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Assamese Wikisource[edit]

Hi, Assamese Wikisource has been created today and I have imported the content from Category:অসমীয়া and subcategories; they can now probably be deleted here. I put a list on User:MF-Warburg#Assamese_pages. Best regards, --MF-Warburg (talk) 20:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer![edit]

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Sent using Global message delivery, 21:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Bugzilla request to deploy Universal Language Selector here[edit]

A user has submitted bugzilla:44032 to deploy Narayam or Universal Language Selector (ULS) on mulWS. From my (limited) view of where WMF is progressing, it seems to make sense that mulWS (w|sh)ould look to preferably deploy mw:Extension:Universal Language Selector. A quick search finds this and this covers the matter. For those who have seen WebFonts in various places, this is the successor to that.

“

The primary aim is to allow users to select a language and configure its support in an easy way.

The extension provides the following features:

  1. Flexible and easy way to select a language from a large set of languages.
    1. Selection can be based on geographical region based browsing, searching.
    2. Search can be based on ISO language code, language name written in current user interface language or in its own script(autonym)
    3. Cross language search - search language names using any script
    4. Autocompletion of language names
    5. Auto correction of spelling mistakes in search strings
    6. Geo IP based language suggestions
    7. Language selection based on users browser/OS language
  2. Input methods
    1. An easily selectable input method collection, readily available in every editable field
    2. Provides a large set of input methods for wide range of languages
    3. Per-language input method preferences
  3. Webfonts
    1. A large collection of fonts to choose for each language to use as embedded font for the page
    2. Per-language font preferences
 ”

—mw:Extension:Universal Language Selector

The change will only take place if a community discussion has taken place (which I am obviously starting), though it would be useful that the community's considered opinion be added to the bugzilla to allow the extension to be added, or for the status quo to remain. billinghurst sDrewth 05:09, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Not that it is my bugzilla, however, I propose that the mulWS community looks to support the deployment on mulWS of the Universal Language Selector Extension

closing as supported and noting to that effect in Bugzilla. I hope that the admins are happy with that approach. If not please disagree in the bugzilla and note whatever reason and for it not to progress. billinghurst sDrewth 08:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
ULS is now deployed. Tpt (talk) 20:07, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Is it known than ULS is not compatible with FF 3.6, and perhaps other version ? By not compatible I mean than if you click on the link and start to interact with the window, it display a huge grey area and you can't do anything to recover except close the tab. — Phe
I don't know. You should report this issue on bugzilla. Tpt (talk) 14:45, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

New feature for the ProofreadPage extension[edit]

Creating Index pages starting from the "Search" field is a bit rough. Thus I propose to add a new special page to the ProofreadPage extension (potential name: "Special:CreateIndexPage") and to add it to the sidebar's toolbox, under "Upload file".

The special page may include:

  • an introductory text ("Would you like to transcribe a text from its scans? Ensure they have been uploaded either to Wikimedia Commons or here to {{SERVERNAME}}. Then enter the file name without the "File:" prefix in the below text field. [[$1|Learn more about Index pages]]")
  • a text field for entering the file name without the "File:" prefix. Beside the field, a notification may appear when text is typed or pasted:
    • ✔ This file exists on {{SERVERNAME}} if there is a file with that name on that domain or both on Wikimedia Commons and on that domain
    • ✔ This file exists on Wikimedia Commons if there is a file with that name on Wikimedia Commons only
    • ✘ This file exists neither on Wikimedia Commons nor on {{SERVERNAME}} if there isn't a file with that name
  • the "Create button"

The special page is especially intended for newcomers. What is your opinion? Who knows how to do this in practice?--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 18:17, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Answer as contributor: I believe that, instead of creating a new special page and a new link in the sidebar, a better thing to do to help newcomers is maybe to make more visible the link to the index pages in the file pages (an example of file page) because, before creating an index page, the user will search for a scan and, so, go to the file page. But there is an issue with that work-flow: this link isn't shown currently in commons if the description of the file doesn't use the book template with the Wikisource field. <dream>In the future, it would be wonderful to have a specific version of the upload wizard for books that allow to set fields of the Book template and create the index page in Wikisource</dream>. Tpt (talk) 20:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Answer as ProofreadPage maintainer: if there is a consensus of the community to create this index page, I am ready to create it and integrate it into the extension. It's a very easy thing.
Tpt (talk) 20:06, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Can I come back to the basic premise. Do people searching at one of the Wikisources arrive with the intention of transcribing a book? Further if they are new to the sites, is the first thing that we want them to be doing is to say "I will transcribe 'such and such' a book? and start on the process from scratch and in isolation? My guess is that we will have a whole lot of Index: pages created and not a lot more in the way of transcription, and I am seeing other possible errors like .jpg book covers, etc. having an index page. To me, the introductory component is correct and this is about the engagement and the help. If we don't have a specific work, then we should be looking to engage people context specific and helpful information, point them to where they can find help and ask questions about how to start. We may come to having a special tool, however, the wish and intent to transcribe should first be tested and supported.

To Tpt's suggestion about File: ns pages, I do like your idea on being clever in that regard. I cannot see how you have implemented MediaWiki:Proofreadpage image message, though presume that it relies on an #ifexist: test. So we just need the ability to configure when the result is does not exist and I would suggest that it is to help pages (specialised?) where each WS can have their context relevant and customised help text. billinghurst sDrewth 23:50, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

No, most people visiting Wikisource do not have the intention of transcribing a book. Nevertheless, we must lead visitors to transcribe a book. As an example, Commons and YouTube have got an "Upload" button. Wikipedia articles start from red links, as well as Wikisource author pages and main-namespace pages. Instead, Index pages have got no place to start from. This does not mean that we should encourage users to starting transcriptions that they will never finish.--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 19:57, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Erasmo, to lead our visitors would result into making them angry and with some reason don’t you think so?  :) there is no obligation to do that. — Clear indications about how to help to build the world library that we are building, in case our readers wish to help, is a different thing though, so I agree with this side of your proposition. --Zyephyrus (talk) 14:14, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
I wrote lead in the sense of guide them to the right place. Other websites are more successful because thy are more intuitive.--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 16:51, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a strange synchronicity because I discussed the very same issue in private with other wikilibrarians just few days ago :-). My original idea was to pre-load the template book in Commons, when there a .djvu is uploaded. this would be useful for wikilibrarians and would add a bit of coherence there.
A special Upload Wizard, for wikisources, is of course much needed. It would be very useful for both experienced users and newcomers to be able to just stay on Wikisource and upload (from here!) a book on Commons. But this would also need a lot of work for metadata. As you all very well know we write metadata on Commons (book template), Wikisource (index and ns0 header) and sometimes even Wikipedia. It would be massively useful to store the data on Wikidata, and have them all transcluded in various wiki projects when needed. Moreover, just think about that we never use OpenLibrary/Worldcat/OPAC metadata for our books, and that we are just recataloguing them for the nth time... Could we maybe discuss a strategy as Wikilibrarians all together? Aubrey (talk) 15:59, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Really, I think we should wait for further developments in order to use Wikidata for this purpose. Currently, Wikidata handles neither Wikisource links nor infoboxes.--Erasmo Barresi (talk) 19:02, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
See #Grant_application_for:_.22New_Wikisource_relationship_with_Commons.2C_Wikidata_and_Wikipedia.22. :-) Aubrey (talk) 11:11, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.[edit]

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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open[edit]

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

  1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

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Bot request; RileyBot[edit]

I request a bot flag for my bot

  • Operator: -Riley Huntley
  • Purpose: Fix broken and double redirects.
  • Script used: Python, pywikipedia.
  • Already has the bot flag on: enwikivoyage, frwikivoyage and enwikipedia.

-Riley Huntley (SWMT) 04:24, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Malaysian Wikisource[edit]

Hi, I would like to suggest moving Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia and it's subpages to prefix Ms/. (by way of meta:Requests for new languages/Wikisource Malay). See also unindexed page in Category:Bahasa Melayu. I'm comparing it with Jv and Category:Javanese, so CMIIW Bennylin (talk) 14:38, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab[edit]

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  • Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
  • Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
  • Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

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Grant application for: "New Wikisource relationship with Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia"[edit]

Since the Wikidata project is allowing us new ways of handling content, I have started a grant proposal to define a vision about how to integrate Wikisource content in Commons and Wikipedia. Please, check my grant application and share your thoughts. Thanks! --Micru (talk) 06:42, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Copied the above from commons:COM:VP: for mysterious reasons, it wasn't shared with Wikisource. --Nemo 08:20, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Individual Engagement Grant proposals until February 21[edit]

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The Wikimedia Foundation is considering Individual Engagement Grant proposals from community members. Please join the discussion and share your thoughts about these ideas, until February 21. The following proposal may be of particular relevance for this Wikimedia project:

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Picture of the Year 2012[edit]

Results, here’s the winner:




Pair of Merops apiaster feeding

European Bee-eater, Ariège, France.

The female (in front) awaits the offering which the male will make...




--Zyephyrus (talk) 19:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Fable de Schleicher[edit]

Hi,

fr:Fable de Schleicher is proposed for deletion on the french-speaking wikisource (writen by August Schleicher, 1821 – 1868 ; see w:en:Schleicher's fable for some more explanations). What do you think : could these texts be import on oldwikisource or not ?

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 11:14, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Self-link to wikidata[edit]

Hi all.

I mounted into it.wikisource, commons and it.wikivoyage a sctipt derived from the tool suggested [here] and it runs.It adds a link to wikidata into any page with an item into wikidata; and it saves into a $("body").data() variable the whole set of data got from wikidata. I'm going to test a old.wikisource version of it here into User:Alex brollo/common.js: feel free to use it if you like. Italic text--Alex brollo (talk) 17:35, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Test the result here (it runs!): Author:Giuseppe Peano. I'm going to mount the same script into en:User.Alex brollo/common.js, I found that here Authors linking to wikidata are not so many. --Alex brollo (talk) 17:44, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful[edit]

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Wikisources asked for ideas re: Google Summer of Code[edit]

WMF has prodded me and wanted to make sure that the Wikisources were putting on their thinking caps for Google Summer of Code

“ It's time to start defining what we want our Google Summer of Code to be all about. Let's look at the ideas we are proposing to potential students:

mw:Mentorship programs/Possible projects

Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"), improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS") or work-in-progress tasks ("Fix Parsoid bugs"). Many others are not directly related with development, and therefore not suitable either for GSOC.

After this filtering, we seem to be left with:

  • Article evolution playback tool idea
  • An easy way to share wiki content on social media services
  • Write an extension to support XML Sitemaps without using command line
  • Extension:OEmbedProvider
  • Add support for x3d 3D files to MediaWiki
  • Allow smoother and easier Wikimedia Commons pictures discovery
  • Build an interwiki notifications framework and implement it for InstantCommons
  • Automatic category redirects

(If you think your project should also be considered here please speak up!)

Most of these projects seem to be extension (and PHP?) centric. Can we have more diversity? Maybe gadgets and templates are too simple for a GSOC project? What about the mobile front? Do we have skin development projects that could make it here? Anything in the DevOps area? Anything the MediaWiki core maintainers would like to see happening?

It would be also nice to have more candidates benefiting specific Wikimedia projects. Beyond Wikipedia, we have several proposals related to Commons. Wikidata seems to be joining soon. What else? Could this be a chance to help Wiktionary, Wikibooks or any other project with specific needs craving for tech attention?

Also to the many students that have already showed their interest: feel free pushing your project ideas now!

 ”

—Quim Gil, Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation, via mailing lists

We have some information at Wikisource:Wishlist, however, this is probably the opportunity to think of a fresh idea that is an opportunity for a short and limited time period.

I am going to send similar to the Wikisource-l mailing list and to enWS, and ask for them to contribute here. I think that something that is holistic for the WSes is more likely than a single wiki suggestion. billinghurst sDrewth 01:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I copy here a mail I sent to wikisource-l:
That is a really good opportunity. We also have http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap,

that we set up at Wikimania 2012. Few of those thought are now in the Wikisource Grant proposal, too: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision

I would say that a proper metadata handling system is maybe the first priority, but maybe we can accomplish that via Lua templates on WS and metadata stored in Wikidata.
Another thing would be working with OKFN tools for seeking and integration (TEXTUS, for example).

http://textusproject.org/

Moreover, Djvu support/handling was an interest also of the WMF: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_roadmap#Djvu
Well, there's a lot of stuff we can do :-) Aubrey (talk) 11:45, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
An idea: One-click import from the Internet Archive, with Djvu upload to Wikimedia Commons, same metadata, right copyright template, create Index page on the right language version of Wikisource, create all Pages with the existing OCR text, so they are ready for Google indexing, and later proofreading.
  1. The user finds an interersting book at the Internet Archive.
  2. User presses one button.
  3. The text is ready for proofreading.
No, I'm not volunteering to write the software. --LA2 (talk) 16:21, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
There is already https://toolserver.org/~tpt/iaUploadBot that allows to upload easily IA files to Wikimedia Commons.
I've opened a GSoc proposal about Proofread Page in order to improve Page: pages edition interface and allow edition of these pages with the Visual Editor. Tpt (talk) 06:29, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
idea (hope not too late); request wikisource upload wizard - process flow = upload pdf to commons -> automatically convert to deja-vu -> automatically create work & toc at wikisource -> automatically match and split pages at source
the objective is to provide a tool for cultural professionals who are not coders to upload their content. design of user experience will be the hard part ? Slowking4 (talk) 16:32, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikisource improvements for Summer of Code 2013[edit]

Hello! I am planning to submit a proposal regarding Extension:Collection for this summer's Google Summer of Code and Outreach Program for Women. I'm still working to narrow down the focus of this project, as I have many ideas on what can be improved (idea page can be found at User:GorillaWarfare/GSoC). My ideas include improvements that would affect Wikisource. Currently, printing or saving a Wikisource book is quite challenging, as the Collection extension has no way of identifying which pages make up a book. One of my project ideas is implementing a method to associate various pages with a book, an idea which will have more benefits to Wikisource than just improving printing and export. The other parts of my proposal include improving Extension:Collection's ease of use, improving exportation quality and possibly expanding the list of formats to which books and articles can be exported, adding easy formatting options to Extension:Collection, and various others.

I was hoping to get some feedback from the Wikisource community about these ideas. Do you think they're feasible (keeping in mind I'm certainly not planning to tackle all of these in a three-month period)? Are these changes you'd personally like to see? Are there other related improvements that you'd be interested in? Really, any advice/critique/comments/suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you! – GorillaWarfare (talk) 13:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi! That is great, Aubrey and me we are working on this grant. Maybe we could have a talk soon? I'll send you an email with more information.--Micru (talk) 18:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
I look forward to hearing from you. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:29, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

As an update, I've started my actual proposal. Instead of focusing on Extension:Collection, I'm going to focus my proposal on Extension:BookManager. The problem with effectively printing an entire book is blocked by the need to organize a book's individual pages and chapters into a single unit, and I'm excited about the developments that solving this problem will allow: dependencies of bug 15071. I'm hoping to receive feedback on this, as it's an extension I'm really hoping to see deployed on Wikisource and Wikibooks. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:12, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Lost Collection extension issues[edit]

Here's a list of issues that would use help of people using the Collection extension and knowing if they're still valid. Same can be said of those on bugzilla, which at least are not lost. --Nemo 11:26, 12 April 2013 (UTC)


Copyright Issues by Language[edit]

I looked at Wikisource:Language policy and did not find any guidance on this question.

At English Wikisource we are in the process of approving a policy to allow translations with a requirement that requires a "scan supported original language work on the appropriate language wiki". It has been pointed out in this discussion that do to different copyright concerns, some works that are PD in English are not PD in the original language. Would here (oldwikisource) be an appropriate language wiki for works that are PD in the US but not in the country/language of origin? JeepdaySock (talk) 14:39, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

See here and older discussion. But I don't think it's a good idea anymore, because it might lead to competition with the other WS-language-domains etc. --D.H (talk) 15:17, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I disagree, the first link D.H. provides is to long standing policy; such works do and should exist here. For example, the pre-1923 works of Hermann Hesse won't be PD in Germany and therefore not eligible for posting on de.ws until 2032. They are PD in the US, this would include the German version of Siddhartha and many of his other works. I am currently (albeit very slowly) working on a collection of his poetry here.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:09, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Implementing Easier and More Efficient Metadata Tags on Wikisource[edit]

Disclosure: I am contracted by Creative Commons LRMI Project.

I would like to propose adopting the use of a by-default-disabled Mediawiki metadata feature that would greatly improve the organization and search engine visibility of the content of Wikisource. These metadata tags are part of Schema.org which was developed by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, and can be viewed here. The benefit of these tags is that when used within educational content such as on Wikisource, the information contained on the page is made into a way that is easily intelligible to machines by changing just one line with the Mediawiki configuration. An example of MediaWiki using Schema can be seen by using Google's testing tool. These metatags were originally developed by LRMI but their recent adoption of Schema.org is a huge milestone that has great potential to improve the efficiency of the way we are able to search educational resources and content on places like Wikisource. Maximilian.Klein.LRMI (talk) 22:21, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators[edit]

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)

Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 05:29, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikisource vision development: News April 2013[edit]

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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Dear Wikisourcerors, it has been almost a month since we have started with the Elaborate Wikisource strategic vision grant and we would like to share some news with you:

And that's it for now! During the month of May, we (Aubrey and Micru) would like to organize at least one Skype or Google Hangout meeting for the users of each one of the 10 biggest wikisources plus another one or two for the other languages (depending on interest). We want to know your opinion on what Wikisource should become in the next years.

Thanks! --Micru and Aubrey 01:01, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming[edit]

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links[edit]

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

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Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
  • A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
  • MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
  • VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
  • A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
  • New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
  • The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
  • The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]
Future software changes
  • The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
  • An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
  • The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
  • A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]
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I've added our scriptorium to the targets list. --Zyephyrus (talk) 22:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-22[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
Future software changes
  • MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [21] [22]
  • The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [23]
  • The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [24]
  • Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [25]
  • Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [26]
  • The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [27]
  • During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [28]
  • There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [29]

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Help!!![edit]

I'm in serious need of help at Wikilivres.ca. We have been under persistent attack by spammers, and no-one has the technical skills to implement Captcha's or other countermeasures. Less urgent but still important is a need to upgrade the software from version 1.16, and to deal with the extremely slow speed of the site. Help will be very appreciated. Eclecticology (talk) 09:37, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi! A quick fix is maybe to block the account creation right of anonymous user. It can be done by adding to your LocalSettings.php
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = true;

PS: If you give me a shell access to your server I can upgrade your Wiki to 1.19 (the long term support version) and install the mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit that use the reCapcha service. I'm the current maintainer of the ProofreadPage extension. Tpt (talk) 13:15, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

That would be great! I have given User:Alan.ca your name and mediawiki link so that he can give the necessary permissions. I have cPanel access to the site but that does not seem to be enough. I could say more about the situation ... but not in public. Eclecticology (talk) 23:38, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I've to do something unexpected this week and the next one. So I won't be able to work on Wikilivres these two weeks. Sorry again. Tpt (talk) 17:10, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I can understand. Still if you make contact with Alan, please get the shell access when you can even if you need to wait before using it. Meanwhile, if someone else can help with the spamming that too would be good. Eclecticology (talk) 03:49, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The most important is to stop the spam bot, e.g by blocking its IP address (or the range of its IP adresses)... If you are beaurocrat of the wiki you should have access to special page with this fiture. After that is a good idea to delete all user pages with the spam using a bot (now there are more then 1000 such pages). I can help of cource but without special rights I am not able to do much. Electron Smiley kabelsalat.gif <Talk?> 09:11, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
The spam has been coming from multiple IP addresses in multiple ranges. I have been using range blocks without much effect. Eclecticology (talk) 06:17, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Maybe a good idea is to block as wide IP ranges as possible temporally (eg. for a week or two) - it will stop to create new user accounts and won't stop the present users to edit. Site will be visible for everyone but no one can create new accoun't. The spam bot creates about 100 new user account per day and this can be a problem in the future. So... Electron Smiley kabelsalat.gif <Talk?> 07:42, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-23[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [30]
  • The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [31]
  • There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [32]
  • The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [33]
  • The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [34]
  • Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [35]
  • Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [36].
  • All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [37]
  • The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [38]
Future software changes

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Trademark discussion[edit]

Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

Uploading here test scripts: request for comments[edit]

While waiting for a formal purpouse and a detailed project, I'd like to begin to post here some templates, js scripts and Lua modules, and one or two Italian or - better - multilengual books to test tools. I usually work into it.source only (dealing with scripts) and I'd like to test them into a different environment, to generalize them and to discuss them into a different community. If you agree with my project, what can be the best strategy to avoid confusion and any drawback to this community? --Alex brollo (talk) 12:40, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I think that we could use a page like Wikisource:Lua modules as a collector, and put all the scripts in Module: namespace. To avoid conflict, every module could have the name in the language from the wiki it comes from, so to have also a direct source. For example, you could copy it:Modulo:Dati in Module:Dati. What do you think? --Aubrey (talk) 20:23, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Really I was thinking about a unique prefix so that candidate file for sharing (js, templates, modules) would be clearly identified/retrieved by a bot to be copied (or called when js) into other projects. Convention should be, to edit then here only (t.i. never edit their copies into other projects). A prefix could be character "!": i.e., a work copy of it.source Template:Pg and Modulo:Pg could be uploaded here as Template:!pg and Module:!pg. A global bot could update local copies into willing projects easily. Doc of local copies of pages could mention the convention "edit into oldwikisorce, since your edits of this will not been saved". IMHO it could run. --Alex brollo (talk) 22:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Please move to Talk:Wikisource vision development if interested; I posted same thoughts there. --Alex brollo (talk) 04:51, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-24[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [42]
  • An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [43]
  • Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
  • Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode. [44]
  • The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [45]
  • A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [46]
  • Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [47]
  • Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [48]
Future software changes
  • A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [49]
  • A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Tech News: 2013-25[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [50]
  • The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [51]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
    • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [52].
    • VisualEditor also allows editing references. [53]
  • The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [54]
  • The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.
Future software changes
  • Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [55]
  • Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [56]
  • Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [57] [58]
  • It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [59]
  • A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [60]
  • A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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EdwardsBot (talk) 22:39, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Uniforming "poem" syntax[edit]

When taking some text from many different language versions of Wikisource, I find myself stuck with as many different writing formats: fi:Ensimmäinen laulu »Jumalaisesta näytelmästä» uses ": " as line delimiter; it:Divina Commedia/Inferno/Canto I uses standard <poem> tags, but "pollutes" the text with many {{R}} templates, which could be replaced with a proper command to "<poem>"; en:The Divine Comedy/Inferno/Canto I is quite clean, but includes images within the <poem> tag.

They all should use a standard format, line-marking templates could be avoided, and indentation could be controlled via "<poem>".

Any thoughts on this? --Ricordisamoa 04:28, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Very interesting talk. But.... They all should use a standard format: why? To make user editing simpler? To produce a cleaner wiki code for bots, or other uses? To produce a cleaner, standardized html to be used in html/xhtml/xml exports? --Alex brollo (talk) 05:59, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
For all those purposes: see dvncmd.tk for an example; I don't know exactly which is the best format ever, but we should at least be consistent within all language versions, to ease cross-wikiness (and save storage, too). --Ricordisamoa 06:04, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Can we list here a set of requisites of an "ideal" poem tag?
Here some requisite I'd like:
  1. simple but "elastic" wiki code (covering indentation of verses, spacing between strophes, broken verses very common in theater texts
  2. clean, well-structured html easy to parse
  3. verse numbering with anchors to all verses to make verse-specific linking easy
  4. easy selective transclusion of sets of verses
  5. .....
IMHO, Scribuntu/Lua should be explored to get all these results, keeping in mind the features of VisualEditor. No present solution respects "ideal requisites". --Alex brollo (talk) 07:50, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Wikisource.png[edit]

Shouldn't it be deleted in favor of commons:File:Wikisource.png? They are perfectly equal, bit-by-bit. --Ricordisamoa 15:10, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

GU Wikisource[edit]

Gujarati language domain of wikisource came in to existence on 27th March 2012. Why it is still listed at Wikisource:Languages? Also there are many Gujarati pages exist here. All of them are already transferred to Gujarati domain then why duplication? Thank you.--Vyom25 (talk) 18:16, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

X!'s Edit Counter[edit]

(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ChatAutomation 05:09, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

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Tech news: 2013-26[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [61]
  • Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [62]
  • The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [63]
  • The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [64]
  • After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [65]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
    • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [66]
  • It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [67]
Future software changes
  • The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [68]
  • Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [69]
  • The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [70]
  • The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [71]
  • It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [72]
  • MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [73]
  • The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [74]
  • The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [75]

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18:18, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to move Oldwikisource to the incubator[edit]

I've seen that there is a proposal to move the Oldwikisource projects to the Incubator.--Micru (talk) 14:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can see this proposal comes from people who don't have any contributions in the Wikisource's realisations.--Zyephyrus (talk) 15:16, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Book management request for comment[edit]

I've created a Request for Comment on my planned extension for my Google Summer of Code project ("Improve support for book structures"). Any feedback on this would be much appreciated! – GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-27[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
  • On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [76]
  • A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "Add topic" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [77]
  • There was a short site outage on June 28.
  • The automated Category:Pages with broken file links now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [78]
  • The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [79]
  • There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [80]
  • The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [81]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
    • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
    • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
    • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
    • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
    • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
    • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [82]
Future software changes
  • VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
  • From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [83]
  • The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [84]
Erratum

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14:33, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09[edit]

On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 13:04, 4 July 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).

Symbol support vote.svg Support, very useful. --Ricordisamoa 06:33, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Multilanguage works[edit]

I just sent this message to wikisource-l:

There's a reasonable need to get a shared, standard set of templates, modules, js scripts for wikisource projects - all projects sharing a common, identical goal and facing with the same, identical issues, and needing the same set of international, standard metadata. Nevertheless it's very difficult to synchronize efforts, while working into different "boiling" projects; and I personally found very frustrating to admit that some painful efforts to solve specific issues turned out to be simply a "rediscovering the wheel". :-(
Oldwikisource, given its "neutral" character, could be IMHO the perfect project to share the best of source projects, and there's a perfect kind of works that could uploaded into oldwikisource and proofreaded using common, shared styles & tools: they are multilanguage works.
Presently, we are going to upload and proofread a three-language (French, German, Italian and some English too) magazine: Histoire des Alpes - Storia delle Alpi - Geschichte der Alpen. It's released under CC-BY-SA-2.0 licence, My idea is, to upload it into oldwikisource, transcluding it by Iwpage into any interested projecy - the proofreading/formatting job being done into oldwikisource, with common tools, common templates, common modules, common "styles". What do you think about?

And you "oldwikisourcians" ... what do you think about? --Alex brollo (talk) 17:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm nearly sure we have discussed multilanguage works here some years ago... but I cannot find it. -jkb- (talk) 19:18, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I got an encouraging reply into wikisource-l; if there aren't strong objections, I'm going to try in a few days after some more discussion.... just to see what will happen. Obviously I'll use this opportunity to load here the best of it.source templates and scripts; any of you is strongly encouraged to fix them or replace them with something better, this is the real goal of my test: to discussi, find and share here best solutions for common issues. :-) --Alex brollo (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Common templates are a very good idea, but how are you going to make them work? Currently, there is a lot of (nearly) identical templates here on the oldwikisource copied from different language versions. E.g. for extra letter-spacing there are at least {{LetterSpacing}} from en-wiki (used in Irish Gaelic texts), {{Sparrt}} from nl-wiki (used in Afrikaans texts), {{SperrSchrift}} from de-wiki (used in some German texts, I also started to use it for Volapük recently), {{Razr}} from ru-wiki (used in Tatar texts), and {{Rozpinane}} also from de-wiki, but renamed (used in Upper Sorbian texts). Ideally, they all should just link to the same template, but they don't. Nobody looks after templates in any centralized manner here. Users of German dialects tend to copy templates from de-wiki, users of languages from ex-USSR – from ru-wiki, and so on. -- Shruggy (talk) 10:22, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
You are right, but imagine what will happen if multilanguage works (writtein in major languages) would be not only allowed, but encouraged here, best template imported from major projects, then classified for action, discussed, compared and tested. I see that statement that forbids to load here books written in major languages (but some rare exceptions) as the main problem to remove. And another old issue is problems to build an interproject link pointing to oldwikisource - I see bugs open about this problem but I don't understand if the bug has been solved. --Alex brollo (talk) 07:40, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-28[edit]

Latest [[<tvar|technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News</>|tech news]] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. [[<tvar|more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28</>|Translations]] are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

  • VisualEditor news:
    • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
    • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [86]
    • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
  • Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [87]
  • Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [88]

Future software changes

  • MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
    tag (bug #8480). [89]
    • It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [90]
    • The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [91]
    • The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [92]
    • Table of contents will now use the HTML element instead of , fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [93]
    • First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [94]
    • A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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    18:44, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-29[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

    Future software changes

    • A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [98]
    • The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [99]
    • Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [100] [101]
    • Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [102]
    • Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [103]
    • A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
    • An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [104]

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    17:45, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-30[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

    Future software changes

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    21:17, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

    Pywikipedia is migrating to git[edit]

    Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-31[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [112]
    • Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [113]
    • Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [114]
    • The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [115]
    • It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [116]
    • The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [117]
    • Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [118], [119], [120]
    • Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [121]
    • A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
    • VisualEditor news:
      • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [122]
      • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [123]
      • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [124] [125] [126] [127] [128] [129]
      • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
      • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
      • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
      • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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    20:59, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

    Multilingual works: let's try[edit]

    As I told into a previous post (Wikisource:Scriptorium#Multilanguage_works) I'm going to explore the possibility to upload here some volumes of a recent multilingual (Italian, French, German and some English) magazine, released under CC-2.0-BY-SA. I know that running rules state that this magazine should be uploaded into language-specific source subdomains (splitting it into subdomains and sharing work with Iw tools), but IMHO this could be a test case to do something different: to proofread multilingual works here, with a shared, inter-subdomain set of templates, modules, tools, conventions. Ideally, dufferent users of different subdomains should import here, and compare, best tools/practices of their subdomain, getting some interesting results:

    1. www.wikisource.org could be used as a discussion arena - in practice;
    2. best tools and templates would be compared and refined;
    3. usual users of this project could test and use best tools from major source subdomains.

    Presently I uploaded Index:Labi 1996.djvu and Index:Labi 1997.djvu; the first one is already uploaded into it.source, and I'll fill pages with tl|Iwpages (while waiting for your comments). The second one is the real test. --Alex brollo (talk) 16:24, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

    While waiting for community comments, I'll try to document what I'm doing here: User:Alex brollo/Tools, templates, modules for multilingual works. --Alex brollo (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

    HTTPS for logged in users on Wednesday August 21st[edit]

    “ As we outlined in our blog post on the future of HTTPS at the Wikimedia Foundation[0], the plan is to enable HTTPS by default for logged in users on August 21st, this Wednesday. We are still on target for that rollout date.

    As this can have severe consequences for users where HTTPS is blocked by governments/network operators in addition to users who connect to Wikimedia sites via high latency connections, we've set up a page on MetaWiki describing what is going on and what it means for users and what they can do to report problems.

    Please help watch out for any unintended consequences on August 21st and report any negative issues to us as soon as you can. Bugzilla:, IRC (#wikimedia-operations), or the (forthcoming) OTRS email are all fine.

    		 ”

    —Greg Grossmeier, wikitech-ambassadors-l

    HTTPS for users with an account[edit]

    Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

    If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

    Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 19:51, 20 August 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

    Tech News: 2013-34;[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [130]
    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [131]
    • You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [132]
    • You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [133]
    • You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [134]
    • Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [135]

    Problems fixed

    • There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
    • Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
    • There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [136]

    VisualEditor news

    • The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
    • You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
    • You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the VisualEditor - Icon - Strikethrough-a.svg button for the <s> tag), lower text (VisualEditor - Icon - Subscript.svg for <sub>), upper text (VisualEditor - Icon - Superscript.svg for <sup>), underlined text (VisualEditor - Icon - Underline-a.svg for <u>), computer code (VisualEditor - Icon - Code.svg for <code> and <tt>), math text (VisualEditor - Icon - Equation.svg for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs (VisualEditor - Icon - Hieroglyphics.svg for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language (VisualEditor - Icon - Language.svg for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
    • You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [137]

    Future

    • Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [138]
    • Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [139]
    • Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [140]
    • Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [141]
    • The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [142]

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    20:14, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

    What I wrote into wikisource-l[edit]

    Please be patient if I repeat myself about multilingual works here; this is what I sent yesterday to wikisource-l.

    « I ignored oldwikisource rules, and I uploaded there some Index pages from a multilingual magazine collecting articles in French, German, Italian with English summaries, one of them is https://wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Labi_1997.djvu

    The try is to test oldwikisource features and issues and to to import there and test some useful templates (in Lua too) and editing scripts to expose there to wikisource community and possibily to begin to build a set of shared ideas.

    My proposal is, to remove the prohibition to upload there multilingual works, even if their language is covered by a specific project; to encourage users to upload into oldwikisource any multilingual work; to create a specific interwiki code (mul:) to allow links to them; and to encourage any user to import into oldwikisource best ideas of their favourite project, and to discuss them after comparison with other functionally similar solutions.

    Can be, that this would decrease a little bit the deep, growing difference in styles, scripts, templates among wikisource projects.

    If wikisource community thinks that I've to remove my uploads since I'm going into a wrong way and disrupting something that needs to be saved, please tell me and I'll do.

    		  »

    Please comment! --Alex brollo (talk) 10:11, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

    Proglasъ[edit]

    Could someone please check if this text should rather be moved to sk: or sl: instead? It obviously does not belong to Category:Old Church Slavonic (cf. it to Оч͠е нашь, for instance.) TIA. — Ivan Shmakov (d ▞ c) 18:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

    I'm pretty sure, this text is neither in sk, nor in sl. It uses letters ę and ǫ which are common scientific transliterations of little (ѧ) and big yus (ѫ), so most probably it is Old Church Slavonic. It's just not written in Cyrillic script, that's all. Perhaps the original is Glagolitic. -- Shruggy (talk) 10:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
    Yep, it's Old Church Slavonic; it's the romanization of Прогласъ. However, I don't think we need a romanization of it. —Angr 23:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

    Announcement: English Wikisource to trial new CirrusSearch[edit]

    For the community to note that from this week that English Wikisource will be set up with a pilot of the new search infrastructure CirrusSearch via the addition of mw:Extension:CirrusSearch. I volunteered the enWS community for the pilot and there are significant advantages for the Wikisources in overcoming existing shortcomings in the present indexing systems, and in testing and refining new search functionality prior to a full roll-out. More information about the project at CirrusSearch and the page contains the process by which the developers will be assessing in the pilot.

    The implementation will be that we will have the new index turned on as a secondary backend so that the indexes and indexing will be running besides each other. It is my understanding that new data will be indexed very shortly after each save, unlike the current daily reindexing of new data. billinghurst sDrewth 06:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

    [edit]

    Request for consultation on this community logo

    First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

    The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

    Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 03:22, 24 September 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

    Tech News: 2013-40[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
    • There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [143]

    VisualEditor news

    • VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [144]
    • Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [145]
    • You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [146]
    • You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

    Future

    • Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [147]
    • Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [148]
    • You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [149]
    • You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

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    20:18, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

    Notifications[edit]

    Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

    (This message is in English, please translate as needed)

    Greetings!

    Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

    We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

    There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

    Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:24, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

    (via the Global message delivery system) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

    Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.[edit]

    Hi all,

    Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

    This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

    The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

    We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

    Thanks, Geoff & Yana 21:03, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-42[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    VisualEditor news

    • You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [151]
    • You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [152]
    • When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [153] [154]

    Future

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    09:36, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-43[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [157]

    VisualEditor news

    • On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [158]

    Problems

    • On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [159]

    Future

    • MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
    • In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [160]
    • You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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    10:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

    Wikidata to support language links in January 2014[edit]

    English: Support for Wikisource language links on Wikidata is expected to be enabled on January 13, 2014. The coordination/proposal page for Wikisource integration is here (on Wikidata), with discussions on the talk page. The Anonymouse (talk) 05:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

    español: Apoyo en Wikidata para enlaces interlingüísticos (interwikis) de Wikisource se espera estar habilitar en el 13 de enero de 2014. La página de coordinación/propuesta para integrar Wikisource está aquí (en Wikidata), con los discusiones en la página de discusión. The Anonymouse (talk) 05:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-44[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [161]

    VisualEditor news

    • You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [162]

    Problems

    • There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

    Future

    • Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

    JavaScript / Gadget developers

    • Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [163]
    • Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [164]

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    10:54, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

    Introducting Beta Features[edit]

    (Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

    We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

    Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

    Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

    Here are the first features you can test this week:

    Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

    After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

    Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

    Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:50, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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    Tech News: 2013-45[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [165]

    Problems

    • There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [166]

    Future

    • The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [167]
    • MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [168]
    • The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [169]
    • The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [170]
    • You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [171]
    • In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [172]

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    13:28, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

    Bengali Wikisource[edit]

    Nowadays I am working on my native Wikisource, Bengali. I have some issues...

    1. ) At http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php , please add bengali wikipedia too..
    2. ) Are there any verifyability policies for wikisource (as like wikipedia)? I found lots of text, without reference in detail publication, so I cant judge, whether it is copyrighted or not. And also some known copyrighted materials found. Our Bengali Wikipedia/wikisource is too small. In wikisource one admin Bellayed Bhai.
    3. ) There are huge collection of Bengali scanned book(25000+ books) available at Digital Library of India and West Bengal Public Library Network, but is not easy for upload to commons. Are there any tools like https://tools.wmflabs.org/url2commons/ or anybody can develop for same?
    4. ) What is the status about mw:Extension:BookManager/mw:Extension:BookManagerv2? And when/what it will be implemented? Are there any road map? Even I cant fond nothing final report here m:Book management/Progress. May be Molly's blog down.
    5. )Bengali Computing Issues not mediawiki, No good OCR, but proposed here mw:Extension_talk:Proofread_Page#OCR_for_Bengali_wikisource.

    Jayantanth (talk) 07:46, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-46[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Problems

    • There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [173]

    Future

    • MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
    • The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [174]
    • The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [175]

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    09:05, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

    Call for comments on draft trademark policy[edit]

    Hi all,

    The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

    The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.

    We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

    Thanks,
    Yana & Geoff

    Tech News: 2013-47[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    • The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [176]
    • Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [177]

    Problems

    Future

    • There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
    • The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [178]

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    07:02, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

    1.5M ancient manuscripts to go online[edit]

    See here This could be useful. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯

    Javanese script[edit]

    Dear fellow Wikisource editors (Wikisourcians?),

    Currently I'm editing a Javanese script Bible, the first digital version of it, so please forgive the flooding of the RC list. Bennylin (talk) 11:36, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-49[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

    New features

    • The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [179]
    • JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [180]

    VisualEditor

    • You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [181]
    • You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [182]
    • Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [183]

    Problems

    • Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [184]

    Future

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    16:12, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-50[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    New features

    VisualEditor

    • The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [188]
    • You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
    • The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [189]

    Problems

    • There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [190]
    • The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [191] [192]
    • Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [193]

    Future

    • MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
    • You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [194]
    • GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [195]
    • A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [196] [197]

    Other

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    08:36, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

    Process of uploading JPG[edit]

    Hello dear, hope you are enjoying holidays. I want to ask that what is the process of uploading books containg JPG photos not text or PDF files. Further what is required number of pages to assign seprate domain name to any language wikisource. What is process of being an Admin? Ameen Akbar (talk) 20:35, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-51[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
    • You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [199]
    • There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [200] [201]
    • You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [202]
    • If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [203]
    • You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [204] [205]
    • All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [206] [207]
    • You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [208]
    • You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [209]
    • Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [210]

    Future software changes

    • There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
    • When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [211] [212]
    • New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [213] [214].
    • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [215] [216]
    • You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [217] [218]

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    08:31, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

    Reminder: Wikidata coming on January 14th[edit]

    (This is a message to all Wikisource editions. Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me on the non-English editions.)

    Hi!

    I am Wikidata's product manager. If you are unfamilar with Wikidata please have a look at d:Q3107329 for example.

    As you might already have heard Wikisource will be the fourth project supported by Wikidata after Wikipedia, Wikivoyage and Commons. We are currently planning this for January 14th. From this point on you will be able to handle the links between projects in Wikidata. This means you will only have to maintain them once instead of having them duplicated in every article. However fear not: the local interwiki links will still continue to work and they will overwrite what comes from Wikidata.

    This is the first step of Wikidata supporting Wikisource. In a second step we will enable access to the actual data on Wikidata like biographical data about authors. I do not have a date for that yet however.

    The planning is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikisource. We are still looking for some more ambassadors who can help during the process and make sure everything goes smoothly for you. Please add your name to the list at d:Wikidata:Wikisource if you're willing to do this.

    If you have questions please also post them on the discussion page of d:Wikidata:Wikisource.


    Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:34, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-01[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [219] [220]
    • With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [221]

    VisualEditor news

    • Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [222]
    • You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

    Problems

    Future software changes

    • CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
    • AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [224] [225]
    • It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [226] [227]
    • It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [228] [229]

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    08:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-02[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
    • The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [230]

    Problems

    • On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
    • On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

    Future software changes

    • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [231]
    • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [232]
    • Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [233] [234] [235]
    • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [236] [237]
    • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [238] [239]
    • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [240] [241]
    • E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [242] [243]
    • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [244] [245]

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    08:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-03[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
    • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [246]

    VisualEditor news

    • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [247]
    • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [248] [249] [250]

    Problems

    • For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [251] [252]
    • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

    Future software changes

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    09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

    Wikidata is here![edit]

    Hey everyone :)

    As previously announced we have just enabled interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This means from now on you no longer have to maintain the links in the Wikitext but can maintain them together with the links for Wikipedia, Commons and Wikivoyage on Wikidata. You will still be able to keep them locally though if you want to. Local interwiki links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata. You do not yet have access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of an author. That will come in a future deployment. I will let you know when I have a date for it.

    If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good first step. It also has a list of people familiar with both Wikisource and Wikidata who are able to help you out. That is also a good place for any issues or bugs you encounter.

    I'm really excited to welcome you all to Wikidata! I hope it will become a great help for Wikisource.

    Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


    No, Wikidata is not here. As usual, oldwikisource, son of a lesser god, has been shamefully forgotten. Bug60069 has been opened about it. Candalua (talk) 09:41, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
    I think part of the problem is that we don't have an ISO code as a prefix. We really ought to be renamed mul.wikisource.org (mul being the ISO code for "multilingual"). —Angr 16:13, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
    The problems is not about the name of the project. The problem is more that there is no URL system in place to identify the languages used for sources.
    Would you accept a prefix for every source with the relevant ISO code ? Thanks, GerardM (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
    The name per se isn't the problem, but the fact that we don't have a prefix before "wikisource.org" the URL probably does contribute to our being forgotten about. I certainly also wouldn't object to having the codes for the languages we host here redirecting here, so that ga.wikisource.org/wiki/Séadna would lead straight to Séadna and nrn.wikisource.org/wiki/Fy_vor would lead straight to Fy vor. However, it would probably be necessary to allow the language codes to redirect to all pages here, even if they're not in the language specified (e.g. ga.wikisource.org/wiki/Fy_vor would still work), and this trick wouldn't work for the languages we host here that also have their own subdomains, e.g. the members of Category:Polski (which can't be hosted at pl-wikisource because they're still in copyright in Poland), so it will still be good to have mul.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyklopedja_Kościelna/Azja to take us to Encyklopedja Kościelna/Azja. —Angr 15:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

    Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?[edit]

    I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

    The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

    Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

    However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

    We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

    Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

    All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

    You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

    We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-04[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    VisualEditor news

    • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (VisualEditor - Icon - Text style.svgVisualEditor - Icon - Down.svg). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
    • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [263]
    • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [264]
    • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [265]
    • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [266] [267]
    • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [268]
    • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [269]

    Problems

    • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [270]
    • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [271]
    • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [272]

    Future software changes

    Orange bar with new messages
    • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [273] [274]
    • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [275]
    • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [276]
    • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [277] [278]

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    10:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-05[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [279]
    • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [280]
    • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [281]
    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

    Problems

    Future software changes

    • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [283]

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    09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

    Access to data in Wikidata[edit]

    Hey :)

    (Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)

    Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more interesting is access to the data in Wikidata like the date of birth of an author or the year a book was published. We have planned this for February 25th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new opportunities for you.

    If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good place to find help.

    Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:51, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

    I was just made aware that global message delivery also posted this here while you're still waiting for language links. Sorry for that. As soon as 2 of my developers are back I will bug them to find out how complicated it is to also support you here and how long it'll probably take. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

    Language categories on Commons[edit]

    PLease see Wikisource:Language categories on Commons Lugusto (talk) 19:20, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-06[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
    • Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [284] [285]
    • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [286] [287]
    • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [288]
    • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [289]
    • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [290]
    • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [291]

    VisualEditor news

    • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [292]

    Future software changes

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    08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

    Direct copy of a book on tl.wikibooks[edit]

    Hi,

    Doing routine maintenance on a smaller project revealed this book which seems to be in the public domain and not written by the user there. See w:El Filibusterismo. I'm not sure how to import pages like that to Wikisource, and am honestly not sure if it is in the public domain or not, but if you think that it is and import it then I can remove it from tl.wb afterwards.

    Thanks, Ajraddatz (talk) 00:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

    We're also not sure if it is just the text for the book, or also about interpreting the book. If you reply, please let us know at m:User talk:Ajraddatz or my talk page on Meta. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:29, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-07[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
    • The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [303] [304] [305] [306] [307]
    • You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [308]

    VisualEditor news

    • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [309] [310]
    • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [311] [312] [313]

    Problems

    • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [314]
    • On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

    Future software changes

    • Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [315] [316]
    • You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [317]
    • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [318] [319]
    • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [320]
    • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [321] [322]
    • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [323]
    • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [324]
    • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [325] [326]
    • If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [327]
    • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [328]
    • bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [329]
    • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [330]

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    09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-08[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
    • You can now use the list of active users again. [331] [332]
    • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [333]
    • You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [334]
    • You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [335]

    Problems

    • On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [336]
    • On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [337]
    • On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
    • There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
    • On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

    VisualEditor news

    • The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [338]
    • You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [339]
    • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [340]
    • You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [341] [342] [343]
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    08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

    Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014[edit]

    On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

    We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

    You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

    Раздел на башкирском языке[edit]

    Здравствуйте, уважаемые. Как вывести раздел на башкирском языке из Инкубатора? Какую процедуру и как надо выполнить? --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 15:59, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

    Amendment to the Terms of Use[edit]

    Hello all,

    Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

    Renewed application on Commons[edit]

    Hi Wikisorcerers,

    If you wish to support my admin's request on Commons (to go on protecting djvu and pdf files), you can find it here. Thanks if you can help. --Zyephyrus (talk) 09:17, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-09[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    VisualEditor news

    • You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [346] [347] [348]
    • You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [349] [350]
    • You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [351] [352]

    Future software changes

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    10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

    You can now access the data on Wikidata[edit]

    Hey folks,

    We have just enabled data access to Wikidata for Wikisource (except old-wikisource). This means you can now access data like the date of birth of an author or the ISBN of a book. You can do this in two ways. The first one is a parser function. You can use it like {{#property:capital}} or {{#property:P36}}. The second one is Lua. The documentation for that is at mw:Extension:WikibaseClient/Lua

    If you have any questions you will find help at d:Wikidata:Wikisource and its talk page.

    I hope you'll use this to do some kick-ass things on Wikisource ;-)


    Cheers Lydia Pintscher 19:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)


    Lydia Pintscher, here on oldwikisource we are still waiting for Wikidata Phase 1. Any news about it? Are there any plans to support oldwikisource some day or the other? What is exactly the problem here? Candalua (talk) 22:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

    Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments[edit]

    IEG key blue.png

    I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

    Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikisource better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

    Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

    Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

    Hope to have your participation,

    --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2014-10[edit]

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
    • When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [359]
    • You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [360] [361]
    • You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [362]
    • The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [363]

    VisualEditor news

    • You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [364] [365] [366]
    • If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [367]
    • Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [368]
    • VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [369] [370] [371]

    Future software changes

    Problems

    • For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [379]

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    09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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