Vükiped:Kafetar

KAFETAR Lüükolös bespiki nulik Begs dö els ,bot’ / Requests for bot flag Ragiv nunas ela ,Wikimedia Foundation’

Guvans

Mobob moükami stada guvana de guvans:

• Geban:Flauto Dolce
• Geban:Jmb

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:Malafaya

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)

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)

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)

Mobob i, das yegeds löliko in püks votik (no Volapük, a.s. Linglänapük) muton pomoükön. Malafaya 14:35, 2008 mayul 14id (UTC)

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

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)

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)

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)

Otuvob gudik "Willkommen bei Wikipedia" in de:Hauptseite.Hillgentleman 17:09, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)

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)

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)

P.S. Vilob dankön hieli Hillgentleman pro yuf omik in Vükiped. Malafaya 18:00, 2008 yanul 5id (UTC)

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)

Si, toä yeged: man di Piltdown padönuon. E si, amulo pla avigo. Malafaya 16:04, 2008 yanul 7id (UTC)

Peledunon. --Smeira 23:04, 2008 yanul 10id (UTC)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

stütob. --Smeira 20:34, 2008 mäzul 25id (UTC)

stütob. E cedob, das Kobädikos binonöv magad balik magodas (libik). Malafaya 10:43, 2008 mäzul 26id (UTC)

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)

stütob. --Robert 11:30, 2008 mäzul 31id (UTC)

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

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

Betawiki update

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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)

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)

Egebob vödi telef pro "partnership", so "partner(s)" = telefan(s) Robert 16:27, 2008 dekul 15id (UTC)

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)

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)

Thanks! Have a good day! Hillgentleman 16:43, 2008 tobul 12id (UTC)

Matemat e rel

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

Glidis, o Robert! Ya egespikob säkes olik su bespikapadas at. --Smeira 15:47, 2009 yanul 13id (UTC)

Danis ole, o Sergio! Robert 11:22, 2009 yanul 15id (UTC)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Translatewiki.net update

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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)

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)

Happy to support this, Gmeijssen 17:37, 2012 yanul 22id (UTC)

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)

That's fine. Evertype 14:49, 2012 yanul 27id (UTC)

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

Done. Malafaya 20:44, 2012 febul 5id (UTC)

Danö. Evertype 05:31, 2012 febul 11id (UTC)

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)

vowikibooks

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

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, vü , 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)

Quality assurance: logging in

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)

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)

No problem.

It's just so you are aware of the issue.

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 00:02, 2013 yulul 13id (UTC)

A small translation request

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)

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

That would be Buks 100 Tumyela ela Le Monde. Regards, Malafaya (talk) 13:28, 2013 yulul 12id (UTC)

That's fantastic. Thank you, Varlaam (talk) 00:01, 2013 yulul 13id (UTC)

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	1913–1927

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)

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)

No, calanem is definitely not correct here. Book title is tiäd. Academic title is calanem. Shruggy (talk) 15:25, 2013 gustul 21id (UTC)

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)

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)

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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)

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

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)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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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)

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)

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)

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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)

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)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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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)

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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)

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)

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)

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• Not being modest, I'd like to say that Łukasz Winek might be a good admin, since he is active (unlike ...) and also has some language skills. --Wolverène (bespik) 08:03, 2021 yanul 8id (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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1. Malafaya (administrator)

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Keeping admin rights (User:Malafaya)

Hi, community.

You probably have seen the above information. Despite not being (very) active, I would still like to keep admin status here in Vükiped. Please, voice your opinions here below. Thanks, Malafaya (bespik) 11:44, 2022 yanul 4id (UTC)

• This is not really an opinion, but let me ask: why do you want this status if you don't use it anyway? I mean, not every admin has to be there 24/7, but ten small edits in more than eight years? A whole box full of stuff that was submitted for immediate deletion a long time ago but is still lingering? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the work you've been doing here, but it seems like you haven't been really active here since 2010. IJzeren Jan (bespik) 23:24, 2022 yanul 20id (UTC)

• • My intention was to keep at least an administrator in this project. But as you are coming forward as a candidate, I truly don't need to keep admin status, and I surely endorse your candidacy. Malafaya (bespik) 11:59, 2022 febul 4id (UTC)

Opinions

• Keep I am probably the only active person here on Vükiped, I'm in favor of the user keeping the admin rights. Łukasz Winek (bespik) 21:57, 2022 yanul 14id (UTC) I'm withdrawing support. In my opinion, an active person should be an admin. Best regards, Łukasz Winek (bespik) 12:40, 2022 yanul 21id (UTC)
• Malafaya, I am not against prolongation of your admin rights, but I would appreciate it if you'd at least answer the question I asked you. Will you at least be available once or twice a month to do some minimal maintenance and respond to questions? If so, then you have my support. IJzeren Jan (bespik) 16:49, 2022 yanul 30id (UTC)

Malafaya's permission was removed today. Thanks for your input. Best regards, Stanglavine (bespik) 19:45, 2022 mäzul 14id (UTC)

Guvanastadibegs / Request for admin status

Hi all!

I'd like to request admin status on this wiki. I am aware of the fact that due to my rather demanding job I haven't been too active here during the last two years, but I still care a lot for the Vükiped, check up on it regularly and I keep having the feeling that it needs work. I've been participating here since 2005 (modestly, I admit), written a few articles myself and made nearly 2000 edits here. In general, I have been active on Wikipedia as a registered user since 2004, I have been a moderator and Arbcom member of nlwiki. At many occasions, I have considered requesting adminship here, but I simply don't feel like going through the same bureaucratic procedure every three months. Now I understand that permanent adminship is also possible here, and that made me decide to give it a try after all. And I encourage ‎Łukasz Winek to do the same: the more admins here the merrier.

What I'd really like to do is creating some order here, because at present, the Vükiped is in a deplorable state. Sergio Meira's past actions (creating massive amounts of bot-generated articles 15 years ago) have been successful in so far that Volapük made it into the top-10 of biggest Wikipedia editions for a while, which generated lots of attention from various sides, and fortunately, Vükiped survived efforts to have it closed. However, currently there is another problem, namely that at least 99.5% of the ca. 127K articles we have here are either generated by a bot or human-written oneliners of the type "[X] is a [Y] from [Z]" or "[X] is a [Y] in [Z]".

I am aware of the fact that this wiki is not primarily a place where Volapük speakers will be looking for information, but rather a place for showcasing Volapük itself. Since almost every article follows literally the same format, we are doing a poor job at that. Most bot-generated articles are completely outdated by now. And "real" articles with some critical mass (let's say: at least a few sentences written in decent Volapük, not counting infoboxes and the like) are almost impossible to find. The size of this wiki makes it practically unmanageable. My personal opinion is that Vükiped would be a lot better off with 500 real articles, but the least we can (and should) do is to find a way to distinguish them from the rest, for example by creating a special category, or by moving everything that does not meet certain criteria to a draftspace, or by deleting everything that has never been touched by a human hand, so to speak. Anyway, as far as there is still a community left over here, I'd like to have a discussion about these things.

Best regards, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 12:21, 2022 yanul 21id (UTC)

• I absolutely endorse your candidacy as an administrator on this wiki, and thank you for encouraging me to do so. As for changes to this wiki, they are necessary - incl. on the home page, which has not been updated for many years. Changes should be necessary in some articles (I'm not saying that in all of them), especially those concerning countries of the world - they should be longer and contain specific information (an example of this is Rumän). In short, there is a lot to do here. Yours sincerely, Łukasz Winek (bespik) 22:13, 2022 yanul 29id (UTC)
  • Thank you! Indeed, the main page desperately needs work. Geban:Malafaya, would it be possible to unlock it, so that other users can work on it as well? And Łukasz, what would you suggest we could to to make this wiki somewhat more manageable? Cheers, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 16:43, 2022 yanul 30id (UTC)

• All in favor! Malafaya (bespik) 12:01, 2022 febul 4id (UTC)
  • Thank you, would you be able to grant me the rights? Cheers, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 12:36, 2022 febul 4id (UTC)
    • Hi. No, sorry. It takes a bureaucrat to grant rights and there is currently none at Vükiped. You will have to go through Meta and request it. Malafaya (bespik) 21:54, 2022 febul 7id (UTC)
      • Thanks, I'll do that, then. IJzeren Jan (bespik) 23:13, 2022 febul 7id (UTC)

• Slopob (support). E baiädob das mutoy dunön bosi ko vükiped at, ab duliunam u topätükam yegedas 127000 jinon vobod nemögik. Vio vilol jenöfükön atosi? Nüm bal (bespik) 09:22, 2022 febul 9id (UTC)

  Danö! Ogespikob linglänapüko, bi Volapükinol oba binon pestöböl. Tikob reto, das dabinanef isik suemon linglänapüki gudikumo.

  I know, it's complicated. Doing everything manually will be practically impossible and I have no experience whatsoever with handling a bot. For now, I've been going through the 10,000 largest articles in size and found ca. 150 truly presentable, human-written articles (interestingly, about 15% of them are about the Volapük movement and 30% of them are about paleontology, mostly dinosaurs). All remaining articles are either bot-generated articles about French and American towns and villages, a few of them are lists. Unfortunately, the list of long articles doesn't go further than 10,000 (which equals 2,318 characters), whereas a decent article in Volapük without an infobox can very well have 1,000 characters.

  Bot-generated articles are not necessarily a bad thing as long as they don't obscure the real articles. But right now, we have no less than 104,586 articles about cities, towns and villages (including 36,512 in France, 28,944 in the USA and 12,068 in Germany), virtually all of which are clones of each other. Some of them have technical mistakes (like this one that may never even have been noticed by anyone. And although articles like this or this actually look quite nice, is it really necessary for us to have the same text here 29K times? My suggestion would be to leave a few of these per country (say, only a few big cities) and delete the rest. I think a bot would be able to handle that. Cheers, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 13:44, 2022 febul 9id (UTC)

  I would also be in favor of such a solution (although I could leave them all out of sentiment). I would suggest creating an infobox for cities, towns and villages (and if necessary - updating templates starting with "topam" - from this category: ), because looking at articles about cities (even in these words made by me) - it does not look very good. This is my opinion. Yours sincerely, Łukasz Winek (bespik) 20:40, 2022 febul 9id (UTC)

  Hehe, I absolutely share that sentiment, that's why I would definitely not delete all of them, but just 99% or so (which would still leave us with over a thousand). And yes, I started with one of those myself as well, before I even knew the basics of Volapük. But look at it from the positive side: the absence of an article might actually inspire someone to create it and thus learn about the language. And let's also consider that these articles no longer fulfill their original purpose: generating lots of attention for Volapük. BTW, I agree about the infobox, I'll try to make one. Which BTW is one more reason to delete articles that don't contain any information that isn't already contained in the infobox. Cheers, IJzeren Jan (bespik) 22:28, 2022 febul 9id (UTC)

Bot-generated articles

Dear all, it has been about five months since I became admin of this Wikipedia. As you may have noticed, I have reworked the Main Page, which hadn't been updated since about 13 years. My idea was to use a colour scheme more suitable for Volapük, a new featured article every day and a new featured image every week. Of course, ideas for further improvement are more than welcome! Besides, I have deleted some 10,000 pages, most of which were bot-generated microstubs, bot-generated pages with serious technical errors and broken redirects.

But instead of turning this into an admin report, there's something I'd like to hear opinions of others about. During the last few days, I have deleted over 2,500 towns in Romania, almost all of which were generated by Smeirabot. Going through each and every one of them, I noticed how problematic these things really are:

• Only 11 of the bot-generated articles had ever been edited by a human (by adding an image, an external link or a link to Commons). One other one contained a heavily racist slur added some 12 years ago by an anonymous vandal (something like "All niggers must be killed").
• About 5% of them had technical problems: links to non-existing images, pieces of unnecessarily copied Romanian text, wikicode errors, incorrectly copied data (f.ex. over 100,000 inhabitants for some hellhole with no inhabitants at all), etc.
• For practically all of them goes that data are 20 years old.
• What is worse: every single one of them is called zif ("city, town"), even when there are less than ten inhabitants. In other words, the bot didn't distinguish between zif, vilag and komot ("municipality"). I found the same mistake in the case of Dutch towns as well: municipalities consisting of a number of small villages were consistently called "zif". This is problematic, because it renders the information in these bot-generated articles utterly unreliable. Of course, one might argue: who cares, nobody comes here looking for information about Romanian villages anyway. My opinion is that there is no place here for information that is not just obsolete, but also seriously flawed.

So the question is: what shall we do about that? I was thinking about carrying on with Klad:Zifs_in_Jveizän (towns in Switzerland), but here we have the same problem: the 2653 towns listed here are in fact municipalities. Of course, many of them have an eponymous town in them, but not necessarily so. And besides, you can't tell me that a town with 104 inhabitants really deserves the name "zif". One solution could be to change the word "zif" to "komot" in every article. But not only would it be a hell of a job to do that manually, it also wouldn't solve the problem of maintainability, nor will it keep those articles from getting more and more outdated. Besides, the bot made other mistakes here as well. For example, Oberwil is said to have 10 inhabitants, although in reality is has over 11,000. Changing everything to "X binon komot in Jveizän" and having an infobox do the rest could solve that problem, but it would still leave us with 2653 articles that are merely clones of each other.

All in all, I can see three serious options here:

• Delete all of them.
• Delete everything with less than 10,000 inhabitants.
• Delete everyting that hasn't been edited by anyone.
• Just leave it be.

I'd be happy to hear your opinions! Cheers,  IJzeren Jan 14:59, 2022 yulul 23id (UTC)

I would choose the second option, although the first option is also good. Łukasz Winek (bespik) 17:49, 2022 yulul 24id (UTC)

Thank you, that's pretty much what I had in mind myself as well. Deleting everything would go a bit too far IMO, but 10,000 should be a reasonable criterion that leave with something but not too much. I will delete all towns with less than 10,000 inhabints and leave those that have been edited by someone.

And what to do with towns in other countries? The ca. 4500 articles about places in Estonia distinguish correctly between towns and villages, but the number is still way too high. Same goes for Germany, Italy, France, Brazil and the USA.  IJzeren Jan 18:16, 2022 yulul 24id (UTC)

I think it can be done in a similar way to Switzerland. Łukasz Winek (bespik) 18:56, 2022 yulul 25id (UTC)

Indeed. as you can see, I have started with Estona. Estonia is a small country with not too many cities and towns, so I am currently deleting everything with less than 1000 inhabitants that hasn't been edited by anyone. The vast majority are villages with less than 100 inhabitants.  IJzeren Jan 19:01, 2022 yulul 25id (UTC)

Estonia is done: from 4656 to 129 articles. Pretty decent, I believe. Romania and Switzerland are done, too. I'll try to make a beginning with Germany. There we have 12.061 articles. Same problem as in Switzerland: everything is called a "zif", even though it may as well be a (former) municipality or a village. I guess I'll follow the same approach as in the case of Switzerland: delete everything with less than 10,000 inhabitants, unless the article has been edited by someone, and unless the article is linked to from another article.  IJzeren Jan 13:01, 2022 yulul 27id (UTC)

Beg tefü lunükam guvanistadi oba / Request for prolongation of my admin status

O valikans löfik! Bü yel ze bal pecalob ad guvan ela ,Wikipedia’ Volapükik pro tüp mö yel. Vütimo edunob mödikosi: staböfiko ecenob logoti cifapada ed esteifülob ad dunön bosi tefü mödot lemuik yegedas itjäfidiko pijafädölas, brefiko: esteifülob ad vedükön eli ,Wikipedia’ at ini bos, demü kelos Volapükan alik kanonöv pleidön. Ye dins mödik eretöns ad dunön is. Ibä calam obik ofinon suno, me at begob stüti olsik pro dönudaväl oma pro tüp sököl mö yel. Ladöfiko,  IJzeren Jan 00:00, 2023 febul 9id (UTC)

Dear all! Almost a year ago I became a moderator on the Volapük Wikipedia. In the meantime, I have done a lot: I have thoroughly modified the appearance of the main page and done my best to do something about the extreme predominance of bot-generated articles, in short: tried to make this Wikipedia into something to be proud of. Yet, there still is a lot to be done here. Since my term is going to end soon, I am hereby asking for your support for a prolongation of one more year. Sincererily,  IJzeren Jan 00:00, 2023 febul 9id (UTC)

Support I have no objections to that. Łukasz Winek (bespik) 21:08, 2023 febul 16id (UTC)

Lio kanob-li vögodön? / How can I vote? Stütob atosi. / I support this. Morozof (bespik) 06:56, 2023 febul 27id (UTC)

Yegeds gudik / Good articles

The Volapük Wikipedia does not have any „featured articles”, but we do have a few „good articles” in the category Yegeds gudik. These are, basically, the articles we can be most proud of. A good article does not necessarily have to be bigger than in other language versions, but it should be at least be reasonably complete, be nicely illustrated, and be written in correct Volapük. Good articles are marked by a star that is also visible in the equivalent articles in other languages and thus might attract some attention from outside. At present, this category contains 15 items, of which the last one has been added some ten years ago. In the meantime, I think a few newer articles have been created that might qualify as well:

• Bevüslav
• Borüs Lyatojünsküy
• Lukrayänapük
• Müroslav Skorük
• Volapük nulik
• Volodümür Vünnücänko

If there are no objections, I will give them a star one of these days. And if any of you have ideas for more articles, don't hesitate to nominate them by adding them to the list!  IJzeren Jan 23:59, 2023 mäzul 22id (UTC)

I support this initiative. They are well written and I believe that, after what happened with this Wikipedia regarding its quality of content, having more quality articles is a good sign and a way to prove that there are people working to improve it. Caro de Segeda (bespik) 06:35, 2023 mäzul 23id (UTC)

Beg tefü lunükam guvanistadi oba / Request for prolongation of my admin status

Dear all, I just noticed that my adminship is about to expire. It's sad enough, but it seems to be impossible to obtain permanent adminship, so every year we'll have to go through the same circus again. Any objections against prolongation of my adminship of the Volapük Wikipedia. Cheers,  IJzeren Jan 19:39, 2024 febul 15id (UTC)

Support As before, this time I have no objections to you continuing to be an admin. Łukasz Winek (bespik) 21:36, 2024 febul 15id (UTC)

Support. Stüt. No labob taspikotis. / I have no objections. Bleibolös bitön as guvan! / Continue to act as an Administrator. Morozof (bespik) 09:32, 2024 febul 18id (UTC)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:15, 2024 yunul 3id (UTC)

Plans to enable the Content and Section translation tool in your Wikipedia

Hello Volapük Wikipedians!

Apologies, as this message is not in your native language; Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team proposes to enable the Section and Content translation tool by default to your Wikipedia if there are no objections from members of your community. The Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. Below is background information about the tools and how to test the Section translation tool.

Background information

Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. However, the tool is not out of beta in Volapük Wikipedia, limiting the discoverability of the tool and its use and blocking the enablement of the Section translation in your Wikipedia.

Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:

• Guide you to translate one section at a time to expand existing articles or create new ones
• Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device

So, we will enable the tools on Volapük Wikipedia by June 20th, 2024, if there are no objections from your community.

Try the Section translation tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article and translate it from scratch. Currently, there is no machine translation support for your Wikipedia. Often, this is due to the lack of parallel data to train translation models for your language. Considering that making translations of Wikipedia articles is a way to generate such parallel corpora, we consider that enabling these tools by default for visibility and more use can benefit your language.

Request for feedback

Please provide feedback about the Section translation in this thread or on this project talk page. We want to hear about your impressions on

• The section translation tool
• What do you think about our plans to enable it
• Your ideas for improving the tool

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback and questions.

On behalf of the WMF Language team. UOzurumba (WMF) (bespik) 19:47, 2024 yunul 5id (UTC)

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at mcdc@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:45, 2024 yunul 11id (UTC)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:52, 2024 yunul 25id (UTC)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:47, 2024 yulul 8id (UTC)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 2024 yulul 10id (UTC)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (bespik) 17:52, 2024 yulul 18id (UTC)

Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:48, 2024 yulul 27id (UTC)

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.

Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:31, 2024 gustul 6id (UTC)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

Hi all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery (bespik) 23:20, 2024 gustul 22id (UTC)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 14:06, 2024 setul 2id (UTC)

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote. The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (bespik) 12:14, 2024 setul 3id (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.

All traffic will switch on 25 September. The switch will start at 15:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in 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.

A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.

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 Wednesday 25 September 2024.
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This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.

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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

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Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey

Dear all,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language. We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.

To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!

Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.

Warm regards,

User:ZI Jony 03:20, 2024 tobul 6id (UTC)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

Proposal to enable the "Contribute" entry point in Volapük Wikipedia

Hello Volapük Wikipedians,

Apologies as this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language and Product Localization team proposes enabling an entry point called "Contribute" to your Wikipedia.

The Contribute entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on Edit discovery, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.

Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Volapük Wikipedia.

Who can access it

Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.

For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.

This feature is available in four Wikipedia (Albanian, Malayalam, Mongolian, and Tagalog). We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was to make the entry point optional for experienced contributors who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.          

We plan to enable it on mobile for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 24th October 2024.

We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.

We look forward to your response soon.

Thank you!

On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team. UOzurumba (WMF) (bespik) 04:30, 2024 tobul 10id (UTC)

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MPossoupe_(WMF) 08:26, 2024 tobul 14id (UTC)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:08, 2024 tobul 16id (UTC)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 2024 tobul 22id (UTC)

Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success

Dear all,

We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.

Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.

• Survey Link: Complete the Survey
• Deadline: November 10, 2024

Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!

Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.

• Application Link: Apply Here
• Application Deadline: October 31, 2024

Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions

Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!

Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:13, 2024 tobul 29id (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC

Hello everyone,

The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.

Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers, Srishti 19:54, 2024 novul 21id (UTC)