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presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory

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Hello everyone,

My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 

While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions.

Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.

I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias).

For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Swedish Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Swedish Wikipedia much more multicultural.

Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Swedish Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com

I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it.

Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :).

If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time!

Best regards,

--Marcmiquel (diskussion) 9 oktober 2017 kl. 15.28 (CEST)[svara]

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Changes to the global ban policy

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Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 12 november 2017 kl. 01.34 (CET)[svara]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 november 2017 kl. 23.07 (CET)[svara]

WikiScienceCompetition 2017

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Hi! Wiki Science Competition has started, yesterday a banner appeared on enwiki in USA making it officially "global", as far as I know (too many information to handle). Sitenotices have appeared for sure in Spain, Austria, Russian Federation and Ukraine, and Italy will be join very soon with a massive national campaign.

As a member of the academic committee I did my best to reduce the gap between countries both in the composition of the juries and now in the outreach. I did inform many platforms (enwiki, eswiki, frwiki) during the preparation of the event, now I am informing all national institutions, associations and federations of science and technology I can contact, especially those located in countries without national juries (so, also in Sweden and Finland) and I am posting notes on LinkedIn groups everyday... and so on and so on. That's why I am here.

We are preparing banners for many countries (I can write something short in Swedish, you can see it) but on meta they say it is not wise to use them, so there is a banner there if you want to use it on svwiki directly for few days. In the end you are very "centered" wiki, and the banner is not country-specific in your case. Plus, one of the organizer is actually paid by a Swedish university, and one of the juror works there, that's why I naively tough of you before other countries.

Otherwise, if you have social media and you want to inform your friends and colleagues, the twitter hashtags are #WSC2017, #WikiScience2017, #WikiScience and here you can find a list of images from 2015 as an example. Next time I'll visit my family in Sweden I will offer you a coffee.

Thank you in advance and whatever you do (join, inform, ignore) have fun!--Alexmar983 (diskussion) 3 november 2017 kl. 15.14 (CET)[svara]

Någon som kortfattat kan förklara vad detta handlar om? /NH 3 november 2017 kl. 21.51 (CET)[svara]
http://www.wikisciencecompetition.org/contest/ --Larske (diskussion) 3 november 2017 kl. 22.05 (CET)[svara]
I left my message in English because I did the same last year at the village pump. The request is: it would be nice to have a sitenotice to inform sv-N people about WSC. We prepared an international competition with an international jury but despite that it seems that we can't get access easily to inform everyone. They treat us like WLM, which is not totally correct, because the academia is a much more integrated network. So now this category and this category are empty after 5 days. Young researchers cannot access a competition where they could win a prize. And I am sending tons of emails everywhere to compensate an "unnatural" unbalance. Cui prodest? Nobody. So we can get few days of banner? I can find some alternative way to enter countries like Switzerland or Germany and reach people but it will takes weeks before Scandinavia start to be integrated. If I don't get any banner, and the emails don't work... than I think I will write to national newspapers, I don't know. I have to try them all, it is a little bit my responsability. My family is kinda half Swedish, I am therefore quite sorry really about this situation.--Alexmar983 (diskussion) 5 november 2017 kl. 09.34 (CET)[svara]
Messages in English are welcome, as per the top of the page (and the top of Wikipedia:Bybrunnen). As for the banner, we already have the "Asian Month" scheduled for november, and banners should be kept at a sensible minimum. For other editors I can point out there is a discussion at the metawiki: meta:CentralNotice/Request#Wiki Science Competition 2017 (November 1-30). There is also a calendar for upcoming banners: meta:CentralNotice/Calendar. /NH 7 november 2017 kl. 11.12 (CET)[svara]
The meta link is also in my first message, right? In any case, while for Asian countries is ok to have banner after November (because they close on the 15th of December), most of Europe is supposed to be ready by the 30th of November. Considering that after one or two week almost everyone would have seen the Asian banner except a limited amount of newcommers, replacing the established message for few days will probably not affect its visibility.
BTW, our competition was supposed to be in November-December since 2015, we didn't arrive last minute. We were informed about the Asian month quite late, maybe chapters involved in both should have paid more attention. it's just that while the Asian month is not relevant on many wikis, we are potentially related to all the wikis, so it takes much more time to reach all of them. Statistically, certain areas come later. We don't expect all countries to be the same level in the end, we just want to avoid some countries remain at zero. And to avoid that if we don't get few days of banner we can only send dozens of mail to the academia, try to start some effect on social media, or contact the media. I am not a fan of the banner, I always assumed we could have get for few days, enough to start to inform motivated and competent users.--Alexmar983 (diskussion) 8 november 2017 kl. 01.46 (CET)[svara]

NH the Asian month has finished, the upload from Sweden showed low quality, we postponed the final date of two week and now WSC2017 ends on December, the 15th. The banner is still ready at the link on commons, can we put it now? Just enough days to have at least a national finalist.--Alexmar983 (diskussion) 3 december 2017 kl. 12.57 (CET)[svara]

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

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− − Hi all,

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

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

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

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

− − Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 20 december 2017 kl. 20.24 (CET)[svara]

User group for Military Historians

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Greetings,

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

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 21 december 2017 kl. 11.46 (CET)[svara]

Editing News #1—2018

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2 mars 2018 kl. 21.56 (CET)

NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated

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Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk. Tack!.

Over the years many issues have been discovered from our engineering colleagues regarding the Education Extension, including security concerns. For this reason, and with a viable alternative platform available, we are starting the process to deprecate the extension and having it uninstalled where it has been activated. This includes this wiki Special:Courses.

This means that the following steps will be taken:

  1. New programs are discouraged from using the extension and encouraged to use the Programs and Events Dashboard.
  2. Current ongoing programs will be supported, until the month of June, 2018.
  3. On June 30, 2018, the Education Extension will be shut down.
  4. If you are still running an education program that uses the Education Extension, please take the appropriate measures and also reach out to your colleagues and communities so they are also aware.

It should be noted that data of previous programs that ran on the Education Extension will remain safe, and we are working on documenting how to access that data.

Thus, we invite all Education Program Leaders (and users of the Education Extension) to take the online training for the dashboard so that you can benefit from this tool and make your work easier.

Did you know you can also use the P&E Dashboard at edit-a-thons, writing competitions, and other Wiki-based activities? More training courses for the dashboard are available here, so take a look!

Do you need to communicate with us about this?

  • If you have comments or questions, please reach out to the Education Team at educationwikimedia.org, or the Programs and Events Dashboard group at dashboardwikimedia.org.
  • If you use Phabricator, you can also go to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125618.
  • You are also welcome to share questions and comments on outreach.wikimedia.org.

-- On behalf of the Education Team 8 mars 2018 kl. 20.56 (CET)

Update to ICU Unicode library

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Starting on April 9th we'll migrate the servers running the MediaWiki application servers to a new release of the ICU Unicode library (w:en:International Components for Unicode) (from version 52 to 57). This unblocks some future work on upgrading the servers to a new Operating System release and will also allow the use of improved internationalisation in the future (as wikis will then be able to use features introduced by the new ICU release such as new collation definitions, and allows us to use a more recent version of Unicode in MediaWiki).

This migration will cause some unavoidable temporary user-visible impact: The sorting of some category pages will be distorted – all pages which have been updated with the new software version will use the new sorting while untouched pages still use the old sorting. As such, we need to run a maintenance script to update the sorting for old entries.

The distortions may last from a few hours (on medium-sized wikis), up to a day (on the largest wikis), and a few days on English Wikipedia. The start-time will depend upon when the migration script reaches each wiki.

This affects a number of large wikis (including eight out of the ten biggest Wikipedias). The detailed list and the task for the technical implementation is at phab:T189295.

Thank you. Quiddity (WMF) (diskussion) 5 april 2018 kl. 23.42 (CEST)[svara]

AdvancedSearch

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Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 maj 2018 kl. 16.53 (CEST)[svara]

Update on page issues on mobile web

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CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12 juni 2018 kl. 22.58 (CEST)[svara]

Global preferences are available

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10 juli 2018 kl. 21.20 (CEST)

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Flyttat till Bybrunnen eftersom det är intressant nog. /NH 12 juli 2018 kl. 11.46 (CEST)[svara]

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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(Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Gränssnittsadministratörer) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27 augusti 2018 kl. 14.40 (CEST) (via global message delivery)[svara]

Growth team is looking for your feedback and ideas

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Hello!

Have you heard about Growth team

The Growth Team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects. We will be starting with Wikipedias, but we hope these changes will benefit every community.

We are contacting your project today, because you may be interested by what we work on.

8 ideas we consider: tell us what you think about them!

We are considering new features to build, that could retain new editors in mid-size Wikipedias. We will be testing new ideas in Czech and Korean Wikipedias, and then we'll talk to more communities (yours!) about adopting the ideas that work well.

We have posted the 8 ideas we are considering. We would really appreciate your thoughts and the thoughts from your community. Please share the ideas, and tell us what do you and your community think of those ideas before September 9.

Share your experiences with newcomers

We want to hear about what is working and what is not working for new contributors in your wiki. We also want to hear any reactions, questions, or opinions on our work. Please post on the team’s talk page, in any language!

Learn more about us

You can visit our team page to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page for detailed updates on the first project we'll work on.

Get updates on your project page

The Growth team's newsletter will provide updates regularly. You can subscribe to it.

On behalf of the Growth team, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 27 augusti 2018 kl. 19.41 (CEST)[svara]

Wikierna går bara att läsa, inte redigera, en stund 12 september och 10 oktober

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6 september 2018 kl. 15.33 (CEST)