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SiSwati is a great language. Unsigned 21:10, 17 December 2004 If 80.103.18.113 (Talk)--Jatrobat 18:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

How did you know? --58.178.193.100 12:58, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

my page won't show up

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I don't doubt that, but I've just created a page Umbuso weSwatini, and for some reason it doesn't show up anywhere. Can someone tell me why? On en:User Talk:Tintazul or pt:Usuário Discussão:Tintazul wiki, please. -- Tintazul 15:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Now, you can see it clicking Umbuso weSwatini. I don't Know what the problem was, but you figure as first contributor in its history at 15:05, 12 November 2005, Regards.--Jatrobat 18:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I think it was a cache problem. --MF-Warburg 13:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Could you please assist me to fill the red links on my user-page with content?

Could you please assist me to fill the red links on my user-page with content? --Peter Littmann 03:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Cache be delayed

Yestarday, i lost a lot of time trying to insert a template, because this wasn't functional. Today all is right. So, be care about it: cache be delayed. Regards.--Jatrobat 01:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Intfo 10, í-Nhlaba 12, 2007

Yebo. Intfo 10, í-Nhlaba 12, 2007:

• 00:22, Lídvúba 16, 2004 24.251.242.236:

Luphiko lwemSebenti wetiLwimi taVelonkhe. (1)

• 12:15, Khólwáne 13, 2005 Mswati III:

Ín-dlebé. (-)

• 15:05, Lídvúba 12, 2005 Tintazul:

Umbuso weSwatini. (2)

• 08:59, í-Ngongóni 19, 2006 219.44.182.224:

Japan. (-)

• 00:23, í-Nkhwekhwéti 29, 2007 Kanon6917:

Í-Afríka. (3)

• 03:30, í-Nhlaba 2, 2007 Jatrobat:

SiSwati. (4)

• 02:41, í-Nhlaba 9, 2007 Jatrobat:

Swatini lí-dolôbha. (5)

• 06:45, í-Nhlaba 11, 2007 Jatrobat:

Mswati III. (6)

• 20:57, í-Nhlaba 11, 2007 Jatrobat:

Nkulunkulu Mnikati wetibusiso temaSwati. (7)

• 18:38, í-Nhlaba 12, 2007 Kanon6917:

Sí-Ngísi. (8)

• 19:35, í-Nhlaba 12, 2007 Kanon6917:

IRiphabhulikhi yeNingizimu Afrika. (9)

• 22:48, í-Nhlaba 12, 2007 Kanon6917:

É-Mozambike. (10)

• 19:54, í-Nhlaba 13, 2007 Jatrobat:

Ngwenyamas Umbuso weSwatini. (11)

Ube neluhambo loluphephile.--Jatrobat 01:47, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Swati translations

If you've translations for..., list the here!

Main Page =>
Recent changes =>
Community Portal =>

MF-Warburg 17:02, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Swati WP admin

As you know, I can't speak swati. I think it would be better having a sysop who speaks swati. Anybody here who wants do that? Just a question... MF-Warburg 17:02, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I saw your answer. It's ok (of course nobody can be forced to be sysop) MF-Warburg 18:04, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Simo bucayi: ingoti

06:04, íNhlaba 23, 2007 (UTC): "kúvala Wikipedia siSwati": yebo 10 - cha 8.

09:23, íNhlaba 23, 2007 (UTC): Johannes Rohr ugúbhu kune "cha": "kúvala Wikipedia siSwati": yebo 10 - cha 4.

Upi Johannes Rohr?. Uhlela "0" yeWikipedia siSwati. Cha Usebénta weWikipedia siSwati... Ufuna kúvala iWikipedia siSwati. Ngiyabonga, umngani.

Nifuna "Kuchúbeka Wikipedia siSwati", nihámba: kúvala Wikipedia siSwati.--Jatrobat 17:37, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

election

You know, on July 11th my temporary adminship expires. As here is now a community, I request normal adminship. MF-Warburg 09:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

kúvuma (Support)

1. Ngivuma--Jatrobat 17:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC).
2. Support --Kanon6917 00:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

kúcoca (Comments)

• You are doing a very good job. Ube neluhambo loluphephile.--Jatrobat 17:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC).
• No veo xq no... u have my support.--Kanon6917 00:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Voting closed. [1] - sysop rights given ([2]).

Import?

Anybody here who wants transwiki import? (m:Help:Import). It can be used when you want to translate a page from English, Spanish and other Wikipedias and would be more GFDLly. MF-Warburg 10:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

It seems of interest, but i don't know how this function work. I'll see in meta to inform me.--Jatrobat 01:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

You must have admin rights. You go (as admin) to Special:Import and enter the page you want. Then it will be copied from another wiki to here and in the history you see all the users who edited in the other wikipedia. (We could have a page Wikipedia:Requests for import where non-admins can request an import). MF-Warburg 08:11, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

In meta look more complex than your explanation, so i believe is easy to do. I think could be useful, but perhaps more work to the admin (you).--Jatrobat 18:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but that doesn't matter me. I added bugzilla:10563 in which I request import from ve, st, zu, xh, af, en (official languages in South Africa) and es. MF-Warburg 10:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and now only admins can import pages, also User in the group "import" (Special:Listusers/import). MF-Warburg 11:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

wiktionary

Hello, maybe you would like to vote in my election on swati wiktionary: wikt:Wiktionary:Community Portal MF-Warburg 14:34, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

You've got my support ;) --Ooswesthoesbes 15:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Kuchúbeka

• Kúncúma (kúvala Wikipedia siSwati):
  

14 Khólwáne 2007

Yebo (kúvala): 8 / Cha (kuchúbeka): 7

Wikipedia siSwati uchúbeka

—Jatrobat 02:29, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Help young orphans in Swaziland

Be a Hero to the Orphans of Swaziland

The devastation of AIDS is creating a generation of orphans in Swaziland. Though it's one of the smallest of all countries, Swaziland has the world's highest rate of HIV/AIDS infection. According to the 2006 Sentinel Survey, 39.2% of adults have HIV. Because of that, Swaziland now has nearly 70,000 orphans who struggle every day for the bare necessities of life. The number of these young heroes is growing daily. Already, over 15,000 households in the country are headed by children who are trying to raise their little brothers and sisters by themselves.

Now, you can help them. For as little as US$20 per month, your organization, your class, your family or you alone can sponsor an orphan family through YoungHeroes.org.sz. Your support will help keep these children's families together and bring them the crucial food, clothing and education they need. Just as important, you'll give them hope by letting them know that someone cares. To learn more about how the program works – and how easy it is for you to offer your help – click here.

Regards (The original article was written by Khulekani Magongo, Young Heroes Administrator. He wrote to me saying, "Please spread the word around about our program to help us reach out to more needy orhpans here. ")

--Jose77 21:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

import access

As you know, import isn't activated yet, but to import pages regardless, I want to be a member of the import group. MF-Warburg 10:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

kúvuma (Support)

1. Ngivuma--Jatrobat 18:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
2. Ngivuma--Jose77 01:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

kúcoca (Comments)

Voting closed. Rights given [3].

Bot status for PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Operator: it:User:Pipep
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Have bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, az, bat-smg, be-x-old, bn, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, en, eo, et, fo, fur, fy, ga, hr, id, is, ka, ksh, la, lb, li, lv, mk, ml, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, pms, roa-tara, ru-sib, scn, simple, sl, sr, sv, th, tl, uk, vec, zea
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 09:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 19:24, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

support

1. Ngivuma MF-Warburg 09:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
2. Ngivuma--Jatrobat 06:39, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

comments

Welcome to Wikipedia siSwati, i am happy you are here. I hope you enjoy helping in this project. Thanks for your time and your contribution.

Ngiyabonga, umngani, ube neluhambo loluphephile.--Jatrobat 15:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill 16:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

kúvuma

• Ngivuma --MF-Warburg 17:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
• Ngivuma --Jatrobat 20:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
• Ngivuma --Kanon6917 21:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

kúcoca

• Sawubona:

Welcome to Wikipedia siSwati, i am happy you are here. I hope you enjoy helping in this project. Thanks for your time and your contribution.

Ngiyabonga, umngani, ube neluhambo loluphephile.--Jatrobat 20:27, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Betawiki: better support for SiSwati in MediaWiki

Hi. This time I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. We could translate all the messages here on Wikipedia to use your language for your language profile, but it wouldn't work for Wiktionary and all other Wikis, like English Wikipedia. Infact, of the 1792 messages in the core of MediaWiki, no messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of over 75 extensions, with 981 messages.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator priviledges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on meta and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! --MF-Warburg 10:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

• Currently 4.53% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.56% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. We also have a "Bounty" program .. for more details check out Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 09:26, 19 Mábasa 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.84% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.39% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, 03:28, 19 íNkhwekhwéti 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.77% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.35% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 08:51, 11 Khólwáne 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.72% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.44% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 14:26, 9 íNgci 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.46% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.36% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:28, 11 íNyoni 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.32% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.26% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 09:48, 18 íMphala 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.34% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 09:27, 11 Lídvúba 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.26% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 11:43, 15 íNgongóni 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 4.23% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 21:04, 12 Bhimbídvwane 2009 (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

Kúgcina WP-ss, kúkhetsa sysop

Sanibonani bangani. Ngifuna kúgcina (kúsíta) Wikipedia siSwati:

• Cha ngikhulúma siSwati (ss-0).
• Ngikhulúma: síSpanish (es-N), síNgísi (en-1).

Nifuna kúkhetsa Jatrobat yesysop?, siyabonga.--Jatrobat 20:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 21:42:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Kúvuma

• Ngivuma --Kanon6917 21:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
• Ngivuma --MF-Warburg 07:57, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
• Ngivuma --Ooswesthoesbes 13:43, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Kúcoca

• Sawubona! Desde que conozco en la Wikipeida SiSwati, es Jatrobat quien contribuye más y desinteresadamente, si bien no domina el idioma, conoce bastante de la grámatica básica y vocabulario, además de tener buenas intenciones con el proyecto. Apoyo la idea. Support. --Kanon6917 21:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot

moved to Wikipedia:Bots/Requests#AlleborgoBot.

Bot policy

I propose we make Wikipedia:Bots#Bot status policy proposal our bot status policy. --MF-Warburg 18:38, 16 Lídvúba 2007 (UTC)

Kúvuma

• Ngivuma --Jatrobat 07:50, 17 Lídvúba 2007 (UTC)

2008

Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2008 kahle

inhlanhla lenhle

siyabonga --Jatrobat 16:06, 24 íNgongóni 2007 (UTC)

Intfo 100

Ngiénta

09:33, 29 iNdlóvana 2008 Madudula: SíZulu (New page: == siZulu == lolu lulwimi lolukhulunywa kaZulu eningizimu nakaNgwane,bantfu labakhuluma lolulwimi babitwa ngemaZulu.loku kususelwa esibongweni lesibusako sakaZulu. '''Umlandvo''' kadzen...) → Intfo 100.

siyabonga Jatrobat 17:37, 29 iNdlóvana 2008 (UTC)

Sanibona malangeni lamahle

Ngicela kuphonsa insayeya kulolonkhe liswati lellitawufundza loku kutsi lankha ngemakhasi ekutsi sitfutfukise lulwimi letfu sibhale ngatsi hhayi bantfu babhale ngatsi loko labakucabangako njengoba kwenteka lapha. Ngaloko bekunene asisisebentiseni lesikhala lesiphiwe sona ngiyaphela lapho nine ba: BHuza kuletindze nguMasibekela

nemiti lemincane angayisibekela.

ufihle emehlo etfuntini letintsaba,

walingisa babutsi bembongolwane.

Madudula 08:52, 3 íNdlovu 2008 (UTC)

Global bots

Hello. So-called "global bots" are now technically possible. These are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots (the local policy or request page must explicitly allow them, or they won't get access on this wiki). The current requirements for global bots are:

• a global bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects;
• a global bot must have already been active on several wikis, with long-term contributions demonstrating its trustworthiness.

Does anyone object to allowing global bots on this wiki? I'll update the policy in a week if there are no objections. Thanks. MF-Warburg 19:54, 4 íNgci 2008 (UTC)

Ngivuma Jatrobat 14:15, 5 íNgci 2008 (UTC)

single user login request

can anyone help me to complete my global account m:User:Oscar by renaming this login to Oscar please? thank you! Oscar SUL 15:24, 15 íNyoni 2008 (UTC)

We have no bureaucrats here, so please make a request on Meta. --MF-Warburg 15:11, 17 íNyoni 2008 (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

Translatewiki.net update

• Currently 3.83% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 18:34, 30 íNyoni 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 3.81% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 16:17, 1 Lídvúba 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 3.89% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:23, 14 íNgongóni 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 3.88%Á of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 16:03, 18 Bhimbídvwane 2010 (UTC)

• PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 18:34, 30 íNyoni 2009 (UTC)

khisimusi lomuhle

Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2010 kahle

inhlanhla lenhle

siyabonga Jatrobat 12:58, 24 íNgongóni 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Localized logo

Hello!

The Wikimedia Foundation recently updated the official Wikipedia globe. We realize that a lot of projects have never had a localized logo in their native language, so we are making sure that we create logos for every Wikipedia project that we have. The only issue is: we can't figure out what should be on your localized logo. :-)

Could you please provide a translation for the following?

• Wikipedia
• The Free Encyclopedia

Please put the translation on my Meta talk page. Thank you! Cbrown1023 ingcoco 00:57, 25 iNkhwekhweti 2010 (UTC)

connectvity project

Hallo, my name is Anastasiya Lvova, I'm "duty" in Connectivity project. The essence of the "Connectivity" project is to study and enhance the coherence of Wikipedia, or, in other words, to improve hypertext navigation between articles. The project deals with deadends, isolated articles, non-categorized articles, transitivity of the category tree, etc.

We want to work with your language version, but we need configured MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage for it (with direct links to template namespace pages, for example, ru:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/de:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/fr:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage). Is it possible to set it up for our usage?

thanks in advance, Lvova 18:37, 12 iNhlaba 2010 (UTC)

Ngiénta. Jatrobat 21:00, 12 iNhlaba 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! I created the page. Lvova 21:40, 12 iNhlaba 2010 (UTC)

Kanon6917 to Kanon6996

I am requesting the change of my nickname at MetaWiki. I have four years on Wikipedia (more than 3 years on the Aymar Wikipedia), this old nick Kanon6917 is in disuse in other personal accounts since now my email is Kanon6996@... I am trying to unify all my accounts and also on Wikipedia with this definite nickname (I have just done so on the Spanish Wikipedia and on the English Wikipedia). Thanks in advance. --Kanon6917 13:53, 31 Kholwane 2010 (UTC)

Fundraising time is around the corner!

Hello Wikimedians, my name is Deniz and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between the Swati community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort, we recognize that banner messages that perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project, helping to translate and localize messages into Swati and suggesting messages that would appeal to Swati readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser.

Please translate this message into Swati if you can and post it below.--Dgultekin 20:43, 10 iNyoni 2010 (UTC)

Fundraising 2010: Beat Jimmy Challenge

The Fundraising Committee is issuing all interested community members a challenge: we want you to beat Jimmy. The appeal from Jimmy Wales and the corresponding banner have been tested head-to-head with other successful banners, and the results are clear: it's our best performing message... by a lot. This year we have a lofty fundraising goal; we need all of our banners to bring in donations like the Jimmy Appeal, but no one wants to keep the Jimmy banner up for two months. We want to run donor quotes, and other wonderful ideas, but we have to have banners that work as well as or better than the Jimmy appeal.

We've just released the highlights from a donor focus group, and the results of our donor survey. With one month to the launch of the fundraiser, the messages we test must be driven by data from our tests and surveys - we can no longer rely on instinct alone.

We've redesigned our fundraising meta pages with the Jimmy challenge; check out the survey results and propose/discuss banners that reflect these findings. Add the banners you think will 'beat Jimmy' here to be tested Tuesday October 12 against Jimmy. -Dgultekin 23:45, 6 iMphala 2010 (UTC)

Intfo 200

Ngiénta

23:16, 6 iNyoni 2010 ‎Jhendin: ‎IMakhedoniya [5,867 bytes] (Created page with 'Umjeka we-Makhedoniya Imbeji ye-Makhedoniya [[File:Europe-Macedonia....') → Intfo 200.

siyabonga Jatrobat 16:16, 16 iMphala 2010 (UTC)

2011

Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2011 kahle

inhlanhla lenhle

siyabonga Jatrobat 15:34, 24 iNgongoni 2010 (UTC)

Intfo 300

Ngiénta

04:11, 15 Bhimbidvwane 2011 ‎‎Jatrobat: Zombodze ‎[615 bytes] (Created page with ''''Zombodze''', inkhundla yeDistrict Shiselweni<ref>[http://www.ecs.co.sz/npdp/npdp_section13.htm Atalwe yeTinkhundla: ''The National Physical Deve...') → Intfo 300.

siyabonga Jatrobat 04:56, 15 Bhimbidvwane 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia 10

I am happy and proud to announce that the Swazi wikipedia has reached the three hundred articles. It is a small wiki, in May 2007 had only two articles and was proposed for deletion, so this is a great news. The Swati is spoken in Mpumalanga and especially in Swaziland, the first highest country in AIDS cases and one of the first also in poverty. Wikimedia works not only on "big projects" by capacity, also in "big projects" which are small by necessity. Thanks for your efforts. Happy tenth birthday to Wikimedia.

Kufuna: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

siyabonga Jatrobat 05:01, 15 Bhimbidvwane 2011 (UTC)

Multilingual Challenge

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Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011. Sign up now! " Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby 14:02, 2 iNkhwekhweti 2011 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 01:18, 27 iMphala 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 03:06, 22 iNgongoni 2011 (UTC)

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2012

Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2012 kahle

inhlanhla lenhle

siyabonga Jatrobat 00:21, 24 iNgongoni 2011 (UTC)

Not that I could translate the text above, but I wish everyone a Happy Holidays & a Happy New Year too :) --MF-Warburg 12:19, 24 iNgongoni 2011 (UTC)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis. Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 16:35, 15 Bhimbidvwane 2012 (UTC)

Language support group for Swati

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 15:04, 3 iNdlovana 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:19, 12 iNdlovana 2012 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 01:24, 2 iNhlaba 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk bokmål • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:40, 5 iNhlaba 2012 (UTC)

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

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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 20:25, 19 Kholwane 2012 (UTC)

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More opportunities for you to access free research databases

The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.

• Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries. There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries. There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.

You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:24, 16 iNgci 2012 (UTC)

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)02:13, 6 iNyoni 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

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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 13:38, 10 iNyoni 2012 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

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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) 03:13, 16 iMphala 2012 (UTC)

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 ppena@wikimedia.org. 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 ppena@wikimedia.org. 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.). 15:42, 19 Bhimbidvwane 2013 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

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

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

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:53, 30 Bhimbidvwane 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.

Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.

What is Wikidata?

Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.

What is going to happen?

Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?

Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata

To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:17, 21 iNdlovana 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 23:10, 6 iNdlovu 2013 (UTC)

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

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

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

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.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 20:23, 13 iNdlovu 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.

What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 17:12, 5 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

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Xhosa Wikipedia proposed for closure

Can anyone here contribute in Xhosa? See m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Xhosa Wikipedia 2. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:13, 9 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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

Hello!

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

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

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

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 05:21, 24 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

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I don't unaderstand why you want to manage from meta without the permission of the affected communities. In my opinion that is an intrusion. Regards. Jatrobat (talk) 13:15, 24 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

The proposal does not want to infere in the communities' decision. If the community decides to create an own inactivity policy OR if the community decides that inactive sysops can keep the rights, that will be respected. --MF-Warburg (talk) 15:29, 24 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanation, MF-Warburg. And why should anyone have to force them to adopt policies that communities not deem necessary?. I disagree. Regards.--Jatrobat (talk) 17:44, 24 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.

What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

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We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together. --Lydia Pintscher 19:21, 24 Mabasa 2013 (UTC)

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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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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. [4] [5]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [6]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [7]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [8]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [9]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [10] [11]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [12]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [13]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [14]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [15]
• 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. [16]
• 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. [17].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [18]

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