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翻译通知:Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll
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这个页面有高重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-06-06。
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Meta translation coordinators, 00:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [1]
- The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [2]
- There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [3]
- The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [4]
- The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [5]
- Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [6]
- Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [7].
- All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [8]
- The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [9]
- Future software changes
- The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [10]
- The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension. [11]
- MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [12]
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翻译通知:Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll
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这个页面有高重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-06-06。
If you can please also translate the Central Notice banners that will alert people that the election has started (and when results are ready). So that we do not have to send out another notice you can find those translations:
Here (for the results banner)Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 02:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)The Signpost: 05 June 2013
- From the editor: Signpost developments
- Featured content: A week of portraits
- Discussion report: Return of the Discussion report
- News and notes: "Cease and desist", World Trade Organization says to Wikivoyage; Could WikiLang be the next WMF project?
- In the media: China blocks secure version of Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: Operation Normandy
- Technology report: Developers accused of making Toolserver fight 'pointless'
Wikidata weekly summary #61
- Discussions
- Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
- Events/Press
- Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
- SemTechBiz
- WMF metrics and activities meeting
- "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
- en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
- Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
- Average edits per page has passed 4
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
- Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
- Development
- Worked on globe coordinate editing
- Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
- EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
- First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
- Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
- Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
翻译通知:Announcement Universal Language Selector
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这个页面有中重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-06-11。
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Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 21:37, 7 June 2013 (UTC)Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [13]
- An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [14]
- Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
- Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode. [15]
- The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [16]
- A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [17]
- Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [18]
- Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [19]
- Future software changes
- A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [20]
- A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).
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20:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
翻译通知:Announcement Universal Language Selector
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这个页面有高重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-06-17。
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Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 13:47, 13 June 2013 (UTC)翻译通知:Wikimedia Highlights, May 2013
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这个页面有中重要度。
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Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 18:36, 13 June 2013 (UTC)The Signpost: 12 June 2013
- Featured content: Mixing Bowl Interchange
- In the media: VisualEditor will "change world history"
- Discussion report: VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more
- Traffic report: Who holds the throne?
- Arbitration report: Two cases suspended; proposed decision posted in Argentine History
- WikiProject report: Processing WikiProject Computing
Wikidata weekly summary #62
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
- The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
- And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
- Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
- If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
- Development
- More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
- Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
- Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
- EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
翻译通知:PRISM
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这个页面有高重要度。 翻译这个页面的截止日期是2013-06-18。
the Wikimedia Foundation legal team has just published this page, asking the Wikimedia community to comment on whether they should take any action with regards to the recently uncovered PRISM surveillance scandal.
I'll greatly appreciate your involvement & contributions to have this page translated into as many languages as possible as well as popularised as widely as possible — please let your communities know about this so we can make the most use of this consultation period.Your help is greatly appreciated. Translators like you help Meta to function as a truly multilingual community.
Thank you!
Meta translation coordinators, 15:21, 15 June 2013 (UTC)Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [23]
- The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [24]
- VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
- Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [25].
- VisualEditor also allows editing references. [26]
- The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word
__DISAMBIG__
to mark disambiguation pages. [27] - The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.
- Future software changes
- Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [28]
- Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [29]
- Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [30] [31]
- It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [32]
- A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [33]
- A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.
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The Signpost: 19 June 2013
- Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
- WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
- News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?
- Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
- Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
- Technology report: May engineering report published
- Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and arbitration enforcement
Wikidata weekly summary #63
- Discussions
- Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
- Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
- Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
- RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
- RfC about personal names
- Events/Press
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
- Development
- Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
- Further work on input validation
- Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
- Use Serializers for generating API results
- Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
- Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
- Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
- Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
- Open Tasks for You
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Respond to a "Request for Comment"
- Hack on one of these
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [34]
- Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [35]
- The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [36]
- The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [37]
- After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [38]
- VisualEditor news:
- A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
- A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [39]
- It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [40]
- Future software changes
- The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [41]
- Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [42]
- The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [43]
- The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [44]
- It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [45]
- MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [46]
- The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [47]
- The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [48]
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The Signpost: 26 June 2013
- Traffic report: Most-viewed articles of the week
- In the media: Daily Dot on Commons and porn; Jimmy Wales accused of breaking Wikipedia rules in hunt for Snowden
- News and notes: Election results released
- Featured content: Wikipedia in black + Adam Cuerden
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Fashion
- Arbitration report: Argentine History closed; two cases remain suspended
Wikidata weekly summary #64
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
- Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
- Development
- The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
- Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
- Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
- Added serializers for the Ask query language
- Buuuugfixes and testing
- Refactoring
- Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
- Open Tasks for You
- Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
- Hack on one of these