Wikipedia:Chigre

Chigre
Esta ye una páxina pa esclariar duldes y facer propuestes sobro la Wikipedia. P'aldericar sobro un artículu, usa la so páxina d'alderique. Pa vieyos alderiques, echa un güeyu al archivu del chigre. Pa les duldes gramaticales y léxiques, empobina a la páxina d'ortografía. Pa entamar una conversación nueva, calca equí. Pa contesta-y a daquién nun tema yá abiertu dá-y onde trae editar nel tema que seya.
¡Y nun escaezas firmar!

Sobro los conceyos de Salamanca

Toi viendo que l'usuariu Yeretuu2 ta creando los artículos correspondientes pa los conceyos de la provincia de Salamanca; paezme fantástico. Agora bien, tamién toi viendo que ta usando unes formes pa los topónimos correspondientes que, nun sé yo, pero paecen inventos del usuariu (y que quiciabes nun lo son). VityUviéu y Denis Soria alvirtiéranlo tamién, y el primeru yá-y lo dixo, respondiendo l'usuariu que va poner les fontes; y Denis yá borró un par d'artículos perecisamente por nun dar fontes. Pero sigue creando artículos con formes, pa mio ver, duldoses y simple y llanamente inventos. Pongo'l casu de Pedrosieḷḷu de los Aires y Pedrosieḷḷu: ¿Hai anguaño elle vaquera en tierres salamanquines? ¿Húbola antaño? Pregúntolo sinceramente, ensin ironíes nin dobles sentíos, porque yo nunca sintiera falar d'elle vaquera más allá de les zones de Llión (Babia, Ḷḷaciana) (y nun quiero duldar qu'antaño, por qué non, esa pronunciación occidental-centrosureña de la elle xeneral fore más amplia y estendiérase hasta Badayoz, pero...); y con respecto a esos topónimos, ponlos con «u» final, cuando na fonte que menta apaecen con «o» final (y nesa mesma fonte, nin rastru d'una posible pronunciación con elle vaquera). Nun sé, pero nun paez mui serio too eso, la verdá.--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 21:14, 15 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Yá ta avisáu otra vegada. Si nun añade fontes y sigue aneciando creo que sedría conveniente abrir un alderique pa camentar la posibilidá d'esborra-y la cuenta. --Vsuarezp (alderique) 21:38, 15 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Hola. Non volví crear nengún artículu ensin referencies dempués del avisu. Non toi inventando nada y atristáyame que penséis eso. Pue que cometiera dalgún erru como utilizar la ll vaquera en llugar de ll normal, duldé enforma con esto, pero non toi inventando nada. Amás veréis que creé delles páxines col topónimu actual, por casu Alba de Tormes o Alba de Yeltes, col topónimu de siempre. Ye'l correctu tamién nesta wikipedia. Non toi asturianizando nada. Non digo que les mios ediciones sían perfectes, namá digo que non son vandálicas. Cometí dalgún erru como nesti casu y he pidíu'l borráu pero por eso non digáis que toi vandalizando. Lo he referenciáu.

Al respective de lo que comentes de qu'hai pequenes diferencies con al respective de lo qu'indica la referencia, te comento. Ye correctu utilizar la u en llugar de la o. La u sí s'usaba en Salamanca como puedes ver por casu equí na páxina 60. Nel asturianu, a lo menos en Salamanca, munches vegaes la pronunciación de la o non yera esactamente la u que puede ser en castellanu. Ye un amiestu ente la u y l'o. Asocede en más idiomes, como'l catalán o'l francés. Les referencies antigües munches vegaes escriben los nomes por oyíu o tratando d'indicalos na norma correcta dominante d'aquella dómina. Nel casu de El Mazanu señalen maçano con ç anque ta claro que ye z, y como entenderéis la palabra mazano ye mazanu, non mazano. Más exemplos: La Freisneda indicase con x anque ta claro que ye con is. Si pronuncies Frexneda y Freisneda veréis que ye igual, el topónimu Freisneda amás ye qu'esiste n'Asturies. Escribí eso nel artículu. Nel casu de Freisnu de la Ribera puede atopase documentación más fácilmente. A lo llargo de la hestoria méntase como Fraximo, Frexno, Freino o Freixino. Denis revirtióme unes ediciones que por casu en La Figal de los Aceiteros o La Figal de Villarinu non caben llugar a dulda porque la documentación indica esactamente esi nome. Mira más equí.

Voi poneme a referenciar tou, sí veo que cometí dalgún erru más vos lo faigo saber. Si veo que non teno abonda documentación pídovos la reversión. Yo tamién soi Yeretu, ye obviu, olvíde la contraseña de la otra cuenta. --Yeretuu2 (alderique) 22:51, 15 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Hola Yeretuu2. Quería agradecete'l trabayu que lleves faciendo cola creación d'artículos de conceyos y comarques lioneses, más concretamente colos de la Provincia de Salamanca. Sicasí, como sabrás, a partir del 16 de xineru cobra vigor la Convención pa nomes propios aprobada pola comunidá. Nella especifícase:

Topónimos de les fasteres del dominiu llingüísticu asturllionés -o antiguamente pertenecientes a esti- d'acuerdu cola so forma tradicional referenciada. Ex. cast. León (ast. Llión) — cast. Badajoz (ast. Badayoz), pero Grajal de Campos y non Gayal de Campos.

Polo tanto, al envís d'evitar adaptaciones arbitraries y llogar el máximu rigor que se precisa nuna enciclopedia, tolos nomes de llugar tradicionales que difieran del topónimu oficial han cuntar con una referencia que los avale, de lo contrario nun sedrán válidos y nun se podrán incluyir. Nel casu de los topónimos salmantinos únicamente tenemos unes poques referencies a la toponimia autóctona (cuasi toes ascrites a la comarca d'El Rebollal) mas nel casu d'otres llocalidaes charres hai que tener en cuenta que lo qu'hai que referenciar ye la forma tradicional, quiero dicir, hai qu'asumir que non tolos topónimos tradicionales vayan tar n'asturllionés, puesto qu'oxetivamente esta llingua lleva estinta na mayor parte de la provincia de Salamanca dende hai munchos sieglos y, debío a l'orixe de les repoblaciones medievales y a les circunstancies polítiques, en munchos puntos d'esta siquiamente llegó a tener presencia (Peñaranda, Béjar...). Siendo concretos, nel casu del conceyu d'Ahigal de los Aceiteros, nenguna de les referencies aportaes avalen la forma "La Figal" como tradicional y polo que podremos deducir de los estudios de Llorente Maldonado sobre la fala del la zona'l topónimu autóctonu pueda más bien ser; "Aḥigal". Por embargu, en nengún momentu apaez de forma esplícita, asina que llamentablemente nun existe posibilidá d'incluyilu, del mesmu xeitu qu'otres soluciones ensin consistencia patrimonial (como son; Pedrosieḷḷu pa Pedrosillo o Sufreralieḷḷu pa Sobradillo).

Asina y too, pídote que respetes la convención y los cambios que realicemos l'equipu d'alministradores y anímote a siguir trabayando n'artículos sobre comarques y municipios de Llión, pos paez ser qu'hai della xente interesao nel tema y ye mui factible llegar a constituyir un Wikiproyectu o un Portal propios.--Denis Soria (alderique) 02:10, 16 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Toos facemos equivocos, y yo'l primeru, nun te preocupes: nun viera que punxeras referencies nos tos artículos nuevos. Pero si trés persones camienten que lo que tas faciendo nun ta bien, sedrá que daqué nun lo tas faciendo bien. Voi comentar solamente l'exemplu que pones del llugar d'«El Manzano».

• Na fonte que das escribe "Maçano", ensin artículu, cuando otros topónimos sí apaecen con él; nesti casu, yo entiendo que tu tas asturianizando esi topónimu dende la forma actual española, que sí presenta l'artículu nel nome, porque na fonte na que te bases nun apaez. Polo tanto, la forma tendría de ser *Mazanu, y non *El Mazanu. (Del cambéu de «ç» a «z» cuido que ye lóxicu y que nun hai problema).
• Sobro les -o/-u finales, na fonte vien escritu con «o» final; sí, nun voi discutir que se pronunciara con /u/, y etc...; amás, la propia Academia de la Llingua Asturiana xeneraliza con «-u» final los topónimos de la zona occidental (y eses zones de Salamanca queden/quedaben incluyíes nel asturllionés occidental), pero falando obviamente de y pa topónimos d'Asturies, que ye'l territoriu nel que puede normativizar la llingua; pero agora bien, ¿qué autoridá somos nós, la Wikipedia, pa decidir camudar esi final, referenciáu n'«-o», pa «-u» (porque tamos falando d'un nome propiu, non d'un nome común)? Nenguna, polo que'l términu tendría de ser *Mazano.
• Na fonte que das pa xustificar el topónimu de Peralexos d'Abaxo, apaez el términu "Manzano" (na páxina 15, y otra vuelta ensin artículu). Pero, amás, con esa «-n-», nada importante en sí mesmo porque n'Asturies alcontramos tanto La Mazaneda como La Manzaneda. Agora bien, ¿por qué decides qu'esi topónimu tien de ser ensin esa lletra, ye dicir, *Mazanu/*Mazano, y non *Manzanu/*Manzano? ¿Sedrá porque n'otra fonte, anterior, apaez ensin ella? Pero ye que nesa fonte, pal topónimu de Peralexos d'Abaxo pon "Parraleios de Yuso: ¿por qué nun (pro)pones la forma "Parralexos/Parraleyos de Yuso"? (el términu "yuso" nun apaez nel DALLA pero García Arias sí la conseña nel so DGLA). Nun podemos usar una fonte pa sí xustificar un topónimu y non pa otru, y una segunda fonte pa esi "otru" pero non pal "unu". Nesti casu, tas faciendo una elección de forma arbitraria. Polo tanto, el términu más afayadizu, por cercanía temporal y porque tamién ye lóxicu y "alcontrable" n'asturianu, tendría de ser *Manzano... y n'español, El Manzano...

Resumiendo, lo que ta faciendo l'usuariu Yeretuu2, col exemplu polo menos que punxi, ye "toponimia-ficción". Si bien nunos casos taríen xustificaes eses formes que pon (nun voi dicir nada escontra d'ello), n'otros, por embargu, non. Razón pola qu'insisto una vuelta más en que si anguaño nun esiste una forma asturiana actual y n'usu d'un topónimu per parte d'unos falantes patrimoniales, nun habemos usar otra forma que la del español que ye la única qu'agora esiste pa bien o pa mal, por muncho qu'esos pueblos, ciudaes, fasteres, rexones... pertenecieren dacuando al dominiu llingüísticu ástur y heba fontes de nun se sabe cuándo que lu puedan xustificar, porque nun va dexar de ser arbitrario la elección que faigamos.--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 02:50, 16 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Ok. Ya entiendo. Lo siento. --Yeretuu2 (alderique) 13:04, 16 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Sobro'l cambéu de los nomes de los proyectos a Wikipedia y Wikcionariu

¡Hola a toos! Pasaron yá dellos meses, y entá siguen ensin cambiar los nomes de los proyectos, nin se sustituyeron los logos por otros nuevos col nome al dreches. ¿Cuál ye'l problema? ¿Por qué tarda tanto? Val, nun sé cómo se fai too eso, nun conozo los "trámites", pero paezme que yá pasó tiempu enforma pa tener iguaos yá los nomes a Wikipedia y Wikcionariu.--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 18:59, 17 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Ye una situación bastante desagradable, nun tengo rempuesta de naide (nin del burtócrata nin de Wikimedia). Personalmente propondría abrir un periodu de candidatures pa consiguir un nuevu burócrata con dominiu en Meta-Wiki.--Denis Soria (alderique) 15:21, 18 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Yá, dixéresme la otra vez que preguntara que taba llevándolo Esbardu, pero ta inactivu cuantisimayá. Sinceramente, cuido que lo meyor ye proponer esos cambeos directamente en mediawiki (o ónde seya que tenga que facese), falando con dalgún burócrata que s'ocupe de les wikis más pequeñes; nun sé si equí podría pidise (polo menos, conseyu). Lo de escoyer otro burócrata ta mui bien, pero nun va solucionar esto pel momentu, asina que cuido qu'esi ye otru problema pa tratar más alantre.--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 15:55, 18 xineru 2015 (UTC)

L'usuariu Malafaya, nel wikcionariu, dixérame cuando-y preguntara, de dirixise a "bugzilla" (indicando la páxina de la votación fecha) papidir el cambéu de los nomes de los proyectos. Nin sé qué ye bugzilla, nin cómo funciona. Vós, alministradores, ¿podéis miralo, por favor?--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 16:01, 18 xineru 2015 (UTC)

Hola a toos. Yá atopé'l sitiu onde camudar estes coses, anguaño yá nun usen bugzilla nin tampoco se fai na páxina meta-wiki. Respeuto a lo del logo entrúguenme si se faló na wiki d'ello. ¿Ficiéronse votaciones? Yo tolo qu'atopo ye esto: Uiquipedia:Chigre/Archivu/2014#Sobre.27l_camb.C3.A9u_de_los_nomes_de_los_proyectos_Wikipedia.2FWikcionariu. Lo de los nomes Uiqui por Wiki toi esperando rempuesta. Tendrévos informaos (esta vez prométovoslo). Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 21:34, 28 marzu 2015 (UTC)

Nun fai falta lo de la páxina de votaciones. Yá me dixeron cómo camudar el logo de la wiki. Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 07:44, 29 marzu 2015 (UTC)

Munches gracies por dir solucionando y iguando los nomes de los nuestros proyectos wiki n'asturianu.--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 15:15, 30 marzu 2015 (UTC)

Contéstenme OK al cambéu de nome de Wikipedia, pero la votación namás val pa Wikipedia, non pa Wikcionariu. Pa camudar el nome de Wikcionariu hai que facer otra votación ellí. --Esbardu (alderique) 20:10, 30 marzu 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2015

Hola. Siguiendo'l cercu de Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikimedia Ucrania empecipió en 2013 el proyectu Wiki Loves Earth, que tien la mesma dinámica y filosofía, pero buscando llograr fotografíes d'espacios naturales. Anguaño Wikimedia España y Wikimedia Portugal xunen los sos esfuerzos pa entamar el concursu en dambos países. Pa ello tamos creando anexos, en dellos idiomes, de Llugares d'importancia comuñal. Entamemos un equipu de voluntarios, al que vos animamos a xunivos, y colos que podéis collaborar na realización d'artículos, llistes, categorización d'imaxes en Commons, promoción del concursu, etc. Pa ello podéis contestar equí, na páxina de Commons, o escribiendo a dalgún de los voluntarios o a los capítulos organizadores. Tamién vos animamos a dir sacando semeyes pa mayu. Pa poder entamar el concursu solicitemos un grant a la Fundación Wikimedia, que podéis lleer equí y podéis evaluar y sofitar si paezvos interesante. Gracies. --Millars (alderique) 00:52, 4 febreru 2015 (UTC)

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 Guardar la páxina 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)

18:30, 5 febreru 2015 (UTC)

Wikiproyeutu:Países

Llevo años queriendo rematar la estandarización de les plantíes de los países y el so conteníu, pero dada la bayura coses qu'hai que facer equí siempre fui dexándolo... Sicasí, necesito ayuda y pa ello cree'l Wikiproyeutu:Países. Anímote a participar. --Vsuarezp (alderique) 12:34, 19 febreru 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wikipedia.org: (toos) Editar páxines

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like ast.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 22:32, 1 marzu 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

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:

• Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
• DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
• Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
• Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)

Many 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 21:14, 2 marzu 2015 (UTC)

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

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

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 (alderique) 20:01, 4 marzu 2015 (UTC)

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) 19:45, 13 marzu 2015 (UTC)

Santiso d'Abres

Perdonad que escriba en castellano. Quería deciros que del concellu de Santiso d'Abres aún no hay foto en Commons. Es el único de Asturies al que le pasa eso. Si tenéis alguna foto, podríais subirla, con gran agradecimiento general. B25es (alderique) 17:54, 8 abril 2015 (UTC)

Votación cambéu de nome de Uiccionariu a Wikcionariu

Bones a toos. Como yá vos comentara va unos díes, la votación que se fizo pa cambiar el nome de Wikipedia/Wikcionariu namás valía pa la Wikipedia, por tar votao equí. Asina qu'acabo crear una páxina de votaciones en Wikcionariu ([1]) pa que, por favor, volvais votalo ellí los que querais, que ye onde tien valir pa Mediawiki. Les polítiques de votación tán calcaes d'equí, o seya que namái sedría que pasáreis y firmáreis lo que más vos prestare. Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 19:52, 9 abril 2015 (UTC)

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 16:12, 10 abril 2015 (UTC)

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 "Negrina" and "Cursiva" 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)

19:48, 10 abril 2015 (UTC)

Organismos/organizaciones internacionales

Hola: Pienso qu'habíemos iguar una categoría única p'axuntar les yá esistentes d'organismos internacionales ya organizaciones internacionales. Magar qu'hai matices ente los dos términos, pienso que simplifica les coses tener una categoría única. Personalmente prefiero la segunda, pero nun me da más una qu'otra. ¿Qué pensáis? ¿Caltenemos les dos, o facemos una? ¿Cuála? Un saludín.--Cardoso (alderique) 14:14, 12 abril 2015 (UTC)

Toi d'alcuerdu en fusionales. En cuantes al términu a usar, nun tengo preferencia. Igual ye meyor dexalo como "organizaciones", que podría ser un términu más global, ¿Non? --Esbardu (alderique) 22:34, 16 abril 2015 (UTC)

Content Translation beta feature will be enabled on 21 April 2015

Hello, Content Translation will be enabled as a beta-feature in the Asturian Wikipedia on 21 April, 2015. It is currently available on http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation for testing translation. You need to create a new account for this wiki as it is currently not covered by the central authentication system. Once logged in please enable the beta-feature to see the tool. You can translate from any article in the available source languages. Please let us know your comments and feedback through the Content Translation talk page or Phabricator. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you.--Runab WMF (alderique) 17:39, 17 abril 2015 (UTC)

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

Content Translation beta feature is now available

Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as a beta feature on the Asturian Wikipedia. To start translating, enable the beta feature and go to Especial: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 Asturian Wikipedia. In case the article gets created in the Asturian Wikipedia 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. You can also view a short screencast on how to use Content Translation. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you.--Runab WMF (alderique) 15:59, 21 abril 2015 (UTC)

Nome oficial de Wikipedia asturiana

Bones a toos. Acaben confirmame que'l nome d'esti proyeutu yá ta camudáu oficialmente a "Wikipedia". El periodu de votación nun finó, pero como yá se ficiera enantes, y esta votación diba pel mesmu camín, decidieron da-y de pasu darréu. Tenéi en cuenta qu'agora los espacios de nome "project:Uiquipedia" y "project:Uiquipedia_alderique" pasen a llamase "project:Wikipedia" y "project:Wikipedia_alderique". Si veis per dalgún llau (seya dientro'l testu o como nome d'artículu o categoría) la pallabra Uiquipedia, dir treslladando la páxina o categoría col nome Wikipedia, DEXANDO UNA REDIREICIÓN DETRÁS (pa que nun heba problemes d'enllaces rotos). Pela mio parte, si dalgún día consigo facer furrular a EsbarduBot, camudarélo de forma semi-automática. Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 14:31, 28 abril 2015 (UTC)

Bien, munches gracies pola llabor fecha. Quería dicite, tocante al wikcionariu, que sedría preciso dicir y insistir que'l cambéu de nomes ye por un asuntu ortográficu, pa qu'almitan el cambéu tamién naquel (dígolo porque como nel wikcionariu nun colabora naide -nin siquiera yo nestos últimos meses-, quiciabes nun almitan la votación, y quedaría'l nome col equivocu ortográficu actual, dando una situación un tantu peculiar: wikipedia pero uiccionariu... espero que non).--etienfr (¡Vamos parolar!) 17:44, 1 mayu 2015 (UTC)

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 22:12, 4 mayu 2015 (UTC)

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

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Denunciar un debuxu del que soi autor

Hola. ¿Cualos son los pasos a siguir pa denunciar una imaxe fecha por min y de la que nin di permisu nin me lo pidieran? Amás el que la subió failo como si fore elli l'autor. Un saludu.

--Xabel10 (alderique) 05:04, 15 mayu 2015 (UTC)

Bones, Xabel10. Tuvi mirando ónde pues reclamar, y nun atopé sitiu específicu (lo que nun quier dicir que nun esista). Yo lo que fadría sedría poneme en contautu con dalgún steward de meta-wiki equí. Garres cualesquier de la llista y cuéntes-y (n'inglés) lo que te pasa. A ver si elli ye quien a facilitate una direición afayadiza onde lo facer. Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 14:50, 15 mayu 2015 (UTC)

Gracies Esbardu, miraré a ver si tengo daqué de suerte colos steward. Un saludu. --Xabel10 (alderique) 20:08, 15 mayu 2015 (UTC)

Yá ta activu "Content Translation" na wikipedia asturiana

Bones a toos. Acaben informame que, depués d'habelo solicitao va unes selmanes, yá ta disponible na nuesa wiki una ferramienta nueva pa facer artículos: Content Translation. Ye un serviciu de traducción d'artículos ente dos llingües, cualesquiera d'elles y en cualesquier direición. Tien una interfaz amigable, y lo más importante, tien traducción automática. No que nos concierne, l'asturianu tien la posibilidá de traducir castellán -> asturianu o asturianu -> castellán. Ye más perfeuta la primera, anque por supuestu, al ser automática hai que revisar el resultáu. Usa'l motor de traducción d'Apertium. Si conocéis dalguna otra ferramienta de traducción, dicímela pa incorporala tamién. Ye una aplicación "beta", polo qu'hai que la activar si se quier usar: vais a la sección "Beta" d'arriba a mandrecha, y activáis "Traducción de Conteníu". Guardáis los cambeos col botón Guardar. A partir d'entós yá se pue acceder a la erbía. Vais a la sección "Collaboraciones" d'arriba a mandrecha, y calcáis en "Translation". Calcáis en "Create new translation" y escoyéis la llingua fonte y la llingua destín. Calcáis en "Empezar a traducir", y yá lo tenéis. Aprovecha les categoríes que yá esistan y que son equivalentes ente les dos llingües, asina como los enllaces a otres entraes de la enciclopedia (aprovecha la información de Wikidata). Lo que nun traduz, llóxicamente, son les plantíes (yá que puen ser totalmente distintes ente les wikis), polo qu'habría que les facer a mano. Ta mui curiosa y pue ser una ferramienta mui útil p'ameyorar la wikipedia. La única pega ye qu'al asturianu namái se pue traducir dende'l castellán. Si daquién s'anima a facer un inglés -> asturianu n'Apertium, agradeceríase a esgaya. Un saludu --Esbardu (alderique) 22:09, 15 mayu 2015 (UTC)

Hai xente de Softastur mirando'l sistema apertium dende hai unes selmanes. A ver si faen el ENG->AST --Astur (alderique) 07:39, 16 mayu 2015 (UTC)

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)

Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve and translate this list of 20 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (discuter) 9 juin 2015 à 00:59 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

¿Sabíeslo?

Cuando faes clic nun enllaz a un artículu, agora ves más información:

Rediseñóse la ferramienta d'enllaces:

Hai llingüetes separaes pa enllazar a páxines internes y esternes. La guía d'usuariu tien más información tocante a cómo usar l'Editor visual.

Dende l'últimu boletín, l'Equipu d'edición creó interfaces nueves pa les ferramientes d'enllaces y cites, y tamién iguó munchos fallos y camudó dellos elementos del diseñu. Dellos fallos d'estos afeutaben a los usuarios del Editor visual en preseos moviles. Los informes d'estáu espublícense en mediawiki.org. La llista de xeres pa ente abril y xunu ta disponible en 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.

Ameyoramientos recientes

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 "Citar" 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 "Amestar más información" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Exemplu", 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.

Trabayemos xuntos

• 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)

10:44, 13 xunu 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

¿Sabíeslo?

Cuando faes clic nun enllaz a un artículu, agora ves más información:

Rediseñóse la ferramienta d'enllaces:

Hai llingüetes separaes pa enllazar a páxines internes y esternes. La guía d'usuariu tien más información tocante a cómo usar l'Editor visual.

Dende l'últimu boletín, l'Equipu d'edición creó interfaces nueves pa les ferramientes d'enllaces y cites, y tamién iguó munchos fallos y camudó dellos elementos del diseñu. Dellos fallos d'estos afeutaben a los usuarios del Editor visual en preseos moviles. Los informes d'estáu espublícense en mediawiki.org. La llista de xeres pa ente abril y xunu ta disponible en 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.

Ameyoramientos recientes

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 "Citar" 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 "Amestar más información" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Exemplu", 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.

Trabayemos xuntos

• 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)

12:32, 13 xunu 2015 (UTC)

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.

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HTTPS

Hola a tol mundu.

Nos últimos años, la Fundación Wikimedia vien trabayando col oxetivu d'activar HTTPS de mou predetermináu pa tolos usuarios, incluyendo los que nun tán rexistraos, pa una meyor intimidá y seguridá tanto de los llectores como de los editores. Esto necesitó tiempu abondo, porque había diferentes aspeutos a tener en cuenta. Los sirvidores nun taben preparaos pa xestionalo. La Fundación Wikimedia tuvo qu'equilibrar oxetivos que dacuando entraben en conflictu.

El HTTPS forzosu vien d'activase pa tolos proyeutos de Wikimedia. Dalgunes persones podríen ya ser conscientes d'esto, porque les versiones de Wikipedia en delles llingües convirtiéronse a HTTPS la selmana pasada y avisóse a les comunidaes afeutaes entoncies.

La mayoría de los editores de Wikimedia nun tendríen de vese afeutaos de manera denguna. Si editasti como usuariu rexistráu, probablemente ya aniciasti sesión al traviés de HTTPS. Taremos sollertes p'aseguranos de que too funciona a como tendría de facelo. Comunícate con nós si tienes problemes después d'esti cambiu o conmigo si tienes otres entrugues.

/Johan (WMF)

21:57, 19 xunu 2015 (UTC)

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 (alderique) 05:07, 24 xunetu 2015 (UTC)

Polítiques de Wikipedia

Bones, aprovechando que tenemos la estensión Translate, quería dar una pasada poles polítiques estándar de Wikipedia, que tenémosles por facer. Güei preparé la páxina Wikipedia:Lo que Wikipedia nun ye, el primeru de Los cinco pegoyos de Wikipedia. Prestaríame que-y dierais un repasu antes de sacala a votación (que ye obligatorio por ser una política de Wikipedia). Un saludu --Oriciu (alderique) 03:27, 29 xunetu 2015 (UTC)

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: Plantía:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalPlantía:@wikimediaPlantía:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (alderique) 23:42, 31 xunetu 2015 (UTC)

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: Plantía:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalPlantía:@wikimediaPlantía:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (alderique) 01:56, 1 agostu 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for 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 (alderique) 17:46, 3 agostu 2015 (UTC)

Categorización por bots

Bones, como yá sabéis, toi dándo-y bastante a esto de los bots. Agora mesmo, ente los 3 bots que remanamos los alministradores, podemos facer munchísimes coses (aínda non toes.. XD), como correxir automáticamente fallos d'ortografía, mandar saludu a los usuarios nuevos automáticamente, funciones de sustitución de testu, iguar redireiciones dobles... , y ye dable que dientro poco pueda remanar el bot pa que nos deteute vandalismu.

Nesti momentu toi categorizando toles páxines que teníemos ensin categoría, y namás toi amestándo-yos la "categoría:Ensin categoría" (tenéis un exemplu de cómo queda na páxina Arte bizantín). La entruga que quería facevos ye: ¿Paezvos bien qu'amás d'eso, ponga una plantía avisando que fai falta categorizar l'artículu? La plantía ye la siguiente:

Y esta plantía pue ponese al principiu del artículu (arriba del too, como en: Abéu), o al final del artículu, (como en A Porqueira). Pal mio gustu, independientemente de que seya arriba o abaxo, tamién me prestaba que fora dalgo más pequeña la plantía. Considéroles bastante invasives pal llector y préstenme dalgo más pequeñes.

En definitiva, qué modelu queremos?

• Ensin plantía: Arte bizantín
• Con plantía arriba: Abéu
• Con plantía abaxo: A Porqueira

--Astur (alderique) 12:42, 12 agostu 2015 (UTC)

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) 13:32, 12 agostu 2015 (UTC)

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 "Negrina" and "Cursiva" 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), 22:28, 14 agostu 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments 2015

Hola! Quería anunciar qu'esti setiembre vuelve celebrase'l concursu fotográficu Wiki Loves Monuments. Vamos yá pola so sesta edición, la quinta pa Asturies. El concursu tien como oxetivu arrexuntar material fotográfico llibre del patrimoniu monumental. Wikimedia España entama'l concursu n'España, y anguaño queremos da-y más importancia a les fotografíes de llugares qu'encara nun tienen. Animámosvos a participar y a xunivos al equipu de voluntarios. Tamién podéis ayudar faciendo llistes que falten otres zones, categorizando imaxes, promocionando'l concursu, escribiendo artículos, etc. Podéis escribir equí mesmu o a dalgún de los voluntarios de los grupos organizadores que s'atopen llistaos equí. Tamién vos animamos a dir tirando semeyes pa setiembre o a buscar nel vuesu discu llevar aquelles qu'encara non haveu cargáu. Wikimedia España hai solicitáu un grant pal concursu y podéis evalualo y, si paezvos correctu, sofita-y. Gracies. --Millars (alderique) 16:08, 18 agostu 2015 (UTC)

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), m: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) 18:12, 2 setiembre 2015 (UTC)

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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. 20:52, 4 setiembre 2015 (UTC)

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