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Dear people, I've seen a lot of categories appearing under the titles "Moteds in XXXX" and "Deadams in XXXX". Unless I am gravely mistaken, this is incorrect in Volapük: '''in''' always refers to a place. When it refers to a year, '''ün''' should be used. In other words: "Moteds ün XXXX" or "Moteds ün yel XXXX". Regards, [[Geban:IJzeren Jan|IJzeren Jan]] ([[Gebanibespik:IJzeren Jan|bespik]]) 15:54, 2019 yanul 24id (UTC)
Dear people, I've seen a lot of categories appearing under the titles "Moteds in XXXX" and "Deadams in XXXX". Unless I am gravely mistaken, this is incorrect in Volapük: '''in''' always refers to a place. When it refers to a year, '''ün''' should be used. In other words: "Moteds ün XXXX" or "Moteds ün yel XXXX". Regards, [[Geban:IJzeren Jan|IJzeren Jan]] ([[Gebanibespik:IJzeren Jan|bespik]]) 15:54, 2019 yanul 24id (UTC)

== Talk to us about talking ==

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|global consultation about communication]]. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

'''We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.'''

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
# First, [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Participant group sign-up|sign up your group here.]]
# Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
# Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
## When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
## What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
## What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
## What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
## What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
# Finally, please go to [[mw:Talk:Talk pages consultation 2019|Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org]] and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

'''You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.'''

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Tools in use|how your group communicates]].

You can read more about [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|the overall process]] on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can [[mw:Talk:Talk pages consultation 2019|leave feedback about the consultation process]] in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
</div> [[user:Trizek (WMF)|Trizek (WMF)]] 15:01, 2019 febul 21id (UTC)
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== New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019) ==

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Hello Wikimedians!
[[File:Wikipedia_Library_owl.svg|thumb|upright|The TWL OWL says sign up today!]]
[[m:The Wikipedia Library|The Wikipedia Library]] is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our [[m:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals|Publisher Donation Program]]. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ Library Card platform]:
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/72/ Kinige]''' – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/55/ Gale]''' – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
* '''[https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/54/ JSTOR]''' – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ our partners page], including [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/47/ Baylor University Press], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/10/ Taylor & Francis], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/46/ Cairn], [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/32/ Annual Reviews] and [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/61/ Bloomsbury]. You can request new partnerships on our [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/ Suggestions page].

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
<br>--[[w:en:Wikipedia:TWL/Coordinators|The Wikipedia Library Team]] 17:40, 2019 mäzul 13id (UTC)

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== Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April ==

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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">You will '''not be able to edit''' most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on '''[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190411T05 11 April 05:00 UTC]'''. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You [[phab:T220080|can see which wikis are affected]]. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /[[User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]</div></div></div> 10:56, 2019 prilul 8id (UTC)
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== Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request ==

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<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">The Wikimedia Foundation has published a [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019|Medium-Term Plan proposal]] covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on [[m:Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019|the talk page]], by April 20. {{Int:Feedback-thanks-title}} [[m:User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[m:User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]]) 17:35, 2019 prilul 12id (UTC)</div>
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== Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes ==

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''Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it :)''

Hello all,

Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of [[Wikidata]], the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles.
This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.

This is the reason why the '''[[mw:Wikidata Bridge|Wikidata Bridge]]''' project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.

The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge/Research|user research]] has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge/Development|development]] will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.

In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.

Here’s the planned timeline:
* From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
* From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
* Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
** We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
** but we also welcome also communities who [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge/Get_involved|volunteer to be part of the first test round]].
** Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
** Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.
In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.

If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:
* Read and help translating [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge|the documentation pages]]
* Follow the [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge/Updates|updates]] and participate in [[mw:Topic:V1x2lxtu8rgi954a|the first feedback loop]]
* Talk about it with your local community
More ideas will be added [[mw:Wikidata_Bridge/Get_involved|on this page]] along the way

If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them [[mw:Talk:Wikidata_Bridge|on the main talk page]]. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.

Thanks for your attention, [[:d:User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] 13:03, 2019 yunul 24id (UTC)
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== Editing News #1—July 2019 ==

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''[[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/2019/July|Read this in another language]] • [[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter|Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter]]''

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<big>'''Did you know?'''</big>
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Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon [[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg|frameless|16x16px]] to start editing.

'''<big>Edit Cards</big>'''

[[File:EditCards-v.20.png|alt=Toolbar with menu opened|center|frameless|250px]]

This is what the new '''Edit Cards for editing links''' in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: '''[[mw:Topic:V394zwrigth8ii7c|📲 Try Edit Cards]].'''
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Welcome back to the [[mw:Editing|Editing]] newsletter.

Since [[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/2018/October|the last newsletter]], the team has released two new features for the [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile|mobile visual editor]] and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to [[m:Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2018-2019/Audiences#Outcome 3: Mobile Contribution|make editing on mobile web simpler]].

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

<strong>Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?</strong>

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

<em>Follow these instructions and share your experience:</em>

<strong>[[mw:Topic:V394zwrigth8ii7c|📲 Try Edit Cards]].</strong>

=== Recent releases ===
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the [[mw:Reading/Web/Mobile#About|mobile site]]. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

# [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Section editing|Section editing]]
#* The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
#* The team studied this with an A/B test. [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Section editing#16 June 2019|This test showed]] that contributors who could use section editing were '''1% more likely to publish''' the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
# [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile#March 1, 2019|Loading overlay]]
#* The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are '''now available to everyone''' using the mobile visual editor.

=== New and active projects ===
This is a list of our most active projects. [[mw:Help:Watching pages|Watch]] these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

*[[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards|Edit cards]]: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. <em>Go here to see how:</em> [[mw:Topic:V394zwrigth8ii7c|📲 <em>Try Edit Cards</em>]].
*[[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Toolbar refresh|Mobile toolbar refresh]]: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
*[[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default|Mobile visual editor availability]]: This A/B test asks: ''Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?'' We are collaborating with [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default#26 June 2019 %E2%80%93 Participating wikis and test start date|20 Wikipedias]] to answer this question.
*[[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Usability improvements|Usability improvements]]: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

=== Looking ahead ===

* '''Wikimania:''' Several members of the Editing Team will be attending [[wmania:|Wikimania]] in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the [[wmania:2019:Community Growth/Visual editing on mobile: An accessible editor for all|Community Growth space]]. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
* '''Talk Pages:''' In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|improving talk pages]] and communication on the wikis.

=== Learning more ===
The [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile|VisualEditor on mobile]] is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor on mobile|Talk:VisualEditor on mobile]].

[[user:PPelberg (WMF)|PPelberg (WMF)]] ([[mw:user_talk:PPelberg (WMF)|talk]]) & [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[mw:user_talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]])
</div> 18:32, 2019 yulul 23id (UTC)
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== Update on the consultation about office actions ==

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_152#Announcement_of_forthcoming_temporary_and_partial_ban_tool_consultation|announced]] a future consultation about partial and/or temporary [[m:Special:MyLanguage/office actions|office actions]]. We want to let you know that the '''draft version''' of this consultation has now been [[:m:Office_actions/Community_consultation_on_partial_and_temporary_office_actions/draft|posted on Meta]].

This is a '''draft'''. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. '''[[:m:Talk:Office_actions/Community_consultation_on_partial_and_temporary_office_actions/draft|Please post it on the draft talk page]]'''. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit [[:m:Office_actions/Community_consultation_on_partial_and_temporary_office_actions/draft|the consultation draft on Meta-wiki]] and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Trust and Safety|Trust & Safety team]] 08:03, 2019 gustul 16id (UTC)
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== New tools and IP masking ==

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Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools ''could'' be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project [[m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|on Meta]] and [[m:Talk:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation|post comments and feedback]]. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
[[User:Johan (WMF)|Johan (WMF)]]</div></div></div> 14:18, 2019 gustul 21id (UTC)
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== The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started ==

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Hello,

In a [[:en:Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram/Official_statements#Board_statement|recent statement]], the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees [[:en:Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%27s_ban_of_Fram/Official_statements#Board_statement|requested that staff hold a consultation]] to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians [[:m:Office actions/Community consultation on partial and temporary office actions/09 2019|to join this consultation and give their feedback]] from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

* Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

* Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

* Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

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</div>-- [[user:Kbrown (WMF)|Kbrown (WMF)]] 17:14, 2019 setul 30id (UTC)
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== Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project ==

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{{Int:Please-translate}}

{{int:Hello}}. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements|improvements to the desktop interface]] over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

* Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
* Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
* Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

* Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
* Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
* Put things in logical and useful places
* Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
* Eliminate clutter
* Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

* Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
* Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
* No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at [[mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements|mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements]]

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

{{Int:Feedback-thanks-title}} [[mw:User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[mw:User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]])
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== Beta feature "Reference Previews" ==

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A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews|Reference Previews]]. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.

Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews|on the project page]].

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|user preferences]] and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the [[mw:Help talk:Reference Previews|central talk page]]. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes|Technical Wishes project]].
</div> -- [[User:Johanna Strodt (WMDE)|Johanna Strodt (WMDE)]] 09:47, 2019 tobul 23id (UTC)
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== Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages ==

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<em>[[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/2019/October|Read this in another language]] • [[m:VisualEditor/Newsletter|Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter]]</em>

Inside this newsletter, the [[mw:Editing|Editing team]] talks about their work on the [[mw:Mobile visual editor|mobile visual editor]], on [[mw:Talk pages project|the new talk pages project]], and at [[wikimania:|Wikimania 2019]].

=== Help ===
<strong>What talk page interactions do you remember?</strong> Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. <mark>Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the <strong>[[mw:Topic:V8d91yh8gcg404dj|talk page for this project]]</strong>.</mark> The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

=== Talk pages project ===
The [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|Talk Pages Consultation]] was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 2 report|Phase 2 Report]] of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: [[mw:Talk pages project|Talk Page Project project page]].

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the [[mw:Talk pages project#Getting involved|<strong>"Getting involved"</strong>]] section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

=== Mobile visual editor ===
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile|visual editor on mobile]]. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at [[mw:Talk:VisualEditor on mobile|Talk:VisualEditor on mobile]].

==== [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards|Edit Cards]] ====
[[File:Edit Cards-before-v3-comparison.png|thumb|486x486px|What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.]]

* On 3 September, the Editing team released [[:File:Edit Cards comparison v2 and v3.png|version 3 of Edit Cards]]. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
* There is an [[:File:Edit Cards comparison v2 and v3.png|updated design]] on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards#2 September 2019 - v3 deployment timing|combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target]].
* Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the [[:mw:Topic:V5rg0cqmikpubmjj|Edit cards talk page]].

==== [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Toolbar refresh|Toolbar]] ====
[[File:Toolbar-comparison-v1.png|thumb|486px|The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. [[mw:Topic:V79x6zm8n6i4nb56|Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar]].]]

* In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
** <em>One toolbar:</em> All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
**<em>New navigation:</em> The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
**<em>Seamless switching:</em> an [[phab:T228159|improved workflow]] for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
* Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the [[mw:Topic:V79x6zm8n6i4nb56|Toolbar feedback talk page]].

=== Wikimania ===
The Editing Team attended [[wmania:2019:Program|Wikimania 2019]] in Sweden. They led a session on [[wmania:2019:Community Growth/Visual editing on mobile: An accessible editor for all|the mobile visual editor]] and a session on [[wmania:2019:Community Growth/After Flow: A new direction for improving talk pages|the new talk pages project]]. They tested [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Toolbar refresh#v1 prototype|two]] new [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards#v3 prototype|features]] in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile#Wikimania Stockholm: Overview|the team's report on Wikimania 2019]].

=== Looking ahead ===

* <strong>Talk Pages Project:</strong> The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: [[mw:Talk pages project#Getting involved|<strong>Getting involved</strong>]].
* <strong>Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:</strong> The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default|<strong>VisualEditor as mobile default project page</strong>]].
* <strong>Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:</strong> This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: [[mw:VisualEditor on mobile/Edit cards|<strong>Edit Cards project page</strong>]].

– [[User:PPelberg (WMF)|PPelberg (WMF)]] ([[mw:User talk:PPelberg (WMF)|talk]]) & [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[mw:User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]])
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== Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 ==

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'''Wikipedia Asian Month''' is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer [[:m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2019|to our Meta page]] for organizers.

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

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team [[:m:Talk:Wikipedia Asian Month 2019|on wiki]] or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

[[:m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2019/International Team|Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.]]

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== Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest ==

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

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

[[:m:Wikipedia Asian Month 2019/International Team|Wikipedia Asian Month International Team]]

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== Wiki Loves Folklore ==

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'''Hello Folks,'''

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as '''[[:c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore|Wiki Loves Folklore]]''' from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UploadWizard&campaign=wllove Wikimedia Commons]. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at [[m:Wiki Loves Folklore|Meta-Wiki]] and [[:c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore|Commons]].

'''Kind regards,'''<br/>
[[:c:Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore/International Team|'''Wiki Loves Folklore International Team''']]<br/>
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== Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project ==

Hello

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

To learn more about the project, [[:m:special:MyLanguage/Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project|please visit the Meta page]]. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegM07N1FK_s0VUECM61AlWOthwdn5zQOlVsa2vaKcx13BwZg/viewform?usp=sf_link this simple Google form]. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

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== Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages ==

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You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/Edit Conflicts#Edit conflicts on talk pages|the planned feature]]. Let us know what you think on our [[mw:Help talk:Two Column Edit Conflict View|central feedback page]]! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: [[m:User:Max Klemm (WMDE)|Max Klemm (WMDE)]] 14:15, 2020 febul 26id (UTC)
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== Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools ==

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[[File:TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png|thumb|300px|alt=Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like|This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.]]

The [[mw:Editing|Editing team]] has been working on [[mw:Talk pages project|the talk pages project]]. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the [[mw:Talk pages consultation 2019|Talk pages consultation 2019]].

[[File:TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png|thumb|300px|alt=Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons|In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.]]

The team is building a [[mw:Talk pages project/replying|new tool for replying]] to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. <strong>Please [[mw:Talk pages project/replying/prototype testing#Reply%20version%201.0|test the new Reply tool]].</strong>

*On 31 March 2020, the new {{Int:discussiontools-replylink}} tool was offered as a [[mw:Beta Feature|Beta Feature]] editors at four Wikipedias: [[w:ar:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Arabic]], [[w:nl:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Dutch]], [[w:fr:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|French]], and [[w:hu:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|Hungarian]]. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)]].
*The team is planning some upcoming changes. <strong>Please [[mw:Talk pages project/replying#Version%202.0|review the proposed design]] and share your thoughts on the talk page.</strong> The team will test features such as:
**an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
**a rich-text visual editing option, and
**other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the [[mw:Talk pages project#Get involved|<strong>"Get involved"</strong>]] section of the project page. You can also watch [[File:MediaWiki Vector skin blue star watchlist icon.svg|frameless|16px]] these pages: [[mw:Talk pages project|the main project page]], [[mw:Talk pages project/Updates|Updates]], [[mw:Talk pages project/replying|Replying]], and [[mw:Talk pages project/replying/prototype testing|User testing]].

– [[user:PPelberg (WMF)|PPelberg (WMF)]] ([[mw:User talk:PPelberg (WMF)|talk]]) & [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[mw:User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]])
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== Editing news 2020 #2 ==

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[[File:TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png|alt=Mockup of the new reply feature, showing new editing tools|thumb|400x400px|The new features include a toolbar. [[mw:Talk:Talk pages project/replying|What do you think should be in the toolbar?]]]]

This issue of the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Editing|Editing]] newsletter includes information the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project|Talk pages project]], an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

* [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/replying|<strong>Reply tool</strong>]]: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "{{int:discussiontools-preference-label}}". The Beta Feature will get [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/replying#Version%202.0|new features]] soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing <code>@</code>. You can [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/replying/prototype testing#Reply%20tool%20version%202.0|test the new features]] on the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Beta Cluster|Beta Cluster]] now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
* [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/New requirements for user signatures|<strong>New requirements for user signatures</strong>]]: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in [[Special:Preferences]]. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
* [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/New discussion|<strong>New discussion tool</strong>]]: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Talk pages project/New discussion#Design|see the initial design on the project page]].
* [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Research:Usage of talk pages|<strong>Research on the use of talk pages</strong>]]: The Editing team worked with the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Research|Wikimedia research team]] to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]])
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== Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos ==

[[File:WPWP logo 1.png|150px|right|Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)]]
This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

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

Please visit the '''[[m:Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos|campaign page]]''' to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

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

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== Feedback on movement names ==

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

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a [https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9G2dN7P0T7gPqpD survey] in 7 languages about [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 movement brand project/Naming convention proposals|3 naming options]]. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community open letter on renaming|Community Open Letter]].

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --[[:m:Talk:Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 movement brand project|The Brand Project team]], 19:42, 2020 yulul 2id (UTC)

''Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the [[foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Naming Convention Proposals Movement Feedback Survey Privacy Statement|survey privacy statement]].''
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== Editing news 2020 #3 ==

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[[File:50M@2x.png|thumb|alt=A gold star with a blue ribbon, and the text 50m|More than <strong>50 million edits</strong> have been made using the visual editor on desktop.|400px]]

Seven years ago this month, the [[mw:Editing team|Editing team]] offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

* More than <strong>50 million edits</strong> have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
* More than <strong>2 million new articles</strong> have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
* The visual editor is <strong>increasingly popular</strong>. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
* In 2019, <strong>35% of the edits by newcomers</strong> (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has <strong>increased every year</strong>.
* Almost <strong>5 million edits on the mobile site</strong> have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the [[mw:Mobile visual editor|mobile visual editor]] in 2018.
* On 17 November 2019, the [https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/first-edit-made-to-wikipedia-from-outer-space/2254 <strong>first edit from outer space</strong>] was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
* Editors have made more than <strong>7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor</strong>, including starting <strong>600,000 new articles</strong> in it. The [[mw:2017 wikitext editor|2017 wikitext editor]] is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|enable it in your preferences]].

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== Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia ==

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Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 <ref>[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia|Abstract Wikipedia]]</ref> after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation <ref>[[m:User:Denny|User:Denny]]</ref>. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list <ref>[[mail:abstract-wikipedia|Abstract Wikipedia mailing list]]</ref>. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

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== Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis ==

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The [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons|FileExporter and FileImporter]] will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history.
How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons/Configuration_file_documentation|configuration file]] which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons|FileImporter extension]] or the [[m:WMDE_Technical_Wishes|Technical Wishes Project]], follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team: </div>[[User:Max Klemm (WMDE)|Max Klemm (WMDE)]] 09:14, 2020 gustul 6id (UTC)
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== Important: maintenance operation on September 1st ==

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The [[foundation:|Wikimedia Foundation]] will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that 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 do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre 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 secondary data centre on '''Tuesday, September 1st 2020'''.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in [[mw:Manual:What is MediaWiki?|MediaWiki]], all editing must stop while the switch is made. 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 up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200901T14 14:00 UTC] (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
*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 code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can [[wikitech:Switch Datacenter#Schedule for 2018 switch|read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org]]. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. '''Please share this information with your community.'''
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Fomam dätü 08:02, 2020 gustul 28id




Guvans

Mobob moükami stada guvana de guvans:

Guvans at no ebinoms dunotik dü muls plu 6. Malafaya 12:03, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Veratö... Ab ba mutoy säkön omes, va viloms nog bitön as guvans. Openob bosi su bespikapads omsik (in Vükipeds votik). --Smeira 14:02, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Baicedob. Binos gudikum ad säkön omes, if sevol ladetis omsik. Begö, säkolös. (Pidob pro pük fibik oba :) ) --Malafaya 14:14, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Glidis! This is Jmb. You may remove my admin status if you want. I may be back from time to time to help out with editing pages. Fleniko, Jmb 01:39, 7 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Pük ai kanon vedön gudikum!... Ed ekö! mob votik:

Mobob gevami stada guvana ele:

Geban at ebinom vemo dunotik ün muls lätik, ed eyufom vemo ad gudükumön e jonükumön Vükipedi Volapükik (a.s. tefü koordinats e kaedil itjäfidik pro pads dö zifs vola; tefü samafomot: {{Yüm YG}}; tefü Kafetar at, keli ejafom; e r.). Üf guvans löpo pemäniotöls operoms guvanastadi oksik, jinos lü ob, das hiel Malafaya okanom plaädön omis e fövön vobi okik gönü Vükiped Volapükik mu benosekiko. --Smeira 14:47, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)

(paskanükob) Danö pro konfid olik in ob, o Smeira! Spelob, das kanob yufön gudikumo. --Malafaya 15:35, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Cedü ob okanol nendoto! :-) Bi nek esagon bosi ta mob obik, cälob oli guvani (ä bürani) anu. Benokömö! --Smeira 17:00, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)

So suno?! Danö! Osteifülob gudikünos obik. Malafaya 17:23, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Bi no nog dabinons gebans mödik is... Ab, if ek no baicedon ko stad nulik ola, ai kanon sagön bosi is. --Smeira 19:47, 6 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Glidis! I am Jmb
Hi Jmb! So, what are your plans? --Smeira 14:52, 7 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Jmb. You wrote above you don't mind your administrator status being removed. Thanks for the reply, Malafaya 14:55, 7 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Ebegob säguvanami gebana Jmb in m:Requests for permissions#Jmb.40vo.wikipedia. Danö. Malafaya 16:50, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)

Vilags in Lestiyän

Soäsä pepenos in bespikapad zifa: Hageri, dabinon vo pök in pads anik tefü zifs (vilags) Lestiyänik: num: 58 (u 57 u 59) pekopiedon as lödanef, ab binon te koordinat. Suno odunob klad nulik ad konletön padis labü pök at, kelis poso okoräkob. --Smeira 14:26, 13 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Danö pro plän olik. Malafaya 15:15, 13 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Vükiped dönu petatakon!

Soäsä ba ya sevols, dabinon mob votik ta Vükiped Volapükik su Meta: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia. If labols timi, reidolsös padi moba at e keyufolsös ad taön ta mob at! --Smeira 18:23, 27 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Geb elas bots ad jafön yegedis nulik

In bespikapad tefü m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia su Meta, ya anikna pesagos, das mutobs bespikön gebi elas bots ad jafön yegedis smalik nulik ("sids", a.s. tefü zifs e vilags). Kisi cedols-li? Stütols-li gebi soik, u taols-li ta on? (Utans, kels vilons gebön pükis votik -- a.s. Linglänapüki -- dalons dunön osi.)

  • stütob. Nüns in sids at binons nemödiks, ab binons i:
a) verätiks;
b) frutiks;
c) siklopediks (patuvons in Vükipeds votik)
Zuo sids at ai kanons pagretükön fa gebans nitedälöls.

--Smeira 22:44, 27 dekul 2007 (UTC)

  • stütob, ab cedob, das mutobs gudikön yegedis at vifik, e ba no jafön yegedis nulik pluik, pato tefü zifs. Mobob ad gudikobs yegedis vipabik e votik, e jafobs pads tefü Vükiped pro Komotanef as dranöf balid.

--Malafaya 00:54, 28 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Lio gudükön onis? I me bots? Me nüns pluik, se Vükipeds votik? (l. sidis se Vükiped Nedänapükik tefü zifs Fransänik, a.s. nl:Buchères) --Smeira 10:07, 28 dekul 2007 (UTC)
Si, me bots u redakams menik. Yegeds Nedänapükik logotons gudik saidik. No glömobsös de gudükön i yegeds votik (a.s. yegeds vipabik e läns). Malafaya 11:20, 28 dekul 2007 (UTC)

Moükab

Parametis kinik mutoy-li gebön ad sludön, va yeged bal moükabon u no? Kisi cedols-li?Which parameters should we use to decide if an article should be deleted or not? What do you think?

Mob balid: Yegeds miniludik binons uts, kels: First proposal: suspicious articles are those that:
a. klüliko papenons ad nofön votikanis; are obviously written to offend others;
b. binons kopiedots vödemas labü kopiedagitäts; are copies of copyrighted texts;
c. no labons vödemi reidabik (in Volapük ud in pük votik seimik).do not have a readable text (in Volapük or any other language)
Yegeds sömik mutons getön sunädo samafomoti: {{Moükön}}.Such articles must immediately get the template {{Moükön}} (= remove).
Lautans yegedas sömik mutons getön (su bespikapad oksik) nunedi tefü nepöt yegedas oksik.The authors of such articles must immediately get a warning (on their talk pages) about the inappropriateness of their articles.
If lautans steifülons e plöpons ad gudükön yegedis oksik, yegeds ma fomam nulik oksik kanons blibön is.If the authors try and succeed in correcting their articles, then the articles in their new version can stay here.
If lautans no geükons, u no plöpons ad gudükön yegedis oksik, tän yegeds at pamoükons fa bal guvanas pos vig bal. If the authors don't react, or don't succeed in correcting their articles, then these articles are deleted by one of the admins after one week.

--Smeira 17:52, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]

What happens if somebody writes an article about, for example, his grandmother? Or about his company, which was founded in 2005 and has 25 employees? In other words, is there some kind of notability guidelines? Which template should be used for such cases instead of the (speedy?) {{Delete}}? --145.254.190.214 17:53, 2008 yanul 15id (UTC)[reply]
We'll in principle follow the usual criteria for notability: if the person's grandmother doesn't happen to be sufficiently famous, or if no one other than the author him/herself can verify the data, then the article will be considered for deletion. But thus far no one has tried to do that; so, in a sense, it is a problem we don't anticipate we'll have any time soon. Hence the absence of a dedicated template. If such a case occurs -- if there's a Volapük speaker who wants to write an article about his/her own non-famous grandmother -- then we'll set policies for dealing with that. For the time being, {{Delete}} will do -- until there really is a of the kind you anticipate, and then new approaches (e.g. new deletion templates) will be developed. --Smeira 19:45, 2008 febul 27id (UTC)[reply]
Mobob i, das yegeds löliko in püks votik (no Volapük, a.s. Linglänapük) muton pomoükön. Malafaya 14:35, 2008 mayul 14id (UTC)[reply]

O Smeira, vilol-li penön padi ko mobs at? Volapük olik binon gudikum, ka obik :). Malafaya 14:41, 2008 mayul 14id (UTC)[reply]

Pad fädik, Klads, dugön

Glidis! (Pidob vemo. No-nolob "navigation". I don't know the word for "navigation".) It may worth considering [1] disabling (or relegating) the "pad fadik" and replacing it with an index of articles, as in, e.g. [2]; and also consider making the Klads a more prominent means of navigation. This will lead readers to read the good articles; and the relative weight of the retäds would be reduced. - Hillgentleman 19:37, 2 yanul 2008 (UTC)

Glidis! (Navigation = nafam if you use the same maritime metaphor; at least one Volapükist I know doesn't like that and is looking for a less metaphorical description.) I don't see clearly the relation between the description of the use of bots on it.wp and the "pad fädik" link -- isn't it a link on all other Wikipedias? And it can be used for statistical purposes. Now, the idea of making Klads more visible as a navigation tool I find really interesting. How should we do that? (en.wp has only a few links to generic categories on the top of its main page; is this a good way to do that?) --Smeira 01:20, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
Glidis! You must have seen: someone comes, "pad fadik" a dozen times, and makes her conclusions. Well, we sometimes browse a dictionary this way, but this is not the best for a project under construction. (And by the way, hasn't Britannica got some one-liner entries? I don't remember.) It is my impression that you would yourself peace and quietous make if you behave professionally. Vukiped is a reference work. Make it useful. A good index is the key. - Hillgentleman 02:08, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
We can at least put links to the major categories, major portals, and an index in the most promenant position on the Cifapad. Now, whether that is enough is subjective. The question is what do you want people to see on the Cifapad. Do we want featured articles? perhaps. Do we want links to events happening on that date? And what do we want for the front page? At present, it would be 1. to entice new editors; and 2. to aid site navigation, ie guide the reader quickly to the information he seeks. The question is how to balance them. Hillgentleman 02:17, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
Some people also put Klad:Klads on the sidebar. (Langcom did that.) Hillgentleman 02:20, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
I basically agree with you. Do you have a suggestion as to a layout? En.wp has a few major categories on the main page and a link to a more detailed categorization. Is this a good idea? (Perhaps not; not very evident.) By the way, how do you add something to the sidebar? --Smeira 16:19, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
I have placed a link to Klad:Klads under 'Yegeds mä jäfüds' (= articles by discipline / area of interest / specialization) in the Cifapad. Do you think, Hillgentleman, that this is sufficiently visible? (One problem for newcomers: if they don't speak Volapük, they won't know what the options on the main page link to. Won't they in this case still prefer to go to 'Pads fädik'?) --Smeira 16:24, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
I believe a better design of the main page can help even those who do not speak Volapük (those Nuvola icons are really great). Maybe we should develop some proposals for a new main page with a bit more of imagery and more "vivid" colors. I'll look into it when I have a bit of time (weekend?). Malafaya 16:31, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
P.S. "Nafam" sidebar: Sitanuns:Sidebar.
What is this sidebar page? When I click on the link, I get the message that the page was deleted. How come? --Smeira 20:57, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
Curious. Apparently this messges is deprecated, it has been deleted from the software but it still has contents? Malafaya 21:35, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
This page is in a namespace better know as "mediaWiki:". That is where the sysops can fix their local interface messages (ie without having to hardcode them into the phps. Hillgentleman 22:16, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
Just go and edit it. C.f. meta:mediawiki:sidebar. Hillgentleman 22:17, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)
But if we try to get MediaWiki:Sidebar here, we get a page that has already been deleted, and which has nothing to do with the sidebar that I see. How can we edit it? --Smeira 14:28, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]
Belated reply on mediawiki:sidebar: For example, if you want to test it, replace the line "** randompage-url|randompage" by "** Klad:Klads|Klads". Hillgentleman 01:08, 2008 febul 29id (UTC)[reply]
My opinion: This is an encyclopaedia above all. It would be good to have direct access the entrances to the principal classifications

([+]Lekans [+] Nolavs [+] Rels [+] Sogäd [+] Spot [+] Telplänovapads) If the Klad is too big, create a portal for it and provide link to it instead. One more klickon away is one more chance for confusion. -Hillgentleman 22:23, 3 yanul 2008 (UTC)

I agree that this should be an encyclopedia above all. I've added a link to Klad:Klads at the Main Page, and also a link to the Klad:Yegeds gudik (= good articles). Does this help, in your opinion? --Smeira 14:22, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]
Otuvob gudik "Willkommen bei Wikipedia" in de:Hauptseite.Hillgentleman 17:09, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]
Mob gudik. O Malafaya, vobol-li anu me Cifapad nulik? Kisi cedol-li dö mob ela Hillgentleman (= Lubelasöl) tefü Cifapad Deutänapükik? --Smeira 17:29, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]
Stedäliko, no löfilob mobi cifapada oba. Cifapad Deutänapükik binon balugik e, denu, löfilob oni plu. Dasumob mobi Lubelasöla (hiela Hillgentleman). Lönedükobsöd cifapadi et. :) --Malafaya 17:55, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Vilob dankön hieli Hillgentleman pro yuf omik in Vükiped. Malafaya 18:00, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)[reply]

Yeged avigo pevälöl (su cifapad)

Mobob: man di Piltdown. Kisi cedols-li? (I mobob, das "yeged avigo pevälöl" övedon "yeged amulo pevälöl". Jiniko no kanons välön yegedi nulik ün vig alik... Obinos fasilikum ad dunön osi balna a mul.) --Smeira 16:00, 2008 yanul 7id (UTC)[reply]

Si, toä yeged: man di Piltdown padönuon. E si, amulo pla avigo. Malafaya 16:04, 2008 yanul 7id (UTC)[reply]
Peledunon. --Smeira 23:04, 2008 yanul 10id (UTC)[reply]

BBC: Encyclopedia of life

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7263134.stm

QUOTE
The project began in spring 2007. The encyclopedia now has placeholder pages for one million species, of which 30,000 have been populated with detailed information. There are also about a dozen highly developed multimedia pages giving a taster of what to expect in time from the EOL. Hillgentleman

Yeged amulo pevälöl

Mob obik pro mäzul: Proxima Centauri (u ba matemat, if vilobs yegedi valemikum). Mobob i atosi as magod mula. --Smeira 17:22, 2008 febul 29id (UTC)[reply]

Yeged gudik?

Mobob yegedi: jenav as Yeged Gudik. E leigüpo mobob oni as yegedi mula pro mul okömöl: prilul. --Smeira 03:23, 2008 mäzul 10id (UTC)[reply]

Baicedob ko ol. Malafaya 12:02, 2008 mäzul 10id (UTC)[reply]

RfC — rethinking the list of the top ten wikipedias

Please comment on the discussion at m:Top Ten Wikipedias (sorry if I posted on the wrong place). Waldir 19:37, 2008 mäzul 23id (UTC)[reply]

Tefü magods

Soäsä kanols reidön in keblünot hiela Timichal löpo, mutobs dunön bosi tefü magods nelibik in Vükiped. Pos telspikot ko el Timichal, jinos, das magods te vemo nemödiks in Vükiped binons nelibiks. Äsagom, das kanom dalogön magodis obsik ad tuvön nelibikis e (a) moükön onis u (ä) plaädön onis me magods sümik se Kobädikos. Kisi cedols-li? Cedü ob, mob omik binon legudik! --Smeira 20:30, 2008 mäzul 25id (UTC)[reply]

stütob. --Smeira 20:34, 2008 mäzul 25id (UTC)[reply]
stütob. E cedob, das Kobädikos binonöv magad balik magodas (libik). Malafaya 10:43, 2008 mäzul 26id (UTC)[reply]
Baicedob ko ol. Kobädikos mutonöv binön top balik. Ab sevobs, das en.wp (äsi eo.vp ed i vüks votik) labons nomis tefü "Geb Gidöfik" ("Fair Use"), kelos sinifon, das en.wp, eo.wp e r. kanons gebön magodis, kelis obs no kanobs gebön. Bi Volapük no binon pük netik läna semik, kanobsöv labön, id obs, nomis tefü "Geb Gidöfik". Ab cedob id ob, das Kobädikos binon gudikum. Tefü magods no libiks... Ah! c'est la vie... --Smeira 16:30, 2008 mäzul 26id (UTC)[reply]
stütob. --Robert 11:30, 2008 mäzul 31id (UTC)[reply]

Adelo emoükob magodis anik kelis dabinons in Kobädikos. Malafaya 16:57, 2008 prilul 10id (UTC)[reply]

We agree to disable local uploads and use images from Commons. Malafaya 14:39, 2008 prilul 14id (UTC)[reply]

Betawiki update

Vöd: "partner(s)"

Kio binon-li vöd Vp-ik pro "partner", e lio tradutoy-li linglänapükiki: "Partners in crime" ? (Atos binon pro pad de Dokan Kim.) Robert 12:46, 2008 yulul 29id (UTC)[reply]

Dabinon vöd "kompenätan" ab tradutod binon "parter (firm)", in Vödabuk hiela Midgley. Säkolös in grup ela Yahoo obsik. Malafaya 13:31, 2008 gustul 31id (UTC)[reply]
Egebob vödi telef pro "partnership", so "partner(s)" = telefan(s) Robert 16:27, 2008 dekul 15id (UTC)[reply]

Yuf: Fuge

I am not a Volapük speaker; I have tried to contribute an article fuge with the wiki-vudabuk b:Vödabuk Linglänapük-Volapük. I would appreciate any help in fixing it. Hillgentleman 04:07, 2008 gustul 7id (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Hillgentleman. I'll take a look and see if I can fix it (if it needs any fixing). Malafaya 13:32, 2008 gustul 31id (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Have a good day! Hillgentleman 16:43, 2008 tobul 12id (UTC)[reply]

Matemat e rel

Labob säkis smalik in bespiks padas onsik. Robert 11:25, 2008 dekul 31id (UTC)[reply]

Glidis, o Robert! Ya egespikob säkes olik su bespikapadas at. --Smeira 15:47, 2009 yanul 13id (UTC)[reply]
Danis ole, o Sergio! Robert 11:22, 2009 yanul 15id (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2009: Scholarships

English: Wikimania 2009, this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe, is now accepting applications for scholarships to the conference. This year's conference will be handled from August 26-28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The scholarship can be used to help offset the costs of travel and registration. For more information, check the official information page. Please remember that the Call for Participation is still open, please submit your papers! Without submissions, Wikimania would not be nearly as fun!

Volapük: Please translate this message into your language. - Rjd0060 00:49, 2009 prilul 9id (UTC)[reply]

Kafetar votik

Dabinon "kafetar votik" : el IRC-channel, keli kanoy tuvön is : [[3]]. Golö usio ad spikilön Volapüko!

Volapük features the most articles per speaker

The Wikimeda Movement is in a one year process of strategic planning. Proposals are collected on strategy.wikimedia.org. Your input would be much appreciated. In the current fact finding phase people are looking for drivers of participation. A little research revealed that the Volapük Wikipedia features the greatest number of articles per speaker, see the top line entry in this table. What drives the activity in your community? Please tell us. Dedalus 17:59, 2009 gustul 19id (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dedalus. I'm sorry but I didn't understand what you want us to do. You want to know what drives our community. Where should I write that? The links you provided don't seem to be surveys. Cheers, Malafaya 10:28, 2009 gustul 20id (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Malafaya. Anywhere on this page, or on the talk page of that page on the strategy wiki. It isn't a survey, though if you browse the pages of the strategy wiki, you'll come across a lot of questions. Your input would be appreciated. Dedalus 13:28, 2009 gustul 21id (UTC)[reply]

Small request

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 19:31, 2009 setul 21id (UTC)[reply]


Translatewiki.net update

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Languageissues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 21:00, 2009 setul 30id (UTC)[reply]

Admin status

Many of the most active editors on this wiki are bots. As a learner of Volapük I'd like to volunteer so that more oversight can be given. I run volapuk.com and am working on a number of Volapük publications. Evertype 17:36, 2012 yanul 22id (UTC)[reply]

Happy to support this, Gmeijssen 17:37, 2012 yanul 22id (UTC)[reply]
You have my support since you are a very active member of the Volapük community. Unfortunately, I'm not too active here and Geban:Smeira is missing in action. It would be great if someone could give this project a kick up. Let's just wait a few days for other (if any) voices to be heard. Malafaya 17:12, 2012 yanul 23id (UTC)[reply]
That's fine. Evertype 14:49, 2012 yanul 27id (UTC)[reply]

A few days has passed. Evertype 22:52, 2012 febul 2id (UTC)[reply]

Done. Malafaya 20:44, 2012 febul 5id (UTC)[reply]
Danö. Evertype 05:31, 2012 febul 11id (UTC)[reply]

Language support group for Volapuk

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 17:37, 2012 yanul 22id (UTC)[reply]

vowikibooks

I started a discussion about closure of the above project. Regards. Ruslik0 (talk) 19:31, 2012 prilul 26id (UTC)[reply]

The word "Vükiped"

Hello. It seems to me, having looked at the morphology of Volapük, that the name of this wikipedia is badly formed. The first two letters, , are confusable with a preposition meaning "between" (corresponding to the prefix "inter-"), the last two letters, ed, are confusable with a common suffix, and the word as a whole is further blighted by the fact that the middle three letters, kip, are confusable with a root meaning "keep/retain". The word is thus highly ambiguous, and I wonder if it shouldn't be replaced. I understand there is a procedure for word coining whereby the Academy (the Kadäm) is consulted and then makes a decision. And I wonder who the person was who invented the word "Vükiped", and whether he/she had any contact with the Academy.

Hi. I don't have a clue. The word had already been adopted when I first came here. Let me just tell you that just because words seem to be composed of known prefixes/suffixes doesn't mean they are not allowed. In Volapük there are many words that start that way, with particles that match prefixes, and yet morphologically they are not prefixes: for example, "jied" (a bad concept for an example, I know :)) is not composed of prefix "ji-" and suffix "-ed". Regards, Malafaya (talk) 14:30, 2013 yanul 29id (UTC)[reply]

Quality assurance: logging in

In Linglänapük Hi, When I log in to vowiki, half the prompts are in Volapük, but half are in Linglänapük:

  • Use secure connection
  • Reset your password
  • Keep me logged in
  • Help with logging in

I confirmed this by clicking "Linglänapük" and checking the prompts there.
Also, if I log in using Sperantapük, I have an English prompt:

  • Reset your password

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 19:07, 2013 yulul 5id (UTC)[reply]

Hi. This is because not all MediaWiki messages are translated. This is mainly because MediaWiki is not static and is continuously evolving. Thus, it's not easy to keep pace :). Malafaya (talk) 13:26, 2013 yulul 12id (UTC)[reply]
No problem.
It's just so you are aware of the issue.
Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 00:02, 2013 yulul 13id (UTC)[reply]

A small translation request

In Linglänapük Hi, I have translated this book list -- en:Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century -- into 30 or 40 natural languages.
I thought I would try 2 artificial languages, Volapük and Esperanto. (The only artificial language I know is Nadsat, from A Clockwork Orange.)
What would be a good title for the page when I finish compiling the list?
Le Monde is the newspaper in Paris.
Thanks very much, Varlaam (talk) 19:25, 2013 yulul 5id (UTC)[reply]

Any suggestions for a page title? Thanks, Varlaam (talk) 15:21, 2013 yulul 9id (UTC)[reply]

That would be Buks 100 Tumyela ela Le Monde. Regards, Malafaya (talk) 13:28, 2013 yulul 12id (UTC)[reply]
That's fantastic. Thank you, Varlaam (talk) 00:01, 2013 yulul 13id (UTC)[reply]
Hello again.
With help from Wiktionary, I have some column headings:
Nüm Calanem [?] Lautan Yel
1 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942
2 Pö suk tima peperöl Marcel Proust 19131927
But I don't trust this word "Calanem". It matches the German "Titel", but Titel has more than one meaning. And "calanem" is never actually used in vowiki.
What should "book title" be?
Thanks. Varlaam (talk) 16:37, 2013 yulul 16id (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that "Calanem" is correct, but it does seem to mean title.[4] It might be a different sense of the word. Can someone confirm that "calanem" is correct? PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:41, 2013 yulul 16id (UTC)[reply]
No, calanem is definitely not correct here. Book title is tiäd. Academic title is calanem. Shruggy (talk) 15:25, 2013 gustul 21id (UTC)[reply]

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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). 13:55, 2013 yulul 23id (UTC)[reply]

Cities in France

Hi,

Could a sysop rename Saint-Amant (Charente) in Saint-Amant-de-Montmoreau ? (the old usual name, now official)

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 20:07, 2013 novul 9id (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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. Flauto Dolce (bureaucrat, administrator)
  2. ILVI (administrator)
  3. Manie (bureaucrat, 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, Rschen7754 00:29, 2014 prilul 6id (UTC)[reply]

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto

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) 10:57, 2014 mayul 5id (UTC)[reply]

Nek nedon oni ab milans vilons oni. Robert (bespik) 15:59, 2015 dekul 24id (UTC)[reply]

Media Viewer


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, 2014 mayul 23id (UTC)[reply]

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki


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, 2014 yunul 19id (UTC)[reply]

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VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

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.


The character formatting menu

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 "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead

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

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, 2014 yunul 25id (UTC)[reply]

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (talk) 00:33, 2014 gustul 13id (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new 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 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 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. Evertype (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, Rschen7754 19:57, 2015 yanul 31id (UTC)[reply]

It's my intention to remain here with the powers that I have. Is this the right place to tell the community this? Evertype (talk) 22:08, 2015 febul 3id (UTC)[reply]

Portobuffolé

De geban ela 151.20.4.40 : I need to speak to an admin, may I ask you? It's about the problem of the article "Portobuffolé": it was disussed both in en.wikipedia and in it.wikipedia about the correct spelling, and it was established that it must have the acute accent. The following are some of the sources brought in the discussions, proving the correct spelling: [5] [6] [7] [8]. They're the most authoritative dictionaries and encyclopedias about Italian language and they all agree about the spelling. Also almost all other Wikis have already changed the uncorrect spellings, but there's a Dutch admin/rollbacker who's going against consensus and moving back a lot of pages on several Wikis to the uncorrect spelling, in this way actually vandalising the Wiki-pedia. Can you please move once for all the page "Portobuffolè" to "Portobuffolé", or delete the page "Portobuffolè" with the uncorrect spelling, please? If an admin of vo.wikipedia does it, this could prevent the Dutch rollbacker from keeping this senseless edit-war. Thank you in advance if you will! Robert (bespik) 14:14, 2016 yanul 22id (UTC)[reply]

JavaScript

Hi. I can see that this project has old JavaScript that needs to be updated. I would happily make the required updates myself, but I would have to – at least temporarily – become an admin here to do that (because the relevant pages are in the MediaWiki namespace). I have already made these updates on a number of other projects, so it would be very easy for me to do this. If no one does anything, some JavaScript-related tools will break later this year. If you want me to make these updates, you can grant me admin rights and I will make the updates as soon as I can. Nirmos (bespik) 21:45, 2016 yunul 8id (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new 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 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 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. Smeira (bureaucrat, 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, Rschen7754 06:55, 2016 yulul 15id (UTC)[reply]

Klad:Volapükans

Hello! Sorry this is in English. I would like to point d:User talk:Kareyac#Your recent edits concerning Volupuk - Kareyac (bespik) 11:51, 2016 tobul 11id (UTC)[reply]

Help for translation

Can anyone help me translate two small paragraphs (or correct my translation) from English to Volapük? Xaris333 (bespik) 22:59, 2017 prilul 28id (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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. Evertype (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, علاء (bespik) 07:12, 2018 yulul 1id (UTC)[reply]

This is a pretty dormant Wiki. It needs some kind of administration. But there really hasn't been anything to do. Evertype (bespik) 10:58, 2018 yulul 1id (UTC)[reply]

Moteds e deadams

Dear people, I've seen a lot of categories appearing under the titles "Moteds in XXXX" and "Deadams in XXXX". Unless I am gravely mistaken, this is incorrect in Volapük: in always refers to a place. When it refers to a year, ün should be used. In other words: "Moteds ün XXXX" or "Moteds ün yel XXXX". Regards, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 15:54, 2019 yanul 24id (UTC)[reply]