Wikivijesti:Čaršija

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Kategorija vijesti

Kako kategorišemo vijesti? Stavljamo u kategoriju sa datumom, sa mjestom i sa temom? --Kahriman 17:47, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Da. Npr vijest da neka kompanija izdaje neki novi mobitel (npr.) treba biti u kategoriji Mobiteli ili sl, u kategoriji 16. oktobar, onda kategorija 2006 i mjesto stavi npr država u kojoj se nalazi sjedište zemlje? --Emx 17:58, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Ja se slažem. Trebali bi uvesti nešto kao Standardi Wikivijesti gdje bi trebala stajati ta pravila. I još nešto, kod internih poveznica, kako ćemo uvezivati članke. Ako npr. imamo u članku riječ Sarajevo hočemo li to uvezati sa člankom o Sarajevu na wikipediji ili nećemo uopće uvezivati? --Kahriman 20:18, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Rijeci se povezuju sa clancima na wikipediji. Sto se tice kategorija, trebali bi napraviti nesto slicno njemackim wikivijestima. Kada se ide na "Artikel erstellen", automatski je postavljen sablon koji se treba ispuniti sa osnovnim podatcima (grad, drzava, datum). Taj sablon sa podatcima pravi automatski osnovne kategorije. Osatle kategorije se ubacuju manuelno. Osim toga sablon pokazuje i status clanka (u zacetku, gotov, itd). Pogledaj te ovdje. --Elmir[demicx] 20:37, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Malo sam eksperimentisao sa sablonima i automatskim kategorijama. Napravljeno je po uzoru na njemacki wikinews. Nedostaje jos nekoliko osnovnih sablona koje cu poslije postaviti. Ako neko moze, neka preleti preko tekstova i koriguje greske. Isprobajte takodjer i novu funkciju "Napisi vijest". --Elmir[demicx] 22:09, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

MessagesBs

Trebali bi popraviti, prevesti i korigovati poruke na MessagesBs. Tekst sam prebacio ovdje. Ima strasno puno posla ali kada jedno to uradimo, necemo morati vise prevoditi interfejs na wikipediji i na svim pod-projektima. --Elmir[demicx] 21:01, 16 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Redakcija - Čaršija

Jel u Redakciji raspravljamo o novim vijestim, a na Čaršiji o interfejsu, problemima na Wikivijesti, odgovaramo na pitanja novih korisnika i sl.? --Kahriman 14:21, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Valjda... --Emx 14:52, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Logo

Postavio sam logo na Slika:WikiVijesti_1.png na Commonsu. Mislim da malo ova slova treba doraditi jer izgleda loše (ove kockice). Uglavnom, to je to. --Emx 14:52, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Ja cu popravit slova. --Elmir[demicx] 15:03, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Postavio sam novu verziju. --Elmir[demicx] 18:31, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Carsija

Ja sam posmatrao ostale Wikinews jezike. Ovako, Carsija (Village Pump) je kao na Wikipediji za bilo kakva generalna pitanja. A redakcija je "newsroom" sto je rasprava. Npr: 11. septembar 2001. bila bi rasprava o tom clanku na redakciji zato sto je mnogo vijesti objavljeno. Jednostavno ne mozemo samo ubacivati podatke bez diskusije, nebi bilo jasno ostalim. Zato imamo redakciju gdje mozemo imati diskusiju i onda konsensus, sa tim prebaciti na/objaviti clanak. Ovo se odnosi za velike dogadaje a ne za neku malu vijest. Ne treba rasprava oko utakmice BiH - Grcka, a treba diskusija o nekoj velikoj nesreci, itd. Hvala, (Morao sam brzo napisati zato sto trenutno imam rucak i nastavljam nastavu) Vernes 15:52, 17 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Čestitka povodom Bajramskog praznika

Svim koriscima i posjetiocima Wikipedije islamske vjeroispovijesti čestitam nastupajuće Bajramske praznike sa:

Bajram Šerif Mubarek Olsun

Od Vernesa Seferovića

Bajram Šerif Mubarek Olsun! --Emx 16:42, 23 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

En Wikinews provocation

Pogledajte englesku provokaciju: Wikinewslang. Sramota!!! "Bosanski Jezik" na cirilici. (ostavio sam poruku adminu koji je to napisao). Vernes 19:13, 29 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Vec sedam dana stoji cirilicno pismo. Vidim da Kahrmiman je vec ostavio zahtjev za latinicu prije sedam dana!!! Vernes 19:18, 29 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Ja sam ih dvaput upozorio na stranici za razgovor, ali oni to ne fermaju ni 2%. --Kahriman 19:21, 29 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Autorska prava

Zna li neko da li vijesti podliježu zakonu o autorskim pravima? Smijemo li kopirati tekstove sa drugim web stranica na wikivijesti? Možemo li uzeti vijest sa neke druge stranice i proizvoljno napisati tekst vijesti (ukoliko je on tačan)? --Kahriman 14:16, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Vijesti podlijezu autorskim pravima kao i sva druga djela. Sa drugih se stranica smije kopirati samo ako su "public domain". --Elmir[demicx] 15:15, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Znači prema tome ne možemo kopirati vijesti sa (npr.) sarajevo-x.com, ali ako pišemo vijest o nečemu o čemu ima članak na sarajevo-x.com, onda ga navedemo kao izvor? --Kahriman 15:25, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Ali mi stavimo izovore. Dakle, nije kao na wikipediji gdje ispane kao nas rad. Ja koliko vidim i na engleskoj wikinews direktno kopiraju sa web stranica (kao abc, BBC,...) Ja mislim da ako stavimo izvor onda imamo pravo da koristimo vijesti. (Gledajte kao da je citat iz neke knjige). Pozdrav, Vernes 17:16, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Nema veze da li je izvor stavljen ili ne, vijesti podlijezu autorskim pravima. Prepisivanje kompletnih vijesti sa drugih stranica (pogotovo komercijalnih, npr. sarajevo-x.com) ili stampanih izvora je krsenje autorskih prava. Sama objava tekstova na wiki projektima podlijeze odricanju autorskih prava. Ako mi ovdje objavimo neki tekst ili vijest jednog autora, odricemo se autorskih prava u njegovo ime (odricanje autorskih prava u ime treceg lica), sto nigdje nije dozvoljeno. --Elmir[demicx] 17:44, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Sta ako trazimo dozvolu od Sarajevo-x. Mada sumljam da ce nam iko dati zato sto nas narod je toliko sebican da nebi dao ista bez novca. Nasa svrha je pozitivna, za "promociju bosanskog jezika"! Wikinews treba da bude slobodan izvor vijesti. Ja ne znam ako mozemo napraviti sporazum sa web stranicima kao Srajevo-x. Dakle, moje pitanje je mozemo mi napraviti sporazum sa vanjskim stranicama i da li wikinews to omogucava? Toliko od mene, Vernes 21:44, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Ne vjerujem da ce ti ijedna komercijalna stranica dati dozvolu. Osim toga, mnoge stranice koriste vijesti novinskih agencija (npr. onasa, fena, itd.). Da bi dobile dozvolu da objave te vijesti, internet stranice su clanovi kod tih novinskih agencija i placaju takvu uslugu. Takve vijesti, iako objavljene na stranicama poput sarajevo-x.com, ostaju pod copyright samih novinskih agencija. --Elmir[demicx] 22:07, 31 oktobar 2006 (UTC)

Da, razumijem...ali ne savjetujem da na ove koje smo vec napisali postavimo sablon o krsenju autorskih pravila. Vernes 00:30, 1 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Moguća rješenja kršenja autorskih prava na Wikivijestima na "bosanskom jeziku" su jedino:

• brisanje svih vijesti sa spornim sadržajem
• označavanje svih vijesti sa spornim sadržajem posebnim šablonom (do korigovanja spornih sadržaja u nekom kraćem razumnom roku)

--Kaster 11:49, 1 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Za izvor informacija? Možemo li mi npr. otići na sarajevo-x.com pročitati vijest i tu vijest napisati na wikivijestima po svome, a kao izvor napisati sarajevo-x.com? Evo primjera --Kahriman 14:52, 1 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Da, tako može. Bitno je samo da cijela vijest ili dijelove vijesti nisu u potpunosti kopirani. --Elmir[demicx] 16:26, 1 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Znači ubuduće samo izmijeniti taj tekst a ne u cijelosti kopirati. Pozdrav, Emx 19:24, 1 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Sat na Wikivijestima (localtime)

Zasto varijabla na Wikivijestima {{LOCALTIME}} ne radi kako treba? Kod mene pokazuje sat manje (zimsko vrijeme) odnosno dva sata manje (ljetno vrijeme). --Elmir[demicx] 14:31, 8 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Internet rijecnik

Lijep pozdrav! Na ovako lijepoj i jako korisnoj stranici,mozda bi bilo korisno da se uvede i jedan, tako da se izrazim dio, gdje bi se opisivalo,objasnjavalo o internet pojmovima i nekim nazivima - rjecnik!Posto sam ja tek pocetnik na internetu i kompjuterima - nadam se da mi ne zamjerite, posto ovo je mozda vama malo nejasno, ali valjda ce te me shvatiti - mislio sam da se napisu objasnjenja za neke internet pojmove! Na primjer: kada smo na chatu i neki nick(osoba) komentira: "lol", lijepo bi bilo da se objasni pojam - lol: sta on znaci, od kada se koristi, kako je nastao na internetu i.t.d. Znam da vam ovo izgleda glupo, a mozda i ne, ali, vjerujte mi, ima dosta osoba, i mladjih i starijih, koji ne znaju sta znaci dosta spominjanih cesto,pojmova na internetu, kako ja to nazivam, net pojmovi - internet rijecnik! Ako ste zainteresovani, zamolio bih da se to nekako, ako je moguce realizuje,jer , evo, na primjer, ja do nedavno, nisam znao sta znaci patch, update, ili tako nesto slicno, a sve to zbog toga sto nisam zavrsio nikakav kurs informatike, vec jednostavno, kupio sam kompjuter, prikljucio se na internet i polako zapoceo sa ucenjem rada na kompu... i internetu! Jos sam laik, ali sam naucio za sada,najosnovnije. Zbog toga mislim,da bi korisno bilo otvoriti temu pod naslovom Internet rijecnik! Do vas je. Pozdrav.

Prvo, dobro nam dosao. Zamolio bih vas da se uclanite na ovu stranicu i Wikipediju (Slobodna enciklopedija). Wikivijesti su za "vijesti" ali to sto vi zahtjevate mozemo napisati na wikipediji. Clanak bi se zvao "Internet sleng" (eng:"Internet slang"). Jedini nacin kako mozete da popravite vase "kompjutersko znanje" je kroz dugorocno koristenje kompjutera. Nas cilj je da promovisemo bosanski jezik. Evo mi imamo: Wikipedija, Wikivijesti (ova stranica), Wikicitat, Wikiknjige, Wikiizvor i Wikiriječnik. Pozdrav, Vernes 02:11, 18 novembar 2006 (UTC)

Statistike

Da li je ovo moguće? Mislim na slijedeće: "Članci su do sada bili posjećeni 0 puta' i 2.144 puta izmjenjeni odkako..".

Tekst na MedijaViki:Sitestatstext je kopiran sa wikipedije. Neke od tih varijabli ($3 i $6) ovdje ne rade pa zato pokazuju 0. --Elmir[demicx] 10:25, 19 juli 2007 (UTC)

pojmovi

mene interesuje zasto nema objasnjenja za pojmove poput,prekogranicni efekt,otpornost,katastrofa?

Početna Strana

Htio bi dobiti ovlaštenje da mogu uređivati početnu stranu, jer se rijetko aktualizira sa novim vijestima, pa bi to mogao raditi i ja. Što niko ne postavlja neke vijesti. Ova stranica je skoro pa mrtva...

Pozdrav, Bushido 22:58, 11 decembar 2007 (UTC)

Jedino je glavna vijest na vrhu stranice zaštićena (preventivno zbog vandalizma) tako da je mogu mijenjati samo administratori. "Zadnje objavljene vijesti" se aktualiziraju automatski (ili pritiskom na link "osvježi stranicu"), a "Kratke vijesti" mogu da uređuju svi registrovani korisnici. --Elmir[demicx] 07:39, 12 decembar 2007 (UTC)

Nisam vidio onaj link osvježi stranicu prije. Mislio sam da to sdmini dodaju. Pošto mi je to išlo nekako sporo, htio sam da ja to preuzmem.

Hvala. Pozdrav, Bushido 20:43, 12 decembar 2007 (UTC)

Šablon:Vrijeme

Zašto je ova stranica zaključana??? Ja bi htio da ažuriram tu stranicu, ali ovako ne ide... 89.146.150.181 19:04, 16 januar 2008 (UTC)

Samo registrovani korisnici mogu da mijenjaju sadrzaj na sablonu. --Elmir[demicx] 09:14, 19 januar 2008 (UTC)

Alecs.bot

I'd like to request a bot flag for interwiki bot Alecs.bot.

• Operator: Alecs.y or fr:Alecs.y
• Bot user page: Alecs.bot
• Function: interwiki link maintenance
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Already has bot flag on:
  • Wikinews: fr
  • Wikipedia: als, ast, bs, de, eo, es, fr, it

Thank you! -- Alecs.y 14:13, 22 februar 2008 (UTC)

Urađeno (done). Greetings, Vernes 03:12, 23 februar 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Alecs.y 18:41, 23 februar 2008 (UTC)

Prijedlog

Jedan prijedlog: Kako bi bilo dodati na naslovnu izvještaj o brojevima lota lutrijabih.ba, nešto slično sam vidio na de.wikinews, pa eto ne bi bilo loše nešto slično, --Cer@ 11:17, 12 mart 2008 (UTC)

Request bot flag for Alexbot

I request the bot flag for Alexbot:

Operator:zh:User:Alexsh

Programming Language:Pywikipedia SVN

Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous), double redirect fix.

Other languages:All statistics in here

Thank you--Alexsh 19:22, 12 maj 2008 (UTC)

Urađeno. Done. Greetings. --Elmir[demicx] 20:11, 8 juni 2008 (UTC)

Cs interwiki

U početnoj strani nije češko interwiki, ja stranu ne mogu urediti. --Aktron 13:30, 3 juni 2008 (UTC)

Urađeno. Done. Greetings. --Elmir[demicx] 20:17, 8 juni 2008 (UTC)

Request flag for GrondinBot

I request the interwiki bot flag for this bot owned by who is sysop and bureacrat in french Wikinews.

Operator: Grondin, sysop and bureacrat in french Wikinews

Programming Language:Pywikipedia SVN

Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous), double redirect fix.

Other languages: GrondinBot, pl, it, sv, fr, sr, cs,

Existing edits  :

• Contributions sur fr
• Contributions sur pl
• Contributions sur it
• Contributions sur sv
• Contributions sur sr
• Contributions sur cs
• Contributions sur de
• Contributions sur nl
• Contributions sur ar

--Grondin 14:11, 9 april 2009 (KSV)

Urađeno. Done. --[demicx] 15:08, 19 april 2009 (KSV)

Thank's (Merci !)--Grondin 13:45, 20 april 2009 (KSV)

Bot flag request for User:VolkovBot

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Urađeno. Done. --[demicx] 07:31, 20 april 2009 (KSV)

Init category date

Would you want that my bot creates Category dates as this one : Kategorija:10. maj 2009, by example ?. It takes 5 minutes :-). I already did that for the next month. Tell me if you want or don't want. Thanks.--Grondin 16:43, 24 maj 2009 (KSV)

If you still have interest, we will be happy if you could do it. THX. --WizardOfOz 12:27, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Ok, I'll dot it soon.--Grondin 12:34, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

THX! --WizardOfOz ^talk 12:38, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Done with interwiki links.--Grondin 13:59, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

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I voted VERY STRONG OPPOSE. I remember the closur of the dutch Wikinews with only 30 days of inactivity, what was unfair.--Grondin 14:06, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Yes, such a project like nl.wikinews isn't so small community like the others, so it was very weird to close project on such language with so huge community. Some things aren't quit transparent I supose. --Cer@ 14:11, 1 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Rejected. --WizardOfOz ^talk 14:32, 28 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Well done. aferim raja! Sad se potrudimo da prestignemo en. ;)--Cer@ 15:44, 29 novembar 2010 (KSV)

opet smo stali :( imam osjećaj da vazda teret Wikinewsa padne na moja ramena :(--Cer@ 21:12, 21 januar 2011 (KSV)

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Urađeno. Done. --[demicx] 06:59, 25 novembar 2010 (KSV)

Thanks Mjbmr ^Talk 18:18, 27 novembar 2010 (KSV)

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If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is June 21.

To contact the mobile team, email mobile-feedback-llists.wikimedia.org.

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 08:26, 16 juni 2012 (KSV)

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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 19:53, 19 juli 2012 (KSV)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)01:48, 6 septembar 2012 (KSV)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:08, 10 septembar 2012 (KSV)

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Bot flag for AvocatoBot

• Operator: Avocato
• Programming Language(s): Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary: Interwiki & Fixing double redirects
• Contributions: see here
• Already has bot flag on: +230 wikis

Thank you.--Avocato (razgovor) 09:26, 12 septembar 2012 (KSV)

Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 02:43, 16 oktobar 2012 (KSV)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

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

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email [email protected]. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

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

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

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

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

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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

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

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:04, 19 januar 2013 (KSV)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

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

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

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

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:10, 30 januar 2013 (KSV)

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

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

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

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

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

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Request for comment on inactive administrators

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

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

Hello!

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

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

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

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 04:22, 24 april 2013 (KSV)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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[en] Change to section edit links

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

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

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

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

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

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Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:16, 20 maj 2013 (KSV)

Trademark discussion

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

Bot flag for Autobot

• Operator: BokicaK
• Programming Language(s): Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary: Interwiki & Fixing double redirects, dodavanje Commonscata
• Contributions: see here
• Already has bot flag on: +10 wikis

Hvala. --13:50, 17 juni 2013 (KSV)

X!'s Edit Counter

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 04:11, 23 juni 2013 (KSV)

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

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

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:14, 4 juli 2013 (KSV) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 12:56, 23 juli 2013 (KSV)

HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 18:47, 20 august 2013 (KSV) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 02:03, 24 septembar 2013 (KSV) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

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

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 4 oktobar 2013 (KSV)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 19:43, 8 oktobar 2013 (KSV)

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

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

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:32, 5 novembar 2013 (KSV)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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) 06:46, 16 januar 2014 (KSV)

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

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 februar 2014 (KSV)

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 Wikivijesti 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 februar 2014 (KSV)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). 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 new admin activity review here.

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

1. Emx (bureaucrat, administrator)
2. Emxbot (administrator)
3. Kal-El (administrator)
4. user 3 (bureaucrat)
5. Vseferovic (bureaucrat, 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 04:11, 10 mart 2014 (KSV)