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IMPORTANT: Admin activity reviewHello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review. We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards. However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 04:59، 9 يناير 2015 (يو تى سى) Removal of private informationHello. (My appologies if this is not the correct place to notify this) We received a request on OTRS (for OTRS members, see ticket:2015020410017532) from the actress Lauren Phoenix which is having problems with the disclosure of her birth name. Currently she ended her career but she is receiving threats from religious fanatics. Since there are no reliable sources for her birth name, I removed her name from this Wiki but my edit was reverted. I would ask for members of this community to remove that info (and suppress all revisions where it can be found) in respect to her privacy and also to prevent the project from being unnecessarily sued for disclosing private information. Thank you for your understanding. [Global proposal] m.ويكيبيديا.org: (الكل) تعديل الصفحات Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like arz.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment! Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32، 1 مارس 2015 (يو تى سى) Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving contentThis March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31. All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge! (Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 20:01، 4 مارس 2015 (يو تى سى) SUL finalization updateHi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45، 13 مارس 2015 (يو تى سى) Stewards confirmation rulesHello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --{{small|MF-W 16:12، 10 ابريل 2015 (يو تى سى) This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available. .svg){kind=logo} 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 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud 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, Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help Please test VisualEditor in your language! It is very important to us at the Editing Department that VisualEditor works in every language, for every user. VisualEditor's editing environment is a browser ContentEditable element. This means that your input method editor (IME) should already know how to work with it. However, to make VisualEditor correctly edit wiki pages, we have to stop browsers in lots of ways from breaking the page. Sometimes this can interfere with IMEs. To make sure we work in your IME, we need your help: please see wikimedia.github.io/VisualEditor/demos/ve/desktop-dist.html#!pages/simple.html. This is the core system inside VisualEditor which lets you write and edit. It is different from the full editor, and some of the tools you are used to will be missing. We're interested in particular in whether you can write text at all, what happens when you select different candidate texts, and how VisualEditor behaves in general. More details, and some early test results, are provided here: mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/IME_Testing#What_to_test. We would love to hear from every language, and especially languages which use IMEs, like Japanese, Korean, Indic languages, Arabic and others. Thank you for your help. Yours,  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, Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help  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, Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot coreSorry for English, I hope someone translates this. 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, Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge Wikipedia:Galicia 20 - 20 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve and translate this list of 20 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (مناقشه) 10:03، 9 يونيه 2015 (يو تى سى) HTTPSApologies for writing in English. Hi everyone. Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals. Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified. Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions. 21:57، 19 يونيه 2015 (يو تى سى) Content Translation beta-feature is now available
Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia. To start translating:
Since this is the first time we have installed the tool on this Wikipedia, there are chances that there may be some problems or service disruptions which we are not yet aware of. We will be monitoring the usage to check for any failures or issues, but please do let us know on the Content Translation talk page or through Phabricator if you spot any problems. For more information, please read the information available in the User Guide. Our announcement is written only in English, and we would really appreciate if this message can be translated to reach more users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's Language Engineering Team:--Runab WMF (مناقشه) 16:20، 24 يونيه 2015 (يو تى سى) Please join the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon Hello! I'm pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the VisualEditor Translathon. It is a translation rally, focused on interface messages and help pages related to VisualEditor. In order to participate, you need to sign up on the Translathon page on TranslateWiki. The top 3 contributors will each win a Wikipedia t-shirt of their choice from the Wikipedia store[1]. Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualify[2]. If you are at Wikimania Mexico this year, you are also welcome to join a related sprint during the hackathon in Workplace 1 - Don Américo, Thursday 16 July at 4pm (CDT) at the conference venue, so you can meet other fellow translators and get support if you need some. Interface messages have the priority. You will need to create an account at translatewiki.net in order to work on them, if you don't have one. It is recommended to create the account ASAP, so that it can be confirmed in time. You can also help translate documentation pages about VisualEditor on mediawiki.org. You can use your Wikipedia account to work there. You will find instructions, links and other details on the Translathon page. Thanks for your attention, and happy translating! Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images-3-phenyl-cyclohexanone.gif) -3-phenyl-cyclohexanone.png) There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side) This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 05:07، 24 يوليه 2015 (يو تى سى) What does a Healthy Community look like to you? Hi, Why get involved?The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
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Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming(Sorry for writing in English) When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12. We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team. A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how. How to use it, once it is enabled:
Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 17:46، 3 اغسطس 2015 (يو تى سى) Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here(Sorry for writing in English) Hi everyone, As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32، 12 اغسطس 2015 (يو تى سى) How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can. Hello, The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:
Feedback is welcome in any language. With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF), m:Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. (Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 23:46، 18 اغسطس 2015 (يو تى سى) Introducing the Wikimedia public policy siteHi all, We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission. Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/ Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog. Thanks, Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:13، 2 سبتمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) (Sent with the Global message delivery system) 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) 16:56، 28 سبتمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) ممكن حاجة يا جدعان...هو ليه فيه علم مصر ع الويكي دي؟ شو علاقة دولة بلغة يا متعلمين يا بتوع المدارس؟ 105.64.9.202 06:41، 3 نوفمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) عشان دي ويكيبيديا مصري باللهجة العامية المصرية.BiKaz (مناقشه) 04:55، 2 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) Community Wishlist SurveyHi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome. The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on. For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist. While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English. Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23. We're looking forward to hearing your ideas! Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors neededHello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details. If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members. Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:48، 10 نوفمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) Harassment consultationرجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.) 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 Community Wishlist SurveyHi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome. We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted. Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14. The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think! Community Tech via MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 14:38، 1 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) مسح الفايلات اللى مش مستعمله و من غير ترخيص او مصدر@Ghaly وM777: صباح الخير؛ انا باقترح مسح الفايلات اللى مش مستعمله و فى نفس الوقت مالهاش ترخيص و/او مصدر؛ و عدد الفايلات دى حوالى 200 فايل؛ الفايلات دى بتتمسح فى ويكيبيديا انجليزى تحت البند en:WP:F4؛ بما ان الفايلات دى مش مستخدمه فى اى مقاله فمسحها مش حياثر على المقالات الموجوده فى اى حاجه. --Meno25 (مناقشه) 12:08، 5 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى)
رفع بلوك الايبيهات اللى ممنوعه منع دايم@Ghaly وM777: صباح الخير؛ انا باقترح رفع بلوك الايبيهات اللى ممنوعه منع دايم او لفترات طويله (اكتر من 6 شهور؛ حوالى الف ايبى) فى ويكيبيديا مصرى لان عناوين الايبى عاده بتكون dynamic يعنى اللى بيستخدم الايبى بيتغير كل فتره قصيره؛ و الاستمرار فى منع الايبيهات دى لفتره طويله بيحرم عدد كبير من اليوزرز من المساهمه فى ويكيبيديا؛ الكلام ده مكتوب بالتفصيل فى صفحه المنع بتاعه ويكيبيديا انجليزى However, IP addresses should almost never be indefinitely blocked. Many IP addresses are dynamically assigned and change frequently from one person to the next, and even static IP addresses are periodically re-assigned or have different users. In cases of long-term vandalism from an IP address, consider blocks over a period of months or years instead. Long-term blocks should never be used for isolated incidents, regardless of the nature of their policy violation. IP addresses used by blatant vandals, sockpuppets and people issuing legal threats should never be blocked for long periods unless there is evidence that the IP address has been used by the same user for a long time. و عموما الويكيات الصغيره متراقبه من الستيواردات و اعضاء m:SWMT، و لو فيه مخرب اتجاوز كل ده فانا و ام777 بتابع الاعمال الاداريه فى ويكيبيديا مصرى و جاهزين علشان نمنعه. --Meno25 (مناقشه) 12:20، 5 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى)
This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.  As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday! People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts. Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:
Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed. If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland. Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15! Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:59، 18 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى) • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك • مساعده تخفيف حمايه المقالات و الصفحات اللي مش مهمه اللي محميه حمايه كامله@Ghaly وM777: صباح االخير؛ انا بقترح تخفيف حمايه المقالات و الصفحات اللى مش مهمه اللى محميه حمايه كامله لمده دايم او لفتره طويله (اكتر من شهر)؛ عدد الصفحات دى حوالى 200 صفحه؛ ويكيبيديا ويب سايت مفتوح للكل و المفروض اننا مانمنعش اليوزرز انهم يعدلوا المقالات لفتره طويله؛ بصوا مثلا على اللى مكتوب فى en:Wikipedia:Protection policy#Vandalism: Pre-emptive full protection of articles is contrary to the open nature of Wikipedia. و عموما الويكيات الصغيره متراقبه من الستيواردات و اعضاء m:SWMT، و لو فيه مخرب اتجاوز كل ده فانا و M777 بنتابع الاعمال الاداريه فى ويكيبيديا مصرى و جاهزين علشان نمنعه. --Meno25 (مناقشه) 10:59، 26 ديسمبر 2015 (يو تى سى)
ام كلثومياريت يتم اضافة النوتة الموسيقية لكل اغنية من اغاني السيدة ام كلثوم. هذا يزيد من اهمية هذة الصفحة — التعليق اللى مش ممضى ده كتبه AwadHammouda (مناقشه • تعديلات) القالب ده هو هجوم على مشروع من مشروعات مؤسسه ويكيميديا اللى هو ويكيبيديا مصرى، ووجود القالب ده مش منطقى، لو فيه حد بيعارض ويكيبيديا مصرى فممكن يروح يساهم فى ويكى تانى؛ بأقترح مسح القالب. --Meno25 (مناقشه) 01:53، 4 يناير 2016 (يو تى سى) @Meno25: أنا معاك مينو، وين المشكل في وجود ويكيبيديا مصرية، اي يوزر ادا ما بدو يساهم هنا، بسيطة يرور لويكي تانيه، لازم يتمسح القالب ده.Jnaga (مناقشه) 02:18، 4 يناير 2016 (يو تى سى)
Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!
A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below: Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 01:50، 5 يناير 2016 (يو تى سى) 2016 WMF Strategy consultation
Hello, all. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.) Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation. Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :) If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org. I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 19:06، 18 يناير 2016 (يو تى سى) Egyptian is missingEgyptian is missing from this page:
The visual editor is coming to this wiki Hello. Please excuse the English. رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك. شكرًا لك! Hi everybody, My name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm here to let you know that the visual editor is coming to editors at this Wikipedia soon. It allows people to edit Wikipedia articles as if they were using word processing software. You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test the visual editor right now. To turn it on, select "تجريبى" in your preferences. Choose "المحرر المرئي" and click save. When it is enabled, you will press the "تعديل" button to edit an article in the new software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "مصدر التعديل". After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either the visual editor or the current wikitext editor. For more information about how to use the visual editor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide. More information about preparing for the visual editor is posted here.
Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:29، 5 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) سؤال عن لينكات المقالات باللغات التانيهاللغات اللى على الجنب راحت فين؟ انا دورت ولقيت مشروع ويكى داتا https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata بس موش فاهم اوى ممكن حد من السيسوب او الادمن يفهمنى, انا كنت واخد على الطريقه القديمه اللى بتضيف وصلات اللغات التانيه فى نفس المقاله بس مكتوب فى الويكى داتا ان استخدام الطريقه الجديده هوا الاصح. ميشيل (مناقشه) 15:43، 6 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) @WikiMichel: ازيك يا ميشيل، عاوزك توضح لى سؤالك لانى من المغرب وقفشت منك شويه بس، ايه الصفحة اللى عايز تعملها وصلة اللغات؟؟ -- Jnaga📩 01:54، 8 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) @Jnaga: انا الحمدالله, الصفحات اللى قصدى عليها: المتحف اليونانى الرومانى و متحف اسكندريه القومى وكمان انا لقيت رأفت ترجم بتاعة المتحف القومى قبل كده بس ترجمة حرفيه وبكده هى موش بالمصرى وانا عايز ادمجهم فى مقاله واحدة بس موش عارف ازاى. شكرا لمساعدتك و تشرفنا ميشيل (مناقشه) 00:40، 9 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) ترشيح El Gaafary سيسوب@Ghaly وM777 وRaafat: صباح الخير يا جماعه؛ انا باقترح ترشيح @El Gaafary: سيسوب، و ده لانو يوزر نشيط جدا و بيساهم فى ويكيبيديا مصرى من فتره طويله (5 سنين)؛ ايه رأيكو؟ --Meno25 (مناقشه) 06:03، 19 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) صباح النور يا باشمهندس، هو الجعفرى نشيط ومساهم من زمان مفيش حد ينكر مجهوده، بس انا الصراحه شايفه بيفرض اراءه ومعتقداته الشخصيه فى الموسوعه هنا ومش بيستجيب لاى ملحوظات او تنبيهات من المستخدمين التانيين، زى مثلا موضوع تصنيف عاهرات وممثلات عريانه اللى لسه مصمم يضيفهم لصفحات الممثلات رغم انه اتنبه عليه قبل كده من samsam، ده بيبين اد ايه ممكن يعمل مشاكل لو خد صلاحيات سيسوب. بس على العموم هو مستخدم ممتاز مفيش شك--M777 ✉ 14:10، 22 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى) صور وحشةالصور دي مالهاش لا مصدر ولا ترخيص ومش ممكن تتنقل لكومونز، لو سمحتو امسحوها --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (مناقشه) 16:36، 21 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى)
Reminder: the visual editor is coming to this wiki soon Hello again. Please excuse the English. رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك. شكرًا لك! This is a reminder that the visual editor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia soon. As of this writing, the team is not aware of any issues specific to this language that should prevent the new software to be deployed here; therefore, please do let us know if you find any problems instead. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. There is a short guide at mediawiki.org that you can follow (as if it was a "checklist") to learn about the community work necessary to adapt the visual editor, and its referencing system in particular, to your community's needs. If you can translate from English into this wiki's language, or know anyone who can, please follow the links below, as this language still has 0% progress in translations (0% or slightly above, for interface messages). You'll help your community get the best possible experience when it comes to interface messages and documentation related to the visual editor. After you click on any links, your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. The interface is hosted at https://translatewiki.net; you'll need an account if you never translated there before. The user guide lives at Mediawiki.org, for which you can use your regular Wikipedia account. You're welcome to contact me personally whenever you need help. Thank you for your cooperation, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:34، 26 فبراير 2016 (يو تى سى)
سؤال محيرني بخصوص عمل صفحات عن اشخاصمعلش يا سادة اذا كانت الصفحة دي هي المكان الغلط للسؤال بس انا حاولت ابحث عن مكان مناسب اكتر للسؤال اللي في بالي ووصلت هنا. السؤال هو: هل مسموح عمل صفحة او كتابة مقالة على الويكي دي عن اي شخص ولا في معايير معينة لازم الشخص موضوع المقالة يستوفيها قبل كتابة مقالة عنه؟--Dunkelgrotte (مناقشه) 14:56، 18 مارس 2016 (يو تى سى) Server switch 2016The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April. Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case. Other effects:
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
No non-essential code deployments will take place. This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:07، 17 ابريل 2016 (يو تى سى) Wikipedia to the MoonHello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here. This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35، 21 ابريل 2016 (يو تى سى) IMPORTANT: Admin activity reviewHello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review. We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards. However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MarcoAurelio (مناقشه) 08:48، 18 مايو 2016 (يو تى سى) ويكيبيديا:محريرين/مراجعين ... الخمش ممكن يكون في ويكيبيديا مصري زي ويكيبيديا عربي محريرين ومراجعين وزي كده علشان تبقا زي ويكيبيديا عربي--مصطفى حماده (مناقشه) 05:11، 21 مايو 2016 (يو تى سى)مصطفى حماده ممكن اداريأنا جديد هنا، عايز أكلم أي اداري هنا علشان أستفسر منه على شوية حاجات كده--حوحو304 (مناقشه) 04:06، 23 مايو 2016 (يو تى سى)حوحو304 يا سادة ويكيبيديا مصري لسه مكتملش بشكل نهائي محتاج مساعدة من أي اداري هنا علشان نهيأ الويكي ده ارجو ان تاخذوا ما كتبت على صفحتي ازيكم بعين الاعتبار Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begunHello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31، 10 يونيه 2016 (يو تى سى) Compact Links coming soon to this wikiرجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك  Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation. Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06، 29 يونيه 2016 (يو تى سى) Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki todayرجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation. From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English). Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05، 1 يوليه 2016 (يو تى سى) Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to editThree weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10، 1 يوليه 2016 (يو تى سى) The visual editor will be enabled on this wiki in some daysHello again. Please excuse the English. رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك. شكرًا لك! As per previous announcements in the past months, the visual editor (المحرر المرئي) will be enabled at this Wikipedia in some days. It allows people to edit articles as if they were using a typical word processor. Here's a quick explanation of what is going to happen: you can find a more detailed one, with pictures, at mediawiki.org. 
Thank you! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 15:48، 3 اغسطس 2016 (يو تى سى) Save/PublishThe Editing team is planning to change the name of the “سييڤ الصفحه” button to “نشر الصفحه” and “نشر التغييرات”. “نشر الصفحه” will be used when you create a new page. “نشر التغييرات” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2] This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens. If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “نشر الصفحه” and “نشر التغييرات”. The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “سييڤ الصفحه” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “سييڤ الصفحه” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem. Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise. Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:03، 9 اغسطس 2016 (يو تى سى) The visual editor is now active hereHello again. This message is only available in English at this time: رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك. شكرًا لك!
As some of you have noticed, this Wikipedia now has the visual editor (المحرر المرئي) enabled for all registered users. The rollout to logged-out users will likely happen in a week or so. For an explanation of how the editing system now works and how to choose/go back to your favorite setting, please see my previous announcement above. If you wish to change your editing system preferences now, this can be done from this link to your Preferences --> تعديل --> وضع التحرير:. All edits using the visual editor will be tagged with "تحرير متشاف" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories. To access the User Guide for the visual editor, click on the "(?)" icon in its toolbar. Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues directly in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback; by all means, feel free to also ping or contact me directly if you prefer. In case of emergency (like an unexpected bug causing widespread problems), please contact James Forrester, the product manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org or on IRC in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel. Happy editing! Respectfully, Elitre (WMF) 15:25، 10 اغسطس 2016 (يو تى سى) PS: Are you seeing interface messages that are not in this wiki's language? Please fix this by providing translations here. Translations may be also provided for the user guide. Please contact me if you want guidance in contributing translations!
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From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work! Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:56، 12 سبتمبر 2016 (يو تى سى) Creative Commons 4.0Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki. Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:35، 6 اكتوبر 2016 (يو تى سى) The Wikimedia Developer Summit wants youThe Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9–11, 2017. We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers, and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates. Important deadlines:
More information: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit Subscribe to weekly updates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Td5wfd70vptn8eu4 MKramer (WMF) (talk) 19:07، 14 اكتوبر 2016 (يو تى سى)Editing news n.3-2016Sorry for the delay in delivering this newsletter!
Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor? 
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor. Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support. Recent changes
Future changesThe visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic. The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list. Let's work together
Password resetI apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽ We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords. Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue. In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords. Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (مناقشه) / MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 23:59، 13 نوفمبر 2016 (يو تى سى) Adding to the above section (Password reset)Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 00:11، 14 نوفمبر 2016 (يو تى سى) Help test offline WikipediaHello! The Reading team at the Foundation is looking to support readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year. We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people who would be interested in testing them. If you’d like to learn more and give us feedback, check out the page on Meta! Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 20:08، 29 نوفمبر 2016 (يو تى سى)
New way to edit wikitextSummary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext. All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "تفعيل معظم الميزات التجريبية تلقائيًا". The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do. This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you. James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31، 14 ديسمبر 2016 (يو تى سى) TranslationCan someone translate en:Elkader, Iowa? thanks in advance. Jihaim (مناقشه) 12:28، 24 ديسمبر 2016 (يو تى سى) Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideasAt the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs, developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots, dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and documentation. The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday, February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18. There's no time to lose. Propose your ideas before the end of January, either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones. You can find instructions on the wiki page. Questions and feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page. The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch this space (or even better, the wiki page) - SSethi_(WMF) January 21st, 2017 3:07 AM (UTC)Developer Wishlist Survey: Vote for ProposalsAlmost two weeks ago, the Technical Collaboration team invited proposals for the first edition of the Developer Wishlist survey! We collected around 77 proposals that were marked as suitable for the developer wishlist and met the defined scope and criteria. These proposals fall into the following nine categories: Frontend, Backend, Code Contribution (Process, Guidelines), Extensions, Technical Debt, Developer Environment, Documentation, Tools (Phabricator, Gerrit) and Community Engagement. Voting phase starts now and will run until February 14th, 23:59 UTC. Click here on a category and show support for the proposals you care for most. Use the 'Vote' and 'Endorse' buttons next to a proposal to do so. What happens next? Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy processNote: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki. The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard. The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction. Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page. Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31، 15 فبراير 2017 (يو تى سى) • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك • Get help Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy processNote: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki. As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page. Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43، 9 مارس 2017 (يو تى سى) • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك • Get help We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians: Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation. There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own: Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement). Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki. This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years? We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Sincerely, Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams05:09، 18 مارس 2017 (يو تى سى) IMPORTANT: Admin activity reviewHello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review. We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards. However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Matiia (مناقشه) 21:41، 18 مارس 2017 (يو تى سى)
Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.  On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections. The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates. The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC). We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21. The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members. The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced. More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections On behalf of the Election Committee, Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 MayRead this message in another language • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems. They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center. Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future. You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
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This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 17:33، 11 ابريل 2017 (يو تى سى) Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android appWikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results. We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism. We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks! New Page previews featureNew Page previews feature Read this message in another language • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك Hello, The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017. A quick note on the implementation:
You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page. Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 16:52، 19 ابريل 2017 (يو تى سى)  Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. 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 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki. On behalf of the Elections Committee, 19:14، 3 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well! Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:29، 8 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) Editing News #1—2017Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter Did you know that you can review your changes visually?  In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
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18:05، 12 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) RevisionSlider
RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work. Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:39، 16 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى)  The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts. You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you. Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك • Get help21:10، 16 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) New notification when a page is connected to WikidataHello all, (رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك) The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item. You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.
This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors. This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months. If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket. Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature! شكرًا لك! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal. If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 21:29، 17 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal. Funds Dissemination Committee Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC). We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to. The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments. The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal. 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-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections On behalf of the Election Committee, 21:06، 23 مايو 2017 (يو تى سى) Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changesHello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it. Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist. Read and translate the full message شكرًا لك! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 08:33، 29 يونيه 2017 (يو تى سى) (wrong target page? you can fix it here) اريد صلاحية للرفعاحتاج صلاحية ارجوكم اريد رفع صورة جديدة Accessible editing buttonsThe MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now. This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:23، 10 يوليه 2017 (يو تى سى) Page Previews (Hovercards) updateHello, A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs. Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language. Thank you again. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:32، 20 يوليه 2017 (يو تى سى) RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business." Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have. Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James. MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 21:06، 17 سبتمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) Discussion on synced reading listsDiscussion on synced reading lists Hello, .png) To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose. BackgroundIn 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold. The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow. Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future. Why not watchlistsWatchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome. Thank you CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:35، 20 سبتمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) Processing Egyptian Arabic as Standard ArabicApologies for posting in English. رجاء ساعد في الترجمة للغتك There is an error in the configuration of Egyptian Arabic-language wiki projects. Text on this wiki is treated as if it is in Standard Arabic. In general, treating one language as another gives poor results. Sometimes it does nothing, and often it does the wrong thing. However, Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic may be similar enough that doing so provides a significant benefit. It is difficult to know without being familiar with both languages. I'm hoping you can give us your opinion. Unless there is a good reason to keep treating Egyptian Arabic as Standard Arabic, the change will begin the week of October 9th. Please let me know of any concerns. You can read more about the overall project (in English) on Mediawiki.org [24]. شكرًا لك! TJones (WMF) (مناقشه) 14:45، 4 اكتوبر 2017 (يو تى سى)
@Mahmudmasri وMeno25: --Liuxinyu970226 (مناقشه) 00:45، 25 اكتوبر 2017 (يو تى سى)
Mahmudmasri (مناقشه) 12:37، 25 اكتوبر 2017 (يو تى سى) I only work on search, so I'm not really sure where to discuss the notice messages. The fact that the message fallback languages were used for search, too was a mistake. I'll see if I can find someone who knows more to reply here. @Liuxinyu970226: can you direct Mahmudmasri to a good place to discuss these concerns? Thanks.
As for the MediaWiki interface, in order to change the language fallbacks in MediaWiki core we'll need to know which languages are most widely known by the users of this locale/wiki, so that we make sure the interface works for as many people as possible. According to CLDR data, arz is only used in Egypt and in Egypt many more people know Arabic tha English. So this is what you can do:
--Nemo bis (مناقشه) 07:24، 26 اكتوبر 2017 (يو تى سى) presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory and asking for a vounteer in مصرى WikipediaHello everyone, My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage. I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to مصرى Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make مصرى Wikipedia much more multicultural. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO) I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the مصرى Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :). If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (مناقشه) 08:26، 10 اكتوبر 2017 (يو تى سى) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Changes to the global ban policyHello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34، 12 نوفمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) New print to pdf feature for mobile web readersNew print to pdf feature for mobile web readers The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website. Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued. For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens. The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org. شكرًا لك! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07، 20 نوفمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) Call for Wikimania 2018 ScholarshipsHi all, We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships. To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages! Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24، 20 ديسمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) User group for Military HistoriansGreetings, "Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians. MediaWiki message delivery (مناقشه) 10:46، 21 ديسمبر 2017 (يو تى سى) Approved versionSince very few have time or capacity to review articles that have been edited, especially by anonymous users, it is wise to choose to display the last approved version of articles, because I noticed that there are many articles that were vandalized and left for too long! Last approved version is implemented in other Wikimedia projects that have a similar issue like the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia. Anonymous or mostly-inactive users are very unlikely to contribute significantly positively, so it's better to have more possibly less complete articles that more possibly vandalized ones. Thanks. --Mahmudmasri (مناقشه) 22:13، 9 يناير 2018 (يو تى سى) |
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