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Ausgebildete Erzieherin mit langjähriger Erfahrung muss Tagesmutterschein machen!?

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erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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)

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Hinweis

Der Vollständigkeit halber: w:Wikipedia:Tellerrand#Wikipedia/Wikinews-Pendants

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Umfrage zum FFW-Portal

Das neue Förderprogramm Freies Wissen soll dabei helfen, große Ideen zur Verbesserung der Wikimedia-Projekte schneller und besser Realität werden zu lassen. Teil des Förderprogramms ist ein Portal, auf dem gemeinsam Ideen zu Projekten entwickelt werden können. Auch die Entscheidung über die unterstützen Projekte soll auf dem Portal selber getroffen werden. Dazu gibt es noch bis heute Nacht eine Umfrage zu den Funktionen des neuen Portals. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn es auch aus der Wikinews-Community auch Feedback gäbe - insbesondere zu der Frage, wie das Portal in die verschiedenen WM-Projekte sinnvoll eingebunden werden sollte. Die Umfrage und mehr Infos zum FFW findet Ihr hier. --Sebastian Sooth (WMDE) (Diskussion) P.S.: Und natürlich ist das nicht die letzte Gelegenheit zur Diskussion dazu, der nächste Schritt werden dann die konkreten Umsetzungsvorschläge sein, die auch wieder auf WP:FFW veröffentlicht werden.

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 September 2014 16.22 (UTC)

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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

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

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

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Taylor & Francis � academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
• World Bank eLibrary � digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
• AAAS � general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)

New French-Language Branch!

• Érudit (en Francais) � Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
• Cairn.info (en Francais) � Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
• L'Harmattan � French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

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erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
• Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
• IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
• Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
• Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
• Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
• Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

We need help! Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your participation!

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

erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
• Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
• Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
• [[w:fa:H̩Ì�~/Ì':E¯�'Ì1'F|Magiran]] (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
• [[w:fa:H̩Ì�~/Ì':3ÌHÌD̩'|Civilica]] (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org

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erl. --Funke (Diskussion) 00:16, 31. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Zwei Fragen

1) Warum wird die Funktion des Wikinews:Aufmachers nicht mehr benutzt? Ich würde es begrüßen, wenn die wieder eingeführt werden würde.
2) Es ist eher ein Vorschlag. In der französischen Hauptseite werden die aktuellsten Nachrichten immer per Schriftzug oben angezeigt. Warum gibt es das nicht hier? Zweiter Vorschlag, eine Infobox wie in der spanischen Wikinews zu machen, in welcher jedes Land einer Infobox mit Karte und Flagge eingebunden wird, in dem die letzten Nachrichten des Landes vermerkt sind. Liebe Grüße TheAmerikaner (Diskussion) 21:50, 7. Apr. 2017 (CEST)

Ich finde Veränderungen prinzipiell gut, muss man schauen wie es gelingt und wie der Aufwand ist. Grüße, Conny (Diskussion) 11:11, 8. Apr. 2017 (CEST).

Wie kann man das programmieren? --TheAmerikaner (Diskussion) 21:43, 22. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Archivbilder

Ich bin gegen die Einbindung von Bildern, welche nichts mit dem Artikel zu tun haben. Wer sich informieren möchte, kann den Links beispielsweise zum Flugzeugtyp folgen und anschauen. Es erzeugt beim Leser Verwirrung (sucht Artikel und Realitätsbezug der nicht vorhanden ist), der Begriff Archivbild ist zudem nicht richtig definiert. Danke für Meinungen, Conny (Diskussion) 12:17, 19. Apr. 2017 (CEST).

Ich bin auch dagegen. Persönlich würe ich lieber Pressebiler benutzen. Ich weiß aber nicht, ob das mit den Lizenzen kompatibel ist. Die großen Medien verwenden auch Bilder mit dem Verweis auf die Agentur (DPA, REUTERS, ....) --TheAmerikaner (Diskussion) 09:14, 1. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Das geht leider (meistens) nicht, bei Fragen zu Lizenzen helfe ich dir gern. Siehe auch [1] . Grüße dir, Conny (Diskussion) 12:14, 21. Mai 2017 (CEST).

@Conny: Aber vielleicht, dass man sie nur in Wikinews veröffentlicht über einen eigegen Uploader. Jedenfalls kann man auf einigen Websites, zum Besipiel beipolitischen Themenin den USA oder anderen Staaten auf den Seiten gucken. Zu 95 Prozent sind die Bilder auf US-Regierungsseiten gemeinfrei oder mit den Lizenzen von Commons kompatibel. Flickr bietet über einen Lizenzbutton oben links verschiedene Lizenzen zur Auswahl, die auch für Wiki-Seiten geeignet sind. Da kann man ja dann ggf. vorbeischauen. --TheAmerikaner (Diskussion) 21:40, 22. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-18

Die letzten Technik-Neuigkeiten der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Teile diese Änderungen auch den anderen mit. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen Dich selbst. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Letzte Änderungen

• Das Inhaltsübersetzung-Tool läuft wieder. Es wurde auf Grund von Datenbank-Problemen deaktiviert. [2]
• Scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue 2017/16. You need to add mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ) block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. [3][4]

Probleme

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Änderungen dieser Woche

• Wegen der Data-Center-Tests wird es diese Woche keine neue Mediawiki-Version geben.

Treffen

• Du kannst an dem nächsten Treffen des VisualEditor Teams teilnehmen. Während des Treffens kannst du den Entwicklern erzählen, welche Fehler als Nächstes behoben werden sollen. Das Treffen wird am 2 Mais um 19:00 (UTC) stattfinden. Schau dir an, wie du teilnehmen kannst.

Künftige Änderungen

• All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [5]
• The Änderungen veröffentlichen, Vorschau zeigen and Änderungen zeigen buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [6]

Technische Neuigkeiten, ausgearbeitet von Technik-Botschaftern und zugestellt mittels Bot • Nimm teil • Übersetze • Lass Dir helfen • Gib Rückmeldungen • Abonniere oder deabonniere.

21:49, 1. Mai 2017 (CEST)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
• Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
• Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
• Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine

Expansions

• Gale – Biography In Context database added
• Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 20:52, 2. Mai 2017 (CEST)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.

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Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Dies ist eine Nachricht des Wahlkomitees der Wikimedia Foundation. Übersetzungen stehen zur Verfügung.

Die Wahlen haben begonnen für Wahlberechtigte bei den Wahlen 2017 für das Kuratorium der Wikimedia-Stiftung.

Das Kuratorium der Wikimedia Foundation ist das oberste Organ der Wikimedia Foundation, einer 501(c)(3)-gemeinnützigen Organisation, die in den Vereinigten Staaten registriert ist. Die Wikimedia Foundation verwaltet viele verschiedene Projekte wie zum Beispiel Wikipedia und Commons.

Die Abstimmphase läuft vom 1. Mai 2017 2:00 Uhr CEST bis zum 14. Mai 2017 1:59 Uhr CEST. Hier klicken um abzustimmen. Mehr Informationen zu den Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten und den Wahlen gibt es auf der Seite zu den Kuratoriumswahlen 2017 im Meta-Wiki.

Im Namen des Wahlkomitees
Katie Chan, Vorstand des Wahlkomitees der Wikimedia-Stiftung
Joe Sutherland, Community-Vertreter, Wikimedia-Stiftung

Veröffentlicht vom MediaWiki-Nachrichtenversand • Übersetzen • Hilfe

21:14, 3. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

Ab dem 9. Mai wird die Funktion "Zwei-Spalten-Bearbeitungskonflikt" auf allen Wikis als Betafunktion verfügbar. Mit der Funktion wird eine neue Oberfläche für das Lösen von Bearbeitungskonflikten bereitgestellt: Darin werden die in Konflikt stehenden Änderungen hervorgehoben, um das Kopieren und Einfügen von Textbausteinen sowie die Lösung des Bearbeitungskonflikts zu vereinfachen. Die Funktion erfüllt einen Wunsch der technischen Wunschliste der deutschsprachigen Community. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen, die Funktion zu testen!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16:29, 8. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-19

Die letzten Technik-Neuigkeiten der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Teile diese Änderungen auch den anderen mit. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen Dich selbst. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Probleme

• Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Kategorisierungen von Seiten in der Beobachtungsliste ausblenden in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Alle und nicht nur die aktuellsten Änderungen in der Beobachtungsliste anzeigen in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [7]
• There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [8]

Änderungen dieser Woche

• When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [9]
• Die neue MediaWiki-Version wird ab dem 9. Mai auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org, ab dem 10. Mai auf Wikipedia-fremden Wikis und einigen Wikipedias, und ab dem 11. Mai auf allen Wikipedias verfügbar sein (Kalender).

Treffen

• Du kannst das nächste Treffen des VisualEditor-Teams besuchen. Während des Treffens kannst Du den Entwicklern vorschlagen, welche Fehler am wichtigsten zu beheben sind. Das Treffen wird am 9 Mais um 19:00 Uhr (UTC) sein. Wie Du daran teilnimmst, erfährst Du hier.

Künftige Änderungen

• You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [10][11]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [12][13]

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04:24, 9. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Editing News #1—2017

In einer anderen Sprache lesen • Anmeldung für dieses mehrsprachige Rundschreiben

Schon gewusst?

Wusstest du schon, dass du deine Änderungen visuell überprüfen kannst?

Wenn du die Seite fertig bearbeitet hast, gib deine Bearbeitungszusammenfassung ein und wähle dann "Überprüfe deine Änderungen".

Im visuellen Modus siehst du dann Hinzufügungen, Entfernungen, neue Links und Formatierungen hervorgehoben. Andere Änderungen wie eine veränderte Größe eines Bilds sind in Anmerkungen auf der Seite beschrieben.

Klicke auf den Knopf, um zwischen visueller und Wikitext-Änderungsansicht zu wechseln.

Die Wikitext-Änderungsansicht ist das selbe Änderungswerkzeug, das in den Wikitext-Editoren und in der Versionsgeschichte verwendet wird. Du kannst das Benutzerhandbuch lesen und übersetzen helfen, das weitere Informationen über die Benutzung des VisualEditor enthält.

Seit dem letzten Rundschreiben hat das VisualEditor-Team die meiste seiner Zeit mit der Unterstützung für den 2017er Wikitext-Editiermodus verbracht, der innerhalb des VisualEditor als Beta-Funktion verfügbar ist und mit dem neuen visuellen Änderungswerkzeug. Ihr Arbeitsplan ist auf Phabricator verfügbar. Du findest Verlinkungen zu abgeschlossenen Arbeiten jede Woche auf mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Ihre aktuellen vorhaben sind das Beheben von Fehlern, die Unterstützung des 2017er Wikitext-Editors als Beta-Funktion und die Verbesserung des visuellen Änderungswerkzeugs.

Letzte Änderungen

• Ein neuer Wikitext-Editiermodus ist auf Desktop-Geräten als Beta-Funktion verfügbar. Der 2017er Wikitext-Editor hat die selbe Werkzeugleiste wie der VisualEditor und kann den Citoid-Dienst und andere moderne Werkzeuge verwenden. Gehe auf Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures, um die Neuer Wikitext-Modus auszuwählen.
• Ein neues visuelles Änderungswerkzeug ist im visuellen VisualEditor-Modus verfügbar. Du kannst zwischen Wikitext- und visueller Änderungsansicht wechseln. Weitere Funktionen werden später hinzugefügt. In Zukunft könnte dieses Werkzeug in andere MediaWiki-Komponenten integriert werden. [14]
• Das Team hat mehrspaltige Unterstützung für Fußnotenlisten hinzugefügt. Der The <references />-Abschnitt kann automatisch lange Einzelnachweislisten in Spalten auf breiten Bildschirmen anzeigen. Das macht Fußnoten besser lesbar. Du kannst für dein Wiki mehrspaltige Unterstützung anfragen. [15]
• Du kannst nun die Funktion deines Webrowsers nutzen, um die Schreibrichtung im neuen Wikitext-Modus zu wechseln. Das ist besonders für Nutzer von RTL-Sprachen wie Urdu oder Hebräisch hilfreich, die JavaScript oder CSS schreiben müssen. DU kannst Command+Umschalt+X or Strg+Umschalt+X verwenden, um das auszulösen. [16]
• Das Umschalten zwischen dem visuellen und dem Wikitext-Editiermodus ist jetzt einheitlicher. Es gibt ein Aufklappmenü, das die beiden Optionen anzeigt. Das ist jetzt beim Desktop- und beim mobilen Bearbeiten gleich und innerhalb von Dingen die Bearbeitungen enthalten, wie Flow. [17]
• Der Punkt Kategorien wurde an den Anfang des Seitenoptionen-Menüs verschoben (vorher hinter dem "Hamburger"-Symbol), um ihn leichter erreichbar zu machen. [18] Es gibt dort jetzt auch eine Funktion "Auf dieser Seite verwendete Vorlagen". [19]
• Du kannst jetzt <chem>-Abschnitte für chemische Formeln im VisualEditor erstellen (manchmal als <ce> verwendet). [20]
• Tabellen können aus- und eingeklappt festgelegt werden. [21]
• Das Sonderzeichen-Menü enthält jetzt Zeichen für die Silbenzeichen der kanadischen Ureinwohner und Winkel-Anführungszeichen (‹› und ⟨⟩). Das Team dankt dem freiwilligen Entwickler Tpt. [22]
• Ein Fehler führte dazu, dass manche Abschnitts-Bearbeitungskonflikte den Rest der Seite löschten. Er wurde behoben. Das Team entschuldigt sich für die Störung. [23]
• Es gibt ein neues Tastaturkürzel für Belege: Strg+Umschalt+K auf einem PC, oder Command+Umschalt+K auf einem Mac. Es basiert auf dem Tastaturkürzel für Verlinkungen, das Strg+K beziehungsweise Command+K ist. [24]

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Das Team arbeitet an einem Syntax-Kennzeichnungswerkzeug. Es wird zusammengehörende <ref>-Paare und andere Arten von Wikitext-Syntax hervorheben. Du wirst es an- und ausschalten können. Es wird zunächst im eingebauten Wikitext-Modus des VisualEditor verfügbar sein, vielleicht Ende 2017. [25]
• Die Art von Schaltfläche, die für Vorschau zeigen, Änderungen zeigen und zum Abschluss einer Bearbeitung verwendet wird, wird sich in allen WMF-unterstützten Wikitext-Editoren ändern. Die neuen Schaltflächen werden die OOjs-Oberfläche verwenden. Die Schaltflächen werden größer, heller und einfacher zu lesen sein. Die Beschriftung bleibt gleich. Du kannst die neue Schaltfläche testen, in dem du eine Seite bearbeitest und ans Ende der URL &ooui=1 anfügst, so: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 Das alte Aussehen wird nicht mehr möglich sein, auch nicht mit lokalen CSS-Änderungen. [26]
• Der veraltete 2006er Wikitext-Editor wird später dieses Jahr abgeschafft. Er wird von etwa 0,03 % der aktiven Autoren verwendet. Schau dir eine Liste von Bearbeitungswerkzeugen auf mediawiki.org an, wenn du dir nicht sicher du bist, welches du verwendest. [27]
• Wenn Du dies nicht in deiner bevorzugten Sprache liest, dann hilf uns bitte mit Übersetzungen! Melde Dich für die Mailingliste für Übersetzer an oder melde Dich direkt bei uns, damit wir Dir Bescheid geben können, wenn die nächste Ausgabe bereit steht. Danke!

—Elitre (WMF)

20:06, 12. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use ISBNs to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have enabled Citoid. [28]
• The Two Column Edit Conflict View is available as a beta feature on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. [29]

Problems

• The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [30]

Changes this week

• The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [31]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages. [32][33]
• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [34][35]

Older unreported changes

• Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [36][37]

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23:48, 15. Mai 2017 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider wird ab dem 17. Mai standardmäßig für alle Benutzer auf allen Wikis verfügbar sein. Die Funktion fügt eine Übersichtsleiste zur Versionsunterschied-Seite hinzu, die das einfache Wechseln zwischen Seitenversionen ermöglicht. Die Ansicht ist standardmäßig zusammengeklappt, und wird geladen, wenn sie angeklickt wird. Sie kann auch in den Benutzereinstellungen völlig ausgeschaltet werden. RevisionSlider ist in der deutschen, arabischen und hebräischen Wikipedia seit sechs Monaten standardmäßig aktiviert und seit acht Monaten auf allen Wikis als Beta-Feature verfügbar. Die Funktion erfüllt einen Wunsch von der Technischen Wunschliste der deutschsprachigen Community. Vielen Dank an alle, die RevisionSlider getestet haben und wertvolle Rückmeldungen zur Verbesserung der Funktion gaben! Wir hoffen, dass RevisionSlider euch weiterhin bei eurer Arbeit gute Dienste leisten wird.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16:39, 16. Mai 2017 (CEST)

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

Die Nachricht kann auf Meta übersetzt werden

Das Kernteam der Wikimedia-Movement-Strategie und Arbeitsgruppen haben mehr als 1800 thematische Aussagen aus der ersten Diskussionsrunde ausgewertet. Es stellte sich heraus, dass es fünf Themen gab, die in allen Diskussionen auftauchten, jede davon mit eigenen Unterthemen. Es handelt sich dabei nicht um die endgültig ausgewählten Themen des Strategieprozesses, sondern nur um einen ersten Arbeitsentwurf der Kernkonzepte.

Du bist dazu eingeladen, an stattfindenden Online- und Offline-Diskussionen über diese fünf Themen teilzunehmen. Die Diskussionsrunde findet bis zum 12. Juni 2017 statt. Du kannst über so viele der Themen wie Du möchtest diskutieren. Am besten beteiligst Du Dich an den Diskussionen über das Thema, das Dir am wichtigsten oder das Thema, das Dir am unwichtigsten ist.

Dies sind die fünf Themen. Jedes Thema hat eigene eigene Seite auf Mete mit weiterführenden Informationen - über das Thema und wie man an einer Diskussion über das Thema teilnehmen kann.

• Gesunde, integrative Communites
• Mehrwert durch Technologie
• Ein wahrhaft globales Movement
• Die angesehenste Wissensquelle
• Sich im Ökosystem des Wissens engagieren

Im Stratie-Portal auf Meta findest Du mehr Informationen über jedes dieser Themen, über die Disskusionen und wie man mitdiskutieren kann.

Diese Nachricht wurde mit dem MediaWiki-Message-Delivery-System verschickt im Namen der Wikimedia Foundation • Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen • Hilfe bekommen

23:08, 16. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
• There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [38]

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00:02, 23. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [39]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to control who can notify you on the Wikimedia wikis. You will have a user blacklist. When you add a user to the blacklist you will not get a notification when they mention you. You can test this on Beta Wikipedia. You can read more and give feedback on Meta. [40]

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14:18, 30. Mai 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [41]
• When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [42]
• You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [43]
• New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [44]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [45]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [46]
• You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [47]
• When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [48]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [49]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [50][51]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [52]
• The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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21:04, 5. Jun. 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [53]
• When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [54]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [55]
• Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [56]
• Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [57][58]

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17:29, 12. Jun. 2017 (CEST)

Tech News: 2017-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [59]

Changes this week

• irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [60]
• Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [61]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.

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17:44, 19. Jun. 2017 (CEST)

Proposal to improve Wikinews (Bitte übersetzen Sie dies in DEUTSCH)

Bitte übersetzen Sie dies in DEUTSCH / Please translate this to German

News needs to be NEW. We have a constant battle with time. Often the articles get stale and we feel bad about losing an important article.

There are a couple of things which should be highlighted.

• First: Often there is only one author for an article. It is primarily due to the factor of time. We can't wait for someone to add/contribute to the article.

• Second: And this one is very general. Often, we are free, and wandering around the Wikinews project. Sometimes reading the archived articles and discussions, or sometimes, the other language Wikinews.

I often do that. I search for interesting articles on Spanish Wikinews, sometimes German, French and Russian too. Sometimes, it is really helpful. Instead of wandering here and there [on the internet] for a story amongst so many crowd-pulling articles with misleading headlines.

So, what I have to say is: When you are free (let's assume you speak two languages A and B and your home wiki is A), please go to B Wikinews and translate an article from B to A. And at the same time, translate one article from A and submit it for review on B.

Translating articles from one language to another is better than writing from scratch. And it saves time. But please note that each language Wikinews has different policy for foreign language sources.

It saves a lot of time, and I know because I have tried it. Other editors on A and/or B can help you adding something to the article, if this increases participation.

So, you see, one user, who was active only on A Wikinews is now fairly active member of B Wikinews and is also helping A Wikinews to improve the output.

When I counted, there were 33 Wikinews. I am not asking you to dream about each WIkinews write a different story and due to translations, we can have 33 articles on 33 projects. No, with the current number of reviewers, this is something I would call impossible.

But, you see, with time and experience, more and more editors can be capable to review articles. Besides, when you contribute to A and B, so, sooner or later, you can review on both the languages. About "reviewer" status, there is something I would like to add later.

So, we might not be able to publish 33 articles, but we can surely improve output of all the Wikinews. I was talking about "one user who knows A and B". Consider other editors knowing A and C; E and F; X, Y and A; Z and C and other combinations which makes a network. I have been trying to create a table of users vs languages they know with their proficiency and user rights.

I request all of the users to use the babel templates on their userpages. And if you do not mind, time zones. Users for the Original Reporting and accredited reporters, please provide geographical information if you are okay with sharing that information. Country, city or province, whatever you this is correct.

I request the admins to prepare a list of admins, reviewers and active editors.

Now, there are some very important things, like: what are the policies of various language Wikinews.

Each language has its own practices. So, it is very important that we understand each policy, and finally, create a policy so that the articles are acceptable on every Wikinews.

I am not asking you to abandon your local guidelines. You can and may continue writing articles as per those guidelines. The others may choose to translate it, and add those features so that it is globally acceptable.

There is also a probability that nobody translates it. Many factors including things in real life can affect that. But our aim is to improve all of the Wikinews together.

If we try to stick to the threshold policy, made by considering all of the policies of various projects, we can produce better news articles.

The main challenge is to know which articles to translate? So, I thought, why not create a page on any Wikinews, which contains a table. It will have article headlines and all languages in which we have Wikinews project. Add a tick, star, plus or any fixed symbol next to the headlines for which it is written.

So, when an editor visits the page, he or she can see what are the current articles (make sure you mention the date on which the event took place). See for which languages it has been translated and if there is a language he or she can translate, do it.

I would not expect a Canadian editor to know or understand Russian (for example) or a Polish to understand Arabic (for example), but it is not necessary. But speaking for general public and to make this task [understanding only the headlines] simpler, editors can use machine translation.

But this should be only done when you (editors) are free, on Wikinews and probably looking for something to write.

This will improve the content of Wikinews as well as contributors.

Editors who can speak more than one languages, please help translating [local] policies, style guide and other [important] regulations.

If you have any idea to make "looking for the translated articles in the table" better, please share with us.

Thank you very much for your time and patience.

The entire content is licensed under CC0 1.0/Public Domain.
Acagastya (Diskussion) 08:50, 24. Jun. 2017 (CEST)