Վիքիբառարան:Խորհրդարան

Նախկին տարիների քննարկումները կարող եք գտնել արխիվում

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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 16:12, 10 Ապրիլի 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

Ադմինիստրատոր դառնալու դիմում

Վիքիբառարանի հարգելի հանրություն, խնդրում եմ հնարավորինս մասնակցեք ադմինիստրատորի իրավունքի հայտի քննարկման։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 11:08, 1 Մայիսի 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

Նկարներ

Հարգելի մասնակիցներ, խնդրում եմ վերանայել հոդվածներում ձեր դրած լուսանկարները։ Լուսանկարը հոդվածի արարկան լուաբանելու համար է, այլ ոչ էջը գեղեցկացնելու։ Այն պետք է անմիջական կապ ունենա հոդվածի նյութի հետ։ Եթե գրում եք տաքի մասին, ապա պետք չէ նրա հետևանքով սմքած ծաղիկի նկար դնել։ Ավելի լավ է նկար չլինի, եթե փորի մասին եք գրում ապա կոնկրետ փորի նկար, այլ ոչ փոր ունեցող կենդանու նկար։ Բառի մի քանի իմաստ ունենալու դեպքում, կարելի է մի քանի նկար դնել, բայց առաջնային իմաստների համար։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 09:44, 6 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

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

Կաղապար:hy-noun-ի-ներ

Բարև Ձեզ, այս կաղապարը ինչո՞ւ չի աշխատում --ԱշոտՏՆՂ (քննարկում) 13:38, 19 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

Նախկինում բացում էր: Բայց դա, միևնույն է, սխալ է, պիտի նորը գրել: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 04:58, 20 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

Վերահղումներ

Կարծում եմ շատ ճիշտ կլինի բառերի թեքված ձևերը հիմնական հոդվածին վերահղելը: Իսկ դո՞ւք ինչ կարծիքի եք: Կամ գուցե արդեն այս հարցը քննարկե՞լ եք--ԱշոտՏՆՂ (քննարկում) 07:47, 21 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

Գոյական կաղապարը

{{-hy-գո-}} կաղապարը, որ ցույց է տալիս, թե տվյալ բառը գոյական է, չի աշխատում: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 16:48, 23 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

Ինչո՞ւ էր հանած վերնագիրը չհասկացա։ Ետ եմ շուռ տվել, հիմա կաշխատի։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 05:47, 24 Մայիսի 2015 (UTC)

Հիմա էլ նույն կաղապարը դառնում է Ածական:--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 10:22, 26 Մայիսի 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)

Հարց

Ողջույն բոլորին, արդյո՞ք բառ-հոդվածը չպետք է գրվի մեծառատ:--GarikKh (քննարկում) 11:44, 15 Հունիսի 2015 (UTC)

Վիքիբառարաններում, ի տարբերություն մյուս բառարանների, սովորաբար հասարակ անունները գրում ենք փոքրատառով, հատուկ անունները՝ մեծատառով: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 12:07, 15 Հունիսի 2015 (UTC)

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 Հունիսի 2015 (UTC)

Պատճենում այլ վիքիներից

Շարունակելով այս քննարկումը։ Վիքիմեդիայի լիցենզիան թույլ է տալիս պատճենումը, բայց պարտադրում է attribution, այսինքն՝ տեքստի կամ կոդի հեղինակները պետք է պահպանվեն և նշվեն։ Տե՛ս w:en:Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia։ Հայերեն Վիքիբառարանը պատճենել է անգլերեն Վիքիբառարանի բազմաթիվ կաղապարներ և մոդուլներ՝ ստեղծված հիմնականում իմ ու մի քանի այլ օգտագործողների երկարամյա ու տքնաջան աշխատանքի շնորհիվ։ Բացի հոլովման կաղապարներից, նաև Module:hy-pronunciation, Module:Armn-translit ևն։ Լավ է արել, շարունակեք օգտակար աշխատանքը. բայց ոչ մի տեղ չեն նշվել հեղինակները, ինչն առնվազն անքաղաքավարի է. մի կողմ դնենք իրավական կողմը։ Խնդրում եմ ապագայում կաղապարներ և մոդուլներ ներմուծել https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import էջում նկարագրված մեթոդով, որը պահպանում է էջի պատմությունը։ Կամ գոնե խմբագրման մեկնաբանության մեջ նշել, թե որտեղից է ներմուծված։ --Vahagn Petrosyan (քննարկում) 10:08, 11 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Եթե նկատել եք, մենք արդեն փոխել ենք կաղապարը, քանի որ նախկինը, մեղմ ասած, կազմված էր չգիտես ինչ սկզբունքով: Հայերենին նվիրված ոչ մի դասագրքում կամ ուսումնասիրության մեջ հոլովման նման համակարգ չկա: Այնպես որ, այս քննարկում շարունակելն այլևս իմաստ չունի, մենք չենք պատրաստվում այլևս գործածել այդ կաղապարը: Պարզապես մենք ամեն ինչ անում ենք առանց շահախնդրության ու առանց ակնկալիքի, դրա համար էլ չենք նշում՝ մտածելով, որ ուրիշներն էլ ուրախ կլինեն, որ իրենց աշխատանքը գնահատվում է ու վերցվում որպես օրինակ:--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 10:38, 11 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Պետք չի նեղանալ։ Շարունակեք օգտագործել և մյուս կաղապարներն էլ պատճենել, ես միայն ուրախ կլինեմ։ Պարզապես պետք է հետևել կանոններին, մեծ բան չեմ խնդրում։ --Vahagn Petrosyan (քննարկում) 14:11, 11 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Իսկ մենք չենք նեղանում, պարզապես ասում ենք, որ հայերենի դասագրքերում այլ կերպ է ներկայացվում հոլովման համակարգը: Հետաքրքիր է իմանալ, թե Դուք որտեղից եք վերցրել այդ կաղապարը: Կարելի էր այդքան չչարչաչվել ու պարզապես վերցնել այն, ինչ ընդունված է արդեն երկար տարիներ: Լավ կլիներ, որ Դուք փոխեիք, կամ գուցե աղբյուր ներկայացնեք, տեսնենք՝ ինչի հիման վրաեք այդքան ծավալուն կաղապար սարքել: Պարզապես հետաքրքիր է:--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 14:24, 11 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Աղբյուրն իմ գիտելիքն է՝ որպես լեզվակրի։ Հնարավոր է՝ ավելի հեշտ էլ կարելի է նախագծել։ Ես էդպես եմ կարողացել։ --Vahagn Petrosyan (քննարկում) 21:24, 11 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Հարգելի՛ Vahagn Petrosyan, Դուք պահանջում եք նշել աղբյուր, սակյան ինքներդ եք անտեսել Վիքինախագծերի առաջնային կանոններից մեկը՝ նյութը գրել վտահելի աղբյուրների հիման վրա: Արդյունքում Դուք թյուրիմացության մեջ եք գցում հարյուրավոր մարդկանց: Կան լեզվաբանական ավանդույթներ ու կանոններ, պետք չէ վերցնել ու նորը հորինել, եթե դրա անհրաժեշտությունը չկա: Եթե մարդ շատ գիտի, դեռ չի նշանակում, թե ամեն ինչ պիտի վերցնել ու դնել մի գծագրի մեջ: Լավ կլինի, որ հետաքրքրվեք այդ հարցով զբաղվող մասնագետներից ու վերանայեք կաղապարները հետագա թյուրիմացություններից խուսափելու համար: Այլապես ի՞նչ պիտի մտածի արտասահմանցին այդ հոլովման համակարգը տեսնելիս: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 08:10, 12 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Դուք զբաղվում եք դեմագոգիայով ու շեղում թեման։ Դուր չի գալիս, մի պատճենեք կաղապարները։ Պատճենում եք, բարի եղեք նշել աղբյուրը։ --Vahagn Petrosyan (քննարկում) 11:30, 12 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Իսկ Դուք տարածում եք սխալ տեղեկատվություն: Ու եթե ճիշտը նշում են, բարի եղեք ընդունել ու ուղղել սխալը:--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 11:32, 12 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Ողջույն: Վահագ ջան, աղբյուրը կարող էիք Դուք էլ հետագայում ավելացնել: Ես ավելացրեցի. ինձ թվում է, հիմա արդեն ամեն ինչ լավ է:--David Saroyan (քննարկում) 09:20, 13 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Ինձ համար ավելի կարևոր էր պրակտիկայի փոփոխությունը։ Կարծում եմ հիմա մարդիկ կավելացնեն էդպիսի նշում, որը լրիվ բավարար է։ Ես էլ մի երկու տեղ ավելացրի։ --Vahagn Petrosyan (քննարկում) 11:34, 13 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

Հոլովման կաղապարը պատճենված չէ Ձեր սխալ կաղապարից և նշել պետք չէ: Պետք է անգլերենինը պատճենել հայերենից, որ ճիշտ լինի: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 11:39, 13 Հուլիսի 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 (քննարկում) 05:07, 24 Հուլիսի 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: Կաղապար:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalԿաղապար:@wikimediaԿաղապար:dotorg

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MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 23:43, 31 Հուլիսի 2015 (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

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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 սեպտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

Thanks,

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

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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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 սեպտեմբերի 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 սեպտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Նոր էջեր

Կարծում եմ, գլխավոր էջի ներքևի մասում` Խորհրդարանի և վերջին փոփոխություններ արանքում պետք է լինի "Նոր էջեր" բաժինը--El-ßäbrega (քննարկում) 21:28, 5 Նոյեմբերի 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 (քննարկում) 21:58, 9 Նոյեմբերի 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 Նոյեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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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!

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Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 14:38, 1 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Ամանորյա նշան

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  Առաջին տարբերակ

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  Երկրորդ տարբերակ

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  Երրորդ տարբերակ

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  Չորրորդ տարբերակ

Ցանկանում եմ լսել ձեր կարծիքները--El-ßäbrega (քննարկում) 16:33, 8 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Առաջին տարբերակ

• Կողմ--El-ßäbrega (քննարկում) 16:41, 8 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 18:11, 9 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ--Արևիկ Ոսկանյան (քննարկում) 18:16, 9 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Դեմ, սրա գլխարկի չափը լավ է, բայց ձյան փաթիլները անշուք են ու չեն երևում։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 18:06, 12 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Երկրորդ տարբերակ

Կողմ --WIKI FRIENDS (քննարկում) 19:14, 10 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

• Դեմ, Ձմեռ պապի պլակատին գրածը չի կարդացվում, եթե հաշվի առնենք, որ պատկերանիշը ներկայացվածից փոքր է լինելու։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 18:13, 12 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Երրորդ տարբերակ

• Կողմ, լավն է զուտ համեմատելով մյուս երեքի հետ։ Գլխարկի չափը լավ է՝ համահունչ դեմք հիշեցնող տառի քառակուսուն։ Տոնածառն էլ հին պատկերանիշերում օգտագործված բազմաչաչար դետալ է, որ լավ է նայվում ներքևի աջ անկյունում։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 18:13, 12 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ։ Այս տարբերակը հավանում եմ։ --Ջեօ ツ 18:29, 12 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ--ՀԱՅԿ10 (քննարկում) 11:35, 14 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ--Hayk10 (քննարկում) 11:36, 14 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ: Severe №1 (քննարկում) 12:46, 21 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Չորրորդ տարբերակ

• Կողմ --Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 16:52, 9 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ --Margarita2000 (քննարկում) 15:30, 10 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ --The Vampire Diaries (քննարկում) 19:05, 10 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)
• Կողմ --§§ Wiki Boris §§ (քննարկում) 18:46, 11 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Ժողովուրդ (Արմենուհի, Ջեո, Beko, Error404hy, Արևիկ Ոսկանյան, Դավիթ, Margarita2000, Severe №1, Տիկին Սուսաննա...), խնդրում եմ արագացնել քվեարկության ընթացքը, որպեսզի գոնե 1,5 ամիս լոգոն լինի ցուցափեղկում: Հարգանքներով`--El-ßäbrega (քննարկում) 18:03, 9 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Լոգոն այդքան երկար չի կարող մնալ, Նորայր ջան։ Պետք է փոխվի ամսի 31-ին և կարող է մնալ մաքսիմում 1 շաբաթ։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 18:49, 9 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

Լավ --El-ßäbrega (քննարկում) 11:56, 10 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

• Դեմ, Գլխարկը փոքր է, մնացած դետալներից ծառը թափանցիկ է, պատկերանիշի գրաֆիկայի հետ չի նայվում, իսկ Սանտան ու իր եղջերուները իրական չափի ժամանակ, փոքր կետեր կդառնան ու անհասկանալի։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 18:13, 12 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC)

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 Դեկտեմբերի 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Օգնություն

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 01:49, 5 հունվարի 2016 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 19:06, 18 հունվարի 2016 (UTC)

Թարգմանության խնդիրներ ՄեդիաՎիքիում

Բարև ձեզ։ translatewiki.net-ում Community portal-ը թարգմանվել է Խորհրդարան։ Արդյունքում հայերեն վիքիների MediaWiki:Sidebar էջերում նշվում է portal-url|portal, բայց en:Wikipedia:Community portal֊ի փոխարեն ցուցադրվում է Վիքիպեդիա:Խորհրդարան էջը։ Խնդիրը ավելի ակնառու է Վիքիպահեստում (կամ նման կարգավորումներ ունեցող այլ վիքիում), քանի որ Sidebar֊ում երևում է և՛ Village pump֊ը, և՛ Community portal֊ը։ Արդյունքում Վիքիպահեստում այժմ երկու խորհրդարան կա։ Եթե հիմա պարզապես translatewiki.net-ում Community portal-ը այլ բան թարգմանենք, մեդիավիքիի հայերեն տարբերակով աշխատող բոլոր կայքերում ինչ֊որ բան կփոխվի (ինչքան հասկացա, խոսքը միայն Վիքիմեդիա Հիմնադրամների կայքերի մասին չէ)։ Ի՞նչ կարող ենք անել--ԱշոտՏՆՂ (քննարկում) 09:29, 19 փետրվարի 2016 (UTC)

Վանկատում՝ ենթամնա, վանկի նշան

Հայերեն գրանշանների հավաքածոյում, հայերենի կոդավորման համակարգում (Յունիկոդում) այդ նպատակով հատուկ նշան կա՝ ենթամնա, վանկատման, տողադարձման նշան «֊»։ Գուցե իմաստ ունի կետի փոխարեն դա՞ օգտագործել (Վիքիպեդիայում դա է օգտագործվում)։ Օրինակ՝ են•թա•մը•նա → են֊թա֊մը֊նա։ Համ էլ «ենթամնա» հոդվածը պետք է համապատասխանեցնել Վիքպեդիայի հոդվածին ու կարգի բերել (հետո)։ Vahram Mekhitarian (քննարկում) 10:35, 6 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Ենթամնան վանկատման դեպքում հստակ չի երևում, այդ պատճառով էլ այնքան էլ հարմար չէ կիրառել այն:--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 12:50, 7 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Առաջարկություն

Վիքիհամայք, ադմիններից Togaed-ը արդեն քանի տարի է ակտիվ չէ: Առաջարկում եմ հանել ադմինությունից: Ինչպես նաև, եթե Voskanyan-ը դեմ չէ, նա դառնա ադմին, քանի որ նրա խմբագրումները այս նախագծում ուղղակի անգնահատելի է:--Garik.Khachatryan (քննարկում) 12:23, 7 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Togead-ի հարցում համաձայն եմ, սակայն իմ դեպքում՝ չէ: Համենայն դեպս դրա անհրաժեշտությունը չկա: Այն, ինչ որ կարողանում եմ, ես անում եմ: --Voskanyan (քննարկում) 12:56, 7 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Բեկոյին կարելի է հարցնել: Նա ադմիններից մեկն է: --Garik.Khachatryan (քննարկում) 18:23, 11 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Beko - ?--Garik.Khachatryan (քննարկում) 14:33, 30 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Please help translate to your language:

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 Մարտի 2016 (UTC)

Նոր բաժին

Ողջո՜ւյն, հարգելի վիքիհամայնք: Առաջարկում եմ բառերի կաղապարում ավելացնել նաև բառակազմություն բաժինը, քանի որ ստուգաբանություն բաժնում հաճախ բառակազմական պատկերները լրացնելը սխալ է, քանի որ ստուգաբանությունը վերլուծում է արմատների ծագումը, ոչ թե բառակազմական բաղադրիչներն ըստ էության: Շնորհակալություն:--Արամ Ս. 21:33, 7 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Հ.Գ.Բառակազմական պատկերները կարելի է վերցնել Ս.Գալստյան, «Դպրոցական բառակազմական բառարան», Երևան, 2011, 2014-ից:--Արամ Ս. 21:36, 7 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Ողջույն, Արամ ջան։ Ստուգաբանականից հետո կարելի է անդրադառնալ քո ասած բառարանին։ Կտեսածրենք և քիչ-քիչ կլրացնենք բառահոդվածները։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 10:12, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Իսկ ստուգաբանականը դեռ շա՞տ կա, Լիլիթ ջան:--Արամ Ս. 11:22, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Ստուգաբանականը Ն տառում ենք։ Իսկ կազմությունը ես եմ գրել ստուգելիս, հետագայում Կազմություն վերնագիր կդնեմ բաղադրյալների դեպքում։--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 11:30, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Ն տառն ենք հասել, Արամ ջան։ Բայց պետք է հաշվի առնենք, որ դեռ ոչ բոլոր տառերով բառերն ունենք Վիքիբառարանում։ Ս-ն նոր ենք սկսել։ --Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 11:33, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Լիլիթ ջան, ես կարո՞ղ եմ օգնել ավելի արագ կարգի բերելու գործում: Դու ինձ ասա կոնկրետ ինչ, ես ազատ ժամանակ կանեմ, առաջ կգնանք:--Արամ Ս. 11:35, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Արամ ջան, ստուգաբանությունը Արմենուհին է համակարգում, գործը լավ առաջ է գնում, եթե ցանկանում ես օգնել, առաջարկում եմ սկսես քո նշած բառարանից բառակազմությունը գրել՝ Ա տառից սկսած։ Երբ ստուգաբանականը վերջացնենք, կմիանանք քեզ։ Կարծում եմ՝ լավ կլինի բառակազմություն բաժինը լինի ստուգաբանությունից հետո։ Ի՞նչ կարծիքի եք։ Արմենուհի ջան, խնդրում եմ դու էլ հայտնես կարծիքդ։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 11:41, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Միանշանակ այդպես պիտի լինի, Լիլիթ ջան, բայց կաղապարում համապատասխան բաժին է հարկավոր՝ «Բառակազմություն», ու ես կսկսեմ իմ մոտ եղած բառարանով աշխատել:--Արամ Ս. 11:46, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Շատ լավ կլինի այդպես։ Ուղղակի ես սկզբում բառերի մի մասում կազմությունը գրել եմ Ստուգաբանություն վերնագրով, դրանք պիտի փոխվեն, մնացածը թող Արամը լրացնի։ Միայն թե կարելի է գրել Կազմություն Բառակազմության փոխարեն։--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 11:48, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Արմենուհի ջան, կարծում եմ՝ վերնագիրն էական չէ, թող լինի կազմություն, կարևորը կունենանք ամփոփ բառարան, իսկ դրածներից որն էլ հանդիպեցի կուղղեմ:--Արամ Ս. 11:50, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Բառակազմություն վերնագիրը կարելի է ձեռքով ավելացնել, Արամ ջան։ Բոտով երևի հարմար չի բոլորին ավելացնել, քանի որ ոչ բոլոր բառերի բառակազմությունը կա նշված քո բառարանում (նայեցի 30000 բառի էր միայն)։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 11:59, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Հիմա փորձնական մեկին կանեմ:--Արամ Ս. 12:22, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

գանգրահեր, խնդրեմ, և մի հարց էլ. գանգրահեր բառը ստուգաբանական բառարանում տրվում է գանգուրի բաղադրություն, հետևաբար՝ պե՞տք է այստեղ ստուգանաբանությունը գրել, թե՞ բուն արմատի բաժնում:--Արամ Ս. 12:28, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Կարելի է հղումներ տալ արմատները։--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 12:30, 11 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

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 Ապրիլի 2016 (UTC)

Ադմինիստրատորի իրավունքներ ստանալու դիմում

Հարգելի համայնք, ադմինիստրատորի իրավունքներ ստանալու (ժամկետը երկարացնելու) դիմում եմ ներկայացրել։ Կարող եք քվեարկել։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 19:55, 3 Մայիսի 2016 (UTC)

Standard bot policy

Hello,

To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage (interwiki) linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots. At this moment the Wiktionaries are not supported by Wikidata yet, so interwiki bot activity will still be present in this project.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page (or the community page where bot requests are handled) from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page at Meta-Wiki.

Thank you very much, --MarcoAurelio 10:50, 29 Հունիսի 2016 (UTC)

Done. --MarcoAurelio (քննարկում) 10:15, 14 Հուլիսի 2016 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this 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. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 Հունիսի 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. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05, 1 Հուլիսի 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

Please help translate to your language:

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 Հուլիսի 2016 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new 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 smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the 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. Togaed (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, Rschen7754 07:01, 21 Հուլիսի 2016 (UTC)

Save/Publish

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

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

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

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 “Հիշել էջը” 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 “Հիշել էջը” 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 “Ստեղծել էջը” and “Պահպանել”.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 9 Օգոստոսի 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 սեպտեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata for Wiktionary: let’s get ready for lexicographical data!

Hello all,

Sorry for writing this message in English, please feel free to translate it in your own language below.

The Wikidata development team will start working on integrating lexicographical data in the knowledge base soon and we want to make sure we do this together with you.

Wikidata is a constantly evolving project and after four years of existence, we start with implementing support for Wiktionary editors and content, by allowing you to store and improve lexicographical data, in addition to the concepts already maintained by thousands of editors on Wikidata.

We have been working on this idea for almost three years and improving it with a lot of inputs from community members to understand Wiktionary processes.

Starting this project, we hope that the editors will be able to collaborate across Wiktionaries more easily. We expect to increase the number of editors and visibility of languages, and we want to provide the groundwork for new tools for editors.

Our development plan contains several phases in order to build the structure to include lexicographical data:

• creating automatic interwiki links on Wiktionary,
• creating new entity types for lexemes, senses, and forms on Wikidata,
• providing data access to Wikidata from Wiktionary
• improving the display of lexicographical information on Wikidata.

During the next months, we will do our best to provide you the technical structure to store lexicographical data on Wikidata and use it on Wiktionary. Don’t hesitate to discuss this within your local community, and give us feedback about your needs and the particularities of your languages.

Information about supporting lexicographical entities on Wikidata is available on this page. You can find an overview of the project, the detail of the development plan, answers to frequently asked questions, and a list of people ready to help us. If you want to have general discussions and questions about the project, please use the general talk page, as we won’t be able to follow all the talk pages on Wiktionaries. If you don’t feel comfortable with English, you can write in your own language and hopefully someone will volunteer to translate.

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project

Please help translate to your language:

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 սեպտեմբերի 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 Հոկտեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Թարգմանություններ

Բարև։ Անգլերեն Վիքիբառարանում կա մի գադջեթ, որի օգնությամբ հնարավոր է բառերի թարգմանությունը հեշտորեն ավելացնել առանց վիքիկոդի մեջ մտնելու։ Սակայն այն մեր մոտ օգատգործելու համար պետք է հոդվածներում օգատգործվող

{{translation-top}}
*{{en|book}}
*{{de|Buch}}
*{{da|bog}}
*{{eo|libro}}
*{{es|libro}}
*{{it|libro}}
*{{nl|boek}}
*{{el|βιβλίο}}
*{{sv|bok}}
*{{pt|livro}}
*{{ru|книга}}
*{{ka|}}
*{{fr|livre}}
{{translation-bot}}

կաղապարը փոխարինվի

{{trans-top|գիրք}}
* անգլերեն: {{t+|en|book}}
* գերմաներեն: {{t+|de|Buch}}
* դանիերեն: {{t+|da|bog}}
* էսպերանտո: {{t+|eo|libro}}
* իսպաներեն: {{t+|es|libro}}
* իտալերեն: {{t+|it|libro}}
{{trans-mid}}
* հոլանդերեն: {{t+|nl|boek}}
* հունարեն: {{t+|el|βιβλίο}}
* շվեդերեն: {{t+|sv|bok}}
* պորտուգալերեն: {{t+|pt|livro}}
* ռուսերեն: {{t+|ru|книга}}
* ֆրանսերեն: {{t+|fr|livre}}
{{trans-bottom}}

գիրք

• անգլերեն: book (en)
• գերմաներեն: Buch (de)
• դանիերեն: bog (da)
• էսպերանտո: libro (eo)
• իսպաներեն: libro (es)
• իտալերեն: libro (it)

• հոլանդերեն: boek (nl)
• հունարեն: βιβλίο (el) ‎(vivlío)
• շվեդերեն: bok (sv)
• պորտուգալերեն: livro (pt)
• ռուսերեն: книга (ru) ‎(kniga)
• ֆրանսերեն: livre (fr)

կաղապարով։ Արդյունքում մենք կունենանք հեշտ խմբագրվող թարգմանությունների բաժին, չեն լինի դատարկ թարգմանության տողերը (այս դեպքում չլրացված տողեր գրելը բացարձակ անիմաստ է, քանի որ գործիքի օգնությամբ շատ արագ ու հեշտ կարելի է ավելացնել ցանկացած լեզվով թարգմանություն)։ Բացի դա, հետագայի համար այս տարբերակը ավելի շատ հնարավորություններ է տալիս։ Օրինակը տեսնելու և փորձարկումներ անելու համար կարող եք անցնել այս հղումով։ Եթե դեմ չեք, բոտով բոլորը հոդվածներում համապատասխան փոփոխությունները կփորձեմ անել։--ԱշոտՏՆՂ (քննարկում) 16:15, 12 Նոյեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Հրաշալի է։ Վերջապես մեզ մոտ էլ ստացվեց։ Ես երկու ձեռքով կողմ եմ։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 17:14, 12 Նոյեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Կողմ--Voskanyan (քննարկում) 12:57, 13 Նոյեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Իհարկե կողմ։ Քննարկել ենք ու փորձել, հին երազանք էր, որ կիրականանա։ Ապրես Աշոտ ջան։--Beko^{Քննարկում} 09:33, 15 Նոյեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

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 (Քննարկում) / MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 23:59, 13 Նոյեմբերի 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 (քննարկում) 00:11, 14 Նոյեմբերի 2016 (UTC)

Loss of 23,000 articles

This wiki has lost about 23,000 articles (wikilinked main-namespace entries) in the last 2 days. Does anyone know why? - dcljr (քննարկում) 02:17, 21 Նոյեմբերի 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 "Automatically enable all new beta features".

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) --19:31, 14 Դեկտեմբերի 2016 (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.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31, 15 փետրվարի 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 Մարտի 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

05:09, 18 Մարտի 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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:37, 7 Ապրիլի 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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 (քննարկում) 17:34, 11 Ապրիլի 2017 (UTC)

Cognate & automatic interlanguage links

Hello all,

(I'm sorry to write in English, feel free to translate in your own language below)

From April 24th, a new interlanguage link system will be deployed on all Wiktionaries. This extension, Cognate, automatically links the pages with the same title between the Wiktionaries. This means they no longer have to be added in the pages of the main namespace.

This new feature has been developed by Wikimedia Deutschland as the first step of the project Wikidata for Wiktionary, but does not rely on Wikidata.

To allow the feature to operate, all the former interlanguage links have to be removed from the wikitext. You can do this by using a bot, as it was done on Wikipedia in the past. If you leave them in they will overwrite the automatic links.

During the development we had a lot of discussions with Wiktionary editors to understand their needs, but it's possible that some automatic links don't work as you would expect. If you find some bugs or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to add a sub-task on Phabricator or add a message on this talk page.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

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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19:15, 3 Մայիսի 2017 (UTC)

Ադմինի ընտրություն

Հարգելի Վիքիբառարանի համայնք, այստեղ մեր վիքիբառարանի ադմինիստրատորի կարգավիճակ ստանալու համար դիմում եմ տվել (6-րդ անգամ)։ Միշտ ժամանակավոր են տալիս, ոււ կարիք է լինում տարին մեկ նորից դիմել։ Խնդրում եմ արտահայտեք ձեր կարծիքը և քվեարկեք։--Beko^{Քննարկում} 15:30, 7 Մայիսի 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 Մայիսի 2017 (UTC)

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 Մայիսի 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.

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21:08, 16 Մայիսի 2017 (UTC)

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 Մայիսի 2017 (UTC)

Enable sitelinks on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: From June 20th, we are going to store the interwiki links of all the namespaces (except main, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you have any question or concern, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:38, 1 Հունիսի 2017 (UTC)

Վրացերեն-հայերեն

Այսպիսի բան հանդիպեց համացանցում: Կարող է հետաքրքիր լինել Վիքիբառաևանի համար: http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=list&d=42&t=dict&w1=%D4%B1 Գաբրիելյան Աշոտ (քննարկում) 15:58, 6 Հունիսի 2017 (UTC)

Sitelinks are enabled on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages (outside main namespace)

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: Since yesterday, we are able to store the interwiki links of all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Important: even if it is technically possible, you should not link Wiktionary main namespace pages from Wikidata. The interwiki links for them are already provided by Cognate.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you encounter any problem or find a bug, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 08:28, 21 Հունիսի 2017 (UTC)

Enabling Page Previews

Enabling Page Previews

Hello,

Based on the positive results of a series of quantitative and qualitative tests, the Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable the Page Previews feature for 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. However, we realize the needs of the Wiktionary community will not be satisfied by the current implementation of the feature. We are interested in developing separate previews for Wiktionary that will display the wiktionary definition of an item, as well as an image, if available.

We'd like to invite some discussion around interest in this feature, as well as the requirements and elements that would make it useful for the Wiktionary community.

CKoerner (WMF) 15:02, 6 Հուլիսի 2017 (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

• Comparison of old and new styles
• 

  Buttons before the change

• 

  Buttons after the change

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

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

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:57, 27 Հուլիսի 2017 (UTC)

Columns for references

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Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 11 September 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. --User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:24, 1 սեպտեմբերի 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.

Thank you!

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

Ադմինի նոր թեկնածու

Ողջույն, խմբագիրներ ջան։ Թեկնածությունս առաջադրել եմ որպես ադմին։ Խնդրում եմ ձեր կարծիքը հայտնել այս էջում։--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 11:54, 14 Դեկտեմբերի 2017 (UTC)

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

Hello all,

(Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.)

One year ago, the Wikidata team started deploying new automatic interwiki links for Wiktionaries. Today, the links for the main namespace are automatically displayed by a Mediawiki extension, and the links for other namespaces are stored in Wikidata. You can find the documentation here (feel free to help translating it in your language).

We would like to know if you encountered problems with the system, if you would have suggestions for further improvements. This could be for example:

• Some automatic links don’t work as expected
• Some problems you encountered with entering links (for non-main namespace) in Wikidata
• Some new features you’d like to have, related to links

To give feedback, you have two options:

• Let a message on this talk page
• Let a message here. If you do so, please mention me with the {{ping}} template, so I can get a notification.

Our preferred languages are English, French and German, but you can also let a message in your own language if you feel more comfortable with it.

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:23, 24 Ապրիլի 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 Մայիսի 2018 (UTC)

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

Hello,

Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate the content of this message below.

Some members of your community have been interested to be beta-testers of the new project that was just deployed on Wikidata: lexicographical data. Thank you!

The goal of lexicographical data on Wikidata is to provide a structured and machine-readable way to describe words and phrases in multiple languages, stored in a same place, reusable under CC-0. In the future, this data will be available for Wiktionaries and other projects to reuse, as much as you want to.

For now, we’re at the first steps of this project: the new data structure has been released on Wikidata, and we’re looking for people to try it, and give us feedback on what is working or not. Participating in this project is the opportunity for you to have a voice in it, to make sure that your needs and requests are taken in account very early in the process, and to start populating Wikidata with words in your language!

Here’s how you can try lexicographical data on Wikidata:

• First of all, if you’re not familiar with the data model, I encourage you to have a look at the documentation page. If you’re not familiar with Wikidata at all, I suggest this page as a start point.
• You can also look at the Lexemes that already exists (search features will be improved in the future).
• When you feel ready to create a word, go on d:Special:NewLexeme.
• If some properties that you need are missing, you can suggest them on this page (if you’re not sure how to do it, just let a message on the talk page and someone will help you).
• The main discussion page is d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data. Here, you can ask for help, suggest ways to organize the data, but also leave feedback: if you encounter any bug or issue, let us know. We’re looking especially to know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.

In any case, feel free to contact me if you have a question or problem, I’ll be very happy to help.

Thanks again for your enthusiasm about lexicographical data on Wikidata! Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (քննարկում) 11:42, 23 Մայիսի 2018 (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 Հունիսի 2018 (UTC)

Ադմինության առաջադրում

Հարգելի՛ խմբագիրներ, ադմինությանս ժամկետն ավարտվել է։ Կրկին առաջադրել եմ թեկնածությունս։ Խնդրում եմ հայտնել ձեր կարծիքը համապատասխան էջում։ Շնորհակալություն--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 09:46, 25 Հունիսի 2018 (UTC)

Եվս մեկ ադմինության առաջադրում

Հարգելի համայնք, ադմինությանս ժամկետ լրացել է։ Ադմինության հայտ եմ տվել համապատասխան էջում, խնդրում եմ պասիվ չլինել և արտահայտել ձեր կարծիքը այնտեղ։ --Beko^{Քննարկում} 10:33, 3 Հուլիսի 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:19, 10 Հուլիսի 2018 (UTC)

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 Հուլիսի 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 13:08, 30 Հուլիսի 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

Screenshot of the Hub view

Sorry for writing this message in English. Feel free to help translate it below.

Hello all,

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback about Cognate, the system allowing interwikilinks between Wiktionaries (on main namespace). Several community members gave some suggestions, one of them was to provide statistics about these interwikilinks.

The Wikidata team is pleased to present you the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard, a website presenting a lot of interesting information about how Wiktionaries are connected to each others. You can find there, for example:

• the most interlinked Wiktionary entries not having a page on your Wiktionary
• the number of interlinks between each possible pair of Wiktionaries
• visualizations of the relationships between different Wiktionaries

To learn more about the tool, you can have a look at the documentation (please help us translating it in your language!). The interface of the tool itself can also be translated in other languages by using this page.

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:08, 14 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:39, 27 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Տեխնիկական ադմինիստրատոր

Ողջույն, հարգելի՛ խմբագիրներ։ Այսուհետ Mediawiki տարածքում խմբագրումներ կատարելու համար անհրաժեշտ է տեխնիկական ադմինիստրատորի լիազորություններ ունենալ։ Տեխնիկական հնարավորություններ ստանալու համար անհրաժեշտ է ձեր համաձայնությունը։ Խնդրում եմ ստորև հայտնել ձեր կարծիքը՝ նշելով կողմ կամ դեմ կաղապարները՝ ինձ այդ հնարավորությունները վստահել/չվստահելու համար։ Շնորհակալություն--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 16:39, 30 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC)

Կողմ--Emptyfear (քննարկում) 16:40, 30 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC)

Կողմ--Beko^{Քննարկում} 16:44, 30 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC)

Կողմ--GeoO (քննարկում) 19:55, 30 Օգոստոսի 2018 (UTC)

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

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. 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 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• 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 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. 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:Johan(WMF) (talk)

13:33, 6 սեպտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Ադմինության թեկնածու

Հարգելի խմբագիրներ, առաջադրել եմ իմ ադմինության թեկնածությունը։ Կարող եք քվեարկել այստեղ:--Emptyfear (քննարկում) 06:02, 11 սեպտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

The GFDL license on Commons

This has been posted here because your wiki allows local file uploads. Please help translate to your language.

Commons will no longer allow uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL license and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.

There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.

The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. — Alexis Jazz, distributed by Johan using MassMessage

18:11, 20 սեպտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

11:06, 30 Հոկտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

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

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

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Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 13 Նոյեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 Նոյեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:02, 26 Նոյեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Interested by a translation editor for your project?

Hello, sorry for speaking in English. Please translate this if you can.

As you may know, there exists a gadget that allows to add translation to Wiktionary projects very easily. This gadget already exists on a few projects (en.wikt, fr.wikt, etc.).

Skalman and I are considering creating a gadget that would be suitable to various wiktionary projects, including yours. I have a few questions for you:

1. Would you be interested in such a tool?
2. Is there anyone (preferably a sysop) that would be up to cooperate for the implementation of such a gadget?

Looking forward to hearing from you, --Automatik (քննարկում) 21:07, 2 Դեկտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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

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

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

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 Դեկտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

Dear all,

Sorry for posting this message in English and last minute notification. The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is an yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Tremendous Wiktionary User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wiktionary needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement.

For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is very close to 24 hrs. The last date for registration is 17 December 2018. As a last minute effort, there is a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit created.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wiktionary-l mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh 05:56, 16 Դեկտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (քննարկում) 10:12, 27 Դեկտեմբերի 2018 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 հունվարի 2019 (UTC)

Ադմինության թեկնածություն

Ողջույն։ Հայտ եմ ներկայացրել ադմինական լիազորություններ ստանալու համար։ Խնդրում եմ ձեր կարծիքը հայտնել այստեղ։ Շնորհակալություն--Lilitik22 (քննարկում) 10:28, 15 հունվարի 2019 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

18:40, 16 հունվարի 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 փետրվարի 2019 (UTC)