Vicifons:Scriptorium/Vetera IX

These are archives of the Scriptorium for 2015-2018. Discussions are archived according to the date they last had activity and are only archived after they have lost relevance to the community

Tables across pages

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Is it possible to split tables across pages and then transclude them between wikis? I am trying to get Cantemus cuncti transcluded into the English Wikisource at en:The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church/The Alleluiatic Sequence and I can't figure out how to make it work. Beleg Tâl (disputatio) 15:32, 19 Novembris 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I don't think there's currently a way to transclude between Wikis. Since it's in both English and Latin, you could host it at the Multilingual Wikisource, or, as the book itself is written for an English speaking audience, with English introduction etc. host it there entirely, either way this probably isn't the right place for it (unless you want to extract portions of the book and host them separately for the latin text only... which isn't really a great practice) in my opinion. ‑‑xensyria^D 20:48, 15 Decembris 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On enwikisource, it seems to be considered best practice to host the Index page for bilingual books on both languages' wikisources, proofread the respective sections in each language separately, and then use {{iwpages}} and related tools to transclude across pages when necessary. This works great most of the time, and I got several poems done this way. This one in particular, however, is formatted in the source material as a table, and interwiki transclusion does not preserve the table formatting. I ended up creating the page The seven great hymns of the mediaeval church/The Alleluiatic Sequence using transclusion and then pulling that entire page onto enwikisource. Beleg Tâl (disputatio) 18:01, 7 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Digesta

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Ave. Can someone add Digesta - compendium of Roman law? Source: The Latin Library. Thanks in advance! 93.80.43.134 10:54, 15 Maii 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Digesta. Hausratte (disputatio) 23:56, 17 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

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

John Vandenberg (bureaucrat, administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rs chen 7754 05:51, 15 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal for Local Process for Removal of Rights

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I recommend we adopt our own activity review process superseding the global one. I propose the following:
Removal of rights due to inactivity shall not occur except on the motion of a current ~~magistratus or grapheocrates~~active user.

Users who remain active on other wikisources or other latin projects shall not have their rights removed for mere inactivity.

Motions to remove a user's rights shall be closed by an active magistratus, unless ~~there is~~ no magistratus ~~who has edited on any WMF wiki in six months~~, attempts to reach every magistratus via wikis on which they are active and via e-mail are ineffective for more than 30 days, in which case, any active user may request a steward close the discussion.

I note that John Vandenberg has activity on other projects as late as the day before yesterday and his last edits on a wikisource were in July (en.wikisource and mul.wikisource). However, this is not a vote on John, it's a call for a vote on the proposed process.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 19:01, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Per this, Imho Administrator and bureaucrat accounts which have made no edits or administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped. this desysopping is not to be considered permanent, or a reflection on the user's use of, or rights to, the admin tools. The admin must be contacted on their user talk page and via e-mail (if possible) one month before the request for desysopping. Desysopping on inactivity grounds should be handled by local crats.If an editor has had at least two years of uninterrupted inactivity (no edit) between the removal of the admin tools and the re-request, regardless of the reason for removal, the editor will need to instead request through the requests for permissions process, and i agree with you as you said above.Grind24 (disputatio) 19:47, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I take it that you are simply defining "inactivity" to be for 12 months but that you agree that if they are active on other projects we would not remove their rights. Agreed that removal of admin rights should be handled by crats (grapheocrates). As a practical matter all admins are or will be crats by convention on this wiki.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 20:11, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes! Sounds good for me and also we can prolong the delay of inactivity to two years --Grind24 (disputatio) 20:46, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Doug for putting together a policy which is suitable for a small community like this one. I support your proposal, and agree with Grind24's addendum regarding restoration of tools requiring a fresh community vote if they have been inactive for two years. Regards, John Vandenberg (disputatio) 19:47, 31 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I oppose this proposed policy, I think we should simply go along with the global policy of removal after 2 years of total inactivity on one wiki. If a user returns, he can always request the rights back from our local crats who will surely look favourably upon it. --MF-W 00:16, 1 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's a somewhat annoying process for the sort of users who are most affected. John Vandenberg, the only person affected by the notice has been around and active on other wikis for the full period. Until recently, I was just as inactive on 'all' wikis for almost as long. Either of us, however, could have been contacted for a promotion or a name change without difficulty. I'm not sure that either of us wouldn't have had to wait several days or longer to be reinstated, considering that even with most admins being crats, only Lew has remained "active". Active here is a very relative thing and regular editing on this wiki is really not particularly relevant.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 04:29, 16 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. However, this problem is also addressed by the global process, as it will first inform the user in question, who can then easily leave a quick statement here to say that he is still there & can be contacted for requests. I think that's not too much when someone has done no edits or log actions for 2+ years. --MF-W 17:32, 17 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, then it seems we disagree mainly on whether the right to make that decision should be retained locally. My own mind on what is appropriate as far as activity goes has evolved somewhat here too. I was inactive for a considerable period. I was around but a message on my talk page or even an e-mail probably wouldn't have been noticed. I could have (and maybe should have) been de-sysopped on several projects but wasn't. Still, had I remained active on another project as many do, why bother. Locally we know that you can't count on finding Candalua here but should bot to vec.ws or it.ws or that VIGNERON is on fr.ws/wp, not here, on a regular basis. A steward doesn't know that and has no reason to. Locally, although we couldn't be sure he hadn't completely lost interest, we knew that John was still around. A steward would hopefully know that too but they would apply the rule. I don't think it matters whether John ever edits here, he can be found when needed. That's generally true of all of us.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 04:39, 18 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is why in the process carried out by stewards, first the admins in question are notified, so that they can say that they are still around. It's quite easy (also for stewards who do the inactivity review) to check whether someone is still active on other wikis, e.g. with this toolserver tool. In this case, John was not only contacted on his talk page here, but also on enwiki. And that's why I think the global inactivity policy is sufficient - if it really happens that someone is inactive here for 2 full years, but still active elsewhere (as it happened here), he gets a notification and then can say that he is still around and wants to continue to be an admin here, which IMHO is quite an easy thing. --MF-W 02:50, 20 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations and flags

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I've finally flagged usor:alebot per #Alebot.

I've finally promoted Zyephyrus and Hsarrazin per their two year old nominations at Vicifons:Magistratus. I've now nominated both as grapheocratis.

I've nominated Alex brollo for grapheocrate. They are not magistratus but previously it was contemplated making all magistratus also grapheocratas due to the small size of the project to avoid having to go to a steward for help with promotions.

I will nominate the rest of the "active" (whatever that means) magistratus for grapheocratae shortly. If there are no oppositions within about 30 days I will deem them elected or, of course, any other grapheocrates may decide to close the discussion then or sooner.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 14:49, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Added nominations for the other two magistratibus who were not grapheocrates: Candalua and VIGNERON.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 15:03, 25 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I would like nominate myself as magistratus (and I make request on Vicifons:Magistratus). Thanks --Grind24 (disputatio) 06:44, 26 Ianuarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

modernisation.js

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I have asked usor:phe to help us implement oldwikisource:MediaWiki:Modernisation.js. modernisation.js is used actively on fr.ws and allows the display of two different versions of a work, one with older spellings, etc and one modernized for easier reading. I will shortly post some examples from fr.ws of how this works and will begin implementing it here on a test basis. I believe it will make our lives much easier, particularly with works that have lots of paleographic abbreviations. After a few trials, we should know for sure.--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 17:30, 22 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Self-introduction of Alex brollo and my first project

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First of all, thanks to old & new friends for my new sysop flag; some of you already know my profile, my skills and - most important - the limitations of them. I mainly work into it.source, but I take a look sometimes into en.source and fr.source, robbing from those marvellous projects any idea that I can import into it.source. In the last years, I tried to learn a little bit of javascript, just what is strictly needed to build some gadgets, to make edit of nsPagina - the core of wikisource mission IMHO - faster and easier. So, in it.source I use my sysop account mainly to access to nsMediaWiki and to add/fix scripts there.

My first work here would be, if you agree with such an idea, to build a "it-edit-style" gadget, so that with a click into preferences it.source users could run the same tools that they are daily using at home. In the same time, such a gadget would give an opportunity for users of different projets, to take a look to "italian tools style" while working into a familiar project. I'll ask User:OrbiliusMagister for Latin name and description of such a gadget - my Babel Latin level is something between 0 and 1. :-( --Alex brollo (disputatio) 15:01, 25 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, go for it (as you probably know, you are unlikely to get a lot of comments and though I hope you get a few more I think you should do this now). Generally, "if there are no objections" is plenty of notice here. Can you explain in English (or German or maybe French - I'll try to understand) what you these tools add and how they work so others can consider using them?--Doug.^{(Disputatio • Conlationes)} 12:55, 26 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for feedback. Here I'll only say that they add something similar to fr.source mise en page (usual scannos fixing, splitted words merging and splitted lines of text into paragraphs merging, automated RunningHeader); there's a interesting Find & Replace tool, that can save work-specific sets of regex; a fixed button area is created at the bottom of the page, and a very simple newButton() function allows to add as many personal buttons you like; finally, a shortcut script runs in background, so that you can link any existing javascript function to a personal keyboard shortcut. As soon as I'll be fully satisfied by the whole thing, I'll save some screenshots; some documentation for it.source tools (in Italian.... :-() can be found here: it:Aiuto:Strumenti_per_la_rilettura and here: it:Aiuto:Bottoniera.

I can't wait for a gadget-frsourcetools and for a gadget-ensourcetools :-) --Alex brollo (disputatio) 14:21, 26 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Messaggio per i contributori da it.source

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I'll write in Italian since this post is mainly addressed to it.source users. If any user who can't read Italian is interested about gadget-itsourcetools, please ask for a translation, I'll do my best to write some documentation too (the tools are familiar to itsource users, but perhaps could turn out pretty exotic for others).

Cari amici di it.source, come anticipato sto facendo uno sforzo per farvi "sentire a casa" anche in questo progetto. Sto attivando gli "Strumenti di rilettura", qui si chiamano "Attrezzi del rilettore", in sidebar; è attivato anche il tool trova e sostituisci di Candalua, compresa la funzione memoregex opera specifica (ma non sono ancora attivati i due bottoni salva regex e carica regex). RigaIntestazione funziona, ed applica l'equivalente template locale Rh. E' attivata anche la bottoniera con un set ridotto di bottoni, ma il sistema va ancora le bizze (ad esempio, in questo momento non corre).

Per attivare tutti i tools itsourciani, basta attivare un unico gadget, gadget-itsourcetools, sotto Preferenze-Accessori. Vi ricordo che funziona anche l'equivalente locale di Indice sommario, che qui si chiama Liber index. L'opera su cui sto lavorando, e che userò come caso-test per le verifiche e rifiniture, è Liber:Columellae opera.djvu. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 08:32, 26 Februarii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[Global proposal] m.Wikisource.org: (omnes) Paginas recensere

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Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like la.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 Martii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

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SUL finalization update

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Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 Martii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Stewards confirmation rules

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Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:13, 10 Aprilis 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

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I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

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Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

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Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

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When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia. Your project is one of the next ones:

18. May: Farsi Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, Hebrew Wikipedia
1. June: Italian Wikipedia, all remaining Wikisource

We hope to have it rolled out nearly everywhere by the end of June 2015.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

How to use it, once it is enabled:

Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

Cheers Lydia Pintscher 15:19, 13 Maii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

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(Sorry for writing in English.)

I have previously announced the arbitrary access feature here. It is now enabled for you.

More background information: When using data from Wikidata on most Wikipedias and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This has technical reasons. This limitation has now been removed for your project.

How to use it:

Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital (Property:P36) from the item about Germany (Q183)
Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

I hope you'll make great things with this and that it will make your work on this project easier.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:10, 1 Iunii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
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HTTPS

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Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

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22:01, 19 Iunii 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

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Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

/Johan (WMF)

00:46, 20 Iunii 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 05:07, 24 Iulii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 23:42, 31 Iulii 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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Why get involved?

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More information

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All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
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Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 01:47, 1 Augusti 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About gadget-itsourcetools

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Is any of you using Gadget-itsourcetools? I'm going to delete it, since itsource tools are being deeply reviewed for a number of reasons. :-( --Alex brollo (disputatio) 17:37, 17 Augusti 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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A simple collection of project-indipendent editing tools

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While waiting for something much better (t.i. TemplateScript by Pathoschild), I'm using as an "emergency edit tool" a script tested into mul.wikisource, coming from it.wikisource tools; it has no dependency. Take a look to Italian documentation here, and ping me (or send me a email) if you are interested about. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 14:02, 1 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

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Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:13, 2 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

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

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 22:01, 4 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quaestio in re emendare paginarum

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Ave! Quid est conventio in re macronis pro abbreviationibus; convertendum est (macron > n/m) seu non? Et conventio in re litterae S longae; transcribendum est ad "s" sive ad "ſ"? Gratias tibi - HyperGaruda (disputatio) 07:26, 26 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reimagining WMF grants report

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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reimagining WMF grants report

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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 18:19, 28 Septembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 21:57, 9 Novembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:48, 10 Novembris 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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Please help translate to your language

The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 14:39, 1 Decembris 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:59, 18 Decembris 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Auxilium[reply]

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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Please help translate to your language

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

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 01:49, 5 Ianuarii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nova species ?

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I think it would be interessant to rewrite a bit some important pages to make Vicifons more user-friendly. What would you said about a relooking of the mainpage, and about the creation of a community main page. I also thought to rewrite the template scriptores. I must add that I can do that. Of course I begin to work on this in my private pages... :) --- Luc - (disputatio) 10:23, 6 Ianuarii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not finished, but a good beginning : Vicifons:Pagina prima--- Luc - (disputatio) 11:50, 12 Ianuarii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Please help translate to your language

Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

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

Ancient Greek incubator project / Ἡ Βικιπαιδεία ἑλληνιστί

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Dear Vicifons community, there is currently an ongoing proposal to have an ancient greek wikipedia created, so if interested you are welcomed to participate and share your thoughts, as well as participate in the actual incubator wiki. Best regards. Gts-tg (disputatio) 15:24, 14 Martii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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Please help translate to your language:

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

Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:47, 31 Martii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Test about header=1 parameter of pages tag

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Some days ago, pl:User:Zdzislaw helped it.source to implement fully the magics of header=1 parameter of proofreadpage pages tag; here I found that it runs, but that it didn't automate Formula:Liber navigation bar.

So, I tried to implement it and perhaps I got a partial result.

I edited the following pages:

first I redirected MediaWiki:Proofreadpage header template to Formula:Proofreadpage header template;
then I added inside some code, coming from Formula:Liber;
finally I masked into an html comment all the code into De Re Rustica (Gesner) and De Re Rustica (Gesner)/Liber I adding header=1 parameter into pages tag to test results.

So far the result isn't perfect but it's encouraging, I'm asking your help to test it and to fix bugs.

I imagine, that a MediaWiki:Proofreadpage index data config should be created. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 22:00, 31 Martii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Server switch 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

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

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

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

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

Administrator rights request on Victionarium (Latin Wiktionary)

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Salve!

This note is just to let you know that Usor:DenisWasRight and Usor:YaganZ are offering to take administrator roles on Victionarium. There is not a large, active community there, and there are no active administrators. But there is unquestionably a need for some people willing to work over there. If you are willing to support their candidacy, even for a trial period, please !vote at wikt:Victionarium:Petitio administratores/DenisWasRight and wikt:Victionarium:Petitio administratores/YaganZ. Some futher discussion was held at w:Vicipaedia:Taberna#Administrator rights. StevenJ81 (disputatio) 12:32, 1 Iunii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta

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Is it possible to have this noncopyrighted (1837) text added to Wikisource: Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta by Wilhelm Gesenius? It is is a collection of all known Phoenician inscriptions as of 1837, and considered to be a founding work in Phoenician Studies. The text is referenced on multiple Wikipedias. Nicole Sharp (disputatio) 19:55, 6 Iunii 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Addere: Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta de Wilhelm Gesenius (1837). Nicole Sharp (disputatio) 19:55, 6 Iunii 2016 (UTC)[reply]
http://www.archive.org/details/scripturaelingu00gesegoog/
http://www.archive.org/details/scripturaelingua00geseuoft/

Vicifons Phoenicia

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I would also like to be able to use this work as a starting point for creating a Phoenician Wikisource (compiling a Wikisource corpus of all known Phoenician inscriptions), which currently does not exist. Nicole Sharp (disputatio) 07:35, 7 Iunii 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta ad creatio de Vicifons Phoenicia. Nicole Sharp (disputatio) 07:35, 7 Iunii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Open call for Project Grants

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Please help translate to your language:

Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.

Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 15:25, 5 Iulii 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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):

Matthead (bureaucrat, administrator)

Save/Publish

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The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Servare hanc rem” button to “Hanc paginam divulgare” and “Hanc recensionem divulgare”. “Hanc paginam divulgare” will be used when you create a new page. “Hanc recensionem divulgare” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Hanc paginam divulgare” and “Hanc recensionem divulgare”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Servare hanc rem” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Servare hanc rem” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Hanc paginam divulgare” and “Hanc recensionem divulgare”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 9 Augusti 2016 (UTC)[reply]

exportare documenta sub formato rft sive epub sive pdf et cetera

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est optio exportandi libros integros sub formato rft, et cetera, ventura in vicifonte latina? (sicut in italica et gallica)

Marking what I think is a printer error...

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Line 4 from bottom of this page Pagina:Faoistin naoṁ-Ṗadraig (1906).djvu/24 in the scan, contains what i think is a printer error. Over on English wikipedia I would mark this with en:Template:SIC but that template doesn't exist here on Latin Wikisource.

Is there a way to mark a possible printer error locally? (No idea what the replacement would be)ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 12:02, 23 Augusti 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Formula:SIC works just the same here as on English Wikisource. I don't see any errors on that line though. I'll proofread the page and see what you think. Mudbringer (disputatio) 02:58, 25 Augusti 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's just some specks in the scan that makes "tot" look like "tqt". If you look at the full-size image, the right edge of the "o" is rounded, rather than straight as it would be if it were a "q". Mudbringer (disputatio) 03:20, 25 Augusti 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A shot by a ghost sysop

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Using my "sysop privileges" I share here a recent it.source gadget: CropTool, a simple interface to CropTool by commons:User:Danmichaelo, and I tested it here: Pagina:Horace - Œuvres, trad. Leconte de Lisle, II.djvu/77: it runs!. I ask for help in documenting it as it deserves some Italian friends: @Aubrey, @OrbiliusMagister, @Candalua:. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 23:57, 26 Augusti 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RevisionSlider

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From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:08, 12 Septembris 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Grants to improve your project

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Please help translate to your language:

Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

Submit a grant request
Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 30 Septembris 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Creative Commons 4.0

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

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

Two tools to test

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I just tried here two tools:

FullScreenEditing.js, by User:Samwilson, use as much screen space as possible for editing textarea and front image; please flag Show edit toolbar and Enable enhanced editing toolbar into Preferences->Editing;
lifePreview.js, presently tested into it.source, showing livePreview into a draggable and resizable box for an easier comparison with front image or with content of textarea; please flag Use live preview into Preferences->Editing.

To activate the tools, add this code to your common.js page:

// this FullScreenEditing.js by Samwilson
mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/FullScreenEditing.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

// this loads  livePreview; live preview  option must be activated from Preferences->Editing section
mw.loader.load('//it.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Alex brollo/livePreview.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

--Alex brollo (disputatio) 21:38, 9 Novembris 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Another tool to test (as a gadget)

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I added and tested a gadget "diacritici", it creates a small draggable box with many diacritics; the idea is, to replace or add a diacritic to the character preceding the pointer - any diacritic to any character. Much, much more fast and comfortable than searching a particular unicode character into long list. Here a unusual combination got by one click: n̊. Here another one, with two diacritics (and two clicks): ṇ̈. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 21:41, 12 Novembris 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Password reset

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

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

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

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

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

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

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

New way to edit wikitext

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Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.

We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatice omnibus facultatibus experimentalibus utere".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

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

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
- Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
- Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
- Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
- Introduction of williamsworks
Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
- The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
- Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks

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

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Request for the import of some templates from English Wikisource

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Hi.

I am working on Liber:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large, 1763.djvu which has it's companion on English Wikisource. ~~I'd like to use long-s once it's fully proof-read to mirror the original typography.~~

~~The {{ls}} template doesn't seem to exist locally, and I'd rather not put the relevant unicode character in directly.~~

In addition, the latin text of this work uses drop-initials at the start of some paragraphs, These are also templatised on English Wikisource {{di}} which doesn't seem to exist locally.

Whilst I could copy-paste these templates across, it would be better (for attribution reasons) if they were properly imported by a suitable user. 10:06, 4 Martii 2017 (UTC)

I may have some other templates I was using on the English companion of this that I may make an import request for at a later date.ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 10:06, 4 Martii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And when I check {{ls}} does seem to be present locally , Opps! :( ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 10:08, 4 Martii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
- Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
- Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
- Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions

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

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

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

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This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

05:09, 18 Martii 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:37, 7 Aprilis 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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

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Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.

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

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

You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 17:34, 11 Aprilis 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

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

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19:14, 3 Maii 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:42, 8 Maii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RevisionSlider

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RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

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

Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)

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Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.

You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.

Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:

On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to your language • Get help

21:09, 16 Maii 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.

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

May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
June 12–14 – Vote checking
June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results

More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

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

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21:06, 23 Maii 2017 (UTC)

Quid 'editor' significat?

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In formula indicis cum fasciculo comparati, 'editor' nominatur quem usor pro 'publisher' (Anglice, nondum traducto) dat. Nescio num recte traduxeret. In editionibus variis 'editionem curavit aliquis' eum qui textum paravit et correxit significare, et 'apud aliquem' eam societatem quae librum ipsum prelo fecit significare vidi. Etiam in editione Iuvenalis quam A. E. Housman curavit, 'editorum in usum dedidit' iocavit, quosdam qui editiones male curaverunt deridens. Prosody (disputatio) 02:03, 2 Iulii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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

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

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

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

Thank you! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:40, 25 Iulii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accessible editing buttons

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The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.

Comparison of old and new styles
Buttons before the change
Buttons after the change

However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 27 Iulii 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Correction de mes corrections

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Bonjour à tous, j'ai corrigé un petit texte de Leibniz en Latin (Index créé pour l'occasion). Quelqu'un peut-il me dire si je respecte bien les usages de Wikisource:la ? --Hildepont (disputatio) 21:13, 21 Augusti 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Quas res de textu oportet referre?

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In aliquibus Vicifontibus res de textu in Liber: spatio nominali referuntur. Nunc in Vicifonte Latino hae res ita referuntur:

Scriptor
Titulus
Annus (imprimationis editionis?)
Editor (quid Anglice 'Publisher' quaeritur)
Fons (quid significat nescio)

Quid magis oportet referre? Qui editionem curavit (vide #Quid 'editor' significat?), annus scriptionis, redditor et annus redditionis, locus imprimationis, tomus et index tomorum? Prosody (disputatio) 20:56, 10 Septembris 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Prosody: Yes "Editor" is "Publisher". "Fons" is source, t.i. (into 99% of cases) the web site that published scans of images of the book (usually Internet Archive or Google Books); just the same data posted as "source" into a well-compiled Book template into Commons.

I apologyze for late reply. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 16:45, 20 Septembris 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Some new gadgets/templates

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I imported from it.source two gadgets and a template, working together and simplifying a lot images managing.

CropTool (it appears as the last item of Tools, into sidebar, in nsPage): it links to CropTool of DanMichaelo, and allows to crop the image of current page, and to upload it into Commons with a good standard name.
Insert FI: it adds to current page the code for template FI, a comfortable alternative way to insert image code into a page, button added to Advanced option into toolbox. It pre-loads the standard image name set by CropTool. You only need to change width and position of image.
Formula:FI: it.source version of FreedImg; the template avoids some disturbing features of usual wiki code for images (it wraps images into a span instead of into a div html element) and can add effectively tiltes and captions to images.

The latter is a pretty complex template with many different optios, I apologyze for pasted Italian doc, I'll use both CropTool and Formula:FI into Liber:Le opere di Galileo Galilei I.djvu, latin texts (i.e. pages of Theoremata circa centrum gravitatis solidorum, take a look to see examples. --Alex brollo (disputatio) 14:04, 20 Septembris 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Novembris 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prosodic markers..

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The prosdy markers in this page, Are they in Unincode and if so how to enter them?

Pagina:T. Macci Plauti Comoediae, I.djvu/528

ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 10:49, 29 Ianuarii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A subtle problem ‹› vs <> vs ⟨⟩

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This was something I corrected here:- https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=De_architectura/Liber_IV&diff=prev&oldid=84510

What should I be using, as the use of <> in places is being seen as inline HTML by the parser? ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 17:51, 29 Ianuarii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ShakespeareFan00: < and > ? Ankry (disputatio) 06:25, 3 Iulii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Duly noted, but I was also informed elsewhere to use a specifc bracket style, ‹› for marking reconsturcted text. ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 08:51, 3 Iulii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lint Errors

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I've found a LOT of the "Missing end tag" situations are because {{Titulus}} is adding an opening DIV with class text. Is this correct behaviour because it's the primary caus eof a lot of seemingly missing DIV tags that are flagged as errors? ShakespeareFan00 (disputatio) 00:12, 30 Ianuarii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Epub

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La funzione che crea direttamente gli epub, se non sto commettendo errori, mi sembra che non funzioni. E', invece, possibile crearli tramite https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php--Mizardellorsa (disputatio) 07:23, 28 Aprilis 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AdvancedSearch

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From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

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

Update on page issues on mobile web

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Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

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

Bot rights for User:Wikisource-bot

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Hi. With the requirement to fix the page categorisation as notified at phab:T198470, I would like to propose to the community to have our bot run through and address the problem with the solution identified. The bot has been used to resolve issue previously on the Wikisources.

special:centralauth/Wikisource-bot

Thanks. Billinghurst (disputatio) 10:21, 7 Iulii 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Candalua: can you, please, handle this request or do the null-editing in this wiki using your bot as you did in few others? @Alex brollo, @OrbiliusMagister, @VIGNERON, @Zyephyrus: pinging also few other bereaucrats, if Candalua is inactive... Ankry (disputatio) 07:11, 8 Augusti 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Billinghurst, Ankry: I granted the flag for 1 month from now (since the request is for a single task and not for permanent botship). Thank you for your work. Candalua (disputatio) 12:49, 8 Augusti 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Global preferences are available

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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:19, 10 Iulii 2018 (UTC)

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

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Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 Iulii 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able 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).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:44, 30 Iulii 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

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):

Doug (bureaucrat, administrator)
John Vandenberg (bureaucrat, administrator)
Lew XXI (bureaucrat, administrator)

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

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Interface administrators) 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) 12:40, 27 Augusti 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

Formula:Incisura emissa

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Hi. It seems that the template Formula:Incisura emissa does not work as intended, see e. g. Pagina:Gesta Romanorum - Oesterley_1872.djvu/715. The template is a translation of en:Template:Hanging indent. It is quite weird as the English template works well although they both seem identical. --Jan.Kamenicek (disputatio) 08:44, 3 Septembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

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

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

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

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

You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

13:33, 6 Septembris 2018 (UTC)

The GFDL license on Commons

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This has been posted here because your wiki allows local file uploads. Please help translate to your language.

Commons will no longer allow uploads of photos, paintings, drawings, audio and video that use the GFDL license and no other license. This starts after 14 October. Textbooks, manuals and logos, diagrams and screenshots from GFDL software manuals that only use the GFDL license are still allowed. Files licensed with both GFDL and an accepted license like Creative Commons BY-SA are still allowed.

There is no time limit to move files from other projects to Commons. The licensing date is all that counts. It doesn't matter when the file was uploaded or created. Every wiki that allows local uploads should check if bots, scripts and templates that are used to move files to Commons need to be updated. Also update your local policy documentation if needed.

The decision to allow files that only have a GFDL license, or not allow them, is a decision all wikis can make for themselves. Your wiki can decide to continue allowing the files that Commons will no longer allow after 14 October. If your wiki decides to continue to allow files after 14 October that Commons will no longer allow those files should not be moved to Commons. — Alexis Jazz, distributed by Johan using MassMessage

18:11, 20 Septembris 2018 (UTC)

Words hyphenated across pages in Wikisource are now joined

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Hi, this is a message by Can da Lua as discussed here for wikisource communities

The ProofreadPage extension can now join together a word that is split between a page and the next.

In the past, when a page was ending with "concat-" and the next page was beginning with "enation", the resulting transclusion would have been "concat- enation", and a special template like d:Q15630535 had to be used to obtain the word "concatenation".

Now the default behavior has changed: the hyphen at the end of a page is suppressed and in this case no space is inserted, so the result of the transclusion will be: "concatenation", without the need of a template. The "joiner" character is defined by default as "-" (the regular hyphen), but it is possible to change this. A template may still be needed to deal with particular cases when the hyphen needs to be preserved.

Please share this information with your community.

MediaWiki message delivery (disputatio) 10:28, 30 Septembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Community Wishlist Survey

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The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

11:06, 30 Octobris 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:34, 13 Novembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

National Museum (Brazil)

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Hello!

In the Brazilian WikiProject about the National Museum that have been victim of a fire last September, we have some digitized books in WikiCommons to work on Wikisource and... 3 are in Latin:

Someone may start to work with these books and even create an Wiki article about them? Thanks, Erick Soares3 (disputatio) 15:26, 18 Novembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Community Wishlist Survey vote

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The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 Novembris 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:02, 26 Novembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Selection of the Wikisource Community User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit

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Dear all,

Sorry for writing in English and cross-posting this message.

The Wikisource Community User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is a yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Wikisource Community User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wikisource needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement. For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is short and to avoid the confusing vote on the Wikisource-I mailing list of last year, we created a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit.

The vote will be in two parts:

until December 7th, people can add their name and a short explanation on who they are and why they want to go to the summit. Nomination of other people is allowed, the nominated person should accept their nomination.
starting December 7th, and for a week, the community vote to designate the representative.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wikisource-I mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Wikisource Community User Group, Tpt (talk) 15:15, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 Decembris 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource Community User Group representative vote

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Dear all,

Sorry for writing in English and cross-posting this message.

Following the previous message, the vote for the representative of the Wikisource Community User Group to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 is now open.

There is two great candidates on page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit. You can support a candidate now. All active Wikisource users can vote. The vote is ending on December 14, 2018.

Feel free to ask any question on the wikisource-I mailing list or on the talk page.

Thank you!

For the Wikisource Community User Group, Tpt (talk) December 8, 2018 at 18:53 (UTC)