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Offener Aufruf für Individual Engagement Grants
Grüße! Vom 31. August bis zum 29. September nimmt das Individual Engagement Grants-Programm Vorschläge an um neue Tools, Community-stärkende Prozesse und andere experiementelle Ideen zu finanzieren, die die Arbeit der Wikimedia-Freiwilligen verbessern. Ob du eine kleine oder eine große Summe brauchst (bis zu $30.000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants kann dich und und die Projektentwicklungszeit deines Teams zusätzlich mit Projektaufwänden wie Materialien, Reisekosten und Mietflächen unterstützen.
- Spendenanfrage einreichen
- Im IdeaLab wird dir mit Deinem Vorschlag geholfen oder eine bevorstehende Hangout-Session
- Lerne aus Beispielen abgeschlossener Individual Engagement Grants
I JethroBT (WMF), 11:28, 5. Sep. 2015 (CEST)
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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1]
- A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2]
- You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3]
Problems
- There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [4]
- The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5][6]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
- The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7]
- The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [8][9]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10]
- Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [11][12]
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19:29, 7. Sep. 2015 (CEST)
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 the Wikidata query service. [13]
- Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [14]
- Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [15][16]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [17]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [18]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [19]
- The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [20]
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18:17, 14. Sep. 2015 (CEST)
Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015
- In der englischen Wikipedia wurden Hunderte "Black Hat"-Benutzerkonten geblockt.
- Die Jagd auf die Tirpitz
- Mein Leben als autistischer Wikipedianer
- Wikimania 2015: Aktualisierung der Inhaltsübersetzung
- Einsatz von Wiki, um in Kolumbien indigene Sprachen zu bewahren.
- Wenn das Kulturerbe ins digitale Leben kommt.
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
- There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [21][22]
- Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [23][24][25][26]
- More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [27]
- The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [28]
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [29]
- Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [30][31]
- UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [32]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
- The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [33]
- You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [34]
- Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [35]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.
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20:29, 21. Sep. 2015 (CEST)
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
- In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [36]
- UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [37]
- You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [38]
- When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [39]
- You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [40]
- The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [41]
- MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [42]
Problems
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
- There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [45]
- The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [46]
Meetings
- You can join the strategy process of the Reading department of Wikimedia Engineering. [47]
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.
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17:15, 28. Sep. 2015 (CEST)
Reimagining WMF grants report
(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)
Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.
Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 18:56, 28. Sep. 2015 (CEST)