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Šablona Původní zpráva

Trochu mě zaráží text šablony {{Původní zpráva}}, která na čtenáře působí, že Wikizprávy svým redaktorům píšícím původní zprávy a priori moc nedůvěřují. Ta výzva o korigování je tam imo zbytečná a alespoň mne od psaní původních zpráv tak trochu odrazuje. Na Wikipedii to chápu víc, tam by správně mělo být zdrojované vše (přesto ani tam nemá každé nezdrojované heslo šablonu vyzývající k ověření, obvykle se dává, až když pochybnosti vzniknou). Díval jsem se na podobné šablony na en.wn (This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details.) či na de.wn (Dieser Artikel enthält Journalismus aus erster Hand. Siehe auch die Diskussionsseite für Details.), ale tam nic takového není, jen výzva, aby se případně podívali na diskusní či jinou stránku. Zkušenější redaktor ví, že může chybu ve zprávě opravit i bez této šablony, a u náhodného čtenáře je taková pravděpodobnost mizivá i s šablonou. Stalo se tady vůbec někdy, že do nějaké původní zprávy dodal zdroje a zkorigoval v ní nepravdivé údaje nějaký nováček? Navrhuji proto šablonu upravit např. podle německého vzoru a nevyjadřovat předem nedůvěru vůči každému, kdo jen neparafrázuje zprávy, které už byly zveřejněné jinde. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 13. 12. 2014, 23:53 (CET)

Navrhuji následující text: Čtete zprávu, která vznikla jako původní zpráva redaktora XY, jenž jako jediný zaručuje její pravdivost.

Pokud by někdo přece jen chtěl zachovat výzvu ke korigování, tak bych to zapracoval do textu wn:Původní zprávy, na který se ze šablony odkazuje. Odkaz se může i ztučnit. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 00:03 (CET)

Problém je ale v tom, že na německých a zejména na anglických Wikizprávách probíhá přece jen i publikování původních zpráv jinak. Na obou žádají o vkládání originálních zdrojů (poznámek, fotomateriálu, audiozáznamů atd.). Na anglických navíc mají velmi složitý systém redigování, který musí každá zpráva podstoupit, pokud se má vůbec publikovat. Zkrátka - na věrohodnost původních zpráv se dívají trochu jinak. Ostatně anglické Wikinews:Original reporting a německé Wikinews:Originäre Berichterstattung jsou podstatně delší než naše Wikizprávy:Původní zprávy.

Ano, problém je také v tom, že bez ohledu na to, co anglické i německé Wikizprávy dělají, nevím z praxe, jak jsou schopné dohlédnout na věrohodnost originálního reportování; "originální zdroje" je poměrně snadné zfalšovat. A na druhé straně je problém v tom, že originální reportování je pochopitelně hlavní devizou každého zpravodajství. Jinak by nejspíš bylo - po vzoru Wikipedie a Wikipedie:Žádný vlastní výzkum - zakázáno. Takže je to těžké...

Každý může text každé šablony vnímat různě. Neberu Ti Tvoje chápání, ale já v jejím textu nevidím, že by "předem vyjadřovala nedůvěru vůči každému, kdo jen neparafrázuje zprávy", ale zkrátka pro wikiprojekty charakteristickou výzvu, že když někdo bude mít pochybnosti o takové zprávě, může (a měl by) ji korigovat.

Takže když to všechno zvážím, opravdu nevím, jestli zestručnění této šablony je cesta správným směrem. Rád si na to vyslechnu další názory.

A jinak - velký dík za to, že původní zprávy píšeš. I proto otevřeně připouštím, že kdyby Tě mělo od psaní zpráv znění této šablony odrazovat, mrzelo by mne to víc, než kdyby se do té šablony podle Tvého názoru zasáhlo. Koneckonců - Wikizprávy mají trvale větší problém s nedostatkem zpráv než s jejich nevěrohodností. --Okino (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 01:51 (CET)

Píšu spíš svůj pocit. Kdyby mi na WP dal někdo do článku šablonu, že je třeba dodat zdroje, tak je tam urychleně dodám, aby tam nestrašila. U původní zprávy zde, kterou mám do určité míry založenou na tom, co mi z očí do očí sdělila např. kurátorka v muzeu, však nemám žádný prostředek, jak tu zpochybňující výzvu odstranit. Navíc jsem si prošel namátkou historii řady minulých původních zpráv, a nezdá se, že by tato výzva docházela naplnění (ale neprocházel jsem zdaleka vše) – buď do nové původní zprávy zasáhne zkušený editor (který šablonu nepotřebuje), nebo nikdo.

V žádném případě ale nechci, aby to vyznělo jako nějaké ultimátum: buď šablona, nebo já :-) Už proto ne, že mé poslední zprávy jsou spíše výsledkem náhodného souběhu a) mého předsevzetí, že budu psát zprávy o aktuálních událostech, k nimž budu mít vlastní fotky – u něhož nemůžu zaručit, jak dlouho mi vydrží :-) – a b) mé úporné snahy proniknout v rámci projektu GLAM do nepružných struktur Vlastivědného muzea v Olomouci a pohnout je k nějaké spolupráci v rámci Wikipedie, Wikizdrojů, Commons a částečně i Wikizpráv. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 09:01 (CET)

Já bych to spíš nechal. Srovnání s cizojazyčnými Wikizprávami je trochu nepřesné, jak nastínil i Okino. Vlastně i s jinými jeho argumenty, proč to tak nechat, souhlasím.--Tchoř (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 20:54 (CET)

Ještě tedy jiný návrh, který dle mne aspoň nepůsobí tolik, jako že zpochybňuje důvěryhodnost redaktora:

Čtete zprávu, která vznikla jako původní zpráva redaktora XY, který je jako jediný zodpovědný za jejá pravdivost. Pokud se vaše informace o události liší, Wikizprávy uvítají, pokud je s uvedením zdrojů uvedete na diskusní stránce.

nebo

Čtete zprávu, která vznikla jako původní zpráva redaktora XY, který je jako jediný zodpovědný za její pravdivost. Pokud se vaše informace o události liší, Wikizprávy uvítají, pokud je s uvedením zdrojů doplníte či uvedete na diskusní stránce.

Lepší možná ta první, pokud by takový případ někdy nastal, tak by měl spor nejprve rozhodnout nějaký jiný zkušený redaktor. Ale podle mne takový případ těžko kdy nastane, stejně jako zřejmě nenastal ani dosud. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 21:49 (CET)

Druhá verze se mi líbí (snad bych přeformuloval "který je jako jediný zodpovědný za její pravdivost" na "který ručí za její pravdivost" - to původní souvisí s pořadím údajů, když je to na začátku, zní to divně). Tahle druhá verze odpovídá zásadě w:WP:ESO. A i tady platí, že - asi na rozdíl od WP - na WZ potřebujeme spíš propagovat ESO než bránit přetahované o editace. --Okino (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 22:00 (CET)

OK, nemám nic proti druhé verzi, je to imo jen akademická záležitost, nevěřím, že se to v dohledné době stane. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 14. 12. 2014, 22:03 (CET)

Zapracováno. Díky za spolupráci. --Okino (diskuse) 20. 1. 2015, 17:05 (CET)

VisualEditor: testování

Rozhodl jsem se testovat VE, abych viděl čím bude muset projít nováček. Chcete nějak diskutovat navržené změny?--Juandev (diskuse) 15. 12. 2014, 19:35 (CET)

Ani nováček snad nemusí používat VE.--Tchoř (diskuse) 18. 12. 2014, 11:29 (CET)

Jak chcete.--Juandev (diskuse) 7. 1. 2015, 12:44 (CET)

Dořešení možnosti copyvia (2)

Zdravím. Dnes jsem doprošel všechny Paluovy články a označil je na své stránce (nebo přímo v článcích) podle míry jejich copyviovosti. Samozřejmě, že máloco bylo černobílé, takže uvítám, když to po mně aspoň třeba namátkově zkontrolujete.

Dále se ptám kohokoli, Palua zejména, jestli má někdo z vás zájem se zúčastnit přepisování těch zpráv. Já některé z nich taky určitě projedu a upravím/zachráním, ale všechny nejspíš ne.

Budu rád za jakoukoli připomínku, ohlas či pomoc. --Okino (diskuse) 20. 12. 2014, 18:43 (CET)

Já teď vůbec nemám čas, ale jestli to není úplně naléhavé a vydrží to, tak zkusím průběžně sem tam nějakou přepsat aspoň na krátkou zprávu, když nic jiného. --Palu (diskuse) 29. 12. 2014, 23:16 (CET)

Přepsáním se z toho stává zpráva historická, neautentická, která by tu podle mého názoru vůbec neměla být. Což nemyslím jako začátek nové diskuse o historických zprávách, ale čistě jako zdůvodnění, proč zrovna tohle určitě dělat nebudu.--Tchoř (diskuse) 29. 12. 2014, 23:48 (CET)

Vidím, že některé zprávy byly přepsány a zmizelo z nich tak označení. V takovém případě by se mělo přistoupit ke skrytí historie. Máš, Okino, v plánu tento krok udělat nakonec, až projdeš celý seznam, nebo průběžně?
— Danny B. 5. 1. 2015, 20:09 (CET)

Děkuji za upomenutí. Asi bych si vzpomněl, až by se rozhodovalo o tom, co se definitivně nechá a co se definitivně smaže, ale je to lepší. Dnes - nebo spíš řekněme do konce týdne - vyznačím v tom seznamu, aby bylo zjevné, které zprávy byly takto opraveny (bude to snadno poznat, odstraním všechny články, které byly od počátku v pořádku, když proti tomu označování nejsou podle všeho žádné námitky, co zbyde s "OK" fajfkou, je opraveno). Určitě se nemusí čekat na to, až budou vyřízené všechny zprávy a může se copyvio skrývat postupně, ale zatím jsem neměl vhodnou chvíli k tomu zkontrolovat, jestli poslední dávka oprav je v pořádku. Nic horšího než dvojí skrývání by ale z toho plynout nemělo. --Okino (diskuse) 8. 1. 2015, 01:04 (CET)

Splněno. --Okino (diskuse) 12. 1. 2015, 02:37 (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 "Odstavec" into a "Bloková citace".

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

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— Elitre (WMF)

26. 12. 2014, 20:00 (CET)

Dear Elitre, I used the feedback page to ask about two issues that worry me on Wikinews regarding the VisualEditor. I did it one month ago and still haven't received any reply. Can you please look to it? Thanks. --Okino (diskuse) 20. 1. 2015, 17:08 (CET)

Sorry about that Okino. I've just drawn the product manager's attention on it. Thanks a lot for your input! --Elitre (WMF) (diskuse) 4. 3. 2015, 13:07 (CET)

Přebírání zpráv

Obrátil se na mne vydavatel internetového portálu Metropole Olomouc, jestli může přebírat případné občasné zprávy z Olomoucka. Odpověděl jsem mu, že to samozřejmě možné je, dodrží-li podmínky licence Creative Commons. Nyní mi poslal odkaz na první přebranou zprávu s dotazem, jestli je to takto v pořádku. Přiznám se, že sám nevím, předpokládám jen, že u té zmínky o licenci Creative Commons by měl být odkaz na její znění. Prosím tedy o radu, zda to tak může být, nebo co mu mám odpovědět. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 2. 1. 2015, 15:27 (CET)

"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use." Ano, odkaz na licenci musí být. Jinak nevím. Zas takový odborník na licence nejsem, to jsou spíš w:wikipedista:Beren nebo redaktor:Mormegil. --Okino (diskuse) 2. 1. 2015, 15:41 (CET)

Díky. Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 2. 1. 2015, 22:33 (CET)

Já děkuji za průkopnické šíření obsahu Wikizpráv mimo náš web a gratuluji k němu. :-) --Okino (diskuse) 2. 1. 2015, 22:59 (CET)

Za málo, teprve první vlaštovka :-) --Jan.Kamenicek (diskuse) 4. 1. 2015, 01:14 (CET)

Pěkné. Také gratuluji! --Tchoř (diskuse) 4. 1. 2015, 16:00 (CET)

Debata „Demokratizujme média! Komunitní média řízená a placená občany a dobrovolníky.“

Zdravím komunitu Wikizpráv. Narazil jsem na info, že 1. února od 16 hodin se bude v centru DOX v Praze konat debata Demokratizujme média! Komunitní média řízená a placená občany a dobrovolníky. Jako panelisté vystoupí:

• Kateřina Kalistová – MK ČR
• Jan Křeček – FSV UK
• Bob Kartous – EDUin
• Stanislav Blaha – e-republika

Třeba by to téma mohlo někoho z vás zajímat, může to být i vhodnou příležitostí, jak dát o projektu Wikizprávy vědět lidem, které by to mohlo zaujmout. --Vojtěch Veselý (diskuse) 17. 1. 2015, 11:40 (CET)

Děkuji za upozornění. Já tam bohužel nemůžu z důvodu pracovního zaneprázdnění a také moje dvojjediná úloha redaktora Wikizpráv a zaměstnance ČT by mě tam stavěla do ne zrovna vhodné pozice, abych tam mohl volně mluvit. Kdyby tam ale vyrazil někdo jiný, rád si poslechnu nebo přečtu, co se tam řešilo. Na Wikikonferenci vyprávěl o Wikizprávách Venca24, ale tohle je pro něj asi z ruky, co...? --Okino (diskuse) 20. 1. 2015, 16:51 (CET)

Díky za informaci. Zas tak daleko to nemám, ale tehdy budu mít těsně před zkouškou. --Venca24 (diskuse) 24. 1. 2015, 20:06 (CET)

Indexování na Google potřetí

Už dvakrát jsme se výše bavili o tom, jak zlepšit indexování našich Wikizpráv Googlem. Danny na to opakovaně poradil zamezit osiřelosti místních stránek zakládáním denních přehledů.

Přes značnou skepsi k tomuto návodu jsem se zapojil do tvorby přehledů, dříve víc, teď trochu míň, jak na to mám/nemám čas. Nicméně výsledky nejsou žádná sláva.

Konkrétní příklad nám nabízí zpráva Vyhlášena 26. přestupná sekunda. Nejenže je v příslušném denním přehledu, chvíli byla i v přehledu posledních zpráv a dokonce je i na hlavní straně jako naše titulní zpráva. Přesto, když si teď pustím Google a zadám název této zprávy a omezení na Wikizprávy (znění dotazu zde), zprávu samotnou to stále nenajde.

Problém tedy trvá a volání po aspoň trochu funkčních návodech rovněž. Za náměty budu vděčný – a hlavně za ně budou vděčné Wikizprávy. --Okino (diskuse) 20. 1. 2015, 17:02 (CET)

Záleží na dotazu.
Ad denní přehled: jestliže na každém denním přehledu odkazuje na všechny zprávy slovo "podrobně" namísto názvu zprávy, jak tomu bývalo dříve, nelze se divit, že tomu vyhledávače přidávají minimální váhu.
— Danny B. 20. 1. 2015, 18:10 (CET)

Na dotazu zjevně nezáleží. Pokud Tobě stejný dotaz zobrazuje i zprávu Vyhlášena 26. přestupná sekunda, tak zjevně záleží na něčem jiném. Na čem tedy?

A proč vyhledávače přidávají minimální váhu odkazu v plném znění nejen v kategoriích, ale dokonce i v posledních zprávách a v hlavní zprávě na titulní straně? Stále se marně snažím pochopit, v čem jsou právě denní přehledy tak zásadně odlišné. --Okino (diskuse) 20. 1. 2015, 19:02 (CET)

A jsi přihlášený nebo anonym? A je to po kliknutí na můj link výše nebo sis to zadával někam sám? Google.cz nebo .com? Předpokládám, že jsi ve své obvyklé geografické lokaci. Mně to totiž vyjelo hned na prvním místě.
Vytrhnul jsi z kontextu. Denní přehledy samy o sobě nic moc nezmohou. Psal jsem to už dříve - na umístění ve výsledcích vyhledávání má vliv mnoho faktorů. (Konkrétně jich je známo přes 200. Žádný vyhledávač ovšem nikdy nezveřejňuje své přesné metodiky výpočtu, své používané faktory či jejich relativní váhu. Mj. i proto že třeba u Googlu se to mění více než 500× za rok.) No a čím více faktorů spolu spolupracuje, tím lépe. Nefunguje to tak, že jeden zrušíš a nahradíš jiným. Ale že neustále přidáváš nové a vylepšuješ stávající.
PS: Proč si nenapíšeš dotaz či stížnost rovnou do Googlu, abys měl odpověď přímo od zdroje?
— Danny B. 21. 1. 2015, 00:30 (CET)

Mně se zobrazí na prvním místě patřičná wikizpráva při obou dotazech/odkazech. Což může být ale tím, že to teď zkouším s časovým odstupem. --Tchoř (diskuse) 21. 1. 2015, 21:10 (CET)

Potvrzuji, mně už na tom prvním také.
— Danny B. 22. 1. 2015, 00:19 (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)

5. 2. 2015, 19:30 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikizprávy.org: (všichni) Editace stránek

MediaWiki mobile

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1. 3. 2015, 23:32 (CET)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

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

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (diskuse) 4. 3. 2015, 21:01 (CET)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13. 3. 2015, 20:45 (CET)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10. 4. 2015, 18:12 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recent improvements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead

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

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

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Tučné" and "Kurzíva" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

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)

10. 4. 2015, 21:48 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fotografie Pražský maraton 2015

Ahoj, byl jsem dnes nafotit Pražský maraton, kdybyste o tom někdo psal článek, tak fotografie jsou dostupné na odkaze. S pozdravem --Chmee2 (diskuse) 3. 5. 2015, 15:31 (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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, "Příklad", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

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

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

Let's work together

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

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

— Elitre (WMF)

13. 6. 2015, 12:44 (CEST)

HTTPS

Pozdrav všem.

Během několika posledních let nadace Wikimedia pracovala na umožnění HTTPS ve výchozím nastavení pro všechny uživatele, včetně neregistrovaných, kvůli lepší ochraně soukromí a bezpečnosti jak čtenářů, tak editorů. Trvalo to dlouho, protože se musely brát v úvahu různé aspekty. Naše servery nebyly připraveny to zvládnout. Nadace Wikimedia musela někdy vyvažovat protichůdné cíle.

Na všechny projekty Wikimedia byl nyní implementován nucený HTTPS. Někteří z vás jste to už možná zjistili, protože několik jazykových verzí Wikipedie bylo převedeno na HTTPS minulý týden a dotčeným společenstvím to bylo oznámeno.

Většiny editorů Wikimedia by se to nemělo dotknout vůbec. Pokud editujete jako registrovaný uživatel, pravděpodobně jste se už museli přihlásit přes HTTPS. Dohlédneme na to, aby všechno fungovalo tak, jak má. Pokud vám tato změna způsobila jakékoli potíže, kontaktujte nás, nebo se obraťte přímo na mě s případnými otázkami.

/Johan (WMF)

20. 6. 2015, 00:00 (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 (diskuse) 24. 7. 2015, 07:07 (CEST)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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

Why get involved?

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

More information

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

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskuse) 1. 8. 2015, 01:42 (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 "Tučné" and "Kurzíva" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

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

—Elitre (WMF), 15. 8. 2015, 00:28 (CEST)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

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

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

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19. 8. 2015, 02:25 (CEST)

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) 2. 9. 2015, 20:12 (CEST)

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4. 9. 2015, 22:52 (CEST)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22. 9. 2015, 23:01 (CEST)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28. 9. 2015, 18:56 (CEST)

Přehledy Wikimedia, srpen 2015

Zde jsou přehledy z Wikimedia blogu za srpen 2015.

• Stovky "pirátských" účtů na anglické Wikipedii zablokovány následkem vyšetřování
• Hon na Tirpitze
• Můj život autistického wikipedisty
• Novinky o překladu obsahu z Wikimania 2015
• Použití Wikipedie k zachování domorodých jazyků v Kolumbii
• Kulturní dědictví ožívá digitálně

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Výběr zpráv z Wikimedia, září 2015

Zde jsou vybrané zprávy z Wikimedia blog ze září 2015.

• Snímky Versailles pořízené dronem
• Milníky projektu Wikimedia: švédská wikipedie dosáhla 2 milionů
• Co jsem se naučil: vzdělávací program o wikipedii v Argentině
• Září je zasvěceno památkám
• Nová organizace grantů nadace Wikimedia
• Počty velmi aktivních editorů wikipedie se stabilizovaly, ponořte se do údajů s námi
• Měl bych platit za článek pro wikipedii?

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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 "Přepnout na vizuální editaci".

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 Odkaz 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 "Vložit Obrázky a média" 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 "Odstranit" 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 "Editovat" and "Editovat zdroj" tabs into a single "Editovat" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Editovat" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

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

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

—Elitre (WMF), 30. 10. 2015, 19:18 (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 (diskuse) 9. 11. 2015, 22:57 (CET)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10. 11. 2015, 11:48 (CET)

Fotografie ze 17. listopadu 2015

Ahoj, dnes jsem dokumentoval jednu akci v rámci 17. listopadu. Kdybyste někdo pak časem zakládal článek o dnešních událostech, jsou tam použitelné snímky. S pozdravem --Chmee2 (diskuse) 17. 11. 2015, 20:57 (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

Citační šablony

Nějak mi tu chybí (nebo jen nemůžu najít?) nějaké šablony pro citování z jiných zdrojů, než jsou jen periodika či monografie. Kategorie:Šablony:Citace --Kychot (diskuse) 18. 11. 2015, 01:26 (CET)

A z jakých zdrojů (viz kategorie na Wikipedii) byste chtěl/potřeboval citovat...? --Okino (diskuse) 18. 11. 2015, 02:03 (CET)

Wikidata data access is coming

Hi everyone :)

A while ago you received access to the interwiki links from Wikidata. Everything seems to be going well so I'd like to move on to the second stage. You will get access to the actual data in Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. You'll be able to make use of them in your templates via Lua or a new parser function (#property). We'll be enabling this on December 2nd. This will be the day for Wikinews, Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki. I hope this will open up great new possibilities for you and make your work easier. If you have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Sister projects. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (diskuse) 18. 11. 2015, 17:22 (CET)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

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

MediaWiki message delivery (diskuse) 1. 12. 2015, 15:38 (CET)

Access to data on Wikidata is here

Hi everyone :)

For a while now you already have access to the sitelinks from Wikidata. We just enabled access to the data on Wikidata for you as well. This means you can now access data like the number of inhabitants of a city or get a link to a picture for a famous person and much more to use it in your articles. You can access the data in two ways - via a parser function and via Lua. How to use it:

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

I hope this will help you do great things here. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Good places to start are the relevant pages on d:Wikidata:Wikinews and d:Wikidata:Project chat.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2. 12. 2015, 15:19 (CET)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18. 12. 2015, 21:58 (CET) • Prosíme, pomozte s překladem do svého jazyka • Nápověda

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 "Editovat" and "Editovat zdroj" tabs into a single "Editovat" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Editovat" 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 Editace tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Režim editace:".

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:
  • Pamatujte si můj poslední editor,
  • Vždy mi dejte Vizuální editor, pokud to jde,
  • Vždy mi dejte editor zdroje, and
  • Ukažte mi obě editační záložky. (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. Děkujeme!

Elitre (WMF), 25. 12. 2015, 01:06 (CET)