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@Ferien: Thank you for your suggestions. And sorry for late response because I received the notification just now. Haoreima (talk) 12:56, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much for the translation, Haoreima! I see that you speak an overwhelming amount of languages - would you maybe be open to consider to help us out with some of them? It is about this: when the elections start on Monday, we want to show a Central Notice banner globally. And of course we would like to show it in as many languages as possible. It is only one sentence and if you would like to support the goal to call many people to vote in their own language, maybe you would like to create some translations in the many languages you speak? That would be very fond of you and it is really a quick thing to do. Thank you very much anyway and have a great weekend! Here is the link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-mc_dc_election&task=view&filter=%21translated&action=translate DBarthel (WMF) (talk) 19:41, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- DBarthel (WMF) Thanks for informing. I have translated into 2 languages I know. But I can't do that for "lang-omp"! omp stands for simple:Old Manipuri language. Could you please fix the problem? Haoreima (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- Oh. I did a quick check, I do not know for sure why this is. I assume this might be connected to the fact, that Old Manipuri has yet not a Wikiproject of it's own? But as this is, there would not be an opportunity to show it in a matching wikiproject ... Thank you very much for those two anyway. Would it be to much to ask for a Hindi-translation too? DBarthel (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- DBarthel (WMF) Sure, I did that for Hindi too. Well, I found "grc" (ancient Greek) eligible for translation. Ancient Greek is also in the incubator just like Old Manipuri incubator (omp incubator). If Ancient Greek has the ability, then there might be a way for Old Manipuri too. Notably, modern Manipuri wikipedia is currently there (mni.wikipedia). Please do something if possible! Haoreima (talk) 02:57, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
- Oh. I did a quick check, I do not know for sure why this is. I assume this might be connected to the fact, that Old Manipuri has yet not a Wikiproject of it's own? But as this is, there would not be an opportunity to show it in a matching wikiproject ... Thank you very much for those two anyway. Would it be to much to ask for a Hindi-translation too? DBarthel (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
- DBarthel (WMF) Thanks for informing. I have translated into 2 languages I know. But I can't do that for "lang-omp"! omp stands for simple:Old Manipuri language. Could you please fix the problem? Haoreima (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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- Hi Haoreima, I wanted to thank you for your ongoing translations to modern Manipuri language. One suggestion, neither of the mni projects are listed at Distribution list/Global message delivery, so currently this grants announcement wasn't delivered to either project. The below announcement I decided to deliver to the community portal, since we are glad for your translation work and wanted to send that message in the mni language. Of course, perhaps your project has chosen not to opt-in to global message deliveries in this way, which is fine also. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 01:06, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Xeno (WMF): Dear Sir! Thank you so much for your help to deliver the message personally in the community portal of mni wiki. Well, in fact, I wasn't aware of the lack of these 2 mni projects in the list you mentioned until you tell me. Actually, I want to add the 2 projects in the list Distribution list/Global message delivery. If that page is reserved only for admins to edit, please add the mni.wikipedia and the mni.wiktionary! Regards! Haoreima (talk) 02:04, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Haoreima: Hi, I work with Xeno and I would like to appreciate your translations :) just to confirm, would ꯋꯤꯛꯁꯟꯅꯔꯤ:ꯃꯤꯌꯥꯝꯒꯤ ꯄꯨꯟꯐꯝꯌꯥꯎꯐꯝ the right place to post announcements at Manipuri Wiktionary? Thanks! RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @RamzyM (WMF): Yes! It's the community portal/village pump of that wiktionary! But I am really suprised that it's still not connected through wikidata to other equivalent wiki projects. And I can't do that connection as I am not admin in any wiki project. Haoreima (talk) 02:25, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- Wonderful. I've started a separate list for mni so that all messages from Meta that is translated into the language can directly be sent using MassMessage. I see Xeno has delivered to mni.wikipedia, so I'll deliver it to mni.wiktionary. Regarding the Wikidata link: try ask here. RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @RamzyM (WMF): Wow! Today, I found something new from you! I never knew that separate listings can be done. Well, thank you so much for concerning on the development of mni wiki projects! :) Haoreima (talk) 02:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- Wonderful. I've started a separate list for mni so that all messages from Meta that is translated into the language can directly be sent using MassMessage. I see Xeno has delivered to mni.wikipedia, so I'll deliver it to mni.wiktionary. Regarding the Wikidata link: try ask here. RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @RamzyM (WMF): Yes! It's the community portal/village pump of that wiktionary! But I am really suprised that it's still not connected through wikidata to other equivalent wiki projects. And I can't do that connection as I am not admin in any wiki project. Haoreima (talk) 02:25, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Haoreima: Hi, I work with Xeno and I would like to appreciate your translations :) just to confirm, would ꯋꯤꯛꯁꯟꯅꯔꯤ:ꯃꯤꯌꯥꯝꯒꯤ ꯄꯨꯟꯐꯝꯌꯥꯎꯐꯝ the right place to post announcements at Manipuri Wiktionary? Thanks! RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Xeno (WMF): Dear Sir! Thank you so much for your help to deliver the message personally in the community portal of mni wiki. Well, in fact, I wasn't aware of the lack of these 2 mni projects in the list you mentioned until you tell me. Actually, I want to add the 2 projects in the list Distribution list/Global message delivery. If that page is reserved only for admins to edit, please add the mni.wikipedia and the mni.wiktionary! Regards! Haoreima (talk) 02:04, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
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- Thank you you for completing this - it is really appreciated. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 03:22, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
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This Month in Education: January 2022
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- 30-h Wikipedia Article Writing Challenge
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- Join us this February for the EduWiki Week
- Offline Education project WikiChallenge closed its third edition
- Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT Experience of a Filipina Wikimedian
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- Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew
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This Month in Education: February 2022
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- Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
- Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
- WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
- Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
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Recent changes
- In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [18][19]
Problems
- There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
- There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [20]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
- When using
uselang=qqx
to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [21] - Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have
deletelogentry
anddeletedhistory
rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with thedeleterevision
right could access this special page. [22] - On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [23]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
- The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [24]
Events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
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22:07, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New code release schedule for this week
- There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.
Recent changes
- You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [25]
- The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [26]
Future changes
- Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [27]
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16:01, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
This Month in Education: March 2022
This Month in Education
Volume 11 • Issue 3 • March 2022
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- Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
- The edit-a-thon on Serbian Wikipedia on the occasion of Edu Wiki Week
- Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
- Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
- Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
- EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
- EduWiki Week in Armenia
- Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
- Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
- Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [28][29]
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19:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for participation in Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022!
Dear participant!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for participating in Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022! We are grateful for your willingness to share free knowledge about the people and culture of Ukraine when it is needed the most.
As promised, the organizers want to appreciate your contribution by awarding you a certificate of participation. Please wait for further notifications from me on that issue.
What comes to prizes: because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there could be delays in shipping, however, we will definitely get back soon with more information on that.
Take care and stay safe.-- ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 09:18, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [30]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be
Tech News: 2022-14
anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [31] - Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.
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21:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
- On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [32][33]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
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19:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)