කෝපි කඩේ: ප්‍රතිපත්තිතාක්ෂණිකයෝජනා (persistent)පර්යේෂණාගාරයMiscellaneous

Editing News #1—July 2019

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18:32, 23 ජූලි 2019 (යූටීසී)

New tools and IP masking

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14:18, 21 අගෝස්තු 2019 (යූටීසී)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

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-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 සැප්තැම්බර් 2019 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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07:18, 16 ඔක්තෝබර් 2019 (යූටීසී)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

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-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 ඔක්තෝබර් 2019 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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11:12, 29 ඔක්තෝබර් 2019 (යූටීසී)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

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Please help translate to your language

 

Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:57, 31 ඔක්තෝබර් 2019 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

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In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:16, 27 නොවැම්බර් 2019 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Wiki Loves Folklore

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Hello Folks,

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

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:15, 18 ජනවාරි 2020 (යූටීසී)
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Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020

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Wiki Loves Women is back with the 2020 edition. Join us to celebrate women and queer community in Folklore theme and enrich Wikipedia with the local culture of your region. Happening from 1 February-31 March, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on folk culture and gender. The theme of the contest includes, but is not limited to, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklores, witches and witch hunting, fairytales and more). You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.

Best wishes,

Wiki Loves Women Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:52, 19 ජනවාරි 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

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Hello

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

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

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 ජනවාරි 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

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

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:15, 26 පෙබරවාරි 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Ayubowan! I intend to request sysop access at Meta in about a week, mainly to work with media files on siwiki:

  • Delete clearly copyrighted files (some examples), and replace uses with suitable Commons alternatives
  • Move suitable files to Wikimedia Commons via FileImporter Extension (pending documentation at MediaWiki)
  • Improve licensing templates (i.e. accessibility and formatting), and license conversion (i.e. during export)

After a week, the request will be completed at Meta considering that there is only one active admin here, and no bureaucrats. WP:RFA was not used due to the same reason, and also because it was never used before (i.e. only a direct translation from enwiki). Please feel free to share any concerns below. Thank you! Rehman 03:19, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

I strongly disagree with this. If you have the ability to note down the files with copyright issues you can tag them for deletion. Since currently there is no backlog on the subject I personally can manage the deletion requests. Is there a need to have sysop access for the other tasks? --Lee (talk) 06:32, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
There's no backlog because you are probably the most active user here and the only admin around; there is no one else to tag or review. Have you seen the files in the link above, and their sources/licences? Appreciate if you can substantiate your disagreement. Rehman 07:14, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
We've had issues in the past where people from English Wikipedia coming in an using bulldozing approach to apply their theories here. Therefore we do not trust people with sysop rights that easily. I believe you have misunderstood what I meant earlier. I disagree on you getting sysop access here but not on the rest.--Lee (talk) 08:18, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
Hi, Lee! Not to step on any toes but is there any opposition to deleting some of the obvious copyvios? I noticed that many of the problematic files, which are clearly not own work as indicated by the uploads licensing come from one account. Here is an example. Praxidicae (talk) 14:07, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
Hello Lee, there are many files that are copyrightvio here and do not have appropirate license. Praxidicae is a Global sysop and she can help in this situation. she doesn't need local adminship for clean up since the wiki is already within scope so letting her help here will be good for project. Thank you.-BRPever (talk) 14:27, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
Why is it so important for you to exercise your admin rights here? You have a way to help us by tagging them. But you do not want to do that; right? We have two admins here and of them one is very active at the moment. Doesn't that count? --Lee (talk) 18:24, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
Hello, the important thing for all of us is to solve the issue, regardless if ourself, or with your help. We can obviously tag all of the files, but you can see many examples in this discussion and you can equally handle them without tagging. Best, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 18:37, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
One major issue I faced was deciding whether a file is a copyvio. Is "Files with no machine-readable license" enough?--Lee (talk) 18:46, 31 මාර්තු 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
I usually use images.google.com to search for the particular image and look if it appears somewhere else as well. If so, it should have an OTRS confirmation on file. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 13:10, 1 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
That's the same thing I used to do sometime back. But that is very time consuming and not practical for me. But if someone can do that and tag it for deletion with proper information, then it is a totally different story. --Lee (talk) 15:35, 1 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
I found this file tagged for deletion for copyright violation. However I couldn't find any obvious indication on the file that it is so. I asked the person regarding the tagging but no reply there. So far our normal practice has been to delete copyright violations after pointing out the proof. This is one good example why I oppose people who are not involved in our project exercising their admin rights here. --Lee (talk) 17:35, 18 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]
That is a professionally-taken photo with no listed source or author, no proof it is under that license, and in the event that ChanakaW (the uploader) is the person who took that photo, then they have very probably been engaging in paid editing. The onus of proof for a license is on the uploader; we assume all things are copyrighted until proof is presented to the contrary. This is why c:COM:OTRS‘s permissions queues exist. Vermont (talk) 14:28, 23 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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19:25, 8 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)

Could somebody translate this navigation template of Indo-Aryan wikipedia to your wikipedia?Indo-Aryan wikipedia:Template:--Kaiyr (talk) 12:27, 22 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)[reply]

Editing news 2020 #2

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20:33, 17 ජූනි 2020 (යූටීසී)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී)

feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community

Feedback on movement names

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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Thank you!

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

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

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:42, 2 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී)

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

Editing news 2020 #3

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12:55, 9 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

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Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:10, 9 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement [reply]

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

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Dear community members,

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

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

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

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Learn how Movement Strategy Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans

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Movement Strategy Implementation grants now provide more than $2,000 USD to put Movement Strategy plans into action. Find out more about Movement Strategy Implementation grants, the criteria, and how to apply.

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 13:30, 29 October 2021 (UTC)