Wikipèdia:La tavèrna

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Totas las discussions de 2017 son desenant archivadas. — --— Joan Francés Blanc (me´n parlar) 12 genièr de 2018 a 16.37 (UTC)

Demande de traduction

Bonjour,
n'étant pas occitan je ne parle pas cette langue. Pourtant il me faudrait, peut-être afin de l'inclure dans la toponymie de l'île du Levant en vue d'un éventuel label AdQ, connaitre la signification cette phrase de 1501 :

• « ... aquest vendres matin son intradas dos fustas en las illas et sy sonmessas al Titol.... »

où il est peut-être question de l'« île du Titan » - Titol étant une dénomination occitane - nom porté autrefois par l'île du Levant, l'une des îles d'hyères.
En vous remerciant de me donner cette traduction. Cordialement [[Utilizaire:|6PO]] (d) 31 decembre de 2017 a 19.04 (UTC)

Bonjour, c'est du vieil occitan qui veut probablement dire : « Ce vendredi matin, deux barques sont entrées dans les îles et se sont mises au Titol ».

La difficulté de traduction est « fusta » qui veut aujourd'hui dire « bois » ou « charpente ». Néanmoins, selon le Trésor du Félibrige (« Fusto » [1]), au XIVème siècle, il pouvait aussi signifier « embarcation » et était une variante de « barque ». Pour la traduction, je pense ce terme préférable car il revient plus souvent dans les archives que le terme « embarcation ». Attention toutefois, à l'époque, la « barque » est une navire d'une certaine taille capable de naviguer des distances assez longues voire de traverser la mer. --Nicolas Eynaud (d) 1 genièr de 2018 a 10.11 (UTC)

Bonjour, 6PO (conoissi pas leis acòrchas aicí per notificar quauquun...) J'ai l'impression que Titol ne désigne pas l'Île du Titan mais probablement un acte administratif (un "titre", en fait), type redevance, contrôle portuaire, etc... Matieu Sokolovic (d) 12 genièr de 2018 a 09.08 (UTC)

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Intercultur 2018

Hola. Entre el 1 y el 28 de febrero tiene lugar la iniciativa Intercultur, consistente en traducir artículos sobre distintos aspectos culturales entre diez de las lenguas de la península ibérica que cuentan con su propia versión de Wikipedia. Los artículos sugeridos se pueden encontrar aquí. Más información, así como las normas, en su página principal en Meta. Un cordial saludo. --Rubén Ojeda (WMES) (d) 5 febrièr de 2018 a 16.07 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (d) 12 març de 2018 a 14.26 (UTC)

Welcome to Wales! The Celtic Knot Conference...

I apologise that this invitation is in English; feel free to translate into your own language!

I would like to invite you to the second Wikipedia language conference focusing on supporting Celtic and other small and Indigenous Languages. This year 'Celtic Knot' will be at held on the 5th and 6th of July at the National Library of Wales in Wales' most famous seaside resort of Aberystwyth.

For more information on how you could be part of this great event, pop over to our website where you can also contact Jason Evans, our National Wikimedian and conference organiser. We have many speakers who will talk about what works for them, how we can learn from each other... small is beautiful...

Viva la diversity! Llywelyn2000 (d) 4 abril de 2018 a 13.33 (UTC)

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

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Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.

A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.

Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 24 abril de 2018 a 21.38 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

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) 7 mai de 2018 a 14.53 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
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• Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

• Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
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• Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 30 mai de 2018 a 18.03 (UTC)

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Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga 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) 12 de junh de de 2018 a 20.58 (UTC)

Tidy to RemexHtml

The Parsing team will be replacing Tidy with RemexHtml at this wiki on 5 July 2018.

Some pages at this wiki use outdated HTML. This change may change the appearance of those pages. Special:LintErrors has a complete list of affected pages.

Read this e-mail message for more information. Read the instructions at mw:Help:Extension:Linter. You can ask questions at mw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. Thank you for helping fix these problems.

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 2 julhet de 2018 a 14.38 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

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)

10 julhet de 2018 a 19.19 (UTC)

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) 30 julhet de 2018 a 17.45 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Sondage Wikimédia France

• Qual avenidor consideratz per la Wikipèdia en occitan ?

• Qual sosten volriatz que Wikimedia France pòrte a las lengas de França ?

• A vòstre vejaire, qualas accions Wikimedia France dèu desvolopar en prioritat dins son sosten a las lengas de França ?

--Adélaïde Calais WMFr (d) 31 julhet de 2018 a 14.34 (UTC)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.

TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

• It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
• It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
• Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
• All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.

You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.

This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 agost de 2018 a 21.28 (UTC)

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27 agost de 2018 a 12.40 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

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

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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).
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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.

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:Johan(WMF) (talk)

6 setembre de 2018 a 13.33 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

The Community Wishlist Survey. Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga.

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)

30 octobre de 2018 a 11.06 (UTC)

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

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

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Example of improvements

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.

Mercés !

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13 novembre de 2018 a 19.35 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga.

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)

22 novembre de 2018 a 18.13 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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) 26 novembre de 2018 a 11.03 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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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.

Mercés !

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 decembre de 2018 a 20.03 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (d) 27 decembre de 2018 a 10.13 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14 genièr de 2019 a 09.41 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

16 genièr de 2019 a 18.52 (UTC)

Intercultur 2019

Bonjour. Entre le 1er et le 28 février, nous vous invitons à participer à l’initiative Intercultur, qui consiste à traduire des articles sur différents aspects culturels parmi les dix langues de la péninsule ibérique qui ont leur propre version de Wikipédia (parmi lesquelles se trouve l'occitan). Les articles suggérés peuvent être trouvés ici. Plus d'informations, ainsi que les règles de participation, sur Meta. --Rubén Ojeda (WMES) (d) 3 febrièr de 2019 a 22.57 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

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Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 21 febrièr de 2019 a 15.01 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
• Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
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Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Bon Omu

Bonjour à tous et peut-être plus particulièrement à Nicolas Eynaud,
n'étant pas occitan je ne parle pas cette langue. Pourtant il serait souhaitable de savoir si « Bon Omu » est occitan et signifie en français « Bon homme ».
En effet le cartographe turc Piri Reis dans le premier quart du XVI^ème siècle dans son Kitâb-ı Bahriye indique : « « Bon Omu » ce qui veut dire « Bon homme » . »
Mais quelle langue emploie « Bon Omu » ? Ceci serait utile à la rédaction de la toponymie de l’île du Levant qui dans la WP en français appartient au Portail de l’Occitanie.
--6PO (d) 24 març de 2019 a 16.11 (UTC)

On dirait un mélange d'occitan et de latin/italien. (d) 27 març de 2019 a 08.57 (UTC) Une précision qui peut t'intéresser : le nom de "Bon ome" en occitan désigne une fonction rattachée au Consulat de la Mer si j'en crois Mistral. Je ne serais pas du tout étonné que cette appellation vienne de là. Matieu Sokolovic

Merci Matieu Sokolovic de votre réponse. Me voilà dans un premier temps conforté dans ce qui n'était que subodoré : il s'agirait d'un mélange d'ocitan-latin-italien... Je vais, sauf si d'autres interventions intervenaient, demander à un contributeur qui saurait déchifrer le turc ancien (ottoman) si la translation est « ome » (ce qui nous arrangerait bien !) ou doit rester « omu »...

on a aussi une partie du provençal où l'/a/ final (marque des féminins) se retrouve prononcé /ou/ et non /o/ ou /a/. Une contamination est possible. --— Joan Francés Blanc (me´n parlar) 28 març de 2019 a 06.47 (UTC)

--6PO (d) 27 març de 2019 a 22.25 (UTC)

Pour ma part, je pense simplement à un nom en occitan mal transcrit lors du passage à une autre langue. Je doute que Piri Reis était couramment locuteur de cette langue. On a bien rajouté un -r à Planier en français sans aucune justification étymologique, tout comme le -L de Frioul. Ca reste pourtant des toponymes occitans. ;) Matieu Sokolovic (d) 28 març de 2019 a 10.45 (UTC)

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Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April

You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

8 abril de 2019 a 10.56 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Mercés ! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12 abril de 2019 a 17.35 (UTC)

Avertiment a Jejesga06

Bonjorn en totei, per informacion, en causa de divèrsei prepaus contraris ai principis fondators de Wikipèdia ([2], [3]...), adreicèri un avertiment a Jejesga06 ([4]). Li demandèri tanben de corregir rapidament aqueu comportament.

Coralament, --Nicolas Eynaud (d) 20 abril de 2019 a 17.49 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup pour cet avertissement... Depuis le début je perds de mon temps comme chaque personne ici afin de promouvoir une langue quasimorte... Je me fais insulter et mépriser par certaines personnes... Quand mon texte est écrit dans un dialecte "trop" provençal, il y a systématiquement des modifications dessus (ex: remplacement d'un -s par un -z, etc.) On choisit d'écrire "Argenç" au lieu de "Argens" pour des raisons savantes et non traditionnelles. JF Blanc me traite de "gus" (gueux, misérable), il n'y a aucun avertissement contre lui. JF Blanc m'accuse à tort depuis le début, et d'ailleurs il continue encore (dernier en date, un message de février 2019 sur Sivadon, qui justifie le fait que je me sois énervé) de me traiter d'intégriste mistralien (qu'a l'epòca èra integrista mistralenc...). Dans nos lois je vous rappelle que cela s'appelle de la diffamation ! Mais bon, JF Blanc n'a rien à se reprocher... c'est également un cadre de l'IEO du Nord de la Fronce. Pourquoi se ferait-il remettre à l'ordre ? Je me fais autant gaver par les "ultraprovençalistes" que par certains classicistes... Quand à Jironi, je lui ai clairement dit que je n'avais absolument rien contre lui! Je le respecte. Enfin, c'est bien que l'on me dise de venir discuter avant pour voir le bien fondé des modifications... Mais ... Premièrement, on vient jamais discuter avec moi quand on supprime mon travail. Deuxièmement, quand je discute, on ne me répond pas toujours... https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Utilizaire:Cedric31#Responsable_dau_portau_de_geografia Quand je me fais déranger sur la wikipédia occitane par certains classicistes, je me fais déranger par certains ultra-provençalistes sur la wikipédia française... alors je suis fatigué et à bout... Je pense arrêter wikipédia vu que j'en ai marre de ce "harcèlement"... ça me permettra de rentabiliser mon travail... J'ai très bien compris votre message et je ne souhaite pas y aller contre. Même s'il manque là encore l'humanité et l'échange... Je suis juste très fatiguée... Désolé... Coralament--Jejesga06 (d) 21 abril de 2019 a 12.32 (UTC)

Adieu Jejesga06, "gus" en occitan vòl dire "type, mec, gonze, keum" e pas "gueux, misérable". As encara de trabalh... Coralament, --— Joan Francés Blanc (me´n parlar) 21 abril de 2019 a 14.51 (UTC)

Adieu. Los diccionaris menton ? Lo Congrès, TDF, o encara lo diccionari francés Larousse. Coralament.--Jejesga06 (d) 21 abril de 2019 a 15.22 (UTC)

Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it :)

Hello all,

Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of Wikidata, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles. This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.

This is the reason why the Wikidata Bridge project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.

The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of development will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.

In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.

Here’s the planned timeline:

• From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
• From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
• Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
  • We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
  • but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of the first test round.
  • Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
  • Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.

In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.

If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:

• Read and help translating the documentation pages
• Follow the updates and participate in the first feedback loop
• Talk about it with your local community

More ideas will be added on this page along the way

If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them on the main talk page. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.

Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 24 de junh de de 2019 a 13.03 (UTC)

Élection communautaire au Conseil d'administration de Wikimédia France

Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga

Ce message est déposé ici car Wikimédia France a identifié la langue de votre projet comme étant un des langues de France.
This message is posted here because Wikimedia France has identified the language of your project as being one of the languages ​​of France.

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Le 23 février dernier l'association Wikimédia France s'est dotée de nouveaux statuts. Dorénavant, un siège du Conseil d'administration de Wikimédia France est réservé à une personne désignée par la communauté des contributeurs aux différents projets Wikimedia[1].

Wikimédia France est une association à but non lucratif, de type loi 1901, qui soutient et promeut les différents projets Wikimedia en France mais n'exerce aucun rôle éditorial ni aucun rôle d'hébergeur de ces projets. Elle est juridiquement indépendante des projets et de la Wikimedia Foundation.

Néanmoins, il est sûr que la notoriété de l'association est entièrement issue de celle des différents projets, ce qui détermine en grande partie sa capacité à rencontrer les acteurs institutionnels et associatifs et à attirer la générosité du public. D'autre part, les marques, les logos et un peu moins de la moitié des ressources de Wikimédia France[2] sont issues d'un accord avec la Wikimedia Foundation, organe central du mouvement wikimédien. En bref, l'essentiel de la capacité d'action de Wikimédia France est rendu possible grâce à votre travail. C'est pourquoi Wikimédia France a pensé qu'il est légitime qu'une personne désignée par la communauté des contributeurs puisse siéger à son Conseil d'administration. Une fois désignée, la personne sera formellement investie en novembre par un vote de l'Assemblée générale de l'association, seule instance souveraine en cette matière. En tant que membre du Conseil d'administration, la personne choisie pourra exercer les rôles de contrôle, de gestion et de conseil stratégique pour l'association[3].

Le dépôt des candidatures sera possible à partir du 1^er septembre 2019 et le vote sera ouvert du 20 au 30 septembre 2019.

Toutes les informations utiles (calendrier détaillé, droit de vote, conditions d'éligibilité, etc.) sont à retrouver sur m:Wikimédia France/Gouvernance/Siège_communautaire. Fin août / début septembre, une session « posez toutes les questions que vous voulez » (ask me everything), sera organisée en ligne pour répondre aux diverses interrogations.

Enfin, Wikimédia France souhaite mettre en place une commission électorale recueillant et validant les candidatures et surveillant ce processus électoral. Si la fonction vous intéresse, vous pouvez vous signaler à election at wikimedia.fr

Willie Robert (d) 15 julhet de 2019 a 09.10 (UTC)

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Gouvernance/Si%C3%A8ge_communautaire
• [2] Ventilation ressources, d'après le budget prévisionnel 2019-2020 : 1 054 600 euros de recettes totates, dont 450 000 (43 %) de la Wikimedia Foundation, 435 000 de dons, 100 000 de mécénat, 10 000 d'adhésion, 1 500 de frais financier, 35 100 de reprises sur engagements restant à réaliser et 23 000 de transfert de charges.
• [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Guide_du_conseil_d%27administration

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 16 agost de 2019 a 08.03 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

21 agost de 2019 a 14.18 (UTC)

Réunion du groupe tech de Wikimédia France

Bonjour (et désolé d'écrire en français, je ne parle pas occitan), le week-end prochain aura lieu à Paris une réunion pour relancer le groupe « tech » de Wikimédia France. L'idée est d'en faire un groupe de bénévoles qui pourrait non seulement participer aux actions menées par l'association, mais aussi aider plus directement les projets Wikimédia. En tant que contributeurs de Wikipédia, comment pensez-vous qu'un tel groupe pourrait vous aider ? Quelles sont vos attentes, vos besoins techniques, par exemple en termes de maintenance et documentation de modèles/modules/gadgets, d'accessibilité, de formations ? -Sylvain Boissel WMFr (d) 27 setembre de 2019 a 12.44 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) 30 setembre de 2019 a 17.14 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga

Bonjour. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

Mercés ! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

16 octobre de 2019 a 07.18 (UTC)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.

Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 23 octobre de 2019 a 09.47 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga

Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (d) 31 octobre de 2019 a 16.57 (UTC)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (d) 27 novembre de 2019 a 14.16 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (d) 18 genièr de 2020 a 06.15 (UTC)

Lingua Libre et Wikisource pour l'Occitan

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, Je travaille pour Wikimédia France sur le projet Lingua Libre lingualibre.fr/ pour enregistrer des langues et mettre en valeur leur oralité sur les projets Wikimédia. Je voulais savoir s'il y a ici des contributeur-rice-s intéressé-e-s par la Wikisource en Occitan, et libres pour discuter de comment mettre en valeur la langue occitane en enregistrant par exemple des textes de Wikisource? N'hésitez pas à me contacter par mail ou sur ma page de discussion. Cordialement, Eavqwiki 20 Janvier 2020 a 13:11 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 22 genièr de 2020 a 19.01 (UTC)

Mesa a jorn dels portals/Updating the Portals

Messatge traduch en òc

Adieu!

Los ligams cap als portals son l'una de las primièras causas que los utilizaires veiràn quand se connectaràn a Wikipedia occitan. Pasmens, cèrtes d'entre eles son pas estat actualizat dempuèi sèt a dètz ans, e la màger part an de ligams roges o del còdi brisat d'una sòrta o d'una autra. Coma los portals son de ponches de dintrada e de referéncia (son doncas fòrça visibles), vòli discutir de la possibilitat de far trabalhar totes los wikipedians interessats sus aqueles portals e, se possible, d'elaborar una sòrta d'estrategia per manténer / actualizar aquestes e d'autres paginas ancianas similaras. Ai actualizat la mitat superiora de Portal:Environament (veire abans e après) per donar una idèa del tipe de modernizacion e de correccion que poiriam far. Aimariái ausir las reflexions de mai de gents sus la question, s'aquò es possible.

Mercés. - BrennodAloisi (d) 3 febrièr de 2020 a 07.20 (UTC).

Adieu BrennodAloisi. Malurosament mancam crudelament de contributors que mestrejan la lenga per apondre de contengut a Wikipèdia. Aquò dit, te vòli plan ajudar a completar e renovar los portals, en començar per lo portal environament.Jiròni (d) 3 febrièr de 2020 a 12.44 (UTC)

Messatge original en anglés

Adieu!

The links to the portals are one of the first things users will see when they log onto the Occitan Wikipedia. However, some of them haven't been updated in seven to ten years, and most have red links or broken code of some sort or another. As the portals are entry and reference points (so are quite visible), I want to talk about getting any interested Wikipedians to work on these portals, and - if possible - come up with some kind of strategy for maintaining/updating these and similar old pages. I've updated the top half of Portal:Environament (see before and after) to give some idea of the type of modernization and fixing we could do. I'd like to hear more people's thoughts on the matter, if possible.

Mercés. - BrennodAloisi (d) 3 febrièr de 2020 a 07.20 (UTC).

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 26 febrièr de 2020 a 14.15 (UTC)

Projet importation du Jornalet dans la catégorie Occitan de Wikisource

Bonjour à toutes et à tous,

Je souhaite vous faire part du projet de Wikimédia France et le Jornalet d'importer le contenu du Jornalet dans la catégorie Occitan de Wikisource, afin d'y offrir des articles en langue moderne standardisée qui pourront servir à des locuteur-rice-s et apprenant-e-s de la langue occitane.

Voici la page projet correspondante, n'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous souhaitez participer au projet ! -- Eavqwiki 27 febrièr de 2020 a 13:00 (UTC)

Publicadas las recomandacions de l'estrategia del movement

Bon jorn a totes.

Se son faches ièr publicas las recomandacions per l'estrategia Wikimedia 2030. Cossí sauretz, s'agís de l'estrategia globala del movement, que marcaràn lo futur dels projèctes Wikimedia e tot çò que nos en vira pels prèps 10 ans.

Las recomandacions son la fin de la segonda fasa, que finalizaràn amb la implementació, previst per fins d'an e que ne n'avèm pas encara de detalhs.

Se volètz aver mai informacion al respècte, me podètz contactar per quinsevolhe dels canals abituals, ont avèm disponible l'informacion en catalan. Se la volètz en francés, podètz contactar Diane Ranville.

Avèm previst una session de Jitsi consacrada a Wikimedia 2030, en catalan. Es previst pel dimècres 20, de serada. Se l'orari pas vos es comòdes, encara un còp, me podètz contactar per tractar lo tèma pel canal que preferissètz.

Una abraçada a totes.--FFort (WMF) (d) 14 mai de 2020 a 16.19 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 1 julhet de 2020 a 08.24 (UTC)

feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community

Feedback on movement names

Bonjour. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga if necessary. Mercés !

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 2 julhet de 2020 a 19.42 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 9 julhet de 2020 a 20.06 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) 6 agost de 2020 a 09.14 (UTC)

Hola

Sígne des tránsitte

Is this Occitan language? Thanks. --E4024 (d) 7 agost de 2020 a 22.16 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

Read this message in another language • Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga

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 centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

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 Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• 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 week of September 1st, 2020. 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.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 26 agost de 2020 a 13.48 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
• Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
• RILM – Music encyclopedias

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 3 setembre de 2020 a 09.49 (UTC)

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Invitation to participate in the conversation

Bonjour. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Mercé de nos ajudar a traduire dins vòstra lenga. Mercés !

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 10 setembre de 2020 a 17.55 (UTC)