ויקיספר:מזנון/ארכיון 8

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 11:03, 16 באוגוסט 2019 (IDT)

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)

17:18, 21 באוגוסט 2019 (IDT)

מה הקטע של סיסמות ברשימת הסיסמות הנפוצות?

שלום לכולם,

האם ניתן לבטל את רשימת הסיסמות הנפוצות? לא משנה לי אם יפרצו לי לחשבון בויקיספר העברית.

אני מעדיף סיסמה שאזכור מאשר לפתוח כל שני חמישי משתמש חדש...לא מבין מה הרעיון העומד מאחורי הרשימה.

אני מודע לסיכונים של בחירת סיסמה קל ובוחר להסתכן.

תודה, --Ysd2018 (שיחה) 10:23, 8 בספטמבר 2019 (IDT)

• לא שאני אחראי על משהו, אבל זה גם יכול לגרום נזק לפרוייקט כולו אם פורצים לחשבון שלך. אפשר לבצע דרכו השחתות, למשל. לכן אין לך סמכות לוותר על זה. 1אברהם1 (שיחה) 18:36, 23 באפריל 2020 (IDT)

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) 20:13, 30 בספטמבר 2019 (IDT)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

שלום. 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.

תודה! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

09:53, 16 באוקטובר 2019 (IDT)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

13:13, 29 באוקטובר 2019 (IST)

Community Wishlist 2020

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2020 פתוח עכשיו! הסקר הזה הוא חלק מתהליך ההחלטה על מה יעבוד הצוות הטכני הקהילתי בשנה הבאה. אנחנו מעודדים את כולם להציע הצעות עד ל־11 בנובמבר או להגיב על הצעות אחרות על מנת לשפר אותן.

השנה אנחנו מתמקדים בפרוייטקים הקטנים (ויקיספר, ויקימילון, ויקיציטוט, ויקיטקסט, ויקיספר, ויקיברסיטה, ויקימינים, ויקימסע וויקיחדשות). אנחנו מעוניינים לסייע לאותם פרויקטים ולספק שיפורים גדולים לקהילות. אם אתם חברים שפרויקטים האלה, נא השתתפו בסקר! על מנת לשלוח הצעות, ראו את ההנחיות בדף הסקר. אתם יכולים לכתוב הצעות בכל שפה, ואנחנו לתרגם את ההצעה בשבילכם. תודה ואנחנו מצפים לראות את ההצעות שלכם!

IFried (WMF) 21:30, 4 בנובמבר 2019 (IST)

מעוניין לקבל הרשאות מפעיל

הופניתי למזנון. אני מפעיל בוויקיפדיה העברית. ראיתי שאין פה כמעט ניטור, וחבל. Uziel302 (שיחה) 12:04, 3 בינואר 2020 (IST)

ביורוקרטים: משתמש:Gadial, משתמש:Rotemliss, משתמש: Mad dr

Uziel302 בשביל ניטור אין לי צורך להיות מפעיל מערכת. כל אדם יכול להיות אבל שיניתי הרשאות במידה ומקל עליך. בהצלחה, --‏Illuyanka‏ 12:38, 3 בינואר 2020 (IST)

Illuyanka, התכוונתי לעזור במחיקת הבלים שאנשים מעלים פה. ראיתי שביצעת ניקוי עכשיו. Uziel302 (שיחה) 13:19, 3 בינואר 2020 (IST)

מונית למפעיל. ‏– rotemliss – שיחה 22:32, 4 בינואר 2020 (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

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

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 08:14, 18 בינואר 2020 (IST)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

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

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

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 21:00, 22 בינואר 2020 (IST)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

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

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 16:14, 26 בפברואר 2020 (IST)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new תגובה tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

22:28, 8 באפריל 2020 (IDT)

הרשאת מפעיל

שלום, אני רוצה הרשאת מפעיל בגלל שאין פה אף מפעיל פעיל אני עורך הרבה בויקיספר ואני מוגבל בגלל מחסור בהרשאות. שמתי לב שיש בקשות מלפני שנים (!!!) בדף בקשות ממפעילים ואין לי מושג איך לפתור את זה. אני שואל את עצמי מי בכלל יתן לי הרשאות אם אין אף אחד פעיל .....תודה רבה, יהונתן (מוזמנים לשוחח איתי) 16:06, 24 במאי 2020 (IDT)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "כלי שיחה". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:36, 17 ביוני 2020 (IDT)

Feedback on movement names

שלום. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף if necessary. תודה!

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

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

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 22:52, 2 ביולי 2020 (IDT)

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

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:55, 9 ביולי 2020 (IDT)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 22:56, 9 ביולי 2020 (IDT) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

קריאה למינוי מפעילי מערכת חדשים

שלום לכולם,

הובא לתשומת לבי (במייל) שרוב מפעילי המערכת באתר אינם פעילים כרגע.

לפיכך, משתמשים פעילים המעוניינים להיות מפעילי מערכת (לפי הכללים המופיעים בדף על מפעילי מערכת ובדפים המקושרים ממנו), ומוכנים ומתאימים להשתמש בסמכויות המפעיל באחריות המתאימה (ראו w:ויקיפדיה:שימוש זהיר בסמכויות המפעיל) - מוזמנים לכתוב כאן את שמותיהם כדי שאוכל למנותם למפעילים. ‏– rotemliss – שיחה 21:22, 20 ביולי 2020 (IDT)

אני מעוניין להיות מפעיל. אני יודע איך להשתמש בהרשאה ואני מודע לזהירות הנדרשת. מגזין יהלום (שיחה) 22:32, 26 ביולי 2020 (IDT)

Rotemliss מגזין יהלום (שיחה) 18:57, 2 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

השבתי בדף שיחתך. ‏– rotemliss – שיחה 20:38, 3 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

תודה. מגזין יהלום (שיחה) 20:43, 3 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

אני מפעיל מערכת בויקיטקסט ובויקי נוספים מזה עשור. אשמח להיות גם כאן, בזהירות הראויה. -- (משתמש:פשוט [משה] • שיחה) • י"ד בתמוז ה'תשפ"א • 15:09, 24 ביוני 2021 (IDT)

Underwar

חשבתי לפנות לניר אדר, מפעיל אתר UnderWarrior, באפשרות להעביר את תכני האתר אל ספרי ויקי כאן. האתר מכיל מדריכים בנושאי מדעי המחשב, תכנות, אבטחת מידע, מתמטיקה ופיזיקה, למי שאינו מכיר. אולי גם לשמר את קבצי ה PDF המקוריים. רציתי לבדוק פה לפני שאני מבצע פנייה שכזו, בהנחה שיסכים, האם זה מהלך אפשרי, שתהיה לו הסכמה? Galzigler (שיחה) 04:00, 18 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

ניתן להעלות לכאן אך ורק חומר שהיוצר המקורי שלו הסכים מפורשות לשחרורו ברישיונות החופשיים CC BY-SA 3.0 ו-GFDL, ובכפוף לכל תנאי הרישיון. כלומר: צריך לבדוק מי היוצר המקורי של כל מדריך, ולקבל את הסכמתו המפורשת לשחרר את התוכן ברישיון חופשי ולהעלותו לוויקיספר (כולל קרדיט מתאים).

ככלל, העדיפות היא להעלות לכאן חומרים שנוצרו בידי מי שהעלה אותם, ולא להעלות חומרים מאתרים אחרים. ‏– rotemliss – שיחה 11:34, 21 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

את מרבית התוכן הבעלים יצר. לחלק הוא קיבל אישור להפיץ, בידי מי שביקש לפרסם את התוכן דרכו. Galzigler (שיחה) 19:19, 21 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

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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 centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

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

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 16:48, 26 באוגוסט 2020 (IDT)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

שלום. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף. תודה!

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 20:55, 10 בספטמבר 2020 (IDT) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

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שלום. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. תודה! --Quiddity (WMF)

00:25, 30 בספטמבר 2020 (IDT)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

שלום. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

תודה! Qgil-WMF (talk) 20:09, 7 באוקטובר 2020 (IDT)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

לקרוא את ההודעה הזאת בשפה אחרת • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

קרן ויקימדיה בודקת את המעבר בין מרכזי הנתונים הראשי והמשני שלה. כך ניתן יהיה לוודא שוויקיפדיה ואתרי הוויקי הנוספים של ויקימדיה יוכלו להישאר מקוונים גם לאחר אסון. כדי לוודא שהכול עובד כשורה, מחלקת הטכנולוגיה של ויקימדיה צריכה לקיים בדיקה מתוכננת. הבדיקה תַראה האם ניתן לעבור ממרכז נתונים אחד למרכז נתונים אחר בצורה אמינה. זה דורש מצוותים רבים להתכונן לקראת הבדיקה ולהיות זמינים לתיקון בעיות בלתי צפויות.

הם יכוונו את כל התעבורה למרכז הנתונים המשני ביום שלישי, 27 באוקטובר 2020.

לרוע המזל, עקב מגבלות מסוימות במדיה־ויקי, כל העריכות חייבות להיפסק במהלך המעבר. אנו מצטערים על ההפרעה, ופועלים לצמצמם אותה בעתיד.

יהיה ניתן לקרוא, אך לא לערוך, את כל אתרי הוויקי למשך זמן קצר.

• לא ניתן יהיה לערוך למשך שעה לכל היותר ביום ביום שלישי, 27 באוקטובר. הבדיקה תתחיל ב־14:00 לפי UTC (16:00 שעון ישראל).
• במקרה של ניסיון לערוך או לשמור במהלך זמן זה, ,תראו הודעת שגיאה. אנו מקווים שלא יאבדו עריכות במהלך דקות אלו, אך אנו לא יכולים להבטיח זאת. אם אתם רואים את הודעת השגיאה, יש להמתין עד שהכול חוזר לשגרה. אז ניתן יהיה לשמור את העריכה שלך. אבל אנו ממליצים להכין העתק של השינויים שלך לפני כן, ליתר ביטחון.

השפעות אחרות:

• עבודות רקע יואטו וחלקן עלולות להיפסק. קישורים אדומים עשויים להתעדכן לאט מהרגיל. במקרה של יצירת ערך שכבר מקושר במקום אחר, הקישור יישאר אדום לזמן ארוך מהרגיל. כמה סקריפטים בעלי זמן־ריצה ארוך ייאלצו להיפסק.
• יהיו הקפאות קוד בשבוע של 26 באוקטובר 2020. פריסות קוד לא חיוניות לא יתרחשו.

פרויקט זה יכול להידחות אם זה יידרש. ניתן לעיין בלוח הזמנים ב־wikitech.wikimedia.org. במקרה של שינוי תהיה הודעה על כך בלוח הזמנים. יהיו התראות נוספות בנידון. תוצג גרזה בכל אתרי הוויקי 30 דקות לפני שהפעולה הזאת מתבצעת. נא לשתף את המידע הזה עם הקהילה שלכם.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 20:10, 21 באוקטובר 2020 (IDT)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

שלום. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. תודה! --Quiddity (WMF)

00:10, 6 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2021 פתוח עכשיו! הסקר הזה הוא חלק מתהליך ההחלטה על מה יעבוד הצוות הטכני הקהילתי בשנה הבאה. אנחנו מעודדים את כולם להציע הצעות עד ל־30 בנובמבר או להגיב על הצעות אחרות על מנת לשפר אותן. הקהילות יצביעו על ההצעות בין 8 בדצמבר ל21 בדצמבר.

צוות הטכנולוגיה מתמקד בכלים לעורכי ויקימדיה מנוסים. אתם יכולים לכתוב הצעות בכל שפה ואנחנו נתרגם אותן עבורך. תודה, ואנחנו מצפים לראות את ההצעות שלך!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

20:15, 20 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:39, 30 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:55, 7 בדצמבר 2020 (IST)

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2021

אנחנו מזמינים את כל המשתמשים הרשומים להצביע בסקר משאלות הקהילה 2021. אתם יכולים להציע מעכשיו ועד 21 בדצמבר לכמה משאלות שרק תרצו.

בסקר זה, אנו אוספים את הבקשות שלכם לכלים חדשים ומשופרים לעורכים מנוסים. לאחר ההצבעה על הבקשות, אנו נעשה כמיטב יכולתנו להיענות לבקשותיך. נתחיל קודם כל עם הבקשות שקיבלו את התמיכה הגבוהה ביותר.

אנו, המפתחים, נמנים עם צוותי קרן ויקימדיה. אנו יוצרים ומשפרים כלי עריכה וניהול וויקי. אנו עובדים על סמך תוצאות סקר המשאלות של הקהילה. אחת לשנה אפשר להגיש בקשות/משאלות. לאחר שבועיים, ניתן להצביע על אלו שהכי חשובים לך. לאחר מכן, אנו בוחרים משאלות מתוך הסקר בשביל לעבוד עליו. חלק מהמשאלות עשויות להיפתר על ידי מפתחים מתנדבים או צוותים אחרים.

אנו מחכים להצעותכם. תודה!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

17:55, 11 בדצמבר 2020 (IST)