Wikipedija:Pjazza/Arkivju 2023
Din il-paġna għandha diskussjonijiet li ġew arkivjati mill-Pjazza. Jekk jogħġbok timmodifikax il-kontenut ta' din il-paġna. Jekk tixtieq terġa' tqajjem diskussjoni, jew agħmel intervent ġdid jew uża l-paġna ta' diskussjoni assoċjata ma' dak is-suġġett.
Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!
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Hello
The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
- Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
- Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
- Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
- Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
Grazzi! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 Diċembru 2022 (UTC)
Vote for your favourite Wikimedia sound logo
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We are really sorry for posting in English
Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices. Learn more on Diff.
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners and the selection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.
Best wishes, Arupako-WMF (d) 10:47, 17 Diċembru 2022 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2023
Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
- Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
- Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
- Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
- Request local admins for site notice.
- Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on the meta project page.
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team
- Stay connected
- Stay connected
--MediaWiki message delivery (d) 10:23, 24 Diċembru 2022 (UTC)
ĦU SEHEM: Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 f'Malta
Wiki Loves Folklore huwa konkors annwali tal-fotografija miftuħ għal kulħadd, fejn int ukoll tista' żżid ritratti ta' aspetti mill-kultura folkoristika f'Malta u f'pajjiżi oħra madwar id-dinja. Din hija t-tieni sena li Malta qed tkun inkluża f'din l-attività globali. F'Malta din l-inzjattiva titmexxa minn Wikimedia Community Malta li jorganizzaw attivitajiet ta' taħriġ u informazzjoni online għal min jixtieq jieħu sehem kull nhar ta' Ħamis fis-6pm matul ix-xahar ta' Frar.
Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Għodda għad-diskussjoni.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Żid diskussjoni" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for Għodda għad-diskussjoni on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Għodda għad-diskussjoni. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Ippubblika l-modifiki". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
Your wiki will be in read only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. 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.
All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
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 1 March 2023.
- 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.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Office hour(s) - CEE Hub
Hello everyone,
We want to invite you to the first monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The first session will take place on Sunday, March 12th at 17:00 CET time.
Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics.
Please respond to the email addresses toni.ristovski@wmceehub.org or barbara.klen@wmceehub.org, as you can get the invitation link on time.
We will be happy to see some of you. --TRistovski-CEEhub (d) 11:38, 10 Marzu 2023 (UTC)
Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
Femminiżmu u Folklor
Kull sena, matul ix-xahar ta' Marzu, Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM) torganizza attivitajiet biex tħeġġeġ il-kitba ta' artikli ġodda fuq il-Wikipedija bil-Malti dwar in-nisa. Dawn l-inizjattivi bdew b'Art+Feminism fl-2018 u bdew jinkludu l-inizjattiva Feminism & Folklore mill-2022, li torbot ukoll mal-konkors fotografiku annwali ta' Wiki Loves Folklore.
Fl-2023 din il-ħidma torbot ma' kors tat-traduzzjoni fl-Università ta' Malta. Aktar tagħrif hawn u fuq is-sit ta' WCM. -- ToniSant (d) 15:45, 13 Marzu 2023 (UTC)
Rebbiegħa CEE 2023
Illum jibda l-konkors Wikipedija:Rebbiegħa CEE 2023 fejn int ukoll tista' tirbaħ premju sabiħ billi tittraduċi artikli dwar suġġetti marbuta ma' pajjiżi mill-Ewropa Ċentrali u tal-Lvant. Fl-istess waqt, Wikipedisti oħra minn madwar l-Ewropa qed jittraduċu artikli dwar Malta fid-diversi lingwi l-oħra involti f'dan il-konkors. Ara hawn għal-lista ta' artikli ssuġġeriti minn kull pajjiż.
Nhar il-Ħamis 13 t'April se ssir edit-a-tona marbuta mar-Rebbiegħa CEE 2023 f'Dar l-Ewropa fil-Belt (Valletta) fis-6pm. Din jista' jattendi għaliha kulħadd, basta tippreżenta karta tal-identità jew passaport fil-bieb. Idealment iġġib laptop miegħek ukoll.
Intant ikomplu jintlaqgħu traduzzjonijiet tal-artikli sal-20 ta' Ġunju 2023 f'dan il-konkors annwali. -- ToniSant (d) 10:36, 21 Marzu 2023 (UTC)
Office hour of the CEE Hub (3 April 2023)
Hello everyone,
We want to invite you to the second monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The second session will take place on Monday, April 3rd at 18:00 CET time.
Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics.
Please sign up for the upcoming session at following Meta page, as you can get the invitation link on time.
We will be happy to see some of you. --MediaWiki message delivery (d) 11:48, 28 Marzu 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. 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.
All traffic will switch on 26 April. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
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 26 April 2023.
- 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.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Office hour of the CEE Hub (2 May 2023) and updates from the CEE Hub
Hello everyone,
We want to invite you to the third monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The third session will take place on Tuesday, May 2nd at 18:00 CEST time.
Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics. You can find a link on the following Meta page.
If you don`t have a time to come on our Office hour, you can read more about development of the CEE Hub on our News page.
We will be happy to see some of you.
Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
Hello,
As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
- Community members in good standing
- Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
- Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
- Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
- Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
- Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
Global ban proposal for Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY
Apologies for writing in English. If this is not the proper place to post, please move it somewhere more appropriate. Please help translate to your language There is an on-going discussion about a proposal that Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY be globally banned from editing all Wikimedia projects. You are invited to participate at Requests for comment/Global ban for Piermark on Meta-Wiki. Grazzi! U.T. (diskussjoni) 12:36, 4 Mejju 2023 (UTC)
Automatic citations based on ISBN are broken
Apologies if this message does not reach you in your favorite language. You can help translate it centrally at Meta. Thanks for your help.
We have recently become unable to access the WorldCat API which provided the ability to generate citations using ISBN numbers. The Wikimedia Foundation's Editing team is investigating several options to restore the functionality, but will need to disable ISBN citation generation for now.
This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts, such as the autofill button on refToolbar. Please note that all the other automatic ways of generating citations, including via URL or DOI, are still available.
You can keep updated on the situation via Phabricator, or by reading the next issues of m:Tech News. If you know of any users or groups who rely heavily on this feature (for instance, someone who has an upcoming editathon), I'd appreciate it if you shared this update with them.
Elitre (WMF), on behalf of the Editing team.
News about upcoming sessions and the CEE Newsletter
Hello everyone,
CEE Hub has two major announcement for the upcoming week:
- Next CEE Catch up – youth edition will take place on May 16th 2023, 18:00-19:00 CEST. Please register for the event using the following link. This meeting is a part of already established CEE Catch up concept. The goal of the meeting is to gather young CEE Wikimedians/Wikipedians (up to 26 years old) and people who are older than 26 and who are interested in learning about and from youth.
- Learning session dedicated to Movement Strategy Implementation Grants, where you can learn how is the process for applying this type of grants, and to learn from first hand about two such funded initiatives in the CEE Region. This session will take place on May 17th 2023, 18:00-19:20 CEST. Please register for the event using the following link.
CEE Newsletter is back! You can wrote first renewed edition of the CEE Newsletter here.
Important remark: The CEE Newsletter is open for new members in the editorial team, so please show your interest by writing an email to the CEE Hub staff.
Reminder about registration and submissions for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023
Dear all,
we would like to remind you about submission and registration deadlines for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023, which are approaching. If you haven’t registered and/or sent your submissions, there is still time to do so.
CEE Meeting is a place where we get a chance to share our learning and experience with the region and we are all looking forward to seeing many of you in this September in Tbilisi (Georgia).
If you want some assistance or advice from us, especially related to preparing your presentations, please contact CEE Hub, we will be happy to support you. (barbara.klen@wmceehub.org and toni.ristovski@wmceehub.org)
Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff --MediaWiki message delivery (d) 10:02, 17 Mejju 2023 (UTC)
Selection of the U4C Building Committee
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.
-- UCoC Project Team, 04:20, 27 Mejju 2023 (UTC)
General survey about grants, tools and support from the CEE Hub
CEE Hub created one general survey where we aim to collect information and opinions about several important topics that we believe all of you have experience in at some level.
The survey has three main topics: experience with grants and opinions, what kind of tools you used and want to use, and also what kind of support you want to have from the CEE Hub, which will help us in shaping the second year of the CEE Hub.
Please dedicate 15 minutes of your free time and submit your answers on this link.
--Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff MediaWiki message delivery (d) 09:31, 20 Ġunju 2023 (UTC)
Announcing the new Elections Committee members
Hello there,
We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
MinT Machine Translation added to your Wikipedia
Hello!
Apologies as this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.
The WMF Language team has added another machine translation (MT) system for Content Translation in your Wikipedia called MinT; you can use MinT machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles using the Content and Section Translation tool.
The WMF Language team provides the MinT service. It is hosted in the Wikimedia Foundation Infrastructure with neural machine translation models that other organizations have released with an open-source license. MinT integrates translation based on NLLB-200, OpusMT, IndicTrans2 and Softcatalà. This MT is set as optional in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.
Since MinT is hosted in the WMF Infrastructure and the models are open source, it adheres to Wikipedia's policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user and brand representation. You can find more information about the MinT machine translation and the models on this page.
Please note that the use of the MinT MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:
- use it to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
- provide feedback about its quality, and if you prefer the MinT machine translation as default in your Wikipedia.
We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translation tool.
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF) (diskussjoni) 22:02, 4 Lulju 2023 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team.
Rebbieħa ta' Rebbiegħa CEE 2023
Dawn huma r-rebbieħa tal-konkors Rebbiegħa CEE 2023 li sar bejn il-21 ta' Marzu u l-20 ta' Ġunju 2023:
- L-ewwel post: Utent:Trigcly
- It-tieni post: Utent:Scutajar
- It-tielet post: Utent:NoelMalta
- Premju solidarjetà: Utent:Mtanti
Dawn l-utenti se jirċievu d-dettalji dwar l-premju tagħhom mingħand Wikimedia Community Malta. Il-premjijiet huma offruti bl-appoġġ tas-CEE Hub f'kollaborazzjoni mal-pubblikaturi lokali: Kite Group, Merlin Publishers, u Midsea Books/Klabb Kotba Maltin.
F'isem il-kommunità globali tal-Wikimedia, nirringrazzja lill-parteċipanti kollha u nifraħ lir-rebbieħa. Grazzi u prosit! -- ToniSant (d) 17:11, 8 Lulju 2023 (UTC)
Upcoming CEE Catch up – Supporting community health
Hello everyone,
CEE Hub invites community members to a next CEE Catch Up which will focus on community health. The meeting will take place on July 31st, 2023, 18:00-19:00 CEST. You can sign up for the event on our Meta page, where you simply just add your username and we will send you a link for the event.
The goal of the session is to gather everyone interested to hear more about practices WMF and different Wikimedia affiliates have established to protect (mental) health and wellbeing of volunteers. The session is interesting for everyone who wants to know about supporting community health or if you want to learn how to implement some new practices in your affiliate/community.
--Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff MediaWiki message delivery (d) 13:02, 18 Lulju 2023 (UTC)
Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
Hello!
Apologies if this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.
This wiki will soon be able to use the inline audio player implemented by the Phonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing audio links that play on click.
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:
<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>
The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the English Wiktionary below.
{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}
Could become:
<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>
The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to read about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this talk page.
Thank you!UOzurumba (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Language team
02:26, 27 Lulju 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Pride (Malta and EuroPride 2023)
Dear Maltese Wikipedians - I would like to bring to your attention a general Wiki Loves Pride international camapign that would like to encourage you to create LGBT+ related content in your language and more specifically to those in Malta to join Wiki Loves EuroPride 2023 campaign by contributing media (photo, video and audio recordings) as Valletta is hosting EuroPride soon.
If you are interested to collaborate in any way and help us with promotion, outreach or other aspects please get in touch! -- Zblace (d) 10:13, 20 Awwissu 2023 (UTC)
Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.
The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.
Best,
RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 Awwissu 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. 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.
All traffic will switch on 20 September. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
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 20 September 2023.
- 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.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Ritratti minn Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Malta għall-konkors internazzjonali
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L-aqwa ritratti minn Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Malta issa qed jipparteċipaw fil-konkors internazzjonali.
Dawn dehru wkoll fuq it-Times of Malta f'dan l-artiklu.
Intant, dawn l-istess parteċipanti huma mistiedna jattendu attività ta' ċelebrazzjoni flimkien mar-rebbieħa ta' Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Malta, waqt il-festival tal-ktieb fl-MFCC Ta' Qali, nhar is-Sibt 21 t'Ottubru 2023 fil-5pm.
F'isem il-kommunità globali tal-Wikimedia, nirringrazzjaw lill-parteċipanti kollha u nawguraw lil dawk li r-ritratti tagħhom għaddew għall-fażi internazzjonali tal-konkors Wiki Loves Earth 2023. -- ToniSant (d) 09:45, 2 Ottubru 2023 (UTC)
== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Aktar lingwi • Please help translate to your languageHi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
01:13, 17 Ottubru 2023 (UTC)
Ir-rebbieħa ta' Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 f'Malta
Il-Wikimedia Community Malta ħabbret ir-rebbieħa tal-konkors annwali Wiki Loves Monuments għall-edizzjoni tal-2023. Din is-sena ħadu sehem 37 parteċipant li bejniethom ippreżentaw 440 ritratt ta' monumenti u wirt storiku mibni f'Malta, Għawdex u Kemmuna.
L-aħjar 10 ritratti tħabbru waqt ċeremonja li saret fl-MFCC f'Ta' Qali waqt il-Festival Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb 2023. Iċ-ċeremonja saret nhar is-Sibt 21 ta' Ottubru 2023 fl-5pm u għaliha kienu mistednin jattendu l-finalisti kważi kollha. L-għoti tal-premjijiet se jsir f'ċeremonja oħra, f'Jannar/Frar li ġej; id-data eżatta titħabbar dalwaqt.
L-ewwel premju għal din is-sena kien €400 voucher mingħand il-PhotoCity ta' Triq Nofsinnhar, Valletta, it-tieni premju €300 f'kotba mingħand pubblikaturi ewlenin Maltin (Kite Group, Merlin Publishers, u/jew Midsea Books), u t-tielet premju voucher €200 ukoll mingħand il-pubblikaturi lokali. Dawn il-premjijiiet, kif ukoll ir-rigali kommemorattivi għall-dawk ivvotati mal-aqwa 10, huma appoġġjati mill-Fondazzjoni Wikimedia u l-isponsors ta' kull premju individwali.
Ir-ritratti rebbieħa issa se jieħdu sehem fil-kompetizzjoni internazzjoni flimkien ma' dawk magħżula mill-44 pajjiiż parteċipanti l-oħra kollha. B'kollox, In-numru totali ta' ritratti minn madwar id-dinja għal dan il-konkors din is-sena kien 193,828 li ttellgħu fuq Wikimedia Common minn 3,904 parteċipant. -- ToniSant (d) 09:35, 24 Ottubru 2023 (UTC)
Office hour of the CEE Hub (6 November 2023)
Hello everyone,
We want to invite you to the ninth monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organise, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The ninth session will take place on Monday, November 6th at 17:00 CET time.
Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics. You can find a link on the following Meta page.
If you don`t have a time to come on our Office hour, you can read more about development of the CEE Hub on our News page.
We will be happy to see some of you. --MediaWiki message delivery (d) 09:29, 6 Novembru 2023 (UTC)
Coming soon: Reference Previews
A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with the PagePreviews feature.
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them, you can opt out. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.
- Help page
- Project page with more information (in English).
- Feedback is welcome on this talk page.
-- For Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team,
Wiki Loves Earth 2023: Rebbieħa Internazzjonali
Tħabbru l-aqwa l-aqwa 20 ritratt minn madwar id-dinja ta’ Wiki Loves Earth 2023. Din kompetizzjoni fotografika annwali internazzjonali toffri opportunitià biex niddokumentaw il-wirt naturali tad-dinja. Din is-sena, il-konkors sar ben Mejju u Awwissu. B’kollox kien hemm 61,700 sottomissjoni minn aktar minn 3,300 parteċipant.Kull pajjiż jgħażel sa 15-il rebbieħ lokali f’żewġ kategoriji: pajsaġġi u dettalji ta’ flora u fawna. Kien hemm numru rekord ta’ pajjiżi parteċipanti: 50. Malta ħadet sehem għat-tieni sena konsekuttiva.
Nirringrazzjaw lill-parteċipanti u l-organizzaturi kollha, filwaqt li nifirħu lir-rebbieħa. -- ToniSant (d) 15:50, 12 Diċembru 2023 (UTC)
(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID
Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland