"विकिपीडिया:चावडी/प्रगती" च्या विविध आवृत्यांमधील फरक
→Suggested Values: नवीन विभाग खूणपताका: अमराठी मजकूर? कृ. मराठी वापरा !! |
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:ही सोय इतर विकिपीडियांच्या आधी मराठी विकिपीडियावर उपलब्ध करण्यासाठी मी [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johanna_Strodt_(WMDE)#Reference_Preview_on_w%3Amr मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या वतीने विनंती] केली आहे. |
:ही सोय इतर विकिपीडियांच्या आधी मराठी विकिपीडियावर उपलब्ध करण्यासाठी मी [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johanna_Strodt_(WMDE)#Reference_Preview_on_w%3Amr मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या वतीने विनंती] केली आहे. |
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:[[सदस्य:अभय नातू|अभय नातू]] ([[सदस्य चर्चा:अभय नातू|चर्चा]]) २१:३२, २१ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST) |
:[[सदस्य:अभय नातू|अभय नातू]] ([[सदस्य चर्चा:अभय नातू|चर्चा]]) २१:३२, २१ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST) |
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::Hello! The deployment of the Reference Preview feature on some Wikis, including Marathi Wikipedia, on this Wednesday, the 5th of May is now approaching. However, many interface texts for the feature that are necessary for an understandable and friendly usability are not yet translated [https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-popups&language=mr&filter=&optional=1&action=translate here]. A timely translation before the envisaged deployment date seems unlikely to be possible. Should the feature still be deployed on May 5th with some text elements in English? Alternatively, the deployment could take place when the translation is complete, or later in the year when it will be enabled on all wikis. Your feedback is very much appreciated. -- For the Technical Wishes Team at Wikimedia Germany, [[सदस्य:Timur Vorkul (WMDE)|Timur Vorkul (WMDE)]] ([[सदस्य चर्चा:Timur Vorkul (WMDE)|चर्चा]]) २२:१४, ३ मे २०२१ (IST) |
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| चर्चा (विपी इतर चर्चा) इतर विभागात समाविष्ट न होणारे चर्चा विषय नवी चर्चा जोडा | वाचा वादनिवारण वादांवर उहापोह करण्यासाठी नवीन विषय जोडा | वाचा |
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 दूतावास (Embassy) नवी चर्चा जोडा (Start new discussion) |
 प्रचालकांना निवेदन प्रचालकांना निवेदन देण्यासाठीनिवेदन जोडा | वाचा
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 तांत्रिक तांत्रिक मुद्दयांवर चर्चा. विपी आज्ञावलीच्या त्रुटी अहवाला साठी बगझीला वापरा. नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा |
 ध्येय आणि धोरणे सद्द आणि प्रस्तावित ध्येय आणि धोरणे, नीती-संकेत इत्यादींबाबत चर्चेसाठी नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा |
 प्रगती मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या प्रगती बाबत चर्चा नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा सोशल मीडिया मराठी विकिपीडियाचे सोशल मीडिया बाबत नवीन विषय जोडा | वाचा |
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Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.
The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.
With kind regards,
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - १३:५४, १ जुलै २०२० (IST)
feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community
Feedback on movement names
Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा if necessary. आपणास धन्यवाद!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, ०१:१२, ३ जुलै २०२० (IST)
Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.
GENTLE REMINDER: Project Tiger 2.0 - Feedback from writing contest editors and Hardware support recipients
Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this message finds you well.
We sincerely thank you for your participation in Project Tiger 2.0 and we want to inform you that almost all the processes such as prize distribution etc related to the contest have been completed now. As we indicated earlier, because of the ongoing pandemic, we were unsure and currently cannot conduct the on-ground community Project Tiger workshop.
We are at the last phase of this Project Tiger 2.0 and as a part of the online community consultation, we request you to spend some time to share your valuable feedback on the Project Tiger 2.0 writing contest feedback.
Please fill this form to share your feedback, suggestions or concerns so that we can improve the program further. The process of the writing contest will be ended on 20 July 2020.
Note: If you want to answer any of the descriptive questions in your native language, please feel free to do so.
The Writing Contest Jury Feedback form is going to close on 10 July 2020.
Thank you. Nitesh Gill (talk) 15:57, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia
Hi all,
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 [१] after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation [२]. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list [३]. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)
Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) ०१:३६, १० जुलै २०२० (IST) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): we want to hear from you.
Hello. Apologies that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following message may be available on Meta. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा. आपणास धन्यवाद!
At times, our contributor communities and projects have suffered from a lack of guidelines that can help us create an environment where free knowledge can be shared safely without fear. There has been talk about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time.
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced a Community Culture Statement, asking for new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.
The universal code of conduct will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, and will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe. It is of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC and its values. We should think about what we want it to cover or include and what it shouldn’t include, and how it may create difficulties or help our groups.
This is the time to talk about it. Before starting drafting the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you and to solicit the opinions and feedback of your colleagues. In order for your voice to be heard, we encourage and invite you to read more about the universal code of conduct (UCoC) and then write down your opinions or feedback on the discussion page.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcome to translate the universal code of conduct main page from English into your respective local language. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation २२:१२, २२ जुलै २०२० (IST)
Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis
The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.
If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:Max Klemm (WMDE) १४:४३, ६ ऑगस्ट २०२० (IST)
Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
Wikimedia Foundation आपल्या नवीन माहितीकेन्द्राची (डेटा सेंटर) चाचणी घेण्याचे बेत करीत आहे. हे सुनिश्चित करेल की विकिपीडिया आणि इतर विकिमीडिया विकी आपत्तीनंतरही ऑनलाइन राहू शकतात. सर्व काही कार्यरत आहे हे सुनिश्चित करण्यासाठी, विकिमिडिया तंत्रज्ञान विभागास नियोजित चाचणी करणे आवश्यक आहे. ही चाचणी दर्शविते की ते एका डेटा सेंटर वरून दुसर्‍या डेटा सेंटरवर विश्वासार्हपणे स्विच करू शकतात का?. यासाठी अनेक संघांना चाचणीची तयारी करणे आवश्यक आहे आणि कोणतीही अनपेक्षित समस्या दूर करण्यासाठी उपलब्ध असणे आवश्यक आहे.
ते मंगळवार, दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर २०२०रोजी दुय्यम डेटा सेंटरवर सर्व रहदारी बदलतील.
दुर्दैवाने, MediaWiki मधील काही मर्यादांमुळे, आम्ही स्विच करत असताना सर्व संपादने थांबणे आवश्यक आहे. या व्यत्ययाबद्दल आम्ही दिलगीर आहोत आणि आम्ही भविष्यात ते कमी करण्यासाठी कार्य करीत आहोत.
आपण अल्पावधीतच सर्व विकी वाचण्यास सक्षम असाल, परंतु संपादन करू शकणार नाही.
- मंगळवार दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर रोजी आपण एका तासापर्यंत संपादन करण्यास सक्षम राहणार नाही. चाचणी [वेळ १४:०० यूटीसी] वाजता सुरू होईल (१५:०० बीएसटी, १६:०० सीएसटी, १०:०० ईडीटी, १९:३० आयएसटी, ०७:३० पीडीटी, २३:०० जेएसटी, आणि न्यूझीलंडमध्ये ०२:०० वाजता एनझेडएसटी बुधवार दिनांक २ सप्टेंबर रोजी
- आपण या वेळी संपादित करण्याचा किंवा जतन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केल्यास आपणास एक त्रुटी संदेश दिसेल आम्हाला आशा आहे की या मिनिटांमध्ये कोणतीही संपादने गमावली जाणार नाहीत परंतु आम्ही याची हमी देऊ शकत नाही. आपल्याला त्रुटी संदेश दिसत असल्यास, कृपया सर्वकाही सामान्य होईपर्यंत प्रतीक्षा करा. मग आपण आपले संपादन जतन करण्यात सक्षम असाल. परंतु, आम्ही शिफारस करतो की तुम्ही तुमच्या बदलांची प्रत प्रथम बनवा.
इतर प्रभाव:
- पार्श्वभूमी कृती प्रणाली वेग मंदावला जाउ शकतो आणी काही कृती अपूर्ण राहू शकतात सुटू शकतात. लाल दुवे सामान्य तितक्या लवकर अद्यतनित केले जाऊ शकणार नाहीत. आपण आधीपासूनच कोठेतरी दुवा साधलेला एखादा लेख तयार केल्यास दुवा नेहमीपेक्षा जास्त वेळ लाल राहील. काही दीर्घकाळ-चालू असलेल्या स्क्रिप्ट्स थांबवाव्या लागतील.
- दिनांक १ सप्टेंबर २०२० च्या आठवड्यात कोड गोठवले जातील. अनावश्यक कोड उपयोजित होणार नाही.
आवश्यकता पडल्यास हा प्रकल्प पुढे ढकलण्यात येवू शकतो.. आपण wikitech.wikimedia.org वर वेळापत्रक वाचू शकता. सुचीमधे कोणतेही बदल झाल्यास जाहीर केले जातील. या बाबतीत पुढे आणखी अधिसूचना असतील. कृपया आपल्या समुहांमध्ये ही माहिती समाईक करावी.
Trizek (WMF) (talk) १९:१८, २६ ऑगस्ट २०२० (IST)
New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
- Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
- RILM – Music encyclopedias
Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team १५:१९, ३ सप्टेंबर २०२० (IST)
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
संभाषणात सहभागी होण्यासाठी आमंत्रण
सर्वांना नमस्कार. जागतिक आचारसंहितेचा (Universal Code of Conduct), जी विकिमिडिया फाऊंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ ट्रस्टीज (Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees) ने या वर्षी पूर्वी बंधनकारक केली, तिचा एक मसूदा आपल्या आढाव्यासाठी आणि फीडबॅकसाठी शेअर करण्याबाबत आम्ही खूप उत्तेजित आहोत. आपल्यासाठी किंवा आपल्या कामासाठी मसूद्याचे कोणते भाग आव्हान सादर करतील हे UCoC मसूदा समिती (Drafting Committee) यांना जाणून घ्यायचे आहे. या मसूद्यात काय राहिले आहे? कृपया संभाषणात सामील व्हा आणि ज्या इतरांना सामील होण्यात रुची असेल त्यांनाही आमंत्रण द्या.
--AMtavangu (WMF) (चर्चा) ११:४४, १० सप्टेंबर २०२० (IST)
Mahatma Gandhi edit-a-thon on 2 and 3 October 2020
Please feel free to translate the message.
Hello,
Hope this message finds you well. We want to inform you that CIS-A2K is going to organise a mini edit-a-thon for two days on 2 and 3 October 2020 during Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. This is not related to a particular project rather participants can contribute to any Wikimedia project (such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote). The topic of the edit-a-thon is: Mahatma Gandhi and his works and contribution. Please participate in this event. For more information and details please visit the event page here. Thank you. — User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १६:५४, २८ सप्टेंबर २०२० (IST)
Wiki of functions naming contest
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. आपणास धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)०२:५२, ३० सप्टेंबर २०२० (IST)
Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.
आपणास धन्यवाद! Qgil-WMF (talk) २२:४७, ७ ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
New Beta Feature next week
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा.
The Editing team is working on mw:Talk pages project/replying. The Reply tool is one result of the big mw:Talk pages consultation 2019. Editing is planning to offer the Reply tool to your community as a Beta Feature soon, probably on Wednesday, 14 October. The Reply tool has been used to make more than 25,000 comments at about 20 wikis so far.
The Editing team is particularly interested in learning how well this works for you, especially if you have trouble typing comments.
Here's what you need to know:
- Using the Reply tool is optional. The Beta Feature will be turned off. If you want to try it, you will need to go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and turn it on next Wednesday (or maybe Thursday).
- There are a few things that you might want to check.
- Check mw:Help:DiscussionTools/Why can't I reply to this comment? for information about "unsigned" templates and other information.
- Some languages use a particular style for signatures. For example, Japanese does not add a space between the comment and the signature. I don't think that's the case here, but if I've guessed wrong, then you can define the signature format for all users at MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix.
- Missing or wrong translations can be fixed at Translatewiki.net.
- If you have questions or encounter problems, please leave a note at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/replying. That's the fastest way to reach the devs.
If you have questions or concerns about this Beta Feature, please contact me. Whatamidoing (WMF) (चर्चा) १०:००, १० ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
- You can test the Reply tool on this page: https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिया:चावडी/प्रगती?dtenable=1 Whatamidoing (WMF) (चर्चा) १०:०१, १० ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
- The Beta Feature is available now in Special:Preferences. Whatamidoing (WMF) (चर्चा) २१:३८, १४ ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
Regional Call for South Asia - Oct. 30
Hi everyone. The time has come to put Movement Strategy into work and we need your help. We are inviting South Asian communities, Indian Wikimedians, and anyone else interested to join a region-focused conversation on Movement Strategy and implementation. Please join us on Friday Oct. 30 at 19.30 / 7:30 pm IST (Google Meet).
The purpose of the meeting is to get prepared for global conversations, to identify priorities for implementation in 2021, and to plan the following steps. There are 10 recommendations and they propose multiple 45 initiatives written over two years by many Wikimedians. It is now up to communities to decide which ones we should work on together in 2021, starting with local and regional conversations. Global meetings will take place later in November when we will discuss global coordination and resources. More information about the global events will be shared soon.
- What is work you’re already doing that is aligned with Movement Strategy?
- What are priorities for you in 2021?
- What are things we should all work on globally?
We would not be able to grow and diversify as a movement if communities from South Asia are not meaningfully involved in implementing the recommendations. Join the conversation with your questions and ideas, or just come to say hi. See you on Friday October 30.
A translatable version of this message can be found on Meta.
MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) २२:५४, १९ ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
Important: maintenance operation on October 27
Read this message in another language • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) २२:४०, २१ ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)
Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. आपणास धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)
०३:४०, ६ नोव्हेंबर २०२० (IST)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021
Please consider translating the message.
Hello,
Hope this email finds you well. We want to inform you about Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, an online wiki-event by A2K which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Please see the event page here. also Please subscribe to the event-specific newsletter to get regular news and updates.
Get involved
- Please help in creating a logo for the event.
- This event has a "Request for Comments" portal, where we are seeking your opinion on different topics. Please consider sharing your expertise.
- We need help to translate a few messages to different Indian languages. Could you help?
Happy Diwali. --MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १८:१६, १४ नोव्हेंबर २०२० (IST)
The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on ३० नोव्हेंबर, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between ८ डिसेंबर and २१ डिसेंबर.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
२३:३९, २० नोव्हेंबर २०२० (IST)
Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist
Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!
WMWM 2021 Newsletter #1
Namaskar,
You are receiving this notification as you are one of the subscriber of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter. We are sharing with you the first newsletter featuring news, updates and plans related to the event. You can find our first issue here. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove yourself from here.
Sent through MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:२७, १ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)
Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon on 5-6 December 2020
Namaskara/Hello,
Hope you are doing well. On 5–6 December, A2K will conduct a mini edit-a-thon on the theme Festivals of India. This edit-a-thon is not restricted to a particular project and editors can contribute to any Wikimedia project on the theme. Please have a look at the event page, and please participate. Some tasks have been suggested, please feel free to expand the list.
Regards. Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १६:५९, २ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)
2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th
Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १६:२५, ७ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)
Community Wishlist Survey 2021
We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
०६:२२, १५ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #2
Hello,
The second edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have started a logistics assessment. The objective of the survey is to collect relevant information about the logistics of the Indian Wikimedia community members who are willing to participate in the event. Please spend a few minutes to fill this form.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. --MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०७:१०, १७ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)
Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021
Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello,
We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.
You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.
We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for your submissions!
Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3
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Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. -- MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:२६, १ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
Wikipedia 20th anniversary celebration edit-a-thon
Dear all,
We hope you are doing well. As you know, CIS-A2K is running a series of mini edit-a-thons. Two mini edit-a-thons has been completed successfully with your participation. On 15 January 2021, Wikipedia has its 20th birthday and we are celebrating this occasion by creating or developing articles regarding encyclopedias including Wikipedia. It has started today (9 January 2021) and will run till tomorrow (10 January 2021). We are requesting you to take part in it and provide some of your time. For more information, you can visit here. Happy editing. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 07:54, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4
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Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २१:४२, १७ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
[Small wiki toolkits] Understanding the technical challenges
Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.
Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. In India, a series of workshops were conducted last year, and they received good response. They are being continued this year, and the first session is: Understanding the technical challenges of wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors contributing to language projects related to South Asia. The session is on 24 January 2021, at 18:00 to 19:30 (India time), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal time), and 18:30 to 20:00 pm (Bangladesh time).
You can register yourself by visiting this page! This discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at https://w.wiki/t8Q. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २२:०९, १९ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
आयुष्यात प्रेम हवंच असेल तर जगाचा सोस,स
Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा. आपणास धन्यवाद!
Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, २०:४६, २७ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
Project Grant Open Call
This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
- Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
- Video tutorials for writing a strong application
- General planning page for Project Grants
- Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsसाचा:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १३:३१, २८ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs
Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of
- a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
- b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.
Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga १९:१५, २८ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)
New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Taxmann – Taxation and law database
- PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
- EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
--१८:२७, १ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)
Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow
(sorry for posting in English)
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.
During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.
Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!
Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.
To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.
Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.
In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?
Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:
- Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
- Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
- Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
- Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
- Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
- Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
- Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
- Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.
Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.
You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.
An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.
Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) २२:००, १ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5
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Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5
Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.
There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Greetings!
You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore writing contest. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here.
You can also support us in translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Thank you.
Feminism and Folklore team,
[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 27 February
- Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
- Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.
Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १५:४१, १८ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)
Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
Hello everyone,
I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see, विकिपीडिया currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.
Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) १९:४२, १८ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)
Wikifunctions logo contest
०७:१७, २ मार्च २०२१ (IST)
WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions
As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.
- Skills for Board work - Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC
- Support for candidates - Saturday, March 13, 13:30 UTC
- Board - Global Council - Hubs - Saturday, March 13, 16:00 UTC
- Regional diversity - Sunday, March 14, 13:00 UTC
To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.
Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), १४:०६, १० मार्च २०२१ (IST)
[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 27 March
- Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
- Trainer: Jay Prakash
Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.
prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.
Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १२:३१, १६ मार्च २०२१ (IST)
Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.
Drafting Committee: Call for applications
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
Line numbering coming soon to all wikis
From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors.
More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.
-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) २०:३९, १२ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST)
[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Designing responsive main pages" - 30 April (Friday)
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive. This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and the height according to various screen sizes. Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup and optionally basic CSS.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 30 April (Friday)
- Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (India / Sri Lanka), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal), 18:30 to 20:00 (Bangladesh)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts | to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here.
If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/3CGv.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.
Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, २१:२१, १९ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST)
Does Marathi Wikipedia want to be among the first wikis to get previews for references?
[Sorry, for writing in English. It would be great if you could add a translation.]
In the near future, editors and readers can get pop-ups for references in the same style as Page Previews: The feature called Reference Previews will soon be deployed to a first group of wikis as a default feature. Reference Previews show you a reference in a small pop-up when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. More than 2,600 people on mr.wikipedia are currently testing Reference Previews as a beta feature. After many months of testing, bug fixing and other improvements, the feature will soon be enabled as a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia, probably on May 5.
Would Marathi Wikipedia also want to get the feature early? We were thinking it would be a good candidate because on Marathi Wikipedia, there is no default gadget for previewing references yet. (Here’s a link to translatewiki, where the interface of the feature can be translated).
If you want to know more about the feature, please have a look at the project page or write me a message on my talk page. We would be very happy to have Marathi Wikipedia on board! -- For the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) १४:४८, २१ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST)
- On behalf of w:mr, I have expressed interest in enabling this features early.
- ही सोय इतर विकिपीडियांच्या आधी मराठी विकिपीडियावर उपलब्ध करण्यासाठी मी मराठी विकिपीडियाच्या वतीने विनंती केली आहे.
- अभय नातू (चर्चा) २१:३२, २१ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST)
- Hello! The deployment of the Reference Preview feature on some Wikis, including Marathi Wikipedia, on this Wednesday, the 5th of May is now approaching. However, many interface texts for the feature that are necessary for an understandable and friendly usability are not yet translated here. A timely translation before the envisaged deployment date seems unlikely to be possible. Should the feature still be deployed on May 5th with some text elements in English? Alternatively, the deployment could take place when the translation is complete, or later in the year when it will be enabled on all wikis. Your feedback is very much appreciated. -- For the Technical Wishes Team at Wikimedia Germany, Timur Vorkul (WMDE) (चर्चा) २२:१४, ३ मे २०२१ (IST)
Suggested Values
From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.