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Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions

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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

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  • 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

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gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.

  • 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.
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Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

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

पाच हजारागणिक लेखांचा आकार

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क्र. लेख आकार (बाइट्स) क्र. लेख आकार (बाइट्स) क्र. लेख आकार (बाइट्स) क्र. लेख आकार (बाइट्स)
‎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.
  • यामुळे 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]



Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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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

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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

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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]

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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.

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Introducting Beta Features

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(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:

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]

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

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

४०,००० लेख

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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?

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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- ता.मोहोळ जि. सोलापूर.

वडवळ- ता.मोहोळ जि. सोलापूर.

चाळीस हजारी टप्पा गाठायला विवीध संस्थळांवर जाहिरात केली आहे!

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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

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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

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Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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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:

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

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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

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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:

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

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto

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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]


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

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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

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

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

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

Nemo १८:३९, १९ जून २०१४ (IST)[reply]


IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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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):

  1. User:Kaustubh (administrator)
  2. 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

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

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

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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

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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.

Change in renaming process

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

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

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

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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

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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.

धन्यवाद.

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

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

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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]

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

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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

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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.


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)

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

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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

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

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MediaWiki mobile

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

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

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

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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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!

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

SUL finalization update

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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

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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

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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]

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

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) • TranslateGet help

 

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) • TranslateGet help

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

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

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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) • TranslateGet help

 

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) • TranslateGet help

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

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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

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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)

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

  • 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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Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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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?

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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

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Happy editing!

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

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

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(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:

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

विकिपीडिया परिषद भारत -२०१६

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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

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How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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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:

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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Help for translate

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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

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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

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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)

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

  • 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!

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(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

संपादन
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

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(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

संपादन

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

संपादन

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

संपादन

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam १६:१८, १० नोव्हेंबर २०१५ (IST)

Harassment consultation

संपादन

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा


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

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

वरील संदेशाचे भाषांतर

संपादन

छळवणूक सल्लामसलत

संपादन

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.)

सादर, विकिसमाज वकिली चमू, विकिमिडिया फाऊंडेशन

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

संपादन

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

संपादन


Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

  • 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

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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]

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:

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, ०२:२८, १९ डिसेंबर २०१५ (IST)कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करासाहाय्य[reply]

Sunday,
16th Jan 2016
IIT Bombay, Powai
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?

संपादन

(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:

With thanks,

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

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

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

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

संपादन

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

संपादन
कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

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

Marathi is missing

संपादन

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

संपादन

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

संपादन

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

संपादन

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

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for 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).
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Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

संपादन
 

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.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) २१:१७, ३१ मार्च २०१६ (IST)[reply]

No editing two times this week

संपादन

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

Wikipedia to the Moon

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can 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.

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सदस्य ज यांच्याकडून ३१,६२३ संपादनांचा टप्पा पार

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नमस्कार,

@: 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

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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.

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

Creative Commons 4.0

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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)

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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, ०२:०१, १६ फेब्रुवारी २०१७ (IST) • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत कराGet help

मराठी भाषा गवरव दिन

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काही लोक आज आपले जोगदांन देतील त्यांच्या चर्चापानावर {{subst:२७feb धन्यवाद}}~~~~ असे असावा अशी माझी अशा..--टायवीन२२४०माझ्याशी बोला ११:४१, २७ फेब्रुवारी २०१७ (IST)[reply]

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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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:

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 कराGet help

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

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१०:३९, १८ मार्च २०१७ (IST)

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-elections wikimedia.org.

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

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

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

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

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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

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WikiProject Turkey 2017

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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)

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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)

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Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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Birgit Müller (WMDE) २०:११, ८ मे २०१७ (IST)[reply]

RevisionSlider

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Birgit Müller (WMDE) २०:१४, १६ मे २०१७ (IST)[reply] ०२:३८, १७ मे २०१७ (IST) ०२:३५, २४ मे २०१७ (IST)

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

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CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ०४:०२, २१ जुलै २०१७ (IST)[reply]

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

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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

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

Trademark discussion

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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

  • DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
  • Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
  • British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
  • Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
  • Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
  • JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.०४:४९, ६ नोव्हेंबर २०१४ (IST)

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Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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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) १४:२६, २४ जुलै २०१५ (IST)[reply]

Why get involved?

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

संतोष शिनगारे ११:३८, ९ मे २०१६ (IST)[reply]

skhushi 11:42, May 9 2016 (IST)

Priya Hiregange (चर्चा) १२:२५, ९ मे २०१६ (IST)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

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Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland १९:४०, १ जुलै २०१६ (IST)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

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Hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

Accessible editing buttons

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) ०३:५२, ११ जुलै २०१७ (IST) [reply]