Wikiversity:Café/Arkiv/2016

Bokskapare

Hej alla glada! Jag skulle gärna se att vi slår på möjligheten till bokskapare här på svenska Wikiversity. Det skulle vara fördelaktigt att kunna erbjuda pedagoger & andra som jag försöker dra till Wikiversity, möjligheten att samla ihop framtida sidor & material genom att skapa en PDF eller faktiskt göra en riktig bok. Bokskaparfunktionen finns på engelska Wikiversity. --Sophie Österberg (WMSE) (diskussion) 4 april 2013 kl. 10.18 (CEST)

Absolut en användbar funktion som vi bör lägga till. När vi ändå är på ämnet så kan jag lyfta en återkommande diskussion kring Wikiversity som handlar om var gränsdragningen går gentemot Wikibooks, hur ser du på fördelningen däremellan? //Kaj (diskussion) 8 april 2013 kl. 13.56 (CEST)

Hej på er! Jag håller helt med er om att bokskaparen skulle kunna fylla en funktion här. Jag har sett att den är påslagen på engelska Wikivesity men att den inte finns tillagd i verktygsmenyn. Om skillanderna mellan Wikiversity och Wikibooks tänker jag att Wikibooks kan passa projekt som är mer linjärt framtagna och som kanske syftar till att vara mer beständig, så som en manual. Jag ser Wikiversity som en mer experimentell yta där också diskussionssidorna är en central del av hela "resursens" innehåll. Bra fråga: Vad är en "bok" och vad är en "kurs" när ingen hänsyn behöver tas till fysiska begränsningar? mvh --Sara Mörtsell (WMSE) (diskussion) 2 maj 2014 kl. 18.13 (CEST)

Låter som en utmärkt idé. Jag ber utvecklarna slå på den. --Jan Ainali (WMSE) (diskussion) 7 maj 2014 kl. 11.19 (CEST)

Här finns min begäran. --Jan Ainali (WMSE) (diskussion) 14 maj 2014 kl. 10.18 (CEST)

Och nu är det aktiverat, testa på Special:Bok. --Jan Ainali (WMSE) (diskussion) 29 september 2014 kl. 19.21 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16 januari 2014 kl. 07.47 (CET)

Adminförfrågan och tankar

Hej,

Som ni kan se är jag Admin på svwp. Jag ser att jag har ett behov av att vara det här med. En av de första saker jag såg nu på SÄ var att översta två raderna är samma text. Som vanlig användare kan jag inte rätta dessa saker. Jag kommer att vara tvungen att flytta sidor till min nyskapade kurs, och då radera de gamla sidorna. Då behöver jag vara admin. Gemenskapens portal behöver dessutom utvecklas en del (det står inget på den just nu, det saknas sidor och struktur så att man lätt kan hitta vilka som är admins, och länkningar till sidor med vilka förhållningssätt, instruktioner och val till olika befattningar. För att jag skall kunna nå ut till dem som är min målgrupp för mitt examensarbete (lärare på högskolor) behövs det bättre struktur här så att de, som oftast är ganska oerfarna med wikis, lätt kan sätta sig in i arbetssättet.

Jag hoppas att mina intentioner och att jag har varit admin på svwp under 2,5 år gör att de som är admins här kan acceptera min förfrågan. MVH Adville (diskussion) 28 januari 2014 kl. 19.43 (CET)

Nytt adminval

Hej. Jag har självnominerat mig till Admin på denna sida. Adville (diskussion) 30 januari 2014 kl. 22.22 (CET)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 21 februari 2014 kl. 23.00 (CET)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

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

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

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 28 februari 2014 kl. 20.44 (CET)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 13 mars 2014 kl. 22.55 (CET)

Sideviews

Var kan jag hitta antalet sideviews på de olika sidorna? På wikipedia vet jag hur man hittar, men här har jag inte lyckats hitta. Det skulle vara intressant att se när man håller kurser hur mycket studentrna öppnar sidorna, och när de gör det (öppnar de "redan lästa sidor" även senare i kursen, till exempel). Adville (diskussion) 24 mars 2014 kl. 21.09 (CET)

Radera befintlig sida

Hej!

Jag vill flytta en sida (https://sv.wikiversity.org/wiki/SFI_-_Svenska_f%C3%B6r_invandrare) men har redan skapat sidan som jag vill flytta min gamla sida till. Så, det går inte. Kan admin hjälpa mig radera den nyskapade sidan https://sv.wikiversity.org/wiki/Digitala_verktyg_f%C3%B6r_spr%C3%A5kdidaktik

Tack!

Fixat Adville (diskussion) 26 mars 2014 kl. 18.55 (CET)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

Omal av mig som admin

Hej. Nu går min temporära admin snart ut och för att kunna få förlängning behöver jag få röster på valet. Rösta gärna på mig, för jag tycker att det skulle vara bra om det fanns en svenskspråkig admin på svenskspråkiga wikiversity. Adville (diskussion) 9 maj 2014 kl. 23.33 (CEST)

Blev du omvald till admin? Hockew (diskussion) 2 juni 2014 kl. 23.29 (CEST)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 23 maj 2014 kl. 23.29 (CEST)

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Sweet! I'm looking forward to test this new feature //Hakan (diskussion) 2 juni 2014 kl. 22.18 (CEST)

Vad är på gång?

Va kul att kika runt på Wikiversity och se allt nytt som kommit sedan jag var här sist :-) Vad är det som händer just nu? Kanske är det nått vi kan hjälpas åt med? //Hockew (diskussion) 2 juni 2014 kl. 23.27 (CEST)

Wikiversity förstasida

Jag funderar på hur wikin ser ut och om vi kan göra den mer lättillgänglig. Har börjat skissa på en ny förstasida. Vad tycker du? Hockew (diskussion) 4 juni 2014 kl. 11.57 (CEST)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 19 juni 2014 kl. 23.54 (CEST)

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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

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

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

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21 augusti 2014 kl. 19.35 (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22 augusti 2014 kl. 00.15 (CEST)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 2 september 2014 kl. 18.52 (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

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

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

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

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 26 oktober 2014 kl. 19.04 (CET)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 14 november 2014 kl. 18.34 (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature

Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you translated this message!

VisualEditor, a rich-text editor for MediaWiki, will soon be available on this wiki as a Beta Feature. The estimated date of activation is Wednesday, 26 November.

To access it, you will need to visit the Betafunktioner page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Aktivera automatiskt de flesta nya betafunktionerna" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.

Then, you just have to click on "Redigera" to start VisualEditor, or on "Redigera wikitext" to edit using wikitext markup. You can even begin to edit pages with VisualEditor and then switch to the wikitext editor simply by clicking on its tab at any point, and you can keep your changes when doing so.

A guide was just published at mediawiki.org so that you can learn how to support your community with this transition: please read and translate it if you can! You will find all the information about the next steps there. Please report any suggestions or issues at the main feedback page. You will also receive the next issues of the multilingual monthly newsletter here on this page: if you want it delivered elsewhere, for example at your personal talk page, please add the relevant page here.

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 21 november 2014 kl. 19.12 (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)

Please notice the correct direct link to access Betafunktioner is this one. Thanks for your understanding! Elitre (WMF) 21 november 2014 kl. 19.35 (CET)

Bygga om Wikiversity

Är det någon som vill bolla idéer med mig om hur vi kan bygga om Wikiversity? Hockew (diskussion) 11 december 2014 kl. 00.00 (CET)

Hur då "bygga om"? Menar du "aktivera", eller tycker du att det är saker som måste tas bort och göras på annat sätt? JoergenB (diskussion) 14 december 2014 kl. 05.11 (CET)

Aktivera låter toppen! Och det finns kanske saker som behöver tas bort men framför allt behöver många delar uppdateras. Jättekul att du gått med i Projekt Wikiversity! Där kan vi snacka mer om vad som behöver göras. Hockew (diskussion) 15 december 2014 kl. 08.26 (CET)

Jag letade runt litet och hittade en klasslista. Jag förmodar att det mest realistiska borde vara att fokusera på att utforma någon eller några litet utförligare kurser (för självstudier i första hand), kanske genom att välja något av de existerande utkasten till kurser, och gemensamt bygga på den. Det skulle kunna ge oss en känsla för vad som fungerar och vad som verkar mer problematiskt.

Finns det något ämnesområde de flesta av av oss skulle känna sig rimligt kompetenta i, så att vi kunde pröva idén om kursskaparsamarbete?

Däremot har vi för närvarande knappast resurser för att hålla ihop och leda tidsmässigt sammanhållna "klasser" (på det sätt väl Användare:Kaj försökt). Jag vet inte heller riktigt om "klasserna" alltid var tänkta att fungera på det sättet. Vad både "elever" och "lärare" kunde ha mer nytta av vore tydligt synliga "kursfora", som registrerade användare även enkelt skulle kunna "prenumerera" på (jämför hur Moodlekurssidor ofta fungerar; just kursfora ger ofta en stor del av nyttan med dessa sidor). Tydligare frågefunktioner kunde vara till hjälp för elever som till äventyrs söker sig hit.

Det skulle vara rätt trevligt om man exempelvis kunde knyta en "knapp" för ett kursforum till både huvudsidan och undersidor för en kurs. JoergenB (diskussion) 16 december 2014 kl. 01.41 (CET)

Jag tror också att kurser för självstudier är vad vi ska koncentrera oss på. Men samtidigt är det flera lärare som lagt hela eller delar av sina ordinarie kurser på Wikiversity. Det behöver vi också uppmuntra :) Och om det går tycker jag att vi efter att de är avslutade försöker göra om dem så de går att studera på egen hand. Då blir det något vi har nytta av i många år framöver.

Bra idé med ett gemensamt projekt för att lära tillsammans. Vad säger du om ämnet "Distanspedagogik i en wiki"?

"Kursfora", menar du som en FAQ där man kan ställa frågor inom exempelvis matematik och få svar? Jag pratar gärna vidare om den idén och hur den praktiskt skulle kunna fungera. Hockew (diskussion) 16 december 2014 kl. 22.09 (CET)

Ungefär så; fast i första hand knutet till kurserna. De bör med den inskränkningen ändå vara rätt breda. "Studenter" kan exempelvis fråga både om sådant som står i läromedlen och mer allmänt om sådant som hör till ämnet. Det enda man bör vara litet uppmärksam på är att man som "lärare" inte levererar färdiga fullständiga lösningar på uppgifter "studenterna" har i uppgift att lösa själva. (I självstudiesammanhang kan förstås gränserna mellan "studenter och "lärare" vara litet flytande; men ofta kan det vara en fördel om någon mer ämneskunnig bevakar ett kursforum, och vid behov ger råd och tips.)

Om en kurs funnits ett tag, så kan mycket väl en del frågor och svar extraheras till en FAQ; men möjligheten att kunna ställa "egna" frågor och få svar brukar vara mycket uppskattad. JoergenB (diskussion) 20 december 2014 kl. 19.04 (CET)

Försvunna "ägare"?

I detta projekt kan det förstås finnas bättre skäl för att den eller de som startar en kurs behåller en viss kontroll över kursupplägget, än i wikipediaprojekt (där "artikelägare" är bannlysta - i flera meningar). Därför förstår jag behovet av sådant som {{Skapare}}. Det borde dock kunna finnas något slags sätt att gå vidare, om en användare har släppt greppet om en kurs.

Kursen Grundläggande matematik skapades år 2010-09-06 av Användare:Reko, som dock endast var aktiv just den dagen, och som av någon orsak (egen begäran, kanske??) inte längre ens är en registrerad användare. Det gör det litet svårt att kontakta vederbörande för att diskutera kursutveckling. JoergenB (diskussion) 16 december 2014 kl. 02.00 (CET)

Användare:Reko är min lillebror och jag vet att han har inget emot om du jobbar vidare med kursen. Kanske kan jag till och med övertala honom att komma tillbaka om jag berättar att materialet utvecklas. Märkligt att hans profil försvunnit... Hockew (diskussion) 16 december 2014 kl. 08.26 (CET)

Statistiklänk

Hej! Jag tror att det skulle vara motiverande om vi la till statistiklänkar på historiksidan (på samma sätt som på Wikipedia) så att det enkelt går att hitta statistiksidan för varje sida. Det är sidan MediaWiki:Histlegend som skulle behöva ha kodsnutten: <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Externa verktyg: [//tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/?project=sv.wikiversity.org&article={{urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}}} Versionshistorik] '''·''' [http://stats.grok.se/sv.v/latest/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} Antal sidvisningar]</span> som skulle ge Externa verktyg: Versionshistorik · Antal sidvisningar Vad tror ni andra? Jan Ainali (WMSE) (diskussion) 17 december 2014 kl. 09.37 (CET)

Mycket bra idé! Hockew (diskussion) 17 december 2014 kl. 10.43 (CET)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Stycke" into a "Blockcitat".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Fet" and "Kursiv" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

26 december 2014 kl. 20.00 (CET)

Se antalet sidvisningar på Wikiversity

Hej alla glada Wikiversity-användare!

Om du är sugen på att se hur många sidvisningar din resurs har så kan du använda dig av samma statistikverktyg som finns för Wikipedia. Du klickar på den här länken nedan och byter ut Portal:Huvudsida till namnet på den sida du vill se statistiken för:

• http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Portal:Huvudsida

God fortsättning på 2015! --Sara Mörtsell (WMSE) (diskussion) 7 januari 2015 kl. 15.22 (CET)

Toppen! Tack så mycket :-) Hockew (diskussion) 8 januari 2015 kl. 10.24 (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Nyliga förbättringar

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog: blå ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: grön ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: röd , eller
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: grå .

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.)

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Spaning framåt

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

5 februari 2015 kl. 19.31 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikiversity.org: (alla) Redigera sidor

MediaWiki mobile

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1 mars 2015 kl. 23.32 (CET)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 4 mars 2015 kl. 21.01 (CET)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13 mars 2015 kl. 20.45 (CET)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10 april 2015 kl. 18.13 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:

Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:

After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Fet" and "Kursiv" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

10 april 2015 kl. 21.49 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Exempel", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

13 juni 2015 kl. 12.44 (CEST)

HTTPS

Hej!

Wikimediastiftelsen har de senaste åren arbetat mot att aktivera HTTPS som standard för alla användare, inklusive oregistrerade, för bättre integritet och säkerhet för både läsare och skribenter. Det har tagit tid eftersom vi varit tvungna ta hänsyn till flera olika aspekter. Våra servrar har inte varit redo att hantera det. Wikimediastiftelsen har stundvis tvingats balansera mål där det varit svårt att uppnå det ena utan att offra någonting annat.

Tvingad HTTPS har just implementerats på alla Wikimediaprojekt. Några av er är redan medvetna om detta då vissa av Wikipedias språkversioner konverterade till HTTPS förra veckan och berörda gemenskaper underrättades.

De flesta av Wikimedias skribenter kommer inte att märka någon skillnad. Om du gör redigeringar som inloggad användare har du förmodligen redan loggat in via HTTPS. Vi kommer att hålla ett öga på det för att vara säkra på att allt funkar som det ska. Om du har problem med det, hör av dig till oss eller mig för andra frågor.

/Johan (WMF)

20 juni 2015 kl. 00.01 (CEST)

Ok. Tack! Hockew (diskussion) 27 juni 2015 kl. 21.29 (CEST)

Wikiversity

Jag skulle vilja ha lite hjälp att tänka kring w:Wikipedia:Projekt_Wikiversity#Delar_av_projektet. Vad behöver göras och vad är viktigast? Skulle va tacksam för alla synpunkter på det vi har så här långt. Hockew (diskussion) 27 juni 2015 kl. 21.30 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 24 juli 2015 kl. 07.07 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 24 juli 2015 kl. 11.17 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 augusti 2015 kl. 01.43 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mediawiki.org if you can help.
• If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
• Please file requests for language-appropriate "Fet" and "Kursiv" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 15 augusti 2015 kl. 00.28 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mediawiki.org if you can help.
• If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
• Please file requests for language-appropriate "Fet" and "Kursiv" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 15 augusti 2015 kl. 02.05 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19 augusti 2015 kl. 01.08 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by Mall:User through MediaWiki message delivery. 19 augusti 2015 kl. 03.03 (CEST)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4 september 2015 kl. 22.52 (CEST)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22 september 2015 kl. 23.01 (CEST)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28 september 2015 kl. 18.56 (CEST)

VisualEditor på undersidor

Här på Wikiversity är det ju rätt vanligt att det är vanligt att använda sig av undersidor när en resurs skapas. Tyvärr är inte VisualEditor aktiverat på undersidor nu. Jag tänkte därför be utvecklarna att aktivera det. Om ni har synpunkter för eller mot, kommentera här. Även ett enkelt "jag stöder förslaget" är önskvärt då det gör det tydligt för utvecklarna att det är något som är efterfrågat. Jan Ainali (WMSE) (diskussion) 6 oktober 2015 kl. 16.06 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Byt till visuell redigering".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Länk and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Infoga Bilder och media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Radera" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
• Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 30 oktober 2015 kl. 19.18 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

Wikimedia Foundations Community Tech-team har som fokus att bygga bättre verktyg för erfarna Wikimediaanvändare som fokuserar på att administrera och förvalta wikiernas innehåll. Vi påbörjar nu en önskelisteundersökning för gemenskapen för att ta reda på vilka projekt vi kan arbeta på som är de mest användbara.

För fas 1 av undersökningen bjuder vi in alla aktiva användare att presentera korta förslag där de förklarar vad de skulle vilja att vi arbeta på, och varför det är viktigt. Fas 1 kommer att vara i 2 veckor. I fas 2 kommer vi be er att rösta på förslagen. Efteråt kommer vi att analysera de 10 förslagen i topp och skapa en prioriterad önskelista.

Medan större delen av den här processen kommer att ske på engelska, bjuder vi in folk från alla Wikimediawikier att lägga fram förslag. Vi kommer också att bjuda in gemenskapen att hjälpa till att översätta förslag till engelska.

Ditt förslag skall innehålla: problemet du vill lösa, vem som skulle dra nytta av det, och en föreslagen lösning, om du har en. Du kan presentera ditt förslag på sidan för gemenskapens önskelista, genom att använda fältet och den stora blå knappen. Vi kommer att ta emot förslag i 2 veckor, med 23 november som sista datum.

Vi ser fram emot att höra dina idéer.

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 9 november 2015 kl. 22.58 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10 november 2015 kl. 11.47 (CET)

Harassment consultation

Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk

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

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

Vi påbörjar nu den andra delen av Community Tech-teamets undersökning om gemenskapens önskelista och bjuder in alla aktiva användare att rösta på de förslag som har presenterats.

Tack vare dig och andra Wikimediaanvändare har 111 förslag presenterats. Vi har delat upp dessa förslag i kategorier, och det är nu dags att rösta. Du kan rösta på alla förslag som listats genom att använda {{Support}}-mallen. Du är välkommen att lämna kommentarer för eller emot, men bara röster för kommer att räknas. Röstperioden är 2 veckor med 14 december som slutdatum.

Förslagen med flest röster kommer att hamna överst på teamets prioriteringslista för att undersöka och se om vi kan göra någonting åt. Tack för ditt deltagande, och vi ser fram emot att höra från dig!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 december 2015 kl. 15.39 (CET)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18 december 2015 kl. 21.58 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Hjälp

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18 december 2015 kl. 22.58 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Hjälp

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

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Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Redigeringsläge:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
  • Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
  • Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
  • Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!

Elitre (WMF), 25 december 2015 kl. 01.06 (CET)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Redigeringsläge:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
  • Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
  • Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
  • Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!

Elitre (WMF), 25 december 2015 kl. 02.06 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 5 januari 2016 kl. 02.49 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 5 januari 2016 kl. 03.49 (CET)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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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 (diskussion) 18 januari 2016 kl. 20.06 (CET)

JavaScript

Vill gemenskapen att jag uppdaterar gammalt JavaScript på den här wikin? Saker och ting kommer gå sönder förr eller senare om ingenting görs. Nirmos (diskussion) 20 januari 2016 kl. 01.23 (CET)

För att förtydliga: Jag skulle – åtminstone tillfälligt – behöva bli administratör här. Är det någon som motsätter sig det? Nirmos (diskussion) 8 april 2016 kl. 22.28 (CEST)

Jag stödjer detta. Njaelkies Lea (diskussion) 27 april 2016 kl. 07.48 (CEST) Stödjer inte längre. Njaelkies Lea (diskussion) 28 april 2016 kl. 08.46 (CEST)

language links via Wikidata are coming

Hi everyone :)

I wanted to let you know that Wikiversity is scheduled to receive the first round of Wikidata support on February 23rd. This means you will be able to manage the links between different language versions just in one place (on Wikidata) instead of having to do it in each article. I hope this will help you by reducing some work. If that goes well you'll receive access to the data on Wikidata a while later (date will be scheduled later). If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask on d:Wikidata:Wikiversity or d:Wikidata:Project chat.

Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 1 februari 2016 kl. 17.10 (CET)

From English to Svenska

Hello. Sorry for my English. Please, translate this text from English to Svenska: "Welcome to Ukrainian Wikiversity!". I would be very grateful! — Green Zero обг 7 februari 2016 kl. 00.42 (CET)

Frågan har besvarats på Wikipedia. --Pipetricker (diskussion) 26 april 2016 kl. 21.32 (CEST)

Wikidata support is here!

Hey everyone :)

As announced earlier you can now manage your links to other languages and projects via Wikidata. I hope this will make your work here easier. If you keep the links in local wiki text they will overwrite what is coming from Wikidata. You can also completely surpress them using the magic word {{noexternallanglinks}}. If you have questions please don't hesitate to ask at d:Wikidata:Wikiversity or d:Wikidata:Project chat.

Welcome to Wikidata!

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 24 februari 2016 kl. 18.22 (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Visste du att?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Senaste ändringar

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Framtida ändringar

The single edit tab project will combine the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Redigera" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Redigering tab of Special:Preferences:

• Kom ihåg min senaste redigerare,
• Ge mig alltid den visuella redigeraren om möjligt,
• Ge mig alltid källtextredigeraren, and
• Visa mig båda redigeringsflikarna. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.

Let's work together

• Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
• Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
• If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!

Elitre (WMF), 26 februari 2016 kl. 20.21 (CET)

Trakasseriworkshop

Hej alla,

Det här är ett meddelande för att fästa er uppmärksamhet på en trakasseriworkshop som just nu pågår på Meta. Workshopen är en plats för att diskutera hur vi kan förbättra vår hantering av trakasserier på Wikimediaprojekten. Hoppas att du kan vara med!

Hälsningar, Wikimedia Foundations stöd- och säkerhetsteam via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 11 mars 2016 kl. 18.09 (CET)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31 mars 2016 kl. 17.47 (CEST)

Rediringspaus två gånger den här veckan

Wikimediastiftelsen håller på att skaffa ett nytt backupdatacenter i Dallas. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan stanna uppe även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på tisdag 19 april.
På torsdag 21 april kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Tidsperioden då det inte går att redigera wikierna kommer förmodligen att vara mellan femton och trettio minuter både på tisdagen 19 april och torsdagen 21 april, med start kl. 14:00 UTC (16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• Koden kommer att frysas veckan vid 18 april. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Testet var ursprungligen tänkt att äga rum 22 mars. Den 19 och 21 april är de nya datumen. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. De kommer att meddela eventuella ändringar från det schemat. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /Johan (WMF) (diskussion) 18 april 2016 kl. 00.56 (CEST)

Wikidata: access to the data is coming

Hi everyone :)

A while ago you received access to the interwiki links from Wikidata. Everything seems to be going well so I'd like to move on to the second stage. You will get access to the actual data in Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. You'll be able to make use of them in your templates via Lua or a new parser function (#property). We'll be enabling this on May 3rd. I hope this will open up great new possibilities for you and make your work easier. If you have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Project chat or d:Wikidata:Wikiversity.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 28 april 2016 kl. 11.35 (CEST)

Wikidata: data access is here

Hi everyone :)

We just enabled access to the data on Wikidata for you. This means you can now access data like the number of inhabitants of a city or get a link to a picture for a famous person and much more. You can access the data in two ways - via a parser function and via Lua. How to use it:

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

I hope this will help you do great things here. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. A good place to do that is d:Wikidata:Project chat.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 4 maj 2016 kl. 10.40 (CEST)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement 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. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 22 juni 2016 kl. 09.39 (CEST)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Infoga" menu and click the "Referenslista" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Infoga" in the dialog to insert the Referenslista. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Redigera" and "Redigera wikitext" tabs into a single "Redigera" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Redigering" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Spara sidan" button will say "Publicera sida". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Tack!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 3 juli 2016 kl. 19.20 (CEST)

Open call for Project Grants

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

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5 juli 2016 kl. 17.25 (CEST)

VIKTIGT: Aktivitetsundersökning av administratörer

Hej. En ny policy gällande avlägsnande av "avancerade rättigheter" (administratörer, byråkrater etc) antogs 2013 genom global gemenskapskonsensus. I enlighet med detta konsensus genomför stewards en kontroll av administratörers aktiviteter på alla wikis inom Wikimediastiftelsen som inte har någon inaktivitetspolicy. Vi har förstått att ni på er wiki saknar en formell process för att avlägsna "avancerade rättigheter" från inaktiva användare. Detta innebär att stewards kommer att utföra detta i linje med aktivitetskontroll av admins.

Vi har funnit att följande användare är inaktiva enligt de kriterier som fastställts (inga redigeringar och inga adminåtgärder under de två senaste åren):

1. Sophie Österberg (WMSE) (administratör)
2. Tanzania (administratör)

Dessa användare kommer snart att få en förfrågan om att starta en gemenskapsdiskussion om de vill behålla några eller alla rättigheter. Om användarna inte svarar, kommer deras avancerade rättigheter att avlägsnas av Stewards.

Om ni däremot som gemenskap föredrar att skapa er egen aktivitetskontroll som ersätter den globala, har en annan åsikt om dessa inaktiva administratörer, eller redan har en policy som vi har missat, ber vi er informera stewards på Meta-Wiki så att vi kan avsluta aktivitetskontrollen på er wiki. Tack, Rschen7754 22 juli 2016 kl. 05.04 (CEST)

Save/Publish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9 augusti 2016 kl. 20.03 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

Från och med 13 september kommer RevisionSlider att vara tillgänglig som en betafunktion på din wiki. RevisionSlider ger dig möjlighet att enklare navigera mellan olika diffar i historiken. Den har tillkommit som ett önskemål från tyskspråkiga gemenskapens önskelista. Vi hoppas att den kan hjälpa dig. Alla är hemskt välkomna att testa funktionen och komma med feedback.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12 september 2016 kl. 17.08 (CEST)

Grants to improve your project

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30 september 2016 kl. 22.11 (CEST)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hej! Jag skriver från Wikimediastiftelsen för att be om återkoppling på den föreslagna licensflytten från CC BY-SA 3.0 till CC BY-SA 4.0 på alla Wikimediaprojekt. Diskussionen kommer att äga rum mellan den 5 oktober och den 8 november, och vi hoppas få många olika synpunkter och åsikter. Om du är intresserad, delta då gärna i diskussionen på Meta-Wiki. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6 oktober 2016 kl. 03.15 (CEST)

Editing News #3—2016

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Visste du?

Visste du att du lätt kan flytta på kolumner och rader i den VisualEditor?

Välj en cell i den kolumn eller rad du vill flytta. Klicka på pilen i början på raden eller kolumnen för att öppna dropdownmenyn (visad). Välj antingen "Flytta framför" eller "Flytta bakom" för att flytta kolumnen eller "Flytta upp" eller "Flytta ner" för att flytta raden.

Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, som har mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.

Sedan det sista nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet primärt arbetat på en ny wikitextredigerare. De har också släppt några nya små funktioner och det nya kartredigeringensverktyget. Deras arbetstavla finns på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteter är att reparera fel, utgivningen av 2017 års wikitextredigerare som en betafunktion, och videreutveckling av språkstöd.

Senaste ändringar

• Du kan nu göra text liten eller stor.[3]
• Osynliga mallar har visats som en pusselbitsikon. Nu visas även namnet på den osynliga mallen bredvid pusselbitsikonen.[4] En liknande funktion kommer att visa första delen av gömda HTML-kommentarer.[5]
• Kategorier visas mot slutet av varje sida. Om du klickar på kategorierna öppnas en dialogruta för att redigera kategorier.[6]
• På många wikis kan du nu lägga till kartor på sidor. Gå till Infoga-menyn och välj "Kartor". Discoveryavdelningen håller på att lägga till funktioner här, såsom geoshapes. Du kan läsa mer på mediawiki.org.[7]
• "Spara"-knappen säger nu "Spara sida" när du skapar en sida, och "Spara ändringar" när du redigerar en existerande sida.[8] I framtiden kommer "Spara sidan"-knappen att säga "Publicera sida". Denna ändring påverkar både det visuella och wikitextredigeringssystemet. Mer information finns tillgängligt på Meta.
• Bildgallerier använder nu ett visuellt redigeringsläge. Du kan se miniatyrversioner av bilderna, lägga till nya filer, ta bort bilder, arrangera om bilderna genom att dra och släppa, och lägga till bildtexter för varje bild. Använd fliken "Val" för att sätta galleriets visningsläge, bildstorlekar, och ge galleriet en titel.[9]

Framtida ändringar

Den visuella redigeraren kommer att erbjudas till alla skribenter på de 10 kvarvarande Wikipedias i fas 6 under den kommande månaden. Utvecklarna vill veta om du tycker att det känns naturligt att skriva i ditt eget språk i den visuella redigeraren. Posta gärna dina kommentarer och det eller de språk du testade på återkopplingstråden på mediawiki.org. Detta påverkar ett flertal språk, inklusive thai, burmesiska och arameiska.

Teamet jobbar på en modern wikitextredigerare. Wikitextredigeraren för 2017 kommer att se ut som den visuella redigeraren och kunna hantera citoid-servicen samt andra moderna verktyg. Det nya redigeringssystemet kan komma att göras tillgängligt som en betafunktion på desktopsystem i oktober 2016. Du kan läsa om projektet på en allmän statusuppdatering på Wikimedias epostlista.

Låt oss jobba tillsammans

• Visar du nya skribenter hur man använder den visuella redigeraren? Hjälpte du till med att ställa in den automatiska referensfunktionen Citoid på din wiki? Har du skrivit eller importerat TemplateData för de viktigaste källmallarna? Skulle du vara villig att hjälpa nya ny skribenter och små gemenskaper med den visuella redigeraren? I så fall - anmäl dig till den nya VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• Om du inte läser detta i ditt föredragna språk, hjälp gärna till med översättningar! Prenumerera på Translators epostlista eller kontakta oss direkt så vi kan tala om för dig när nästa utskick är redo. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

15 oktober 2016 kl. 19.50 (CEST)

Lösenordsåterställning

Vi är för tillfället utsatta för en attack från okänd tredjepart som försöker ta över konton med priviligierade användarrättigheter, som administratörer, byråkrater, IP-kontrollanter och censorer. Detta verkar vara möjligt på grund av svaga eller återanvända lösenord.

Medlemmar ur gemenskapen arbetar med Wikimedia Foundation för att åtgärda problemet.

Under tiden ber vi att alla funderar på de lösenord de har valt för sina wikikonton. Om du vet att du har använt ett svagt lösenord (till exempel ett kort, ett ord som finns i en ordlista eller en rad på tangentbordet som "123456" eller "qwerty"), vänligen byt lösenord.

Välja starka lösenord – minst åtta tecken långt, med bokstäver, siffror och skiljetecken. Joe Sutherland (diskussion) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 14 november 2016 kl. 00.51 (CET)

New way to edit wikitext

Sammanfattning Du kan nu välja att slå på wikitextläge för VisualEditor som betafunktion. Testa gärna.

Vi i Wikimedastiftelsens Editing-avdelning ansvarar för att göra redigering bättre för alla som redigeringar, såväl nykomlingar som erfarna användare. Vi har sakteligen förbättrat VisualEditor baserat på återkoppling, användertester och förslag. Dock: Det fungerar inte för alla våra behov. Oavsett om du behöver redigera en diskussionssida med wikitext, skapa en mall, fixa trasig referenssyntax så behöver du ibland använda wikitext, och många erfarna användare föredrar det även i vanliga fall.

Således har vi planerat ett "wikitextläge" för VisualEditor ett bra tag. Den innehåller så många som möjligt av VisualEditors funktioner som möjligt, för när du föredrar eller behöver använda wikitext. Det är samma användargränssnitt som VisualEditor, inklusive samma verktygsrad ovanför med samma knappar. Den ger tillgång till Citoid som enklare lägger till referenser, integrerad sökfunktion när man lägger till bilder och enklare möjlighet att lägga till nya mallar. Liksom i VisualEditor kommer text kopierad från en annan sida att behålla typgrafiska detaljer som fet eller kursiv stil och automatiskt att göra om den till wikitextkod.

Alla wikier har nu tillgång till detta läget som betafunktion. När funktionen har aktiverats kommer den att ersätta det nuvarande wikitextredigerinsläget överallt för dig. Om du inte tycker om det kan du när som helst återställa det gamla redigeringsläget genom att stänga av betafunktionen i dina inställningar. Vi vill inte ta någon med överraskning så det här kräver strikt att du själv aktiverar betafunktionen. Vi kommer inte automatiskt att slå på den för någon, ens om du tidigare kryssat i "Aktivera automatiskt de flesta nya betafunktionerna".

Det nya wikitextredigeringsläget är baserat på VisualEditor, så det kräver javascript för att fungera (liksom den nuvarande wikitexteditorn). Det fungerar inte med tilläggsfunktion som bara designats för den äldre wikitexteditorn (och vice versa), så vissa användare kommer att sakna funktioner som är viktiga för dem. Vi arbetar gärna med utvecklare för att hjälpa dem att uppdatera sin kod så att den fungerar med båda editorerna. Vi planerar inte att göra oss av med den nuvarande wikitexteditorn för vanligt desktopläge under översiktlig framtid. Vi kommer inte heller att ta bort möjligheten att redigera wikitext utan att använda javascript. Slutligen, fast det inte borde behöva sägas – om du föredrar att använda den nuvarande wikitexteditorn är det förstås bara att göra det.

Det här är en tidig version och vi vill väldigt gärna höra vad du tycker så att vi kan göra den bättre. Lämna gärna återkoppling, kritik och tips om det nya redigeringsläget på återkopplingssidan. Du kan ge återkoppling och kommentarer på valfritt språk. Tack!

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14 december 2016 kl. 20.31 (CET)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 15 februari 2017 kl. 21.30 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

Fråga om adminrättigheter

Hej! Jag har ställt en frågan om jag kan få tillgång till adminverktygen här på Wikiversity. Vad tycker ni? --Sara Mörtsell (WMSE) (diskussion) 7 mars 2017 kl. 10.16 (CET)

Låter bra! Säg gärna till om du behöver hjälp med något :) Hockew (diskussion) 12 mars 2017 kl. 01.20 (CET)

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 9 mars 2017 kl. 20.43 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

18 mars 2017 kl. 06.10 (CET)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 7 april 2017 kl. 05.37 (CEST) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

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

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Wikimediastiftelsen kommer att testa sitt backupdatacenter i Dallas. Det är för att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan förbli nåbara även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på onsdag 19 april 2017. På onsdag 3 maj kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Det kommer inte att gå att redigera i ungefär 20 till 30 minuter på onsdag 19 april och onsdag 3 maj. Testet kommer att börja 14:00 UTC, vilket innebär 16:00 svensk tid och 17:00 finländsk tid.
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• Ingen ny kod kommer att tas i bruk under vecka 16 och vecka 18. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Den här processen kan komma att skjutas upp om det skulle visa sig nödvändigt. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle några ändringar ske kommer de att meddelas där. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 11 april 2017 kl. 19.34 (CEST)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help

3 maj 2017 kl. 21.14 (CEST)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

Från 9 maj kommer tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktsvyn vara tillgänglig som betafunktion på alla Wikimediawikier. Tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktvyn är ett nytt gränssnitt för att lösa redigeringskonflikter. Den sätter fokus på skillnader mellan redigeringarna som hamnat i konflikt så att det blir enklare att kopiera och klistra in bitar av texten och lösa problemet. Den här funktionen är tänkt att tillfredsställa önskemålet om användarvänligare redigeringskonfliktslösning som fanns på den tyskspråkiga gemenskapens tekniska önskelista. Alla är välkomna att testa funktionen och vi hoppas att den kommer att hjälpa dig i ditt redigerande!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 8 maj 2017 kl. 16.41 (CEST)

Editing News #1—2017

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Visste du?

Visste du att du kan granska dina ändringar med en visuell diff?

När du är klar med att redigera en sida, skriv din redigeringssammanfattning och välj sedan "Granska dina ändringar".

I visuellt läge kan du se tillägg, borttagningar, nya länkar och textformatering. Andra ändringar, så som ändrad storlek av bild, beskrivs vid sidan av.

Klicka på växlingsknappen för att byta mellan visuella diffar och wikitextdiffar.

Wikitextdiffarna är samma redigeringsverionsverktyg som används wikitexteditorn och sidhistoriken. Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarguiden som har mer information om hur man använder VisualEditor.

Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har VisualEditor-teamet ägnat större delen av sin tid åt stöd för det nya wikitextredigeringsläget 2017 vilket finns inom VisualEditor som betafunktion och lägger till visuella redigeringsversionsjämförelseverktyget. Deras arbete går att följa på Phabricator. Du kan hitta länkar till listor på arbete som slutförts varje vecka på mw:VisualEditor/Veckovisa triagemöten. Deras nuvarande prioriteringar är att fixa buggar, utveckla den nya wikitexteditorn från 2017 som betafunktion, och förbättra de visuella diffarna.

Senaste ändringar

• Ett nytt wikitextredigeringsläge' finns som betafunktion för enheter som använder datorvyn. 2017 års wikitexteditor har samma verktygsfält som VisualEditor och kan använda Citoid och andra moderna verktyg. Gå till Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures för att slå på ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• Ett nytt visuellt redigeringsverionsjämförelseverktyg finns i VisualEditors visuella läge. Du kan växla mellan wikitextdiffar och visuella diffar. Fler funktioner kommer att läggas till detta senare. I framtiden kan det här verktyget komma att integreras i flera MediaWiki-komponenter. [10]
• Teamet har lagt till flerkolumnstöd för fotnoter. <references /> kan nu automatiskt visa långa källistor i kolumner på breda skärmar. Detta göra fotnoter enklare att läsa. Du kan begära att få flerkolumnsstöd för din wiki. [11]
• Du kan nu använda din webbläsares funtkion för att växla åt vilket håll du skriver i det nya wikitextläget. Det är särskilt hjälpsamt för språk som skrivs från höger till vänster, som urdu eller hebreiska, när de måste skiva javascript eller CSS. Du kan använda Kommando+Shift+X eller Kontroll+Shift+X för detta. [12]
• Hur du växlar mellan wikitext och VisualEditor är nu konsekvent. Det finns en nedfällningsbar meny som visar de båda alternativen. Detta är samma i mobilvy och datorvy och i funktioner som bäddar in redigering, som Flow. [13]
• Kategorier-knappen har flyttats till toppen av Sidalternativ-menyn (från att klicka på "hamburgar"-ikonen) för snabbare och smidigare tillgänglighet. [14] Det finns nu också en "mallar som används på den här sidan"-funktion där. [15]
• Du kan nu skapa <chem>-taggar (ibland används <ce>) för kemiska formler i VisualEditor. [16]
• Tabeller kan ställas in som minimerade eller ej. [17]
• Specialtecken-menyn innehåller nu tecken för att skriva kanadensiska ursprungsspråk samt vinkelcitationstecken. Teamet vill tacka till Tpt för detta. [18]
• En bugg gjorde att en del avsnittsredigeringskonflikter ledde till att resten av sidan togs bort. Detta har fixats. Teamet ber om ursäkt. [19]
• Det finns ett nytt kortkommando för att citera källor: Kontroll+Shift+K på PC eller Kommando+Shift+K på mac. Detta är baserat på kortkommandot för att göra länkar, vilket är Kontroll+K respektive Kommando+K. [20]

Framtida ändringar

• Teamet arbetar på ett verktyg för att göra det enklare att skilja på brödtext och wikikod. Det kommer att göra det enklare att se matchande <ref>-taggspar och andra delar av wikikoden. Du kommer att kunna slå på och av det. Det kommer först att komma i VisualEditors inbyggda wikitextläge, kanske sent 2017. [21]
• Den typ av knapp som används för Visa förhandsgranskning, Visa ändringar och för att spara en redigering kommer att ändras i alla Wikimedia Foundation-stödda wikitextredigerare. De nya knapparna kommer att använda OOjs-utseendet. Knapparna kommer att vara större, ljusare och enklare att läsa. Deras namn kommer att förbli vad de är. Du kan testa de nya knapparna genom att redigera en sida och lägga till &ooui=1 i slutet av webbadressen, som här https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 Det gamla utseendet kommer inte att kunna bevaras, ens med lokala CSS-ändringar. [22]
• Det gamla wikitextredigeringsläget från 2006 kommer att tas bort senare i år. Det används av uppskattningsvis 0,03 % av våra aktiva användare. Se listan över redigeringsverktyg på mediawiki.org om du är osäker på vilken du använder. [23]
• Om du inte läser detta på ditt föredragna språk, hjälp gärna till med översättningar! Prenumerera på Translators epostlista eller kontakta oss direkt så vi kan tala om för dig när nästa utskick är redo. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

12 maj 2017 kl. 20.06 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider kommmer att vara tillgänglig på alla wikier från 17 maj. RevisionSlider ger dig möjlighet att enklare navigera mellan olika diffar i historiken. Du kan göra detta genom att dra mellan versionerna. Standardläget är att RevisionSlider är minimerad, och kan ses genom att man klickar på den. Det går också att stänga av den helt i användarinställningarna. RevisionSlider har funnits på tyska, arabiska och hebreiska Wikipedia i sex månader och varit en betafunktion på alla andra wikier de senaste åtta månaderna. Den har tillkommit som ett önskemål från tyskspråkiga gemenskapens önskelista. Tack till alla som testade RevisionSlider och gav värdefull återkoppling som gjorde funktionen bättre. Vi hoppas att RevisionSlider fortsätter att tjäna er väl i ert arbete.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16 maj 2017 kl. 16.44 (CEST)

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Get help

16 maj 2017 kl. 23.09 (CEST)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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23 maj 2017 kl. 23.05 (CEST)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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

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

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

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

Tack! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25 juli 2017 kl. 20.40 (CEST)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 27 juli 2017 kl. 18.56 (CEST)

Administratör på Svenska Wikiversity

Jag har ställt frågan om jag kan bli administratör på Svenska Wikiversity. Vad tycker ni?Hockew (diskussion) 14 oktober 2017 kl. 06.25 (CEST)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 november 2017 kl. 23.07 (CET)

Editing News #1—2018

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Visste du?

Känner du till att du nu kan använda det visuella verktyget för "diffar" på alla sidor?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Andra ändringar, såsom ändring av bildstorlek, beskrivs i notiser på sidan.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.

Du kan läsa och hjälpa till att översätta användarhandledningen, där det finns mer information om hur man använder den visuella redigeraren.

Sedan det senaste nyhetsbrevet har redigerings-teamet lagt ned det mesta av sin tid på att supporta 2017 års nya wikikod-editor, som finns tillgänglig som beta-version i VisualEditor. De har också arbetat med att förbättra det visuella diff-verktyget. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Du hittar länkar till föregående veckas slutförda arbetsuppgifter på mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Senaste ändringar

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Utvecklarna har jämfört prestandan i olika redigeringsverktyg. De har studerat hur länge det tar att öppna en sida och börja skriva. Studien omfattar data från mer än en million redigeringar under december och januari. En del ändringar har genomförts för att förbättra hastigheten i 2017 års wikikod-editor och VisualEditor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. Du kan se mer information på mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [24]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [25]
• Citoid-verktyget konvertrar automatiskt URL-adresser, DOI- och ISBN-nummer samt PubMed id-nummer till källhänvisningar i wikikod. Det är ett mycket populärt och användbart verktyg, men kan vara svårt att konfigurera. Din wiki kan få access till verktyget, vänligen läs vägledningen om hur du går tillväga. Du kan be utvecklar-teamet om hjälp med att aktivera verktyget på din wiki.

Låt oss samarbeta

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity och andra wikier i gemenskapen kan få tillgång till VisualEditor som förvald standard. Vänligen kontakta Dan Garry ifall din wiki önskar använda VisualEditor som förvalt redgeringssätt.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [26]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Tack!

—Elitre (WMF)

2 mars 2018 kl. 21.56 (CET)

AdvancedSearch

Från och med 8 maj kommer Avancerat Sök att finnas som en betafunktion på din wiki. Funktionen förbättrar söksidan genom ett formulär med avancerade parametrar, och den siktar på att göra befintliga sökval mer synliga och lättare att nå för alla. Avancerat Sök är ett projekt med ursprung från WMDE:s tekniska önskelista. Alla är välkomna att pröva funktionen, och vi hoppas att den kommer väl till användning i ditt arbete!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 maj 2018 kl. 16.53 (CEST)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12 juni 2018 kl. 22.58 (CEST)

Global preferences are available

Du kan nu ställa in globala inställningar på din nya globala inställningar-sida. Kolla på mediawiki.org för mer information om hur att använda dem och för att lämna återkoppling. /Keegan (WMF) (talk)

10 juli 2018 kl. 21.20 (CEST)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 30 juli 2018 kl. 19.45 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

VIKTIGT: Aktivitetsundersökning av administratörer

Hej. En ny policy gällande avlägsnande av "avancerade rättigheter" (administratörer, byråkrater etc) antogs 2013 genom global gemenskapskonsensus. I enlighet med detta konsensus genomför stewards en kontroll av administratörers aktiviteter på alla wikis inom Wikimediastiftelsen som inte har någon inaktivitetspolicy. Vi har förstått att ni på er wiki saknar en formell process för att avlägsna "avancerade rättigheter" från inaktiva användare. Detta innebär att stewards kommer att utföra detta i linje med aktivitetskontroll av admins.

Vi har funnit att följande användare är inaktiva enligt de kriterier som fastställts (inga redigeringar och inga adminåtgärder under de två senaste åren):

1. Kaj (administratör)

Dessa användare kommer snart att få en förfrågan om att starta en gemenskapsdiskussion om de vill behålla några eller alla rättigheter. Om användarna inte svarar, kommer deras avancerade rättigheter att avlägsnas av Stewards.

Om ni däremot som gemenskap föredrar att skapa er egen aktivitetskontroll som ersätter den globala, har en annan åsikt om dessa inaktiva administratörer, eller redan har en policy som vi har missat, ber vi er informera stewards på Meta-Wiki så att vi kan avsluta aktivitetskontrollen på er wiki. Tack, Rschen7754 10 augusti 2018 kl. 08.23 (CEST)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27 augusti 2018 kl. 14.40 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

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

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Wikimediastiftelsen kommer att testa sitt reservdatacenter. Det kommer att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan stanna uppe även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på onsdag 12 september 2018. På onsdag 10 oktober 2018 kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Det kommer inte att gå att redigera i ungefär 20 till 30 minuter på onsdag 12 september och onsdag 10 oktober. Testet kommer att börja 14:00 UTC, vilket innebär 16:00 svensk tid och 17:00 finländsk tid.
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• De aktuella veckorna kommer ingen ny kod att tas i bruk. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Den här processen kan komma att skjutas upp om det skulle visa sig nödvändigt. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle några ändringar ske kommer de att meddelas där. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

6 september 2018 kl. 15.33 (CEST)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [27]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Tack!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

2 november 2018 kl. 15.17 (CET)

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

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

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Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13 november 2018 kl. 20.35 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

Gemenskapens önskelista.

Hej alla!

Gemenskapens önskelista är den process där Wikimediagemenskaperna bestämmer vad Wikimediastiftelsens Community Tech-arbetslag skall arbeta med under det kommande året.

Community Tech-arbetslaget fokuserar på verktyg för erfarna wikimedianer. Du kan nu rösta på de förslag som har lagts till och med 30 november. Du kan läsa mer på önskelistesidan.

/User:Johan (WMF)

22 november 2018 kl. 19.13 (CET)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 26 november 2018 kl. 12.03 (CET)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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

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

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

Tack!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 december 2018 kl. 21.03 (CET)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 27 december 2018 kl. 11.13 (CET)

FileExporter beta feature

Snart: betafunktionen FileExporter

En nya betafunktionen kommer snart att släppas på alla wikier: FileExporter. Det är ett verktyg som tillåter export av lokala filer på din wiki till Commons, inklusiv fil- och sidhistorik. Vilka filer som kan flyttas definieras av varje wikigemenskap: vill ni använda funktionen, kolla konfigurationsfilen.

FileExporter har redan varit en betafunktion på MediaWiki.org, Wikisource samt tyska-, farsi-, arabisk- och koreanskspråkiga Wikipedia. Efter att viss funktionalitet lagts till kommer den nu som betafunktion till alla wikier. Den beräknas släppas 16 januari. Läs mer på projektsidan.

Som alltid är återkoppling mycket uppskattad. Om du vill testa FileExporter, aktivera den i dina inställningar. Bästa stället för återkoppling är den centrala diskussionssidan. Tack från Wikimedia Tysklands tekniska önskningar-projekt.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14 januari 2019 kl. 10.41 (CET)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

16 januari 2019 kl. 19.55 (CET)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) 21 februari 2019 kl. 16.01 (CET)

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

Man kommer inte kunna redigera de flesta Wikimediawikier för upp till 30 minuter 11 april 05:00 UTC (07:00 svensk tid, 06:00 finländsk tid). Detta beror på ett hårdvarufel. Man kan fortfarande läsa wikierna. Man kan se vilka wikier som påverkas. Tiden du inte kan redigera kan vara kortare än 30 minuter. /Johan (WMF)

8 april 2019 kl. 12.56 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Tack! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12 april 2019 kl. 19.35 (CEST)