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Announcement deasaich

Sorry for using the English language here, but I thought that the Village Hall may be the best place to notify Gaelic-speaking Wikipedians of two new facilities at the English language edition of Wikipedia:

Scottish Wikipedians' notice board and Scotland Portal

Please take a look, click the Watch tab, sign-up and contribute. All are most welcome!

(If this is not the best place for this notice, please copy it to the approprite gd page where most discussions/debates/announcements are made. Thanks.)--Mais oui! 12:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki Bot Status deasaich

Hi. I would like to get my interwiki bot YurikBot marked as a bot in your language. The bot is already operating in almost 50 languages, and it would lower the server load and improve the quality of articles if all interwikies are updated at the same time. You can read more or ask questions here. I always run the latest version of the Pywikipediabot (i am also one of the developers of this project). The request for the bot status is here. Please support. Thank you. --Yurik (en) 23:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Granted bot status -- Derek Ross | [[User talk:Derek Ross | deasbair]] 00:32, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I would like a bot flag to run my interwiki-bot TuvicBot (using Pywikipedia). This bot will run in manually assisted mode, adding and updating interwiki-links, using the Dutch wiki as a starting point. I'm mostly planning to solve interwikis that autonomous bot skip because they're ambigious. (And sorry for not speaking in your language :-() --Tuvic 17:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

If nobody has objections, I'll start my bot tomorrow. --Tuvic 10:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Okay. I'll grant it Bot Status now. -- Derek Ross | [[User talk:Derek Ross | deasbair]] 00:25, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Any remarks or suggestions can be made at my talk page, if needed. --Tuvic 10:01, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin deasaich

Published by the Wikimania 2007 Taipei Team, Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin provides the latest news of the Team's organizing work to everyone who is interested in Wikimania; it also gives the Team chances to announce calls for help/participation, so assistance in human and other resources can be sought in a wider range. Team Bulletin is published at the official website of Wikimania 2007 and released to the public domain. Issue 1 and Issue 2 has already published.--218.166.212.246 01:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Citation Templates deasaich

Is it possible to copy citation templates over frm the English Wikipedia? MichealT 19:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Tha mi air an fheadhainn as cudromaiche a thar-aiseag a-nis. Innsibh dhomh ma tha sibh ag iarraidh barrachd dhiubh
--GunChleoc (an deasbaireachd) 21:00, 1 dhen Ògmhios 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Preparation of Fundraiser 2007 deasaich

Hi, this is just a first introduction message to tell you: there is more to come. I am dealing with the Project Management of the Fundraiser 2007 and therefore will search for contacts of wikimedians who can help us to do our tasks on all projects. I am actually also building the structure for the fundraiser on Meta. We will need people who help to design buttons, translate texts of buttons, documents, sitenotices etc. Should you feel you want to co-operate please let me know. You can reach me on my meta user page or by e-mail at scretella (at) wikimedia (dot) org. If you wish to notify us that you would like to co-operate on translations, it would be nice if you used e-mail and copied the e-mail to me and Aphaia (aphaia (at) gmail (dot) com). Thank you for your attention and I hope to meet you soon! Cheers :-) -- 4 September 2007 Sabine

Wikimedia Election Notice deasaich

If you are able, please translate this notice to as many possible languages and post it anywhere applicable.

The Wikimedia Election Committee is accepting candidates for the 2007 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Please see [1] for more information.

There is still time for a new candidate to be considered for election, and you may now endorse the candidate of your choice (up to 3 candidates) on the endorsements page, [2]. Please read the instructions carefully prior to endorsing. If you can translate the instructions, please do.

If you have any questions, please contact any member of the election committee, who are listed here [3].

Posted on behalf of the Election Committee,
Philippe

Translation of the Week deasaich

Most other languages have a translation of the week. I don't see one for Gaelic. May I suggest en:Canadian Gaelic as a suitable first candidate? Nicolas 10:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Election Notice, Please Translate deasaich

The 2008 Board election committee announces the 2008 election process. Wikimedians will have the opportunity to elect one candidate from the Wikimedia community to serve as a representative on the Board of Trustees. The successful candidate will serve a one-year term, ending in July 2009.

Candidates may nominate themselves for election between May 8 and May 22, and the voting will occur between 1 June and 21 June. For more information on the voting and candidate requirements, see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008>.

The voting system to be used in this election has not yet been confirmed, however voting will be by secret ballot, and confidentiality will be strictly maintained.

Votes will again be cast and counted on a server owned by an independent, neutral third party, Software in the Public Interest (SPI). SPI will hold cryptographic keys and be responsible for tallying the votes and providing final vote counts to the Election Committee. SPI provided excellent help during the 2007 elections.

Further information can be found at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>. Questions may be directed to the Election Committee at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008/en>. If you are interested in translating official election pages into your own language, please see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>.

For the election committee,
Philippe Beaudette

Manual for new and small Wikipedias deasaich

Hello, at Meta there are pages created to help new and small Wikipedias: Manual and Wikipedia and help pages. You are welcome to have a look and comment. Kind regards--Ziko 22:38, 13 an Lùnastal 2008 (UTC)


New UK wikimedia chapter deasaich

A plan is in the works to found a new UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, and we are currently gathering support from the community. If you are interested in being part of this new UK chapter as a member, a board member or as someone with a general interest in the chapter, please head over to m:Wikimedia UK v2.0 and let us know. We also welcome help in making finishing touches to the plans. An election will be held shortly for the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board, which will take the chapter forward, starting to raise funds and generally supporting the Wikimedia community in the UK.

Geni 23:34, 29 an Lùnastal 2008 (UTC)

Translation request SUL deasaich

hello! I have made commons:Template:User SUL, this template give a link the main account of the user's SUL. Could someone translate this template? Thank you very much. Otourly 09:19, 9 an t-Sultain 2008 (UTC)

Done, see here: Template:User SUL--Sionnach 18:06, 9 an t-Sultain 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much Otourly 07:49, 10 an t-Sultain 2008 (UTC)

Noms irlandais deasaich

Salut, je suis un nouvel utilizateur, je n'ai pas encore un bon écossais, mais dans l'avenir j'aimerais pouvoir travailler avec vous. Je veux savoir, si certains mots qui n'existent pas en la langue gaelique (comme encyclopédie ou quelques noms de pays) peuvent être utilissé mots de la langue irlandaise.
--Mel Parlez 11:43, 19 an Gearran 2009 (UTC)

Irish names deasaich

Hi, I am a new user. Still I do not speak well scottish gaelic, but in the future I would like to be able to help. I wanted to know if for certain words that do not exist in Gael (as encyclopedia or some names of countries) the Irish names can be used.
--Mel Parlez 11:43, 19 an Gearran 2009 (UTC)

-> Done. Freagairt an seo [4] --Sionnach 17:35, 19 an Gearran 2009 (UTC)
J'essayerai en français mais je ne suis pas un bon niveau! Moi, je pense que c' est une bonne idée certains noms d' utiliser de l' Irlandais pour les noms qui n' existent pas en écossais, mais malheureusement...I give up! It's more common to use English names for words in Scottish gaelic that don't exist yet. Or to use the name of the country in its own language, depending on the country. However, there are not too many countries that don't have a Gaelic name anymore. --Steaphan30 04:31, 20 an Gearran 2009 (UTC)
Thak you very much! --Mel Parlez 01:04, 29 an Giblean 2009 (UTC)

Bot request for Almabot deasaich

Hello, I would like to have my bot granted the bot flag to update interwiki links on your wiki. Details below:

  • Operator: Nakor
  • Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, with manual runs to fix issues found on the French wikipedia
  • Programming Language(s): pywikipedia
  • Function Overview: interwiki links
  • Edit period(s): daily
  • Already has a bot flag (Y/N): yes, on 63 wikis as well as global flag (150 wikis)

I will run a few test edits. Thanks. Nakor 01:20, 19 An Cèitean 2009 (UTC)

Done. -- Derek Ross | deasbair 22:12, 26 An Cèitean 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. Nakor 00:32, 27 An Cèitean 2009 (UTC)

Nach bu chòir dhuinn an duilleag seo (agus 1 an t-Og-mhios, 2 an t-Og-mhios msaa) a ghluasad? Lorg mi:

  • An t-Òg Mhios: Roy Wentworth (a ".doc" file, I forgot where I downloaded it from)
  • An t-Og-Mhios: SMO [5]
  • An t-Òg-mhios: Mark Colin (an clò - Appendix 10), Akerbeltz [6]
  • An t-Òg-mhìos: Dwelly [7], Taic [8]
  • An t-Ogmhios: Angus Watson (an clò)
  • An t-Ògmhios: Mark Colin (an clò - "main space"), Akerbeltz [9], GOC pp 15 & 29
  • An t-Ògmhìos: SMO [10].

Mar sin, nach bu chòir dhuinn an GOC a leantainn (leis na litreachaidhean eile mar redirects), on a tha e coltach gur e an litricheadh as trice cuideachd? --Duncan 12:59, 14 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)

Deagh bheachd. Ach cò am fear a ghabhas sinn? Bhithinn fhèin airson An t-Ògmhios no An t-Ògmhìos.--Each-uisge 13:28, 14 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)
Bidh sin ceart gu leòr dòmh. 'S fheàrr leam fhìn An t-Ògmhios, 's e sin an litreachadh as cumanta, agus tha e a' leantainn GOC cuideachd. --Sionnach 14:58, 14 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)
Glè mhath. Gluaisidh mi fhìn na duilleagan an ath deireadh seachdain gu An t-Ògmhios, 1 an t-Ògmhios msaa (agus cruthaichidh mi na redirects eile agus redirects gun alt cinnteach airson a' mhìos fhèin cuideachd), mura atharrachaidh sinn ar n-inntinn fon àm sin. --Duncan 15:10, 14 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)

Dèanta. 'S dòcha nach do dhìochuimhnich mi rud sam bith. Chan eil fhios 'am ciamar a dh'atharrachadh sin an dèidh na h-ainmean-sgrìobhte sna còmhraidhean seo - ach cha chreid mi gu bheil sin cudromach. --Duncan 17:05, 19 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)

Mòran taing, b' e tòrr obrach a bh' ann! Airson na còmhraidhean an seo, 's e cuspair eile a th' ann as fheàrr leam dèanamh air an TranslateWiki. --Sionnach 21:19, 21 an t-Òg-mhios 2009 (UTC)

Small request deasaich

Hello! I am a Polish wikipedian and I would like to ask you for writing a new article about former Polish President who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 – Lech Wałęsa. I have looked for his article in your Wikipedia but without success. Polish Wikipedians will be grateful for your help. Thank you so much in advance! PS article in English you can find here. Best wishes from Poland, Patrol110 19:58, 25 an t-Sultain 2009 (UTC)

I made a stub. --Thrissel 13:37, 2 An Cèitean 2010 (UTC)

Galician deasaich

Hi from Basque Wikipedia. I just saw in the language list of Wikipedias in your Main Page (Wikipedia ann an cànain eile) that Galician language is classified as "Celtic language" (Cànanan Ceilteach) which is false or a big mistake. The Galician language isn´t a "Celtic language", the Galician language is a Romance language and descend from Latin, like Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Asturian, Occitan, Romanian... the Galician language is very similar to Portuguese language, and 1000 years ago they are the same language: the Galician-Portuguese language.

Examples:
She always closes the window before dining (English)
(Illa) claudit semper fenestram antequam cenat (Latin)
(Ela) fecha sempre a janela antes de jantar/cear (Portuguese)
(Ela) fecha sempre a fiestra/xanela antes de cear (Galician)
(Ella) siempre cierra la ventana antes de cenar (Spanish)
(Ella) sempre tanca la finestra abans de sopar (Catalan)
(Ela) barra sempre/totjorn la fenèstra abans de sopar (Occitan)
Elle ferme toujours la fenêtre avant de dîner/souper (French)
(Lei/Ella) chiude sempre la finestra prima di cenare (Italian)
Ea închide totdeauna fereastra înainte de cină (Romanian)...

Greetings from the Basque Country to Scotland. Euskalduna 21:46, 25 am Màrtan 2010 (UTC)

Hi Euskalduna, thanks for your notice, of course you are right about the Galician language not being a "Celtic language". Just fixed it. Greetings back to the Basque Country from the Gaelic Wikipedia --Sionnach 21:36, 9 am Màrt 2010 (UTC)
But, of course, Galicia is a Celtic area in the Iberian Peninsula, and their music features bagpipes and so on. 99.237.143.219 04:36, 1 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania Scholarships deasaich

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Images from Geograph deasaich

There are a number of images here that have been uploaded from geograph.org.uk. This is the list. In each case I propose to: upload the image to the Commons if it is not already there; ensure that all articles here use the Commons version; tag the image here for deletion. — RHaworth 00:23, 20 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)

At the moment, sorry, but no. I'll need some time to have a closer look on this issue. See this discussion as well.--Sionnach 15:24, 20 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
See this discussion on Commons as well. --Sionnach 22:15, 20 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
Hi. The main advantage of storing files at Commons is that they are available to all projects (this also includes Gaelic Wiktionary and the other Gaelic projects). It's not a good idea to store them in both places because one of the two versions may lack information that is present in the second. It's the double amount of work to maintain both. I created a list of all duplicates that are present locally and on Commons here.
You may be interested in reading br:Wikipedia:Kumuniezh/An davarn/sizhunvezh 37, bloaz 2010#Images. It would be a good idea to start a project to review all the files hosted on gd.wp. I am willing to help with this. --Slomox 22:57, 20 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
Hi Slomox, welcome here and thanks a lot for offering your help. I'm afraid I don't know much about files and Commons, and I guess, no one does around here. So to start out with I would really like to know if it is a "must" that all picture have to be uploaded to Commons and if all duplicates "must" be deleted or if these are just a suggestion for maintainance purpose. I' m sorry that I have to bother you with this right know, but the answer to this question is really important to me after seeing how user:RHaworth was acting in other small Wikipedias and some of their reactions.
A project as you suggest might take quite some time. On my behalf I still want to write article here and I'm quite busy in RL as well, but I'll try to have a closer look at your list next weekend. --Sionnach 20:52, 21 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
It's not a must. However it's in everybody's interest. Additional content for Commons and other projects, less maintenance necessary for the local project. It's especially useful for smaller projects without users who have copyright expertise. My own home project is nds.wp. Two years ago we outsourced all our images to Commons and disabled any uploads on the local projects. We too had no copyright experts. The advantage of using Commons as an image host is that there are less chances that problematic content stays undetected. Commons has many users with copyright experience and they will weed out any problematic files. That means that files could be deleted, but if it happens it happens for a reason, because they potentially infringe other people's rights. In the end that means less legal risk for the members of your community.
As mentioned in the other discussions an Exemption Doctrine Policy is a must-have required by the Foundation (either an EDP or a free-content-only policy).
A full cleanup will take time and it's okay if it takes time. But with only 628 files your wiki is a relatively easy case, it's doable ;-) --Slomox 22:49, 21 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
Good that's not a must. The reason for this is that I would like to keep some pictures lokaly here in gd to show examples how it is done and to encourage users to contribute valuable files that are important for the Gaelic community. But here is the next problem, as I mentioned earlier: We don't have the proper templates, for example Cc-by-sa-2.0 and so on. Do you know of someone who could help us on the technical side (an english version would do, I probably could find someone for translation)? Loading up templates from the en Wiki won't work, there are just in a big tangle together. --Sionnach 21:19, 22 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
The reason for this is that I would like to keep some pictures lokaly here in gd to show examples how it is done and to encourage users to contribute valuable files that are important for the Gaelic community I don't understand that. They can contribute files that are important for the Gaelic community on Commons too, can't they? But anyway, I can help importing them if you think you need them. Which ones do you need? --Slomox 10:40, 27 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)
Of course they can, and some allready did. But most users around here were/are just absolut Wikipedia beginners struggling with the very beginnings of editing. Quite often Commons scares them away. For me it would be much easier to show them how a license looks like and to advise them that they have to add a license rather following them all the way up to Commons.
I would be great if you could help us to set up some licenses. To start out I would like the Cc-by-sa-2.0 license. Which are the other most commonly used licences? --Sionnach 21:58, 27 an t-Sultain 2010 (UTC)

2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here deasaich

 

Hello Wikipedians, I am Dan Rosenthal and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Drosenthal 21:50, 21 dhen Dàmhair 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translating the fundraiser deasaich

We have almost managed to get the Welsh version of the fundraiser onto the Welsh Wikipedia, including onto the Wikimedia UK landing pages (for users located in the UK). We have not translated the appeal letter, or the other editors' appeals, but we will get the right hand side of the donation landing page in Welsh and also the central banner, which appears above. This is much more satisfactory than having these in English. This has been quite a long-drawnout process, so if someone here wants to venture down this route and would like the benefit of our experience, then please feel free to contact me via Welsh Wikipedia. I will say, however, that subscribing to the translators-l list on meta is highly recommended. Lloffiwr 13:02, 5 dhen Dùbhlachd 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Multilingual Challenge deasaich

Please help: replace this red text with a translation of the English message below. Thank you!
Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge

This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011.
Sign up now!
" Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby 12:19, 2 dhen Chèitean 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Call for image filter referendum deasaich

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Nach ann Wiktionary Gàidhlig agus Gearmailteach ann airson a' chuspair seo? Chan e liosta de fhaclan co-cheangailte air sgàth fhreumh-fhaclachd no rudeigin mar sin, dìreach grunn eadar-theangachaidhean. (Cha chreid mi gu bheil iad a h-uile ceart buileach a bharrachd air sin.) --Thrissel 10:40, 28 dhen t-Sultain 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dhiamh, tha thu ceart, cha bu chòir dha bhith ann. 'S mathaid gun deach a chruthachadh mus robh Uici-Fhaclair ann ach bu chòir dhuinn an duilleag sin a sguabadh às a-nis. Akerbeltz 16:15, 28 dhen t-Sultain 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Uill, chan eil duine sam bith ag obair ann an Uici-Fhaclair, is dòcha gun tèid a dùnadh uaireigin. Cha chreid mi gun dèan e cron sam bith an liosta seo a chumail. Chan eil mòran aistean againn co-dhiù! --Sionnach 21:46, 28 dhen t-Sultain 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Chanainn nach dèanadh e cron sam bidh mura biodh loidhnicheann mar È - er, Fir - Herr, Mann no 'Se m' ainm - Ich heiße/Mein Name ist ann, ach san fharsaingeachd, nach biodh e na b' fheàrr an duilleag a choimeasgadh a-steach dhan Ghearmailtis? Nam bheachd-sa, 's e giorrad nan aistean againn nas miosa na gainnead dhiubh. (Ged nach eil Gearmailtis cho dona ri Teine :-/) --Thrissel 19:18, 29 dhen t-Sultain 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Terms of Use update deasaich

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 00:48, 27 dhen Dàmhair 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants deasaich

 

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

  • Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
  • Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
  • Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 13:00, 21 dhen Dùbhlachd 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Language support group for Scottish Gaelic deasaich

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net. Thanks, Gmeijssen 07:03, 11 dhen Fhaoilleach 2012 (UTC)[reply]


We need your help to support your language deasaich

The Wikimedia Localisation Team is working on plural support at this time. There is a difference between how we support your language for plural in MediaWiki and how it is defined in the CLDR, the standard for such things. Currently it is NOT defined at the CLDR..

Please help us by providing us with the necessary information and PLEASE do this by joining the language support team for your language.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 07:04, 11 dhen Fhaoilleach 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hm dunno where you looked but CLDR does have data for Gaelic plurals as of autumn last year (see [11]). Note though (though I can't recall the page) that due to something to do with Wiki code we've ended up with 2 more forms that the CLDR data suggests. Akerbeltz 23:17, 12 dhen Fhaoilleach 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta deasaich

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

  • Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
  • New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
  • The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
  • Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
  • Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
  • Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
  • The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
  • More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
  • Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
  • Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
  • Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 00:10, 15 dhen Fhaoilleach 2012 (UTC)

Làithean na seachdain deasaich

Aig an àm seo, tha Di-luain, Di-màirt ⁊c againn (Di-Ardaoin seach Diar-Daoin nam measg) mar duilleagan ceart, le Diluain, Dimàirt ⁊c mar tar ath-threòrachaidhean; chan eil DiLuain, DiMàirt ⁊c ann idir. Mas math m' eòlas, tha na cruthan leis an tàthan beagan aosda, agus na cruthan le aon litir mhòr a dh'aon inntinn le GOC. Tha mi a' meòrachadh air Diluain ⁊c a thionndadh dha na duilleagan cearta, Di-Luain ⁊c dha ath-threòrachaidhean, agus DiLuain ⁊c a chruthachadh mar ath-threòrachaidhean cuideachd. Ur beachdan? --Thrissel 10:03, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

Tha thu ceart a thaobh nan tàthan ach mholainn-sa na cruthan DiLuain etc leis gu bheil iad nas soilleire agus nas cunbhalaiche a thaobh litreachadh na Gàidhlig agus fuaimneachaidh. Tha measgachadh de litreachadh againn air an Uicipeid co-dhiù, cha leig sinn a leas GOC a leantainn mur eil e ciallach (no ma tha e cearr, mar a thachras). Akerbeltz 11:46, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Tha DiLuain ceart gu leòr dhomsa (aig a' cheann thall, cò aig a tha fios dè a bhios san ath dheasachadh GOC) ach cha toil leam cruthan aosda - cuiridh iad ris an t-saobh-chreideamh gur e cànan a mharbh ceud bliadhna air ais a tha sa Ghàidhlig. Fanaidh mi seachdain agus mura nochd beachd eile an seo, gluaisidh mi Di-Luain gu DiLuain amsaa. --Thrissel 13:15, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Tha mi leagte ris a sin. Feumaidh sinn an teamplaid atharrachadh cuideachd. Eadar dà sgeul, a bheil fhios agad mar a gheibh sinn am v.d.e a tha aig teamplaidean na Beurla gus an deasachadh? Tha na teamplaidean againn cho seann fhasanta :/ Akerbeltz 13:23, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Ugh, chan eil fhios 'am idir, ach feuchaidh mi rudeigin feasgar. --Thrissel 14:06, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Cha do dh'obraich e. 'S dòcha nam copypaste thu seo [12] gu ruige/an àite seo [13], ach chan eil fhios 'am an obraich e. Duilich. --Thrissel 20:57, 9 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Duilich, ach tha mi an aghaidh gan gluasad gu DiLuain, DiMàirt.... Chan eil DiLuain a' nochdadh ann an GOC no ann am faclair eile a th' agam idir. Is fheàrr leam fhìn Di-Luain, Di-Màirt air sgàth 's nach eil iad a' briseadh na riaghailtean bunaiteach Gàidhlig. --Sionnach 21:23, 12 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Uill tha Diluain sa Mhark, Stòr-dàta SMO, Wentworth is GOC; thathar ga chleachdadh leis a' BhBC, Tobar an Dualchais agus Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; lorg mi DiLuain dìreach ann an Dwelly-d (chan eil Dwelly an clò agam) agus Di-luain dìreach ann an Webster is MacFarlane. Cuideachd, tha Di-Ardaoin (DiArdaoin ann an Dwelly-d) a' briseadh na riaghailtean, oir tha am beum air -daoin seach air -ar-. Agus nuair a chleachd mi Google air "Di-luain", chunnaic mi dìreach rudan aosta mar ainmean aig seann òrain no rudan amharasach mar bhlogaichean, duilleagan gun stràcan amsaa. --Thrissel 17:23, 13 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Tha mis còrdte le Di-Luain no DiLuain etc ach bu chòir ath-threòrachadh a bhith ann on fheadhainn eile gun teagamh. 'S fhiach ceum air ais (san eachdraidh) uaireannan mus urrainn dhut ceum air adhart a ghabhail :) Akerbeltz 18:20, 13 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Tha seo a' coimhead mar clos-cluiche dhomh: 's fheàrr leatsa DiLuain na Di-Luain ach tha thu an aghaidh Diluain, 's fheàrr Sionnach Di-Luain na Diluain ach tha e an aghaidh DiLuain, 's fheàrr leamsa Diluain na DiLuain ach tha mi an aghaidh Di-Luain... 'S dòcha gum bu chòir dhuinn status quo a chumail gus gabh daoine eile pàirt san deasbad, agus gu leòr dhiubh airson nàdarr co-aonta a ràinig. --Thrissel 16:46, 14 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

LOL sin mar a thachras air an Uicipeid. Nì mi cinnteach gu bheil ath-threòrachadh ann ge-tà. Akerbeltz 01:27, 15 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

Sloinnidhean deasaich

Tha an deasbad a chaidh a chumail air a' chuspair seo air duilleag poileasaidh an-seo a-nis as dèidh dhuinn aontachadh air poileasaidh. Ma tha beachd sam bith eile agad, saoil an tog thu an-sin e? Akerbeltz 20:34, 18 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

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Ainmean chànan deasaich

Rinn sinn deasbad agus chaidh a ghluasad gu duilleag poileasaidh an-seo / The debate took place and was moved to a policy page here. Please raise further issues on the talk page there. Akerbeltz (talk) 14:13, 2 dhen Mhàrt 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Gaelic Language Policy deasaich

Maybe not the place, but I having made it through BnG's recommendations for the development of the Gaelic in Scotland and given my current professional interest in minority languages, I have perhaps a few reflections, based on my experience of life here in Kazakhstan, where the decline of the native language has been halted, and Kazakh instead is enjoying a renaissance.

  • Language policy most be bold.
  • Government action, including if necessary primary legislation, can be effective.
  • The current Govt. is overseeing the demise of Gaelic: it's policies are marked by their timidity and as such will hasten, never mind prevent Gaelic's demise.
  • Therefore, I would suggest the following proposals:
  1. As the Language Plan rightly says, if Gaelic cannot survive in Scotland, it won't survive elsewhere.
  2. Gaelic must fearlessly claim the Central Belt of Scotland. It must win the battle to be seen as the offical language of Scotland. Its predecessor languages were once the native languages of half of Europe, there is nothing imperious about this claim.
  3. Areas of Scotland where Gaelic is entrenched, such as the Western Isles, and to a lesser extent, Skye, must not be shy about going over to Gaelic only in the public life of the communities. Other languages should be used as foreign languages are used elsewhere in the world. Practical monolingualism should be a possibility.
  4. There must be personal leadership of the Gaelic language from the very top of government. It must be made clear that the spread of the Gaelic language is a number one priority for the Government. Also, maybe a 'Gaelic with Alec' TV show, in which the First Minister is followed through the 'trials and torments' of Gaelic lessons.
  5. All senior government ministers and shadow government ministers should enroll for Gaelic language lessons with immediate effect. Likewise, prominent Scots should be aided to publically begin learning Gaelic.
  6. One must have a right to be tried entirely in Gaelic, with the exception of the contribution of witnesses which should be translated into Gaelic.
  7. There should be a National Gaelic Test, with a simple five or six-level system.
  8. A pass at level two (beginners) should be a prerequisite for candidacy for EVERY civil service job in Scotland. Likewise with immediate effect any civil servant seeking promotion would also require a pass at level two, as would - after a three year run-in period - all university entrants on government scholarships, all entrants to the bar or judiciary, all court officers, all senior police and prison officers.
  9. A pass at level three (lower intermediate) should be a prerequisite for senior civil service posts, NHS CEOs, MOD base commanders, prison governors etc.
  10. Heads of Government Departments, and CEOs of government sponsored quangoes should be required to pass at level four.
  11. In general, taking Gaelic language lessons and tests should be seen as an integral part of the system or promotion and career development.
  12. A three-year grace period may be offered to anyone already in the system to get their languages skills up to standard while working in the government service.
  13. Gaelic language and literature should be a compulsory subject for all primary school and S1-S2 students, with the change to take effect after 7 years.
  14. Counter-intuitive as it may seem, native speakers should not be 'wasted' in teaching Gaelic to non-native speakers. The major push in Gaelic language learning must be to vastly increase the number of non-native speakers teaching Gaelic, not to waste the precious experience of native speakers teaching elementary Gaelic.
  15. Native Gaelic speakers should be incentivised to work in policy and materials development, particularly in education. Likewise, they should be encouraged to fill teacher-training posts, University level posts, public-facing roles, such as spokesmanships etc.
  16. All widely-distributed education materials, such as examination papers, curricula etc., should be bilingual.
  17. All fixed, state-sponsored public signage should be exclusively in Gaelic.

I have another 20-30 recommendations that I would make based on my experience living and working here, but in the meantime I would be interested to hear your thoughts.

The basic idea is that shyness will do the language no favours.

You may - perhaps with justification - think that I am being a hypocrite, typing all of this in English on Gaelic wikipedia, but I will tell you this: in my current job and in my daily life here in Kazakhstan, there is such an expectation that you learn Kazakh, even to foreigners that even my most reluctant expat colleagues are taking private lessons or having their employers provide lessons for them. I am no exception. In one year, I have gone from literally not knowing a single word to using it in office banter and in conversation with people on a daily basis.

People's reaction when you speak to them in Kazakh is uniformly welcoming, people just grow with pride when a foreigner speaks to them in their native tongue, they really, really make the effort to continue this. It is perhaps nationalistic, but it is the best form of nationalism. And meantime, among all the work which is literally piled around my desk, I try to find for an canan Ghaidhlig. Daibhidh 12:05, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

A Dhaibhidh chòir, I'm not sure this is the right place for discussing what a government should do either, but I would like to point out to you one basic flaw in your argument. I presume that you may claim Kazakh to be the national language of the Kazakhs, but you can't claim Gaelic to be the national language of the Scots. You might find the series of articles by Paul Kavanagh starting here interesting. --Thrissel 13:23, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the links. Perhaps this was not a discussion for Wikipedia, but I have been meaning to vent on the subject for a while. Re. your point on Kazakhstan, the govt's language policy extends to all Kazakhstanis, whether ethnic Kazakhs or not. Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, Tartars, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Uyghyrs are all expect to make the effort. And there is no prohibition on learning other languages: indeed it is essential that we don't view languages as a zero-sum game. Daibhidh 14:00, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

Red Links deasaich

Can anyone supply translations of the following highly-linked to pages, so that I can get the Gaelic page started, and kill a bunch of red links in the process? In advance, tapaidh leibh!

  1. Country code top-level domain‏‎ (211 links)
  2. List of countries by population density‏‎ (211 links)
  3. Purchasing power parity‏‎ (206 links)
  4. List of countries by system of government‏‎ (203 links)
  5. List of countries and outlying territories by total area‏‎ (201 links)
  6. List of countries by GDP (PPP)‏‎ (197 links)
  7. List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita‏‎ (186 links)
  8. Gearradh-arm‏‎ (109 links)
  9. Daylight saving time‏‎ (87 links)

Cf. here Daibhidh 14:38, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

Gearradh-arm is Gaelic for en:Coat of arms and DST would probably be best translated as Tìde Samhraidh, but the rest is beyond me I'm afraid. --Thrissel 17:57, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Odd, where do these redlinks come from? Akerbeltz 19:32, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
From infoboxes, cf eg Suòmaidh. There isn't one link from the template but a link from each page using it. --Thrissel 20:51, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
List of countries by population density‏‎: Liosta nan dùthchannan a rèir dùmhlachd-sluaigh.
List of countries by system of government:‏‎ Liosta nan dùthchannan a rèir siostam riaghaltais.--Sionnach 07:29, 28 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
Chan eil mi an dùil gun cruthaich fear liosta dhe na dùthchannan an san aithghearrachd, mar sin chuir mi "Riaghaltas" air a' cheangal-uicidh. Tha mi air beagan sgioblachaidh a dhèanamh air a' bhriathrachas eile ach an gabh duilleagan a chruthachadh dhan fheadhainn a tha dearg fhathast. --GunChleoc (an deasbaireachd) 12:27, 2 dhen Ògmhios 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Beachdan o dhaoine sam bith... tha àireamh de dhuilleagan ann a sgrìobh Innleadair ach feumaidh mi aideachadh nach eil mi tuigsinn cus dhiubh. Tha gu h-àraidh Cumhachd na Gaoithe toinnte is do-thuigsinneach (dhomhsa). Tha dà roghainn againn: 1) 'S urrainn dhuinn an sgioblachadh 2) 'S urrainn dhuinn cur às dhaibh agus ion-phortadh a dhèanamh on duilleag Bheurla a tha fada nas tarraingiche Fàgaidh mi nòta air an duilleag aig Innleadair ach cha do dheasaich e dad on Dùbhlachd 2010 agus chan eil fhios a'm a bheil duine sam bith againn a tha comasach air sgioblachadh a dhèanamh air. Akerbeltz 19:52, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)

Beachd an Innleadair:
1. Chan e nach do dheasaich e dad, ach cha do log e a-steachd!
2. Chaidh sgriobhadh air susbaint a' dhuilleig air ais ann an 2001- nuair a bha a' chiad sgeama aig AMEC airson tuathanas gaoithe air Eilean Leodhais a' nochdadh.
3. Chan e eadar-theangachadh a bha ann o thus. Mar sin, tha an duilleag seo neo-eisimileach dheth duilleag na Beurla.
Taing son freagairt. Na dìochuimhnich soidhneadh le ~~~~
Gu ìre mhòr, chan eil eachdraidh na duilleige gu diofar ach nach eil e dèanamh ciall sam bith mar a tha e gu mì-fhortanach. Saoil a bheil dùil agad a sgioblachadh barrachd? Bhitheadh e math son na h-aiste. Akerbeltz 21:25, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2012 (UTC)
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Faclairean deasaich

Nach eil gin faclairean Gàidhlig~Gàidhlig? Daibhidh (talk) 03:45, 10 dhen Mhàrt 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chan eil ach Brìgh nam Facal le Richard Cox, carson? Akerbeltz (talk) 11:46, 10 dhen Mhàrt 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Officeholder deasaich

Hello, I'm creating an infobox template that can be used for Prime Ministers, Presidents, etc. There are a few phrases which I'm unsure of and am hoping to get correct:

  • In Office (as in "period in office")
  • Assumed office (as in when they took office)
  • Officeholder
  • Honourific suffix (example "His Excellency")
  • Honorific prefix (example "PhD")

Here is an example for Ailig Salmond: Ailig Salmond Thanks! Breckenheimer (talk) 23:12, 3 dhen Chèitean 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In office: ann an rèim; assumed office: gabhail rèim; holder... hm neach-rèim; honorific pre/suffix - are you sure you mean pre and suffix? They all come before the name in Gaelic anyway (things like His Excellecy, his majesty etc), I'd call them tiotal urraim. Akerbeltz (talk) 19:47, 3 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"honoric-prefix" and "honorifix-suffix" is what en:Template:Infobox officeholder calls it. AFAICT the former is explained at en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies#Honorific prefixes and the latter at en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies#Post-nominal initials. --Thrissel (talk) 20:09, 3 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ah ok, Well in that case, ro-leasachan urraim and iar-leasachan urraim. Akerbeltz (talk) 22:32, 3 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update on IPv6 deasaich

 

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

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  • We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 00:58, 2 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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2011 Picture of the Year competition deasaich

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Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:18, 5 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)

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Roinnean-seòrsa sgrìobhadairean deasaich

Ann an Roinn-seòrsa:Litreachas, tha Roinn-seòrsa:Sgrìobhadairean agus Roinn-seòrsa:Ùghdaran againn - nach bu chòir gun tèid iad a choimeasgachadh?--Thrissel (talk) 20:05, 7 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ciamar a tha na roinnean ud air an uici Bheurla? Akerbeltz (talk) 23:54, 9 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Cha robh fhios 'am roimhe ach tha e follaiseach gur ann an dearbh feallsanachd ann - faic en:Category:Authors. --Thrissel (talk) 00:50, 10 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Bhithinn toilichte an cur ann an Sgrìobhadairean iad uile ma tha thu airson sin a dhèanamh, chan eil ùine gu leòr agam an-dràsta fhèin. Akerbeltz (talk) 21:06, 11 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Dèanta. --Thrissel (talk) 21:48, 11 dhen Ògmhios 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year deasaich

 

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As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

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More opportunities for you to access free research databases deasaich

The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.

  • Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
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You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:14, 16 dhen Lùnastal 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program deasaich

 

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The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out deasaich

 

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Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba deasaich

Hello all. My apologies for writing in English!

I am working as the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library at the moment. I was recently visiting the National Library of Scotland, to arrange a workshop there, and one of the things they were very interested in discussing was making contact with the Gaelic Wikipedia community. If anyone (particularly in the Edinburgh area, but anywhere is good!) is interested in talking to them about possible collaboration, please let me know and I'll put you in touch. Andrew Gray (talk) 17:21, 18 dhen t-Sultain 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in Glasgow - you can get my contact details here [14]. Cheers Akerbeltz (talk) 20:34, 18 dhen t-Sultain 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Upcoming software changes - please report any problems deasaich

 

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If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:54, 16 dhen Dàmhair 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed deasaich

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer! deasaich

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected. deasaich

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:17, 19 dhen Fhaoilleach 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open deasaich

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

  1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
  2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
  3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab deasaich

 

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

  • Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
  • Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
  • Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:25, 30 dhen Fhaoilleach 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia deasaich

 

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.

Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.

What is Wikidata? deasaich

Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.

What is going to happen? deasaich

Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? deasaich

Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata deasaich

To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:06, 21 dhen Ghearrain 2013 (UTC)

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Need your help: Changes in plural for Scots Gaelic (gd) deasaich

For Scots Gaelic, MediaWiki will start using the plural rules for software as they are in the Unicode CLDR. This is different from what MediaWiki used up to today. These changes will go live on this wiki in a few weeks. Because of the changes, less than 100 current translations in translatewiki.net should be updated, and all possible uses of plural you have in Special:AllMessages (from what I can see there aren't any for the latter). All details are in this thread on translatewiki.net. Thanks for your help and understanding. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) 16:47, 26 dhen Ghearrain 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia deasaich

 

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 22:57, 6 dhen Mhàrt 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful deasaich

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 19:37, 13 dhen Mhàrt 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[reply]

Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia deasaich

 

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.

What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

  • Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
  • For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:54, 5 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Eadar-Theangachadh deasaich

I am working to try and get national and regional flags functioning properly on Gaelic Wikipedia, and have reached the point where I could do with a little translation help. Would it be better to post the requests here, or on my own user page Deasbaireachd a' chleachdaiche:Sioraf, or should we create a separate translation requests page? Sioraf (talk) 03:41, 7 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedian in Residence: National Library of Scotland deasaich

Apologies in advance for my English :-)

I'm delighted to be able to tell people about a new Wikipedian in Residence post at the National Library of Scotland - I've helped work to set this up, and I think there's a real potential for doing great things with the NLS and its collections. It's a paid post, full-time for four months, though this may possibly be negotiable to a longer period at part time - it's worth asking. The job is paid and formally employed by the Library, based in Edinburgh, funded jointly by the Library and by Wikimedia UK. this blog post has further details and a link to the NLS recruitment site.

Please ask me (my enwiki talkpage is the best place) if you've any questions! Andrew Gray (talk) 22:16, 22 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've already let them know Andrew, earlier on in the day. Take a look here. It would have been courteous to inform all Scottish languages at the same time! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 23:02, 22 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)

Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:41, 24 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here deasaich

 

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.

What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

  • Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
  • For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.


We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together. --Lydia Pintscher 19:07, 24 dhen Ghiblean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming deasaich

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links deasaich

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions deasaich

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message deliveryContributeTranslateGet helpGive feedbackUnsubscribe • 20:35, 20 dhen Chèitean 2013 (UTC)
Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:35, 20 dhen Chèitean 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trademark discussion deasaich

Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up! deasaich

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.

  • Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
  • Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
  • If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi 21:04, 16 dhen Ògmhios 2013 (UTC)

Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link) deasaich

My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:38, 16 dhen Ògmhios 2013 (UTC)

Translation of a title deasaich

English:

Hi, I have translated this English book list, en:Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, into a number of languages. Le Monde here is the Paris newspaper.

I am currently compiling a Gaelic list.
What should the page be called when it's ready?
Thanks, and have a happy Canada Day!
In Canada, where everyone feels a little bit Scottish, Varlaam (talk) 04:42, 1 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any suggestion for a good Gaelic title? Varlaam (talk) 17:34, 3 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Could just have it the same as the french one? 100 Leabhar na Linn sa aig Le Monde --Glan-adair2015 (an deasbaireachd) 00:45, 7 dhen Fhaoilleach 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09 deasaich

Is this page monitored by anyone? deasaich

Anyone at all? Varlaam (talk) 05:25, 5 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since no one reads this page, you can write anything.
Ok, we all know that the Toronto Argonauts won the Grey Cup last year in the 100th annual Grey Cup competition.
But can the Argos take the Cup again this year?
Comments? Any Blue Bombers or Eskimos supporters out there? Tigercats?
Varlaam (talk) 20:14, 5 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pywikipedia is migrating to git deasaich

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:14, 23 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor and your Wikipedia deasaich

(Please translate this message)

Greetings,

The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn on VisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit the TranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions on bringing information to your Wikipedia. The User Guide and the FAQ are very important to have in your language.

We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you to leave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported to Bugzilla. If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.

If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well. Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface is here. You can see how we are doing with those translations here. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate. This account is free and easy to create.

If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on my meta talk page or by email. You can also contact Patrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki. We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 30 dhen Iuchar 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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HTTPS for users with an account deasaich

Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 19:05, 20 dhen Lùnastal 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[reply]

 
Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 4 dhen Dàmhair 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo. deasaich

Introducting Beta Features deasaich

(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:56, 5 dhen t-Samhain 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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VisualEditor coming to this wiki deasaich

Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you can translate this message!

VisualEditor is coming to this project on December 2, 2013. VisualEditor is software in development to allow people to edit pages in MediaWiki without needing to learn wikitext syntax (like typing [[ to start a link). It is already available and in use on some Wikipedia projects. Please see mw:Help:VisualEditor/FAQ for more information.

When this software arrives, you will have the option to use it or to use the current wikitext editor. When you press “edit”, you will get the new VisualEditor software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press “edit source”. For more information about how to use VisualEditor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.

We hope that this software will be useful to people in your community, and we can really use your help to make it better! Please let us know if you find any problems. If you're willing and able, please report the issue in bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product. If you would prefer not, please explain the issue you found on the central feedback page on mediawiki.org. Once VisualEditor is made available, if there are any urgent problems, like an unexpected bug suddenly causing widespread severe problems, please e-mail James Forrester, the Product Manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org for immediate attention.

We would also appreciate help with translation with the pages about VisualEditor here and on MediaWiki.org, and its user interface. To translate the user interface, start by creating an account at TranslateWiki. Once your account request is approved, all you need to do is select your language from this list. This will give you a list of individual lines and paragraphs. The English original will be on one side, with the option to “edit” on the other. Pressing “edit” will open an edit window where you can work.

The User Guide is another important document. To translate this, simply go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select “translate this page”. Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. If you want to help with translations and would like to talk about how, please leave a message for me on my talk page.

Thank you, and happy editing! -- Mdennis (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 15 dhen t-Samhain 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 19:46, 15 dhen t-Samhain 2013 (UTC)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy deasaich

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video? deasaich

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 dhen Fhaoilleach 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor Office Hours deasaich

I apologize for writing in English. Please help translate this message.

I just wanted to let you know, so you could mark your calendars if interested, that there are two IRC office hours scheduled to discuss VisualEditor in February.

The first will be held on Saturday, 15 February at 1700 UTC and the second will be held on Sunday, 16 February at 00:00 UTC. (See meta for time conversion links.)

Logs will be posted on meta after each office hour completes. You'll find them, along with logs for older office hours on the topic, at Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs.

Please see the IRC office hours page on meta for more information on how to join in.

Thanks! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:25, 12 dhen Ghearrain 2014 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014 deasaich

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use deasaich

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review deasaich

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. AileanMacRaith (administrator)
  2. Am FiosAnSiarachGainéad (administrator)
  3. AnSiarach (administrator, bureaucrat)
  4. Eoghan (administrator)
  5. Steaphan30 (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, -- Quentinv57 14:13, 22 dhen Ghearrain 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments deasaich

 

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Uicipeid better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 dhen Ghearrain 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment deasaich

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:56, 13 dhen Mhàrt 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Catalan Culture Challenge deasaich

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will organise the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak). It would be lovely to have you on board. :-)

We look forward to seeing you!

Amical Wikimedia--Kippelboy (talk) 17:30, 15 dhen Mhàrt 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to the default site typography coming soon deasaich

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

  • April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
  • April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto deasaich

There is a current discussion on German Wikipedia on a decision of Asaf Bartov, Head of WMF Grants and Global South Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, who rejected a request for funding a proposal from wikipedians from eowiki one year ago with the explanation the existence, cultivation, and growth of the Esperanto Wikipedia does not advance our educational mission. No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto. On meta there has also started a discussion about that decision. --Holder (talk) 09:56, 5 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an Esperantist, but I disagree with this, and have put my comments on the second link. -MacRusgail (talk) 12:17, 5 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer deasaich


Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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20-20 Vision of Wales Challenge deasaich

 
(Please forgive me for not writing in Gàidhlig!)

We have listed 20 ESSENTIAL articles which we believe would complement and enhance the Gàidhlig Wikipedia on a little project or Challange. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on Welsh places, people and some of the things which make our hearts beat.

It would be lovely to have you on board. :-)

Diolch yn fawr - many thanks! We look forward to seeing you! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 07:18, 24 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Cuaraidh Penrhyn article! My heart sings like a linnet! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 15:22, 25 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Edinburgh Wikimedia Meetup Number 6 deasaich

There's a great chance for you to discuss wiki stuff at Edinburgh on Sunday 8 June, 2014 at 1.00 pm. Take a look at this ad on Meta. If I was only just that wee bit nearer!!! Have a great time, and teach them a bit of Gàidhlig! - Llywelyn2000 (talk) 13:39, 29 dhen Chèitean 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Using only UploadWizard for uploads deasaich

 

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.

Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. I propose to have

so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.

All this will get done around 2014-07-03.

  1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create MediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
  2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 13:09, 19 dhen Ògmhios 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki deasaich


 
Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 dhen Ògmhios 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014 deasaich

This is a one-time mailing to projects that may need this information. Future newsletters will be available as opt-in only. To receive future newsletters (about one per month), please add your page to the subscribers' list at m:VisualEditor/Newsletter. You're welcome to translate to your language.


 
 

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

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

  • They have moved the "Ath-ghoiridean meur-chlàir" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Cobhair" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
  • You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
  • The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}}{{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
  • Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
  • They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead deasaich

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki deasaich

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact us if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

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

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at Meta (or at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only). Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 22:33, 25 dhen Ògmhios 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Updates related to VisualEditor deasaich

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

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

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

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

WMF community liaisons will share a booth with community advocates at the Community Village and look forward to talking to you there. Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 16:02, 31 dhen Iuchar 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor global newsletter—July and August 2014 deasaich

 

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

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

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

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

Looking ahead deasaich

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

Feedback opportunities deasaich

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

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

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 14:40, 9 dhen Lùnastal 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Help for translate deasaich

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (an deasbaireachd) 23:32, 12 dhen Lùnastal 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions deasaich

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

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

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 dhen Lùnastal 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Process ideas for software development deasaich

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 dhen Lùnastal 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Grants to improve your project deasaich

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

Change in renaming process deasaich

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

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 September 2014 16.22 (UTC)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11 deasaich

 

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 dhen t-Sultain 2014 (UTC).[reply]

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

Monuments of Spain Challenge deasaich

Excuse me for not speaking Gàidhlig yet.

Wikimedia España invites you to join the Monuments of Spain Challenge. And what’s that? It’s a contest. You have to edit, translate or expand articles about the Spanish monuments and you will be granted points. So you’re not just writing about wonderful buildings: you can get prizes!

The time of the contest will include all October and any information you may need is right here.

Join in and good luck!

PS: We would be grateful if you could translate this note into Gàidhlig.

B25es on behalf of Wikimedia España.

VisualEditor News #8—2014 deasaich

09:49, 13 dhen Dàmhair 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups deasaich

Hello all,

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

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

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

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 dhen Dàmhair 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (an deasbaireachd) 11:40, 31 dhen Dàmhair 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014) deasaich

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

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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

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

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:19, 5 dhen t-Samhain 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Global AbuseFilter deasaich

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:34, 14 dhen t-Samhain 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #9—2014 deasaich

23:29, 14 dhen t-Samhain 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014) deasaich

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:

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.00:22, 18 dhen Dùbhlachd 2014 (UTC)

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

Is mise Duitseach. Tha mi duilich ach tha mi as ionnsachadh fhathast. I am adding some content to the gd.witkionary. seall and I cannot always find the technical terms. E.g. what do I say for "hyponym" and "hypernym"? Gunmhoine (an deasbaireachd) 18:05, 20 dhen Dùbhlachd 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chan eil fhios agam. Is dòcha “fo-bhuidhean” agus “os-bhuidhean”? No “fo-sheòrsa” agus “os-sheòrsa”? --Caoimhin (an deasbaireachd) 19:10, 20 dhen Dùbhlachd 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chan eil fhios agam nas motha, is dòcha "hyponym": "fo-bhriathar" agus "hypernym": "os-bhriathar" no "briathar gnèitheach"? --Sionnach (an deasbaireachd) 19:41, 20 dhen Dùbhlachd 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #10—2014 deasaich

18:59, 26 dhen Dùbhlachd 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #1—2015 deasaich

18:30, 5 dhen Ghearrain 2015 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Uicipeid.org: (na h-uile) Cead-deasachaidh deasaich

 
MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like gd.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 dhen Mhàrt 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015) deasaich

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:

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 dhen Mhàrt 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.
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Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content deasaich

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!

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 20:01, 4 dhen Mhàrt 2015 (UTC)[reply]

SUL finalization update deasaich

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 dhen Mhàrt 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stewards confirmation rules deasaich

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 dhen Ghiblean 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #2—2015 deasaich

19:48, 10 dhen Ghiblean 2015 (UTC)

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) • TranslateGet help

 

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) • TranslateGet help

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015) deasaich

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 dhen Chèitean 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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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) • TranslateGet help

 

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) • TranslateGet help

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

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)

Content Translation beta-feature is now available deasaich

Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. To start translating:

  1. Please enable the Beta feature in your preferences and check the box for Content Translation.
  2. Visit the page Special:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page to open the tool.
  3. Click on the blue button to create a new translation.
  4. A dialog will be displayed. In the From section select the language of the original article and the article name, and the language you would like to translate to. Also add the title of the new article (or the original title will be inserted) and click on Translate to begin. Your language preferences will be remembered for the next time.
  5. You will see a screen consisting of three columns. The left column contains the text of the source language and the middle column is for the translated text. Using the right column you can perform several actions such as insert source text, remove the inserted text source text, add or remove links etc.
  6. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia by using the publish button that appears. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace.
  7. 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 the information available in the User Guide. You can also view a short screencast on how to use Content Translation. Our announcement is written only in English, and we would really appreciate if this message can be translated to reach more users of this Wikipedia. Thank you.--Runab WMF (an deasbaireachd) 15:45, 9 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any point at all in making this available on the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia? Because the translation tool does not work at all for Scottish Gaelic and is never likely to work for Scottish Gaelic in years to come. What would be really useful, to Irish Gaelic speakers, is if the new Scottish Gaelic to Irish Gaelic translation tool at InterGaelic.com could be made available on the Irish Gaelic Wikipedia, because that really does work, and works very well. --Caoimhin (an deasbaireachd) 21:38, 10 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I see that it offers (in the list of languages) to do a translation into “Gaeilge” if there is no Irish Gaelic page in the list. But then it never manages to do any translation whatsoever. Intergaelic.com, on the other hand works really well from Scottish Gaelic to Irish Gaelic, and would be really useful if it were available. --Caoimhin (an deasbaireachd) 21:54, 14 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #3—2015 deasaich

10:44, 13 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015 deasaich

13:30, 13 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015) deasaich

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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22:01, 19 dhen Ògmhios 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images deasaich

 
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 (an deasbaireachd) 05:07, 24 dhen Iuchar 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you? deasaich

 

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? deasaich

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 deasaich


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 23:43, 31 dhen Iuchar 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming deasaich

(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:

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 17:46, 3 dhen Lùnastal 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here deasaich

VisualEditor News #4—2015 deasaich

Elitre (WMF), 22:28, 14 dhen Lùnastal 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better? deasaich

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:

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. 00:12, 19 dhen Lùnastal 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better? deasaich

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:

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

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

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by Teamplaid:User through MediaWiki message delivery. 00:46, 19 dhen Lùnastal 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site deasaich

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 dhen t-Sultain 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants deasaich

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.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 dhen t-Sultain 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015) deasaich

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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

We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals! deasaich

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

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.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 dhen t-Sultain 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reimagining WMF grants report deasaich

(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) 16:56, 28 dhen t-Sultain 2015 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #5—2015 deasaich

Elitre (WMF), 18:18, 30 dhen Dàmhair 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Community Wishlist Survey deasaich

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed deasaich

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 10:48, 10 dhen t-Samhain 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation deasaich

Please help translate to your language

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.)

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

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) • TranslateGet help

Community Wishlist Survey deasaich

MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 14:38, 1 dhen Dùbhlachd 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015) deasaich


Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

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

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

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:

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, 20:58, 18 dhen Dùbhlachd 2015 (UTC)Please help translate to your languageCobhair[reply]

VisualEditor News #6—2015 deasaich

Elitre (WMF), 00:06, 25 dhen Dùbhlachd 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon! deasaich

Please help translate to your language

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

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 01:49, 5 dhen Fhaoilleach 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 WMF Strategy consultation deasaich

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Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 19:06, 18 dhen Fhaoilleach 2016 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor News #1—2016 deasaich

Elitre (WMF), 19:21, 26 dhen Ghearran 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2016: call for posters, discussions and trainings deasaich

Hi people,
the calls for posters, discussions and trainings for Wikimania 2016 are officially opened, you can find all the relevant links on the conference wiki:

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

The calls will be closed on March 20.

Posters will be reviewed just to make sure that there aren't things which are too much out of scope. Since we have a whole village we will surely find places to attach them, even if we they will be a lot!

Discussions will be managed by a guiding committee who will work on the wiki to meld all the proposals and suggestions.

Trainings will be reviewed by the programme committee. Please note that we request that each training has at least 3-5 interested attendees in order to be put in the programme.

By the beginning of April we will have a first list of all the accepted proposals.

If you have questions we suggest you to ask them on the discussion pages on wiki, so that everyone will be able to see them (and their answers, of course).

We are looking forward to read your ideas! --Yiyi (an deasbaireachd) 15:26, 29 dhen Ghearran 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Completion suggestor deasaich

- User:CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 7 dhen Mhàrt 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2016) deasaich

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Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

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

Non-English

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

Expansions

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:30, 17 dhen Mhàrt 2016 (UTC)


You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants deasaich

 

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 15:47, 31 dhen Mhàrt 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Server switch 2016 deasaich

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

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

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 17 dhen Ghiblean 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon deasaich

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

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35, 21 dhen Ghiblean 2016 (UTC)

TED speaker challenge deasaich

 
Participate in the TED speakers challenge!!

From 6 June to 6 July we are holding a writing challenge about TED speakers. Everyone can participate by writing about people who have held a TED talk. For an overview of TED speakers in the in competition see here: User:Jane023/TED speakers. For an overview of all the TED talks that these people have held, see here: TED talks. More information about the challenge, the points, the prizes, and the sign-up is here: TED speakers challenge. Jane023 (an deasbaireachd) 12:36, 9 dhen Ògmhios 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun deasaich

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31, 10 dhen Ògmhios 2016 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki deasaich

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 dhen Ògmhios 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today deasaich

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05, 1 dhen Iuchar 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit deasaich

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10, 1 dhen Iuchar 2016 (UTC)

Save/Publish deasaich

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 9 dhen Lùnastal 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia to the Moon working phase deasaich

Dear Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia language community,

First of all, I am sorry to write this in English.

You may already have heard about Wikipedia to the Moon: A team of scientists called the “PT Scientists” are going to send a space craft to the moon in 2017 and they want to take Wikipedia along with them. Because Wikipedia is so big, we cannot send all of it to the moon. That is why the international Wikipedia-community has voted to send all “Featured Articles and Featured Lists“ from all languages in Wikipedia.

“Featured Articles“ is a category in many language versions of Wikipedia that collects the very best articles in that language. Your community does not currently have a „Featured Articles“ category. Ideally, we want to take every language on Wikipedia to the moon and we also want to take the best articles in your language. That is why we would like you to tell us what the very best articles in your language are.

There are two ways you could do this:

1) You could introduce the categories “Featured Article” and “Featured List” in your language version of Wikipedia and vote for the best articles and put them in the category. We will take every article that is tagged as a “Featured Article” or a “Featured List” to the moon
2) You could vote for the best articles in your language version of Wikipedia and put them all on one a new Wikipedia page. If you let us know where we can find that list here, we will also take the articles to the moon.

The deadline for Wikipedia to the Moon is 31 October 2016. After that date, we will put all the Featured Articles and Lists onto a special disc and give it to the “PT Scientists.” They will take the Wikipedia articles into space next year.

--Denis Schroeder (WMDE) (an deasbaireachd) 14:02, 17 dhen Lùnastal 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016) deasaich


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 now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

  • Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
  • World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
  • Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
  • American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
  • Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:39, 30 dhen Lùnastal 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Machine translation support to be enabled soon for Content Translation deasaich

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Hello, I wanted to give you a heads up that machine translation support for Scottish Gaelic is now ready to be extended to Content Translation (beta feature) using Yandex. It is scheduled to be made active on this Wikipedia on September 14, 2016. This service can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Scottish Gaelic with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about machine translation services in Content Translation and about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the legal contract. Please note, the translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.


We look forward to your feedback. You can reach us using the Project Talk page or phabricator ticket. This message could only be written in English and we will really appreciate if it can be translated into Scottish Gaelic for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runab WMF (an deasbaireachd) 13:51, 8 dhen t-Sultain 2016 (UTC)[reply]


RevisionSlider deasaich

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:08, 12 dhen t-Sultain 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation deasaich

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Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Scottish Gaelic with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support.

Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal team and Yandex had collaborated earlier to work out an agreement that allows the use of Yandex.Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. Since November 2015, Yandex machine translation has been used for articles translated for Wikipedias in many languages. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about machine translation services in Content Translation and about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the legal contract. Please note, translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.


We have tested the service for use on the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our Project Talk page or phabricator if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into Scottish Gaelic for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (an deasbaireachd) 23:45, 15 dhen t-Sultain 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grants to improve your project deasaich

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other 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.

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 30 dhen t-Sultain 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Creative Commons 4.0 deasaich

Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:35, 6 dhen Dàmhair 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #3—2016 deasaich

17:49, 15 dhen Dàmhair 2016 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016) deasaich


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:

Expansions

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:30, 1 dhen t-Samhain 2016 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Password reset deasaich

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (deasbaireachd) / MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 00:00, 14 dhen t-Samhain 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to the above section (Password reset) deasaich

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 00:11, 14 dhen t-Samhain 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New way to edit wikitext deasaich

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:32, 14 dhen Dùbhlachd 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process deasaich

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:30, 15 dhen Ghearran 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your languageGet help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process deasaich

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 dhen Mhàrt 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your languageGet help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15) deasaich

05:09, 18 dhen Mhàrt 2017 (UTC)

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

 

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

  • April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
  • April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
  • April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
  • May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
  • May 15–19 – Board vote checking
  • May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
    • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
  • Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
    • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:36, 7 dhen Ghiblean 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your languageGet help

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May deasaich

MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 17:34, 11 dhen Ghiblean 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app deasaich

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 08:41, 14 dhen Ghiblean 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Page previews feature deasaich

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017) deasaich

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:

Expansions

  • Gale – Biography In Context database added
  • Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

19:14, 3 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View deasaich

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:41, 8 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #1—2017 deasaich

18:05, 12 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia deasaich

Hello,

I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.

One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.

The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.

We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.

We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.

You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)

RevisionSlider deasaich

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)[reply]

21:08, 16 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata deasaich

Hello all,

(Please help translate to your language)

The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

 

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Ceud taing! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 21:18, 22 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)[reply]

21:06, 23 dhen Chèitean 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes deasaich

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Ceud taing! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33, 29 dhen Ògmhios 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

Accessible editing buttons deasaich

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 10 dhen Iuchar 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Page Previews (Hovercards) update deasaich

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:33, 20 dhen Iuchar 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Improved search in deleted pages archive deasaich

Please help translate to your language

During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Ceud taing! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 dhen Iuchar 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation" deasaich

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 21:06, 17 dhen t-Sultain 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on synced reading lists deasaich

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35, 20 dhen t-Sultain 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to the global ban policy deasaich

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34, 12 dhen t-Samhain 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers deasaich

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 dhen t-Samhain 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships deasaich

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 dhen Dùbhlachd 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User group for Military Historians deasaich

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (an deasbaireachd) 10:46, 21 dhen Dùbhlachd 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #1—2018 deasaich

20:56, 2 dhen Mhàrt 2018 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge deasaich

 

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 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 (an deasbaireachd) 14:02, 12 dhen Mhàrt 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder: In non-English Wikipedia, remind changing the link to the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, either to the local file or to Twelve Apostles of Ireland.

Twelve Apostles of Ireland Challenge deasaich

 

The Twelve Apostles of Ireland Challenge is an edition competition seeking to create and improve articles on the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Anyone in any language can subscribe and collaborate on building or translating articles relating to the Twelve Apostles. Medals and real icons will be rewarded to the winners. To participate, one just needs to subscribe here and start collaborating. Dia Duit! Leefeni de Karik (an deasbaireachd) 02:59, 27 dhen Mhàrt 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wales! The Celtic Knot Conference... deasaich

 

I apologise that this invitation is in English; feel free to translate into your own language!

I would like to invite you to the second Wikipedia language conference focusing on supporting Celtic and other small and Indigenous Languages. This year 'Celtic Knot' will be at held on the 5th and 6th of July at the National Library of Wales in Wales' most famous seaside resort of Aberystwyth.

For more information on how you could be part of this great event, pop over to our website where you can also contact Jason Evans, our National Wikimedian and conference organiser. We have many speakers who will talk about what works for them, how we can learn from each other... small is beautiful...

Viva la diversity! Llywelyn2000 (an deasbaireachd) 13:15, 4 dhen Ghiblean 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review deasaich

Hello. Sorry for posting in English, we have no translation for this message. Please help translate to your language Thank you.

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. User:Doc Taxon

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MarcoAurelio (an deasbaireachd) 11:12, 12 dhen Ghiblean 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias deasaich

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 24 dhen Ghiblean 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AdvancedSearch deasaich

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 dhen Chèitean 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018) deasaich

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

  • Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
  • Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
  • Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 dhen Chèitean 2018 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Update on page issues on mobile web deasaich

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 dhen Ògmhios 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tidy to RemexHtml deasaich

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 14:38, 2 dhen Iuchar 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Global preferences are available deasaich

19:19, 10 dhen Iuchar 2018 (UTC)