Viquinotícies:La cantina/2013

Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

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)**

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Thanks!

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

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

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La primera ronda del Concurs de Fotografia del Any 2012 està oberta

Estimats Wikimedistes,

Wikimedia Commons està feliç d'anunciar que el Concurs de Fotografia del Any 2012 està obert. Estem interessats en la teva opinió per saber quines imatges són les més adequades per ser la Fotografia de l'any 2012. La votació està oberta per als wikimedistes que compleixin els següents requisits:

1. Els usuaris han de tenir una compta registrada abans del Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000[UTC].
2. La compta de l'usuari haurà de tenir 75 edicions a qualsavol projecte Wikimedia abans del Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Siusplau revisa si la vostra compta està habilitada per votar. l'eina del concurs.
3. Els usuaris poden votar amb una compta que compleixi els requisits en Commons o en qualsavol altre projecte Wikimedia (el compte ha d'estar unificada al compte de Commons a través del login unificat).

Diverses imatges van ser classificades com fotografies destacades per la comunitat internacional de Wikimedia Commons l'any passat i estan en aquesta competició. Des de fotos professionals d'animals i plantes fins a impressionants panorames i horitzons, restauracions d'imatges rellevants, imatges que retraten la millor arquitectura del món, mapes, emblemes, diagrames creats amb la més moderna tecnologia, i impressionants retrats humans, Commons compte amb totes elles.

Per a la vostre conveniència, hem classificat les imatges en categories temàtiques. Es duran a terme dues rondes: A la primera ronda, pots votar per totes les imatges que desitgis. Els guanyadors de la primera ronda i del top 10 passaran a la ronda final. A la ronda final, només hi haurà un nombre limitat d'imatges, i vostè haurà de votar la imatge que desitja que es converteixi en la Fotografia de l'Any.

Per veure les imatges candidates, visiti la pàgina del concurs a Wikimedia Commons.

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Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

• 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 21:10, 30 gen 2013 (CET)

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Campionats d'esquí alpí

Si hi ha algú interessat en el món de l'esquí, a Wikinews s'està organitzant un projecte per informar dels campionats del món d'esquí IPC que es celebren enguany a La Molina. Estan interessats en algú que pugui crear continguts o traduir-ho al català. --Àlex (discussió) 18:20, 11 feb 2013 (CET)

Petició de Grant, consolidar wikiArS per involucrar les escoles d'art

Hola tothom, us informo que he demanat una IEG (subvencions personals per projectes que beneficien el moviment Wikimedia) a la Fundació Wikimedia per poder donar una empenta a la iniciativa wikiArS durant els propers mesos, entre primavera i tardor. Disculpeu si ja heu llegit aquest missatge a la Taverna de la Viquipèdia, però en el procediment de petició es demana que informem a les comunitats potencialment interessades i crec que Viquinotícies ho pot ser.

Com sabeu estem col·laborant amb les escoles d'art i disseny perquè els seus estudiants generin imatges que falten a Wikipedia o materials de difusió d'aquesta. Vam començar al curs passat i aquest curs hi ha 7 escoles contactades de les quals 4 ja han iniciat la col·laboració. Amb el Grant podria augmentar el temps que estic dedicant a la coordinació i a donar suport als voluntaris, consolidant el projecte. La idea és també poder produir una exposició itinerant que es renovi cada any i produir alguns materials de suport.

Podeu llegir la proposta aquí:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wikiArS_to_involve_art_schools

Qualsevol comentari o suggeriment és benvingut aquí mateix a la Taverna o bé a la pàgina de discussió de la proposta. D'altra banda perquè la IEG tiri endavant cal el suport de la comunitat, per això us demano que mostreu el vostre recolzament a la secció Endorsements.

Salutacions --Dvdgmz (discussió) 10:14, 14 feb 2013 (CET)

Creació d'un nou espai

Hola tothom, us proposo la creació d'un nou espai en aquest viqui: l'espai Dossier. Algunes notícies a Viquipèdia podrien anar-hi perquè hi ha molt temps que es passen. Desprès, podríem fer les importacions des de la viquipèdia. Què en penseu?.

1. A favor -- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 21:13, 24 feb 2013 (CET)

El que proposes és un nou espai de noms anomenat Dossier per a notícies antigues? No hi veig gaire la necessitat, ja que totes les notícies de Viquinotícies són antigues, o no? Paucabot (discussió) 17:37, 27 feb 2013 (CET)

Aquests dossiers permetent el desenvolupament d'un fet d'actualitat durant uns quants dies o setmanes. Moltes pàgines no són elegibles a Viquipèdia i no podran anar a Viquinotícies perquè no són d'actualitat.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 21:28, 27 feb 2013 (CET)

Idò si no són apropiades per a Viquinotícies, jo crec que directament no s'haurien d'importar. Es pot discutir a la discussió de cada una de les pàgines de la Viquipèdia. Paucabot (discussió) 10:04, 28 feb 2013 (CET)

En tot cas, demanaria el flag per importar notícies que tenen consens per a la seva importació com w:Manifestació "Catalunya som tots. Espanya i catalans". Les que no tenen consens, evidentment, no les importaria. Paucabot (discussió) 10:08, 28 feb 2013 (CET)

Estic d'acord per què demanis el flag per fer-ho.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 13:59, 14 març 2013 (CET)

Demanda feta avui a meta.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 14:16, 14 març 2013 (CET)

Gràcies! Paucabot (discussió) 20:20, 14 març 2013 (CET)

Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

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Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

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Notícies destacades de Wikimedia, Febrer de 2013

El més destacat de l'informe de la Fundació Wikimedia i l'informe d'enginyeria de Wikimedia per a Febrer de 2013, amb una selecció d'altres esdeveniments importants del movimient Wikimedia.

• Noticies destacades de la Fundació Wikimedia
  • Disponible la llista de seguimient en dispositiu mòbils
  • L'equip d'Enginyeria de Llenguatge assisteix a conferències de codi obert a l'India
• Dades i Tendències
• Finances
• Altres aspectes destacats
  • Es van anunciar els resultats del concurs d'Imatge de l'any 2012 a Commons
  • Nova comissió d'inspectors de privacitat (ombudsmen)
  • Base de dades oberta sobre art públic a Suècia

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Cierre de proyectos de Wikinoticias

Disculpad que no escriba en catalán. Venía a avisar que en meta están hablando sobre cerrar todos los proyectos de Wikinoticias, incluyendo éste. (Como imaginaba, a vosotros tampoco os han avisado.) El enlace es éste, por si queréis pasar a comentar algo al respecto. Un saludo Raystorm (discussió) 10:54, 29 març 2013 (CET)

Moltes gràcies.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 16:28, 4 abr 2013 (CEST)

Importació i llicències

En aquesta cantina hi ha uns quants fils sobre importació d'articles de la Viquipèdia, i se n'han importat uns quants. Ara bé, aquests articles són a la Viquipèdia amb llicència CC-BY-SA, i a viquinotícies es publiquen sota CC-BY que és menys restrictiva i incompatible amb l'anterior (el canvi contrari és possible, però aquest no). No veig que s'hagi fet res per compatibilitzar les llicències i a wikinews en anglès tampoc hi trobo res (no sé si allà importen o no). Ara mateix hi veig quatre solucions:

1. Esborrar per copyvio tots els articles importats de la Viquipèdia i no importar-ne més.
2. Marcar clarament aquests articles amb una llicència diferent. Això voldria dir que tindríem un contingut amb una llicència diferent, i en teoria estaríem complicant la reutilització del contingut. Pot ser que por això calgui:
   • Una plantilla a la pàgina de l'article. Potser fins i tot fer que la nota de la llicència que surt a cada pàgina canviï segons la pàgina.
   • Modificar les polítiques generals de llicències de Viquinotícies, i potser algun disclaimer.
3. Demanar als autors dels articles a la Viquipèdia que autoritzin explícitament el canvi de llicència (en general això serà inviable, perquè els autors d'aquests articles no són contribuïdors habituals i serà gairebé impossible trobar-los).
4. No fer res, però això vol dir incomplir (seguir incomplint) la llicència de la Viquipèdia.--Pere prlpz (discussió) 19:25, 5 abr 2013 (CEST)

Tenim aquesta plantilla; {{Icona de títol}} quan publiquem notícies sota una altra llicència.-- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 20:00, 5 abr 2013 (CEST)

Aleshores veig que ja està mig preparat. Només cal fer servir una plantilla semblant a la de Vilaweb pels articles importats de la Viquipèdia, marcant que la llicència és CC-BY-SA.--Pere prlpz (discussió) 22:44, 5 abr 2013 (CEST)

Estic d'acord. -- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 06:31, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

Jo el que faria seria el punt 3 i, mentre esperem la resposta, això de la plantilla -- TheMrJohannesburg · Parlem-ne! ;) 17:34, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

També podem fer-ho. -- Bertrand GRONDIN  → ^(escriure) 17:44, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

Acabo de fer la plantilla -- TheMrJohannesburg · Parlem-ne! ;) 17:49, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

Bé, tot això només cal fer-ho si es conserva text de la Viquipèdia, no? Perquè hi ha algunes notícies importades de la Viquipèdia que ja no hi queda text original -- TheMrJohannesburg · Parlem-ne! ;) 17:53, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

Ale, totes les notícies que contenen text de la Viquipèdia ja tenen la plantilla -- TheMrJohannesburg · Parlem-ne! ;) 19:08, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

The Wikinewsie Group

Hi. After consulting with a number of community members, we have started the first step in creating a potential Wikimedia Affiliate group. The details can be found at The Wikinewsie Group. The purpose of the group is to:

1. support open license, independent journalistic efforts that provide neutral and verifiable reporting of news stories,
2. support the education of future journalists in trying to insure they maintain historical journalistic ideals regarding reporting standards,
3. support efforts to increase journalist freedom to report around the globe,
4. encourage participation of and facilitate non-professional journalists practicing their craft on Wikinews, and
5. support the mission statement and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This aims to compliment and support existing efforts, and there is zero intention of imposing one language's policies on another language. The project should assist in increasing original reporting, improving original reporting according to local project standards, better supporting our small community and increasing participation.

Please sign up here by listing your name to indicate you support our group. If you have any questions, please do not hestitate to ask as we will be more than happy to answer them. Thanks. --LauraHale (discussió) 11:30, 6 abr 2013 (CEST)

The Wikinewsie Group bylaws draft

First, let me apologize for writing in English. A copy of the draft bylaws for the The Wikinewsie Group have been posted at The Wikinewsie Group/Bylaws. Alongside these, a Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Journalists have also been posted, which detail our understanding of concepts found in the draft bylaws. Feedback would be appreciated on these. If you agree with them and have no suggestions for modification on one or both documents, please comment on Bylaws talk page or Declaration talk page to say so. Conversely, if you are interested in joining The Wikinewsie Group, please feel free to comment on the relevant talk page with feedback on what changes you might like to see. Thank you.--LauraHale (discussió) 06:29, 11 abr 2013 (CEST)

Notícies destacades de Wikimedia, març de 2013

Notícies destacades de l'Informe de la Fundació Wikimedia i de l'Informe d'enginyeria de Wikimedia per al mes de març de 2013 amb una sel·lecció d'altres esdeveniments importants del moviment Wikimedia

• Destacats de la Fundació Wikimedia
  • Lua millora la velocitat de les pàgines i dóna més possibilitats als col·laboradors tècnics de Wikimedia
  • Llençades penjades des del mòbil a les aplicacions i la versió mòbil de la web
  • Primeres Beques de Compromís Individuals atorgades a projectes comunitaris innovadors
  • Wikipedia Zero guanya un premi, arriba a nous usuaris
  • Els Defensors del Poble es reuneixen, potser amplien el seu mandat
• Dades i tendències
• Aspectes econòmics
• Altres assumptes destacats del moviment
  • La segona fase se Wikidata comença a estar disponible a la Viquipèdia
  • Avaluació del resultat del projecte "Mediagrant" per a documentar reserves naturals
  • WikiAfrica ofereix espai físic per als col·laboradors de Wikimedia a Camerun

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Request for comment on inactive administrators

Sol·licitud de comentaris sobre administradors inactius

(Si us plau considereu traduir aquest missatge en benefici de tots els companys de Wikimedia. Considereu també traduir la proposta.)

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。

Hola!

Hi ha una nova sol·licitud de comentaris a Meta-Wiki sobre la eliminació de permisos administratius per a usuaris de Wikimedia que han estat inactius durant molt de temps. Per norma general aquesta proposta dels comissaris apliquen a wikis sense un sistema de revisió d'administradors.

També estem preparant una llista de projectes amb procediments per a eliminar administradors inactius a la pàgina de discussió de la sol·licitud de comentaris. Afegiu el(s) vostre(s) projecte(s) a la llista si teniu una política sobre la inactivitat d'administradors.

Tota resposta és benvinguda. La discussió finalitzarà el 21 de maig de 2013 (2013-05-21) però podrà extendre's si és necessari.

Gràcies, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 06:22, 24 abr 2013 (CEST)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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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Definició del pla estratègic d'Amical Wikimedia

Amical Wikimedia, l'organització que treballa per la promoció de la llengua i cultura catalanes dels projectes de Wikimedia, vol treballar en un nou pla estratègic de cara als dos propers anys. Des d'Amical fem una crida per tal que aquest pla sigui elaborat de forma col·laborativa, com s'escau a una organització que treballa segons la filosofia wiki. Per això volem fer una convocatòria pública per recollir idees, suggeriments, queixes o comentaris de tots els editors i lectors dels projectes Wikimedia en català, siguin membres o no de l'associació.

Us convidem a respondre les preguntes que trobareu en aquesta pàgina o a deixar-hi comentaris generals. Comptem amb la vostra ajuda per seguir construint el nostre futur!

Aprofito l'avinentesa per presentar-me com a nou president de l'associació, rellevant a en Joan Gomà, al qual voldria agrair públicament la feina feta. Per qualsevol cosa no dubteu a contactar-me!--Arnaugir (discussió) 22:42, 13 maig 2013 (CEST)

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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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Trademark discussion

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)

X!'s Edit Counter

(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 ^Chat_Automation 06:12, 23 juny 2013 (CEST)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

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 14:14, 4 jul 2013 (CEST) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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). 14:56, 23 jul 2013 (CEST)

Help with article translation

Hi! Sorry but I don't speak Català. Someone could translate a news to Català? It is avaible right now in 3 languages English, Esperanto and Spanish. Its about the opening ceremony of the World Games in Cali, Colombia.

Hola! Perdón pero no hablo catalán. ¿Alguno podría trasladar una noticia al catalán? En el momento está disponible en 3 idiomas Inglés, Esperanto y Español.

Thanks! Gracias! Graciès! Dankon! Danke! Mercy! --Sahaquiel9102 (discussió) 19:34, 26 jul 2013 (CEST)

VE

We need to develop a list of extensions, vital tools, templates that the Visual Editors need to look at and figure out how to address when trying to integrate VE into our project. For example, we probably need a technical explanation related to any local tools, including automatically loaded templates/extensions/modules for new article creation. This information then needs to be passed along via a single language point to the VE team. It appears possible that Wikinews may be the next sister they implement VE on, and given our publishing methods, we really need to be clear up front. --LauraHale (discussió) 11:37, 9 ago 2013 (CEST)

HTTPS for users with an account

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). 20:47, 20 ago 2013 (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

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). 04:04, 24 set 2013 (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Original reporting output

First, I apologize for not writing in the project's own language.

Since May 1, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter first began tracking original reporting taking place across all projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan, Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with 44, September with 43 and July with 39.

In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English Wikinews publishing 60 stories.

LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each. If you are on this list, please seriously consider applying for accredited reporter status on English Wikinews. This will make it easier to identify contributors from around the globe to do original reporting on any special reporting projects done by The Wikinewsie Group.

For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020. Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should be playing to. Please consider translating your work into another language, or finding a local reporter to assist you with translation work and publishing policy. This will benefit all languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more opportunities for reporters.

The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to facilitate more cross-language work. The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies is a list of local policies. If some one from each project could complete the row for their language, it would be incredibly useful. Thank you.

Every month, The Wikinewsie Group puts out a newsletter. Please consider putting any local project news on the newsletter. This could include discussions on reporter accreditation, installation of new extensions, translation policies, WMF related discussions of interest to the project. We want to know what Wikinews projects are up to. We need your assistance with that. Please share what is happening. --LauraHale (discussió) 18:04, 1 oct 2013 (CEST)

Notifications

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:

• Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.

• Checklist

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) 20:13, 4 oct 2013 (CEST)

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

Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

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 21:44, 8 oct 2013 (CEST)

Introducting Beta Features

(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:

• Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
• VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
• Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)

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) 20:33, 5 nov 2013 (CET)

Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 20:33, 5 nov 2013 (CET)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy

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

IMPORTANT: Revisió de l'activitat dels administradors

Hola. Recentment ha estat adoptada una nova política sobre la retirada de "drets avançats" (administrador, buròcrata, etc) per consens comunitari global (aquesta comunitat va rebre un avís sobre la discussió). D'acord amb aquesta política, els stewards estan revisant l'activitat dels administradors en les wikis menors. Fins on sabem, el vostre wiki no té cap procés formal per la retirada de "drets avançats" als comptes inactius. Això vol dir que els stewards se'n faran càrrec per aquest wiki d'acord amb la nova revisió d'activitat dels administradors.

Hem trobat que els següents usuaris compleixen els criteris d'inactivitat (cap edició i cap acció registrada durant més de 2 anys):

1. Albertsab (administrador)
2. Martorell (buròcrata, administrador)
3. Pepetps (buròcrata, administrador)

Aquests usuaris rebran aviat una notificació demanant-los que iniciïn una discussió comunitària si desitgen mantenir algun o tots els seus drets d'accés. Si l'usuari no respon llavors els seus drets avançats seran retirats pels stewards.

Tanmateix, si vosaltres com a comunitat voleu crear el vostre propi procés de revisió d'activitat reemplaçant el global, si voleu prendre alguna decisió diferent sobre aquests usuaris inactius amb drets avançats, o si ja teniu una política al respecte que se'ns hagi escapat, llavors notifiqueu-ho als stewards a Meta-Wiki per saber si no hem de procedir amb la revisió de drets en el vostre wiki. Gràcies, QuiteUnusual (discussió) 23:44, 7 des 2013 (CET)

Wikidata and Wikinews

Hi,

I invite you to participate in the development of the draft about how Wikidata could support Wikinews.

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

Thank you!
--sasha (krassotkin) 18:37, 11 des 2013 (CET)