी लहान लेखात गणती होते आहे.

माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) २२:२६, ३ जुलै २०१३ (IST)[reply]

संभाव्य विषयांतर झाकले आहे.
विषयांतर, हा साचा चुकून लावला आहे असे वाटत असल्यास कृपया इथे चर्चा करा.
मजकूर	[संबधीत चर्चा लेख पानांबद्दल आहे म्हणून विषयांतरात वर्गीकरण आणि मराठी येणाऱ्या व्यक्तीने संपादन गाळणी द्वारा सुचना मिळूनही जाणीवपूर्वक इंग्रजीचा वापर केल्यामुळे उत्तर देणे टाळले, दुर्लक्षीत] आपण रिकाम्या लेखांना वगळूनही काही संख्या कमी झाली आहे. मजकुरात भर घालण्याचेही प्रयत्न झाले आहेत - What is your views on junk pictures that are uploaded during many picture marathons ............ Now dont start one more filter just answer the question
करणारा सदस्य/आयपी पत्ता	सदस्य:159.245.16.100 चर्चा, योगदान
ही नोंद सदस्य:mahitgar या सदस्याने केली आहे.

संभाव्य विषयांतर झाकले आहे.
विषयांतर, हा साचा चुकून लावला आहे असे वाटत असल्यास कृपया इथे चर्चा करा.
मजकूर	जाणीवपूर्वक इंग्रजीचा वापर केल्यामुळे उत्तर देणे टाळले, दुर्लक्षीत - :) :):) सदस्य:Mahitgar/माझ्या प्रचालकीय कृतीची समसमीक्षा -सदस्य =159.245.16.100 किमान कॉपीपेस्टींगमध्ये मराठी वापरण्या बद्दल धन्यवाद. त्या बदल्यात आधीच्या कॉमेंटला उत्तर हेच की,इतरांनी सांगीतल्या पेक्षा सजगता आल्या नंतर लोक स्वत:च गोष्टी दुरूस्त करतात (हा एक सकारात्मक ॲप्रोच आहे) ,यात कुणीच अपवाद नाही माहित नसलेल्या काळात मी चुकीच्या नामविश्वात उघडलेली पाने कालांतराने स्थानांतरीत करून वगळली,आता काही लोक रिकामी पाने (स्वत:हून) काढण्यात व्यस्त आहेत :) (मंडळी हलकेच घ्या ) तसेच इतर नामविश्वात लोक स्वत:हून चढवलेल्या गोष्टी योग्य तीथे स्वत:हून उतरवण्यासाठी मॅराथॉनही स्वत:च चालवतील.आम्हीही पुर्वी इंग्रजीत संवाद करण्यात भूषण मानत होतो,पण आम्ही स्वत:ला बदलत असतो ! तुम्हालाही आमच्या सोबत बदलण्याचे सादर आमंत्रण आणि विनम्र विनंती आहे . उपरोक्त विषयाबद्दल (सजगता) 'गाळणी' बद्दल आपण सदिच्छा देऊन स्मरण दिल्या बद्दल धन्यवाद :) गाळणी मागेच उघडली अजून यश आले नाही , पण दमदार प्रयोग चालू आहेत यश येणार काळजी नसावी -आपला नम्र. -धन्यवाद माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) १५:५१, ५ जुलै २०१३ (IST)[reply]
करणारा सदस्य/आयपी पत्ता	सदस्य:159.245.16.100 चर्चा, योगदान
ही नोंद सदस्य:mahitgar या सदस्याने केली आहे.

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). १९:०३, २३ जुलै २०१३ (IST) [reply]

HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). ००:५७, २१ ऑगस्ट २०१३ (IST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[reply]

WikiProject: Lilavati's Daughers

Excuse me for writing in English. The Indian Academy of Sciences brought out a book titled Lilavati's Daughters. The book concentrates on 50 Women of Sciences in India. A few people attended Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong and few people watched it on live stream, a talk by User:Keilana on articles on Women Scientists and thought this might be a good idea to an edit-a-thon on. This page is a placeholder for the event. I request user contributions on the topic and also listing the same on this page. Hindustanilanguage (चर्चा) १४:४९, ३ सप्टेंबर २०१३ (IST).[reply]

Request for consultation on community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). ०८:२४, २४ सप्टेंबर २०१३ (IST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[reply]

Notifications

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) ००:२९, ५ ऑक्टोबर २०१३ (IST)[reply]

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

Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana ०२:०४, ९ ऑक्टोबर २०१३ (IST)[reply]

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) ०१:५१, ६ नोव्हेंबर २०१३ (IST)[reply]

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), ०१:५१, ६ नोव्हेंबर २०१३ (IST)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

भाषांतर केले. --वि. नरसीकर (चर्चा • योगदान) १६:२९, १९ नोव्हेंबर २०१३ (IST)[reply]

४०,००० लेख

नमस्कार,

मराठी विकिपीडियावर ४०,००० लेख असण्याचा टप्पा आता दृष्टिक्षेपात आहे. १५ जानेवारी, २०१४ रोजी येथे ३९,७८६ लेख आहेत म्हणजे अजून २१४ लेख जोडल्यास ४०,००० लेखांचा मैलदगड गाठता येईल.

याबद्दल दोन गोष्टी मांडाव्याशा वाटतात --

१. गेल्या काही महिन्यांत आपण नुसते येथील लेखसंख्या वाढविण्याकडे रेटा न लावता लेखांमध्ये भर घालण्याकडे लक्ष केंद्रित केल्याचे लक्षात येते. मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या विकासाची ही मोठी खूण आहे. माहितीमध्ये भर घालण्याबरोबरच माहितीचे वर्गीकरण, लेखांमध्ये दुवे देणे, संदर्भ जोडणे, उत्पात हटविणे, आंतरविकी दुवे लावणे यासारखी कामेही तितकीच महत्वाची आहे हे आता आपल्या सगळ्यांच्याच ध्यानात आहे ही आनंदाची बाब आहे.

२. २७ फेब्रुवारी हा जागतिक मराठी भाषा दिवस म्हणून साजरा केला जातो. दरवर्षी यानिमित्ताने मराठी विकिपीडियावर संपादनेथॉन आयोजित केली जाते. यावर्षीसुद्धा हा उपक्रम राबवून त्या दरम्यान (किंवा त्याआधीसुद्धा!) ४०,००० लेखांचा मैलदगड गाठला तर उत्तमच!

मराठी विकिपीडियाद्वारे मराठी भाषेची वृद्धी करण्यात हातभार लावल्याबद्दल पुन्हा एकदा तुमचे मनःपूर्वक धन्यवाद!

अभय नातू (चर्चा) २३:४१, १५ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

अभयराव ४०००० हजाराकडे माझेही लक्ष होतेच. हा विषय चावडीवर आणला हे बरे केले. नवीन लेख चाळीस हजाराचा टप्पा गाठायचाय म्हणून घाई करू नये. लेख तयार करताना नवीन लेख किमान १०० + शब्दांचा असावा असा प्रयत्न ठेवावा. जास्त असल्यास उत्तम. २७ फेब् च्या आता चाळीस हजारी पल्ला गाठू या... चला सगळे मिळून जोर लावूया! निनाद ०६:०२, १६ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

निनाद १०० शब्द म्हणजे अंदाजे किती बाईट्स होतील. मराठी भाषा दिवसाच्या निमीत्ताने विकिस्रोतवर टायपिंग स्पर्धा आयोजीत करून सोशल मिडियातन प्रसिद्धी देण्याची इच्छा होती पण काही इनिशियल रिस्पॉन्स येताना दिसत नाही असे का असावे ?

माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) ०९:०२, १६ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

१०० शब्द म्हणजे १००० बाईट्स पेक्षा मोठा लेख. मी मोजले तेव्हा १२०० वगैरे भरत होते. थोडेफार कमी जास्त. उदारहणार्थ तुरटी यालेखात १५९ शब्द आहेत. आणि बाईट झाल्या आहेत सुमारे २९००.

टायपिंग स्पर्धा ही चांगली कल्पना आहे. परंतु टायपिंग ही कल्पना नव्या पीढीला रोचक वाटणे शक्य वाटत नाही. मात्र हीच कल्पना वय ५० अधिक असलेल्यांना आवडणारी असावी. ही स्पर्धा मराठी संस्थळांवर येणाऱ्या लोकांनाच थोडीफार भावेल. पण अजून आड्यंस कुठून आणणार? त्यामुळे आपल्याला मेन स्ट्रीम मिडियाकडे जावे लागेल. त्यातून त्यांना याची युटिलिटी दिसून आली पाहिजे. म्हणजे. 'एका वाक्यात सांगा मी विकि कसा वापरला'. 'माझा आवडता लेख', मला इंग्रजी विकिवरून मराठी विकिवर सापडलेला लेख वगैरे प्रश्न टाकून उपयोगिता दाखवून देता येईल. तसेच 'मी विकिवर का लिहितो' अशी मनोगते वगैरे मी टाकू शकेन. असे आता सुचतेय. नव्या पीढीला आवडाणाऱ्या गोष्टी आल्या तर कदाचित त्याला जास्त प्रतिसाद मिळावा. त्यातल्या त्यात क्रिकेट आणि चित्रपट हे आपले हक्काचे भाग आहेत. ;) त्यावर किमान १०० शब्दांचे लेखन अशी लेखनाची स्पर्धा चालवली तर जरा जास्त प्रतिसाद असेल असे वाटते. आवडते खेळाडू, कलाकार, चित्रपट वगैरे.

तसेच स्पर्धेचे कालावधी आणि वेळ निश्चित असावी. परिक्षक कुणीतरी प्रसिद्ध व्यक्ती असावी/असाव्यात. त्यात प्रसिद्धी व मिडिया क्षेत्रातील व्यक्तींचा सहभाग जाणीवपूर्वक ठेवावा. वृत्तपत्रात आणि टिव्हीवर आधी प्रसिद्धी करून मग(च) स्पर्धेची सुरुवात करावी. या स्पर्धेतून नवीन लेख तयार झाले तर सोन्याहून पिवळे. किंवा तसे तयार करूनच घेतले पाहिजेत त्यानुसार लेखनाचे विषय द्यावेत. यावर अजून डोकॅलिटी लढवली पाहिजे असे वाटते. शिवाय समारंभ घडवून प्रशस्ती पत्रके, प्रशस्ती पत्रके द्यावीत असेही सुचवतो. निनाद ०५:१७, १७ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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) १२:१७, १६ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

वडवळ

वडवळ- ता.मोहोळ जि. सोलापूर.

वडवळ

वडवळ- ता.मोहोळ जि. सोलापूर.

चाळीस हजारी टप्पा गाठायला विवीध संस्थळांवर जाहिरात केली आहे!

नमस्कार मंडळी, मराठी विकिचा चाळीस हजारी टप्पा गाठायला विवीध संस्थळांवर खालील जाहिरात केली आहे. आशा आहे प्रतिसाद मिळेल. आपला निनाद

मराठी विकिला चाळीस हजारी टप्पा गाठायला आता अजून फक्त १९१ लेख हवे आहेत. २७ फेब्रुवारी या मराठी दिवसाच्या आधी मराठी विकीला चाळीस हजार लेखांच्या टप्प्यावर घेऊन जाऊया! या साठी अजून जवळपास महिन्याभराचा कालावधी आहे.

विकिवर कस्काय लिहायचे बॉ? मराठीविकिवर लेखन करणे अगदी सोप्पे आहे. आपल्याला हवा तो शब्द शोधपेटीत शोधायचा तो लाल रंगात आला तर त्यावर टिचकी द्यायची की लेखनाची खिडकी उघडेल त्यात लिखाणास सुरुवात करायची. झाले!

मी काय लेख लिहू? असा प्रश्न असल्यास आपण ज्या क्षेत्रात काम करतो त्याचा शोध घ्या. काही सापडले नाही तर लेख लिहून टाका. आपले आवडते विषय छंद यातले अनेक लेख लिहिता येतील. किंवा एखादा इंग्रजी लेख दिसला आणि त्याचा मराठी दुवा दिसला नाही तर तो लेख लिहा. सगळा लेख लिहिलाच पाहिजे असे नाही. पण किमान १०० शब्दांची ओळख तरी लिहावी. विकि कॉमन्स वर असलेली चित्रे आपल्या लेखात लावता येतात.

नवीन त काय नाय् बॉ! काही वेळा आधीच असलेल्या लेखात मोलाची भर घालता येईल. हे ही महत्त्वाचेच आहे. अगदी एका वाक्याची भर घालायलाही स्वागतच असेल. लेखांची आणि पानांची शीर्षके (नावे) शक्यतो मराठी भाषेतच (देवनागरी लिपीत) असावीत असा मात्र मराठी विकिचा दंडक आहे.

अजून? लेखन करताना आंतरविकिदुवे दिले तर लेखाचे मूल्य वाढते. हे दुवे देण्यासाठी चौकोनी कंस [[ ]] वापरता येतो. उदारहरणार्थ, बे एरिया या विभागामध्ये सुमारे २% मराठी भाषीक राहतात. यातले बे एरिया आणि मराठी हे आपोआप त्या त्या पानांवर जाणारे दुवे बनतील. शिवाय आपले विकिपान इंग्रजी पानाला जोडावे. जमले तर वर्गवारी करावी. म्हणजे शोध सोपा होतो.

मदत याशिवाय काहीही मदत लागली तर मला विचारा. किंवा चावडी अथवा प्रचालकांना विचारा. तत्परतेने मदत मिळेल! चला मग कामाला लागू या. आपल्या मराठी विकिला आता पुढे नेऊ या! निनाद ०६:२५, २३ जानेवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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) ०३:३०, २२ फेब्रुवारी २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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 विकिपीडिया 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 ०१:१४, १ मार्च २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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) ०३:२६, १४ मार्च २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto

There is a current discussion on German Wikipedia on a decision of Asaf Bartov, Head of WMF Grants and Global South Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, who rejected a request for funding a proposal from wikipedians from eowiki one year ago with the explanation the existence, cultivation, and growth of the Esperanto Wikipedia does not advance our educational mission. No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto. On meta there has also started a discussion about that decision. --Holder (चर्चा) १६:१०, ५ मे २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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) ०२:५९, २४ मे २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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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 "संचिका चढवा" restricted to the "प्रचालक" group (for emergency uploads) and
the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

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

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

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).
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo १८:३९, १९ जून २०१४ (IST)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

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

User:Kaustubh (administrator)
user:श्रीहरि (administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks--Shanmugamp7 (चर्चा) २१:४६, १२ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Answered at Mata per local policy.

माहितगार (-खुलं खुलं आभाळ तसा.. मीही खुला खुला.. दारं, खिडक्या, भिंती यांची.. सवय झाली तुला..? ) (चर्चा) ०८:०३, १३ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (चर्चा) ०६:४६, १३ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Translation requests are supposed to be placed at विपी:भाषांतर page. Thank you.

en:wikt:Appendix:Indo-Iranian Swadesh lists (extended)

Please add variant word of you languages in this list.--Kaiyr (चर्चा) १३:५९, १७ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Community consultation for future of Wikimedia movement in India

Hi, Wikimedia foundation is organizing a community consultation to brainstorm the future of Wikimedia movement in India. Each language community is welcome to send it's representative for this event. It would be ideal to nominate few people who can reflect Marathi community's view well based on a sound understanding of the movement's history in India for the last few years. You can also discuss and chart a vision on behalf of the community here and ask your representative to present it in the meeting. Please nominate your representatives as soon as possible at here. I will appreciate if someone can translate this message in Marathi. Thanks.--Ravidreams (चर्चा) १२:३९, २५ ऑगस्ट २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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 (चर्चा) २२:२२, २ सप्टेंबर २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Change in renaming process

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

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

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

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

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) २१:५२, ९ सप्टेंबर २०१४ (IST) [reply]

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) १२:५९, ११ सप्टेंबर २०१४ (IST).[reply]

PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

इंडिया अॅक्सेस टू नॉलेज - २०१४-१५ बेत

नमस्कार,

इंडिया अॅक्सेस टू नॉलेज हा सेंटर फॉर इंटरनेट अँड सोसायटी (सीआयएस) या संस्थेचा प्रस्तावित उपक्रम आहे. यात अनेक भारतीय भाषांच्या विकिप्रकल्पांची उन्नती होण्याचा प्रयत्न आहे. सुरुवातीस सीआयएसने चार भाषांसाठी हा उपक्रम राबवला होता. आता त्यांनी मराठीसाठीही असे करावे असा प्रस्ताव मांडला आहे. मूळ प्रस्ताव जुलै २०१४ ते जून २०१५ दरम्यान सक्रिय असणार होता. अर्थात यात बदल होईल. खाली त्यांचा प्रस्ताव दिलेला आहे. यावर साधक-बाधक चर्चा या पानाच्या चर्चा पानावर करावी ही विनंती.

विकिपीडिया:इंडिया अॅक्सेस टू नॉलेज-प्रस्तावित मराठी उपक्रम

धन्यवाद.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) १६:४५, ६ ऑक्टोबर २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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) २३:३४, २६ ऑक्टोबर २०१४ (IST)[reply]

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (चर्चा) १८:१०, ३१ ऑक्टोबर २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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

— २३:०४, १४ नोव्हेंबर २०१४ (IST)

Invitation to Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference 2015

Hi Community members,

Bengali Wikipedia community is organizing its 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference at Kolkata on 9 & 10 January 2015.
You can see our Official event page and the Facebook event page.

We are planning to invite our friends and well-wishers from different language wiki communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in this event. Please select your Five (5) scholarship ^[1] delegates from your community member for this conference and announce it here before 10th December 2014.

To participate in Conference, please register here

To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here.

To participate Photography Contest , click here

We look forward to see you at Kolkata on 9 & 10 January 2015

^{1) Scholarship included with Travel reimbursement upto 2000/- + dormitory or shared accommodation + meals during the conference hours}

On behalf of Bengali Wikipedia Community (Sorry for writing in English)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

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:

Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
Pelican Books - ebook monographs
Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.०५:५२, १८ डिसेंबर २०१४ (IST)

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

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Copyright and CC primer for Indian Wikimedians

Apologies for writing in English

Dear Wikimedians,

I would like to introduce you all to Thomas, a fourth year law student at the National Law University Jodhpur. He has joined CIS-A2K as an intern and will be developing a primer on Copyright and Creative Commons for the use of Indian Wikimedians.

Thomas' aim is to cater to the broad spectrum of Wikimedia users and to provide both an introduction to copyright law and to address more advanced questions of copyright law that users might encounter with regards to issues like digitisation, public domain works, etc.

His approach thus far has been to comb the India Mailing List to discover the common questions or concerns that Indian Wikimedians face while dealing with content. He hopes to then transpose answers to these queries along with general copyright related information onto a primer following a mixture of a FAQ based and prose based format to allow for better transposition of information as well as to allow for better readability and engagement.

As you will realise, this approach suffers from a number of defects: 1. There are a large number of queries or concerns that users might have which are not addressed onto the mailing lists and are near impossible to pre-empt. 2. There are a number of unique processes that Wikimedia implements (like the “precautionary principle”) that is unique to the context of copyright and Wikimedia which he is yet to familiarise himself and such a familiarity can only be built with periodic use. 3. There are a large number of Wikimedians who might be unrepresented on the Mailing List and might have queries regarding the use of content.

To this end, Thomas hopes to get some support from the community here in terms of: 1. Asking any queries that you may have regarding copyright law and its application to the Wikimedia Universe. 2. Passing along any queries or issues that you may have heard of from other users, so that this may be introduced. 3. Passing along any other information that may be specifically relevant to this endeavour, in terms of experience with Wikimedia policy, practice that has been developed over the past few years and the like.

Any support in this regard would be extremely helpful. This primer will of course be a work in progress for subsequent authors to edit and build upon, true to the Wikimedia ethos, however for the sake of at least an initial completeness, I request you to reply in over the course of this week, latest by the 3rd of January 2015. You can reach Thomas at thomasjv93{at} gmail.com or on his EN Wikipedia User Talk page --Pavanaja (चर्चा) १७:०३, २९ डिसेंबर २०१४ (IST)[reply]

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

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo ०४:०२, २ मार्च २०१५ (IST)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ०२:४४, ३ मार्च २०१५ (IST)

Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.

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

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०१:३१, ५ मार्च २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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) ०१:१५, १४ मार्च २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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 २१:४२, १० एप्रिल २०१५ (IST)[reply]

स्रेब्रेनित्सा और झेपा की विजय

Hi! July 11, 2015 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, but your Wikipedia does not have an article on this topic yet. Please help translate my text Fall of Srebrenica and Žepa and write a honest article about Srebrenica! 20 anniversarier (चर्चा) १०:१६, १९ एप्रिल २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Dear friends, this user has posted the spam article in his sandbox / userpages on many Wikis and asked for the translation of the same. I've speedy-tagged it everywhere except here because the browser is not accepting. Please delete Fall of Srebrenica and Žepa. For some details, plz see: Wikimedia Forum Discussion. You can also reach me on my Hindi Wikipedia user talk. --Hindustanilanguage (चर्चा) १३:११, २१ एप्रिल २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Done! - अभिजीत साठे (चर्चा) १३:५०, २१ एप्रिल २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more 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:

MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ०३:४२, ५ मे २०१५ (IST)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at Global our new coordinator signup.

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimania 2015 - India Booth

Hi Wikimedians,

Apologies for posting this text in English.

As you people might be aware, Wikimania 2015 which is going to be held in Mexico from July 14th to 19th. We, the Indian attendees at Wikimania, would like to represent Wiki Indic Community booth in the same. We are creating Leaflets and Posters for the community village at Wikimania 2015 to display in Wikimania 2015. We would like to invite you to gather the content and design(optional) for posters (Sample) and leaflets (Sample) about the Indic language project of your choice. We will take care of printing and displaying the posters/leaflets.

The maximum dimensions for your poster are 36 x 48 in (91.44 x 121.92 cm). We suggest using the A0 paper size, which is 33.11 x 46.81 in (~84 x 118 cm). The contents of the poster has to be in English. Posters and leaflets based on all Indic language Wikimedia projects are welcome. The design should be a media file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Please post the link to your content/design file on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania_2015/Booth/Posters_Leaflets before 25th of June. In case if you face any issues please reachout to Dineshkumar Ponnusamy or Netha Hussain.

For guidelines regarding creating posters, please have a look at this link : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Posters_that_work

We look forward to receiving your posters/leaflets and displaying them while at Wikimania 2015!
Note: This is not a competition or contest, we expect at most 1 poster and 1 leaflet from each Community.

Thanks,
Indian Wikimania 2015 Participants

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)

New French-Language Branch!

Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

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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)

०३:३०, २० जून २०१५ (IST)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

/Johan (WMF)

०६:००, २० जून २०१५ (IST)

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 (चर्चा) १०:३७, २४ जुलै २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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.

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: साचा:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalसाचा:@wikimedia · org

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०५:१३, १ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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 many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

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 MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:१६, ३ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (IST)[reply]

विकिपीडिया परिषद भारत -२०१६

नमस्कार ,

भारतात पहिली विकिपीडिया परिषद २०११ मध्ये, मुंबई येथे झाली. विकिपीडिया २००१ मध्ये सुरु झाला, त्यानंतर ची हि पहिली परिषद, जिचे भारतात आयोजन करण्यात आले.

विकिपीडिया परिषद भारत -२०१६, याचे आयोजन भारतात करावे, या बद्दल ची चर्चा विकीम्यानिया २०१५ (आंतरराष्ट्रीय परिषद, मेक्सिको सिटी, अमेरिका) येथे करण्यात आली (उपस्थित : भारतीय भाषा विकिपीडिया समुदायाचे सभासद). चर्चेचा एक भाग असा सुद्धा होता कि, आपण भारताचा वतीने विकीम्यानिया-२०१९ साठी सामूहिक बोली लावायची. आपल्याला जर यशस्वीरित्या विकीम्यानिया-२०१९ चालवायचा असेल, तर तो भारतातील सर्व भाषा विकिमीडिया समुदायाने एकत्र येउन त्या दिशेने काम करण्याची वेळ आली आहे. त्यासाठी विकिपीडिया परिषद २०१६ चे आयोजन करण्यात येत आहे.

खालील दुव्याला भेट द्या https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R9skceycTFRpXs9pJASXGoWgZo0ZVwjnEAtPdlQ_EU8/viewform?usp=send_form

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

(Sorry for writing in English)

Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) १९:०२, १२ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (IST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to Marathi? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki. Xaris333 (चर्चा) ०७:३४, २४ ऑगस्ट २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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) २३:४३, २ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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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.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. ०२:२२, ५ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

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:

EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

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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.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources ०२:३१, २३ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

प्रस्ताव

नमस्कार,

वरील आवाहनास प्रतिसाद म्हणून मी मेटावर या प्रकल्पाचा प्रस्ताव मांडला आहे. कृपया तेथे जाउन त्यास अनुमोदन (endorsement) द्यावे अशी विनंती. यासाठी तेथे असलेल्या endorse या निळ्या बटनावर टिचकी दिली असता सोपे होईल.

आशा आहे आपला पाठिंबा आपण तेथे व्यक्त कराल.

धन्यवाद.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) ०३:५८, २९ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) २२:२७, २८ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

इंग्लिश विकिपीडिया पन्नास लाखांवर

नमस्कार,

काल इंग्लिश विकिपीडियाने ५०,००,००० लेखांचा टप्पा गाठला. यात तुमचाही सहभाग असणारच तरी तुमचे सर्वांचे अभिनंदन आणि धन्यवाद.

मराठी विकिपीडिया सध्या ४२,६४४ लेखांवर आहे, म्हणजे इंग्लिश विकिपीडियाच्या १% लेखसुद्धा येथे नाहीत. यातही आपण भर घालाल अशी आशा, खात्री आणि विनंती.

धन्यवाद.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) ००:२१, २ नोव्हेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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 (चर्चा) ०३:२७, १० नोव्हेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

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 १६:१८, १० नोव्हेंबर २०१५ (IST)

Harassment consultation

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

वरील संदेशाचे भाषांतर

छळवणूक सल्लामसलत

विकिमिडिया फाऊंडेशनच्या विकिसमाज वकिली चमूने छळवणूक या विषयावर, मेटावर, सल्लामसलतीसाठी एक पान उघडले आहे.सल्लामसलतीचा कालावधी हा आजपासून (नोव्हेंबर १६)एक महिना ठरविण्यात आला आहे.तो डिसेंबर १७ ला समाप्त होईल.कृपया तेथे, आपला विकिसमाज तोंड देत असलेल्या छळवणुकीसंबंधित विषयांवर, आपल्या विचारांचा व त्यावरील उच्चदर्जाच्या उपायांबाबत सहभाग करा.(नोंद:ही सल्लामसलत, विशिष्ट छळवणूकिच्या प्रकरणांना पारखण्यासाठी ठरविण्यात आलेली नाही,खरे म्हणजे, छळवणुकिच्या प्रश्नांबाबतच चर्चा करण्यासाठी आहे.)

छळवणूक सल्लामसलत २०१५

सादर, विकिसमाज वकिली चमू, विकिमिडिया फाऊंडेशन

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!

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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 (चर्चा) २०:०८, १ डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST) [reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, 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 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org

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Requesting meetup at Pune and Mumbai

Sorry for writing in English. I will be in Mumbai on 22 & 23, 2015 and at Pune on 24 & 25, 2015. I would like to meet Marathi Wikipedians during this trip. I would like to discuss the creation of resources needed for Marathi taking into consideration of available resources, their status, identifying the resources that have to be created and/or improved. Let us meet and discuss these things. Please send me an email at pavanaja AT cis-india DOT org and let us meet.--Pavanaja (चर्चा) १६:३६, १६ डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday,
16th Jan 2016
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai
India

Mumbai, India

विकिपीडिया १५ वा वर्धापन दिना निमित्य आयोजित कार्यक्रमात सर्व विकिपीडिया सदस्यांना सहभागी होण्याचे आव्हाहन. अधिक माहिती साठी येथे भेट द्या. - राहुल देशमुख १२:५९, १९ डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

कार्यक्रमास शुभेच्छा!

अभय नातू (चर्चा) २३:१९, १९ डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

What IdeaLab campaigns do you want to see?

(कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा):

Hi everyone. I’m seeking your help to decide on topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns are designed to attract proposals from Wikimedia project contributors that address a broad gap or area of need in Wikimedia projects.

Here’s how to participate:

Learn more about this consultation and review submitted campaign topics.
Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas Survey (in English)
Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (चर्चा) ०२:३१, ३० डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०७:१९, ५ जानेवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

राजा शिवाजी शिवाजी विद्यामन्दिर लोकमान्य नगर पाडा पाडा नं.४ ठाणे. क अआइईउऊए एऐ एऐ अओऔ अं अः

कथाकथन - मुलांचे वाचन कमी झाले आहे अशी तक्रार् अलिकडे सर्वचम् पालक -शिक्षक वर्गातून ऐकायला मिळते. मुले सतत टि.व्ही. मोबाइल मध्ये गुंतून राहतात. आणि वाचनाची आवड कमी होते. त्यामुळे वाचनाचे जे अनेक फायदे आहेत त्यापासुन वंचित राहतात. पुस्तके नकळत अनेक गोशटिंचे द्यान देतात प्रेरणा देणारे प्रेरणास्त्रोत ही पुस्तकेच असतात. म्हणूनच ग्रंथ हेच गुरू असे म्हटले जाये. यासाटी कथावाचन हा उपक्रम शाळेत मागील दोन वर्शापासून राबविला जात आहे. आटवड्यातून एक तासिका वाचनासाटी राखुन ट्ःएवण्यात आली आली आहे. या तासाला मुलांना चान बोधपर कथा, वयोगटानुसार आकर्शक रंगसंगती, चित्रे, असणारी पुस्तके देउन त्यांचे वाचन करून घेतले जाते व वाचलेल्या पुस्तकांची नोंदही मुले डायरीत थेवतात. फायदे- या उपक्रमामुळे मुलांना वाचनाची आवड निर्माण होते. वाचन कौशल्य विकसित होते.मुलांच्या शब्दसंपत्तीत भर पडते. नकळत अनेक गोश्तीचे ज्ञान होते. संस्कार,मुल्ये रुजविता येतात. चांगला नागरिक घडविण्यासाथि मदत होते. इंग्रजी डिक्टेशन वर्ड लेखन- आंतररा

Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon

Hello,

CIS-A2K is going to organize an edit-a-thon between 25 and 31 January this year. The aim of this edit-a-thon is creating and improving Geographical Indications in India related articles.

We welcome all of you to join this edit-a-thon.
Please see the event and add your name as a participant: meta:CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon

Feel free to ask if you have question(s).
Regards. --Titodutta (चर्चा) २३:०६, १८ जानेवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ००:३६, १९ जानेवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Marathi is missing

Marathi is missing from this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
Thank you, Varlaam (चर्चा) ०३:२६, २० जानेवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Thanks very much for that! Varlaam (चर्चा) २१:१५, २० जानेवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

४३,००० लेख

१० फेब्रुवारी, २०१६ (भारतीय वेळेनुसार) रोजी मराठी विकिपीडियावर ओकायामा हा ४३,०००वा लेख निर्माण केला गेला.

अभिनंदन.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) ११:२२, १० फेब्रुवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

अभिनंदन!

--संकल्प द्रविड (Sankalp Dravid) (चर्चा | योगदान) १५:४४, २८ फेब्रुवारी २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Completion suggestor

Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March

Hello!

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा. आपणास धन्यवाद!

The completion suggester beta feature will become the default at the first group of wikis on Thursday, 10 March. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.

Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to try out the feature ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester discussion page in any language.

To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out the Wikimedia blog. Read about CirrusSearch, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.

- User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ०३:३९, ८ मार्च २०१६ (IST) [reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

Apologies for writing in English. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello Wikimedians!

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 access to research materials from:

Cambridge University Press - a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
Alexander Street Academic Video Online - a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
Baylor University Press - a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
Future Science Group - a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
Annual Reviews - a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
Miramar Ship Index - an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.

Non-English

Noormags - Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
Kotobna - Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.

Expansions

Gale - aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
Elsevier ScienceDirect - an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ०२:००, १८ मार्च २०१६ (IST)

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.

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:

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) २१:१७, ३१ मार्च २०१६ (IST)[reply]

No editing two times this week

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /Johan (WMF) (चर्चा) ०३:५६, १८ एप्रिल २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon

Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland २१:०५, २१ एप्रिल २०१६ (IST)

WikiConference India 2016 Update

Hi,

After an elaborate community participation process, we are planning to host Wikiconference India 2016 in Chandigarh during August 5, 6 and 7.

Please help us by

Joining as a volunteer
Signing up for various teams
Providing feedback for program design
Reviewing and endorsing our PEG grant request

We will be calling applications for travel scholarship and paper presentations soon.

We look forward to your contribution in making this conference successful. Please sign up to our mailing list and follow the discussion in Meta for updates.

Thanks.

--Ravidreams (चर्चा) ०२:१८, २८ एप्रिल २०१६ (IST)[reply]

WikiConference India 2016 team.

As a stakeholder of the Wikimedia India community in India, please express your support and comments regarding the selection of host city, date and other aspects of this conference planning.

Apply for WikiConference India 2016 scholarships

Hi,

You are requested to translate this message into your local language.

WikiConference India 2016 is being organized in Chandigarh during August 5, 6 and 7.

Scholarship Applications for WCI2016 are open from now till 31st May 2016.

You can check this link for more information regarding selection process and criteria.

You can fill the application form by clicking on this link.

Thanks.

--Satdeep Gill (चर्चा) ००:०३, १२ मे २०१६ (IST)[reply]

WikiConference India 2016 team.

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland २१:०१, १० जून २०१६ (IST)

WikiConference India 2016 Survey

Hi,

Greetings from Wiki Conference India 2016 Team. Sorry for writing in English. Please feel free to translate the message in your language to help other community members.

Everyone is requested to participate in this short survey to help us learn more about WikiConference India 2016 participants' capabilities, needs, interests and expectations regarding conference programs.

How we’ll use this data: We will collect responses to assess whether and what type of conference programs would be most beneficial for the Wikimedia community in India. Individual responses or comments will not be made publicly available unless in anonymized or aggregate form.

In legalese: Your privacy is important to us. As allowed by law, we will only share your responses with WCI 2016 helping on this survey. We may, however, publicly share anonymous statistics about the responses in aggregate form. Wikimedia is a worldwide organization. By answering these questions, you permit us to record and transfer your responses to the United States and other places as may be necessary to carry out the objectives of this project. You also agree to refrain from incorporating your personal information in response to a question that doesn’t ask for it and to donate your responses to the public domain. For terms and privacy considerations related to Google Forms, consult the Privacy Policy (https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/) and Terms of Use (http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/) of Google.

Survey link - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tn5TCFE4DkrAhIVmXk_Hx--upllCRU5pQlz6G_7Qb5M/edit?ts=575ad1a7

Regards,

WikiConference India Team

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this message and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-१८:२७, १ जुलै २०१६ (IST)[reply]

आज या विकिवर आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे सक्षम करण्यात आलेले आहेत

आटोपशीर भाषा दुव्यांच्या आंतरभाषा यादीचे पटलचित्र

आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे हे सर्व विकिमिडिया विकिंवर सन २०१४ पासून, एक बीटा फिचर म्हणून उपलब्ध आहेत.आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे सक्षम करण्याने, सदस्यांना,लेखाच्या आंतरभाषिक दुवा भागात, एक बरीच छोटी भाषांची यादी दाखविण्यात येते (चित्र बघा).त्यांचेसाठी, ही अनेक मुद्यांवर आधारित असलेली ही भाषांची छोटी यादी, जास्त प्रसंगोचित असणे अपेक्षित आहे व त्याच लेखासारखा आशय, ते जाणत असलेल्या इतर भाषांत शोधणे, त्यांचेसाठी मौलिक ठरु शकते. आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे या बाबतची अधिक माहिती दस्ताऐवजीकरण येथे बघता येऊ शकते.

आजपासून,आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे हे, या विकिवर, आंतरभाषिक दुव्यांसाठी एक अविचल यादी असतील. तरीपण,खाली असलेली कळ वापरुन,आपण संबंधित लेख ज्या-ज्या भाषेत लिहिल्या गेला आहे, त्या सर्व भाषांची विस्तृत यादीपण बघु शकता.

आटोपशीर भाषा दुवे हे फिचर, विकिमिडिया भाषिक चमू द्वारे, ज्यांनी यास विकसित केले, अधिक विस्तृतपणे तपासल्या गेले आहे. तरीपण, त्यात काही समस्या असतील तर, किंवा प्रतिसाद असेल तर आम्हास तो प्रकल्प चर्चा पान येथे द्या. याची कृपया नोंद घ्या कि, काही विकिंवर उपलब्ध असलेले जूने गॅजेट, जे यासारख्याच कामासाठी वापरल्या जात होते,ते, या आटोपशीर भाषा यादीसाठी त्रासदायक ठरू शकते.हे आम्ही या विकिच्या प्रशासकांच्या लक्षात आणून देऊ ईच्छितो.या बाबतचा संपूर्ण तपशील (इंग्रजीत) या फॅब्रिकेटर तिकिटावर आहे.

(या संदेशाचे भाषांतर, द्वारा : विजय नरसीकर.)

On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runab WMF (चर्चा) ०८:३९, ८ जुलै २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Save/Publish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) २३:३२, ९ ऑगस्ट २०१६ (IST)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

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

Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale 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 ००:०९, ३१ ऑगस्ट २०१६ (IST)

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.

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) २०:३८, १२ सप्टेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

सदस्य ज यांच्याकडून ३१,६२३ संपादनांचा टप्पा पार

नमस्कार,

@ज: या सदस्यांनी नुकताच मराठी विकिपीडियावरील लेखांमध्ये ३१,६२३ संपादने करण्याचा विक्रम केला. मराठी विकिपीडियावर हा टप्पा गाठणारे हे फक्त दुसरेच सदस्य आहेत.

त्यांच्या गाढ्या अनुभव व ज्ञानाचा तसेच मार्गदर्शनाचा आपणा सर्वांना अनेक वर्षे असाच लाभ मिळत राहो ही आशा करीत आपण त्यांचे अभिनंदन करावे ही विनंती.

धन्यवाद,

अभय नातू (चर्चा) ०८:१८, १९ सप्टेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Grants to improve your project

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा:

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) ०१:४१, १ ऑक्टोबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Creative Commons 4.0

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) ०७:०५, ६ ऑक्टोबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

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:

Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

' - Many new databases added
Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ००:००, २ नोव्हेंबर २०१६ (IST)

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.

Password reset

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

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

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

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

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (चर्चा) / MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०५:२९, १४ नोव्हेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०५:४१, १४ नोव्हेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Help test offline Wikipedia

Hello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback, check out the page on Meta! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) ०१:३८, ३० नोव्हेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

New way to edit wikitext

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --०१:०१, १५ डिसेंबर २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Invitation for Office Hours with WMF's Global Reach team

Hi,

On behalf of Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Reach Team, we would like to invite all the South Asian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss our work in the region.

Meeting Details

Date: Thursday, 19th January 2017

Time: 16:00 UTC/21:30 IST

Duration: 1 hour

Language: English

Google Hangout Location:

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/w5sE6IZTXERWH0VvKtDRiAm9WE1eZ5mYcnQm0h7dHok=?hl=en_US&authuser=0

If you are not able to join the hangout, you can watch the live stream with a few seconds lag at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-VCpQkVSk

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Global_Reach_South_Asia_Office_Hours

Agenda

Introduction of Global Reach Team and office hours
Research around New Readers and our partnership themes
Feedback for next office hours
Q&A

We plan to hold these office hours at regular intervals. FYI, office hours for South East Asia and Central Asia/Eastern Europe will be held separately; given the size of communities, we needed to break down the regions.

Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in the Etherpad document shared above. You can also reach out to sgupta@wikimedia.org and rayyakkannu@wikimedia.org for any clarification. Please help us translate and share this invitation in community social media channels to spread the word.

Thanks,

Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation --००:२५, १८ जानेवारी २०१७ (IST)[reply]

We thank everyone for participating in the Office hours with WMF's Global Reach team. Meeting notes can be found here. You can also watch the YouTube recording here.

--Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation. १५:४६, १ फेब्रुवारी २०१७ (IST)[reply]

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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मराठी भाषा गवरव दिन

काही लोक आज आपले जोगदांन देतील त्यांच्या चर्चापानावर {{subst:२७feb धन्यवाद}}~~~~ असे असावा अशी माझी अशा..--टायवीन२२४०^{माझ्याशी बोला} ११:४१, २७ फेब्रुवारी २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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, ०१:१३, १० मार्च २०१७ (IST) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • 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.

Sincerely,

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

१०:३९, १८ मार्च २०१७ (IST)

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, ०९:०६, ७ एप्रिल २०१७ (IST) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा • Get help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:०४, ११ एप्रिल २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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) १४:११, १४ एप्रिल २०१७ (IST)[reply]

New Page previews feature

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

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 (चर्चा) २२:२२, १९ एप्रिल २०१७ (IST)[reply]

WikiProject Turkey 2017

Dear friends,

In an unfortunate turn of events, Wikipedia is currently blocked in Turkey, as can be seen from en: 2017 block of Wikipedia in Turkey

In order to express solidarity with the Turkish Wikipedia editors and readers, it is proposed that Indian Wikipedians write articles related to Turkey in their respective languages. Our message is clear — we are not motivated by any politics; we just want the Wikipedia to be unblocked in Turkey.

Participating members can create new articles on Turkish language, culture, political structure, religion, sports, etc. But the essential condition is that the articles should be related to Turkey.

Note: The normal Wikipedia rules also apply to all new articles. Wikipedia admins can facilitate other member contributions by creating project pages where users can list their newly written articles. --Hindustanilanguage (चर्चा) ००:५४, १ मे २०१७ (IST)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

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 ००:२२, ३ मे २०१७ (IST)

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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००:४४, ४ मे २०१७ (IST)

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) २०:११, ८ मे २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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) २०:१४, १६ मे २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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:

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

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०२:३८, १७ मे २०१७ (IST)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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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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०२:३५, २४ मे २०१७ (IST)

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!) १८:१९, ५ जून २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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) ०४:०२, २१ जुलै २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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 (चर्चा) ०२:३६, १८ सप्टेंबर २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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) ०२:०५, २१ सप्टेंबर २०१७ (IST)[reply]