विकिपुस्तक:चौतारी

चौतारीमा आफ्नो कुरा राख्नलाई यहाँ थिच्नुहोस

नव आगन्तुकहरूलाई यहाँ स्वागत छ विकिपुस्तक सहयोगात्मक लेखन र खुल्ला पाठ्यपुस्तकहरूको एक विकिमिडिया परियोजना हो । यो सबै विश्वमा छरिएर रहेका योगदानकर्ताहरूको योगदानबाट बन्दछ र सम्पादन गरिन्छ । यहाँ विकिपुस्तकसँग सम्बन्धित प्रश्नहरू राख्न सकिने छ। जो कोही जानकार सम्पादकले यहाँ लेख बनाउन र भएका लेखहरूलाई सम्पादन गर्न सक्नेछ । नयाँ मत राख्नको लागि परिवर्तन ट्याबमा क्लिक गर्नुहोला । तर पहिले नीति तथा दिशानिर्देशहरू पढ्नुहोस् ।: यदि तपाईको प्रश्न विकिपुस्तकको बारेमा होइन भने रेफरन्स डेस्कमा प्रयास गर्नुहोस्। प्रबन्धकहरूलाई सूचना दिनु परेमा प्रबन्धक सूचनापाटीको प्रयोग गरौँ। कुनै विशेष लेखको बारेमा प्रश्न गर्नु परेमा "यो पृष्ठको बारेमा कुरा गरौँ" लिङ्कको उपयोग गरेर त्यस लेखको वार्ता पृष्ठमा जानुहोस् (अथवा परिवर्तन गर्नुहोस्)। सर्वरको परिस्थिति हेर्नलाई विकिमीडिया सर्वर (अङ्ग्रेजीमा)को पृष्ठ हेरौँ। विकिपुस्तक विज्ञापनको साधन हैन। कृपया यसको उपयोग यस्तो कामको लागी नगरौँ। जोडिएका सहायताका पृष्ठ: प्राय सोधिने प्रश्नहरू - सहयोग - वार्ता पृष्ठ कुनै लेखसँग सम्बन्धित वार्ता त्यो लेखको वार्ता पृष्ठमा गर्नुहोस्, यहाँ {{उचित पृष्ठ|सम्बन्धित लेख}}को जस्तै एक लिङ्क मात्र छोड्नुहोला। यो चौतारी पृष्ठमा आफ्नो नयाँ सन्देश छोड्न कृपया यहाँ क्लिक गर्नुहोस्। en: Requests for the bot flag should be made on this page. This wiki uses the standard bot policy, and allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots. Other bots should apply below, and then request access from a steward if there is no objection.

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नेपाली विकिपुस्तक चौतारी

यो छलफल समाप्त भइसकेको छ । कृपया यसलाई परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालाप यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागहरूमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

Enable Import feature on Nepali Wikibooks

Please enable Import feature on Nepali Wikibooks from Nepali Wikipedia (newiki), Hindi Wikipedia (hiwiki), English Wikipedia (enwiki) and Wikimedia Commons. It will help us to import template,modules and mediawiki file from those wiki. I would like to please all user to give their support or oppose for the proposal.--बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) १०:४८, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Support

•  समर्थन --बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) १०:४८, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --BRPever (कुरा गर्ने) ११:००, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --Devraj poudel (कुरा गर्ने) ११:०२, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --तुल्सी भगत (वार्तालाप) ०६:२४, १४ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Comment

• Bug Filled--  Done on phab

उपरोक्त छलफललाई एक पूर्णलेखको रूपमा संरक्षित गरिएको छ । कृपया यसमा परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालापहरू यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

यो छलफल समाप्त भइसकेको छ । कृपया यसलाई परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालाप यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागहरूमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

Proposal for Importer User Group on Nepali Wikibooks

I purpose Importer user group for Nepali Wikibooks. Assigning this group membership to trustable user will import template, modules etc. Most of the wiki have this user group already. The user group should add and remove by administrators. I would like to please all user to give their support or oppose for the proposal.--बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) १०:४८, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Support

•  समर्थन --बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) १०:४८, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --BRPever (कुरा गर्ने) ११:००, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --Devraj poudel (कुरा गर्ने) ११:०३, १३ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --तुल्सी भगत (वार्तालाप) ०६:२५, १४ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Comment

• bug filled-- have to ask steward for this right.

उपरोक्त छलफललाई एक पूर्णलेखको रूपमा संरक्षित गरिएको छ । कृपया यसमा परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालापहरू यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्:

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) १५:४७, ३१ मार्च २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

यो छलफल समाप्त भइसकेको छ । कृपया यसलाई परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालाप यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागहरूमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

 Done

New namespaces and aliases for ne.wikibooks

We need three new namespace for ne.wikibooks. They are as follows:

'पाकपुस्तक' (Cookbook), 'बालपुस्तक' (Wikijunior) and 'विषय' (Subject)

also their respective talk parts

'पाकपुस्तक वार्ता' (Cookbook talk) 'बालपुस्तक वार्ता' (Wikijunior talk) and 'विषय वार्ता' (Subject talk)

then, we need following aliases with some priority

'Wikibooks' => NS_PROJECT,
'Wikibooks talk' => NS_PROJECT_TALK,
'Cookbook' => 'पाकपुस्तक'
'Cookbook talk' => 'पाकपुस्तक वार्ता'
'Wikijunior' => 'बालपुस्तक'
'Wikijunior talk' => 'बालपुस्तक वार्ता'
'Subject' => 'विषय'
'Subject talk' => 'विषय वार्ता'

and following aliases with lesser priority

'विपु' => NS_PROJECT,
'विपु वा' => NS_PROJECT_TALK,
'प्र' => NS_USER,
'प्र वा' => NS_USER_TALK,
'ढाँ' => NS_TEMPLATE,
'ढाँ वा' => NS_TEMPLATE_TALK,
'श्रे' => NS_CATEGORY,
'श्रे वा' => NS_CATEGORY_TALK,

I would like to please all user to give their support or oppose for the proposal.

Support

•  समर्थन --बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) ११:२५, १ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --तुल्सी भगत (वार्तालाप) १४:३३, १ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन --BRPever (कुरा गर्ने) १४:५५, १ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))
•  समर्थन Devraj poudel (कुरा गर्ने) १५:०३, १ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Comments

पकवानपुस्तक अलिक धेरै अक्षरमा भएकोले यसलाई पाकपुस्तक बनाउदा कस्तो होला । जस्तै प्रयोगमा पाकशाला छ भने पाकपुस्तक पनि हुनु पर्ने । Devraj poudel (कुरा गर्ने) १५:०२, १ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

सहमत छु र त्यसै अनुरुप म फ्याबमा टिकेट काटदैछु ।--बिप्लब आनन्द (कुरा गर्ने) १०:३२, ३ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

स्थिति हेर्नुहोस फ्याब्रिकेटरमा (?)
Task T131754 Resolved

उपरोक्त छलफललाई एक पूर्णलेखको रूपमा संरक्षित गरिएको छ । कृपया यसमा परिवर्तन नगर्नुहोला। अगाडीको वार्तालापहरू यस पृष्ठको नयाँ विभागमा हुनु पर्ने हो ।

Server switch 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

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

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) २१:०७, १७ अप्रिल २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

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

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) ०७:०४, २४ जुन २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

Recent changes

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

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

Future changes

The "पृष्ठ सङ्ग्रह गर्नुहोस्" button will say "पृष्ठ प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

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

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

m:User:Elitre (WMF), १७:२०, ३ जुलाई २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “पृष्ठ सङ्ग्रह गर्नुहोस्” button to “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्” and “परिवर्तनहरू प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्”. “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्” will be used when you create a new page. “परिवर्तनहरू प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[१][२]

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

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “पृष्ठ प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्” and “परिवर्तनहरू प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्”.

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) १८:०४, ९ अगस्ट २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

फोटो हाल्न नसकेको

आँफूले हालेको पोस्टमा आवश्यक फोटो हाल्न सकिन

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १५:०८, १२ सेप्टेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Grants to improve your project

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्:

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) २०:११, ३० सेप्टेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Creative Commons 4.0

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) ०१:३५, ६ अक्टोबर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

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

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

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

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

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[३]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[४] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[५]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[६]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[७]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[८] In the future, the "पृष्ठ सङ्ग्रह गर्नुहोस्" button will say "पृष्ठ प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[९]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

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

—Elitre (WMF)

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Password reset

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

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

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

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

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (कुरा गर्ने) / MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ००:००, १४ नोभेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ००:११, १४ नोभेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Help test offline Wikipedia

Hello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback, check out the page on Meta! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) २०:०८, २९ नोभेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

New way to edit wikitext

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --१९:३२, १४ डिसेम्बर २०१६ (युटिसी(UTC))

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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यस शिर्षकमा धेरै अशूद्ध र बाक्याँशहरू.अपुरा छन । म यसलाई सुधार गनँ चाहन्छू कसरी हुन्छ।

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

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

०५:०९, १८ मार्च २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read this message in another language • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १७:३४, ११ अप्रिल २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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१९:१४, ३ मे २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:४१, ८ मे २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "आफ्नो परिवर्तनहरू समीक्षा गर्नुहोस्".

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

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

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

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

Recent changes

• A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [१०]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [११]
• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [१२]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [१३]
• The श्रेणीहरू item has been moved to the top of the पृष्ठको विकल्पहरू menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [१४] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [१५]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [१६]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [१७]
• The विशेष क्यारेक्टरहरू menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [१८]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [१९]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [२०]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [२१]
• The kind of button used to पूर्वावलोकन हेर्ने, परिवर्तन देखाउनुहोस्, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [२२]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [२३]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. धन्यवाद!

—Elitre (WMF)

१८:०५, १२ मे २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:४४, १६ मे २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

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

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

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२१:०९, १६ मे २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Improved search in deleted pages archive

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

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

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

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

धन्यवाद! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) १८:३९, २५ जुलाई २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

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

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) १६:५७, २७ जुलाई २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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

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

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

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

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २२:०७, २० नोभेम्बर २०१७ (युटिसी(UTC))

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Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [२४]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [२५]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [२६]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. धन्यवाद!

—Elitre (WMF)

२०:५६, २ मार्च २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

AdvancedSearch

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) १४:५३, ७ मे २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २०:५८, १२ जुन २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Global preferences are available

वैश्विक अभिरूचीहरू अब उपलब्ध छन्, तपाईँले नयाँ वैश्विक अभिरूची पृष्ठ मा गएर त्यसको निर्धारण गर्नुहोस् ।थप जानकारी र उपयोग जानकारीको लागि mediawiki.org भ्रमण गर्नुहोस् र सुझाव दिनुहोस् । -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

१९:१९, १० जुलाई २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

(कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्)

Hi all!

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

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) १७:४४, ३० जुलाई २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC)) (via global message delivery)

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

(कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्)

Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) १२:४०, २७ अगस्ट २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC)) (via global message delivery)

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

Read this message in another language • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

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

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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

१३:३३, ६ सेप्टेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

११:०६, ३० अक्टोबर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

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

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

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

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

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

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

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [२७]

Let's work together

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

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

१४:१७, २ नोभेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

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

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

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) १९:३५, १३ नोभेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्.

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

१८:१३, २२ नोभेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) ११:०३, २६ नोभेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

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

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

धन्यवाद!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) २०:०३, ६ डिसेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १०:१३, २७ डिसेम्बर २०१८ (युटिसी(UTC))

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

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

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

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) ०९:४१, १४ जनवरी २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

१८:४९, १६ जनवरी २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trizek (WMF) १५:०१, २१ फेब्रुअरी २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

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

You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

१०:५६, ८ अप्रिल २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. धन्यवाद! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) १७:३५, १२ अप्रिल २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Multilingual Shared Templates and Modules

Hello ne-wiki community! (कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्)

I recently organized a project to share templates and modules between wiki projects and languages. It allows modules and templates to be “language-neutral”, and store all text translations on Commons. This means that it is enough to copy/paste a template without any changes, and update the translations separately. If someone fixes a bug or adds a new feature in the original module, you can copy/paste it again without any translation work. My bot DiBabelYurikBot can help with copying. This way users can spend more time on content, and less time on updating and copying templates. Please see project page for details and ask questions on talk page.

P.S. I am currently running for the Wikimedia board, focusing on content and support of multi-language communities. If you liked my projects like maps, graphs, or this one, I will be happy to receive your support. (any registered user group can vote). Thank you! --Yurik (🗨️) ०४:२०, १२ मे २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

Hello fellow Wikimedians,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help me in translating this message to your language.

I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working in them and what are the areas that needs more support.

If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest, Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from you.

You can read the Privacy Policy for the Survey here

Please find the link to the Survey at: https://forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A

P.S. If you have been involved in multiple campaigns/contests, feel free to submit the form multiple times.

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.

-- SGill (WMF) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ०६:०९, २५ जुन २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Few pages needs to be cleaned up after maintenance

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Hello, after recent maintenace that was done on your wiki, a few of pages that were previously inaccessible are accessible again. Some of those pages couldn't be fixed, because their name was taken by another page. For that reason, I've moved those pages to start with T173070. I'd like ask you to review those pages, move them to correct title or delete them, if they are no longer needed. You can find the list of pages that needs maintenance in the output of the maintenance script. If you need any help with this, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, --Martin Urbanec (talk) २१:१५, २७ जुन २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #1—July 2019

यो अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • यस बहुभाषिक समाचार पत्रको लागि ग्राह्यता गर्ने सूची

के तपाईँलाई थाह छ?

के मोबाइल उपकरणहरूमा भिजुअल एडिटर प्रयोग गर्न सकिन्छ भन्ने तपाईँलाई थाह थियो?

हरेक लेखको माथि सिसाकलम प्रतिमा रहेको हुन्छ। सिसाकलम प्रतिमा मा क्लिक गरेर सम्पादन शुरू गर्न सकिन्छ

कार्ड सम्पादन गर्नुहोस्

मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटरमा लिङ्कहरू सम्पादन गर्नको लागि सम्पादन कार्ड यस्तो देखिन्छ। तपाईँले प्रोटोटाइप यहाँ प्रयास गर्न सक्नुहुन्छ : 📲 कार्ड सम्पादन गर्न प्रयास गर्नुहोस्।

सम्पादन जानकारीपत्रमा पुनः स्वागत् छ।

पछिल्लो जानकारी पत्र देखि पछि समूहले मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटरको लागि दुई विशेषताहरू सार्वजनिक गरिसक्यो र तीन नयाँ विशेषताहरूमा काम गर्न शुरु गरेको छ। यो सबै कार्य समूहको मोबाइल वेबमा सम्पादन सरल बनाउने लक्ष्यको हिस्सा हो।

समूहले हाल सार्वजनिक गरिएको नयाँ सुविधाबारे कुरा गर्नु पहिले, हामीसँग तपाईँको लागि एउटा प्रश्न छ:

तपाईँले लिङ्कलाई बदल्ने या थप्ने कुनै नयाँ तरिका अपनाउन चाहनुहुन्छ?

यदि चाहनुहुन्छ भने, हामीलाई तपाईँको धारणाको आवश्यकता छ! भिन्न विकिपिडियाहरूमा तपाईँले यो मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटरमा यो नयाँ औजार प्रयोग गर्न सक्नुहुन्छ।

यी निर्देशनहरू पालना गर्नुहोस् र हामीसँग तपाईँको अनुभव बाँढ्नुहोस्:

📲 सम्पादन कार्ड प्रयास गर्नुहोस्.

हालका संस्करणहरू

मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटर एक सरल सम्पादन औजार हो जसलाई मोबाइल र ट्याब्लेटमा मोबाइल साइट चलाउँदा प्रयोग गर्न सकिन्छ। समपादन समूहले हालमात्रै मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटरलाई सुधार गर्न दुई नयाँ सुविधा सार्वजनिक गरेको छ:

1. खण्ड सम्पादन
   • यसको उदेश्य सम्पादकहरूलाई आफ्नो सम्पादनमा ध्यान जाओस् भन्ने हो।
   • समूहले यसबारेमा A/B परीक्षणको माध्यमबाट अध्ययन गर्‍यो। This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. ओभरले खोल्ने
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

नयाँ र सक्रिय परियोजना

हाम्रा सक्रिय परियोजनाको सूची यहाँ छ। Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• कार्ड सम्पादन गर्नुहोस्: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. तपाईँले यो अहिले प्रयास गर्न सक्नुहुन्छ। यहाँ जानुहोस् र कसरी भन्ने हेर्नहोस् 📲 सम्पादन कार्ड प्रयास गर्नुहोस्.
• मोबाइल टुलबार पुनःताजगी: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटर उपलब्धता: यो A/B परीक्षण कार्य: के नयाँ सम्पादकहरू जसले भिजुअल एडिटर प्रयोग गर्छन् उनीहरू बढी सफल छन्? हामी २० विकिपिडियाहरू सँग सहकार्य गरेर प्रश्नको जवाफ खोजीरहेकाछौँ।
• उपयोगिता सुधार: यस आयोजनाले मोबाइल भिजुअल एडिटर प्रयोग गर्न सहज पार्नेछ। यसको लक्ष्य सम्पादनकर्ताहरू सम्पादनमा ध्यानकेन्द्रित गर्न सक्षम पार्ने र सम्पादन औजारमा अझ बढी आत्माविश्वासी बनाउने हो।

अगाडि हेर्नुहोस्

• विकिमेनिया: सम्पादन समूहका धेरै सदस्यहरू अगस्त २०१९ मा विकिमेनिया मा सहभागी हुनेछन्। उनीहरूले समूदाय वृद्धि स्थानमा मोबाइल सम्पादन सम्बन्धि सत्रको नेतृत्व गर्नेछन् । समपादनलाई कसरी राम्रो पार्न सकिन्छ भन्ने बारेमा समूहसँग कुरा गर्नुहोस् ।
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

थप जान्नुहोस्

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

१८:३२, २३ जुलाई २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team ०८:०३, १६ अगस्ट २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

१४:१८, २१ अगस्ट २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) १७:१३, ३० सेप्टेम्बर २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

नमस्कार. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

धन्यवाद! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

०७:१४, १६ अक्टोबर २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

११:१३, २९ अक्टोबर २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Community Wishlist 2020

The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on November 11, 2019, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.

This year, we’re exclusively focusing on smaller projects (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). We want to help these projects and provide meaningful improvements to diverse communities. If you’re a member of any of these projects, please participate in the survey! To submit proposals, see the guidelines on the survey page. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

IFried (WMF) १९:३०, ४ नोभेम्बर २०१९ (युटिसी(UTC))

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
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Wikimedia 2030: Movement Strategy Community conversations are here!

Dear Affiliate Representatives and community members,

The launch of our final round of community conversation is finally here! We are excited to have the opportunity to invite you to take part. 
The recommendations have been published! Please take time over the next five weeks to review and help us understand how your organization and community would be impacted.

What Does This Mean?

The core recommendations document has now been published on Meta in Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. This is the result of more than a year of dedicated work by our working groups, and we are pleased to share the evolution of their work for your final consideration. 
In addition to the recommendations text, you can read through key documents such as Principles, Process, and the Writer’s Reflections, which lend important context to this work and highlight the ways that the recommendations are conceptually interlinked.
We also have a brief Narrative of Change [5] which offers a summary introduction to the recommendations material. 

How Is My Input Reflected In This Work?

Community input played an important role in the drafting of these recommendations. The core recommendations document reflects this and cites community input throughout in footnotes. I also encourage you to take a look at our community input summaries. These texts show a further analysis of how all of the ideas you shared last year through online conversations, affiliate meetings, and strategy salons connect to recommendations. Many of the community notes and reports not footnoted in the core recommendations document are referenced here as evidence of the incredible convergence of ideas that have brought us this far.  

What Happens Now?

Affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders have the next five weeks to discuss and share feedback on these recommendations. In particular, we’re hoping to better understand how you think they would impact our movement - what benefits and opportunities do you foresee for your affiliate, and why? What challenges or barriers would they pose for you? Your input at this stage is vital, and we’d like to warmly invite you to participate in this final discussion period.

We encourage volunteer discussion co-ordinators for facilitating these discussions in your local language community on-wiki, on social media, informal or formal meet ups, on-hangouts, IRC or the village pump of your project. Please collect a report from these channels or conversations and connect with me directly so that I can be sure your input is collected and used. Alternatively, you can also post the feedback on the meta talk pages of the respective recommendations.

After this five week period, the Core Team will publish a summary report of input from across affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders for public review before the recommendations are finalized. You can view our updated timeline here as well as an updated FAQ section that addresses topics like the goal of this current period, the various components of the draft recommendations, and what’s next in more detail. 
Thank you again for taking the time to join us in community conversations, and we look forward to receiving your input. (Please help us by translating this message into your local language). Happy reading! RSharma (WMF) MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) २१:३१, २० जनवरी २०२० (युटिसी(UTC))

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) १९:००, २२ जनवरी २०२० (युटिसी(UTC))

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) १४:१५, २६ फेब्रुअरी २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new जवाफ दिनुहोस् tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

१९:२८, ८ अप्रिल २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

नेपाली उखान टुक्काहरु

हाम्रो राम्रो नेपाली, मिठो नेपाली

केही प्रचलित नेपाली उखान टुक्काहरु, भाग- २ मिती:- ४ वैशाख २०७७ तदनुसार १६ अप्रिल २०२० सुदन भट्टराई उपाध्याय द्वारा संकलित।

१. काग कराउँदै छ, पिना सुक्दै छ, अर्थात भन्ने भन्दै गर्छन, आफ्नो काम छोडनु हुन्न । २. कानो गोरुलाई औंसी न पुर्णे,अर्थात दृष्टि नभए राम्रो नराम्रो केही थाहा हुन्न। ३. कुकूरको पुच्छर बार्ह वष्र ढुङ्ग्रोमा हाले पनि बङ्गा को बाङ्गै, अर्थात नसुध्रिने मान्छेलाई जे गरे पनि हुन्न। ४. कालो अक्षर भैँसी बराबर, अर्थात लेखपढ गर्न नजान्नु। ५. कुरो र कुलो जता लग्यो उतै जान्छ, अर्थात कुरा र प्रसङ्ग जतातिर पनि मोडन सकिने हुन्छ।

६. खाने पिउने रामे, चोट पाउने पामे भनेको अर्थ बिराम गर्ने एउटा, सजाय पाउने अर्को। 

७. खाने मुखलाई जुङ्गाँले छेक्दैन, अर्थ काम गर्न चाहनेलाई कुनै बाधाले रोक्न सक्दैन ।

८. गाई मारी गधा पोस्नु, अर्थात असललाई छोडेर नजातिलाई खुवाउनु। 

९. घिउ केमा पोखियो? भागैमा, भनेको ------- पर्ने ठाउँमा पर्नु, उचित ठाउँमा पर्नु । १०. घाँटी हेरी हाड निल्नु, तात्पर्य अवस्था हेरी काम गर्नु। ११. घोडा चढने लड्छ, अर्थात काम गर्दा बिग्रन पनि सक्छ। १२. चटपटे साँढेका तीन ठाँउमा डाम, अर्थात धेरै मातिंदाखेरि दुख: पाईन्छ । १३. चिप्ला मुखको धमिलो पेट, भनेको अर्थ मुखले एक थोक भनी कामले अर्को थोक गर्नु। १४. छन गेडी सबै मेरी छैनन् गेडी सबै टेढी, तात्पर्य आफुँसङ्ग भए सबै आफन्त र नभए सबै बिराना। १५. जति जोगी आए कानै चिरिएका, को अर्थ सबै उस्तै, काम नदिने। १६. जुन गोरुको सिङ छैन उसको नाम तीखे, अर्थ गुण र योग्यता बिनानै लायकी ठान्नु। १७. जहाँ स्त्री उहीं श्री , तात्पर्य आइमाई भएको ठाँउमा सह हुन्छ। १८.जुन थालमा खानु त्यही थालमा चुठ्नु, को अर्थ गुणको बदला अवगुण गर्नु वा कृतघ्न नबन्नु ।

१९. जोईको जुङाँ, पोइ न पोते, सातु न सोप्र्याक,कोसा खाँदै सुसेल्दै को अर्थ, कुनै काममा पनि नमिल्नु। 

२०. जोगिको घरमा संन्यासी पाहुना, भन्नुको अर्थ, जो सित छैन उसैकहाँ माग्न आउने।

साभार ग्रन्थकार:- पुष्करशमशेर ज. ब. राणा द्वारा राम्रो नेपाली, मिठो को “नेपाली उखान टुक्काहरु” Sudan Bhattarai Upadhaya (कुरा गर्ने) ०५:५७, १८ अप्रिल २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

The 2030 movement strategy recommendations are here!

Greetings! We are pleased to inform that the 2030 movement strategy recommendations have been published on Meta-wiki. Over the last two years, our movement has worked tirelessly to produce these ideas to change our shared future. Many of you participated in the online conversations, hosted strategy salons, attended regional events, and connected with us in-person at Wikimania. These contributions were invaluable, and will help make our movement stronger for years to come. 

The finished set of 10 recommendations emphasizes many of our core values, such as equity, innovation, safety, and coordination, while tasking us jointly to turn this vision into a reality. These recommendations clarify and refine the previous version, which was published in January this year. They are at a high strategic level so that the ideas are flexible enough to be adapted to different global and local settings and will allow us to navigate future challenges. Along with the recommendations, we have outlined 10 underlying principles, a narrative of change, and a glossary of key terms for better context.

The recommendations are available in numerous languages, including Arabic, German, Hindi, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish for you to read and share widely. We encourage you to read the recommendations in your own time and at your own pace, either online or in a PDF. There are a couple of other formats for you to take a deeper dive if you wish, such as a one-page summary, slides, and office hours, all collected on Meta. If you would like to comment, you are welcome to do so on the Meta talk pages. However, please note that these are the final version of the recommendations. No further edits will be made. This final version of the recommendations embodies an aspiration for how the Wikimedia movement should continue to change in order to advance that direction and meet the Wikimedia vision in a changing world. 

In terms of next steps, our focus now shifts toward implementation. In light of the cancellation of the Wikimedia Summit, the Wikimedia Foundation is determining the best steps for moving forward through a series of virtual events over the coming months. We will also be hosting live office hours in the next coming few days, where you can join us to celebrate the Strategy and ask questions! Please stay tuned, and thank you once again for helping to drive our movement forward, together. RSharma (WMF)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "छलफल उपकरण". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

२०:३६, १७ जुन २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Feedback on movement names

नमस्कार. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस् if necessary. धन्यवाद!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, १९:५२, २ जुलाई २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Editing news 2020 #3

सम्पादन समाचार २०२० #३

यो अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • यस बहुभाषिक समाचार पत्रको लागि ग्राह्यता गर्ने सूची

डेस्कटपमा ५० लाख सम्पादनहरू भन्दा बढी सम्पादनहरू भिजुअल सम्पादक प्रयोग गरेर बनाइएको छ।

सात वर्ष अघि यसै महिनामा, सम्पादन टोलीले प्रायःसबै सम्पादकहरूलाई भिजुअल सम्पादक प्रदान गर्‍यो। त्यसपछि,सम्पादकहरूले धेरै कोशेढुङ्गाहरू पार गरिसकेका छन्।

• डेस्कटपमा ५० लाख सम्पादनहरू भन्दा बढी सम्पादनहरू भिजुअल सम्पादक प्रयोग गरेर बनाइएको छ।
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (वार्ता)

१२:५६, ९ जुलाई २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) १९:५६, ९ जुलाई २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) ०९:१३, ६ अगष्ट २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

Read this message in another language • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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

Trizek (WMF) (talk) १३:४८, २६ अगष्ट २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

नमस्कार. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्. धन्यवाद!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, १७:५५, १० सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

नमस्कार. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

२१:२६, २९ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

नमस्कार. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

धन्यवाद! Qgil-WMF (talk) १७:०९, ७ अक्टोबर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Regional Call for South Asia - Oct. 30

Hi everyone. The time has come to put Movement Strategy into work and we need your help. We are inviting South Asian communities, Indian Wikimedians, and anyone else interested to join a region-focused conversation on Movement Strategy and implementation. Please join us on Friday Oct. 30 at 19.30 / 7:30 pm IST (Google Meet).

The purpose of the meeting is to get prepared for global conversations, to identify priorities for implementation in 2021, and to plan the following steps. There are 10 recommendations and they propose multiple 45 initiatives written over two years by many Wikimedians. It is now up to communities to decide which ones we should work on together in 2021, starting with local and regional conversations. Global meetings will take place later in November when we will discuss global coordination and resources. More information about the global events will be shared soon.

• What is work you’re already doing that is aligned with Movement Strategy?
• What are priorities for you in 2021?
• What are things we should all work on globally?

We would not be able to grow and diversify as a movement if communities from South Asia are not meaningfully involved in implementing the recommendations. Join the conversation with your questions and ideas, or just come to say hi. See you on Friday October 30.

A translatable version of this message can be found on Meta.

MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) १७:२४, १९ अक्टोबर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ। सबै काम गरिरहेको छ भनि निश्चित गर्नको लागि विकिमिडिया टेक्नोलोजी विभागले योजना गरिएको परीक्षण गर्नु पर्छ। यो परीक्षणले तिनीहरू एक डेटा सेन्टरबाट अर्कोमा विश्वसनीय रूपमा स्विच गर्न सक्दछन् भन्ने कुरा देखाउँछ। यसको लागि परीक्षणको लागि तयारी गर्न धेरै टोलीहरू आवश्यक पर्दछ र कुनै अप्रत्याशित समस्याहरू समाधान गर्न उपलब्ध हुन।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई २७ अक्टोबर २०२०, मंगलबारमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• मंगलबार २७ अक्टोबर १ घण्टाको लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन। यो परीक्षण 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, न्युजिल्याण्डमा 03:00 NZDT २८ अक्टुबर, बुधबार) मा सुरू हुनेछ।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• २ अक्टुबर २०२० मा सप्ताहको लागि कोड फ्रिज हुनेछ। अनावश्यक कोड डिप्लोयमेन्ट हुने छैन।

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ। त्यहाँ यसका बारे थप सूचनाहरू हुनेछन्। यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) १७:१०, २१ अक्टोबर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

नमस्कार. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

२२:१०, ५ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on ३० नोभेम्बर, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between ८ डिसेम्बर and २१ डिसेम्बर.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

१८:०९, २० नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १४:३९, ३० नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १०:५५, ७ डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

You can view and vote all proposals here.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

००:५२, १५ डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

नमस्कार. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्. धन्यवाद!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, १५:१५, २७ जनवरी २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsढाँचा:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ०८:००, २८ जनवरी २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १३:२५, ६ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, विकिपुस्तक currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) १४:१२, १८ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wikifunctions logo contest

नमस्कार. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. धन्यवाद! --Quiddity (WMF)

०१:४५, २ मार्च २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.

Drafting Committee: Call for applications

The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.

To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.

2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators

From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.

To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.

-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) २१:४५, ५ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

Example

From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors.

More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) १५:०९, १२ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Suggested Values

From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.

More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) १४:०८, २२ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

विश्वव्यापी आचार संहिता समाचार
अङ्क १, सन् २०२१ जुनपूरा सामचारपत्र पढ्नुहोस्

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विश्वव्यापी आचार संहिता समाचारको पहिलो अङ्कमा यहाँलाई स्वागत छ! यो समाचारपत्रले विकिमिडियनहरूलाई नयाँ संहिताको विकासमा संलग्न भइ राख्न मद्दत गर्दछ र प्रासङ्गगिक समाचार, अनुसन्धान, र युसिओसी सम्बन्धित आउँदो समाचारहरूको वितरण गर्दछ।

कृपया ध्यान दिनुहोस्, यो युसिओसी समाचार पत्रको पहिलो अङ्क हो जुन सबै पाठकहरू र परियोजनाहरूमा पहलको घोषणाको रूपमा वितरण गरिएको छ। यदि तपाईँले भविष्यका अङ्कहरू आफ्नो वार्तालाप पृष्ठ, चौतारी, वा कुनै उपयुक्त पृष्ठहरूमा पाउन चाहनुहुन्छ भने तपाईँले यहाँ सदस्यता लिन सक्नुहुनेछ।

तपाईँ हामीलाई यहाँकै भाषामा समाचारपत्रका अङ्कहरू अनुवाद गरेर यो समाचार फैलाउन र नयाँ नीतिहरूको बारेमा हाम्रो प्रिय समुदायलाई जागरूक र सुरक्षित राख्न सक्नुहुन्छ। यदि तपाईँले मस्यौदा अङ्कलाई अगावै अनुवाद गर्न जानकारी चाहनुहुन्छ भने कृपया यहाँ तपाईँ आफ्नो नाम थप्नुहोस्। यहाँको सहभागिताको लागि धेरै धेरै धन्यवाद दिन चाहन्छौ।

• सम्बद्ध परामर्श – सबै आकार र प्रकारका विकिमिडिया सम्बद्ध समूहहरूलाई सन् २०२१ मार्च र अप्रिल भरि युसिओसी सम्बद्ध परामर्शमा भाग लिन आमन्त्रित गरिएको थियो। (पढ्न जारी राख्नुहोस्)
• २०२१ प्रमुख परामर्श – विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसनले व्यापक विकिमिडिया समुदायबाट युसिओसी कार्यान्वयनको बारेमा अनुरोध गर्नको लागि सन् २०२१ अप्रिल र मे महिनामा प्रवर्तन कुञ्जी प्रश्नहरू परामर्शको आयोजन गरेको थियो। (पढ्न जारी राख्नुहोस्)
• गोलमेच बैठक छलफल – युसिओसी सहजकर्ता टोलीले सन् २०२१ मे महिनामा ९० मिनेट लामो दुई वटा सार्वजनिक गोलमेच बैठक छलफल आयोजना गरेको थियो जसमा युसिओसी कुञ्जी प्रवर्तनका प्रश्नहरूको बारेमा छलफल गरिएको थियो। थप छलफल निर्धारित छन्। (पढ्न जारी राख्नुहोस्)
• दोस्रो चरणको मस्यौदा समिति – युसिओसी दोस्रो चरणको लागि मस्यौदा समितिले सन् २०२१ मे १२ मा काम सुरु गरेको थियो। तिनीहरूको कामको बारेमा थप पढ्नुहोस्। (पढ्न जारी राख्नुहोस्)
• डिफ ब्लग्स – युसिओसी सहजकर्ताहरूले पहिलो अंशमा भएका स्थानीय सामुदायिक परामर्शको बेला प्रत्येक समुदायबाट चाखलाग्दो खोज र अन्तर्दृष्टिमा आधारित धेरै ब्लग लेखहरू लेखेका थिए। (पढ्न जारी राख्नुहोस्)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ०४:१८, १६ जुन २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "छलफल उपकरण" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

१४:१४, २४ जुन २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Server switch

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

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) ०१:१९, २७ जुन २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

उम्मेदवारहरुको आन्दोलन चार्टर ड्राफ्टि समितिको आह्वान

आन्दोलन रणनीतिले आन्दोलन चार्टर ड्राफ्टि समितिको लागि उम्मेदवारहरूको लागि आह्वानको घोषणा गर्यो। आह्वान 2 अगस्त, 2021 मा खुल्छ, र 1 सेप्टेम्बर , 2021 मा बन्द हुन्छ।

समितिले विकिमिडिया आन्दोलनमा विविधताको प्रतिनिधित्व गर्ने अपेक्षा गरिएको छ। विविधतामा लिङ्ग, भाषा, भूगोल र अनुभव समावेश छ। यसमा परियोजना, सहयोगी र विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसनमा सहभागिता रहेको छ।

सदस्य बन्न अंग्रेजी प्रवाह आवश्यक छैन । आवश्यक परेमा अनुवाद र व्याख्या समर्थन प्रदान गरिन्छ। सदस्यहरूले सहभागिता लागत अफसेट गर्न भत्ता पाउनेछन्। यो प्रत्येक दुई महिनामा US$100 हो।

हामी निम्न केही सीप भएका मानिसहरूको खोजीमा छौं:

• सहयोगी भएर कसरी लेख्ने जान्नु। (प्रदर्शन गरिएको अनुभव एक प्लस हो)
• सम्झौताहरू फेला पार्न तयार हुनु।
• समावेशीकरण र विविधतामा ध्यान दिनु।
• सामुदायिक परामर्शको ज्ञान हुनु ।
• अन्तरसांस्कृतिक संचार अनुभव हुनु।
• गैर-नाफा वा समुदायहरूमा सुशासन वा संगठनको अनुभव हुनु ।
• विभिन्न पार्टीहरूसँग सम्झौता गर्ने अनुभव हुनु।

समितिको सुरुवात 15 जनाबाट हुने अपेक्षा गरिएको छ । यदि 20 वा सो भन्दा बढी उम्मेद्वारहरू छन् भने, मिश्रित निर्वाचन र छनोट प्रक्रिया हुनेछ । यदि त्यहाँ 19 वा सो भन्दा कम उम्मेदवार छन् भने निर्वाचन बिना नै निर्वाचनको प्रक्रिया हुन्छ ।

के तपाईं विकिमीडियालाई यस महत्वपूर्ण भूमिकामा अगाडि बढाउन मद्दत गर्नुहुन्छ? यो पृष्ठ आफ्नो उम्मेदवारी पेश गर्नुहोस् । कृपया प्रश्नहरूको सँग wikimedia.org रणनीति2030ढाँचा:मा सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस् ।

Xeno (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) ००:१२, ३ अगष्ट २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.

However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.

We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.

A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet

We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.

We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!

Feedback

• What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
• How would you like to use our new sandbox?
• What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
• What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ००:२३, ७ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Server switch

Read this message in another language • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) ००:४५, ११ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Talk to the Community Tech

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Hello!

As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
• Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
• Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
• Questions and answers

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
• One tap mobile
  • +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
  • +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
• Dial by your location

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) ०३:०३, ११ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १३:१५, ९ जनवरी २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikढाँचा:@wikimedia.org.

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Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) ०४:५०, २२ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

• Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
• Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
• and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).

All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) १२:३८, २८ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १४:४०, १४ मार्च २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Coming soon: Improvements for templates

Fundamental changes in the template dialog.

Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.

• project page, talk page

In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.

• project page, talk page

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) ११:१४, २९ अप्रिल २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) १८:५५, २ मे २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १६:१२, ४ जुलाई २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable) or bots that fix double redirects. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. If you use or prefer to use a dedicated project page for handling bot flag requests, that is also acceptable. Please read the text at Meta-Wiki before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Thank you for your consideration. --Rschen7754 ०६:०४, १ अगष्ट २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

Request for more time to discuss the change

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ०४:१४, २२ सेप्टेम्बर २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

नमस्कार

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

धन्यवाद! Community Tech, STei (WMF) १६:४४, १५ डिसेम्बर २०२२ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for छलफल उपकरण.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "विषय थप्नुहोस्" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for छलफल उपकरण on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with छलफल उपकरण. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "परिवर्तनहरू प्रकाशित गर्नुहोस्". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) २३:२४, २२ फेब्रुअरी २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ। सबै काम गरिरहेको छ भनि निश्चित गर्नको लागि विकिमिडिया टेक्नोलोजी विभागले योजना गरिएको परीक्षण गर्नु पर्छ। यो परीक्षणले तिनीहरू एक डेटा सेन्टरबाट अर्कोमा विश्वसनीय रूपमा स्विच गर्न सक्दछन् भन्ने कुरा देखाउँछ। यसको लागि परीक्षणको लागि तयारी गर्न धेरै टोलीहरू आवश्यक पर्दछ र कुनै अप्रत्याशित समस्याहरू समाधान गर्न उपलब्ध हुन।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई १ मार्चमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्। यो परीक्षण १४:०० UTC मा सुरू हुनेछ।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• बुधबार १ मार्च २०२३ लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ। त्यहाँ यसका बारे थप सूचनाहरू हुनेछन्। यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

Trizek (WMF) (वार्तालाप) २१:२०, २७ फेब्रुअरी २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

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यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ। सबै काम गरिरहेको छ भनि निश्चित गर्नको लागि विकिमिडिया टेक्नोलोजी विभागले योजना गरिएको परीक्षण गर्नु पर्छ। यो परीक्षणले तिनीहरू एक डेटा सेन्टरबाट अर्कोमा विश्वसनीय रूपमा स्विच गर्न सक्दछन् भन्ने कुरा देखाउँछ। यसको लागि परीक्षणको लागि तयारी गर्न धेरै टोलीहरू आवश्यक पर्दछ र कुनै अप्रत्याशित समस्याहरू समाधान गर्न उपलब्ध हुन।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई २६ अप्रिलमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्। यो परीक्षण १४:०० UTC मा सुरू हुनेछ।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• बुधबार २६ अप्रिल २०२३ लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ। त्यहाँ यसका बारे थप सूचनाहरू हुनेछन्। यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

MediaWiki message delivery ००:४१, २१ अप्रिल २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
• Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) १९:००, २६ अप्रिल २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, ०४:२०, २७ मे २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) १७:५९, २८ जुन २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, १५:३५, २८ अगष्ट २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

तपाईंको विकि चाँडै पढ्ने मात्र हुनेछ

यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ। सबै काम गरिरहेको छ भनि निश्चित गर्नको लागि विकिमिडिया टेक्नोलोजी विभागले योजना गरिएको परीक्षण गर्नु पर्छ। यो परीक्षणले तिनीहरू एक डेटा सेन्टरबाट अर्कोमा विश्वसनीय रूपमा स्विच गर्न सक्दछन् भन्ने कुरा देखाउँछ। यसको लागि परीक्षणको लागि तयारी गर्न धेरै टोलीहरू आवश्यक पर्दछ र कुनै अप्रत्याशित समस्याहरू समाधान गर्न उपलब्ध हुन।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई २० सेप्टेम्बरमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्। यो परीक्षण १४:०० UTC मा सुरू हुनेछ।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• बुधबार २० सेप्टेम्बर २०२३ लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• हामी अन्य कुनै हप्तामा कोडहरू डिप्लोइमेन्ट हुने आशा गर्छौं। However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ। त्यहाँ यसका बारे थप सूचनाहरू हुनेछन्। यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) ०९:२३, १५ सेप्टेम्बर २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

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थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) १६:४१, ९ अक्टोबर २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

०१:१२, १७ अक्टोबर २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?

Read this in your language • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस् • Please tell other users about these changes

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

विश्वव्यापी अभिरूचिहरू

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

• Top of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

• A section of an article
• 
  Vector legacy (current default)
• 
  Vector 2022

About the skin

Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

• The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
• The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
• The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
• The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
• The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) २३:५२, १८ अक्टोबर २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

(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) १२:३१, १३ डिसेम्बर २०२३ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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)

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)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १८:०७, १९ जनवरी २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १६:५९, ३१ जनवरी २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १८:२३, १२ फेब्रुअरी २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १६:२५, ५ मार्च २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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)१९:५६, १२ मार्च २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

तपाईंको विकि चाँडै पढ्ने मात्र हुनेछ

यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई २० मार्चमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्। यो परीक्षण १४:०० UTC मा सुरू हुनेछ।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• बुधबार २० मार्च २०२४ लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• हामी अन्य कुनै हप्तामा कोडहरू डिप्लोइमेन्ट हुने आशा गर्छौं। However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ। त्यहाँ यसका बारे थप सूचनाहरू हुनेछन्। यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

Trizek (WMF), ००:०१, १५ मार्च २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) २०:१९, २५ अप्रिल २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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 २१:२२, १४ मे २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ०२:२४, २२ मे २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ०८:१४, ३ जुन २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ०८:४४, ११ जुन २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १०:५१, २५ जुन २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ०३:४५, ८ जुलाई २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ००:०२, १० जुलाई २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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 (कुरा गर्ने) १७:५१, १८ जुलाई २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) ०२:४६, २७ जुलाई २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १५:२९, ६ अगस्ट २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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 (कुरा गर्ने) २३:१८, २२ अगस्ट २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

Original message at wikimedia-l. You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

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) १४:०५, २ सेप्टेम्बर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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 (कुरा गर्ने) १२:१३, ३ सेप्टेम्बर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

तपाईंको विकि चाँडै पढ्ने मात्र हुनेछ

यो सन्देश अर्को भाषामा पढ्नुहोस् • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

विकिमेडिया फाउन्डेसनले सेकेन्डरी डाटा सेन्टरको परिक्षण गर्दैछ। यसबाटविकिपिडिया तथा अन्य विकिमेडियाका परियोजनाहरू कुनै प्रकोप पछि पनि अनलाइन रहन सक्ने निश्चित हुन्छ।

उनीहरूले सबै ट्राफिकलाई २५ सेप्टेम्बरमा प्राथमिक डेटा केन्द्रमामा स्विच गर्नेछन्। यो परीक्षण १५:०० UTC मा सुरू हुनेछ।

दुर्भाग्यवस,मिडियाविकीमा भएका केही सीमितताहरूको कारणले गर्दा हामीले स्विच गर्दा सबै सम्पादन कार्यहरू बन्द हुनेछन्। हामी यो अवरोधको लागि माफी चाहन्छौं, र हामी भविष्यमा यसलाई न्यूनिकरण गर्नको लागि काम गरिरहेका छौं।

यो कार्य सुरु हुनुभन्दा ३० मिनेट अघि सबै विकीमा एउटा ब्यानर प्रदर्शित हुनेछ। This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.

तपाईहरूले सबै विकीहरू पढ्न सक्नुहुनेछ तर सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुन्न।

• बुधबार २५ सेप्टेम्बर २०२४ लागि तपाईले सम्पादन गर्न सक्नुहुनेछैन।
• यो समयमा यदि तपाइँ सम्पादन वा सङ्ग्रह गर्न कोशिस गर्नुहुन्छ भने, तपाइँले त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुनेछ। हामी आशा गर्छौँ कि यो मिनेटहरूमा कुनै पनि सम्पादन हराउने छैन तर हामी यसको ग्यारेन्टी दिन सक्दैनौँ। यदि तपाइँ त्रुटि सन्देश देख्नुहुन्छ भने कृपया सबै सामान्य अवस्थामा नफर्कँदासम्म प्रतीक्षा गर्नुहोस् । त्यसपछि भए तपाईले आफ्नो सम्पादन सङ्ग्रह गर्न सक्नुहुनेछ। तर पनि यस अवस्थामा हामी तपाइँको परिवर्तन सङ्ग्रह गर्नु पूर्व यसलाई कपी गर्न सुझाव दिन्छौँ।

अन्य प्रभावहरू :

• पृष्ठभूमीका कार्यहरू सुस्त हुनेछन् तथा केहि छुट्न पनि सक्नेछन्। रातो लिङ्कहरू सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा छिटो अद्यावधिक हुन सक्दैन। यदी तपाइँले पहिले कुनै अरू लेखसँग जोडिएको एउटा लेख बनाउनु हुन्छ भने लिङ्क सामान्य अवस्था भन्दा लामो समयसम्म रातो रहनेछ। केहि लामो समयदेखि चलिरहेको स्क्रिप्टहरू रोक्नु पर्छ।
• हामी अन्य कुनै हप्तामा कोडहरू डिप्लोइमेन्ट हुने आशा गर्छौं। However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

आवश्यक परेमा यो परियोजना स्थगित हुन सक्छ। तपाइँ wikitech.wikimedia.org मा कार्यक्रम बारे पढ्न सक्नुहुन्छ। कुनै पनि परिवर्तन बारे कार्यक्रम तालिकामा घोषणा गरिनेछ।

कृपया तपाइँको समुदायलाई यो जानकारी बाँड्नुहोस्।

Trizek_(WMF), ०९:३७, २० सेप्टेम्बर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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

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

स्थिति हेर्नुहोस फ्याब्रिकेटरमा (?)
Task T66315

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 (कुरा गर्ने) १८:५८, २७ सेप्टेम्बर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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 ०३:२०, ६ अक्टोबर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

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) ०८:२४, १४ अक्टोबर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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) २३:०७, १६ अक्टोबर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

'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) ११:३०, २२ अक्टोबर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)

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 ०५:१२, २९ अक्टोबर २०२४ (नेपालको प्रमाणिक समय)