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తెలుగు విక్షనరీ పరిధిని, భవిష్యత్తును పునరాలోచించటానికి ఈ చర్చా విభాగాన్ని కేటాయిస్తున్నాను. ముందుగా నా ఆలోచనలు కొన్ని ఇక్కడ వ్రాస్తున్నాను --వైజాసత్య (చర్చ) 06:14, 20 నవంబరు 2013 (UTC)

ప్రసాద్ గారికి నిర్వాహక హోదా

ప్రసాద్ గారిని విక్షనరీలో నిర్వాహక హోదాకు ప్రతిపాదించాను. మీ మద్దతు ఇక్కడ తెలియజేయండి --వైజాసత్య (చర్చ) 05:45, 21 నవంబరు 2013 (UTC)

నామద్దతు ప్రకటిస్తున్నాను Arkrishna (చర్చ) 06:09, 21 నవంబరు 2013 (UTC)

వార్తాపత్రికలు

• వార్తాపత్రికలు అన్నింటికీ విక్షనరీలో వేరు వేరు పేజీలు సృష్టించడం సరి కాదనిపిస్తుంది. ఒకసారి ఆలొచించండి.Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 13:25, 1 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)* *

Rajasekhar1961గారికి, మీ సందేహానికి తప్పక సభ్యుల దగ్గర చర్చించ దగినది. ఇక్కడ నాకు తెలిసిన కొన్ని ప్రస్తుతానికి విషయములు పొందుపరచు చున్నాను.

• (1) తెలుగు, ఇతర భాషలు, మతాలు, భారతదేశానికి చెందిన పత్రికలు ఏవైనా కొన్ని తెలుగు పదాలతో ఉన్నాయి. ఉదా: ఉదయం, సాక్షి, వార్త, సితార స్వాతి, ఋషి, గీటురాయి (ఇస్లామిక్ భాష), అన్నదాత, ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్, బొమ్మరిల్లు, భారతి, యువ, రచన, చిత్ర, నది, పాడిపంటలు, ఇలా ఎన్నెన్నో వివిధ రకములయిన పత్రికలు మనకు లభిస్తున్నాయి. వీటికి మాత్రము మనము ప్రత్యేకంగా పుటలను కేటాయించలేము. ఇటువంటివి వర్గం:విభిన్న అర్థాలు కలిగిన పదాలు జాబితాలోకి వస్తాయి. వీటికి తప్పక అక్కడ అర్థం ఇవ్వవలసిన అవసరము ఉన్నది. అందువల్ల మిగతా పత్రికలను మనము విస్మరించ కూడదు అని నా అభిప్రాయము.
• (2) విక్షనరీలో దాదాపు చాలా పుటలకు తప్పకుండా "'మూస:వికీపీడియా"' ఉంచటము జరుగుతున్నది. ఈ లింకు వలన వ్యాసము చదివేందుకు చదువరులకు అవకాశము ఉంటున్నది.
• (3) వివిధ భాషలలో పత్రికలు, పుస్తకములు ఇలా అనేక వర్గాలు పొందు పరచుకుని వారి వారి పుటల సంఖ్యలను పెంచుకుంటున్నారు. వారిని మక్కీకి మక్కీ అనుసరించుదామని నా ఉద్దేశ్యం కాదు.
• (4) వికీపీడియాలో అనేక ఎలక్ట్రానిక్ మాధ్యామాలకు వ్యాసాలు కూడా ఉన్నాయి. ఇక్కడ కేవలము మనము వర్గం:విభిన్న అర్థాలు కలిగిన పదాలు అవసరము అనుకున్న వాటికే కొత్తవి కేటాయించడము జరిగినది. వాటిని అభివృద్ధి చేయవలసిన అవసరము కూడా ఉన్నది. సంశయ స్పందన వలన అలానే ఉంచటము జరిగినది.
• (5) ఇతర సభ్యుల సముదాయ పందిరిగా చర్చించి, నిర్ణయము తీసుకుంటే, సభ్యులే నిర్వాహకులుగా ఉన్న విక్షనరీలో తొందరపడి మనకు మనము (నాకుగా నేనే) నిర్ణయాలు తీసుకుంటే మీ(నా)బోటి వారలకు ఉత్సుకత తగ్గవచ్చు, మనఃక్లేశానికి గురికావచ్చు.
• (6) సభ్యుల స్పందనల కనుగుణంగా తొలగించవలసి వచ్చినట్లయినా, తప్పక నేను తొలగించగలను.
• (7) మీకు వెను వెంటనే జవాబు పొందు పరచక పోవుటకు కారణము కూడా ఉన్నది. నేను అవును, మీరు కాదు అన్న ధోరణిలో సంశయము తీర్చుకొను వారము. వేరెవరైనా స్పందిస్తే వారలకు నేనిచ్చే నా జవాబు మీకు పాక్షిక మనస్పందన అవుతుంది. చర్చలు చేయవచ్చును.
• గమనిక:వికీపీడియాలో కూడా చర్చ వ్రాసినందులకు అక్కడ కూడా ఇదే జవాబు పొందు పరచడ మయినది.జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ (చర్చ) 02:11, 2 డిసెంబర్ 2013 (UTC)

ఏయే భాషలలో అన్ని వార్తాపత్రికల గురించి వ్యాసాలున్నాయో లింకుల్ని ఇవ్వండి. ఒకసారి చూస్తాను.Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 05:24, 2 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

Rajasekhar1961 గారు, మీరు మొత్తము జవాబునకు కూడా స్పందనలు తెలియజేస్తే బావుండేది. మీరడిగినట్లు లింకు [1] ఇస్తున్నాను. ఆయా భాషలలోని వారు కొంత వరకు పని చేసి ఉండవచ్చును. అన్ని వార్తాపత్రికల గురించి పేజీలు ఉండకపోయినా, కాని వార్తాపత్రికల గురించి మాత్రము వర్గములు ఉన్నాయి. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 08:04, 2 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

మీరు చూపిన ఆంగ్ల విక్షనరీలో ఒక 4-5 పేర్లు మాత్రమే నామవాచకాలుగా ఉన్నాయి. వాటిలో కొన్ని జాతీయాలుగా వున్నాయి. నాకెందుకో అన్ని వార్తా పత్రికల పేర్లు చేర్చడం సబబుగా లేదు. ఒకే పదం ఉన్న సాక్షి, వార్త, ఉదయం లాంటి పేర్లను మాత్రము విక్షనరీలో చేర్చి వాటిని వార్తాపత్రికలు వర్గంలో చేర్చితే సరిపోతుంది. ఇండియా టుడే, సినీ హెరాల్డ్, అందరికీ ఆయుర్వేదం లాంటి 2-3-4 పదాలున్న పదాలు చేర్చకుంటేనే మంచిదని నా అభిప్రాయం.Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 11:26, 2 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

రాజశేఖర్ గారు, మీ అభిప్రాయము చెప్పారు. కానీ మీరు అడిగే ధర్మ సందేహాలు నేను తీర్చలేక పోవచ్చును. ఎప్పుడయినా నేను చేస్తున్న పనిలో మీ అభ్యంతరములు వచ్చినప్పుడు, తప్పకుండా ఆ పని ఆపివేస్తాను. సహ సభ్యులు ఏనాటికయినా వారి వారి స్పందనలు పొందు పరచుటకు అవకాశము రావచ్చును. అందువల్ల వేచి చూద్దాము. నేను అంతవరకు మీ సందేహము ఎవరయినా నివృత్తి చేసేవరకు, మీకు తెలియకుండా మాత్రము ఆ పత్రికల వర్గం జోలికి వెళ్ళను. మీ అభ్యంతరములు వచ్చిన వెంటనే, ఇప్పటికే ఆ పని ఆపి వేశాను. ఈ సందర్భముగా వెంటనే మీ అభ్యంతరములు తెలిపినందులకు, మీకు మరీ మరీ ధన్యవాదములు. ఇదే రీతిలో (వెంటనే) తప్పకుండా ఏ ఒక్కరయినా అభ్యంతరములు ఏ పనులలో అయినా వ్యక్తము చేసిన యెడల, ఆ పనిని గురించి చర్చలలో ఫలితములు వచ్చేవరకు, ఆ అభ్యంతరకర మయిన పనిని ప్రక్కన పెట్టి, అందరము ఆగుదాము. వేరొక పని చేసుకుందాము.

సభ్యులకు గమనిక: ఈ చర్చ అసంపూర్ణం. ఫలితము రాలేదు. కావున ఇది (సజీవం) సశేషం, దయచేసి గమనించగలరు. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 12:01, 2 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC) జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 12:05, 2 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

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తెలుగు వికీపీడియా రచ్చబండలో ఎంపిక మండలి అధ్యక్షుడు వైజాసత్య గారి సందేశం

తెవికీ సభ్యులందరికీ నమస్కారాలు. తెలుగు వికీ పది సంవత్సరాలు పూర్తిచేసుకుంటున్న సందర్భంగా తెలుగు వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టులలో గత పది సంవత్సరాలలో విశేష కృషి చేసి, తెలుగు వికీ ఈ స్థాయికి చేరటానికి దోహదం చేసిన మిత్రులందరినీ ఒక్కసారి మళ్లీ వారి సేవలకు గుర్తు చేసుకొని, వారికి తగు విధంగా గుర్తింపు ఇచ్చే శుభ సందర్భం ఇది. ఈ పురస్కారాల ప్రకటన అధికారికంగా వెలువడక ముందే కొన్ని ప్రతిపాదనలు ప్రారంభించబడటం ఆహ్వానించదగ్గ విషయం. సభ్యులందరూ ఈ ప్రక్రియలో క్రియాశీలకంగా పాల్గొని, గుర్తింపుకు అర్హులైన అందరినీ ప్రతిపాదించి, వాళ్ళను గుర్తించేందుకు తగు సహాయం చేస్తారని ఆశిస్తున్నాను. ఈ పురస్కారాన్ని సాకారం చేయటానికి కృషి చేస్తున్న దశాబ్ది ఉత్సవాల కమిటీకి ధన్యవాదాలు. అలాగే ఈ పురస్కార ప్రతిపాదనకు చాలా సమయం వెచ్చించి రూపుదిద్దిన ఎంపిక సంఘం సభ్యులు అర్జున గారికి, సుజాత గారికి, రాధాకృష్ణ గారికి, రాజశేఖర్ గారికి ధన్యవాదాలు. మీ ప్రతిపాదనలు ఇక్కడ చేయగలరు. ప్రతిపాదనలు చేయటానికి గడువు సమయం 09 డిసెంబరు 2013 11:59 (UTC) (10డిసెంబరు 2013 05:29 ఉదయం భారత ప్రామాణిక కాలం). స్వీయపత్రిపాదనలు చేయటానికి వెనుకాడవద్దు. మీరు ప్రతిపాదితులైతే, మీ ప్రతిపాదనకు అదనపు సమాచారం చేర్చటానికి మొహమాటపడపద్దు. మన కృషి మనకంటే ఇంక ఎవరికి బాగా తెలుస్తుంది. అందరూ పాల్గొని ఈ కార్యక్రమాన్ని ఫలప్రదం చేస్తారని ఆశిస్తూ..

ఎంపిక సంఘం అధ్యక్షుడు - వైజాసత్య --వైజాసత్య (చర్చ) 16:15, 2 డిసెంబర్ 2013 (UTC) Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 04:37, 3 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

ధన్యవాదములు. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 12:48, 6 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

వికీపీడియా:దశాబ్ది ఉత్సవాల వికీ పురస్కార ఎంపిక/నాలుగవ స్కైప్ సమావేశం నివేదిక ప్రకారం ప్రతిపాదనల గడువు 16 డిసెంబరు గా పొడిగించడానికి మండలి నిర్ణయించింది. సముదాయం ప్రతిపాదనలను కొలబద్ద ఆధారంగా తగిన వివరణలతో పరిపుష్టం చేయవలసినదిగా మరియు ఇంకా అర్హులైన వారిని ప్రతిపాదించి, వారి అంగీకారం కొరకు ప్రయత్నించవలసిందిగా సముదాయాన్ని కోరుతున్నది. అలాగే కొలబద్దని మెరుగుచేయటానికి ఏమైనాసూచనలుంటే వారంరోజులలోగా చర్చాపేజీలో తెలియచేయమని కోరుతున్నది.--అర్జున (చర్చ) 05:44, 10 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

2013 కొమర్రాజు లక్ష్మణరావు వికీమీడియా పురస్కారాలు

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా రచ్చబండలో ప్రకటించబడిన వార్త నకలు

తెలుగు వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టు సభ్యులందరికీ నమస్కారం.

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా పది సంవత్సరాలు పూర్తిచేసుకున్న సందర్భంగా ప్రారంభించబడిన కొమర్రాజు లక్ష్మణరావు తెలుగు వికీమీడియా పురస్కారానికి వచ్చిన ప్రతిపాదనలను ఎంపిక మండలి పరిశీలించడం పూర్తి అయ్యింది. ముందుగా ప్రతిపాదిత సభ్యులకు, ఆయా ప్రతిపాదనలను ప్రారంభించి, మద్దతు ఇచ్చి, విస్తరించి ఈ ప్రక్రియలో క్రియాశీలకంగా పాల్గొన తెలుగు వికీ సభ్యులందరికీ ధన్యవాదాలు.

ఈ పురస్కారానికి 28 ప్రతిపాదనలు రాగా వాటిలో 18కి ప్రతిపాదిత సభ్యులు అంగీకారం తెలిపారు. వీరి కృషి గణాంకాలు మరియు వికీ అభివృద్ధికి దోహదపడిన గుణాత్మక అంశాల విశ్లేషణ ఎంపిక మండలి చేసింది. ఈ పురస్కారపు తొలివిడతగా ఈ సంవత్సరం, గత దశాబ్ది కాలంలో చేసిన కృషిని గుర్తిస్తూ పది పురస్కారాలు ఇవ్వాలని ఎంపిక మండలి నిర్ణయించింది. దీనికి ఎంపికైన అభ్యర్ధులు క్రింద (మూల్యాంకన వరుసక్రమంలో) ఇవ్వబడ్డారు. వీరికి దశాబ్ది ఉత్సవాలలో నగదు బహుమతి మరియు పురస్కారము ఇవ్వబడుతుంది. వీరి చిత్రాలు, పురస్కార ప్రధానాంశాలు తెలుగు మరియు ఆంగ్లములో చూడవచ్చు.

1. చదువరి (తుమ్మల శిరీష్ కుమార్)
2. ఎం.ప్రదీప్
3. చావా కిరణ్
4. వీవెన్
5. పాలగిరి
6. రవిచంద్ర
7. అహ్మద్ నిసార్
8. వీరా ఎస్.జె
9. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్
10. భాస్కర నాయుడు

వీరందరు తెలుగు వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టులకు చేసిన కృషికి ‘’’కొమర్రాజు లక్ష్మణరావు తెలుగు వికీమీడియా పురస్కారం ఎంపిక మండలి’’’ తరఫున కృతజ్ఞతాంజలులు.

అంగీకారం తెలపని ప్రతిపాదిత సభ్యులు మరియు వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టుల అభివృద్ధికి తోడ్పడిన ఇతర సభ్యుల కృషిని గుర్తిస్తూ ఎంపిక మండలి ప్రశంసాపత్రమివ్వాలని నిర్ణయించింది. వీరి వివరాలు చూడవచ్చు. వీరందరి కృషికి ధన్యవాదాలు. వీరికి ప్రశంసా పతకం (ఎలెక్ట్రానిక్) త్వరలో వాడుకరి చర్చాపేజీలో ఇవ్వబడుతుంది.

ఈ ప్రక్రియ వలన వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టుల అభివృద్ధికి తోడ్పడిన అంశాలు అవగతమయ్యాయి. వాటిని ప్రతిపాదన అంగీకరించిన సభ్యుల కృషి గణాంకాలు మరియు దోహదపడిన ముఖ్యాంశాల దస్త్రంలో మరియు మూల్యాంకనంవివరాలను చూడవచ్చు. అలాగే అభివృద్ధికి తోడ్పడని అంశాలు కూడా చూడవచ్చు. సహసభ్యులు వీటిని పరిశీలించి తగు చర్యలు తీసుకొని మరింత అభివృద్ధికి కృషి చేస్తారని ఆశిస్తున్నాము. ఈ స్ఫూర్తితో తెలుగు వికీమీడియా సభ్యులు ఇతర జాతీయ, అంతర్జాతీయ వికీ ప్రోత్సాహక పురస్కారాలలో క్రియాశీలంగా పాల్గొంటారని ఆశిస్తున్నాము.

ఈ ప్రక్రియపై మీ అభిప్రాయాలు, స్పందనలు పేజీలో తెలిపితే మున్ముందు మరింత మెరుగుగా నిర్వహించటానికి వీలవుతుంది. ఈ పురస్కారాలను రూపకల్పన దిశ నుండి దాదాపు వేయి గంటల సమయాన్ని వెచ్చించిన ఎంపిక సంఘం సభ్యులు, అర్జునరావు, రాజశేఖర్, రాధాకృష్ణ మరియు సుజాత గార్లకు నా కృతజ్ఞతలు. ఈ పురస్కారాలను రూపకల్పన చేసి, ఎంపిక సంఘం కార్యదర్శిగా కార్యభారాన్నంతా చాలా మటుకు మోసిన అర్జునరావు గారికి ప్రత్యేక వందనాలు. పురస్కారాలకై కావలసిన నిధులు సమకూర్చడానికి అంగీకరించిన తెవికీ దశాబ్ది ఉత్సవ కార్యనిర్వాహక వర్గానికి ధన్యవాదాలు.

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జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ స్పందన

నేను కొమర్రాజు లక్ష్మణరావు పురస్కారానికి పెద్దల ద్వారా ఎంపిక కాబడిన సందర్భముగా ప్రతి వికీపీడియనుకు పేరు పేరున అందరికీ ధన్యవాదములు తెలియ పరచుకుంటున్నాను. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 13:52, 29 డిసెంబరు 2013 (UTC)

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

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 జనవరి 2014 (UTC)

జంట పదములు/ న్యాయములు వీటికి కొత్త వర్గం చేర్చుటకు మనవి

అంటుసొంటు, అండదండ లాంటి పదాలు చాల నిఘంటువులలో జంటపదము వర్గములో వున్నాయి. అలాగే.... న్యాయములు కూడ న్యాయములు అనే వర్గములో వున్నాయి. కనుక అటు వంటి పదములను ఆయా వర్గాలలో చేర్చడానికి ఆ వర్గాలను చేరిస్తే బాగుంటుందేమో ఆలోచించండి. ఎల్లంకి (చర్చ) 16:18, 4 ఫిబ్రవరి 2014 (UTC)

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

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

తెలుగు విక్షనరీ, భవిషత్త్, విస్తరణ, పరిది గురించి

ఆర్యా..... వైజాసత్య గారు గత నవంబరు లో పై విషయమై తన అభి ప్రాయాలను ప్రస్తావిస్తానన్నారు. (చూ: .1.) బహుశ తెవికి దశమ వార్షిక ఉత్సవాల సందర్బంగా వారికి తీరిక లేకుండ వచ్చు. కనుక ఇప్పుడు ఈ విషమై సమగ్ర వివరాలిస్తారని ఆసిస్తున్నాను. నా అలోచనలు కూడ కొన్ని వున్నాయి. ఆ చర్చలో నా అభి ప్రాయాలనుకు కూడ పంచుకుంటాను. ఎల్లంకి (చర్చ) 04:34, 6 మార్చి 2014 (UTC)

Amendment to the Terms of Use

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 ఫిబ్రవరి 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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 విక్షనరీ better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

• Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
• Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
• Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
• Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

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 ఫిబ్రవరి 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:56, 13 మార్చి 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

• April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
• April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

• Summary of changes and FAQ
• Discussion page for feedback or questions
• Post on blog.wikimedia.org

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

డిజిటల్ లైబ్రరీ ఆఫ్ ఇండియాలోని తెలుగు పుస్తకాలు మరింత అందుబాటులోకి

తెలుగు సమాచారాన్ని అందుబాటులోకి తీసుకురావడమనే ప్రాజెక్టుకు ఇండివిడ్యువల్ ఎంగేజ్‌మెంట్ గ్రాంట్ కోసం ప్రయత్నించడం జరుగుతోంది. సహ వికీపీడియన్లు ప్రాజెక్టు పేజీని సందర్శించమని మనవి.
ఇప్పటికే వేలాది తెలుగు పుస్తకాలు డిజిటల్ లైబ్రరీ ఆఫ్ ఇండియాలో ఉన్నాయి. ఐతే వాటిని వెతకడం, అందుబాటులోకి తెచ్చుకుని చదవడం మాత్రం చాలా కష్టసాధ్యమైన విషయంగా ఉంది. పుస్తకాల పేర్లు, రచయితల పేర్లు ఆంగ్లంలో అత్యంత అస్పష్టమైన స్పెల్లింగులతో రాసి ఉండడంతో వీటిని గూగుల్ వంటి ప్రసిద్ధిపొందిన సెర్చ్‌ఇంజిన్లలో వెతకడం సాధ్యపడడం లేదు. ఆ పుస్తకాలకు తెలుగు యూనీకోడ్‌లో పేరు, రచయిత పేరు, పుస్తకంలోని విషయానికి సంక్షిప్త వివరణలతోపాటు డి.ఎల్.ఐ.లో పుస్తకం వద్దకు లింకుతో కూడిన అంతర్జాల గ్రంథసూచి(ఆన్లైన్ కాటలాగ్) తయారు చేయడం ముఖ్యోద్దేశం. వికీపీడియా మరియు సోదర ప్రాజెక్టుల్లోనే కాక సి.ఐ.ఎస్. ఎ 2 కె బ్లాగు, వెబ్సైట్, సోషల్ మీడియా, తెలుగు సాహిత్యానికి సంబంధించిన ఇతర అంతర్జాల పత్రికల్లోనూ స్వేచ్చా నకలుహక్కులతో ప్రచురించడం ద్వారా వాడుకరులకు విస్తృతంగా అందుబాటులోకి తీసుకువస్తాము.
ఈ ప్రాజెక్టు ద్వారా ప్రాథమికంగా తెలుగు వికీపీడియా, వికీసోర్స్, వికీకోట్స్‌లు ప్రయోజనం పొందవచ్చు. ఆయా గ్రంథాల్లోని విజ్ఞానసర్వస్వ సమాచారాన్ని సహ వికీమీడియన్లు ఉపయోగించుకోవచ్చు. నకలుహక్కుల పరిధిలో లేని ఎన్నో పుస్తకాలు వికీసోర్సుకు ఉపయోగపడే అవకాశం ఉంటుంది. వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టులకే కాక తెలుగు అంతర్జాలం అభివృద్ధికి కూడా ఈ గ్రంథసూచి ఉపయోగపడవచ్చు.
ఈ ప్రాజెక్టుకు మద్దతునివ్వాలంటే - ప్రాజెక్టు పేజీలోని ఎండార్స్‌మెంట్స్ అనే విభాగంలో సంతకం చేసి ఎండార్స్‌ చేయవచ్చు. అభిప్రాయాలను వ్యక్తపరిచేందుకు అక్కడి చర్చపేజీలో వ్యాఖ్యానించవచ్చు. ఆయా అంశాల్లో మీ విలువైన భాగస్వామ్యాన్ని కోరుతున్నాను.--పవన్ సంతోష్ (చర్చ) 04:39, 5 ఏప్రిల్ 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation Recording

Visual workflow draft for pronunciation recording gadget; If you have trouble watching this video here, watch it on vimeo. A more extensive/explanative version is available.

Dear Wiktionary community!

About me

My name is Rainer Rillke, and I have been volunteering at Wikimedia Commons for 3 years now, gathering experience around media files. I've been always interested in how things work and how one could improve them.

The idea

One idea that appeared last Summer was allowing the recording of small chunks of speech, uploading that to Wikimedia Commons in the background and including this into a Wiktionary entry without having the hassle doing everything by hand or installing additional software. That idea led to the foundation of MediaWiki extension PronunciationRecording during the Google Summer of Code. However, this was not completed; instead development is stale for over 5 months now.

My proposal

To make this going to work, so Wiktionary has an immediate benefit of this feature, I would like to provide the work done so far as a gadget and add some more work in regard to usability. You can see my plan at m:Grants:IEG/Finish Pronunciation Recording. And more importantly, you can give me a hand, if you are interested by writing your comments.

Thanks and kind regards --Rillke (చర్చ) 17:26, 7 ఏప్రిల్ 2014 (UTC)

This message was delivered based on commons:User:Rillke/gmd/prg. Translation fetched from: commons:User:Rillke/prg/en -- Rillke^(q?) 17:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 మే 2014 (UTC)

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Using only UploadWizard for uploads

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.

Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. I propose to have

• local "ఫైలు లోడింగ్" restricted to the "నిర్వాహకులు" group (for emergency uploads) and
• the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.

All this will get done around 2014-07-03.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create MediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 13:09, 19 జూన్ 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 జూన్ 2014 (UTC)

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Special:Upload

Hi (and sorry for writing in English).

This is a semi-automatic message to inform you that the software update of tomorrow contains a change to Special:Upload so that license options must be defined to be able to use the special page. Since this wiki has relatively active uploading but does not have license options defined, I am giving you a more prominent notice of this change. An administrator can simply create the page MediaWiki:Licenses to be able to continue uploading. You can use the format * Template|License name (see Wikipedia for an example). The change has been made to ensure that all uploads have the necessary copyright tags. Please use bug 66960 in case you have any questions or comments. Regards, SPQRobin (చర్చ) 19:05, 30 జూన్ 2014 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 ఆగష్టు 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 ఆగష్టు 2014 (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 16:52, 2 సెప్టెంబరు 2014 (UTC)

వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్య గ్రంధాలయాల పుస్తక జాబితా కంప్యూటరీకరణ

వికీమీడియా వ్యక్తిగత గ్రాంటు ద్వారా ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ గ్రంధాలయాల పుస్తక జాబితాను రూపొందించుటకు వచ్చిన అలోచన వివరాలను [[2]] ఇస్తున్నాను. ఇక్కడ కల గ్రాండ్స్ పేజీలో [[3]] మీ యొక్క స్పందననుతెలియచేయాలని, దీనిలో ఉండవలసిన మార్పులు ఏవైనా ఉంటే తెలియచేయాలని మనవి - విశ్వనాధ్

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 అక్టోబరు 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:36, 14 నవంబరు 2014 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.విక్షనరీ.org: (అందరూ) పేజీలను మార్చడం

MediaWiki mobile

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

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 మార్చి 2015 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 20:02, 4 మార్చి 2015 (UTC)

IIW- Integration of Indian Wiktionaries

Sorry to say in English!

When i met 10-12 Indian Wiktionarians at Train-the-Trainer(TTT)-2015-Bangalore, I understand the need of inter-wikt help i.e., sharing knowledge, experiences, methods. Then i and bn.wiktionarians started a programme namely IIW ( Integration of Indian Wiktionaries) A pilot project started with them It will complete in few months. Meanwhile, here in your wiktionary, I am adding audio files to the respective words by using Wiktionary:AWB/py.wikibot. Feel free to furnish your views. In future, there will be a python bot for inter wiki content creation in between our Indian wiktionaries. Bye!--Info-farmer (చర్చ) 11:42, 8 మార్చి 2015 (UTC)

• వాడుకరి:தகவலுழவன்/test/Basic English - please help to translate the red words---Info-farmer (చర్చ) 10:40, 5 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

-Info-farmer, Hello friend, I already started the said work. However, I will take special interest for these words to translate in Telugu language. Best wishes. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 10:58, 5 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

So nice. we will meet in next project.Thanks indeed.--Info-farmer (చర్చ) 01:29, 6 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

Welcome, my friend. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 01:45, 6 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Yesterday, we chatted officially. Next time please furnish your views. I will be in touch.Bye!--Info-farmer (చర్చ) 06:35, 9 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:46, 13 మార్చి 2015 (UTC)

విక్షనరీలో ఒక లక్ష పదాలు

విక్షనరీలో చేర్చ బడిన పదాలు 2-4-2015 నాటికి ఒక లక్ష దాటినది. ఆ లక్షవ పదము ఏదై యుండునో ???? Bhaskaranaidu 2 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

విక్షనరీ ప్రగతిబాట

విక్షనరీ ప్రగతిబాటలో తన లక్షణమైన లక్ష సంఖ్యను [4] 01.4.2014 నాడు అందుకున్నదని, అందుకు ఎంతో సంతోష సంబరముతో మన మిత్రబృంద వాడుకరులందరకూ తెలియజేయుటకు సంతసించు చున్నాను. ఈ ప్రముఖ అంకెను అందుకునేందుకు కృషి చేసిన ప్రతి ఒక్కరికి పేరు పేరున ధన్యవాదములు ఈ సందర్భమున తెలియజేస్తున్నాను. సదా వికీ సేవలో మీ తోటి వాడుకరి--జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 14:17, 2 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

• Telugu తెలుగు te 100022 115724 692752 5 2915 20 971 2015-04-02 02:02:30 జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 14:18, 2 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

విక్షనరీ మెటా వార్త

విక్షనరీ మెటా వార్త [5] నందు విక్షనరీ మైలురాయి దయచేసి చూడగలరు. అందులో 2.4.2015 నాడుగా గుర్తించారు. కానీ మనము (నేను) 1.4.2015 నాటికి 1,00,013 వరకు వచ్చిన తదుపరి ఆరోజుకు ఆపి, నా వాడుకరి పేజీలో గణాంకాలు పేజీ (సీరియల్ నం.10)లో వేసుకున్నాను. ఏది ఏమయినా మన లెక్క 1వ తారీఖు కానీ వారు గుర్తించినది మాత్రము 2.4.2014. కానీ మెటావార్త లోనే ఈ క్రింద విధముగా ఒక పట్టిక Wiktionaries by entry-count milestone [6] నందు ఇవ్వబడినది.

• 100,000 Norwegian (Bokmål) (10 June 2009); Burmese (23 April 2011); Indonesian (31 December 2011); Malayalam (24 March 2012); Limburgish (19 May 2012); Cherokee (20 August 2013); Romanian (8 November 2013); Japanese (25 December 2013); Uzbek (17 November 2014); Telugu (1 April 2015)
• కాబట్టి మనము 100,000 మైలురాయిని 1.4.2015 నాటికే చేరామని దయచేసి వాడుకరులు గమనించగలరని మనవి. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 02:22, 4 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:12, 10 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

పదములు నందు అరసున్న వాడుక లేదు

పదములు, వాక్యములు, ఇతరత్రా చోట మనము అరసున్న వాడుట ప్రస్తుత కాలములోను మరియు ఇక్కడ వాడుట జరుగుట లేదు. దయచేసి వాడుకరులు గమనించ గలరు. అరసున్న వాడుక గురించి మీకు తెలిస్తే నాకు కూడా తెలియజేయగలరు. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 11:53, 15 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

అరసున్న కలిగిన పదాలను మూలపదాలకు ప్రత్యామ్నాయ పదాలుగా పేజీలను సృష్టిస్తే బాగుంటుంది. ఉదా: రాముఁడు -- రాముడు చూడండి. ఇలా AWB ఉపయోగించి కూడా తయారుచేయవచ్చును.--Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 04:06, 20 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

విక్షనరీ మూలాలు

• తెలుగు విక్షనరీలో మూలాలు అవసరమని మనకందరికీ తెలుసును. కానీ ఆదిశగా ఆలోచించలేదు. బ్రౌన్ నిఘంటువును తెచ్చిన ఆంగ్ల పదాల పేజీలలో మాత్రమే ఒక మూస ద్వారా మూలాలను పేర్కొన్నాము. ఆంగ్ల విక్షనరీలో మూలాలుగా చేర్చినవాటికి ఎలా చూపిస్తున్నారు అని నేను అక్కడ పనిచేసినప్పుడు గమనించాను. ఉదా: en:Template:R:sa:MW చూడండి. ఇక్కడ ఆన్లైన్లో ఉన్న ఒక సంస్కృత నిఘంటువును మూలంగా చేర్చారు. అలాగ తెలుగు - తెలుగు నిఘంటువుకు మనం లింకులిస్తే బాగుంటుంది. --Rajasekhar1961 (చర్చ) 11:40, 17 ఏప్రిల్ 2015 (UTC)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

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

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

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

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

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

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

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

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

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

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

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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

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

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

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 జూన్ 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

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

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

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

/Johan (WMF)

23:59, 19 జూన్ 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

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

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

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

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 11:21, 24 జూలై 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: మూస:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalమూస:@wikimediaమూస:dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 23:43, 31 జూలై 2015 (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

• Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
• Join a small group conversation.
• Learn more about this consultation.

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

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How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

• Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
• Join a small group conversation.
• Learn more about this consultation.

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

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Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:13, 2 సెప్టెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

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

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 సెప్టెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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

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

• Submit a grant request
• Get help with your proposal in IdeaLab
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 సెప్టెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 సెప్టెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

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

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 21:57, 9 నవంబరు 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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

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

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

Harassment consultation

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

• Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 14:38, 1 డిసెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

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

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

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

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

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 16:04, 1 డిసెంబరు 2015 (UTC)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:58, 18 డిసెంబరు 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • సహాయము

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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

• Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 01:49, 5 జనవరి 2016 (UTC)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Hello, all.

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

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

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

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

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 19:06, 18 జనవరి 2016 (UTC)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 17:47, 31 మార్చి 2016 (UTC)

Server switch 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.

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

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

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

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

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా నుంచి దిగుమతి

తెలుగు వికీపీడియా నుంచి విక్ష్నరీకి కొన్ని పేజీలు దిగుమతి చేసుకోవాల్సి వుండగా ప్రత్యేక:దిగుమతి ద్వారా జరగట్లేదు. దిగుమతి పద్ధతిలో చేయగలిగితే అక్కడి నుంచి చరిత్ర కూడా దిగుమతి అవుతుంది. అయితే ఇది తెలుగు విక్ష్నరీలో స్థాపితం అయిలేనట్టు చూపిస్తోంది. సముదాయంలో ఈ అంశంపై చర్చించి ఆమోదించుకోగలిగితే స్థాపించుకునేందుకు వీలవుతుంది. --పవన్ సంతోష్ (చర్చ) 05:35, 19 జూన్ 2016 (UTC)

ఆమోదం

1. జె.వి.ఆర్.కె.ప్రసాద్ 08:02, 13 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)
2. -- కె.వెంకటరమణ ^చర్చ 08:09, 13 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)
3. ...--విశ్వనాధ్ (చర్చ) 11:27, 13 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)
4. --అర్జున (చర్చ) 11:47, 13 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)
5. --పాలగిరి (చర్చ) 07:16, 14 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)

Standard bot policy

Hello,

To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage (interwiki) linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots. At this moment the Wiktionaries are not supported by Wikidata yet, so interwiki bot activity will still be present in this project.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page (or the community page where bot requests are handled) from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page at Meta-Wiki.

Thank you very much, --MarcoAurelio 10:50, 29 జూన్ 2016 (UTC)

Done. --MarcoAurelio (చర్చ) 11:52, 29 జూలై 2018 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 జూన్ 2016 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05, 1 జూలై 2016 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

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

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

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

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

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 15:25, 5 జూలై 2016 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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

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

1. T.sujatha (administrator)
2. వైఙాసత్య (administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 06:51, 21 జూలై 2016 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “పేజీ భధ్రపరచు” button to “పేజీని ప్రచురించు” and “మార్పులను ప్రచురించు”. “పేజీని ప్రచురించు” will be used when you create a new page. “మార్పులను ప్రచురించు” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[7][8]

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

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “పేజీని ప్రచురించు” and “మార్పులను ప్రచురించు”.

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

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

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

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 9 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)

పంజాబ్ లోని అన్నీ గ్రామాలలోని విద్యాసస్థలన్నీ అమృతసర్ గ్రామానికి 10 కిలో మీటర్ల లోపే దూరములో వున్నాయి????

పంజాబ్ ఎడిట్ దాన్ లో భాగంగా మనం వ్రాసిన గ్రామ వ్యాసాలలో కొన్ని అంశాలలో వున్న వివరణ అసంబద్దంగా వున్నట్టు అనిపిస్తున్నది. ఉదాహరణకు బోహ్లియన్ అనే గ్రామ వ్యాసం తీసుకోండి. అందులోని విద్యా సౌకర్యాలు అనే అంశం లో పొందు పరచిన వివారాలను కొన్నింటిని ఈ క్రింద పేస్ట్ చేసాను. పరిశీలించగలరు.

సమీపమాధ్యమిక పాఠశాలలు (Harar kalan)గ్రామానికి 5 నుంచి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల లోపే ఉంది. సమీపమాధ్యమిక పాఠశాల (Ajnala)గ్రామానికి 5 నుంచి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల లోపే ఉంది. సమీపసీనియర్ మాధ్యమిక పాఠశాలలు (Ajnala)గ్రామానికి 5 నుంచి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల లోపే ఉంది. సమీప"ఆర్ట్స్, సైన్స్, మరియు కామర్సు డిగ్రీ కళాశాలలు" (Ajnala)గ్రామానికి 5 నుంచి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల లోపే ఉంది. సమీపఇంజనీరింగ్ కళాశాలలు (Amritsar) గ్రామానికి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల కన్నా దూరంలో ఉంది సమీపవైద్య కళాశాలలు (Amritsar) గ్రామానికి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల కన్నా దూరంలో ఉంది.

బోహ్లియన్ అనే గ్రామ విషయాలు వ్రాస్తూ..... ఆ గ్రామములోని పాఠశాలలు (Ajnala) గ్రామానికి 5 నుంచి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల లోపే ఉంది. అని వ్రాయడము నాకెందుకో తప్పుగా తోస్తున్నది. అదే విధంగా అనేక విద్యా సంస్థలు (Amritsar) గ్రామానికి 10 కిలోమీటర్ల కన్నా దూరంలో ఉన్నవి అని వ్రాయడము కూడ తప్పుగా అనిపిస్తున్నది. పది కిలోమీటర్ల కన్నా దూరములో అని అంటే ఎంత దూరమైనా కావచ్చు. అది 15 కిలోమీటర్ల దూరం కావచ్చు లేదా 150 కిలోమీటర్ల దూరమైనా కావచ్చు. ఆ విధంగా చూస్తే తప్పు కాదు కాని ఆ విషయము ఇక్కడ అవసరమా? ప్రతి గ్రామ వ్వాసములోను ఆ గ్రామ విద్యా సౌకర్యాలు అనే అంశం క్రింద ఆ యా సంస్థలు అమృతసర్ గ్రామానికి 10 కి.మీటర్ల కన్నా ఎక్కువదూరములో వున్నది అని వున్నది. ఈ విషయము ఆ యా వాడుకరులు వ్రాసిన తప్పిదము కాదు గాని ఇదివరకే తయారు చేసిన అయా గ్రామ వ్యాసాన్ని యదా తదంగా కాపి చేసి ఇక్కడ పేస్ట్ చేయమన్నందున జరిగిన తప్పు. మనం వ్రాసిన/వ్రాస్తున్న అన్ని పంజాబు గ్రామాలలోను ఇది పొందు పరుచబడుతున్నది.

నిర్వహకులు ఈ విషయము పరిశీలించి తగు సలహా ఇవ్వగలరని మనవి.

మరొక చిన్న విషయము ఏమంటే ...... ఆయా గ్రామ వ్యాసాలలో ఉప విభాగము క్రింద ఉదాహరణకు (అదే విధంగా అన్ని అంశాలకు) తాగు నీరు అనే అంశం క్రింద

శుద్ధిచేసిన కుళాయి నీరు గ్రామంలో లేదు. శుద్ధి చేయని కుళాయి నీరు గ్రామంలో ఉంది. మూత వేసిన బావుల నీరు గ్రామంలో లేదు. మూత వేయని బావులు నీరు గ్రామంలో లేదు. చేతిపంపుల నీరు గ్రామంలో ఉంది. గొట్టపు బావులు / బోరు బావుల నీరు గ్రామంలో ఉంది. ప్రవాహం నీరుగ్రామంలో లేదు. నది / కాలువ నీరు గ్రామంలో లేదు. చెరువు/కొలను/సరస్సు నీరు గ్రామంలో లేదు.

అని వున్నది. చేతిపంపుల నీరు గ్రామంలో ఉంది. గొట్టపు బావులు / బోరు బావుల నీరు గ్రామంలో ఉంది. అని వుండగా మిగతా వనరులు లేవు అని వ్రాయడము అవసరమా ? అని నాసందేహము. ఈ విధంగా లేని వనరుల విషయము అవసరము లేదేమో??? నా సందేహ నివృత్తి చేయగలరు. భాస్కరనాయుడు 09:02, 13 ఆగష్టు 2016 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 15:08, 12 సెప్టెంబరు 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata for Wiktionary: let’s get ready for lexicographical data!

Hello all,

Sorry for writing this message in English, please feel free to translate it in your own language below.

The Wikidata development team will start working on integrating lexicographical data in the knowledge base soon and we want to make sure we do this together with you.

Wikidata is a constantly evolving project and after four years of existence, we start with implementing support for Wiktionary editors and content, by allowing you to store and improve lexicographical data, in addition to the concepts already maintained by thousands of editors on Wikidata.

We have been working on this idea for almost three years and improving it with a lot of inputs from community members to understand Wiktionary processes.

Starting this project, we hope that the editors will be able to collaborate across Wiktionaries more easily. We expect to increase the number of editors and visibility of languages, and we want to provide the groundwork for new tools for editors.

Our development plan contains several phases in order to build the structure to include lexicographical data:

• creating automatic interwiki links on Wiktionary,
• creating new entity types for lexemes, senses, and forms on Wikidata,
• providing data access to Wikidata from Wiktionary
• improving the display of lexicographical information on Wikidata.

During the next months, we will do our best to provide you the technical structure to store lexicographical data on Wikidata and use it on Wiktionary. Don’t hesitate to discuss this within your local community, and give us feedback about your needs and the particularities of your languages.

Information about supporting lexicographical entities on Wikidata is available on this page. You can find an overview of the project, the detail of the development plan, answers to frequently asked questions, and a list of people ready to help us. If you want to have general discussions and questions about the project, please use the general talk page, as we won’t be able to follow all the talk pages on Wiktionaries. If you don’t feel comfortable with English, you can write in your own language and hopefully someone will volunteer to translate.

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project

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

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

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 30 సెప్టెంబరు 2016 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

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

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:34, 6 అక్టోబరు 2016 (UTC)

Password reset

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

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

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

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

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (చర్చ) / MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 23:59, 13 నవంబరు 2016 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

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

Help test offline Wikipedia

Hello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback, check out the page on Meta! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 20:08, 29 నవంబరు 2016 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31, 14 డిసెంబరు 2016 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31, 15 ఫిబ్రవరి 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:44, 9 మార్చి 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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

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

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Find out more about the movement strategy process
• Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

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

05:09, 18 మార్చి 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:36, 7 ఏప్రిల్ 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 17:34, 11 ఏప్రిల్ 2017 (UTC)

Cognate & automatic interlanguage links

Hello all,

(I'm sorry to write in English, feel free to translate in your own language below)

From April 24th, a new interlanguage link system will be deployed on all Wiktionaries. This extension, Cognate, automatically links the pages with the same title between the Wiktionaries. This means they no longer have to be added in the pages of the main namespace.

This new feature has been developed by Wikimedia Deutschland as the first step of the project Wikidata for Wiktionary, but does not rely on Wikidata.

To allow the feature to operate, all the former interlanguage links have to be removed from the wikitext. You can do this by using a bot, as it was done on Wikipedia in the past. If you leave them in they will overwrite the automatic links.

During the development we had a lot of discussions with Wiktionary editors to understand their needs, but it's possible that some automatic links don't work as you would expect. If you find some bugs or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to add a sub-task on Phabricator or add a message on this talk page.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

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

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

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

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

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19:15, 3 మే 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:41, 8 మే 2017 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 మే 2017 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

• Healthy, Inclusive Communities
• The Augmented Age
• A Truly Global Movement
• The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
• Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem

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

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

21:08, 16 మే 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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21:06, 23 మే 2017 (UTC)

Enable sitelinks on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: From June 20th, we are going to store the interwiki links of all the namespaces (except main, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you have any question or concern, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:38, 1 జూన్ 2017 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

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

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

1. వైఙాసత్య (administrator)

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

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 02:20, 13 జూన్ 2017 (UTC)

Sitelinks are enabled on Wikidata for Wiktionary pages (outside main namespace)

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: Since yesterday, we are able to store the interwiki links of all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Important: even if it is technically possible, you should not link Wiktionary main namespace pages from Wikidata. The interwiki links for them are already provided by Cognate.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you encounter any problem or find a bug, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 08:28, 21 జూన్ 2017 (UTC)

Enabling Page Previews

Enabling Page Previews

Hello,

Based on the positive results of a series of quantitative and qualitative tests, the Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable the Page Previews feature for this project.

Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. However, we realize the needs of the Wiktionary community will not be satisfied by the current implementation of the feature. We are interested in developing separate previews for Wiktionary that will display the wiktionary definition of an item, as well as an image, if available.

We'd like to invite some discussion around interest in this feature, as well as the requirements and elements that would make it useful for the Wiktionary community.

CKoerner (WMF) 15:02, 6 జూలై 2017 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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

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

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

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

కృతజ్ఞతలు! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 జూలై 2017 (UTC)

Accessible editing buttons

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

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

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

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

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

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 27 జూలై 2017 (UTC)

Columns for references

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Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 11 September 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. --User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:23, 1 సెప్టెంబరు 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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

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

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

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

కృతజ్ఞతలు!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 నవంబరు 2017 (UTC)

ట్రైన్ ద ట్రైనర్ (టీటీటీ) 2018

అందరికీ నమస్కారం, సీఐఎస్‌-ఎ2కె నిర్వహణలో ట్రైన్‌-ద-ట్రైనర్‌ (టీటీటీ) 2018 కార్యక్రమం కర్ణాటకలోని మైసూరులో 2018 జనవరి 26-28 తేదీల్లో జరగనుంది.

టీటీటీ అంటే ఏమిటి?

ట్రైన్‌-ద-ట్రైనర్‌ లేక టీటీటీ అన్నది రెసిడెన్షియల్ శిక్షణా కార్యక్రమం. ఈ కార్యక్రమం భారతీయ వికీమీడియా సముదాయం సభ్యుల్లో (ఆంగ్ల వికీపీడియా సహా) నాయకత్వ నైపుణ్య అభివృద్ధి చేయడాన్ని లక్ష్యం చేసుకుని రూపకల్పన చేసినది. గతంలో టీటీటీ 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017ల్లో నిర్వహించాము.

ఎవరు చేరవచ్చు?

కార్యశాలలు, GLAM, ఎడిటథాన్‌లు, ఫోటోవాక్‌లు తదితర ఆఫ్‌-వికీ మరియు ఆన్‌లైన్‌ వికీ కార్యక్రమాలు నిర్వహించడంలో ఆసక్తి కల వాడుకరులు.
ఏ భారతీయ భాషా (ఇండిక్ లాంగ్వేజ్‌) వికీమీడియా ప్రాజెక్టులోనైనా కృషిచేస్తున్న చురుకైన వికీపీడియన్లు ఎవరైనా దరఖాస్తు చేసుకోవడానికి అర్హులే.
దరఖాస్తు చేసుకునే వాడుకరికి 2017 నవంబరు 1 నాటికి 500కు పైగా గ్లోబల్ ఎడిట్లు ఉండాలి.
గతంలో ట్రైన్‌-ద-ట్రైనర్‌ కార్యక్రమంలో పాల్గొన్నవారు దరఖాస్తు చేసుకునే అవకాశం లేదు.

సముదాయం నుంచి అర్హత కలిగిన వికీపీడియన్లు దరఖాస్తు చేసుకునేలా ప్రోత్సహించమని, అర్హులైన వికీపీడియన్లు పాల్గొనేందుకు దరఖాస్తు చేసుకొమ్మని కోరుతున్నాం. ఇతర వివరాల కొరకు దయచేసి మెటా-వికీలో ఈ పేజీని చూడగలరు. --పవన్ సంతోష్ (చర్చ) 09:34, 1 డిసెంబరు 2017 (UTC)

Tell us what you think about the automatic links for Wiktionary

Hello all,

(Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.)

One year ago, the Wikidata team started deploying new automatic interwiki links for Wiktionaries. Today, the links for the main namespace are automatically displayed by a Mediawiki extension, and the links for other namespaces are stored in Wikidata. You can find the documentation here (feel free to help translating it in your language).

We would like to know if you encountered problems with the system, if you would have suggestions for further improvements. This could be for example:

• Some automatic links don’t work as expected
• Some problems you encountered with entering links (for non-main namespace) in Wikidata
• Some new features you’d like to have, related to links

To give feedback, you have two options:

• Let a message on this talk page
• Let a message here. If you do so, please mention me with the {{ping}} template, so I can get a notification.

Our preferred languages are English, French and German, but you can also let a message in your own language if you feel more comfortable with it.

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:23, 24 ఏప్రిల్ 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

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

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 మే 2018 (UTC)

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

Hello,

Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate the content of this message below.

After several years discussing about it, and one year of development and discussion with the communities, the development team of Wikimedia Germany has now released the first version of lexicographical data support on Wikidata.

Since the start of Wikidata in 2012, the multilingual knowledge base was mainly focused on concepts: Q-items are related to a thing or an idea, not to the word describing it. Starting now, Wikidata stores a new type of data: words, phrases and sentences, in many languages, described in many languages. This information will be stored in new types of entities, called Lexemes, Forms and Senses.

The goal of lexicographical data on Wikidata is to provide a structured and machine-readable way to describe words and phrases in multiple languages, stored in a same place, reusable under CC-0. In the near future, this data will be available for Wiktionaries and other projects to reuse, as much as you want to.

For now, we’re at the first steps of this project: the new data structure has been released on Wikidata, and we’re looking for people to try it, and give us feedback on what is working or not. Participating to this project is the opportunity for you to have a voice in it, to make sure that your needs and requests are taken in account very early in the process, and to start populating Wikidata with words in your language!

Here’s how you can try lexicographical data on Wikidata:

• First of all, if you’re not familiar with the data model, I encourage you to have a look at the documentation page. If you’re not familiar with Wikidata at all, I suggest this page as a start point.
• You can also look at the Lexemes that already exists (search features will be improved in the future).
• When you feel ready to create a word, go on d:Special:NewLexeme.
• If some properties that you need are missing, you can suggest them on this page (if you’re not sure how to do it, just let a message on the talk page and someone will help you).
• The main discussion page is d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data. Here, you can ask for help, suggest ways to organize the data, but also leave feedback: if you encounter any bug or issue, let us know. We’re looking especially to know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.

In any case, feel free to contact me if you have a question or problem, I’ll be very happy to help.

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:20, 23 మే 2018 (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

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

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

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

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

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 జూన్ 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

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

19:20, 10 జూలై 2018 (UTC)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

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

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 జూలై 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

Screenshot of the Hub view

Sorry for writing this message in English. Feel free to help translate it below.

Hello all,

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback about Cognate, the system allowing interwikilinks between Wiktionaries (on main namespace). Several community members gave some suggestions, one of them was to provide statistics about these interwikilinks.

The Wikidata team is pleased to present you the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard, a website presenting a lot of interesting information about how Wiktionaries are connected to each others. You can find there, for example:

• the most interlinked Wiktionary entries not having a page on your Wiktionary
• the number of interlinks between each possible pair of Wiktionaries
• visualizations of the relationships between different Wiktionaries

To learn more about the tool, you can have a look at the documentation (please help us translating it in your language!). The interface of the tool itself can also be translated in other languages by using this page.

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:08, 14 ఆగస్టు 2018 (UTC)

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

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Hi all,

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

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 ఆగస్టు 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other effects:

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

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

13:33, 6 సెప్టెంబరు 2018 (UTC)

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

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

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Example of improvements

Hello,

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

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

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

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

కృతజ్ఞతలు!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 నవంబరు 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

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

Hey everyone,

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

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

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 నవంబరు 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 నవంబరు 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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

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

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

కృతజ్ఞతలు!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 డిసెంబరు 2018 (UTC)

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

Dear all,

Sorry for posting this message in English and last minute notification. The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is an yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Tremendous Wiktionary User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wiktionary needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement.

For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is very close to 24 hrs. The last date for registration is 17 December 2018. As a last minute effort, there is a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit created.

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

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh 05:56, 16 డిసెంబరు 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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

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

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

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

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

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

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

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 10:13, 27 డిసెంబరు 2018 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

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

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

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

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 జనవరి 2019 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

18:55, 16 జనవరి 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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

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

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

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

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

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

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

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 ఫిబ్రవరి 2019 (UTC)

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

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

10:56, 8 ఏప్రిల్ 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. కృతజ్ఞతలు! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 12 ఏప్రిల్ 2019 (UTC)

Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

Hello fellow Wikimedians,

Apologies for writing in English. Please help me in translating this message to your language.

I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working in them and what are the areas that needs more support.

If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest, Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from you.

You can read the Privacy Policy for the Survey here

Please find the link to the Survey at: https://forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A

P.S. If you have been involved in multiple campaigns/contests, feel free to submit the form multiple times.

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.

-- SGill (WMF) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (చర్చ) 06:09, 25 జూన్ 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 08:03, 16 ఆగస్టు 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

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

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

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

Johan (WMF)

14:19, 21 ఆగస్టు 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

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

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

How can you help?

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

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

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

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

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 సెప్టెంబరు 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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

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

We would like individual feedback on the following:

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

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

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

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

As well as the following constraints:

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

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

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

కృతజ్ఞతలు! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

07:15, 16 అక్టోబరు 2019 (UTC)