Wikivoyage:Salongen/Arkiv 2015

VisualEditor News #1—2015

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

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

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

Nyliga förbättringar

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

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

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

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

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

Spaning framåt

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

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

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• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
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— Elitre (WMF)

5 februari 2015 kl. 19.30 (CET)

VIKTIGT: Aktivitetsundersökning av administratörer

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

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

1. Hansm (byråkrat, administratör)

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

Om ni däremot som gemenskap föredrar att skapa er egen aktivitetskontroll som ersätter den globala, har en annan åsikt om dessa inaktiva administratörer, eller redan har en policy som vi har missat, ber vi er informera stewards på Meta-Wiki så att vi kan avsluta aktivitetsukontrollen på er wiki. Tack, Openbk (talk) 7 februari 2015 kl. 00.01 (CET)

Inget att erinra. Helst skulle vi själva vilja styra det där, eftersom vår egen policy har betydligt kortare tidsrymd, men på WV har byråkrater inte removal-behörighet. Riggwelter (diskussion) 12 februari 2015 kl. 22.14 (CET)

User:Riggwelter: your local policy can be applied - you need to make a request at m:SRP, linking to the policy, and a steward will do the removal. --Rschen7754 12 mars 2015 kl. 03.52 (CET)

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

MediaWiki mobile

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

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

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

• Inspire Campaign main page

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

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13 mars 2015 kl. 20.46 (CET)

Användarrättigheter

Jag föreslår att följande användarrättigheter inrättas på sv.wikivoyage.org:

• Autopatrullerare
• Patrullerare
• Tillbakarullare

Förhoppningsvis skall det gå att få denna wiki att utvecklas och expandera, med hjälp av fler användare. Det är då en fördel om funktioner som användarrättigheter etc redan är etablerade. För att underlätta patrullering av sidor och ändringar, är det också en fördel och arbetsunderlättande om t.ex. autopatrullering kan tilldelas användare. För att kunna ansöka om dessa användarättigheter krävs någon form av diskussion där åtminstone någon användare håller med. Så bekräfta gärna nedan om du tycker det vore bra med de ovan beskrivna användarrättigheterna. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 20 mars 2015 kl. 01.48 (CET)

Det låter bra tycker jag. Systemen med (auto)patrullerare och tillbakarullare är väl beprövade på flera systersajter i Wikimedia-sfären, och där fungerar de i allmänhet utmärkt och utan krångel. –Tommy Kronkvist (diskussion), 20 mars 2015 kl. 06.13 (CET).

Jag antar att många av de tänkbara nya användarna, i synnerhet de som skulle syssla med klottersanering, har erfarenhet svenskspråkiga Wikipedia. Det är antagligen en fördel om systemen fungerar likartat, vilket jag antar att förslaget syftar till. Jag ser inget problem med förslaget – om det känns onödigt byråkratiskt nu är det bara att strunta i dem tills de behövs. --LPfi (diskussion) 20 mars 2015 kl. 08.59 (CET)

Toppen, här är länk till förfrågan: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93339 Dan Koehl (diskussion) 20 mars 2015 kl. 11.36 (CET)

Bra initiativ. Riggwelter (diskussion) 5 april 2015 kl. 20.10 (CEST)

Följande nya användarrättgheter är nu implementerade:

• tillbakarullare (f.n. 3 användare)
• patrullerare (f.n. 3 användare)
• autopatrollerare (f.n. 19 användare)

Dan Koehl (diskussion) 7 maj 2015 kl. 19.10 (CEST)

Real-Time Recent Changes

Jag har installerat Real-Time Recent Changes, vilket är ett utmärkt sätt att patrullera sidor och ändringar, scriptet bläddrar fram nya redigeringar med en automatisk flödesfunktion, ip adresser och icke-patrullerade sidor kan förväljas. Vid Senaste ändringar finns länken ute i vänsterkanten, den ligger under verktyg och heter RTRC. För att testa den, klicka här. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 20 mars 2015 kl. 12.52 (CET)

Kan komma att bli ett utmärkt verktyg. Jag lade till det för mitt Wikispecies-konto också, eftersom det kan underlätta admin-jobbet där. –Tommy Kronkvist (diskussion), 21 mars 2015 kl. 18.09 (CET).

Ja, RTRC är toppen. Nu finns bara en och annan opatrullerad sida på WS, det var över 1500 igår... Dan Koehl (diskussion) 21 mars 2015 kl. 18.18 (CET)

I skrivande stund (21 mars 2015 kl. 19.54 UTC+1) anges +1706 sidor som opatrullerade på WS, så jag vet inte riktigt hur mycket man ska lita på dessa automatgenererade värden. Jag har själv patrullerat ca 500 sidor de senaste 10 dagarna, varav kanske en femtedel "manuellt" och resten automatiskt. Hursomhelst så är det ett himla trist göromål, så all hjälp är som sagt bra… De något inkonsekventa summorna tyder emellertid på att uppdateringen av vissa loggar släpar efter lite emellanåt? I så fall torde det vara likadant med den saken här på Wikivoyage.–Tommy Kronkvist (diskussion), 21 mars 2015 kl. 19.53 (CET).

Ja, boten var inställd på uppdatering var tredje timme, men sedan Ohanaunited anmärkte på att det var onödigt mycket (trots att han godkände en annan bot för ett år sedan som uppdaterade var femte minut e.d.) så ställdes den om till 2 ggr/dag. innan var det alltså var tredje timme, tycker jag var bra. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 21 mars 2015 kl. 21.20 (CET)

Månadens resmål - april

Jag har föreslagit Uppsala som resmål i april, men kanske finns andra åsikter? Man kan rösta på rekommenderat resmål. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 21 mars 2015 kl. 18.18 (CET)

Ja, Uppsala har redan varit rekommenderat resmål och kan inte vara det igen, om vi inte ändrar reglerna. Jag har lämnat en notis på röstningssidan. Riggwelter (diskussion) 5 april 2015 kl. 20.09 (CEST)

Nytt koncept för faktabox

Från italienska wikivoyage har det senaste dygnet två användare, Andyrom75 och Nastoshka (biträdda med filimporter av en steward på it voy, Vituzzu) bidragit med timmar av arbete genom att föra över hundratals filer hit, samt ändra i faktabox strukturen. Sajten har vunnit utseende och har uppgraderats i en riktning att följa en standard som håller på att växa from på flera wikivoyage sajter. Resultatet kan ses bl.a. på sidan om Florens, den sidan och många andra får nu en huvudbanner med ett snyggt panorama fotografi samt en mer utvecklad faktabox till höger med kartor mm. Arbetet är inte färdigt, så avvakta gärna med arbetet här någon dag, vad gäller struktur ändringar som faktaboxar. Att bara uppdatera sidor med mer information däremot går utmärkt.

Vad tycker ni om förändringarna? Dan Koehl (diskussion) 23 mars 2015 kl. 00.40 (CET)

Egentligen inget att erinra, men stämmer det verkligen överens med våra mål som de bland annat listas här, det vill säga Den tryckta versionen kommer i första hand? Det är av den anledningen vi rensar bort onödigt bildmaterial. En massa snygga sidor online är trevligt, men är inte i enlighet med målen. Riggwelter (diskussion) 5 april 2015 kl. 20.09 (CEST)

Jag bör nog vara mer detaljerad: Faktaboxen tycker jag är utmärkt, det är bildbannern som jag är tveksam till, även om den förvisso är snygg! Riggwelter (diskussion) 6 april 2015 kl. 21.58 (CEST)

KoehlBot

Jag har på sidan nominering av robotar ansökt om att få roboten användare:KoehlBot godkänd. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 1 april 2015 kl. 19.44 (CEST)

Klart! Riggwelter (diskussion) 5 april 2015 kl. 20.04 (CEST)

Turistbyråer och kommuner kontaktade

Under början av april har följande 14 kommuner, och deras turistkontor inbjudits att medverka på wikivoyage och korrigera eventuella fel på sidor: Ale, Alingsås, Alta, Alvesta, Anderstorp, Arboga, Arjeplog, Arlöv och burlov.se, Arvidsjaur, Askersund, Avesta, Hagfors och Vingåker. Ej kommuner som blivit inbjudan: turistmal.se, visitroslagen.se, ljusterokonstmuseum.se och ljustero.se. Tusristkontor utanför Sverige: Björneborg. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 4 april 2015 kl. 00.33 (CEST)

Utmärkt initiativ, men styr dem hårt, annars blir det reklam. Observera denna sida med tillhörande mall. Riggwelter (diskussion) 5 april 2015 kl. 20.04 (CEST)

Navigationsträd kontra kategorier

På Wikitraveltiden använde vi oss av vad som kallas för navigeringsträd för att geografiskt indela orter och regioner enligt vår geografibeskrivning. Detta gjorde alltså att vi inte använde oss av kategorier, något som jag redan då tyckte var lite vrickat. Det var till och med så att kategorifunktionen var avslagen, men den kopplades senare in för att de: och it: (tror jag) ville det. Då hade emellertid vi kommit så långt att vi inte orkade göra något åt det. Men borde vi inte titta på det nu? Skillnaden är givetvis att vi vare sig behöver eller ska ha samma vildvuxna kategoriträd som våra systerprojekt. Jag gjorde ett försök till första indelning för flera år sedan, men det blev just aldrig mer än ett försök. Så vad tycker ni? Skall vi skrota navigeringsträden och köra på kategorier? Om ja bör vi först fixa en beskrivning av hur kategoriträdet skall se ut. Om nej kör vi vidare på samma sätt som tidigare. Riggwelter (diskussion) 6 april 2015 kl. 21.55 (CEST)

(Tillbaka, haft mycket på Wikispecies, tusentals sidor...) Jag har donat mycket på kategorisidan. Jag uppfattade att det fanns en regel mot att ha kategorier, men såg också det negtiva konsekvenserna av det. Jag har än så länge arbetat efter en medelväg, att på artiklar avsedd att läsas av tillfälliga besökare, inga kategorier är synliga, de är antingen hidden eller med noinclude. Besökaren ser dem inte på sidan, men går man ner till administrationen av sajten är det bara att följa upp i hierarkin och kunna hitta alla ståder, länder regioner etc. alternativt sidor med åtgärdbehov. Jag tror inte jag kategoriserat alla sidor, men många, jämfört med innan. Jag tror att detta är ett absolut krav för att ha kontroll över sajten, i synnerhet om man har någon förhoppning om en tillväxt. Jag tror att detta är en effektiv kompromiss, den tillfredställer, åtminstone delvs, det adminstrativa behovet utan att alltför mycket kategorier syns på sidorna, som kan tänkas göra besökarna förvirrade, eller vad det nu fanns för grund til regeln att inga kategorier skulle finnas. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 7 april 2015 kl. 02.08 (CEST)

On it:voy we use it:Template:Quickfooter to automatically categorize the articles of "places" and some specific articles of "topics". By now I'm just importing the templates already spreaded and used by most of the language versions; but if you want I can import this too. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 7 april 2015 kl. 13.24 (CEST)

Let's wait until we've decided what we want to do with categories vs. breadcrumb navigation. Riggwelter (diskussion) 7 april 2015 kl. 15.25 (CEST)

IMO breadcrumb is a must that cannot be removed in Wikivoyage. Categories is up to each community. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 7 april 2015 kl. 19.39 (CEST)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10 april 2015 kl. 18.12 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead

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

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

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10 april 2015 kl. 21.48 (CEST)

Other projects sidebar extension

 Richiesto på Phabricator ^(?)
Bug n° T96502

To better integrate Wikivoyage with all the other Swedish wiki projects I suggest to activate this extension by default for all users. Currently can be tested/activated only by registerd users from own user preferences checking the last box (the one related to this functionality).

Briefly: this feature add on the left sidebar all the links to all the wikiprojects linked to the visualized page, when that page is linked through Wikidata to those wikiprojects.

Community must discuss and vote before asking for his activation. This feature has been already implemented (just for example) on it:voy and it:w; there can be seen how it works for anonymous IP users. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 12 april 2015 kl. 19.52 (CEST)

 Pro --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 12 april 2015 kl. 19.52 (CEST)

doubtless --Nastoshka (diskussion) 13 april 2015 kl. 15.16 (CEST)

, yes, a good idea. Dan Koehl (diskussion) 13 april 2015 kl. 18.05 (CEST)

Utfört

Discussion

Well, before I vote: What does it do that we cannot do today? Is this feature activated on enwv? I have nothing against new tech improvements, but will it attract more users? Riggwelter (diskussion) 13 april 2015 kl. 21.14 (CEST)

Riggwelter, this feature has been emulated for years by it:voy and it:w through it:Template:Interprogetto, that in it:voy is used inside it:Template:Quickfooter. Nowadays both templates has been modified (simplifying their code) in order to be used jointly with this beta feature, so is not anymore possible to import them here with a "plug&play" approach.

This feature is not activated in en:voy (you can check it from en:voy feature menu). I think that it:voy is the first Wikivoyage project that has implemented it.

This feature do not attract new user by itself, but simplify life to visitor/editor when they need to check and compare pages in the other wikiproject of the same language (e.g. sv:w).

PS Before thinking to attract visitor, there's a lot of work to be done around here. Take into account that on it:voy it has taken me around 1 year. Here should be quicker because most of the articles are empty and the one filled, seems that have been filled with similar criteria, last but not the least, now I can apply here directly the state of the art of our solutions, while at that time I've made a lot of tries and experiments and those activities have required a huge amount of time ;-) --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 14 april 2015 kl. 00.09 (CEST)

Thanks for your explanation! Here's my thoughts on it: new technical gadgets are always interesting as such (and I see no reason not to take on good ideas from other langauge versions), but if the gadgets do not really mean that we actually attracy new visitors, then I doubt that we will benefit from them. You are right that there is a lot of work to be done around here, so my question is if adding this new feature is what we should focus at? Or do you think we have anything else that is more important, more basic to work at? Our goal is to attract more contributors to fill the guides, but I am all for things that help the new users contribute. All I want is that we focus on what we benefit most from. Riggwelter (diskussion) 14 april 2015 kl. 09.59 (CEST)

Riggwelter, this extension (as well like other templates/modules/models/policy etc...) helps to create a better environment.

I'm trying to work in parallel on various aspects to reach the target that I have in mind before say "hey guys go outside and advertise the project!" :-), because if we attract them too early, we risk that they don't like it and run away. Ok, there's also a chance that we find a good volonteer that helps, but the probability is very low and (at the moment) the risk much higher.

Currently I'm waiting

• Dan's green light after the cleaning of Quickbar template in these articles. After that we have to manage/classify all the articles that do not have a Quickbar. But not before that, to avoid to complicate that fix.
• Your green light for the models update with the new Quickbar. After that I'll implement a mechanism to pre-fill new empty page. But not before that, to avoid that people create new article with a wrong model.

In the meanwhile, here's an enhancement that is pretty usefull to editors during the improvement of an article, because on the left side will appear all the sources of information available within the wikiproject. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 14 april 2015 kl. 12.08 (CEST)

I do not see myself as a part of this project, and I am not enough of a writer to be of value for your articles.

But, my opinions is that when you compare a Template-solution with a Extension-solution, they both have advantages. An Extension reach all pages, without any need of maintainace. A template-solution can locally be modified to fit your need. If svwp do not have an article in a subject, enwp, nowp or any other Project maybe have one. A template can be designed to fit how easy it is for Swedish-speaking editors to understand other languages and link en or no/da-articles when Swedish wp-articles are missing. -- Innocent bystander (diskussion) 14 april 2015 kl. 12.19 (CEST)

@Innocent bystander and IB:, totally agree with you. In fact we use the extension to get the benefit of a central maintainance and optimization, customizing it with local templates/modules.

Step one is: activate the extension :-) --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 14 april 2015 kl. 18.43 (CEST)

Riggwelter, IB, let me know if you have further concern or if I may open the ticket in Phabricator to activate this exention by default. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 15 april 2015 kl. 19.33 (CEST)

I have no concerns in any direction, but I recommend you to leave the thread open a few more days before you report to Phab. -- Innocent bystander (diskussion) 15 april 2015 kl. 21.07 (CEST)

Ok, although usually on Phab they wait at least 1 week from the discussion opening date. --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 15 april 2015 kl. 22.07 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nya användarrättigheter

Följande nya användarrättgheter är nu implementerade:

• tillbakarullare (f.n. 3 användare)
• patrullerare (f.n. 3 användare)
• autopatrollerare (f.n. 19 användare)

Dan Koehl (diskussion) 7 maj 2015 kl. 19.11 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

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

• 11 June 2015: all Wikiquote, all remaining Wikivoyage
• 15 June 2015: Wikipedias: ar, ca, es, hu, ko, ro, uk, vi

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

How to use it, once it is enabled:

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

I hope it will be helpful for you and allow you to do useful things with the help of Wikidata.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher 7 juni 2015 kl. 16.05 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

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

The link tool has been re-designed:

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

— Elitre (WMF)

13 juni 2015 kl. 12.44 (CEST)

HTTPS

Hej!

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

20 juni 2015 kl. 00.00 (CEST)

Wikivoyage:Live mirror‎

There's anyone that can translate the content of it:Wikivoyage:Live mirror‎ into the page in the subject? Thanks, --Andyrom75 (discussioni) 9 juli 2015 kl. 00.53 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

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

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

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

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 augusti 2015 kl. 03.47 (CEST)

Översättning av kod behövs

Hi! The italians have made a great work importing code. I have tested to add Mall:Listing and it works quite well. In the edit-window there are buttons for the listings "Listposter", we need to translate the MediaWiki:Gadget-PulsantiBase.js, the part: //Menyknappar i listpostfunktion: * {{see\n| nome=', '', ' | alt= | sito= | email=\n| indirizzo= | lat= | long= | indicazioni=\n| tel= | numero verde= | fax=\n| orari= | prezzo=\n| descrizione=\n}} should be replaced with variables according to Mall:Listing/dok. For all kinds of listings. I can't do it,, but I can write what need to be done on the discussion page. /Johan Jönsson (diskussion) 7 augusti 2015 kl. 20.06 (CEST)

I have also been testing Mall:DynamicMap and it works fine. One problem is that the code seem to be looking for <code> {{sleep {{see {{listing and if we translate our templates to <code> {{boende {{att se then they does not show up on the map. I can't find out where this is done, probably in some script far away./Johan Jönsson (diskussion) 7 augusti 2015 kl. 20.06 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

Wikimania

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

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

Future changes

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

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

Quickbar

Hello guys. on voy/de I have implemented the quickbar as a module. The module is able to pick necessary information from WD if needed (postal code, area code, inhabitans, province, coordinates....) WD information is only used, if the information is not provided here. So it can always be overwritten locally. If you are interested in such a quickbar, please drop me a line. -- DerFussi (diskussion) 17 augusti 2015 kl. 07.35 (CEST)

Sounds great! It looks like the images already is automatically generated or something. I always find it tedious to copy those numbers from wikipedia or another laguage of wikivoyage./Johan Jönsson (diskussion) 17 augusti 2015 kl. 08.05 (CEST)

Hear, hear! Implement it on a test page so we see what it looks like. Riggwelter (diskussion) 17 augusti 2015 kl. 23.08 (CEST)

Ok. I am going to implement step by step. As I can see, your quickbar city is partly a module already. I am going to check all the modules and templates first. -- DerFussi (diskussion) 18 augusti 2015 kl. 06.56 (CEST)

I am going to wait, how the adminship election runs. Prbably i have to edit some the .css file.

BTW. I have found a glitch in your file MediaWiki:Edittools, but I can not edit it right now. This may be one of the reasons why the site looks not right when you edit it. At the end there is a missing closing span-Tag. At the end of the last but two row. But it seems its not the only one.

Next Friday (28.08.) i will fly to Stockholm. Leaving back home five days later. :) Just a short trip to explore the town. -- DerFussi (diskussion) 18 augusti 2015 kl. 07.41 (CEST)

Two people from it-voy worked quite a bit on the Quickbar, Andyrom75 and Natoshka with the help of Dan_Koehl. See discussion about the progress at Användardiskussion:Dan_Koehl.

Have fun in Stockholm. /Johan Jönsson (diskussion) 18 augusti 2015 kl. 21.08 (CEST)

Yes. I know about it. I'll check the state of the existing modules first. ... I am sure I will have. I should read a bit about Stockholm first. :) -- DerFussi (diskussion) 19 augusti 2015 kl. 10.20 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19 augusti 2015 kl. 01.09 (CEST)

I have created hundreds alternate Wikivoyage banners (which I think look better than many of the default banners that exist on Engvoy/Wikidata) for prominent locations

I am one of the current few active editors on the Hebrew Wikivoyage. In recent years, while spending a lot of time creating/expanding articles in the Hebrew Wikivoyage, in many instances I came across banners I disliked (for various reasons). As a result, in many instances I ended up creating alternative banners (mostly for prominent places, which I think highly deserve better banners) which I think are an improvement to what existed (I had to work with what was available on Flickr + Wikicommons, and had a license that allowed me to create derivative images). Those alternative banners were primarily made for usage in the Hebrew Wikivoyage, although through the last two years I have suggested in various instances that the English Wikivoyage consider using some of these banners as well, instead of their current banners (and as a result the English Wikivoyage community did eventually decide to use some of these alternative banners instead of the previous banners they used).

Either way, you are more than welcome to go over all of the alternative banners I created and consider using some/all of the alternative banners you might think would look better in your articles. ויקיג'אנקי (diskussion) 24 augusti 2015 kl. 19.36 (CEST)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

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

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

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

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

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

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28 september 2015 kl. 20.34 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Future changes

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

Let's work together

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

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

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

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

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

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

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

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

Vi ser fram emot att höra dina idéer.

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 9 november 2015 kl. 22.57 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10 november 2015 kl. 11.48 (CET)

Harassment consultation

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

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

Undersökning: gemenskapens önskelista

Hej allihop!

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 1 december 2015 kl. 15.38 (CET)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18 december 2015 kl. 21.59 (CET) • Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk • Hjälp

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

Future changes

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

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

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

Testing opportunities

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

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

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