Wikisource:De kroeg

Welkom in de kroeg van Wikisource

Welkom in de kroeg van de Nederlandstalige Wikisource. Neem plaats, neem wat te drinken, ga goed zitten en praat mee over het project! Bezoek ook eens het Wikisource-kanaal op IRC of het archief.

Deze Nederlandstalige Wikisource heeft nu 17.361 bronnen.

Wikisource Status
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Activiteit:	weinig tot redelijk
Actieve gebruikers:	4-8

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Voortgang bronnen toevoegen

Hier kan men de voortgang van bronnen toevoegen volgen: merkbaar effect op de grafiek sinds augustus https://phetools.toolforge.org/graphs/Wikisource_-_texts_nl.svg --Havang(nl) (overleg) 5 nov 2023 14:51 (CET)

Leuk! -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 5 nov 2023 19:49 (CET)

Mooi om te zien. Maar het is voor een aantal werken een enorm karwei. Is er een methode om eerst het "laaghangende fruit" te oogsten? En nog een vraag: is het makkelijk om ergens een lijst van alle werken zonder bron te maken? --Dick Bos (overleg) 9 nov 2023 18:07 (CET)

Ik heb het eerder wel over Speciaal:PaginasZonderScans gehad. Ik zal eens kijken hoeveel werk het is om een categorie te maken met die werken. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 9 nov 2023 19:05 (CET)

Sjabloon small caps veranderen

Dag allemaal, ik zou iets aan het Sjabloon:Sc willen toevoegen: dat tekst in small caps standaard weer recht wordt en niet schuingedrukt. Dus bijvoorbeeld:

Een ''schuingedrukt stuk met {{sc|rechte small-caps}} in het midden''.

geeft nu:

Een schuingedrukt stuk met rechte small-caps in het midden.

en ik zou willen:

Een schuingedrukt stuk met rechte small-caps in het midden.

Je zou dit dan nog steeds kunnen overreden door binnen in het Sjabloon:Sc weer italics te gebruiken:

{{sc|''Dit''}} zou nog steeds schuingedrukt zijn, maar ''{{sc|dit}}'' niet.

Dit zou nog steeds schuingedrukt zijn, maar dit niet.

Bestaan er werken die jullie kennen, waar schuingedrukte small-caps in voorkomen, en wat dus misschien kapot zou kunnen gaan met deze verandering? Of heeft iemand er iets anders op tegen? -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 5 nov 2023 19:48 (CET)

Niet veranderen, het sjabloon wordt intensief gebruikt, tienduizenden keren, onmogelijk alles na te lopen. Nu kun je in de tekst gewoon italic tekens binnen zowel als buiten het sjabloon plaatsen, zoals bij alle sjablonen het geval is. [dit] [dit] Het zou alleen maar tot verwarring leiden, dit voor dit sjabloon anders te doen. [tekst dit tekst] ; [tekst dit tekst] ; [tekst dit tekst] ; maar wat gebeurt met deze: [tekst dit tekst] --Havang(nl) (overleg) 6 nov 2023 17:26 (CET)

Dat is wel waar; ik werd vooral gefrustreerd door de small caps binnen schuingedrukte tekst die extra nadruk aangeeft. Het lijkt me semantisch incorrect om dan de buitenste nadruk eerst stop te zetten, voor men de binnenste begint. En ik vraag me af of schuingedrukte small caps wel bestaan in gedrukt werk?

Dat laatste voorbeeld dat je geeft werkt trouwens nu al niet. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 6 nov 2023 18:21 (CET)

Waarom zouden small caps extra nadruk betekenen? Ik zie dat jij vaak em gebruikt, waar in het origineel geen blijk is van extra nadruk, maar bijv. de standaard manier is om een afwijkende taal of iets anders aan te geven. Dat is niet noodzakelijk nadruk.--Havang(nl) (overleg) 6 nov 2023 19:32 (CET)

Volgens mij maak ik daar ook onderscheid in; als je het op bepaalde plekken oneens bent, mag je het gerust vervangen door aanhalingstekens! -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 6 nov 2023 19:35 (CET)

Het is meer dat ik zo'n extra sjabloon overbodig vind, en niet iedereen weet van zulke sjablonen, dus dan gaat men alsnog italic code toevoegen. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 7 nov 2023 09:36 (CET)

Tjaa… zo erg is dat ook weer niet, ik wil mensen hun workflow niet onnodig aanpassen. Mijn gedachtegang is dat het daadwerkelijk andere HTML genereert: <em> tags in plaats van <i>. Ik geloof dat dat goed is voor de toegankelijkheid, als bijvoorbeeld screenreaders er onderscheid in kunnen maken.

Ik vind het geen enorm belangrijk punt, maar wel leuk om in mijn transcripties toe te voegen. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 8 nov 2023 16:34 (CET)

Zie 't verschil met bijv. Sjabloon:Taal, dat is een informatief sjabloon, dat niet typografisch werkt. : Sjabloon:em daarentegen is een interpretatief sjabloon dat ook nog typografisch werkt. Maar wikisource moet geen interpretaties toevoegen. En ik raakte in de war met em als maat, gebruikt in sjablonen zoals gap, lijn, r, alinea etc. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 8 nov 2023 17:14 (CET)

Tech News: 2023-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [1]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
• The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [3][4]

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 nov 2023 22:05 (CET)

J'accuse

IK heb J'accuse aan de Franse bron gekoppeld. Dat heeft gevolgen voor Sjabloon:Hoofdpagina - uitgelicht 11. Kan iemand daar naar kijken. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 10 nov 2023 16:54 (CET)

Tech News: 2023-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Four new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh (w:zgh:) [5]
  • a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [6]
  • a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [7]
  • a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [8]

Problems

• Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [9]
• Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Future changes

• Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
• Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [11]

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 nov 2023 00:52 (CET)

Tech News: 2023-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12][13]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [14][15][16]
• The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [17]

Future changes

• There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 nov 2023 01:55 (CET)

Interviews: Vertel ons over uw ervaringen met Wikidata in de zusterprojecten van Wikimedia

Hallo, het Wikidata voor Wikimedia Projects-team van Wikimedia Deutschland onderzoekt de verschillende manieren waarop Wikidata wordt gebruikt voor Wikimedia-projecten. Als u met ons wilt praten over uw ervaringen met het integreren van Wikidata in Wikimedia-wiki's, dan kunt u zich aanmelden voor een interview via dit registratieformulier. Momenteel kunnen we alleen interviews in het Engels afnemen.

Op de voorpagina van het formulier staat meer informatie over hoe het gesprek zal verlopen, waaronder hoe wij u kunnen compenseren voor uw tijd.

Ga voor meer informatie over ons team naar onze projectpagina. Als u nog steeds graag uw ervaringen wilt delen, maar geen tijd hebt voor een interview, dan verwelkomen we uw feedback in geschreven vorm op deze wikipagina. Hartelijk dank. Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (overleg) 22 nov 2023 09:36 (CET)

Tech News: 2023-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [18][19]
• MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [20]
• The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 nov 2023 00:08 (CET)

Tech News: 2023-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [21]
• The "Pagina standaard sorteren als" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [22]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [23][24]
• On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Overlegactiviteit weergeven" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

• The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [25]
• Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

• Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 5 dec 2023 00:50 (CET)

Technieuws: 2023-50

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

• Op Wikimedia Commons zijn er enkele kleine verbeteringen aan de gebruikersinterface voor de stap "keuze eigen werk of niet" in de UploadWizard. Dit is onderdeel van het project van het team Gestructureerde Inhoud om UploadWizard op Commons te verbeteren. [26][27]

Problemen

• De Startpagina voor nieuwe gebruikers had begin december een paar dagen moeite met het weergeven van de "impactmodule" en de paginaweergave-grafieken. Dit is nu verholpen. [28][29]

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 12 december op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 13 december staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 14 december op alle wiki's (agenda). [30][31]

Toekomstige wijzigingen

• De 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is op zoek naar de meningen van de Wikimedia-ontwikkelaarsgemeenschap. Als je op welke manier dan ook betrokken bent bij het ontwikkelen van software voor het Wikimedia-ecosysteem dan wordt het invullen van de enquête zeer gewaardeerd. Deze is open tot 5 januari 2024, en heeft een bijbehorende privacyverklaring.

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 dec 2023 03:12 (CET)

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 13 dec 2023 13:31 (CET)

Zelfuitgeverij... eigen werk?

Dag, het blijkt dat uitgeverij Aspekt; een zelfuitgeverij is. Moet werk dat uitgeverij Aspect als bron heeft, en dat door de auteur zelf op wikisource gezet is, als eigen werk beschouwd worden? Havang(nl) (overleg) 17 dec 2023 17:51 (CET)

Het probleem is natuurlijk dat in veel gevallen - ik heb niet al het werk nagelopen - de bron van het werk niet achterhaalbaar is. Waarschijnlijk is er nooit een gedigitaliseerde bron geweest. Die zou er toch minstens moeten komen: een scan ofzo, of een pdf, o.i.d. Als dat er allemaal niet is, is en blijft het redelijk problematisch. Zowel Vincent als ik hebben in het verleden wel contact met Karel gehad, maar dat heeft allemaal niet heel veel duidelijkheid opgeleverd, wat mij betreft in ieder geval niet voldoende. Ik weet niet precies hoe @Vincent hier tegenaan kijkt. Zou een publicatie van het werk op een ander Wikimedia-project (Wikibooks?) niet meer voor de hand liggen? --Dick Bos (overleg) 18 dec 2023 16:59 (CET)

Die artikelen, gepubliceerd in een krant, maken de krant ook deelgenoot in het copyright. Ik zou ze als autopromotie voor verwijdering voor willen dragen. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 18 dec 2023 17:03 (CET)

Technieuws: 2023-51

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Technieuws

• Het volgende nummer van Technieuws zal vanwege de feestdagen pas verschijnen op 8 januari 2024.

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 19 december op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 20 december staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 21 december op alle wiki's (agenda). Er is volgende week geen nieuwe MediaWiki-versie. [32][33]
• Vanaf 18 december is het niet meer mogelijk om Gestructureerde discussies op de eigen overlegpagina te activeren via de bètafuncties. Als je Gestructureerde discussies aan had staan dan kan je ze via bètafuncties nog wel uitschakelen. Deze wijziging maakt deel uit van de afbouw van Gestructureerde discussies. [34]
• Er komt volledige ondersteuning voor doorverwijzingen in de Module-namespace. De functie "Hernoemen" laat een passende omleiding achter en zulke omleidingen worden door de software op passende wijze herkend (bijv. verborgen voor Speciaal:OngekoppeldePaginas). Er komt ook ondersteuning voor handmatige doorverwijzingen. [35]

Toekomstige wijzigingen

• De JavaScript-documentatie van MediaWiki krijgt een nieuw format. Tijdens de verhuizing kan je de oude documenten lezen met versie 1.41. Feedback over de nieuwe site is welkom op de overlegpagina van het project.
• De Wishathon is een nieuw initiatief dat de samenwerking in de Wikimedia-gemeenschap aanmoedigt om oplossingen te ontwikkelen voor het verlanglijstje dat wordt samengesteld aan de hand van de Community Wishlist Survey. De eerste Wishathon vindt plaats van 15 tot 17 maart. Als je als gebruiker, ontwikkelaar, vormgever of product lead geïnteresseerd bent in een projectvoorstel, lees dan meer over het evenement en registreer je.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 dec 2023 17:17 (CET)

sjabloon voor meer afstand tussen letters

Hoi, ik weet dat dit zou moeten bestaan, beetje zoals Sjabloon:sc, maar ik kom er niet meer op. Nodig op Pagina:Max Havelaar of de Koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy (vyfde druk).djvu/248. Hamaryns (overleg) 19 dec 2023 10:17 (CET)

Dag, @Gebruiker:Hamaryns meer afstand tussen letters = spatiëring, met Sjabloon:sp. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 19 dec 2023 10:22 (CET)

Dank! Hamaryns (overleg) 19 dec 2023 21:45 (CET)

PD in 2024

Toch even kijken wiens werk volgend jaar publiek domein wordt. Aanvullingen zijn welkom.

1. Francis Picabia (M)
2. Martinus Nijhoff (M)
3. Top Naeff (V)
4. Erich Mendelsohn (M) - Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 21 dec 2023 20:47 (CET)
5. ...

Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 21 dec 2023 20:47 (CET)

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.

Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.

The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.

For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Technieuws: 2024-02

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

• mediawiki2latex is een hulpprogramma dat wiki-inhoud converteert naar de formaten LaTeX, PDF, ODT en EPUB. De code draait nu vele malen sneller door recente verbeteringen. Er is ook een optionele Docker-container die je kunt installeren op je eigen computer.
• De manier waarop willekeurige pagina's worden geselecteerd is aangepast. Dit zal langzaam het probleem verminderen dat sommige pagina's minder kans hebben om te verschijnen. [36]

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 9 januari op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 10 januari staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 11 januari op alle wiki's (agenda). [37][38]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 jan 2024 02:19 (CET)

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 10 jan 2024 09:54‎ (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [39]
• Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [40]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [41]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [42]
• An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [43][44]
• Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [45]
• The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [46]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 jan 2024 01:12 (CET)

Invitation to join January Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month’s Wikisource Community meeting on 27 January 2024, 3 PM UTC (check your local time).

As we gear up for our upcoming Wikisource Community meeting, we are excited to share some additional information with you.

The meetings will now be held on the last Saturday of each month. We understand the importance of accommodating different time zones, so to better cater to our global community, we've decided to alternate meeting times. The meeting will take place at 3 pm UTC this month, and next month it will be scheduled for 7 am UTC on the last Saturday. This rotation will continue, allowing for a balanced representation of different time zones.

As always, the meeting agenda will be divided into two halves. The first half of the meeting will focus on non-technical updates, including discussions about events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. The second half will delve into technical updates and conversations, addressing major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to our previous Community meetings.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on klawal-ctr@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 18 jan 2024 11:54 (CET)

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Help met het vertalen in uw taal

Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 19 jan 2024 19:09 (CET)

Technieuws: 2024-04

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Problemen

• Door een bug in de UploadWizard kon de gebruikerspagina van de uploader niet aan de upload gekoppeld worden. Dit is nu rechtgezet. [47]

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 23 januari op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 24 januari staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 25 januari op alle wiki's (agenda). [48][49]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 jan 2024 02:03 (CET)

Technieuws: 2024-05

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

• Vanaf maandag 29 januari worden alle tijdstempels op overlegpagina's een link. Dit zijn permanente links naar de respectievelijke opmerking. Dit stelt gebruikers in staat om opmerkingen ook terug te vinden als deze naar elders zijn verplaatst. Dit treedt in werking op alle wiki's behalve de Engelstalige Wikipedia. In Diff en op Mediawiki.org kan je hier meer over lezen. [50]
• Er zijn wat verbeteringen aan de CAPTCHA om het voor spambots en scripts moeilijker te maken er aan voorbij te gaan. Als je opmerkingen over deze wijzigingen hebt dan is je feedback zeer welkom bij de taak. De statistieken aangaande de CAPTCHA worden extra scherp in de gaten gehouden, inclusief gerelateerde statistieken zoals aantallen aangemaakte accounts en gemaakte bewerkingen.

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 30 januari op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 31 januari staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 1 februari op alle wiki's (agenda). [51][52]
• Op 1 februari wordt een link aan het menu "Hulpmiddelen" toegevoegd om een QR-code te downloaden die verwijst naar het item dat je bekijkt. Er zal ook een nieuwe pagina Speciaal:QrCode verschijnen waarmee QR-codes voor eender welke Wikipedia-URL kunnen worden gemaakt. Hiermee gaat een van de 19 meest gekozen wensen van de 2023 Community Wishlist Survey in vervulling. [53]
• Gadgets die niet in alle skins werken gebruikten soms de optie targets om te zorgen dat je ze niet overal kan gebruiken. Vanaf deze week werkt dat niet meer. Gebruik in plaats daarvan skins. [54]

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MediaWiki message delivery 29 jan 2024 20:31 (CET)

Technieuws: 2024-05

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

• Vanaf maandag 29 januari worden alle tijdstempels op overlegpagina's een link. Dit zijn permanente links naar de respectievelijke opmerking. Dit stelt gebruikers in staat om opmerkingen ook terug te vinden als deze naar elders zijn verplaatst. Dit treedt in werking op alle wiki's behalve de Engelstalige Wikipedia. In Diff en op Mediawiki.org kan je hier meer over lezen. [55]
• Er zijn wat verbeteringen aan de CAPTCHA om het voor spambots en scripts moeilijker te maken er aan voorbij te gaan. Als je opmerkingen over deze wijzigingen hebt dan is je feedback zeer welkom bij de taak. De statistieken aangaande de CAPTCHA worden extra scherp in de gaten gehouden, inclusief gerelateerde statistieken zoals aantallen aangemaakte accounts en gemaakte bewerkingen.

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 30 januari op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 31 januari staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 1 februari op alle wiki's (agenda). [56][57]
• Op 1 februari wordt een link aan het menu "Hulpmiddelen" toegevoegd om een QR-code te downloaden die verwijst naar het item dat je bekijkt. Er zal ook een nieuwe pagina Speciaal:QrCode verschijnen waarmee QR-codes voor eender welke Wikipedia-URL kunnen worden gemaakt. Hiermee gaat een van de 19 meest gekozen wensen van de 2023 Community Wishlist Survey in vervulling. [58]
• Gadgets die niet in alle skins werken gebruikten soms de optie targets om te zorgen dat je ze niet overal kan gebruiken. Vanaf deze week werkt dat niet meer. Gebruik in plaats daarvan skins. [59]

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MediaWiki message delivery 29 jan 2024 20:32 (CET)

Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 31 jan 2024 18:01 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
• On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [60][61]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [62][63]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [64]

Future changes

• 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [65][66]

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MediaWiki message delivery 5 feb 2024 20:22 (CET)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 12 feb 2024 19:24 (CET)

Technieuws: 2024-07

Het laatste technieuws van de technische Wikimedia-gemeenschap. Deel dit nieuws vooral met andere gebruikers. Niet alle veranderingen zullen op jou van invloed zijn. Er zijn vertalingen beschikbaar.

Recente wijzigingen

• Het WDQS-experiment voor het splitsen van grafen werkt en is op 3 test-servers geladen. Het verantwoordelijke team test de impact van de splitsing en heeft feedback nodig van WDQS-gebruikers via de UI of programmatisch via verschillende kanalen. Met de feedback van gebruikers van [67][68][69] zal de impact van verschillende use cases en workflows rond de Wikidata Query service worden gevalideerd. [70][71]

Problemen en onderhoud

• Er was een bug die de weergave van bezochte koppelingen beïnvloedde bij gebruik van een mobiel apparaat. De links werden zwart weergegeven; dit probleem is verholpen.

Wijzigingen later deze week

• De nieuwe versie van MediaWiki zal vanaf 13 februari op testwiki's en MediaWiki.org staan. Vanaf 14 februari staat deze op de niet-Wikipedia-wiki's en enkele Wikipedia's. Deze versie staat vanaf 15 februari op alle wiki's (agenda). [72][73]
• Het uitfaseren van de grid engine vordert gestaag. Als volgende stap worden vanaf 14 februari 2024 tools gestopt. [74] Mocht je tools aan het migreren zijn maar ben je daar nog niet helemaal mee klaar, dan kan je om verlenging vragen zodat ze niet worden gestopt. [75]

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 feb 2024 06:48 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• If you have the "Mij e-mailen bij bewerkingen van pagina’s of bestanden op mijn volglijst" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [76]
• There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
• Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
• The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [77]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [78][79]

• Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
• The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [80]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 feb 2024 16:36 (CET)

Invitation to join February Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month’s Wikisource Community meeting on 24 February 2024, 7 AM UTC (check your local time).

The meeting agenda will be divided into two halves. The first half of the meeting will focus on non-technical updates, including discussions about events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. The second half will delve into technical updates and conversations, addressing major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to our previous Community meetings.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on klawal-ctr@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 20 feb 2024 12:11 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [81]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [82]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [83][84]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 feb 2024 20:23 (CET)

De WikiconNL 2024 inschrijving is geopend!

De WikiconNL vindt plaats op zaterdag 18 mei bij Beeld & Geluid aan de Media Parkboulevard 1 in Hilversum. Schrijf je in via deze link.

De WikiconNL is de jaarlijkse conferentie over Wikipedia, Wikimedia, digitaal erfgoed en onderwerpen zoals auteursrecht en (linked) open data. Het thema dit jaar is 'tussen strijd en samenwerking'. Binnen dit thema is er aandacht voor nieuwe technologische ontwikkelingen en hun impact op Wikipedia en vrije kennis, hoe conflicten in de wereld de Wikimedia projecten kunnen beïnvloeden en is er aandacht voor samenwerking achter de schermen om consensus te bereiken over de inhoud. Kijk op deze pagina voor meer informatie en de oproep voor sprekers. ThamaraGroenleer (overleg) 28 feb 2024 13:50 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [85]
• Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
• Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
• Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [86]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [87]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [88][89]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [90]
• The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 mrt 2024 20:47 (CET)

Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 5 mrt 2024 17:25 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [91][92]
• After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [93]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [94]
• Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [95]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [96][97]

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 mrt 2024 00:04 (CET)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

• May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
• June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
• June-August 2024: Campaign period
• End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
• October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
• Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

MPossoupe_(WMF)12 mrt 2024 20:57 (CET)

Pagina waarvoor de maximale transclusiegrootte is overschreden

We hebben op Wikisource nu één pagina waar de maximale transclusiegrootte is overschreden: Album der Natuur/1861. Onderaan de pagina zie je dat pagina's niet geïncludeerd worden, maar als link worden weergegeven. Dat dit gebeurt komt omdat pagina's in MediaWiki een maximaal aantal bytes kunnen bevatten die hier overschreven is. Hier gaat het om 160 transclucies te veel (lees: 160 teveel sjablooninvoegingen), vanaf pagina 338 gaat het fout. Op Wikisource zijn we gewend om alles in sjablonen te gieten en dat werkt vaak goed, maar binnen dit boek worden er te veel sjablonen ingevoegd. Ik heb via dit hulpmiddel het sjabloon Img float omgezet in ruwe code, waardoor het uiterlijk in de pagina hetzelfde blijft, maar zo wordt er minder sjablooncode ingevoegd. Het resultaat was meteen zichtbaar op Album der Natuur/1861: er werd daar 1 sjabloon minder als link getoond. In dit boek zullen dus op meer plekken de sjablonen vervangen worden door ruwe code, zodat het hele boek te zien is. Romaine (overleg) 13 mrt 2024 17:29 (CET)

Dag Romaine, nog een onderhoudstaak erbij, dus. Bedankt.

Havang(nl) (overleg) 13 mrt 2024 20:49 (CET)

Na wat uitzoekwerk is nu in Album der Natuur/1861 het probleem opgelost. De hoofdveroorzaker van dat er te veel sjablonen werden ingevoegd is Sjabloon:Dotted TOC page listing/1. Met één substituering konden 60 andere sjablonen wel getoond worden. In andere woorden, Dotted TOC page listing is héél erg zwaar voor de MediaWiki-software. Zolang de bestaande sjablonen die in Album der Natuur/1861 gebruikt worden niet zwaarder worden gemaakt, kunnen we volstaan met slechts substituering op 3 pagina's:

• Pagina:Album der Natuur 1861.djvu/16 (diff)
• Pagina:Album der Natuur 1861.djvu/17 (diff)
• Pagina:Album der Natuur 1861.djvu/18 (diff)

In deze 3 pagina's staat nu heel veel platte code (in plaats van sjablooncode), maar dan wordt Album der Natuur/1861 wel goed getoond. Hiermee lijkt dit probleem voor nu opgelost. Romaine (overleg) 23 mrt 2024 14:03 (CET)

Ik stuitte op het probleem van overschrijding toen ik s:nl:De Katholieke Illustratie/Jaargang 1 aanmaakte. Hoe daar nu mee verder gaan? --Havang(nl) (overleg) 23 mrt 2024 14:14 (CET)

Jouw wiki zal binnenkort in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te gebruiken zijn

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De Wikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.

Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op 20 maart. De test zal beginnen om 14:00 UTC.

Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen in MediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.

U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.

• U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 20 maart 2024.
• Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.

Andere effecten:

• Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
• We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
• GitLab zal ongeveer 90 minuten onbereikbaar zijn.

Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt de planning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd. Er zullen meer berichtgevingen volgen. Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.

Trizek (WMF), 15 mrt 2024 01:01 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [98]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [99]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [100][101][102]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [103]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [104]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [105][106]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [107][108]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 mrt 2024 18:39 (CET)

Switching to the Vector 2022 skin

Read this in your language • Help met het vertalen in uw taal • Please tell other users about these changes

Hi everyone. We are the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. As you may have read in our previous message, over the past year, we have been getting closer to switching every wiki to the Vector 2022 skin as the new default. In our previous conversations with Wikisource communities, we had identified an issue with the Index namespace that prevented switching the skin on. This issue is now resolved.

We are now ready to continue and will be deploying on Wikisource wikis on March 25th.

To learn more about the new skin and what improvements it introduces, please see our documentation. If you have any issues with the skin after the change, if you spot any gadgets not working, or notice any bugs – please comment below! We are also open to joining events like the Wikisource Community meetings to talk to you directly. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (overleg) 18 mrt 2024 21:50 (CET)

Invitation to join March Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We're excited to announce our upcoming Wikisource Community meeting, scheduled for 30 March 2024, 3 PM UTC (check your local time). As always, your participation is crucial to the success of our community discussions.

Similar to previous meetings, the agenda will be split into two segments. The first half will cover non-technical updates, such as events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. In the second half, we'll dive into technical updates and discussions, addressing key challenges faced by Wikisource communities.

New Feature: Event Registration!
Exciting news! We're switching to a new event registration feature for our meetings. You can now register for the event through our dedicated page on Meta-wiki. Simply follow the link below to secure your spot and engage with fellow Wikisource enthusiasts:

Event Registration Page

Agenda Suggestions:
Your input matters! Feel free to suggest any additional topics you'd like to see included in the agenda.

If you have any suggestions or would just prefer being added to the meeting the old way, simply drop a message on klawal-ctr@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Wikisource. We look forward to your active participation in our upcoming meeting.

Best regards,
KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Tech News: 2024-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [109][110]

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 mrt 2024 19:56 (CET)

Tech News: 2024-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [111]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [112][113]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 apr 2024 05:36 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [114][115]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [116]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [117][118]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [119]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 apr 2024 01:37 (CEST)

Beurzen voor deelname Wikimania

Dit jaar vindt [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania Wikimania] van 7-10 augustus plaats in Katowice (Polen).

Wikimania is de jaarlijkse wereldwijde conferentie voor iedereen die betrokken is bij een van de Wikimediaprojecten. Wikimedia Nederland stelt weer een aantal  reisbeurzen beschikbaar voor Wikimedianen die erbij willen zijn. Een volledige beurs is maximaal €1.300. Het is ook mogelijk een beurs aan te vragen voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 3 mei door het invullen van [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeAbvxCtSSQYTyUSeUG0rDAkEvwdsMemwSR6qohpqW6hh9YQ/viewform dit formulier]

Om een beurs aan te vragen hoef je geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland. We willen in ieder geval één beurs geven aan iemand die nog nooit eerder naar Wikimania is geweest. JansenKirsten (overleg) 10 apr 2024 10:55 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Ongedaan gemaakt" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [120][121]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [122][123]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [124]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [125]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [126]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 apr 2024 01:29 (CEST)

Invitation to join April Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month’s Wikisource Community meeting on 27 April 2024, 7 AM UTC (check your local time).

Similar to previous meetings, the agenda will be split into two segments. The first half will cover non-technical updates, such as events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. In the second half, we'll dive into technical updates and discussions, addressing key challenges faced by Wikisource communities.

Simply follow the link below to secure your spot and engage with fellow Wikisource enthusiasts:

Event Registration Page

If you have any suggestions or would just prefer being added to the meeting the old way, simply drop a message on klawal-ctr@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Wikisource. We look forward to your active participation in our upcoming meeting.

Regards KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 22 apr 2024 14:21 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [127]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [128][129]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Speciaal:MijnPagina/vector.js to Speciaal:MijnPagina/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [130]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22 apr 2024 22:28 (CEST)

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Help met het vertalen in uw taal

Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 apr 2024 22:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Overlegactiviteit weergeven"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [131]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [132]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [133]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [134]
  • a WikiWoordenboek in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [135]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [136]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [137]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [138]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [139]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [140]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [141][142]

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MediaWiki message delivery 30 apr 2024 05:33 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Overlegactiviteit weergeven"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [143][144]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [145]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [146]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [147][148]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [149]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [150]

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 mei 2024 18:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [151]
• If you use the user-preference "Voorvertoning weergeven zonder de pagina opnieuw te laden", then the template-page feature "Voorvertoning weergeven met dit sjabloon" will now also work without reloading the page. [152]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [153]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [154]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [155][156]
• The Speciaal:Zoeken results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [157]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [158]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [159][160]

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 mei 2024 01:58 (CEST)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 14 mei 2024 23:23 (CEST)

Invitation to join May Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We're excited to announce our upcoming Wikisource Community meeting, scheduled for 25 May 2024, 3 PM UTC (check your local time). As always, your participation is crucial to the success of our community discussions.

Similar to previous meetings, the agenda will be split into two segments. The first half will cover non-technical updates, such as events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. In the second half, we'll dive into technical updates and discussions, addressing key challenges faced by Wikisource communities.

Simply follow the link below to secure your spot and engage with fellow Wikisource enthusiasts:

Event Registration Page

Agenda Suggestions: Your input matters! Feel free to suggest any additional topics you'd like to see included in the agenda.

If you have any suggestions or would just prefer being added to the meeting the old way, simply drop a message on klawal-ctr@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Wikisource. We look forward to your active participation in our upcoming meeting.

Regards, KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 20 mei 2024 13:34 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [161]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [162][163]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [164][165]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 mei 2024 01:04 (CEST)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 22 mei 2024 04:25 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [166][167]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [168]

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 mei 2024 02:15 (CEST)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 3 jun 2024 10:15 (CEST)

Uitlijning rechts

Ik probeer op Pagina:Multatuli - Ideeën I.djvu/9 de ondertitel rechts uit te lijnen; via "Bewerking ter controle bekijken" ziet het er redelijk uit, maar eenmaal opgeslagen niet. Heeft iemand een beter idee om rechts uit te lijnen? GewoonZomaar (overleg) 3 jun 2024 21:46 (CEST)

Heb al {{Rechts}} gevonden. Maar verdere verbeteringen zijn welkom, bijvoorbeeld de inspringing van Jezus. GewoonZomaar (overleg) 3 jun 2024 23:06 (CEST)

Dag GewoonZomaar, Net als een inspringing bij uitlijning links kun je met sjabloon:Gap aan uitlijning rechts een terugspringing toevoegen, met em als maat. Havang(nl) (overleg) 4 jun 2024 10:22 (CEST)

Veel sjablonen staan beschreven op Wikisource:Sjablonen. Romaine (overleg) 1 jul 2024 21:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [169]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [170]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [171]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [172][173]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 jun 2024 00:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [174]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [175]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [176]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [177][178]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [179]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [180]

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 jun 2024 22:20 (CEST)

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at mcdc@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 11 jun 2024 10:45 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [181]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [182][183]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [184]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [185]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [186]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [187][188]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [189]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [190]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 jun 2024 01:48 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [191]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [192]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [193]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [194][195]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [196]

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 jun 2024 00:32 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 jun 2024 12:52 (CEST)

Invitation to join June Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We're excited to announce our upcoming Wikisource Community meeting, scheduled for 29 June 2024, 7 AM UTC (check your local time). As always, your participation is crucial to the success of our community discussions.

Similar to previous meetings, the agenda will be split into two segments. The first half will cover non-technical updates, such as events, conferences, proofread-a-thons, and collaborations. In the second half, we'll dive into technical updates and discussions, addressing key challenges faced by Wikisource communities.

Simply follow the link below to secure your spot and engage with fellow Wikisource enthusiasts:

Event Registration Page

Agenda Suggestions: Your input matters! Feel free to suggest any additional topics you'd like to see included in the agenda.

If you have any suggestions or would just prefer being added to the meeting the old way, simply drop a message on sgill@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Wikisource. We look forward to your active participation in our upcoming meeting.

Regards,

KLawal-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 26 jun 2024 19:17 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [197]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [198]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [199][200]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [201]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [202]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [203]

Future changes

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 jul 2024 01:59 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 8 jul 2024 05:47 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 jul 2024 23:31 (CEST)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 10 jul 2024 02:03 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [204]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 jul 2024 03:31 (CEST)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 18 jul 2024 19:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [205]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [206]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [207]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 jul 2024 02:04 (CEST)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 27 jul 2024 04:47 (CEST)

Hoi 🚀sla

Hey Raketsla, Wat leuk om jou hier weer te zien. En je gaat weer als een raket! Als je wat tijd over hebt, kan ik je dan wat vragen? Mvg, Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 27 jul 2024 19:52 (CEST)

Hoihoi! Ik werd er ineens aan herinnerd, ik heb weer tijd, dus ik ben terug, haha. Ja natuurlijk, kan ik ergens mee helpen? -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 27 jul 2024 21:09 (CEST)

Gelukkig!

 

Ik vroeg me af of je zin hebt om nog een keer aan de index te sleutelen. De magic header werkt prima voor boeken, maar voor tijdschrift- en krantenartikelen laat hij nog veel te wensen over. Het probleem is dat je óf de index moedwillig verkeerd moet invullen óf in de pages index-tag allerlei houtje-touwtje-kunstgrepen moet toepassen om te krijgen wat je wilt. Niet ideaal dus!

 

Kijk bijvoorbeeld naar De Katholieke Illustratie/Jaargang 1/Nummer 11/De geur van bloemen. Als je de broncode bekijkt zie je bij de parameter "current" de hele bronvermelding is herhaald. Daar is in mijn ogen weinig magics aan.

 

Zelf los ik het op door de header handmatig in te vullen. Zie bijvoorbeeld De Stijl/Jaargang 5/Nummer 5/X-Beelden. Maar het zou fijn zijn als dit geautomatiseerd zou worden. Dus een aparte header voor tijdschrift- en krantenartikelen. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 28 jul 2024 09:40 (CEST)

Ja, natuurlijk, dat moet ik nog steeds doen. Ik zat de vorige keer zo met de layout in mijn hoofd, maar die kan natuurlijk ook nog gewoon veranderd worden nadat het sjabloon er al is. Ik zal kijken hoe ver ik vanavond kom met een bruikbare versie. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 28 jul 2024 13:26 (CEST)

ok, ik ben benieuwd. Je kan trouwens gewoon tijdschrift- en krantenartikel in één header proppen. Bij een tijdschriftartikel kun je dan de parameter "Deel" aanspreken (in de zin van Deel, Jaargang, Nummer, enz.) en bij een krantenartikel de parameter "Jaar van publicatie" (in de zin van een volledige datumaanduiding, zoals "zondag 28 juli 2024"). Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 28 jul 2024 16:11 (CEST)

oh, en vergeet de paginanummers niet. Op fr.wikisource worden die ook automatisch gegenereerd. Hoe weet ik niet, maar blijkbaar kan het wel. Veel succes nog. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 28 jul 2024 16:13 (CEST)

Hai! ’t Is nog lang geen magic, en een behoorlijke hack, maar zoals ik zei wilde ik nu zo snel mogelijk iets maken wat je in ieder geval normaal kunt invullen: Sjabloon:Koptekst artikel

Klopt dit een beetje, wat mis je dan nog in mogelijkheden? Vast nog wel het een en ander. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 29 jul 2024 13:05 (CEST)

Ja super. Bedankt. Vind je het goed als ik er zelf wat aan tweak? Das misschien handiger dan eindeloos overleggen. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 29 jul 2024 13:27 (CEST)

Ja helemaal goed! Je kunt zien hoe simpel het nu is, ik wil het eigenlijk later allemaal implementeren, als we nu maar de manier van aanroepen goed krijgen. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 29 jul 2024 14:05 (CEST)

Dankjewel. Ja, tot nu toe is het voor mij nog prima te volgen. ;) Ik zet hier trouwens effe deze link neer voor mezelf voor straks. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 29 jul 2024 16:08 (CEST)

Auteursrecht op Allegorie van de grot

Hallo allemaal, ik ben dus weer terug. Ik zit te kijken naar alle werken zonder scans en er viel me iets op: de vertaling van de Allegorie is afkomstig van Stichting Ars Floreat. Volgens onze pagina hebben zij toestemming gegeven voor de plaatsing, maar op hun website en in de PDF waar de vertaling uit afkomstig is zie ik dat ze wel degelijk zelf het copyright lijken te willen behouden:

Deze tekst is uitsluitend voor persoonlijk gebruik. Commercieel gebruik is niet toegestaan. Evenmin is het toegestaan de tekst te wijzigen, bewerken, geheel of gedeeltelijk te publiceren, of anderszins te vermenigvuldigen. Toegestaan is het kopiëren van citaten of kleine tekstgedeelten voor studie- en discussiedoeleinden.

Dat lijkt me geen “vrije licentie” zoals op Wikisource de bedoeling is, en het is me niet duidelijk of zij daarvan op de hoogte zijn. Wat vinden jullie ervan om na te vragen of ze de tekst wel echt hier onder vrije licentie willen hebben staan? -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 27 jul 2024 21:17 (CEST)

@Vincent Steenberg @Havang(nl) Hebben jullie hier nog gedachtes over? Anders ga ik ze gewoon een keer mailen. -- Raketsla (zij/haar) (overleg) 7 aug 2024 22:38 (CEST)

Dag raketsla, Volgens mij zit daar copyright op en mag het weg. Vaak geeft iemand van de site toestemming voor eigen gebruik, maar beseft niet dat voor wikipedia strengere eisen gelden. Havang(nl) (overleg) 7 aug 2024 22:51 (CEST)

sorry voor de late reactie @Raketsla. De geschiedenis van die pagina is ook heel raar. Eerst wordt de tekst geplaatst en een half jaar daarna wordt pas de toestemming medegedeeld. Verder overleg ofzo kan ik nergens vinden. Het is dus niet na te gaan of men in 2005 die toestemming ook echt had. Dus voorlopig zeg ik ook: copyvio. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 8 aug 2024 09:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [208]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 30 jul 2024 01:10 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [209][210]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The Engelstalige Wikivoyage and Hebreeuwse Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 5 aug 2024 22:43 (CEST)

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Help met het vertalen in uw taal

Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 6 aug 2024 17:30 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [211]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [212]

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MediaWiki message delivery 13 aug 2024 01:21 (CEST)

Binnenkort beschikbaar: een nieuwe functie voor subreferenties, probeer het uit!

Hallo. Voor meerdere jaren is er ons door leden van de gemeenschap gevraagd om het makkelijker te maken om referenties te hergebruiken met verschillende details. Er komt nu binnenkort een MediaWiki-oplossing aan: de nieuwe subreferentie-functie in de wikitekst- en visuele tekstverwerker werkt bovenop het bestaande referentiesysteem. U kunt gewoon op dezelfde manier werken zoals voorheen, echter kunt u het gebruik van subreferenties tegenkomen in artikelen die door anderen bewerkt zijn. Voor meer informatie, zie de projectpagina.

Uw feedback wordt op prijs gesteld om ervoor te zorgen dat deze functie voor uw werkwijze geschikt is:

• Probeer de huidige ontwikkelingsversie op de beta-wiki en laat ons uw mening weten.
• Meldt u aan om updates en/of uitnodigingen om deel te nemen in gebruiksonderzoeken te ontvangen.

Het Technical Wishes-team van Wikimedia Duitsland is van plan om deze functie later dit jaar op meer Wikimedia-wiki's beschikbaar te maken. We nemen rond die tijd contact op met makers en beheerders van hulpmiddelen en sjablonen gerelateerd aan referenties.

Help ons met het verspreiden van deze boodschap. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [213]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [214][215]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20 aug 2024 02:53 (CEST)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 23 aug 2024 01:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [216]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 aug 2024 22:33 (CEST)

Boek toevoegen aan Wikisource

@Havang(nl), Dick Bos, WeeJeeVee, en misschien ook anderen: Op Wikipedia wil ik een artikel schrijven over (mijns inziens) 2 belangrijke Nederlandstalige boeken (voor de geologie) en deze eveneens op Wikisource invoegen. De boeken zijn uit 1802 en ik heb een pdf ervan. Het lijkt erop dat ze OCR-leesbaar zijn. Een paar vragen:

• Werkt een pdf-bestand even goed als een djvu-bestand? Zijn er verschillen?
• Diegene die het boek heeft ingescand heeft een scan gemaakt van steeds de linker en rechter bladzijde samen. Is dat een probleem of toch bruikbaar?

Dank alvast! Romaine (overleg) 27 aug 2024 21:12 (CEST)

Dag Romaine. Steeds linker en rechterzijde samen, dat is vergelijkbaar met een tweekoloms-pagina. Als het niet spontaan goed getranscribeerd wordt, kan de wikisource OCR uitgebreide functie transcribeer een gebied gebruikt worden. (NB. Controleer of de pdf misschien is ingesteld op twee pagina's weergeven, dan zouden het misschien toch scans per pagina kunnen zijn). Pdf en Djvu werken even goed, wel is djvu meestal gecomprimeerder, en soms ook een lagere resolutie. Als de pdf groot is, is omzetting naar djvu wel gunstig.

Staat de pdf al op internet (of kun je hem per e-mail sturen)? Ik kan iemand op de franse wikisource vragen die om te zetten naar djvu, opschonen en een goede ocr maken vóór het uploaden op commons, zie pdf => djvu sur Discussion utilisateur:Cunegonde1 (zij beshrijft haar werk als volgt (Vertaald:) Het is gedaan door de tools voor het rechttrekken van pagina's en lijnen van ScanTailor en Abbyy FineReader te combineren, ik heb een acceptabele kwaliteit bereikt. Zoals verwacht ben ik overgestapt op zwart-wit, ik heb het resultaat van de abbyy ocr in pdf-formaat geëxporteerd, die ik heb geconverteerd naar djvu met "pdf2djvu" op linux, waardoor djvu compacter is dan finereader (60 MB voor Abbyy en 39 voor pdf2djvu) van vergelijkbare kwaliteit. --Havang(nl) (overleg) 27 aug 2024 21:37 (CEST)

Hi Havang(nl), Het gaat letterlijk om scans van twee pagina's tegelijk. Het zijn scans van hoge kwaliteit die door de Universiteit Maastricht zijn gemaakt. Om tijd te besparen heeft men in plaats van een scan per pagina, steeds scans van 2 pagina's samen gemaakt. Als het onhandig is dat de scans per 2 pagina's samen zijn, kan ik vragen of ze het opnieuw scannen per pagina. Zie de wikimail. Wat je verder schrijft zegt me niet zo veel. Romaine (overleg) 27 aug 2024 21:49 (CEST)

zijn dit de twee delen? Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pietersberg bij Maastricht; uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur; 2 dln. Amsterdam, Allart, 1802. Havang(nl) (overleg) 27 aug 2024 22:08 (CEST)

Ik heb je 3 boeken gestuurd, 1x de Franstalige en 2 Nederlandstaligen. Inderdaad dat boek. Romaine (overleg) 27 aug 2024 22:11 (CEST)

Deel 1 staat al op commons  ; deel 2 bevat alle 52 platen plus kaart, met nederlandse legenda, maar geen verdere tekst. Die illustraties heb ik uit je toegezonden file als jpg's geextraheerd en geupload op commons in Commons:Category:Illustrations from Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pietersberg bij Maastricht. Dus je kunt aan de slag met de index. Havang(nl) (overleg) 27 aug 2024 22:35 (CEST)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 2 sep 2024 16:07 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Speciaal:OngebruikteSjablonen page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [217]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [218]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [219]

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MediaWiki message delivery 3 sep 2024 03:07 (CEST)

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote. The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 3 sep 2024 14:15 (CEST)

Scholarship Applications Now Open for Wikisource Conference 2025!

Dear Wikimedians,

We are thrilled to announce that the Wikisource Conference is returning after a decade! It will be held from 14 to 16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. This event will be a great opportunity for us to come together, share experiences, and discuss the future of Wikisource and its community. We are now accepting scholarship applications for the Wikisource Conference 2025 to promote diversity and inclusion. Scholarships are open to active contributors, community members, developers, and partners involved with Wikisource or related projects.

Important Details:

• Application Period: 1 September 2024 to 20 September 2024
• Application Deadline: 20 September 2024
• Meta page: Link

We encourage everyone who is passionate about Wikisource and interested in attending this unique gathering to apply for a scholarship. The selection committee will carefully review all applications, focusing on contributions to the Wikisource project, community engagement, and the potential impact of participation in the conference.

To apply, please fill out the scholarship application form. We will provide updates soon for more information about the conference, including program details, speakers, and venue.

If you have any questions or need help with your application, feel free to reach out on the Meta Talk page or email us at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your applications and hope to see many of you in Bali for the Wikisource Conference 2025!

Regards,

Nitesh Gill
The Wikisource Conference 2025 Team

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 5 sep 2024 13:14 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [220][221]
• Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [222]

Project updates

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [223]
• Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [224]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 sep 2024 20:52 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Improvements and Maintenance

• Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
• The new automated Speciaal:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [225]
• References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [226]
• It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [227]
• Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [228]

Technical project updates

• Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [229]

Tech in depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
  • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17 sep 2024 02:02 (CEST)

Uw wiki zal binnenkort in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te gebruiken zijn

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De Wikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.

Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op 25 september. De test zal beginnen om 15:00 UTC.

Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen in MediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.

Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deze banner blijft zichtbaar tot het einde van de operatie.

U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.

• U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 25 september 2024.
• Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.

Andere effecten:

• Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
• We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
• GitLab zal ongeveer 90 minuten onbereikbaar zijn.

Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt de planning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd.

Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.

Trizek_(WMF), 20 sep 2024 11:37 (CEST)

Scholarship Application Deadline Extended for Wikisource Conference 2025!

Dear Wikimedians,

This message is about the Wikisource Conference, taking place from 14 to 16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, after a decade-long break. This conference will be a fantastic opportunity to reconnect, share insights, and discuss the future of Wikisource and its vibrant community.

In the spirit of promoting diversity and inclusion, we're pleased to inform you that the deadline for scholarship applications has been extended to 29 September 2024.

If you still need to apply, please fill out the application form.

For any questions or assistance, feel free to contact us via the Meta Talk page or by email at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.

We look forward to your applications and hope to see you at the Wikisource Conference 2025!

Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 20 sep 2024 15:32 (CEST)

Wikisource Conference 2025 Scholarship Team

Tech News: 2024-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature

• Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
• The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
• It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [230]
• Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [231][232]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• From Wikimedia Enterprise:
  • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
  • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

• The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 24 sep 2024 01:36 (CEST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Sjabloon:Tracked

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 27 sep 2024 20:56 (CEST)

Final Reminder: Wikisource Conference 2025 Scholarship Deadline

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a final reminder that the scholarship application deadline for the Wikisource Conference 2025 is 29 September 2024. The conference will take place from 14-16 February 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, after a decade-long break.

If you haven’t applied yet, please do so by completing the scholarship application form by 11:59 AM UTC, 29th September 2024.

For any questions, reach out via the Meta Talk page or email us at wikisourceconference@gmail.com.

We look forward to your participation!

Regards, Wikisource Conference 2025 Scholarship Team

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 29 sep 2024 19:31 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [233]
• For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [234]
• The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

• The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [235]

Meetings and events

• October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
• November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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MediaWiki message delivery 1 okt 2024 00:20 (CEST)

Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 6 okt 2024 05:20 (CEST)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Tech News: 2024-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [236]

Updates for editors

• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [237]
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [238]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [239]
• Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [240]
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [241]
  • a WikiWoordenboek in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [242]
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [243]
  • a Wikinieuws in Shan (n:shn:) [244]

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 okt 2024 01:42 (CEST)

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MPossoupe_(WMF) 14 okt 2024 10:26 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [245][246]
• WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [247]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [248]
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [249]
• Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [250]

In depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 okt 2024 23:21 (CEST)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17 okt 2024 01:09 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [251][252][253][254][255]
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "31 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [256][257]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [258]
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [259]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 okt 2024 22:52 (CEST)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 22 okt 2024 13:28 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [260]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [261]
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [262]

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 okt 2024 21:56 (CET)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 29 okt 2024 06:12 (CET)