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Χαιρετίας και καλωσόρεμαν σ' όλα τα Βικιπαιδία!

Οι παλιοί εμουν σ' αρχαίον τ' ελλενικόν την γλώσσαν έλεγαν «αγοράν» τον τόπον που εποίνανε τα μουχαμπέτε και τα καλατσίας ατουν. Αέτς πα, όλ' εμείς 'τουν θα καλατσέβουμε αδά σην αγοράν εμουν. Σον αρχαίον την αγοράν ο Διογένες ο Σινωπέας αραεύκουτον τ' ανθρώπ'ς (εικόνα). Εμείς 'τουν αδά πα θα ευρίσκουμ' ατείντζ.

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Αρχεία

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Διαμαντίδης

γεια σας παιδες... εδω θα ηθελα να κανω μια μικρη παρατητηση σχετικα με την χρηση της ποντιακης γλωσσας και κυριως την γραπτη αποδοση της. επεσε εδω και καιρο στα χερια μου το βιβλιο του κωστα ε. διαμαντιδη "το ροδάφ'νον" και πρεπει να πω οτι διαβαζοντας το ειναι σαν να ακους την θεια "σουμελλα" να σου λεει ιστοριες....μια γοητεια. μονο που η προσπαθεια της pnt vikipedia ειναι μεν καλη αλλα θελει ακομα δουλεια. τι θελω να πω με ολα αυτα: αλλο ειναι ενα λογοτεχνικο κειμενο ενος συγγραφεα και αλλο το να στηνεις μια ιστοσελιδα προσπαθωντας να αποδωσεις στα ποντιακα ορους ιντερνετ αγγλικους και "συγχρονους" κατα καποιον τροπο αρα και ιδιαιτερα δυσκολους και απαιτητηκους. αναγνωριζει κανεις τις δυσκολιες αλλα αν γινει λιγη περισσοτερη δουλεια ισως ξεφυλλιζοντας τις σελιδες της pnt vikipedia επαιρνε κανεις το ιδιο συναισθημα οπως απο το ανωτερω βιβλιο. να ειστε ολοι καλα. Ζαχον --62.103.57.188 07:17, 8 Απρίλ 2009 (UTC)

Να ξεκαθαρίσω μιας και κάποιοι με ρώτησαν για αυτή την ανάρτηση ότι δεν την έγραψα εγώ απλά ο γραφών είναι συνονόματος μου (Ζάχον). Τώρα πάνω στα λεγόμενα του: Πιστεύω πως κατα μία ερμηνεία (προσωπική) μας ενθαρρύνει να κάνουμε πιο ποιοτικά τα άρθρα μας. Έχει αρκετό δίκιο και όταν φτάσουμε ένα μέγεθος από εκεί και πέρα θα πρέπει να αρχίσουμε να ενισχύουμε ποιοτικά τα τότε υπάρχοντα άρθρα. Προσωπικά πρώτη φορά άκουσα για σύγχρονη ποντιακή λογοτεχνία και έψαξα πληροφορίες. Πιστεύω πως μέσα στις διακοπές θα καταφέρω να πάρω αυτό το βιβλίο να το διαβάσω και να μελετήσω καλύτερα και την γλώσσα.--ZaDiak 20:12, 25 Καλομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Γραφειοκράτης

Παιδιά έγινα επισήμως και γραφειοκράτης αφού μου έδωσαν τα δικαιώματα οι stewards. Έτσι σύυμφωνα με την ψηφοφορία που έχουμε κάνει έδωσα δικαιώματα διαχειριστή στους χρήστες Makedonier, Omnipaedista, Sinopeus.--ZaDiak 15:47, 8 Απρίλ 2009 (UTC)

Βικιθήκη

Παιδιά ήθελα να αναρτήσω μερικά ποντιακά κείμενα κι έτσι έφτιαξα Κάτι σαν test project στα ποντιακά για να βάζουμε εκεί προσωρινά τα κείμενα. Δεν δημιούργησα πρόταση οπότε ξεκαθαρίζω ότι αυτό δεν πρόκειται για δουλειά για ένα νέο εγχείρημα. Εδώ θα το βρείτε έχει κάποια λάθη στους τίτλους των καλάντων μιας και δεν ξέρω πάρα πολύ καλά τη γλώσσα. Μέχρι στιγμής έχω αναρτήσει τα κάλαντα χριστουγέννων και πρωτοχρονιάς και έχω ξεκινήσει να αναρτώ την γραμματική του Τοπχαρά.--ZaDiak 13:36, 12 Καλομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Πολύ καλή η δουλειά σου. Άρχισα να αναρτώ και εγώ κείμενα στο Old Wikisource. --Omnipaedista 07:20, 25 Καλομηνά 2009 (UTC)

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Πλαϊνή Μπάρα

Μιας και κανείς δεν ανανέωνει τα Ατωριζνά γεγονότα (Τρέχοντα γεγονότα) τοποθέτησα στη θέση τους στην πλαϊνή μπάρα το Αργαστέρ (Αμμοδοχείο) το οποίο τροποποίησα λιγάκι έτσι ώστε να καθαρίζει από μόνο του.--ZaDiak 09:12, 18 Καλομηνά 2009 (

Παρατηρήσεις σχετικά με τη γραφή και την ερμηνεία

Αγαπητοί φίλοι, διαχειριστές και αρθρογράφοι της "Βικιπαίδεια σα Ποντιακά" δημοσίευσα ένα άρθρο στο blog μου σχετικά με την ορθή γραφή της διαλέκτου μας. Αν θέλετε ρίξτε μια ματιά: http://mavropouloskostas.wordpress.com/%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%bd%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%b5%cf%82-%cf%80%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%86%ce%bf%cf%81%ce%ac%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%bd%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%ba%ce%ae%cf%82-%ce%b4%ce%b9%ce%b1%ce%bb%ce%ad%ce%ba%cf%84%ce%bf/

ΑΝΑΓΚΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΤΑΓΡΑΦΗΣ ΣΤΗ ΒΙΚΙΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΛΕΞΙΚΟΥ

Φίλοι διαχειριστές της ποντιακής Βικιπαίδειας, θεωρώ εντελώς απαραίτητη προϋπόθεση για την επιτυχία του σημαντικότατου για τον Ποντιακό Ελληνισμό, αλλά και για τους αδελφούς Πόντιους των άλλων χωρών, εγχειρήματός σας να αρχίσει να διαμορφώνεται στην ποντιακή Βικιπαίδεια ένα βασικό σύγχρονο, απλό και χρηστικό λεξικό της κοινής ποντιακής διαλέκτου (ευθύ και αντίστροφο) και μία σύγχρονη, απλή και εύχρηστη γραμματική της. Όλα τα άρθρα και τα κείμενα που θα γράφονται στα ποντιακά πρέπει να συμφωνούν γενικά, χωρίς να περιορίζεται ο διαλεκτικός πλούτος της Ποντιακής, με το παραπάνω αναφερόμενο λεξικό και τη γραμματική, για να μην υπάρξει ίσως ο κίνδυνος να αυτοκαταστραφεί από περιττή και μη ελεγχόμενη πολυμορφία μία τόσο σημαντική προσπάθεια. Με μεγάλη εκτίμηση για τις μέχρι σήμερα πολύ σημαντικές προσπάθειές σας. --Κώτσον 10:56, 15 Κερασινού 2009 (UTC)

Δες, και συμπλήρωσε ή διόρθωσε, στην αρχική σελίδα Βικιπαίδεια:Λεχτικόν, Βικιπαίδεια:Γραμματικήν

Ποντιακόν γραμματικήν

Σο λήμμαν Τοπχαράς ές την βιογραφίαν τη Τοπχάρα που συνέγραψεν τη γραμματικήν εμούν. Μακάρ να ανεβάζ' ατό κάποιος για να διεβάζετ' ατό. Κάτ θα μαθάνετε. Αλλά θα σχολιάζατο αδακά γιατι θαρρώ πως οτι εςς να εφτάει με τα θεμέλια τη γλώσσας εμούν πρεπ να διεβάζετ' ατά ουλ.

Μπράβο σον Τοπχαρά π' έγραψεν την ποντιακήν γραμματικήν. Αναμένω όμως ας έναν πόντιον φιλόλογον να γράφτ άλλο καλίον γραμματικήν γιατί ο Τοπχαράς εν έναν κσάι απλός. Ντο εννοώ; καταρχάς η Ορθογραφίαν 'ατ εν πολλά απλόν. Οι Πόντιοι εν Ίωνικόν φύλλον και τα λέξεις έχνε κοινά ρίζας. Ατό σημαίν' ότι έχνε και κοινόν ορθογραφίαν και τα δομάς των λέξεων πρεπ να ομοιάζνε. Ο Τοπχαράς γραφτ για τον "ιποθετικόν" τρόπον. Ατό εν λάθος γιατί η γραφήν κι εν greekpont αλλά εν ελληνικόν γραφήν. Τα ρίζας, τα πνεύματα, τα σύμβολα εν όμοια σα ποντιακά και σα Ελληνικά. Επομένως και σα ποντιακά η λέξη γράφκεται "υποθετικόν τρόπον" με "υ". Όμοια, τα λάθη ντε φτάει εν σα ακόλουθα λέξεις: Ιποταχτικόν, το άρθρο "ι" αλλά και γενικώς σε όλα τα λέξεις εςς λάθος ορθογραφίαν. Σην Ελληνικην τη γλώσσαν (σ' ατό περιλαμβάνεται και η ποντιακή) η ορθογραφίαν εν πολλά συμαντικόν γιατί δεκνείζ παρα πολλά.

Αλλά κι έν μαναχόν τα ορθογραφικά λάθην ατ που εφτάνε το έργον ατ πολλά απλοϊκόν. Εν και η δομήν των λέξεων. Κι χωρίζ δηλαδή τα λέξεις ασ σα προθέσεις και ασου συνδέσμους αλλά εφτάει πολυλέξεις. Για παράδειγμαν λέει: "ταντονιμίας" αντίς "τ' αντωνυμίας" Το φαινόμενον ατό λέ' ατο συντραβηγμόν αλλά αν δέχκουμες ατό κι θα πρέπ να δέχκουμες ατό και σην διδασκαλίαν τη αρχαίας ελληνικής; Η γνώμη μ' έν ότι πρέπ να βάλουμε απόστροφόν χωρίς να ενούνταν τα λέξεις.

Έλεα πως τα ποντιακά έχνε συγγένειαν με την Ιωνικήν διάλεκτον κ' ατό πρέπ να εν η αφετερία τη λογικής εμούν. Πολλά κόσμος, εφέκεν την πατρίδαν κ' επήεν ση Ρωσίαν πρόσφυας αλλά ατό κι σημαίν ότι πρέπ να βάλομε με το ζόρ' το Ρωσικόν προφοράν σην ποντιακή γραμματικήν. Αποφάσισαμε να διδάσκουμες την Αττικήν διάλεκτον τη αρχαίας γλώσσας σα σχολεία γιατί εν πολλά λόγιος και έμορφεσσα. Με το ίδιον σκεπτικόν, σωστό τρόπος να καλατσέβομε και να γράφτουμε τα ποντιακά κι εν ο τρόπον τη Τασκένδης αλλά ο τρόπον τη Τραπεζούντας. Πολλά αγαπούμε τα αδέρφιαν εμούν που εέντοναν πρόσφυγας σην Ρωσίαν αλλά η καρδία τη Πόντονος εν σην Τραπεζούντα, ση Σαμσούντα, ση Ματσούκα.

Για τ' ατό παρακαλώ όποιος εν πόντιος φιλόλογος με ρίζας ας σην Τραπεζούντα ας γράφτ έναν σωστόν λεξικόν και γραμματικήν και το έργον ατ θα απομέν αιώνια σην ιστορίαν.

Κάτ ακόμη θέλω να λέω για τον συμβολισμόν των γραμμάτων σα λέξεις. Ποίος ές πραγματικόν ανάγκην να συμβολίζ το πως πρεπ να διεβάσκεται έναν γράμμαν; Ας τερούμε για παράδεγμα τη λέξην "τα τεσσάρια". Σα ποντιακά διεβάσκεται "τεσσάρια" και σα νεοελληνικά "τεσσάργια". Για τ' αούτο τα ποντιακά εν πολλά χρήσιμον γλώσσα για να δεκνείζ και τοι Έλληνες πως έν ο σωστόν τρόπος διεβάσματος. Το ποντιακόν γλώσσαν θαρώ πρέπ να διδάσκεται και σην φιλολογικήν σχολήν για να έχνε οι φιλόλοοι, οι γλωσσολόοι κλπ καλλίον αντίληψην τη Ελληνική γλώσσας. --Stravon 15:39, 22 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Ποντιακά

Ημέρα πανηγυρισμού για τα Ποντιακά σήμερα!!! Έπειτα από σχετική εισήγησή μου προς το Ethnologue θα αναγνωριστεί ότι η Ποντιακή έχει 1.058.068 ομιλητές. Φυσικά και ο αριθμός είναι μεγαλύτερος αλλά η επιτυχία είναι τεράστια αν αναλογιστεί κανείς το γεγονός ότι ο αριθμός τριπλασιάζεται σε σχέση με πριν!! Έτσι αποκτάμε ένα αρκετά αξιόλογο μέγεθος σε ομιλητές και γενικά ανεβαίνουμε γλωσσολογικά!! Οι αλλαγές θα εφαρμοστούν στην 17η έκδοση του βιβλίου και η ιστοσελίδα θα αργήσει να ενημερωθεί λιγάκι.--ZaDiak 22:53, 18 Aλωναρί 2009 (UTC)

Πράγματι ο αριθμός σχεδόν τριπλασιάζεται! Ελπίζω ότι και αυτός ο τριπλασιασμός θα μετακυλιστεί και στα άρθρα μας εδώ, σε αριθμό και περιεκτικότητα!--Consta 17:37, 19 Aλωναρί 2009 (UTC)

Ποντιακόν καλατσήν

Το καλάτσεμαν σα ποντιακά σίγουρα θα ζορλαεύ' αρκετούς, εμέ πα, γιατί ούλ' εγέμναμε τη πόλης τα παιδία και εμοντέρνεψαμε. Οσήμερον λέμε πως έν δύσκολον να καλατσεύομε σα ποντιακά τα σύγχρονα τα όρους αλλά έχω έναν ερωτησην να εφτάγω σας. Σο φροντιστήριον τη Τραπεζούντος μαναχόν για χαβίτς εμαθάναν τα παιδία; 'Κ' είχαν επιστημονικόν καλατσήν;

Αν ζορλαεύκουμες ατώρα εν γιατί ενέσπαλαμε τα ποντιακά και αν 'κι μιλούμ' ατα ξάι τότες τα παιδίαν εμούν 'κι θα μαθάν' ατα ξάι. Ζορλάεμαν - ξεζορλάεμαν, αδαπές πρέπ' ούλ' να μιλούμε ποντιακά γιατί τα λέξεις εν αλλά εμείς 'κι ξερομ' ατα. --Stravon 14:18, 1 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Φίλε Stravοn, σο φροντιστήριον τη Τραπεζούντος μαναχόν για χαβίτς 'κι εμαθάναν τα παιδία, αλλά είχαν για επιστημονικόν καλατσήν το ελλενικόν τη γλώσσαν; Σα ποντιακά τα σύγχρονα τα όρους εμείς 'τουν πρέπ΄ να ευρίουμ' ατα. Υείας και χαιρετίας!--Κώτσον 09:19, 13 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Εγώ δεν μπορώ να μιλήσω ποντιακά ωστόσο μπορώ να τα καταλάβω άνετα. Το θέμα που θίγεις είναι πολύ ενδιαφέρον και συμφωνώ μαζί σου. Πρέπει να αρχίσουμε να καλατσεύομε στα ποντιακά. Αυτό θα βοηθήσει και για τη διάδοση. Τώρα όσο αφορά το Φροντιστήριο της Τραπεζούντας δεν γνωρίζω το θέμα που θέτεις. Απο εδώ και πέρα θα προσπαθώ να μιλάω και εγώ ποντιακά όπου μπορώ και θα γράψω οδηγίες που θα ενθαρρύνεται η ομιλία στο ποντιακά. Χαιρετίας,--ZaDiak 21:44, 1 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Θαρρώ πως το σώσιμον τη ποντικής τη γλώσσας 'κι εν απλώς έναν γραφικόν θέμαν. Έν ίσως το μοναδικόν γλώσσαν που έσ' ακόμη συγγένειαν με τα αρχαία. 'Κι έν μαναχόν ποντιακόν ζήτεμα, έν ελληνικόν πα. Το παλαλόν με το θέμαν εμούν έν ότι πάει να χάται η ποντιακήν κι ας είμαστε χαμά-χαμά 4-5 εκατομμύρια Πόντιοι σ' ούλον τον κόσμον. Ατό 'κι εν θάνατον τη γλώσσας αλλά χαραλάεμαν ατς. Εν γλωσσικόν αυτοκτονίαν. Εθάρναμε, και εγώ ασ αουτούς έμνε, ότι εν πιο μοντέρνο να καλατσεύομε Ελληνικά. Ετίρτεβαν νε μας κιόλα οι ντόπιοι και έπαιζανε μας και εμείς ένοιθαμε άσχεμα. Πλύσην εγκεφάλου εποίνανε μας με τα ανέκδοτά τουν. Ατώρα όμως πρεπ' να εγνεφούμε προτού να έν πολλά αργά. Και θαρρώ ότι πρέπ' να ξεκινούμε ασήν γραφήν. Πρέπ' να συμφωνούμε πώς εν το σωστόν να γράφκουνταν τα ποντιακά γιατί χωρίς σωστόν συμβολισμόν χάται η προφοράν. Έρχινεσα να αλλάζω και τα παραθύρα μ' (windows xp) σα ποντιακά αλλά χρειάσκουμαι βοήθειαν σοι ορισμούς για να έν σωστοί. Ας πούμε το "Save" μετάφρασα το σε "τοπλάεμα" αλλά πρέπ' να συμφωνούν κι άλλ' για να εβγαίν'νε τα πρώτα ποντιακά παραθύρα. Όσοι θέλετε να βοηθάτε με γράψτε έναν μήνυμα.--Stravon 00:55, 3 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Εγώ θα ήμουν παραπάνω από χαρούμενος να σε βοηθήσω αλλά θα μου ήταν προτιμότερο να μιλούσαμε μέσω μέιλ ή irc ή msn ή οτιδήποτε τέτοιο. Όποτε ξαναμπείς γράψε μου έναν τρόπο να έρθουμε σε επικοινωνία. Στο μεταξύ θα πρότεινα να αρχίσεις να συνεισφέρεις κι εσύ στην Βικιπαίδεια γιατί είναι από τις πιο γνωστές ποντιακές ιστοσελίδες ανάμεσα στους ποντίους και σίγουρα μέσα στισ 4-5 πιο γνωστές στους μη-πόντιους. Έτσι θα διατηρηθεί κι η γλώσσα. Υ.Γ. Συγνώμη που δεν μιλάω στα Ποντιακά αλλά δεν έχω την απαραίτητη εξοικείωση. Με τον καιρό θα προσπαθήσω να τα ενσωματώσω στην ομιλία μου.--ZaDiak 21:59, 3 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Γλυκύν Ποντιακόν Γλώσσαν

Αούτο η προσπάθεια έν' πολλά καλόν, αέτς εθαρώ, θα βοηθά να εγλιτώνουμε το πανάρχαιον την γλώσσαν έμουν.

Έζησεν απάν - αφκά 3,000 χρόνια και εδέβασεν πολλά φουρτούνας και εμπόδια, αμά, άμον ντ' ελέπω την νεολαίαν έμουν, να καλατσέβ' να τρα'ωδεί και να χορεύ', χαίρουμε και λέω εγώ εμέν, το μελωδικόν, το ποιητικόν, το μελιστάλακτον γλυκύν, το Ποντιακόν η γλώσσα, 'κι εχ' την δύναμην ν'αποθάν', αν βέβαια η νεολαία μουν αγαπά το και καλατσέβ' ατό, κι' άμον ντο εγροικώ ασ' εμέτερον την Νεολαίαν τη Βοστώνης, αγαπούν' ατό πολλά,

κατ' εχ' το μα'εμένον!!!!!!

Το καλοκαίρ' ντο εδέβε μας το 2009, επήγα σο Ποντιακόν Βιβλιοπωλείον τη Κυριακίδη σην Θεσσαλονίκην, και ντο 'κι εύρα, ασ' όλια τα Ποντιακά τα βιβλία, σωστός Ποντιακός παράδεισος, εύρα και το ΡΟΔΑΦΝΟΝ, τη Διαμαντίδη, μανίτσα μ'!!!! ντο να λέγω σας!!!!! εδέβασα το μίαν, εδέβασα ατό δεύτερον, εχόρτασα κατενόν Ποντιακόν καλατζήν και γράψιμον. Να λελεύω αοίκον γράψιμον.

Εθαρείς και σον πόντον εγεννέθεν,ετράνυνεν και εσπούδασεν ση Τραπεζούντας το Φροντηστήριον, καθαρόν νερόν, κρύον κροσταλίδ' ασά πεγαδομάτια του ευλοΐμένου πόντου, ντο πίντς, πίντς και 'κι χορτά'εις!!!

Ν' αγιάζ' ο κύρ'ς ατ' ντ' εκάτσεν και έγραψεν, αοίκον έμορφον σκουτουλιχτέρ' "ΡΟΔΑΦΝΟΝ".

Ποδεδίζω σας, κανείς εσούν εξέρετεν, αν έγραψεν? γιαμ θα γράφτ'άλλα, αμόν το "ΡΟΔΑΦΝΟΝ" πετέστ' 'μεν, θέλω να δεβάζατε όλια απ' έναν - έναν.

Ρίζα μ' Κωστίκα γράψον - γράψον - γράψον!!!!! Ξάι μη κολολεύ'ς......

Πορτολόης ο Σταματέτες,Σταυρίτες 2009

1ον ΑΝΟΙΚΤΟΝ ΚΑΛΑΤΣΗΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΚΟΝ ΤΟ ΓΡΑΨΙΜΟΝ

ΓΡΑΨΤΕΝ ΟΥΛ’ ΤΑ ΝΟΥΝΙΣΜΑΤΑ ΣΟΥΝ ΑΔΑΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΚΟΝ ΤΟ ΓΡΑΨΙΜΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟΦΑΣΙΣΤΕΝ. Η ΟΡΘΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΕΝ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΟΝ. ‘ΚΙ ΠΡΕΠ’ ΝΑ ΧΑΤΑΙ Η ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΤΗ ΠΟΝΤΟΝΟΣ.

1. Να γράφτουμε ούλ’ τα ποντιακά τα συναιρεμέν’ τα φωνήεντα και τα δασέα σύμφωνα α < εα, ια και ο < εο, ιο σ, ζ, χ, ψ, ξ, τσ, τζ ;

α) με υπογράμμισην: τα γεμίσα, τα νύχα, τα μαχαίρα, τα χέρα, έχ’, τη καλατζής, σύρ’ ατον; (εύκολον)

β) με απόστροφον από πάν’: γεμίσα, τα νύχα, τα μαχαίρα, τα χέρα, έχ’, τη καλατζής , σύρ’ ατον ; (τσιπ δύσκολον)

γ) ..............................................................................................................................

δ) ..............................................................................................................................

2. Να χωρίουμε τα λέξεις για να δαβάζεται καλλίον η γλώσσαν εμουν;

α) Ατού σα μέσα σ’ τα λεγνά τα χέρα μ’ θα τυλίζω, Το κάστανον εξέβεν ας σο τζέπλιν αθε, Το χωρίον εμουν, σ’ οσπίτ’ν εσουν.

β) ..............................................................................................................................

γ) ..............................................................................................................................

3. Να γράφτουμε ούλ’ την απόστροφον ( ’ ) σα μέρα που χάν’ται τα φωνήεντα για να γνωρίουμε τα ελλενικά τα λέξεις και να δαβάζομεν καλλίον το ποντιακόν την γλώσσαν.

α) Ευχαριστεμέν’ ν’ αποθαν’νε, Καρίπ’ και ψωμίν να μην τρώγ’νε, Επέγ’ναν, Καλαντάρ’ς, Τη Θερ’νού, το ζωνάρ’, οι φίλ’ .

β) .............................................................................................................................

4. Να χωρίουμε το κι, κ’ (= και) από το ‘κι, ‘κ’ (= δεν);

α) Δύο ακονισμένα μαχαίρα σ’ έναν θεκάρ’ ‘κι γίνταν, Θωρέαν έχ’ ευλοϊάν ‘κ’ έχ’ , Ας σο καρδόπο μ’ έβγαισες κι επήες σο καλόν.

β) ............................................................................................................................. --Κώτσον 18:43, 26 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

Translatewiki.net update

• Currently 44.60% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.70% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 14:04, 30 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 44.90% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.71% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:25, 8 Χριστουγενναρί 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 44.69% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.70% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 15:19, 18 Καλανταρί 2010 (UTC)

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 14:04, 30 Σταυρί 2009 (UTC)

Αναδιαμόρφωση

Μετά από πολύ σκέψη αποφάσισα πως πρέπει να προχωρήσουμε σε αναδιαμόρφωση στην Βικιπαίδεια. Ύστερα από το απαραίτητο καλάτσεμαν αποφάσισα τα εξής:

• Έπειτα από συζήτηση με τον Στράβων και την μεγάλη του προθυμία να συνεισφέρει για να του δοθεί όλη η διευκόλυνση θα γίνει νοματέας.
• Όλοι οι υπόλοιποι νοματέοι θα πρέπει εντός εύλογου χρονικού διαστήματος να δηλώσουν ότι εξακολουθούν να θέλουν να ασχοληθούν με την εγκυκλοπαίδεια και να το πράξουν όσο το δυνατόν γρηγορότερα.
• Εγώ πήρα απόφαση να εκτελέσω τα δικαιώματα μου μέχρι να βρεθεί κάποιος άλλος ενδιαφερόμενος για να γίνει γραφειοκράτης. Τότε θα παραιτηθώ και θα μείνω μόνο επιβλέπων.
• Οι αφαιρέσεις θα εκτελεστούν όλες μαζί όταν βρεθεί και ο νέος γραφειοκράτης. Ο γραφειοκράτης πέρα από τις απαραίτητες γλωσσικές δεξιότητες θα πρέπει να έχει δείξει το έργο του για αρκετό καιρό στο εγχείρημα και να έχει και τις απαραίτητες γνώσεις κώδικα.
• Όποιος ενδιαφέρεται πέρα από τη θέση του γραφειοκράτη μπορεί να δηλώσει και για νοματέας.

Ευχαριστώ πολύ, --ZaDiak 18:31, 18 Τρυγομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ σε ZaDiak, όταν θέλτς στείλων ένα χαπέρ ση λογαρία 'μ, με τον κατάλογον π' είπες με.

--Stravon 18:39, 18 Τρυγομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Συμφωνώ βεβαίως με την παραχωρήρηση δικαιωμάτων διαχειριστή στον Stravon. Αν και είναι σχετικά νεός χρήστης, υπήρξε από τους πιο ενεργούς το τελευταίο δίμηνο, και δείχνει να κατέχει καλά τη γλώσσα, και ότι είναι πρόθυμος να συνεισφέρει γενικότερα. Όσο για την αναδιαμόρφωση που προτείνεται επίσης συμφωνώ ότι είναι αναπόφευκτη. Σε κάθε περίπτωση δηλώνω ότι ενδιαφέρομαι να ανανεωθούν τα προνόμια μου ως διαχειριστή: κατ'ουσίαν εγώ ήμουν αυτός που διέγραψε άμεσα όλες τις βανδαλιστικές σελίδες που δημιουργήθηκαν κατά το τελευταίο τρίμηνο και θα ήθελα να συνεχίσω να προστατεύω το εγχείρημα κατ' αυτόν τον τρόπο, αλλά και να μπορώ να επεμβαίνω εποικοδομητικά στην κύρια σελίδα όποτε χρειαστεί, όπως έκανα πρόσφατα. Προβληματίζομαι όμως από το γεγονός ότι κανείς δεν έχει δηλώσει ακόμα ενδιαφέρον για τη θέση του γραφειοκράτη. Ίσως πρέπει να κανονίσουμε, όλοι οι ενεργοί χρήστες, μία συνάντηση στο IRC, για να το συζητήσουμε πιο ενδελεχώς αυτό το ζήτημα. --Omnipaedista 07:13, 21 Τρυγομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Τι εννοείς βανδαλιστικές σελίδες; Μας σαμποτάρουν;--Stravon 10:10, 21 Τρυγομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Όχι δεν μας σαμποτάρουν ο βανδαλισμός είναι σύνηθες φαινόμενο σε όλες τις Βικιπαίδειες δυστυχώς. Διαστρέβλωση περιεχομένου είναι συνήθως. Σε εμας γίνοταν συνήθως σε άρθρα περί ΠΓΔΜ. Όσο για μια συνάντηση στο τσατ είμαι υπέρ.--ZaDiak 13:06, 22 Τρυγομηνά 2009 (UTC)

Γιορτή

Παιδιά σήμερα περάσαμε τα 300 άρθρα και τις 1000 σελίδες! Πάμε γερά ώστε να πιάσουμε τα 500 πριν τις γιορτές :)--ZaDiak 23:41, 9 Χριστουγενναρί 2009 (UTC)

Προτάσεις

Αγαπητοί φίλοι και συμπατριώτες,

η καλή σας προσπάθεια για να έχει θετικά αποτελέσματα, θα πρέπει να υποστηρίζεται από επαρκείς φιλολόγους ποντίους ή και άλλους συμπατριώτες μας που γνωρίζουν καλή σύνταξη και γραμματική της ποντιακής, οι οποίοι θα πρέπει να προσκληθούν για να υποστηρίξουν την αξιαίπενη προσπάθειά σας (πχ. υπάρχει ο Πανελλήνιος Σύλλογος Ποντίων Εκπαιδευτικών, επίσης αξιόλογοι επιστήμονες στην Επιτροπή Ποντιακών Μελετών κλπ με πολούς επαίοντες που θα μπορούσαν να συμβάλλουν στην διόρθωση της Ηλεκτρονικής Ποντιακής Εγκυκλοπαίδειας).

Τα λάθη Ως ΠΡΟς ΤΗΝ ΟΡΘΟΓΡΑΦΊΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΣΎΝΤΑΞΗ πάντως, οφείλω να ομολογήσω οτι είναι σοβαρά και θα πρέπει να τα προσέξετε, για να συντείνετε και εσείς σε μια καλύτερη βάση δεδομένων μιας γλώσσας που χάνετα (ειδικά ως προς την προφορά κατά την ανάγνωση. πχ ζζ κλπ). Η Γραμματική Τοπχαρά (πλην της ιστορικής αξίας της πάντως), δεν νομίζω οτι μπορεί να συμβάλει ως προς την νοηματική και ετυμολογική κατανόηση της διαλέκτου μας.

Καλή δύναμη και καλή προσπάθεια!

Η κριτική όταν είναι γόνιμη και καλόπιστη πρέπει να εισακούεται.

Με πολύ εκτίμηση

Θεόφιλος Καστανίδης απο τον Σύλλογο Ποντίων "ΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΑΙ-ΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΙ"

Λατινική απόδοση

Συγχαρητήρια για τις ιδέες που προωθεί η σελίδα. Πρόταση παράλληλα να επεξεργαστούμε και σύστημα λατινικής απόδοση της ποντιακής φωνητικής και σύνταξης. Πριν βιαστεί κάποιος να μιλήσει για "παγκοσμιοποίηση" και απώλεια ταυτότητας, όσοι από εμάς μιλούνε με κατοίκους του σημερινού Πόντου, καταλαβαίνουν αυτονόητα το γιατί προέχει και αυτό να γίνει. --79.131.244.75 19:08, 21 Χριστουγενναρί 2009 (UTC)

ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟ......

 ΜΕ ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΗ ΧΑΡΑ ΕΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΙ ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΤΩΝ ΜΕΛΕΤΩΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΥΠ΄ΟΨΙΝ....

ΠΡΩΤΑ ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΝΑΦΕΡΩ ΤΗΝ ΙΚΑΝΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΜΟΥ ΠΟΥ ΑΝΑΚΑΛΥΨΑΤΕ ΤΟΝ ΔΙΑΜΑΝΤΙΔΗ....ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙ ΠΟΛΥ ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑ Η ΠΟΝΤΙΑΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟ ΕΠΕΙΔΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΗ ΣΩΣΤΑ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΣΤΙΞΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΣΩΣΤΟ ΣΥΝΤΑΚΤΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ.... Ο ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΒΕΒΑΙΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΗΣ..... ΠΑΝΤΩΣ ΔΙΑΒΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟΝ ....ΜΑΘΑΙΝΕΙΣ....

ΝΑ ΕΙΣΤΕ ΟΛΟΙ ΚΑΛΑ

Ο ΖΑΧΟΝ

Υγειαν και ευλογιαν

Γεια και χαρα σε ολον τον ποντιακο ελληνισμο. Θα θελα να πω οτι ειμαι ιδιαιτερα χαρουμενος που εγινα μελος της Ποντιακης Βικιπαιδειας και απο δω και περα θα μπαινω τακτικα για να βλεπω την προοδο. Θα ηθελα να μου πει καποιος διαχειριστης πως θα μπορουσα να βοηθησω σε κατι ευκολο και οχι πολυ χρονοβορο τουλαχιστον στην αρχη για να βαλω και εγω ενα λιθαρακι σε αυτο το εργο. --Nakos2208 21:26, 6 Απρίλ 2010 (UTC)

Καλως ἠρθες! Η συγγραφή μικρών άρθρων μιας ή δύο προτάσεων θα ήταν ένας καλός τρόπος να περάσει κανείς στα βαθιά :) Τσέκαρε αυτή τη σελίδα. Από εκεί και περά πιο ελαφρές συνεισφορές είναι η προσθήκη κατηγοριών ή η επέκταση/διόρθωση ήδη υπαρχόντων άρθρων. --Omnipaedista 16:59, 26 Απρίλ 2010 (UTC)

Bot flag for WikitanvirBot

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Currently doing some test edits. Notify me if there is a problem. — Tanvir • 05:36, 3 Τρυγομηνά 2010 (UTC)

2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, I am Theo and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Theo (WMF) 20:48, 20 Τρυγομηνά 2010 (UTC)

Astonishing

Bonjour,

Why is this Wikipedia silent, almost dead ?

Budelberger 21:33, 14 Κούντουρονος 2011 (UTC) ().

It would be an exaggeration to call it silent or dead. Undoubtedly, the activity has been low during the last months. This is because most of the original contributors have retired from editing this wiki (in fact I am the only one left). There are new contributors (alas, anonymous) though who carry on. --Omnipaedista 15:43, 17 Κούντουρονος 2011 (UTC)

Bug(s)

Bonjour,

• {{#time: F| January }}: Καλαντάρτς

• {{#time: xg| January }}: Καλανταρί

• {{#time: F| February }}: Κούντουρος

• {{#time: xg| February }}: Κούντουρονος

• {{#time: F| March }}: Μαρτς

• {{#time: xg| March }}: Μαρτ — Μαρτ or Μαρτί ?

• {{#time: F| April }}: Απρίλτς

• {{#time: xg| April }}: Απρίλ — Απρίλ or Απρίλτ ?

• {{#time: F| May }}: Καλομηνάς

• {{#time: xg| May }}: Καλομηνά

• {{#time: F| June }}: Κερασινός

• {{#time: xg| June }}: Κερασινού

• {{#time: F| July }}: Χορτοθέρτς

• {{#time: xg| July }}: Χορτοθερί — Χορτοθερί or Χορτοθέρτ ?

• {{#time: F| August }}: Aλωνάρτς — Latin « A » !

• {{#time: xg| August }}: Aλωναρί — Latin « A » !

• {{#time: F| September }}: Σταυρίτες

• {{#time: xg| September }}: Σταυρί

• {{#time: F| October }}: Τρυγομηνάς

• {{#time: xg| October }}: Τρυγομηνά

• {{#time: F| November }}: Αεργίτες

• {{#time: xg| November }}: Αεργί

• {{#time: F| December }}: Χριστουγεννάρτς

• {{#time: xg| December }}: Χριστουγενναρί

Budelberger 17:56, 25 Κούντουρονος 2011 (UTC) ().

Genitives are indeed Μαρτί, Απρίλτ, Χορτοθερί, respectively, but I think that variations exist and should be considered valid. Obviously, Latin A's have to be replaced by Greek ones. Thanks for the notification! --Omnipaedista 06:13, 1 Μαρτ 2011 (UTC)

Multilingual Challenge

Please help: replace this red text with a translation of the English message below. Thank you!

Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011. Sign up now! " Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby 13:39, 2 Καλομηνά 2011 (UTC)

Γιαρίφ

Σκοπεύω να παραιτηθώ από γραφειοκράτης για αυτό και έκανα γραφειοκράτη τον μοναδικό ενεργό χρήστη του εγχειρήματος ύστερα και από συζήτηση μαζί του. Ζάχον^Talk 15:38, 18 Κερασινού 2011 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Bot flag request for HiW-Bot

• Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
• Function Summary  : Interwiki, Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel-Category so it can be used properly and easy. Double redirects will be added shortly
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes: 27 Wikis so far, others pending. see here
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py; parameters: -auto -all - log -catr

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to update Interwiki, and improve Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel so it can be used properly and easy by everyone.

Thank you for consideration! --Hedwig in Washington 03:50, 9 Σταυρί 2011 (UTC)

Μωμόγεροι

Ξεκίνησα στο άρθρο Μωμόγεροι, μιας και είναι ποντιακό, εκτός από να το εμπλουτίσετε ίσως σας ενδιαφέρει να το βάλετε και στην ποντιακή βικιπαίδεια. Το βίντεο στο άρθρο είναι δικό μου. Χαιρετισμοί και καλή χρονιά! Ggia 09:21, 3 Καλανταρί 2012 (UTC)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 16:29, 15 Καλανταρί 2012 (UTC)

Language support group for Pontic

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 19:39, 1 Κούντουρονος 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:15, 12 Κούντουρονος 2012 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 01:18, 2 Κερασινού 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:35, 5 Κερασινού 2012 (UTC)

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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 20:20, 19 Χορτοθερί 2012 (UTC)

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More opportunities for you to access free research databases

The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.

• Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries. There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries. There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.

You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:23, 16 Aλωναρί 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)02:09, 6 Σταυρί 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:34, 10 Σταυρί 2012 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 03:09, 16 Τρυγομηνά 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Βικινέα

Αν μπορεί κάποιος ας αλλάξει το σύνδεσμο προς τα Βικινέα στην πρώτη σελίδα για να κατευθύνει στο el.wikinews.org καθώς υπάρχει ελληνική έκδοση εδώ και αρκετό καιρό. Glavkos (talk) 10:33, 22 Τρυγομηνά 2012 (UTC)

Έγινε! --Omnipaedista (talk) 02:06, 30 Τρυγομηνά 2012 (UTC)

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:37, 19 Καλανταρί 2013 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

• Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
• Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
• Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:47, 30 Καλανταρί 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.

Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.

What is Wikidata?

Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.

What is going to happen?

Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?

Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata

To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:15, 21 Κούντουρονος 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 23:07, 6 Μαρτ 2013 (UTC)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.

What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 17:09, 5 Απρίλ 2013 (UTC)

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Request for comment on inactive administrators

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)

Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 05:12, 24 Απρίλ 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.

What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together. --Lydia Pintscher 19:19, 24 Απρίλ 2013 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

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Updating the logo for this wiki

New logo

Hello! As part of the update of Wikipedias logos to the new (2010) 3D puzzle globe version, we have noticed that your wiki's current logo is missing, outdated or with wrong translation. We are trying to help Wikipedias get a locally-adapted correct logo, by taking the technical difficulties on us, and in about a week from now we'll be replacing the current logo with the new one shown in this gallery, with explanation. If the translation is wrong, or there's another error in the new logo, or the community disagrees with the update, please update the list of logos or tell us on its talk page. Feel free to translate this message and to move/copy/forward it where appropriate. Thanks, Nemo 13:01, 27 Καλομηνά 2013 (UTC) (Distributed via Global message delivery: wrong page? correct the list of targets.)

Trademark discussion

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

Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up!

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

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

Cheers, Ocaasi 21:17, 16 Κερασινού 2013 (UTC)

Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for [[:EN:W:Cochrane Collaboration|Cochrane Collaboration]] accounts at the [[:EN:W:WP:COCHRANE|COCHRANE sign-up page]]. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:51, 16 Κερασινού 2013 (UTC)

X!'s Edit Counter

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 04:54, 23 Κερασινού 2013 (UTC)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:51, 4 Χορτοθερί 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:40, 23 Χορτοθερί 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor and your Wikipedia

(Please translate this message)

Greetings,

The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn on VisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit the TranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions on bringing information to your Wikipedia. The User Guide and the FAQ are very important to have in your language.

We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you to leave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported to Bugzilla. If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.

If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well. Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface is here. You can see how we are doing with those translations here. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate. This account is free and easy to create.

If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on my meta talk page or by email. You can also contact Patrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki. We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:11, 30 Χορτοθερί 2013 (UTC)

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HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 19:34, 20 Aλωναρί 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 03:03, 24 Σταυρί 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:07, 4 Τρυγομηνά 2013 (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 20:43, 8 Τρυγομηνά 2013 (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:30, 5 Αεργί 2013 (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

ΠΩΣ ΛΕΓΝΕ ΤΟ ΦΛΑΣ Τ' ΑΥΤΟΚΙΝΗΤΙ ΣΑ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΚΑ

   Πύρ γαρέρ τσιάμπλισμα τ' οματί ( ή τη φενερί ) τ' αυτοκινητί
   επαναλαμβανόμενο ανοιγοκλείσιμο του ματιού ( ή του φαναριού ) του αυτοκινήτου
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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) 06:46, 16 Καλανταρί 2014 (UTC)

Conversions between Writing Systems / Συστήματα για την ορθογραφία της ποντιακής

Η Βικιπάιδειες στα βλαχικά, σερβικά, κινέζικα, κ.α. έχουν σύστημα όπου εύκολα μπορεί κανείς να αλλάξει μεταξύ δύο ή παραπάνω συστήματα γραφής. Αφού η ποντιακή γλώσσα δεν έχει μια γενική επίσημη γραφή, μπορούμε και εμείς να βάλουμε αυτό το σύστημα εδώ; Έτσι, θα μπορούσαμε να αλλάξουμε μεταξύ: ντ/τ̇ - μπ/π̇ - γκ/κ̇ - δ'/δ̦ σ̱/σ̌/ς - τσ/τ̵ - τσ̱/τσ̌/τ̌ - εα/α̈ - εο/ο̈ (και όσα άλλα υπάρχουν) Πιστεύω θα ήταν εύκολο στην εφαρμογή και θα βοηθούσε πολύ επειδή τώρα πολλές φορές δεν διευκρινίζονται μερικά γράμματα. Συχνά οι φθόγγοι [ʃ], [ʒ], [ts], [tʃ], [æ], [ø], και ιδιαίτερα το [ðʲ] δεν φαίνονται καθόλου. Αφού και το [ðʲ] που μερικοί το γράφουν με <δ̦> δεν το βρίσκω πουθενά στην Βικιπαίδεια και ας είναι συχνό φθόγγο, π.χ. στη λέξη απίδ̦

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) 22:00, 21 Κούντουρονος 2014 (UTC)

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 Βικιπαίδεια 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 19:44, 28 Κούντουρονος 2014 (UTC)

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) 21:56, 13 Μαρτ 2014 (UTC)

Catalan Culture Challenge

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

The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will organise the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak). It would be lovely to have you on board. :-)

We look forward to seeing you!

Amical Wikimedia--Kippelboy (talk) 05:56, 16 Μαρτ 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto

There is a current discussion on German Wikipedia on a decision of Asaf Bartov, Head of WMF Grants and Global South Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, who rejected a request for funding a proposal from wikipedians from eowiki one year ago with the explanation the existence, cultivation, and growth of the Esperanto Wikipedia does not advance our educational mission. No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto. On meta there has also started a discussion about that decision. --Holder (talk) 10:46, 5 Καλομηνά 2014 (UTC)

Using only UploadWizard for uploads

Hello! It was noted that on this wiki you have less than 10 local files. Presumably, you therefore don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or illegal uploading. I propose to

• have local upload restricted to the "Νοματέοι" group (for emergency uploads) and
• the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

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

I'll get this done in one week from now.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list.
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 20:38, 19 Καλομηνά 2014 (UTC)

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) 21:29, 23 Καλομηνά 2014 (UTC)

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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) 21:54, 19 Κερασινού 2014 (UTC)

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Απόδοση από Νέα Ελληνικά

Γεια. Αν κάποιος έχει τη διάθεση, θα ήθελα να με βοηθήσει να αποδόσω 2 παραγράφους για μια αθλητική ομάδα από τα Νέα Ελληνικά. Xaris333 (talk) 23:54, 11 Aλωναρί 2014 (UTC)

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) 17:35, 21 Aλωναρί 2014 (UTC)

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 22:15, 21 Aλωναρί 2014 (UTC)

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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 (talk) 16:52, 2 Σταυρί 2014 (UTC)

Change in renaming process

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

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

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

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

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 9 Σταυρί 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 Σταυρί 2014 (UTC).

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

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) 18:04, 26 Τρυγομηνά 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (talk) 12:35, 31 Τρυγομηνά 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

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

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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

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

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:19, 5 Αεργί 2014 (UTC)

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

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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

— 17:36, 14 Αεργί 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

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

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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

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

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 Χριστουγενναρί 2014 (UTC)

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

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ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΟ: Επιθεώρηση δραστηριότητας διαχειριστών

Χαίρετε! Μία πολιτική για την αφαίρεση «ανώτερων δικαιωμάτων» (διαχειριστής, γραφειοκράτης, κτλ) υιοθετήθηκε με συναίνεση της παγκόσμιας κοινότητας το 2013. Σύμφωνα με αυτή την πολιτική, οι επίτροποι επιθεωρούν την δραστηριότητα των διαχειριστών σε όλα τα wiki του ιδρύματος Wikimedia που δεν έχουν τοπική πολιτική για τους αδρανείς διαχειριστές. Σύμφωνα με όσα γνωρίζουμε, το wiki σας δεν διαθέτει επίσημη διαδικασία για την αφαίρεση «ανωτέρων δικαιωμάτων» από ανενεργούς λογαριασμούς. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι οι επίτροποι θα δράσουν σύμφωνα με την επιθεώρηση δραστηριότητας διαχειριστών.

Διαπιστώσαμε ότι οι ακόλουθοι χρήστες πληρούν τα κριτήρια αδράνειας (καμία επεξεργασία και καμία διαχειριστική δραστηριότητα για πάνω από 2 χρόνια):

1. Sinopeus (διαχειριστής)
2. Stravon (διαχειριστής)

Αυτοί οι χρήστες θα λάβουν σύντομα ειδοποίηση, που θα τους ζητά να αρχίσουν μία συζήτηση στην κοινότητα για το άν θέλουν να κρατήσουν κάποια ή όλα τα δικαιώματά τους. Αν οι χρήστες δεν ανταποκριθούν, τότε τα ανώτερα δικαιώματά τους θα αφαιρεθούν από τους επιτρόπους.

Ωστόσο, αν εσείς ως κοινότητα θέλετε να φτιάξετε τη δική σας διαδικασία επιθεώρησης δραστηριότητας που να υπερκαλύπτει την παγκόσμια, θέλετε να πάρετε άλλη απόφαση σχετικά με τους ανενεργούς κατόχους αυτών των δικαιωμάτων, ή έχετε ήδη αντίστοιχη πολιτική που την παραβλέψαμε, παρακαλούμε ειδοποιήστε τους επιτρόπους στο Meta-Wiki, έτσι ώστε να γνωρίζουμε να μην προχωρήσουμε με την επιθεώρηση δικαιωμάτων στο wiki σας. Ευχαριστούμε, Openbk (talk) 12:31, 4 Κούντουρονος 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Βικιπαίδεια.org: (ούλαι) Άλλαξον σελίδας

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like pnt.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 22:33, 1 Μαρτ 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

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

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 Μαρτ 2015 (UTC)

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

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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 (talk) 20:02, 4 Μαρτ 2015 (UTC)

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) 19:45, 13 Μαρτ 2015 (UTC)

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 16:13, 10 Απρίλ 2015 (UTC)

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

Please test VisualEditor in your language!

It is very important to us at the Editing Department that VisualEditor works in every language, for every user.

VisualEditor's editing environment is a browser ContentEditable element. This means that your input method editor (IME) should already know how to work with it. However, to make VisualEditor correctly edit wiki pages, we have to stop browsers in lots of ways from breaking the page.

Sometimes this can interfere with IMEs. To make sure we work in your IME, we need your help: please see wikimedia.github.io/VisualEditor/demos/ve/desktop-dist.html#!pages/simple.html. This is the core system inside VisualEditor which lets you write and edit. It is different from the full editor, and some of the tools you are used to will be missing.

We're interested in particular in whether you can write text at all, what happens when you select different candidate texts, and how VisualEditor behaves in general.

More details, and some early test results, are provided here: mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/IME_Testing#What_to_test.

We would love to hear from every language, and especially languages which use IMEs, like Japanese, Korean, Indic languages, Arabic and others. Thank you for your help.

Yours,

James Forrester (talk) 07:41, 22 Απρίλ 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

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

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 Καλομηνά 2015 (UTC)

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

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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)

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)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

New French-Language Branch!

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

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

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

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

New French-Language Branch!

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

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

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

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

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 Κερασινού 2015 (UTC)

Content Translation, the new article creation tool is now available as a beta-feature

Tool icon

How to use Content Translation - a short video (English)

Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on the Pontic Wikipedia. To start translating:

1. Please enable the Beta feature in your preferences by checking the box for Content Translation.
2. Visit the page Special:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page to open the tool.
3. Click on the button to create a new translation.
4. In the displayed dialog select the language of the original article and the article name, and the language you would like to translate to. Also add the title of the new article (or the original title will be inserted) and click on to begin. Your language preferences will be remembered for the next time.
5. You will see a screen consisting of three columns. The first column contains the text of the source language and the middle column is for the translated text. Using the third column you can perform several actions such as insert source text, remove the inserted text source text, add or remove links etc.
6. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Pontic Wikipedia by using the publish button that appears. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace.
7. The number of published pages can be seen on the Content Translation stats page.

Since this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the Content Translation talk page or through Phabricator if you spot any problems. For more information, please read the information available in the User Guide. Our announcement is written only in Russian and English, and we would really appreciate if this message can be translated to reach more users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering Team: --Aaharoni-WMF (talk) 22:21, 30 Κερασινού 2015 (UTC)

Перевод Содержания

Эмблема инструмента

Как пользоваться Переводом содержания - короткий клип (по-английски)

Здравствуйте,

Инструмент перевода Content Translation был включен как бета-функция в Понтийской Википедии.

Чтобы начать перевод:

1. Включите бета-функцию в ваших настройках - отметьте Перевод содержания и сохраните.
2. Посетите страницу Special:ContentTranslation или пройдите на вашу страницу вклада чтобы открыть инструмент.
3. Нажмите на синюю кнопку "Создать новый перевод".
4. Выберите язык, с которого вы хотите перевести, напишите название статьи , которую вы хотите перевести, и название статьи, которая будет создана на вашем языке.
5. Вы увидите экран с тремя колонками - статья на иностранном языке, колонка для написания вашей новой переведённой статьи, и колонка для инструментов оформления и ссылок.
6. Когда переведённый текст готов, нажмите кнопку "Опубликовать перевод" и страница будет создана в Понтийской Википедии. Если такая страница уже существует, вам будет показано предупреждение.
7. Количество можно увидеть на странице статистики.

Так как мы включаем этот инструмент в вашей википедии впервые, возможно, что здесь есть неисправности, о которых мы ещё не знаем. Мы следим за использованием инструмента, но мы просим и вас сообщать нам о любых неисправностях через страницу обсуждения проекта (можно по-русски) или через Фабрикатор. Дополнительная информация доступна в инструкции. Кроме этого, вы можете посмотреть клип об использовании инструмента. --Aaharoni-WMF (talk) 22:21, 30 Κερασινού 2015 (UTC)

Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon

Hello!

I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon.

It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to VisualEditor. In order to participate, you need to sign up on the Translathon page on TranslateWiki.

The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from the Wikipedia store. Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualify.

If you are at Wikimania Mexico this year, you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the hackathon in Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT) at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and get support if you need some.

Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. It is recommended to create the account ASAP, so that it can be confirmed in time.

You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there.

You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page.

Thanks for your attention, and happy translating!
Elitre (WMF) 21:00, 13 Χορτοθερί 2015 (UTC)

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 (talk) 05:08, 24 Χορτοθερί 2015 (UTC)

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: Πρότυπον:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalΠρότυπον:@wikimediaΠρότυπον:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:42, 31 Χορτοθερί 2015 (UTC)

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: Πρότυπον:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalΠρότυπον:@wikimediaΠρότυπον:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:08, 1 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

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

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

How to use it, once it is enabled:

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

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 3 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

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

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

How to use it, once it is enabled:

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

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 4 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

(Sorry for writing in English)

Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

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. 23:08, 18 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

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 Πρότυπον:User through MediaWiki message delivery. 03:14, 19 Aλωναρί 2015 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 Σταυρί 2015 (UTC)

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Σταυρί 2015 (UTC)

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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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

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

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

New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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

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

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

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 21:01, 22 Σταυρί 2015 (UTC)

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) 16:56, 28 Σταυρί 2015 (UTC)

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) 18:48, 28 Σταυρί 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

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

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 9 Αεργί 2015 (UTC)

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 10:47, 10 Αεργί 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας

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

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:38, 1 Χριστουγενναρί 2015 (UTC)

Please test the visual editor on this Wikipedia

I apologize for writing in English. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας. Σας ευχαριστούμε!

Hi everybody,

My name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. The Editing team at WMF wants to know what you think about the visual editor on this Wikipedia. VisualEditor is a way to edit articles that is similar to a word processing application. The team has been working on support for languages that use input method editors (IMEs), such as this one.

To test the visual editor, please:

1. Opt-in to the visual editor by going to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and choosing "VisualEditor". Save your preferences.
2. Edit any article or your user page in the visual editor. See the mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide for information on how to use the visual editor.
3. 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. It is important that they hear from as many editors as possible. You may leave your comments in any language.

When language support has been refined a little more based on your feedback, all editors at this wiki can have access to the visual editor. If you want to help prepare, please read the advice on mediawiki.org.

Σας ευχαριστούμε!

Wrong target page? Fix it here • Sign up for the visual editor's multilingual newsletter

–m:User:Elitre (WMF), 12:15, 2 Χριστουγενναρί 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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

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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, 20:59, 18 Χριστουγενναρί 2015 (UTC) • Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας • Βοήθειαν

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας

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 (talk) 01:49, 5 Καλανταρί 2016 (UTC)

The visual editor is coming to this wiki

Hello again. Please excuse the English. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας. Σας ευχαριστούμε!

The visual editor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia on Monday, 25 January. It allows people to edit Wikipedia articles as if they were using word processing software.

You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test the visual editor right now. To turn it on, select "Beta" in your preferences. Choose "VisualEditor" and click save. When it is enabled, you will press the "Άλλαξον" button to edit an article in the new software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "Επεξεργασία κώδικα".

After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either the visual editor or the current wikitext editor. For more information about how to use the visual editor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.

More information about preparing for the visual editor is posted here.

• It's easier to add templates if you've added TemplateData information.
• Please help translate the user interface and pages about the visual editor. See the visual editor's TranslationCentral for general information. To translate the user guide, go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select "Μεταφράστε αυτήν τη σελίδα". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or change old translations. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. Contact me personally if you need help with that.
• Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. If you notice major issues affecting your project, please leave a note on my talk page. In case of emergency (like an unexpected bug causing widespread problems), please contact James Forrester, the product manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org or on IRC in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel.

Wrong target page? Fix it here • Sign up for the visual editor's multilingual newsletter

Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 15 Καλανταρί 2016 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας

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 (talk) 19:07, 18 Καλανταρί 2016 (UTC)

Pontic is missing

Pontic Greek is missing from this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
More than 100 languages are now listed.
Thank you, Varlaam (talk) 22:17, 30 Καλανταρί 2016 (UTC)

The visual editor is now active here

Please translate to Pontic (how-to; data: January 2016)	Completion	Outdated
Interface messages*	0%	0%
User Guide	0%	0%
FAQ	0%	0%
Portal	0%	0%
TemplateData information	0%	0%
TemplateData help	0%	0%
* The interface is hosted at https://translatewiki.net; you'll need an account if you never translated there before. The other pages are at Mediawiki.org, for which you can use your regular Wikipedia account.

Hello again (and again, apologies for using English on this page. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας. Σας ευχαριστούμε!)

As some of you have noticed, this Wikipedia now has the visual editor (VisualEditor) enabled for all users. (We planned to do this on 25 January 2016. However, last week, there was an unusual problem with an upgrade to MediaWiki. Thanks for your understanding.) There are now two tabs for editing: "Άλλαξον" and "Επεξεργασία κώδικα". Click "Άλλαξον" to use the visual editor. Click "Επεξεργασία κώδικα" to edit using wikitext markup.

All edits using the visual editor will be tagged with "Οπτική επεξεργασία" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories. To access the User Guide for the visual editor, click on the "(?)" icon in its toolbar. If you wish to disable this new system, this can be done under "Editing" in your preferences.

Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org.

If you can translate from English into this wiki's language, or know anyone who can, please follow the links on the "translation table" and help your community get the best possible experience when it comes to interface messages and documentation related to the visual editor. Please contact me directly whenever you need help!

Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 1 Κούντουρονος 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

Apologies for writing in English. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Non-English

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

Expansions

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:30, 17 Μαρτ 2016 (UTC)

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

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

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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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) 15:47, 31 Μαρτ 2016 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #5 (апр'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #5 (Apr.'16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #5 (апр'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #5 (Apr.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Википедии на языках России наизнанку: загляним к ним в бэк-офис Фоторепортаж с башкирского Вики-семинара в Янгантау. Представители ВМРУ озвучили свои предварительные намерения о предоставлении сообществу каждого из разделов на языках народов России по одной полной стипендии для выступления с докладом о развитии раздела и участия в круглых столах в ходе ежегодной Вики-конференции. Ближайшая – сентябрь/октябрь 2016, Санкт-Петербург. Финно-угорский вики-семинар 2016 пройдет 6-9 мая. В азербайджанский, башкирский, казахский, русский, саха, украинский и другие разделы пришла Вики-Весна. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитическая таблица за февраль 2016. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Inner peace of Wikipedias in the languages of Russia: lets sneak into their back-office Foto-report from Bashkir Wiki Seminar (25-31.04). WMRU representatives stated preliminary intents to provide one full stipend for each of the Wikipedias in the languages of Russia communities to attend its annual Wiki-conference to present on the state of the project development and participate in the round tables. The nearest one is in Saint-Petersburg in Sept/Oct. 2016. Finno-Ugric Wiki-seminar 2016 will take place on May 6-9. Azeri, Bashkir, Kazakh, Russian, Sakha, Ukrainian and many other Wikipedias welcome Wiki-Spring. Current Stats and Feb.2016 analytical table. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

Server switch 2016

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

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

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.

• There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 17 Απρίλ 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon

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

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35, 21 Απρίλ 2016 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #6 (май'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #6 (May.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Article Placeholders запущен: как работать в Викидата Трансляция Вики-премии 2016 с 11:00 мск 16 мая. Допустимо ли копивио в суверенной ТатВики... Всемирный курултай башкир наградил бюрократа БашВики. Итоги финно-угорского викисеминара 2016. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитическая таблица за март 2016. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Article Placeholders launched: simplest work in Wikidata Wiki-Award 2016 broadcast since 11:00 CET on May 16. Copyvio in sovereign ttwiki: how acceptable?... World Kurultay of Bashkirs awarded bawiki bureaucrat. Results of Finno-Ugric Wiki-seminar 2016. Current Stats and March 2016 analytical table. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 18:34, 15 Καλομηνά 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31, 10 Κερασινού 2016 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #7 (июнь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #7 (June'16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #7 (июнь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #7 (June'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Повышение ценности малого языкового раздела Википедии В добавок к тому, что уже опубликовал в рамках постерного доклада на Финноугорском викисеминаре 2016, хочу поделиться следующей находкой и пригласить и Вас пользоваться ей – для себя я её назвал «Интервикификацией»: Статья, посвящённая каждому дню года обычно имеет раздел «Праздники и памятные даты» и мы, несомненно, гордимся тем, что знаем о событиях, важных для наших соседей по планете и в мире Википедии. В татароязычном разделе Википедии я уже некоторое время как собираю подобную информацию из соседних разделов, снабжаю её наименованием на соответствующем языке (которую подкрепляю ссылкой на статью об этом мероприятии в соответствующем разделе) и ссылками на внешний авторитетный источник (особенно при отсутствии таковых в статье в соответствующем языковом разделе или даже отсутствии самой статьи – например лишь упоминание события на pl:9 czerwca#Święta или es:9 de junio#Celebraciones). При этом я соблюдаю рекомендации Павла Львовича Каганера, что я сам должен прочитать материал в соответствующей внешней ссылке, если таковая является обязательной (в отличие от однозначных случаев типа Autonomy Day, День автономии, Ålands självstyrelsedag, Itsehallintopäivä) На соответствующих страницах ТатВики конечно же пока не отражаются все праздники и памятные даты по всем дням всех стран и народов, но то, что я собрал и подтвердил за последние два года можете смело забирать и обогащать свои разделы. Так даже самый маленький раздел может ощутить свою подлинную интернациональность, а его читатели – его значимость и ценность... Текущие показатели проектов. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Increasing utility of Wikipedias in small languages I'd like to share one more tool left unmentioned in my poster presentation @ Finno-Ugric Wikiseminar 2016 & invite you to start using it – I've called it «Interwikification»: An article dedicated to a specific day of the year usually has «Holidays and memorable days» section and we all are certainly proud to know about events special to our neighbors on the planet who contribute into Wikipedia. It's been a while since I've started visiting neighboring Wikipedias to gathering such info for Tatar Wikipedia, providing it with original language title (linking to a specific article in respective language), as well as links to external respectable sources (especially if such links/article are missing in respective Wikipedia – say the event is just mentioned at pl:9 czerwca#Święta or es:9 de junio#Celebraciones). At the same time I follow Paul Kaganer's (User:Kaganer) recommendation that I must read the material in the external link myself, since Wikipedia itself is not always reliable (except probably such cases as Autonomy Day, День автономии, Ålands självstyrelsedag, Itsehallintopäivä) Respective ttwiki pages certainly do not reflect all special dates of all countries, peoples and social groups, but feel free to use what I've gathered over the last two years to enrich your Wikipedias. Thus even very small language Wikipedia becomes truly international, helping its readers to feel the importance of their language... Current Stats. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 10:53, 14 Κερασινού 2016 (UTC)

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. 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 or on this discussion thread. 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) 07:04, 24 Κερασινού 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

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

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10, 1 Χορτοθερί 2016 (UTC)

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 "Εισαγωγή" menu and click the "Κατάλογος παραπομπών" 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 "Εισαγωγή" in the dialog to insert the Κατάλογος παραπομπών. 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 "Άλλαξον" and "Επεξεργασία κώδικα" tabs into a single "Άλλαξον" 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 "Επεξεργασία" 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 "Τοπλάεμαν σελίδας" button will say "Δημοσίευση σελίδας". 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. Σας ευχαριστούμε!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20, 3 Χορτοθερί 2016 (UTC)

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) 15:25, 5 Χορτοθερί 2016 (UTC)

ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΟ: Επιθεώρηση δραστηριότητας διαχειριστών

Χαίρετε. Μια νέα πολιτική σχετικά με την αφαίρεση "ειδικών δικαιωμάτων" (διαχειριστή, γραφειοκράτη, κλπ) πρόσφατα υιοθετήθηκε από τη συναίνεση της παγκόσμιας κοινότητας (η κοινότητά σας έλαβε ειδοποίηση για την συζήτηση). Σύμφωνα με αυτή την πολιτική, οι επίτροποι επιθεωρούν την δραστηριότητα των διαχειριστών στα μικρότερα wiki. Σύμφωνα με όσα ξέρουμε, το wiki σας δεν έχει μια τυπική διαδικασία για την αφαίρεση "ειδικών δικαιωμάτων" από ανενεργούς λογαριασμούς. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι οι επίτροποι θα φροντίσουν για αυτό εδώ σύμφωνα με την επιθεώρηση δραστηριότητας διαχειριστών.

Έχουμε διαπιστώσει ότι οι παρακάτω χρήστες πληρούν τα κριτήρια αδράνειας (χωρίς επεξεργασίες και χωρίς καταγραμμένες ενέργειες για περισσότερο από 2 χρόνια):

1. Makedonier (διαχειριστής)

Αυτοί οι χρήστες θα λάβουν σύντομα μια ειδοποίηση, ζητώντας τους να ξεκινήσουν μια συζήτηση στην κοινότητα αν θέλουν να διατηρήσουν κάποια ή όλα τα δικαιώματά τους. Αν οι χρήστες δεν απαντήσουν, τότε τα ειδικά δικαιώματά τους θα αφαιρεθούν από τους επιτρόπους.

Ωστόσο, αν εσείς ως μια κοινότητα θα θέλατε να δημιουργήσετε τη δική της διαδικασία επιθεώρησης δραστηριότητας παραγκωνίζοντας την παγκόσμια, θέλετε να λάβετε μια άλλη απόφαση σχετικά με αυτούς τους ανενεργούς κατόχους δικαιωμάτων, ή έχετε ήδη μια πολιτική που δεν βρήκαμε, τότε παρακαλείσθε να ενημερώσετε τους επιτρόπους στο Meta-Wiki έτσι ώστε να ξέρουμε να μην προχωρήσουμε με την επιθεώρηση δικαιωμάτων για το wiki σας. Ευχαριστώ, Rschen7754 04:55, 8 Χορτοθερί 2016 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Τοπλάεμαν σελίδας” button to “Δημοσίευση σελίδας” and “Δημοσίευση αλλαγών”. “Δημοσίευση σελίδας” will be used when you create a new page. “Δημοσίευση αλλαγών” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[16][17]

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 “Δημοσίευση σελίδας” and “Δημοσίευση αλλαγών”.

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 “Τοπλάεμαν σελίδας” 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 “Τοπλάεμαν σελίδας” 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 “Δημοσίευση σελίδας” and “Δημοσίευση αλλαγών”.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:04, 9 Aλωναρί 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon working phase

Dear Pontic Wikipedia language community,

First of all, I am sorry to write this in English.

You may already have heard about Wikipedia to the Moon: A team of scientists called the “PT Scientists” are going to send a space craft to the moon in 2017 and they want to take Wikipedia along with them. Because Wikipedia is so big, we cannot send all of it to the moon. That is why the international Wikipedia-community has voted to send all “Featured Articles and Featured Lists“ from all languages in Wikipedia.

“Featured Articles“ is a category in many language versions of Wikipedia that collects the very best articles in that language. Your community does not currently have a „Featured Articles“ category. Ideally, we want to take every language on Wikipedia to the moon and we also want to take the best articles in your language. That is why we would like you to tell us what the very best articles in your language are.

There are two ways you could do this:

1) You could introduce the categories “Featured Article” and “Featured List” in your language version of Wikipedia and vote for the best articles and put them in the category. We will take every article that is tagged as a “Featured Article” or a “Featured List” to the moon

2) You could vote for the best articles in your language version of Wikipedia and put them all on one a new Wikipedia page. If you let us know where we can find that list here, we will also take the articles to the moon.

The deadline for Wikipedia to the Moon is 31 October 2016. After that date, we will put all the Featured Articles and Lists onto a special disc and give it to the “PT Scientists.” They will take the Wikipedia articles into space next year.

--Denis Schroeder (WMDE) (talk) 14:53, 17 Aλωναρί 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:38, 30 Aλωναρί 2016 (UTC)

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Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #8 (сентябрь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #8 (September '16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #8 (сентябрь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #8 (September '16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. Поздравляем всех с началом очередного учебного года! В этом выпуске: 11.09-11.10.2016 в башвики проходит Вики-марафон «Месячник Башкортостана». 23-26.09.2016 в Ижевске пройдёт «Уральский вики-семинар 2016». Открыта регистрация участников на Х международную Вики-конференцию 2016, которая в этом году пройдёт 1-2.10.2016 года в Санкт-Петербурге. Ежегодный форум российских волонтеров посвящён развитию проектов Викимедиа на языках народов России, а также проблемам свободного создания и распространению знаний в целом. Расходы на проезд и проживание производится за счет собственных средств, средств спонсоров, и при соответствии определенным критериям, можно просить стипендию по грантовой программе «Travel & Participation Support» Фонда Викимедиа, или региональных чаптеров. 1-30.11.2016 года пройдёт ежегодный международный Вики-марафон «Месяц Азии». В этом году от нас также подтвердили участие аварский и башкирский разделы. Викимедийцы Башкортостана 15-17 июля осуществили вики-экспедицию в Бурзянский район. На территории Шульган-Ташского заповедника были посещены места, упоминающиеся в башкирском эпосе «Урал батыр» (Капова пещера, озеро Йылкысыккан), местный музей бортевого пчеловодства; проведены дискуссии, теоретические и практические занятия в формате вики-семинара. См. фотоотчёт на Викискладе. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. Our congratulations & best wishes on the occasion of a New School Year! In this issue: On 11.09-11.10.2016 our BashWiki colleagues organize «Bashkortostan Month» Edit-a-thon. On 23-26.09.2016 Izhevsk will host «Ural Wiki-Seminar 2016». On 1-2.10.2016 Saint-Petersburg will host Хth International Wiki-Conference 2016. Participant registration for this annual forum of Russian volunteers dedicated to developing Wikimedia projects in the languages of Russia, as well as overall free creation and distribution of knowledge is now officially open. Travel and lodging costs are born by participants, sponsors, and regional chapter or Wikimedia Foundation Grants, such as «Travel & Participation Support». Annual International «Wikipedia Asian Month» Edit-a-thon will take place on 1-30.11.2016. This year, Team Russia's team leader efforts are confirmed to be supported by Avar и Bashkir sections. On 15-17.07.2016 Wikimedians of Bashkortostan have organized Wiki-Expedition to Burzyansky District. On top of visiting Kapova Cave & Jylqysyqqan lake, mentioned in Bashkir epic poem «Ural-batyr», participants also learned about local honey hunting traditions in Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve's dedicated museum, made Wiki-Seminar style presentations, held discussions and engaged in practical editing sessions. See photo-report in Wikimedia Commons. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 10:13, 3 Σταυρί 2016 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:08, 12 Σταυρί 2016 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας:

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) 20:11, 30 Σταυρί 2016 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #9 (окт./Oct'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Викиданные: перечень элементов для перевода полей Обозначение и Описание – в перечне языков щёлкаете ссылку на нужный, внизу открывшегося окошечка жмёте кнопку "> Run", открываете элементы из полученного списка и правите/переводите эти два поля. Одобрено создание раздела Википедии на ливвиковском диалекте карельского языка! Сообщества разделов Википедии на языках народов России были упомянуты на пленарных сессиях Уральского викисеминара в Ижевске и Всероссийской вики-конференции 2016 в Санкт-Петербурге. Сентябрьские новости о коллегах за рубежом: Первая Википедия на коренном языке Австралии, Викимарафон о коренных народах США, Популяризация местных языков как инструмент повышения использования возможностей Интернета народами Африки. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikidata: the list of elements with missing Label и Description translation – click the necessary language link in the list, press "> Run" at the bottom of the opening query page, open elements from the resultant elements list and edit/translate these two fields. Rejoice for Livvi Karelian Wikipedia, which has been recently approved for coming out of the Wikimedia Incubator! Communities of Wikipedias in the languages of Russia presented at the plenary sessions of Uralic Wiki-Seminar in Izhevsk and All-Russia Wiki-Conference 2016 in Saint Petersburg. September news about colleagues abroad: Australia's first indigenous Wikipedia, Indigenous people marathon in U.S., Local language promotion as a tool to increase Internet use in Africa. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 11:37, 3 Τρυγομηνά 2016 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:34, 6 Τρυγομηνά 2016 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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

Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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 mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[18]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[19] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[20]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[21]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[22]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[23] In the future, the "Τοπλάεμαν σελίδας" button will say "Δημοσίευση σελίδας". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[24]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. 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 Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor 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 in October 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.

• 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. Σας ευχαριστούμε!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:49, 15 Τρυγομηνά 2016 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #10 (ноя./Nov.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Cамые активные викиженщины в России – безусловно в Башкортостане! Обучают вики-бабушек из Байназарово (Бурзянский район) Простой и надёжный способ обеспечить своему языку жизнь в эру искусственного интелекта Успейте включить свой родной язык в проект «Википедию на Луну»! (до 31.10.2016) Поддержим срочный грант в помощь сибирскотатарской Википедии Приглашаем к участию в организации и проведении марийского викисеминара Вики-Пайрем 2017 (Йошкар-Ола, 14-17.06.2017) Октябрьские новости о коллегах за рубежом: Википедии на языках Индии как инструмент расширения открытого доступа, Испанские Викиженщины со-организовали женский викимарафон в Национальной библиотеке, Национальная Библиотека Шотландии и Wikimedia UK привлекают носителей шотландского к улучшению Кельтской Википедии, Городской фестиваль – прекрасный повод для тематического викимарафона, Национальный музей Швеции передал 3000 изображений в Викисклад, Обучение курдских википедистов в Иракском Курдистане, Вики Любит Женщин в Нигерии. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Most active WikiWomen of Russia are certainly from Bashkortostan! Training for Wiki-Grandmas from Baynazarovo (Burzyansky District) Simple and most reliable way to guarantee your native language will live on in AI era. Still possible to include your native tongue into «Wikipedia to the Moon» project (till 31.10.2016) Invitation to support urgent grant to help Siberian Tatar Wikipedia Invitation to join in organizing and participating at Вики-Пайрем 2017 Mari Wikiseminar in Yoshkar-Ola, 14-17.06.2017) October news about colleagues abroad: Indian language Wikipedias for greater open access in India, Spanish Wikimujeres helped organize a feminine edit-a-thon in the National Library, The National Library of Scotland and Wikimedia UK are recruiting more Gaelic speakers in an effort to improve Uicipeid, City festival as an opportunity to organize edit-a-thon, Stockholm's Nationalmuseum releases 3,000 images on Wikimedia Commons, Training for Kurdish Wikipedians in Iraqi Kurdistan, Wiki Loves Women in Nigeria. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 10:19, 25 Τρυγομηνά 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Expansions

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:30, 1 Αεργί 2016 (UTC)

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

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Password reset

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

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

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

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

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (καλάτσεμαν) / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 13 Αεργί 2016 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 14 Αεργί 2016 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:32, 14 Χριστουγενναρί 2016 (UTC)

Translation

Hello, could you please translate Automatic refresh (Αυτόματη ενημέρωση) to Ποντιακά? Thanks -XQV- (συζήτηση) 19:19, 13 Καλανταρί 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017

Sorry for writing in English.

Dear Pontic community,

Last year your community missed to participate at CEE Spring in Pontic and we invite you to participate in this year’s contest! Local organisers, please subscribe to the mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.bg/mailman/listinfo/ceespring-localorganisers, add your community at the Meta page with the participants and discuss this year’s edition of the contest on its talk page (Talk:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017/Participants). There you will also find information on some of the things expected from the local organisers. We are looking forward to reading from you soon!

On behalf of the international organisers, -- Αλίσα Σελεζνιέβα (συζήτηση) 14:48, 17 Καλανταρί 2017 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #11 (янв./Jan.'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: На заметку: * Wikipedia ранжируется в Google так же, как и любой другой сайт, Использование Викиданных для обучения искусственного интелекта IBM Watson (англ.), Самые важные статьи англоВП по категориям (англ.), СМИ: Рязанские чиновники отредактировали Wikipedia, чтобы снести дом, Эксперт: Предновогодняя кампания Википедии по сбору пожертвований — мастер-класс по использованию эмоционального интеллекта! (англ.), ВП – это самый большой энциклопедический ресурс планеты по медицине, но в нём иногда отсутствует ключевая информация (англ.), Wikipedia ‘facts’ depend on which language you read them in, The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap В конце 2017 года на Луну отправится более 31,500 избранных статей и списков из всех Википедий, включая все разделы ВПнаЯР (даже ady и olo)! Поддержать новичков? Обратная связь? КазВП использует MediaWiki:Sitenotice Представьте себе мир, где каждый библиотекарь добавил в Википедию не менее одной ссылки на источники. Викимания-2017 пройдёт 9-13 августа в Монтреале (Канада). Заявки на стипендии для участия принимаются до 20 февраля. Новый отчёт: «Кто, как и откуда читает разделы ВП на языках России?» Видео #FactsMatter2016 (проверяемость фактов) с субтитрами — выбирать из [сс]. Новости о коллегах за рубежом: How Indian Language Wikipedias Are Making Knowledge Accessible to All, Wiki Loves Africa: Wikipedias call for an increased coverage of the African continent - Ventures Africa, Romania: How to download Wikipedia for offline access Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Take note: Training IBM Watson using Wikidata, The Open Wikipedia Ranking2016, Russian Wikipedia page edited in favor of a building's demolition from local administration IP address, Wikipedia's New Email Campaign Is a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence, Wikipedia is the world’s largest medical resource, but crucial information is often missing, Wikipedia ‘facts’ depend on which language you read them in, The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap, Google: Wikipedia Is Ranked By Google Like Any Other Web Site At the end of 2017 over 31,500 WP's FAs and FLs will head for the Moon, including all WPs in the Languages of Russia (even newbies like ady & olo)! Supporting new editors? Looking for reader feedback? KazWP uses its MediaWiki:Sitenotice Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia. Wikimania-2017 will be held on August 9-13 in Montréal, Canada. Participation Scholarship applications accepted till Feb.20. New Report: «WPs in the Languages of Russia Readership» Video: #FactsMatter2016 — choose subtitles from [сс]. December news about colleagues abroad: How Indian Language Wikipedias Are Making Knowledge Accessible to All, Wiki Loves Africa: Wikipedias call for an increased coverage of the African continent - Ventures Africa, Romania: How to download Wikipedia for offline access Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 14:56, 19 Καλανταρί 2017 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #12 (фев./Feb.'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Новости ВМРУ: Отчёт собрания 2017-01-30 Продолжается конкурс «Узнай Россию. Начни с Дона» Программа Вики-Пайрем_2017 (14-18.06.2017) Миссия: Отснять и описать Сахалин (июнь 2017) Новое в рамках движения Викимедиа: Ресурсный центр (статья в блоге); Инициатива «Здоровое сообщество» (статья в блоге) GLAM: Викимедиа впервые представлена в совете членов проекта Europeana Викиданные: Викиданные: новая площадка для культурного наследия Вики-Библиография: Конгресс 2017 пройдёт в Вене 23-25 мая. Википедия в образовании В школе: Википедия меняет подход к современному среднему образованию (Часть 1), Часть 2, Часть 3 В ВУЗе: Манифест Википедии, О том, как студенты изучают медицину, овладевают навыками совместной работы, и трансформируют Википедию, Как понимать, что Википедию “может править каждый”?, Гендерные стереотипы в Википедии – и что с этим делать Вашим студентам, ВикиПроекты, важность статей и их качество: интимные связи (1/2), Этой весной учиться править Википедию будет 7500 студентов из 335 учебных групп На заметку: Behörden pfuschen an Wikipedia-Einträgen herum - Basel (Базель: За последние 5 лет статьи, касающиеся работы государственных офисов редактировались с их IP-адресов почти 290 раз.) На момент 16-летия Википедии, (физические) энциклопедии практически обеценились Этот бот написал больше статей в Википедию, чем кто-либо ещё Старший юрист Фонда Викимедиа: Википедия стоит на фундаменте общественного достояния Самыми ценными являются правки, усиливающие истинность информации в статьях. Три причины, почему представителям наук о Земле стоит править Википедию Анализ эволюции содержания идентичных статей в разных языковых разделах Википедии Лучшие практики: Руководство по Викискладу для новичков (на англ.) Новости о коллегах за рубежом: India: Wikipedia and women Daily Mail? НеАИ. И список «потенциальных неАИ» англоВП. Учащиеся используют Арабскую Википедию как инструмент для овладения навыками цитирования источников, составления текстов, и критического мышления (анализа) Первым штатным википедистом на гэльском шотландском стала Сьюзан Инфографика УкрВП Украина Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikimedia Russia News: Meeting report 2017-01-30 On-going contest «Discover Russia. Start from Don» Вики-Пайрем_2017 seminar program (14-18.06.2017) Mission: to photograph & describe Sakhalin (June 2017) Wikimedia movement-wide developments: Wikimedia Resource Center (blog post); Community health initiative (blog post) GLAM: Wikimedia for the first time represented on Europeanas member council Wikidata: Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage WikiCite: 2017 Congress will take place in Vienna on May 23-25. Wikipedia in Education In high school: Change in Modern Schooling Education with Wikipedia (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3 In college: The Wikipedia Manifesto, How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia, What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia?, Wikipedia’s Gender Bias – and What Your Students Can Do About It, WikiProjects, Article Importance, and Article Quality: An Intimate Relationship (1/2), Wiki Edu expects 7,500 students in around 335 courses to contribute to the site this spring Keep in mind: Behörden pfuschen an Wikipedia-Einträgen herum - Basel (Basel: In the past five years, government IP address have been found to edit articles relating to their jobs about 290 times.) [Physical] Encyclopaedias now virtually worthless as Wikipedia celebrates 16th anniversary This Bot Has Written More Wikipedia Articles Than Anybody WMF Senior Legal Counsel: Wikipedia is built on the public domain The most useful additions are those that add to the veracity of the information in a given article. Three Reasons Why Earth Scientists Should Edit Wikipedia Analysing Temporal Evolution of Interlingual Wikipedia Article Pairs Best practice: Beginners' guide on Wikimedia Commons in English News about colleagues abroad: India: Wikipedia and women Daily Mail? Not RS. And a list of EnWP Potentially unreliable sources. Students use Arabic Wikipedia as a tool to learn important skills like referencing sources, writing, and critical thinking Susan becomes first ever Gaelic Wikipedian-in-Residence UkWP Ukraine Infographics Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 13:43, 16 Κούντουρονος 2017 (UTC)

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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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.

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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

05:09, 18 Μαρτ 2017 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

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

1. Omnipaedista (bureaucrat, administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Defender (talk) 19:58, 18 Μαρτ 2017 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 17:34, 11 Απρίλ 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 Απρίλ 2017 (UTC)

New Page previews feature

New Page previews feature

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Hello,

The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.

A quick note on the implementation:

• For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
• For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
• For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.

You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.

Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 16:52, 19 Απρίλ 2017 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #13 (апрель/April'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Вики-весна — 2017 Википедия в образовании: Почему я учу своих студентов редактировать Википедию (видео, фран.), Википедия в учебном плане Гейдельбергского университета (нем.), NPR: Чему могут научиться студенты, когда пишут в Википедию (англ.) Главное в википедийных сообществах России одной строкой: Новости ВМРУ: 23 апреля — Вики-премия 2017. Календарь на месяц Изображение дня На заметку: Википедия учит важности проверки фактов (англ.), I4OC: инициатива по открытому цитированию (англ.), В ходе коллаборативного процесса все сообщества выбирают, что зафиксировать, а что опустить (исп.), Карьерные выгоды участия в движении обмена знаниями (англ.) Лучшие практики: Азербайджанский культурный центр в Узбекистане вносит вклад в развитие uzwiki Новости о коллегах за рубежом: Викимедиа Аргентина сотрудничает с аргентинским минобром в подготовке инструкторов по редактированию Википедии (исп.) Открываю миру индийскую культуру ч/з Википедию (англ.) Викимедийцы Каравали предоставляют оффлайн-контент деревенским школам, в которых изучают язык тулу (англ.) План: довести Эстонскую Википедию до миллиона статей! (англ.) Испанские политики привержены усилению присутствия баскского языка в Википедии. Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017 Wikipedia in Education: Why I teach my students editing Wikipedia (video, fr), Wikipedia in the University of Heidelberg curriculum, NPR: What Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia Single line News from Russia's Wikipedia communities: Wikimedia Russia News: Wiki-Award 2017 on April 23rd. Calendar for the Month Picture of the Day Keep in mind: Wikipedia is a fantastic tool, and it teaches us the value of fact-checking, Initiative for Open Citation, All linguistic communities decide to record and omit something throughout a collaborative process (es), Career benefits of sharing knowledge Best practice: Azerbaijani Cultural Center in Uzbekistan contributing into uzwiki News about colleagues abroad: Wikimedia Argentina is collaborating with the Argentinian Ministry of Education to train instructors how to edit Wikipedia. Sharing Indian culture with the world through Wikipedia Karavali Wikimedians to supply content offline to Tulu students in village schools Ambitious plan: let’s increase Estonian Wikipedia to one million articles! Politicians in Spain are committed to increasing the presence of the Basque language on Wikipedia. Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 11:55, 20 Απρίλ 2017 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
• Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
• Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
• Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions

• Gale – Biography In Context database added
• Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

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

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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19:14, 3 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:41, 8 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Επανεξετάστε τις αλλαγές σας".

In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

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

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. 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 spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [25]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. 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]
• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [27]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [28]
• The Κατηγορίες item has been moved to the top of the Επιλογές σελίδας menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [29] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [30]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [31]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [32]
• The Ειδικοί χαρακτήρες menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [33]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [34]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [35]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [36]
• The kind of button used to Πρώτον τέρεμαν, Αλλαγάς, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [37]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [38]
• 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. Σας ευχαριστούμε!

—Elitre (WMF)

18:07, 12 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Hello,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

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 • Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας • Get help

21:09, 16 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Hello all,

(Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας)

The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Σας ευχαριστούμε! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

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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21:05, 23 Καλομηνά 2017 (UTC)

m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 05:50, 12 Κερασινού 2017 (UTC)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter – #14

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Дискуссионные группы проекта в Vk.com и в Facebook.com На встречу к Викимании-2017 Предварительная программа мероприятия Подготовка проекта выступления и постера от имени наших проектов План действий по повышению посещаемости малых Вики: "Календарь на Заглавную": + бурятская, луговомарийская, кабардинская, крымскотатарская и аварская вики "Изображение дня": + вепсская, калмыкская, карачай-балкарская и аварская вики Научно-практическая конференция по развитию Википедий на языках коренных и автохтонных народов "Кельтский узел 2017", Эдинбург (Великобритания), 6.07.2017 Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Project discussion groups in Vk.com & in Facebook.com Towards Wikimania-2017 Preliminary Programme Drafting lightning talk & poster on behalf of our projects Action plan to increase small wiki readership & participation: "Events of the month": + bxr, mhr, kbd, crh & avwiki "Picture of the Day": + vep, xal, krc & avwiki Celtic Knot Conference 2017 on supporting Celtic & Indigenous Languages, Edinburgh (UK), 6.07.2017 Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 13:54, 15 Κερασινού 2017 (UTC)

Διαχειριστές

Γειά χαρά νταν ποιοι είναι διαχειριστές εδώ πέρα --80.106.160.80 08:23, 18 Ιουνίου 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Σας ευχαριστούμε! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33, 29 Κερασινού 2017 (UTC)

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

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, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:22, 10 Χορτοθερί 2017 (UTC)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.

Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 20 Χορτοθερί 2017 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας

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.

Σας ευχαριστούμε! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 Χορτοθερί 2017 (UTC)

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

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 21:07, 17 Σταυρί 2017 (UTC)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.

To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.

Background

In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.

Why not watchlists

Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:

• Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
• Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
  • The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
• By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
• Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 Σταυρί 2017 (UTC)

Баннерная кампания про Российскую Викимедиа конференцию 2017

Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о Российской Викимедиа конференции 2017 (для читателей разных вики из России + русская вики глобально). Спасибо.--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 16:01, 27 Σταυρί 2017 (UTC)

Баннерная кампания про Приволжский вики-семинар 2017

• EN: Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Volga WikiSeminar 2017 announcement (all active WPs in languages of Russia, except Azerbaidjani, Kazakh, Finnish and Ukrainian; globally, except Ukraine). Thank you & sorry if this announcement is not available in your preferred language.
• RU: Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о Приволжском вики-семинаре 2017 (все активные ВП на языках России, кроме азербайджанской, казахской, украинской и финской; глобально, кроме Украины). Спасибо и приношу извинения, если данное объявление недоступно на предпочитаемом вами языке.--Frhdkazan (συζήτηση) 12:06, 9 Τρυγομηνά 2017 (UTC)

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.

Σας ευχαριστούμε!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Αεργί 2017 (UTC)

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 Χριστουγενναρί 2017 (UTC)

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 10:46, 21 Χριστουγενναρί 2017 (UTC)