Wikipedia:Praothoek/Archief/7

Status van Wikipedia

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Commons, Wikidata in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten.
Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.
De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.

Wat zullen ze tijdens Wikimania in Londen zeggen over Wikipedia?

Over drie weken komen Wikimedianen uit meer dan zestig landen bij elkaar in Londen. Gedurende drie dagen wisselen ze verhalen uit over wat er speelt op hun wiki project. Na Wikimania vliegen ze geïnspireerd terug naar huis, gevoed met verhalen uit de hele wereld. Welk verhaal over Wikipedia zal de wereld overgaan?
Vanuit Nederland bezoeken zeker 16 mensen Wikimania. Met welk verhaal zullen zij naar Londen gaan? Schrijf mee aan Wikipedia:Status van de wiki juli-augustus 2014 en help mee de tien punten op te sommen die Wikipedia nu tot een geweldig, grandioos, voortreffelijk project hebben gemaakt. Leef je uit en benoem wat het voor jou fantastisch maakt om mee te werken aan Wikipedia.
Nadat er tenminste tien punten zijn opgesomd die goed gaan met Wikipedia kan op Overleg Wikipedia:Status van de wiki juli-augustus 2014 overlegd worden over wat er minder goed gaat. Dan kan eventueel na die discussie een verbeterpunt toegevoegd worden aan de tien positieve punten op Wikipedia:Status van de wiki juli-augustus 2014.
Dank je wel! In Nederland is het nu zomer en zouden we geneigd zijn dit een zomerrapport te noemen. Het is nu op het zuidelijk halfrond winter en vandaar de aanduiding van de maanden in plaats van het jaargetijde. Ad Huikeshoven (overleg) 14:58, 19 jul 2014 (CEST)

Updates related to VisualEditor

Please help translate this message in your language. Thanks :)

Hi, everybody. This is a reminder that we invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during the next office hours with James Forrester (Product Manager):

• Thursday, August 14, 9:00 UTC;
• Thursday, September 18, 16:00 UTC.

If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your question at mediawiki.org or on my talk page by the day before, and I will try to get a response. We plan to continue these monthly sessions as long as there is community interest, and to announce them through the VisualEditor global newsletter as well (please subscribe your talk page there to get the latest news about the software).

Most of the VisualEditor team will be at Wikimania in London in August! You'll be able to meet the developers during the Hackaton or at the following sessions:

• VisualEditor — helping users edit more easily, Saturday, August 9;
• VisualEditor — engineering against the odds, Sunday, August 10.

WMF community liaisons will share a booth with community advocates at the Community Village and look forward to talking to you there. Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 18:02, 31 jul 2014 (CEST)

VisualEditor global newsletter—July and August 2014

The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number of items that need to be translated. The user guide is also being updated.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

• Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
• You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
• All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Invogen" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Invogen" menu.
• When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
• All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
• The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
• The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30. There is a VisualEditor Translation Sprint going on during Wikimania; whether you're in London or not, any contributions are welcome!

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 16:40, 9 aug 2014 (CEST)

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (overleg) 03:41, 13 aug 2014 (CEST)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 19:35, 21 aug 2014 (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 00:15, 22 aug 2014 (CEST)

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Waarmee kan Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland de bewerkers van Wikipedie in het jaar 2015 helpen?

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Commons, Wikidata, Outreach in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten. Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen. Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.
De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.

Heb jij ideeën over wat Wikimedia Nederland wel of niet zou moeten doen?

Wil jij invloed uitoefenen op wat Wikimedia Nederland wel of niet doet en waar Wikimedia Nederland geld aan uit geeft?

De eerste prioriteit van de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (WMNL) is het ondersteunen van de bewerkers van Wikipedia en zusterprojecten in Nederland. WMNL is een vereniging die juridisch onafhankelijk is van de Wikimedia Foundation. Door ruimhartige financiële steun van de Wikimedia Foundation kan WMNL heel wat doen met een kantoorruimte in Utrecht waar vijf mensen werken om de gemeenschap van leden en vrijwilligers te ondersteunen. Over drie weken op zaterdag 20 september 2014 gaat de Algemene Ledenvergadering (ALV) het jaarplan 2015 vaststellen. Het jaarplan is mede gebaseerd op het in het jaar 2012 vastgestelde meerjarenplan 2013-2015. Graag zou ik willen weten aan wat voor ondersteuning jullie eventueel behoefte hebben. De verkregen feedback tot nu toe is 'aandacht geven aan zusterprojecten'. Hieronder kun je lezen wat in het meerjarenplan 2013-2015 staat over 'community' met doelen en activiteiten.

COMMUNITY: ondersteunen en mobiliseren van vrijwilligers

De missie van Wikimedia Nederland kan alleen gerealiseerd worden wanneer mensen zich actief inzetten om kennis vrij beschikbaar te maken via Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-projecten en activiteiten. Het doel voor de komende jaren: meer actieve bewerkers en vrijwilligers die effectief worden ondersteund vanuit de Vereniging. Het creëren van mogelijkheden voor vrijwilligers en bewerkers om actief te zijn en het bieden van ondersteuning aan hun inzet is de komende jaren een kerntaak van Wikimedia Nederland, evenals het motiveren en activeren van nieuwe vrijwilligersgroepen. Het moet breed bekend zijn dat Wikipedia een vrijwilligersproject is, waar iedereen aan mag meewerken en in onze outreach activiteiten gaan we met name daar de nadruk op leggen. Vrijwilligers en bewerkers kunnen zowel online als offline rekenen op de ondersteuning van Wikimedia Nederland bij hun activiteiten: bij het creëren van content, de contacten met (potentiële) partnerorganisaties en het op andere manieren bevorderen van vrije kennis. De vereniging werkt hieraan door aansluiting te zoeken op individuele competenties, voorkeuren en wensen. Vraaggericht en individueel wordt een breed scala van mogelijkheden en faciliteiten aangeboden. Dit gebeurt mede door het bieden van een sociale infrastructuur waarbinnen de vrijwilligers zich kunnen ontplooien en kunnen samenwerken om tot resultaten te komen. Doelen De instroom van vrijwilligers en bewerkers is vergroot: nog meer mensen zijn zelf actief in Wikipedia of andere activiteiten en projecten Vrijwilligers en bewerkers krijgen van Wikimedia Nederland effectieve, doelgerichte steun die hen in staat stelt optimaal en met plezier actief te zijn en te blijven; De communicatie met vrijwilligers en bewerkers loopt via korte en informele lijnen De vrijwilligers en bewerkers voelen zich gewaardeerd om hun betrokkenheid en voelen zich niet geremd om initiatief te tonen Activiteiten 1.1 Organiseren van laagdrempelige, aansprekende publieksevenementen, projecten en activiteiten die de actieve deelname van geïnteresseerden stimuleren en mogelijk maken 1.2 Contact en samenwerking zoeken met andere vrijwilligersorganisaties om hun achterban te interesseren en mobiliseren voor Wikimedia-projecten en activiteiten 1.3 Opzetten van introductie-cursussen voor potentiële Wikipedia-bewerkers en het trainen van trainers voor deze cursussen 2.1 Regelmatig bij bewerkers en vrijwilligers nagaan welke soort en vorm van ondersteuning zij nodig hebben 2.2 Deelname van vrijwilligers en bewerkers aan cursussen, congressen en workshops mogelijk maken 2.3 Op uitleenbasis beschikbaar stellen van apparatuur aan vrijwilligers en bewerkers 2.4 Vrijwilligers en bewerkers desgevraagd ondersteuning bieden door medewerkers 2.5 Beschikbaar stellen van fondsen voor (kleine) projecten en activiteiten van vrijwilligers en bewerkers 3.1 Aanbieden van duidelijke kanalen voor directe communicatie tussen Vereniging en alle vrijwilligers c.q. optimaliseren van bestaande kanalen 4.1 Vrijwilligers en bewerkers nader bij vereniging betrekken als ‘specialisten’, in adviesgroepen etc. 4.2 Organiseren van kleinschalige ‘community events’ zoals Wiki-zaterdag, Wiki meets….

Jullie zijn allemaal van harte welkom tijdens de ALV op zaterdag 20 september 2014 om je stem te laten horen. Je kunt nu al je ideeën kwijt en je reactie geven op onderstaande vragen, zeker voor hen die niet naar de ALV van WMNL willen of kunnen komen. Dit bericht is op persoonlijke titel gepost door Dedalus (overleg) 11:23, 30 aug 2014 (CEST). Voor de leesbaarheid volgen de vragen na de ondertekening.

Welke activiteiten zou Wikimedia Nederland met voorrang moeten oppakken?

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Waarmee zou Wikimedia Nederland de bewerkers van Wikipedie nog meer kunnen helpen?

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 18:52, 2 sep 2014 (CEST)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:22, 9 sep 2014 (CEST)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 09:29, 11 sep 2014 (CEST).

PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

Bestaanden opsturen, Insendingswegwyser?

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki there is little community activity around uploads: less than 50 "Vordsmyten" actions in "Bestaand" last year.

I guess this wiki doesn't have the interest or energies to maintain complex templates and metadata, especially for EDP files. I propose to

• send users to commons:Special:UploadWizard from the sidebar and
• limit local "Bestand upladen" to the "beheyrders" group (for any emergency uploads),

so that no new work is needed on this wiki and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons.

All this will be done around 2014-09-30.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove this wiki from the list.
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
3. In all cases, existing files will not be affected, but everyone is welcome to join m:File metadata cleanup drive. The goal is to give better credit to the authors who provided us their works.

Nemo 21:12, 18 sep 2014 (CEST)

Wikiwand al ezeen?

Leu, ik wete neet o'j hier nog völle roondkiekt, mer a'j non t nieje velleke van Wiki weelt proberen, mu'j es kieken op wikiwand.com/. Visueel stoarke verbettering van Wikipedia, woerduur as t wier helemoal van dissen tied lik. Probeert mer es oet. Zut der gelikt oet. Woolters (overleg) 14:49, 6 okt 2014 (CEST)

moi Woolters,

Dat is nen helen mooien. Ik kenden wal [1] , ok mooi, maor da's meer n konsept, nog neet helemaol warkend. Maor wikiwand is wal ne verbettering, daor mot ze bi'j de wikipedia-foundation maor es naor kieken! Droadnaegel (overleg) 22:39, 6 okt 2014 (CEST)

Moi Draodnaegel, det is ja ook nen mooien. Mer et mooie van wikiwand is det iej et as ne app in Chrome installeren köant. As iej dan noar wikipedia goat in Chrome, sköt Wikiwand doar vanzelf oawerhen. Woolters (overleg) 11:11, 7 okt 2014 (CEST)

Naam veur alle Nedersaksiese/Platduutse varianten samen

Moi, Ik heb op wiktionary ne kleine diskussie met Bruker:Sarcelles wat de naam veur alle platduutse/nederduutse variante tesamen zol motten waen: Wiktionary Diskussie. Nederduuts en Nedersaksies bunt gin eendudige begrippen, en mien veurstel (Vorschlag) zol waen:

• nds-nl: Nedersaksies
• nds-de: Platduuts
• nds: Nederduuts (Nedderdüütsch)
• West-Nederduuts veur nds-nl, en de westelike varianten van Platduuts, as tegenstelling veur Ooost-Nederduuts

As i'j hier n mening ovver hebt, dan gif dee op de bovven-eneumde ovverlegziede, ik geleuf dat t good is dat hier meer leu eure mening ovver geft. Droadnaegel (overleg) 00:49, 11 okt 2014 (CEST) (miene skrieveri'je is n betjen an-epast an de Duutsers in dit bericht, zodat ze t better begriepen könt, ovver t algemeen negeert ze mi'j op nds-wiki)

VisualEditor News #8—2014

Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that replaced some categories with a link to the system message MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

The tool for editing TemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template page or a subpage, and then click the "Maldokumentasie beheren" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes

Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect and mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community is available. Thank you all for your work.

This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.

Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

11:49, 13 okt 2014 (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 19:04, 26 okt 2014 (CET)

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (overleg) 13:38, 31 okt 2014 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

• DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • English signup
  • Deutsch signup
• Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
• Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
• British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
• Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
• Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
• JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:19, 6 nov 2014 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 18:34, 14 nov 2014 (CET)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-visual-editor⧽" to use VisualEditor, or "⧼Mobile-frontend-editor-source-editor⧽" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.

Recent improvements

Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.

To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "Meyr" item, such as "Understreapen" in the styling menu.

The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [2] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData

The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Maldokumentasie beheren" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "veuresteld" or "opsioneel" in TemplateData instead.

Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.

The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables. The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

00:29, 15 nov 2014 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
• Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
• Pelican Books - ebook monographs
• Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.01:22, 18 des 2014 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Stil

't Is hier wel een beetje stil geworden... :( --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 18:49, 24 des 2014 (CET)

Dat he'j goed ezien. Wulen bin allemaole drok in de wiere dunkt m'n. Mer ik schrieve nog altied artikels a'k daor de tied en wille veur hebbe. Servien (overleg) 23:49, 29 des 2014 (CET)

Jao, oppe Limbörger is 't ouch 'nen tied stil gebleve. Döks hoof mer eine gebroeker trögk te kómme veur de zaak weer herop te laeve :) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 12:34, 30 des 2014 (CET)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

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 table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Alinea" into a "Blokcitaat".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Vet" and "Kursiv" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

19:59, 26 des 2014 (CET)

Een: n / ne / nen

Wanneer schrief je 'n', 'ne' of 'nen' in t Tweants/Achterhoeks (ne stad/ne gemeente?)? In t Veluws he'w dat niet dus vandaor da'k t niet helemaole begriepe. Bie ons he'w wel da'j bie de-woorden vake 'ene' zegen en bie t-woorden 'een' (ene (1) ko/ene (1) appel/ene (1) schoele, een (1) raam/een (1) vliegtuug/een (1) dier). Misschien n goed idee um dat bie de Tweantse taalwiezer te vermelden (as t uut te dujen is :-)). Groetnis Servien (overleg) 21:58, 2 jan 2015 (CET)

Ligt an t woordgeslacht: n bi'j onziedig, ne bi'j vrouwelik, nen bi'j mannelik. Dus m/v is in t Achterhooks belangrieker as in t Nederlaands. Dus: n huus, ne vrouwe, nen keerl. Um t nog wat ondudeliker te maken: in t dageliks spraokgebroek wörd t bepaold lidwoord veur mannelike weurde (den) vake oetesprokken as 'n: Ik lag in t zekenhoes. To kwamp 'n dokter de kamer in: Ik lag in het ziekenhuis. Toen kwam DE dokter de kamer binnen. Onbepaold zol dan waen: Ik lag in t zekenhoes. To kwamp der nen dokter de kamer in. Ik lag in het ziekenhuis. Toen kwam er EEN dokter de kamer in. Veur vrouwelik is dat neet zo verwarrend: To kwamp DE zuster de kamer in / To kwamp NE zuster de kamer in. OP Achterhooksen_taalwiezer#Lidwoorden wörd t trouwens wal beneumd. Wat daor, zee'k no, neet steet, is dat telweurde as bi'jveuglik naamwoord vake gin -e kriegt, maor op zichzelf staond wal: Den boer hef tien beeste, t bunt der dus tie:ne. Droadnaegel (overleg) 23:56, 2 jan 2015 (CET)

Precies zo as Draodnaegel et beskrif, Servien :). Goodgoan in 2015 trouwens. Kö'w neet met mekoar ofsprekken de'w in elk geval 1 artikel per moand doot? Dan zit der wier wat verniejing in. Of wat mear oetdaging: 6000 artikelen vuur Augustus? Woolters (overleg) 14:46, 4 jan 2015 (CET)

Daor he'j gelieke an Woolters. Ik zal wat meer proberen bie te dragen, oek t veurblad was n bietjen vergeten, mer oek dat is weer bie. Van de weke he'k vier artikels eschreven, dus disse maond niks meer schrieven? :-P 6.000 artikels is n mooi streven, mer dan mu'w der in n half jaor tied 615 artikels bie hebben, dat is gemiddeld 100 artikels per maond... 5500 artikels tot augustus 2015 dat mut te doon ween (20 artikels per maond), a'w dat mit zien allen doon (Servien, Woolters, Grönneger 1, Ni'jluuseger, Droadnaegel en NGolds20) dan mu'w allemaole 4 artikels per maond schrieven. As der meer meensen n artikel schrieven dan is dat mooi mee-eneumen natuurlik. Servien (overleg) 22:38, 3 feb 2015 (CET)

Ich zeen det mie knotere hiebaove toch nag get effèk haet gehadj ;) Sjiek det g'r weer get aktiever zeetj gewaoren hie! :) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 15:51, 4 feb 2015 (CET)

Voolgs mi-j 't ienigste wa'w met vrouwlijke woorde doet is da'w der '-e' der achter an hebt

Warre wi-j, in Banthum, hier (nog) wel hebt is dat der bi-j mannelijke de-woorde da'w doar 'n' zegt. n kop, n kettel, n peut, n huus, e.v.. Mar bi-j onziedige woorde voolgs mi-j nie, zoa'j et hierboaven wel uutlegt. Mar 'k weete toevalg wel da'ze hier vrogger ok nog wel es met 'nen' preuten. Messchien da'w de 'nen' disse eewe nog vermaklijkt hebt nöar 'n', wat of-eleid kan ween van 't Nederlaans ' 'n '. Kweenievan. Hebt i-jluu doar meer verstaand van?

NGolds20 (overleg) 18:28, 5 mrt 2015 (CET)

Et tooval wil det ik daags in Adnbarg lope vuur et woark. Ik heure dus elken dag wodöanig as iej kuiert. Bie oeleu is et oonderskeaid tusken mannelik en vrouwelik an et verdwienen. Ieleu gebroekt et mearvooldsumlaut neet mear, woerduur as et bieheurende lidwoard ook neet mear dudelik is. Ieleu zegt bv neet mear nen pot - 2 pötte mer een pot - 2 potn. Ook neet meer ne vrouwe, mer een ('n) vrouwe. Ik har et der toovallig gistern nog oawer met nen kollega, mer den wus ook neet wo as et mos. Ieleu stoat der gewoon mer weanig bie stille (Jah det segge wi'j gewon so). Woolters (overleg) 08:00, 6 mrt 2015 (CET)

Ik hadde al zo hoalf begreppn da'j wel es in n Arnbarg loopt! Iej hebt ter wel gliek met da'ze hierzoot der mar weinig bi-j stille stoat. Bi-j Erik Hulzebosch en mangs 'n oald vrouwgie wat gedichies schref höld 't ok wel zo'n bettie op. We hebt oons völle deur et Nederlaans loatn be-invluudn. k Heure ok wel 'n verskil tussn 't plat van d' oaldse (nog leewnde(!) ginneratie en dat van mien va en moe. Zo pröt mien moe van 'aaltied' en mien opoe van 'aait'. En mien moe vertöldn es da'zi-j wel de n/ne/nen nog kenden van heur meujes, mar die kwaam van Coldern. Mar wa'k allemoale met kriege van n oalderen, ervoarenden, plat-sprekkers hierzoot(banthum e.v.), perbeer ik zölf mien plat goed te hoaldn met proaten en schriewn.NGolds20 (overleg) 19:21, 6 mrt 2015 (CET)

Hoe wee'j noen welke woorden mannelik en vrouwelik bin, is dat vergeliekbaor mit t Duuts van noen of is dat aanders? Servien (overleg) 20:03, 29 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Dat mu'j learen ;). Et is inderdaad vuur een groot deel etzelfde as Hoogduuts. Een vrouwelik woard kö'j meestal kennen an de -e der achter: kaste, vrouwe, katte. vuur Oost-Tweants is det dan wier lastig, umdet ze dee leste -e vortloatt. Onziedige wöarde komt vake oawereen met de Nederlaandse het-wöarde. In oetsproake kö'j der gelukkig meestal een betken langshen sjoemelen. Woolters (overleg) 20:10, 29 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Ja, krek bie joe is dat an-eleerd ;-). Mer wulen hebben dat verschil dus niet (meer), ik ware der beniejd naor dus vandaor da'k t vreuge. Mer goed dan bi'k weer wat wiezer. Misschien goed um zoks bie de Tweantse taalwiezer te zetten? Aanders mu'j bie de 'duurverwieszieden' (veur de Amerikaanse staoten) die'k anmake mer es kieken o'k der goed Riessens van make. :-P Servien (overleg) 20:21, 29 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Juust, dat mo'j leren, of as moderspraoksprekker wet i'j wat good is, veural met bi'jveuglik naamwoord. Der bunt wal wat hulpmiddels: as t in t nl: en de: t zelfde geslacht hef, is t in 99% van de gevallen in nds ok zo. Woorden op -e maor (dat mo'j dan wal wetten), bunt vake vrouwelik, al hef m.n. t Achterhooks daor verskeidene oetzonderingen. Woorden op - ing, -heid, -is, -st, -tie, i'j(e) bunt meesttieds vrouwelik Droadnaegel (overleg) 23:37, 29 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Ik hebbe et der bie ezat. Tweantsen taalwiezer#Lidwöarde. Draodnaegel zi'j et der met eens en Servien, kö'j hier wat met? Woolters (overleg) 09:23, 30 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Dudelik, Woolters. Servien (overleg) 10:55, 30 mrt 2015 (CEST)

• Haost helemaol met eens, Woolters, toch nog wat te drammen: hee zweamp nen helen eande, ik zol dat as onziedig eskreven hebben in disse betekenis, dus hee zweamp een heel ende, net as op t ende (verticaal, rechtop, overeind, of einde), mag waen dat dat in t Twaents aanders is.
• ....gesprökkene sproake wörd et onbeklemtoonde den vake verkortt töt 'n, zodet et verwarrend genog onziedig kan lieken.. Ik denk dat dat neet onziedig is, maor onbepaold.
• Anvulling: meeste woorden met n -tie (of -sie/ tsie of hoo'j t dan ok maor skrieft) oetgang bunt ok vrouwelik (revolutsie, positsie e.z.w.). Meeste woorden op -ing bunt vrouwelik, maor dan mot -ing wal n suffix/achterplaksel waen, hering is bi'jveurbeeld weer mannelik) Droadnaegel (overleg) 18:03, 30 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Artikelantallen naor dialektgroep (febrewaori 2015)

Antal artikels naor dialektgroep: Tweants: 891 Achterhooks: 821 West-Veluws: 658 Grunnegs: 520 Stellingwarfs: 504 Drèents: 407 Sallaans: 258 Oost-Veluws: 154 Urkers: 17 Oostfreisk: 8 Graofschopper plat: 2 Eemslaands: 1 Spraoke onbekend: 1

Meeste artikels derbie (sinds september 2013): Sallaans: +41 (1 plekke estegen) Tweants: +25 (1 plekke ezakt) West-Veluws: +15 (1 plekke estegen) Grunnegs: +10 (1 plekke estegen) Oost-Veluws: +10 (4 plekken estegen) Stellingwarfs: +9 (liek ebleven) Achterhooks: +4 (5 plekken ezakt) Urkers: +1 (1 plekke ezakt) Drèents: 0 (1 plekke ezakt)

Antekeningen:

• Sinds september 2012 bin der gien nieje Drentse artikels meer eschreven. Zollen ze t internet deruut edaon hebben daor in Drenthe?
• Der is dit keer gien dialektgroep die n aandere dialektgroep in-ehaold hef wat t totale antal artikels angeet.
• Niet alle artikels op disse wiki staon in-edeeld in n dialektgroep (jaortallen enz. niet).

Groetnis Servien (overleg) 23:51, 3 feb 2015 (CET)

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.

Recent improvements

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: blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray .

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.

Looking ahead

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.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please 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)

19:30, 5 feb 2015 (CET)

Aandere titel veur "Inhoudsopgave"

Op heden steet der as titel bie de inhoudsopgave Kömp an bod, mer ik weet niet of dat wel zo passend is. Zwat alle wiki's gebruken daorveur n variaant van t woord inhoud. Noen is t zo dat dit woord in de verschillende Nedersaksiese dialekten op alderbarstends veule manieren uutespreuken kan wörden:

• inhoud (West-Veluwe, Apeldoorne, De Kuunder)
• in-oud (Urk, Blokziel)
• inhold (algemeen)
• in-old (sommige Noordwest-Overiesselse dialekten)
• inhoold (Stellingwarfs, en sommige Twentse dialekten)
• inhoald (sommige Twentse dialekten)
• ienhold (Gronings)
• ienhoald (Gronings)

Wat hadden julen der grege ezien?

• inhoud (umdat alle vertaalde systeemteksten in t West-Veluws eschreven bin)
• inhoud / inhold (de twee heufdvorms)
• overzicht (t woord 'inhoud' niet gebruken, de Noord-Friese wiki gebruukt 'Auersicht')
• onderwarpen
• kömp an bod (zo laoten as t is)
• wat aanders...

Groetnis Servien (overleg) 22:55, 19 feb 2015 (CET)

Ich zów veur "inhold" gaon veur versjillige raejene. Alderieës ómdet 't, wie ich geluif, de houfvorm is en 't meiste veurkump (inne neugetieëndjen ieëf ouch in 't Wès-Veluws!); t'n twieëdje ómdet 't aafwiek van 't Hóllesj - det höbbe "inhoud" en "overzicht" neet mit ;) "onderwarpen" liek mich ouch dèkkendj. "kömp an bod" kan ouch, meh klink e bietje te informeel (al is det netuurlik lestig te zègke veur 'ne neet-moderspraokkaller). --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 16:07, 20 feb 2015 (CET)

Ik bun t met Ooswesthoesbes eens, inhold, of inholdsopgave is t beste. A'k aem de de spraokpurist oet gao hangen: in nds-de gif t Inholt, in Oldsaksaksies ok inholt, in Oldnederlaands trouwens ok, dat is in Middelnederlaands pas inhoud eworden. Dus ik geleuf dat West-Veluws inhoud be-invlood is deur t Nederlaands, en dat t zuverste Saksiese woord inhold is. Um konsekwent te waen met de rest van de teksten in t WVEL kan ik met inhold (inhoud) ok wal laeven. En, net as OWTB zei, a'w een good woord hebt dat net wat aanders is as t Hollaands, he'k dat lever. Droadnaegel (overleg) 00:57, 21 feb 2015 (CET)

Bedankt veur t meedenken. Ik vun allinnig mer inhoud oek niet echt Saksies staon (t West-Veluws is in dat opzicht inderdaod beïnvleud deur t Hollaands), ik heb der mer 'inhold' van emaakt (t wik wel aof van de aandere systeemteksten, mer daor kan'k mee leven ), -opgave he'k der niet an-eplakt went oek daor ku'j weer kiezen uut: opgave, opgaove en opgifte, t is mien wat . Servien (overleg) 19:31, 21 feb 2015 (CET)

Inhold kan ik ook met leawen. 'opgawe' is mie dan wier te Hollaands Plat. Ik zol doar dan 'oawerzicht' vuur zeggen. Of a'j echt wat aparts weelt, nemt dan et Vjens: waverzich. Of riege(l). Inholdsriege. Woerumme neet? Kiekt mer wa'j der met doot. Woolters (overleg) 13:54, 23 feb 2015 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikipedia.org: (alles) Syden bewarken

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

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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.

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Daniel Lohues

Ik geleuf dat Daniel Lohues wal heel good naor onze ziede Nedersaksies A hef ekekken op zien Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellohues/timeline?ref=page_internal Wat ducht ow, mo'w daor aem zeggen waor dat weg kump, der bunt daor verskeidene leu dee't al meer info geft. Volk hierhen halen lik mi'j better as um den baord derof doon. Droadnaegel (overleg)

Pakt ze, Draodnaegel! ;) Woolters (overleg) 08:41, 9 mrt 2015 (CET)

Ik heb der wat bi'j ezat. Droadnaegel (overleg) 18:03, 9 mrt 2015 (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) 20:45, 13 mrt 2015 (CET)

Wist je dat

Sorry dat ik jullie even stoor voor iets waar we jullie niet al te veel tijd voor willen vragen. Op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia bedenken we momenteel in het Wist je dat-project nieuwe weetjes voor op de voorpagina. We denken dat het leuk kan zijn, om uit elke taalregio in Nederland en Vlaanderen twee of drie weetjes te krijgen (minder of meer vinden we ook goed). Daar zouden namelijk hele interessante uit kunnen voortkomen, zo is onze gedachte. Die hoeven niet per se over taal te gaan, maar kunnen over van alles en nog wat gaan waar er juist lokaal kennis over is. Om de hulp in aantallen doen we het niet, want het project loopt goed en we denken over een week of zeven à tien klaar te zijn. Hopelijk wordt het idee sympathiek opgevat. In ieder geval bedankt voor de tijd en eventueel voor de moeite. Heel veel succes gewenst met deze taalversie van Wikipedia! Met vriendelijke groet, Ymnes (overleg) 17:47, 17 mrt 2015 (CET)

Daor mo'w toch wal n paar dingen neumen können:

• Wist je dat het Nedersaksisch gesproken wordt van het (noord)oosten van Nederland tot aan Denemarken en Polen?
• Wist je dat het Nedersaksisch in de Hanzetijd (lang voordat het Standaardnederlands bestond) een belangrijke rol als 'lingua franca' vervulde?
• Wist je dat delen van de Achterhoek eigenlijk toebehoorden aan het vorstbisdom Münster, ten onrechte door de heren van Gelre toegeëigend zijn, waarna Bommen Berend er niet in slaagde de gebieden terug te halen? (zie onder meer Heerlijkheid Borculo)

Laot maor heuren, der bunt der vast nog völle meer. Droadnaegel (overleg) 01:06, 21 mrt 2015 (CET)

Dat zijn inderdaad voorstellen die we kunnen gebruiken. Wel hebben we de tweede al in vergelijkbare woorden (zie hier op nummer 7). Naast de pagina die ik een paar dagen geleden hierboven al noemde (een soort inhoudsopgave naar alle onderliggende pagina's), is deze pagina als ingang wel gemakkelijk. In de eerste kolom staan de weetjes die we al goedgekeurd hebben en in de tweede kolom kun je klikken op voorstellen om een nieuw weetje aan te dragen. Ik zou de eerste in de categorie Taal voorstellen en de derde in de categorie Geschiedenis. Ymnes (overleg) 08:11, 21 mrt 2015 (CET)

Je mag ze er trouwens zelf voorstellen hoor. Als er overleg is, dan is dat constructief en aardig. So don't be affraid, om het op goed Nedersaksisch te zeggen Ymnes (overleg) 22:44, 21 mrt 2015 (CET)

Nog bedankt voor jullie bijdragen trouwens. Vijf weetjes kregen we vanuit het Nedersaksisch. Top! Ymnes (overleg) 18:28, 11 apr 2015 (CEST)

Duurverwiezings

Wat zeent precies de reagels mit betrekking tot duurverwiezings op disse wiki? Ik wet det t duurverwiezings geft, moar t is neet heel konsekwent. Op dn Limbörger hadn vie earst n soortgeliek systeem, moar sinds kort he'k mie d'rop too-elegt iets mear duurverwiezings an te maakn, zeker bie nije pagina's. t Liekt mie wal handig hier iets van systeem in te brengn, ok op d'n Nedersaks :) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 19:01, 20 mrt 2015 (CET)

Bie Frieslaand denk je mitene an de provinsie Frieslaand (Fryslân) en bie Zwolle (deurverwiesziede) oek, daor mut t dan oek naortoe verwiezen, mit bovenan n vermelding dat der oek nog n regio is die Frieslaand hit. Mer as der twee of meerdere artikels bin waorvan t niet zo vanzelfsprekend is da'j naor n bepaold artikel verwiezen, dan mu'j eerst n deurverwieszied te zien kriegen. Liwwadden kan bv. verwiezen naor de gemeente mer oek naor de stad. n Deurverwieszied kan heten: n duurverwiesziede, deurverwieszied(e) of n variaant daorvan. Deurverwiespagina kom je oek nog wel es tegen, mer da's de ouwe naam. Servien (overleg) 20:25, 20 mrt 2015 (CET)

Ik zat mear te denkn an deurverwiezings as Wölf en Wolf noar Wulf. Vake kan det vuurkomn det ziedn döbbel an-emaakt wördn, moar mien beviending is det t neet heel veul gebeurt hier. --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 20:31, 20 mrt 2015 (CET)

Oh sorry, dat he'k verkeerd elezen. Wulen proberen de meest veurkoemende benamingen as deurverwiezing derbie te zetten, mer der bin nogal wat variasies op te bedenken, daor ku'j niet altied n deurverwiezing veur maken. t Gebeurt wel es da'k wat dubbel make, mer dan wö'k daor gelokkig op ewezen. En goed naor de interwiki's kieken hölp wel. Servien (overleg) 22:45, 20 mrt 2015 (CET)

Der is wal wat beskreven: Hulpe:Informasie_veur_anwas#Hoe_wee.27j_of_n_artikel_al_besteet.3F. Dus wi'j probeert wal vake um deurverwiezings an te maken in de verskeidene variaanten, en ok in t Nederlaands, waor toch n groot deel van ons publiek vandan kump. Ik heb ok gin bezwaor teggen Limbörgse deurverwiezings, t geet er um dat de artikels zo makkelik meugelik evonden wordt. Droadnaegel (overleg) 00:21, 21 mrt 2015 (CET)

Good. Det is dan zoas de oolde situatie op li.wiki. t Is belaangriek om Spesiaal:Gewunste_ziejen good bie te hooldn, zodat in eder geval de meast-elinkte variaties van ziedn ok allemoal noar de bestoande ziede verwiezn :) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 10:44, 21 mrt 2015 (CET)

Wikimania Mexico

Je kunt een beurs aanvragen voor Wikimania Mexico. Ad Huikeshoven (overleg) 21:43, 22 mrt 2015 (CET)

ANS2.0

Servien hef wat ni'je veurstellen veur ANS: Overleg gebruker:Servien/ANS 2.0 Droadnaegel (overleg) 21:45, 28 mrt 2015 (CET)

5500!

Felisiteerd Servien, en natuurlik de rest van oeleu ook. Seend vandeage hebt alle laanden van Europa een artikel op oonze Wiki en Oesterbaai is et 5500 artikel! Zee'j non wal wo hard as et goan kan? Vie skriewt hier op oonzen top zo 100 artikels in de moand. Det zol betekenen de'w kommend augustus de 6000 artikels binnenharket. Droadneagel, Grönniger, Luusken, NGolds20, trekt der nog es an. Woolters (overleg) 14:26, 31 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Felisiteerd! :) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 14:59, 31 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Wow, da's aordig wat ja! Daor gao'w gewoon veur. Haha inderdaod, anmaken keerls! Servien (overleg) 18:25, 31 mrt 2015 (CEST)

Inmiddels de 5600 vuurbie. Geet mooi zo. 100 nieje artikels binnen de moand. :) Woolters (overleg) 13:01, 30 apr 2015 (CEST)

As t in dit tempo deurgeet, dan zi'w an t einde van de maond augustus an de 6000, nog effen weusten ;-) Servien (overleg) 16:27, 30 apr 2015 (CEST)

:) --Ooswesthoesbes (overleg) 16:24, 1 mei 2015 (CEST)

5700! Makkelik binnenhoarken zo, met dee korte gemeente-artikelskes. Woolters (overleg) 11:40, 13 jun 2015 (CEST)

Artikel van de maond

A'j n artikel op t veurblad hebben willen (of je weten welk artikel der mooi op zol passen), dan ku'j m der hier bie zetten, dan zörg ik dat t derop kömp (je maggen t vanzelf oek zelf doon). Servien (overleg) 13:01, 1 apr 2015 (CEST)

Nedersaksiese benamingen bie artikels

Zo as iederene wel weet he'w n Nedersaksies woordenboek of disse wiki. Vake wördt t een en aander bewarkt (dingen derbie ezet, fouten deruut ehaold, enz.), mer dat zörgt der vake wel veur da'w bie t Nedersaksies woordeboek n ouwere versie hebben staon as op n artikel zelf (of aandersumme), um dat te verbeteren ku'w beter mit mallen warken (zo as op tuterink#Nedersaksies) en dit tegeliekertied bie t woordeboek zetten, zoda'w t op meerdere plekken t zelfde hebben. Mer wulen hebben natuurlik oek nog wikiwoordeboek, wao'w in prinsipe oek alles kwiet kunnen, mer ja dan he'j gien overzicht op t artikel zelf mit wat ze waor zegen (mer deurverwiezing naor wikiwoordeboek vanzelf). Servien (overleg) 15:29, 2 apr 2015 (CEST)

Dat is n good idee, Servien, daor he'k zelf ok wal es aover lopen denken. Ik bun veur, en nog mooier zol t waen a'w t formaot van de mallen op nds-wikt en nds-nl wikipedie t zelfde zolden kriegen, dan kö'w makkelik hen en weer kopieren. Droadnaegel (overleg) 01:03, 4 apr 2015 (CEST)

Inderdaod. Wi'jie dan es n veurbeeldmal maken van hoe of t ween mut volgens joe? Servien (overleg) 12:05, 4 apr 2015 (CEST)

Bi'jveurbeeld wikt:nds:Vörlaag:V Stuork, V/layout kan dan hier iets as mal:nds/tabel worden, met de tabelindeling en namen veur de dialekten. Droadnaegel (overleg) 22:04, 4 apr 2015 (CEST)

Ik heb n schoft zitten knooien mit de mal Mal:Nds/tabel (en as veurbeeld: Mal:Nds/tabel/probeersel) zo a'j dat veurstelden Droadnaegel. t Was effen zeuken umdat ze daor mit modules warken, mer volgens mien kömp zoks redelik in de buurte. Mer je mutten mer effen kieken wat der aanders mut, bv. of van de Platduutse dialekten in de mal mutten blieven staon, o'w de Platduutse variaanten hier oek op willen nemen (as blok dernaost). Oek naor de opmaak mu'w nog effen kieken, de verwiezingen ku'j der haost niet in laoten (aanders krie'j heel wat deurverwiezingen derbie, en o'j dat willen is n tweede), mer oek o'j dat blauwe blok derin hebben willen. n Verwiezing naor Wikiwoordeboek, veur t vollejige overzicht, zol oek gien slicht idee ween. Servien (overleg) 00:36, 7 apr 2015 (CEST)

Ik bin weer effen an de gang ewest mit de mal veur de Nedersaksiese variaanten. Umdat t overzicht soms wat lang kan wörden, zo as op Mal:Nds/tabel/probeersel, en je t in disse mal niet opbreken kunnen in twee kolommen, za'k deran te denken um t standard in-eklapt te hebben staon (zoas op Mal:Nds/tabel/kiezen). De eerste tabel blif zo groot as e noen is, de tweede tabel wördt brejer a'j t uutklappen (as der tekste in steet). Laot effen weten waor de veurkeur naor uutgeet (naor de eerste of de tweede vorm), dan ku'w dat gaon toepassen. Servien (overleg) 17:10, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Ik heb nog ne variaant emaakt Mal:Nds/tabel2, zonder klaptabel, en met twee kolommen, en zonder randjes en kleurkes (denk der an dat op bv Nedersaksies O den mal ok meermaols steet). Klapdivs he'w trouwens al, en de klaptabel.js dee'j no derbi'j ezat hebt is deprecated. In/oetklappen dut t ok neet op mobiele tellefoons of a'j Javascript oet hebt staon. Droadnaegel (overleg) 18:20, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Daor zeeg jie m'n wat Droadnaegel, daor ha'k niet an edocht. De darde opsie bevölt m'n wel, mer a'k t veurbeeld toepasse op stoark, dan verschöf de hele rechtse tabel naor onder, en steet de boel oek wiedwagen uut mekaar, a'w dat oplossen kunnen dan ku'w m wat mien betreft invoeren. Ik heb trouwens n paor anpassingen emaakt: as "wikt=" leeg is, dan kömp t der niet bie te staon (dan wördt waorschienlik oek verkeerd weeregeven), en ik heb der n evt. darde kolom bie edaon veur de Duutse variaanten (mer die zu'w waorschienlik niet zo vake gebruken), dan he'j t spul in ieder geval bie mekaar staon. Servien (overleg) 19:42, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Nog wat wieter oetebraeid: met sal_k of gos_k=2 (sal_kolom), kö'j dee no in de 2e kolom schoeven. Dat idee kan nog op meer spraoken, of van kolom 2 naor 1 as dat neudig is Droadnaegel (overleg) 21:41, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

A'k van gos, gos_k make, dan gebeurt der niks, hoe do'j dat dan? Ik heb Mal:Nds/tabel/probeersel toe-epast op t artikel stoark (daorveur mos ik 'Mal:Kolommen2' wel iets opschuven naor links (van 48% naor 38%) en an de rechterkaante iets inkorten (oek naor 38%), dus bie 250px past de tabel prima, mer a'j de aofbeelding op t artikel vergroten naor 300px of 400px dan trekt de boel wat scheef, wee'jie hoe'j dat anpassen (dat t inkrimp zo as bie Mal:Gelderlaand)? Servien (overleg) 23:22, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Mal:Nds/tabel/kiezen as veurbeeld van gos_k. Droadnaegel (overleg) 23:32, 13 apr 2015 (CEST)

Dudelik. Noen allinnig de uutliening nog goed zien te kriegen en dan za'k de boel zeutjes an anpassen. Weet jie oek hoe'w hier t warkgedeelte toe mutten passen (zo as op Wikiwoordeboek)? (op-elöst) Servien (overleg) 12:10, 14 apr 2015 (CEST)

Droadnaegel, op t artikel braanze zakt de mal naor onder toe. Wee'jie hoe'w dat goedkriegen zonder an de kolommen te zitten? Servien (overleg) 23:12, 14 apr 2015 (CEST)

Op-elöst. Ik heb de mal 'Kolommen' vervangen deur n niejere versie van de en.wiki, waordeur wel alles past (de mallen Kolommen2, Kolommen3 en Kolommen4 bin hierdeur oek niet meer neudig). Bie de nieje mal ku'j wel n plaotjen naost de tabel zetten zonder dat t problemen oplevert, bie de ouwere versie lokten dat niet. Servien (overleg) 14:39, 15 apr 2015 (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 18:13, 10 apr 2015 (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)

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
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— Elitre (WMF)

21:48, 10 apr 2015 (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

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WMNL Nieuws

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Commons en Wikidata in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten. Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws. De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.

Community

• De Koning reikt op woensdag 25 november 2015 de Erasmusprijs uit aan een Wikipediaan.
• De Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland is dit jaar op zaterdag 28 november 2015.

Bestuur

• De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (WMNL) heeft een nieuw bestuur. [3]
• Het jaarverslag 2014 is gepubliceerd. [4]
• Het bestuur van WMNL start binnenkort consultatie voor meerjarenplan 2016-2020. [5]
• Het bestuur van WMNL start binnenkort consultatie voor jaarplan 2016. [6]

Leden vrijstelling van geldelijke contributie voor actieve bewerkers Wikimedia-projecte

• Draag je actief bij aan Wikipedia of zusterprojecten dan kun je vrijstelling van contributie krijgen. [7]

Ad Huikeshoven (overleg) 21:55, 28 apr 2015 (CEST)

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

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
• Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
• RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
• Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
• HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 00:12, 5 mei 2015 (CEST)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at Global our new coordinator signup.

This message was delivered via the Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List

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

Content Translation beta-feature is now available

Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature for logged-in users on this Wikipedia. To start translating, please enable the beta feature and go to Special:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page and create a new translation by selecting the source language, the article name and target language. If the article already exists then a warning will be displayed. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Wikipedia. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace. The number of published pages can be seen on the Content Translation stats page.

Since, this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the Content Translation talk page or through Phabricator if you spot any problems that prevent you from using the tool. For more information, please read about how to use the tool. More information is also available in the User Guide. You can also view a short screencast on how to use Content Translation. Our announcement is written only in English, and we would really appreciate if this message can be translated to reach more users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. Runa Bhattacharjee (talk) 17:44, 28 mei 2015 (CEST)

Sent via Mass Message.

A'j hiermee anvangen willen dan ku'j t voorttemee in t plat doon, de vertalingen he'k al klaor mer mutten nog aktief wörden. :-) Servien (overleg) 23:45, 29 mei 2015 (CEST)

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)

Bijwonen uitreiking Erasmusprijs

Excuses voor het Nederlands.
Gefeliciteerd met de Erasmusprijs! Op woensdag 25 november 2015 reikt de Koning de Erasmusprijs uit aan vertegenwoordigers van de internationale Wikipediagemeenschap. Het winnen van de Erasmusprijs is een erkenning voor het werk van alle Wikipedianen wereldwijd.
Tijdens de uitreiking van de Erasmusprijs kan een afvaardiging van Wikipedia-bewerkers aanwezig zijn als toeschouwer. De Stichting Praemium Erasmianum (SPE) heeft aan de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (WMNL) gevraagd om een lijst van zestig in Nederland of België woonachtige Wikipedianen. We willen de hulp van de Wikipedia-gemeenschap inroepen bij het vaststellen van deze lijst. Op basis van welke criteria moet worden bepaald welke Wikipedianen door de SPE kunnen worden uitgenodigd? Graag reageren op: Wikipedia:Uitreiking Erasmusprijs. FrankTMeijer (overleg) 22:18, 10 jun 2015 (CEST)

Oppeln

Hi. Please check the grammar, I'm not sure if it's correct. I'm also not sure if Opole is not more common (as in Standard Dutch). Peter238 (overleg) 14:31, 11 jun 2015 (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, "Voorbeeld", 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)

12:44, 13 jun 2015 (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, "Voorbeeld", 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)

14:32, 13 jun 2015 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
• World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
• AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)

New French-Language Branch!

• Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
• Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
• L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

00:00, 20 jun 2015 (CEST)

WCN

Beste mensen, er is weer een oproep sprekers voor de WCN. De Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland vindt op zaterdag 28 november 2015 plaats, op de bekende locatie Meeting Plaza in Utrecht. Het is dé gelegenheid om over Wikipedia, vrije kennis en onze andere onderwerpen te praten. We zullen in het programma weer verschillende tracks in het programma hebben, en gaan mensen mét 'wiki-achtergrond' maar ook zónder aantrekken. Dus - als je een idee hebt, mail graag naar het adres in de oproep. Ziko (overleg)

Bijwonen uitreiking Erasmusprijs - inschrijving geopend

Twee weken geleden hebben we via de kroeg jullie hulp gevraagd bij het samenstellen van de uitnodigingslijst voor de uitreiking van de Erasmusprijs. Hartelijk dank voor jullie zeer welkome inbreng in de discussie. De inschrijving voor de feestelijke opening is inmiddels geopend. Iedereen die wil kan zich aanmelden via een openbare inschrijflijst of via Wikipedia e-mail. Zie voor meer informatie de projectpagina. Hartelijke groet FrankTMeijer (overleg) 21:14, 23 jun 2015 (CEST)

Artikelantallen naor dialektgroep (juli 2015)

Antal artikels naor dialektgroep: Tweants: 1.001 Achterhooks: 820 West-Veluws: 719 Grunnegs: 520 Stellingwarfs: 516 Drèents: 418 Sallaands: 270 Oost-Veluws: 222 Urkers: 20 Oostfreisk: 8 Graofschopper plat: 2 Eemslaands: 1 Spraoke onbekend: 1

Meeste artikels derbie (sinds febrewaori 2015): Tweants: +110 (1 plekke estegen) Oost-Veluws: +68 (4 plekken estegen) West-Veluws: +61 (liek ebleven) Sallaans: +12 (3 plekken ezakt) Stellingwarfs: +12 (1 plekke estegen) Drèents: 11 (3 plekken estegen) Urkers: +3 (1 plekke estegen) Grunnegs: 0 (4 plekken ezakt) Achterhooks: -1 (5 plekken ezakt)

Antekeningen:

• Veur t eerst sinds september 2012 bin der (in de periode vanof febrewaori 2015) 11 nieje Drentse artikels bie-ekeumen.
• t Twents is de duzend artikels veurbie, en steet op de eerste plekke.
• t Oost-Veluws hef nao t Twents de meeste artikels derbie ekregen.
• t Achterhoeks boert achteruut, en hef 1 artikel minder as bie de veurige telling.
• Groningen is effen op vakansie went daor hebben gien nieje artikels eschreven.
• Niet alle artikels op disse wiki staon in-edeeld in n dialektgroep (jaortallen enz. niet).

Groetnis Servien (overleg) 19:08, 12 jul 2015 (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 (overleg) 07:07, 24 jul 2015 (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: Mal:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalMal:@wikimediaMal:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 01:42, 1 aug 2015 (CEST)

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 many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

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.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

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

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 19:46, 3 aug 2015 (CEST)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

(Sorry for writing in English)

Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:32, 12 aug 2015 (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 "Vet" 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), 00:28, 15 aug 2015 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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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.

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 20:12, 2 sep 2015 (CEST)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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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. 22:52, 4 sep 2015 (CEST)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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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. 23:56, 4 sep 2015 (CEST)

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Online training Nedersaksies?

Moi leu, Ene van de beheerders op wiksionary (Zylbath) vroog mi'j of der n training veur et Nedersaksies op et web besteet: https://nds.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bruker_Diskuschoon:Droadnaegel#Nedersaksies_leren . Hee kent zelf al good noord Platduuts, maor wil ok nds-nl leren. Ik hebbe wat ezocht, maor neet al te völle evonden (slecht natuurlik!). Ku'w m nog wat wieterhelpen? Wet i'jleu nog wat? Droadnaegel (overleg) 22:48, 6 sep 2015 (CEST)

Hee kan hier gratis een profieleken anleggen en en zo trad vuur trad disse wöardelieste oet den kop learen. http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/?q=Tweants Woolters (overleg) 10:11, 7 sep 2015 (CEST)

Mooi, bedankt. Ik zal et em deurgevven. Droadnaegel (overleg) 18:38, 7 sep 2015 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
• Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
• IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
• Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
• Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
• Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
• Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

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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 23:01, 22 sep 2015 (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) 18:56, 28 sep 2015 (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 "Oavergån up visueel bewarken".

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 Verwysing 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 "Invogen 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 "Vordsmyten" 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 "Bewarken" and "Bronkode bewarken" tabs into a single "Bewarken" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Bewarken" 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), 19:17, 30 okt 2015 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 22:57, 9 nov 2015 (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 11:48, 10 nov 2015 (CET)

Wikiproject Erasmusprijswinnaars

Beste allemaal,

Wikipedia heeft de Erasmusprijs 2015 gewonnen. Deze prijs wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt aan personen of instellingen die een uitzonderlijke bijdrage hebben geleverd aan cultuur, samenleving, of sociale wetenschappen. De koning van Nederland reikt op 25 november de prijs uit. Dit zal media aandacht opleveren en hopelijk nieuwe vrijwilligers opleveren. Voor de uitreiking willen we graag artikels over vorige winnaars van de Erasmusprijs schrijven en verbeteren. Alle 80 winnaars zouden voldoende relevant moeten zijn voor een artikel.

Doe ook mee met het project, en help ons om artikels te schrijven voor onze mede-laureaten.

Met vriendelijke groet, FrankTMeijer en Taketa (overleg) 18:18, 12 nov 2015 (CET)

Go(i)nte

Moi lu,

kent d'r iene de uutroep 'gonte' of 'gointe', en zo ja, wat veur betiekenis hef die veur oe? Ni'jluuseger (overleg) 00:09, 16 nov 2015 (CET)

Eeh Luusken, det is lange leden. Ik kenne et neet. In wat vuur geleagenheden keump dit vuur? Woolters (overleg) 13:09, 16 nov 2015 (CET)

't Betiekent zowat as 'gut(tegut)', 'tjee', of ok vertedernd 'ach toch' (zoas 'shame' in Zuud-Afrikaans Engels). Vaak in: "Ach gonte wat is 't wat." Eufemiserend of-eleid van 'God', zol ik denken. Ik wolle weten as 't iets particuliers was van wijlen mien Zuudveneger oma of algemiener. Ni'jluuseger (overleg) 20:23, 20 nov 2015 (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!

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Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

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Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
• Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
• Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
• Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
• Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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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

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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 "Bewarken" and "Bronkode bewarken" tabs into a single "Bewarken" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Bewarken" 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 Bewarkingsveld tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Bewarkingsmodus".

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:
  • Leste tekstverwarker onthouwen,
  • Altied de visuele tekstverwarker gebruken, as t kan,
  • Altied bronkodebewarking gebruken, and
  • Laot beie bewarkingstabblaojen zien. (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. Bedankt!

Elitre (WMF), 01:06, 25 des 2015 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 02:49, 5 jan 2016 (CET)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 20:06, 18 jan 2016 (CET)

Lower Saxon is missing

Lower Saxon is missing from this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
More than 100 languages are now listed.
Thank you, Varlaam (overleg) 00:32, 31 jan 2016 (CET)

Banaantjes

Waarom zouden bananen blauw zijn?

Ik denk dat 't te maken heeft met de weersomstandigheden. Is de rest van de wereld 't daarmee eens?

Names of Oceanic countries in nds-nl

First of all, sorry for writing in English...

At pt.wikt we would like to write a template listing all the Oceanic countries in nds-nl. We already have these (taken from the article on Australia here on this Wikipedia):

• Australië
• Indonesië
• Oost-Timor
• Papoea Ni'j Guinea
• Solomon Eilanden
• Vanuatu
• Ni'j Kalledonië
• Ni'j-Zeelaand

Would someone be kind enough to list the many other missing countries? Or pointing me to web sites where I can find them?

Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.

ValJor (overleg) 00:24, 7 feb 2016 (CET)

Completion suggestor

Updates to wiki search auto completion are arriving 10 March

Hello!

Help met het vertalen in uw taal. Bedankt!

The completion suggester beta feature will become the default at the first group of wikis on Thursday, 10 March. This initial rollout will start with some of the smaller wikis to ensure the change happens in an organized way. The remaining wikis will receive the update on Wednesday, 16 March. This update brings three major improvements to search. Improved search result ordering, a tolerance for a small number of spelling errors, and suggests fewer typos.

Since December 2015, 19,000 editors have already opted into the completion suggester beta feature. Contributors are encouraged to try out the feature ahead of the release. Please share any comments on the Completion Suggester discussion page in any language.

To learn more about the work of the Discovery department and other improvements to search, please check out the Wikimedia blog. Read about CirrusSearch, the MediaWiki extension that makes wiki search possible.

- User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 00:09, 8 mrt 2016 (CET)

Reisbeurzen voor deelname aan Wikimania 2016

Wikimania, de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de wereldwijde Wikimedia-beweging, is dit jaar van 24 tot 26 juni in Esino Lario, Italië. Wikimedia Nederland stelt weer reisbeurzen ter beschikking voor actieve leden van de gemeenschap. Meer informatie over aanvraag en toekenning van deze reisbeurzen is te vinden op deze pagina. SRientjes (overleg) 13:30, 15 mrt 2016 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016)

Apologies for writing in English. Help met het vertalen in uw taal

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for access to research materials from:

• Cambridge University Press - a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
• Alexander Street Academic Video Online - a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
• Baylor University Press - a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
• Future Science Group - a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
• Annual Reviews - a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
• Miramar Ship Index - an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.

Non-English

• Noormags - Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
• Kotobna - Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.

Expansions

• Gale - aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
• Elsevier ScienceDirect - an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:30, 17 mrt 2016 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

10 years Nedersaksiese Wikipedia

Hi users of Nedersaksiese Wikipedia. E few days ago on 25 March Nedersaksiese Wikipedia got ten years old. Congratulations from Alemannic Wikipedia! --Holder (overleg) 08:56, 30 mrt 2016 (CEST)

Daanksweard Holder! Dankeschön! Woolters (overleg) 09:45, 30 mrt 2016 (CEST)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Help met het vertalen in uw taal:

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 17:47, 31 mrt 2016 (CEST)

Server switch 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

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

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:07, 18 apr 2016 (CEST)

Wikipedia to the Moon

Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 17:35, 21 apr 2016 (CEST)