Wikipedia:Jumuiya/Kumbukumbu 2018-2019

Hii ni kumbukumbu ya ukurasa wa Jumuiya kwa mwaka 2018-2019

Here is the archive of Swahili village pump in 2018-2019 Unafika hapa kwenye ukurasa kuu

Editing News #1—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?

Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.

If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.

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 Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
• The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [1]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [2]
• The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.

Let's work together

• The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
• Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
• The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [3]
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Asante!

—Elitre (WMF)

20:56, 2 Machi 2018 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 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 (majadiliano) 14:37, 12 Machi 2018 (UTC)

40,000

Kwa neema ya Mwenyezi Mungu tumefikia kiwango hicho. Naomba mafundi wetu bora wabandike lebo ya dhahabu. Amani kwenu na tusonge mbele! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:57, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)

Hongera, Padre Riccardo! Sina ujuzi kuhuzu lebo ya dhahabu, lakini nimeandika kuhusu hatua hiyo ukurasani mwa Matukio ya hivi karibuni. Sherehe na furaha na fahari! --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 09:58, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)

Nafurahi sana! Hongera Riccardo, pole na kupanda milima mingi. Kipala (majadiliano) 14:19, 17 Machi 2018 (UTC)

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

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Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.

A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.

Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 24 Aprili 2018 (UTC)

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 Mei 2018 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

• Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
• Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
• Termsoup – Translation tool

Expansions

• Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
• Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
• Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03, 30 Mei 2018 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

• The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
• Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
• Readers care about page issues and consider them important
• Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 Juni 2018 (UTC)

Tidy to RemexHtml

The Parsing team will be replacing Tidy with RemexHtml at this wiki on 5 July 2018.

Some pages at this wiki use outdated HTML. This change may change the appearance of those pages. Special:LintErrors has a complete list of affected pages.

Read this e-mail message for more information. Read the instructions at mw:Help:Extension:Linter. You can ask questions at mw:Talk:Parsing/Replacing Tidy. Thank you for helping fix these problems.

m:User:Elitre (WMF) 14:38, 2 Julai 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:20, 10 Julai 2018 (UTC)

44,000 !!

Kumbe leo hii Riccardo ametufikisha kwa makala 44,000 !! Asante na hongera Ndugu! Kipala (majadiliano) 12:43, 30 Julai 2018 (UTC)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 Julai 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.

TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

• It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
• It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
• Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
• All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.

You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.

This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:28, 6 Agosti 2018 (UTC)

Tanzanian week in Ukrainian wiki

Hi everyone! Sorry for writing here in English. My name is Vasyl and I am an editor of ukrainian wikipedia. We're going to spend at least two weeks writing articles about Tanzania (August 13-26). If you know that some article might be interesting or important to know for ukrainian readers - leave your suggestions here. We'll be thankfull for that.

Would be greate if your suggestion have english or russian version. If you want - you can write some articles about Ukraine - we had such type of cooperation with estonian, macedonian, armenian, yakut, urdu and bellorussian wiki.

With best regards! Шиманський Василь (majadiliano) 06:22, 7 Agosti 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being interested in our country. Of course, there are a lot of articles both in Swahili and English Wikipedia. We propose to use them, starting with our geography (so special: islands, mountains, lakes, rivers, parks etc.) and history (archaeology, struggles against colonialism, Julius Nyerere and other political personality) without forgetting our biological diversity (human tribes, animals, vegetation etc.). I think you will enjoy in knowing more about us. May the Lord give you his peace! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 06:33, 7 Agosti 2018 (UTC)

Hi! Tanzanian week ended two weeks ago, so we have some good results) 188 articles was created and 5 - improved. With best regards! Шиманський Василь (majadiliano) 09:10, 17 Septemba 2018 (UTC)

Very well. Peace to your country and to the whole world! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 14:09, 19 Septemba 2018 (UTC)

Warsha kuhusu makala zetu za astronomia kwenye Septemba 2018

Salaam tuna mradi wa pekee katika wikipedia yetu ya Kiswahili. Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam (Taasisi ya Taaluma ya Kiswahili) kilituoma tuandae muswada ya kamusi ya astronomia ambayo wanataka kuchapisha kama kitabu. Hadi sasa makala zetu ni mkusanyo wa pekee wa matini kuhusu astronomia kwa Kiswahili. Makala hizi ambazo ni takriban 300 zitafanya matini ya kamusi inayolengwa. Nimepeleka pendekezo kwa MetaWiki kutupatia pesa ili tuweze kufanya warsha ya uhariri. Warsha hii itaunganisha wanawikipedia na wanachama wa ASSAT (Astronomy and Space Science Association of Tanzania) wanaopitia sasa makala hizi. Warsha inalenga kujadili masahihisho na mapendekzo, kuingiza mabadiliko haya katika wikipedia na kuandaa muswada kwa ajili ya chuo.

Nitafurahi kama wanawikipedia wanaaangalia na kuunga mkono pendekezo lifuatalo: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Swwiki_workshop_astronomia#Project_Goal. Kunasehemu ambako unaweza kubofya "endorse". Kipala (majadiliano) 07:21, 8 Agosti 2018 (UTC)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Interface administrators) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 Agosti 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. 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 do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre 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, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. 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.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• 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:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. 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.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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:Johan(WMF) (talk)

13:33, 6 Septemba 2018 (UTC)

Kigezo:Kimdomo

Nimeanzisha kigezo / template ya {{Kimdomo}} (tazama chini) kama jaribio naomba tuangalie na kushauriana. Tumevumilia habari zisizo na ushuhuda pale zinapoingizwa katika makala za kata au pia makabila ambako tunapata mara nyingi habari za kusimulizi na kuwa na vyanzo kamili inaweza kuwa vigumu. Habari hizi kwa mfano kijiji fulani kilianzishwa na mzee XYZ kutoka ukoo wa ABC zinaweza kuwa sehemu ya historia ya kimdomo isiyoandikwa bado. Kwa hiyo tuliamua kuvumilia habari hizi. Tunapaswa kuzifuta kama watu wanatukanwa au tunapoona ya kwamba kumbukumbu ya mahali inapingana na vyanzo halisi (wakati mwingine labda kubadilisha kwa kuongeza: historia yenye ushuhuda ni hivi, lakini kuna pia masimulizi ya kimdomo yanayosema...). Naomba mawazo kuhusu namna hii ya kusimamia wikipedia yetu.

Makala yenye habari za kimdomo bila vyanzo halisi Makala hii (au sehemu zake) inaonekana kutoa habari za kimdomo kuhusu desturi au utamaduni wa maeneo ya Tanzania. Hailingani na masharti ya kuonyesha vyanzo na ushuhuda wa kimaandishi jinsi ilivyo kawaida katika Wikipedia. Lakini ilhali habari nyingi katika mazingira yetu hazikuandikwa bado wala kujadiliwa kimaandishi na wataalamu tunaacha habari hizi kwa muda. Tunaomba wasomaji wetu kuwa macho na kutochanganya habari hizi za kisimulizi na habari zenye ushuhuda halisi. Tunaendelea kuangalia michango ya aina hii ambayo haiwezi kukubaliwa jinsi ilivyoletwa kama inapingana na ushuhuda halisi..

Kipala (majadiliano) 15:05, 18 Septemba 2018 (UTC)

Si mbaya. Ndiyo hali halisi, tena si ya Tanzania tu, bali hata Kenya na kwingineko. Hivyo ningeondoa jina la nchi yetu. Amani kwa wote! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:06, 19 Septemba 2018 (UTC)

Mkabidhi kwa Jadnapac

Naomba kibali cha wenzangu kwa kumpa Mtumiaji:Jadnapac haki za mkabidhi. Amekuwa mwanawikipedia tangu 2017, aliunda kundi la meta:Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania na kuiongoza. Naona anafaa. Pia namhitaji kwa ajili ya warsha mwisho wa Novemba akiwa na uwezo huu wa admin. Kipala (majadiliano) 09:38, 30 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)

Unga—mkono

• Naunga mkono uteuzi huu. Ameonesha njia na nia ya kuwa kiongozi bora kabisa wa Wikimedia Tanzania.--_{Muddyb Mwanaharakati} ^Longa 09:58, 30 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
• Naunga mkono. ChriKo (majadiliano) 06:33, 31 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)
• Mimi pia. --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 11:39, 31 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)

Ndugu wakabidhi wote, nawashukuruni sana kwa uteuzi wenu wa kunipa haki ya kuwa mkabidhi katika Wikipedia hii ya Kiswahili.Mmenipa moyo wa kuendelea kujifunza (zaidi kutoka kwenu) juu ya namna ya kuiboresha Wikipedia ya Kiswahili. Nategemea zaidi ushirikiano kutoka kwenu nyote. Asanteni sana. Ndimi wenu, Jadnapac (majadiliano) 15:05, 3 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Nilichelewa. Lakini naunga mkono kwa dhati uteuzi huu. Hongera sana.--Ndesanjo (majadiliano) 09:20, 6 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Siungi-mkono

Sipingi—Walasikatai

Azimio

Basi nafunga kura, kuna azimio. Karibu Jadnapac katika idadi ya wakabidhi wa wikipedia hii. Kipala (majadiliano) 18:48, 3 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

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 Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [4]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Asante!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:17, 2 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

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Example of improvements

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Asante!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

18:13, 22 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search

Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 Novemba 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

Asante!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 Desemba 2018 (UTC)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 10:13, 27 Desemba 2018 (UTC)

FileExporter beta feature

Coming soon: the beta feature FileExporter

A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The FileExporter. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community: Please check your wiki's configuration file if you want to use this feature.

The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on mediawiki.org, meta.wikimedia, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on wikisource.org. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your user preferences. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 Januari 2019 (UTC)

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

18:55, 16 Januari 2019 (UTC)

I have a request/Ich habe eine Bitte. (Swahili Lion Guard lyrics meaning)

Sorry for not writing in Swahili.

Tut mir leid, dass ich nicht auf Suahili schreibe.

What are the meaning of these Swahili lyrics of the intro of The Lion Guard?

Was bedeutet dieser Songtext auf Suahili (das Intro von Die Garde der Löwen)?

Thank you in advance!

Vielen Dank im Voraus!

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Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Haya, Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Ehee! Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana Na simba kulindana... Na simba kulindana... Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe Ma makumve! Kweli kweli, Ma makumve! Kweli, kweli Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe Tutazame -zame -zame Tutazame -zame -zame Na farana! Mwonavu hapawase! Mwonavu hapawase! Mwonavu hapawase! Zama, zama, yeh! Tuwasaidie sisi we! Tuwasaidie sisi we! Tuwasaidie sisi we! Zama, zama, yeh! Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe, le kumbe Ma kumbe, kumbe, simba Tutawese kumbe, hey! Lekumbe kumbe lekumbe! Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe, ma tuimbe Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe, simba Tutawese kumbe, hey! Kweli simba, simba! Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe Ma makumve! Kweli kweli, Ma makumve! Kweli, kweli Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe (ngosama na!) Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe (nzama na!) Ma makumve! (kumbe le kweli le, kumbe kumbe, zuka zama) Kweli kweli, Ma makumve! Kweli, kweli Ngoma wa kumbe, kumbe (kumbe le!) Ngoma ma tuimbe, tuimbe (Tuwasaidie sisi we) Tutazame -zame -zame (Askari wa Simba! na-) Tutazame -zame -zame Na farana! Bayahiki dana! Bayahiki dana! Weka vele njama Na simba kulindana! Tutsiyama njama Sonya wana mbandi bayahiki dana awasethu simba lesethu, bana le sethu! Itsi lathu Ingonyama sonya wana mbandi bayahiki dana awa simba ma tutawa saidia Wanyama, ote wanyama! Tutawese farana simba Tutawese farana simba Tutawese kwene, Lethu wese, Ingonyama! Tutawese farana simba Tutawese farana simba Tutawese kwene, 'gonyama, Ingonyama! Bayahiki dana! Bayahiki dana! Weka vele njama Na simba kulindana!

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Suidpunt (majadiliano) 08:04, 6 Februari 2019 (UTC)

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Mradi wa picha za kata

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Hello, after recent maintenace that was done on your wiki, a few of pages that were previously inaccessible are accessible again. Some of those pages couldn't be fixed, because their name was taken by another page. For that reason, I've moved those pages to start with T173070. I'd like ask you to review those pages, move them to correct title or delete them, if they are no longer needed. You can find the list of pages that needs maintenance in the output of the maintenance script. If you need any help with this, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:15, 27 Juni 2019 (UTC)

Mimi sielewi kitu. Labda Kipala au Muddyb. Kazi njema! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:07, 28 Juni 2019 (UTC)

karibu, ninafikiri yeye anasema Majadiliano_ya_Wikipedia:T173070Jamii anahitaji kuunganisha na Majadiliano_ya_Wikipedia:Jamii. nilifanya hii, asante. --Habst (majadiliano) 22:24, 17 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Masahihisho ya Praxidicae na swali la matumizi ya tovuti zisizokubaliwa pale enwiki

Mtumiaji:Praxidicae amehariri makala nyingi tarehe 1 na 2 Julai, mara nyingi kufuta marejeo alizotaja wakati mwingine kama "spam". Nilitafakari kurudisha mabadiliko yake yote lakini naomba tujadiliane kwanza. Hajui Kiswahili, anaangalia tovuti zisizokubaliwa kwenye enwiki na kufuta marejeo , wakati mwingine pamoja na sehemu ya matini. Inawezekana sehemu zilikuwa kweli marejeo ya takataka, lakini mengine kwa mfano kama sehemu ya makala zinazopatikana kwenye blogspot (inayokataliwa enwiki) tumekubali hapa maana hatuna chaguo kubwa kwa Kiswahili. Mfano Jinekomastia, sijachunguia bado zote. Sipenda mtindo wake, lakini napenda kusikia wengine wanasemaje. Nilimwandikia na kumwomba asiendelee sasa. Kipala (majadiliano) 18:17, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I don't read Swahili but it concerns me that you are defending the use of spam links in your articles. Are you aware that a significant portion of Internet spam relates to products that enhance sexual performance? [5][6] --Rschen7754 19:09, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi, @Kipala:, I saw the discussion on meta, so I thought it’d be good to comment here. I know that Praxidicae can move fast sometimes, but this is because these links are a major problem across Wikimedia projects. She’s trying to be helpful, and is highly respected for this type of work in the global community. I know you mean well as well, but I think if a global sysop is reverting, it’s best to ask them why they’re doing it rather than tell them to stop. They typically have experience dealing with this sort of stuff, and do it for a reason. Thanks for all the work you’ve done on sw.wiki :) TonyBallioni (majadiliano) 19:26, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi Tony, hi Rschen7754. Thanks for chipping in. Just to be clear: Yes, can you imagine that after many years on the internet I might be aware that sexual content is a large percentage of the bullsh.. floating around? Why don't you take the time to read the discussion which Praxidicae removed from her sw talk page so you notice that I did not raise the topic of defending the use of spam links? Just try to imagine that after quite a few years building swwiki from a tiny site to the most read African language wikipedia I may have encountered a bit of spam (and threw it out?).

I asked her to wait and stop for a while until we discuss it in the community. We have had much help from "outsiders" (Swahili illiterates) over time and appreciate it, especially as far as spam is concerned. My request (please read again what it is about) is a reaction to her more than 30 edits in 2 days. I did not have time to check all of these (we are a very small team) and one of the first I saw was removal of a sensible blogspot reference. I know it is mostly not accepted on enwiki but we do accept on case by case basis. Surekly she also hit a number which are better removed.

The world of an small African language wikipedia is sometimes a bit different from the world of enwiki or dewiki (the 2 where I have edited, too). Our main challenge is to build up a community and nurturing new editors. Which means sometimes tolerating content which would be difficult to maintain at enwiki. So unless there is straight pornography or straight advertisement we first talk to editors before we throw out their stuff. (I know it looks like luxury from enwiki pov, but thats our nettiquette, and I would expect even a galactic sysop to show some respect). And this does not go with a style of coming in and doing 30 reverts (maybe mostly "correct") in 2 days without a word. I did not criticise or attack Praxidicae for what she did, as she never talked to us nor we to her before, so she may not understand, I just asked her to pause a bit. Is this understandable? Kipala (majadiliano) 20:48, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

This is a blatant misrepresentation of what happened. First, I removed spam links, several of them in fact, you are correct about that. I communicated with you when asked. However am I understanding correctly that you wanted me to talk to the editor who added them first? They are globally locked and maliciously spamming content, so even if I had asked them about it - they cannot respond as they are locked. Second, you state that you want to encourage people to help out here and yet as soon as I did help, due simply to the fact that I manually corrected more than a dozen (I didn't revert most of them, that was just a handful) blatantly spammy and scammy links, you demanded I stop editing. That makes no sense. The fact that his is a small project and in another language isn't really relevant. Spam is spam and it damages all projects. Your assumption that my edits are incorrect just on the basis that I do not speak Swahili is discouraging and ultimately wrong. If you look at most of them, the content I removed again, is spam and even the actual edit on this project are in english. Perhaps I did screw up some of the syntax of the language but that can be fixed. Mass addition of scam/spam links should require immediate removal. Is your concern I've somehow damaged the project? If so, could you explain why my edits concern you specifically pertaining to policies locally and globally? Thanks. Praxidicae (majadiliano) 21:00, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

You also keep bringing up enwiki but fail to look at my global contributions. I'm not just an enwiki editor despite my native language being English. Your insistence that spam or scam links might or should be tolerated here is inherently incompatible with Wikimedia's terms of use. I don't know if that was your intent to say but if you could clarify that, it would be appreciated. I'd also like to continue with the removal as there are still many remaining scam links here.

Dear Praxidicae, you sound as if you feel insulted. I am sorry for that. If I was impolite I gladly apologize. My request was in response to the 29 removal edits you did in 2 days. Kindly help us to understand it.

I advised you that we do try to talk to editors who make mistakes and expects other to keep up this nettiquette. (unless we see cases of pornography, advertising, copy-paste). Do I understand correctly that you think this is not advisable nor doable because “They are globally locked and maliciously spamming content”. Even if I look horribly uneducated I ask you who is “They”? Kindly name the globally locked accounts whch you found active on our pages, it will help us to recognize them soon.

I understood further that you talk about “Mass addition of scam/spam links”. Which of the edits you threw out referred to these?

I see that you threw out a number of edits of user:Jimmymwandishi. Is that a global malicious spammer ? Is he blocked globally but still active here at sw? From his style of editing content he does not look like any of the spam attacks I have seen (although his contributions are weak).

I did not have time yet to go thru all your edits (yesterday night internet here was lost, today I have littletime after a long day). I wrote to you yesterdy after seeing you removed content from some pages which had just been patrolled by one of our esteemed team members, and could not see that you had contacted him, and saw the removal of the sentence (NO LINK!) "Jina estrojeni pia linaweza kutumika kwa kitu chochote ambacho chaiga homoni hii ya estrojeni kama vile dawa ambazo hupewa wanawake ili wawe na ashiki ya ngono. " in the article "Estrojeni". What made you think this was malicious spam? I also saw you removed a part of text (one internal link to enwiki) in the article karanga (removing the correct sentence Jina la Kibiolojia la njugu ni Arachis hypogaea'' and giving as reason "rv-spam") . What made you think this is malicious spam as per your argument? And: I do not believe it helps anything dropping abbreviations which nobody understands. Kipala (majadiliano) 21:59, 3 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Praxidicae (majadiliano) 21:03, 2 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Your position on spam and promotional material is concerning - as has been mentioned, (undisclosed) paid editing is against the Wikimedia Terms of Use. For what it is worth, I have served as a steward and while spam was not an area I focused on, I am familiar with how small wikis work (and quite frankly, the problems that come up when small wikis act like a walled garden and are hostile to outsiders). --Rschen7754 00:43, 3 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Dear Rschen, you might be helpful if you can show what you mean by claiming a) that I “defend the use of spam links” and “(undisclosed) paid editing”. Which edits do you refer to? If you have anything to show that we at swwiki “act like a walled garden and are hostile to outsiders”, please do!. We are very happy to learn. Kipala (majadiliano) 21:59, 3 Julai 2019 (UTC)

You are literally questing every single edit Praxidicae makes, and quite frankly treating her worse than the spammers. Please reconsider. --Rschen7754 01:10, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

I note that I do not see much fact in your answer compared to the language you chose to use. Thanks for the advice! Kipala (majadiliano) 06:13, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi Kipala, I understand where you are coming from, because we also frequently have this confusion on large projects regarding linkspaming, especially with cross-wiki spammers. Unfortunately, administrators on many projects, large and small, are not aware of the danger that some of these links and how they can seriously undermine the image of Wikimedia projects as well as the computer security of our readers. There are only a few users who are really good with dealing with this type of work globally, and Praxidicae is one of them.

That being said, I understand your concerns about growing your community, but the unfortunate reality is that these accounts were never going to be a part of your community: a steward was guaranteed to lock them when they were made aware that the accounts existed, and Praxidicae was doing her best to help here, in an area that she specializes in from a global standpoint, both on small wikis and large ones. Thank you for listening to me even though I'm not an active editor here, and again, thank you for your work on this project. TonyBallioni (majadiliano) 00:56, 3 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Tony, I appreciate your kind remarks. You asked me to understand that “these accounts” have to be acted against. Which are “these accounts” you refer to as being handled by Praxidicae’s edits? Kipala (majadiliano) 21:59, 3 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi Kipala, Jimmwandishi and Mwangi2017 were the two accounts she was dealing with most recently, and they are both currently globally locked by stewards. TonyBallioni (majadiliano) 04:21, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Tony, thanks for this reply which is the first in this discussion that helps me to understand more. I notice that the blocks were done after Praxidicae’s removal activity, not before (18:02, 2 July 2019). So I am not sure why she informed me they had to be done because the accounts were blocked. When I try to look into the present rules for global sysops, I see they are a kind of super-steward. So can I assume that the description for stewards applies to them? For stewards I read they are there to assist local communities. As you can see we have some active admins at swwiki (not the formal 10) I do expect that there should be at last an attempt for communication before a (in our scale) massive intervention. I tried to talk to Praxidicae last year but she never reacted then. She has been on and off dring the last year (and was never inhibited, that much for some complaints above). In general we are very open to outside assistance; we are qute busy removing spam and malicious edits (I am a happy blocker, probably anywhere in the 3 digits on our small wiki).

In this case it would have been a good practise in my view if one sees a problem in edits of a user, to talk to the admin who has been communicating with this account. In both examples of user:Jimmwandishi and user:Mwangi2017 this was the case. Something like "Hey I see that NN looks to me loke a spammer, is using xxx. Are you aware, can I be of help?". I do not know how they define "Mass addition of scam/spam" but I cannot see this situation with 2 (still weak) contributors who have done some 80 edits each in 2 years (is that mass?). They are weak but tried to contribute sensibly, and I have not seen a pattern of promoting any specific content in their links. They look like typically getting anything from google search related to a topic and putting it in as a source.

Now this action has removed a number of unworthy (and not malign) references, but also left behind a number of mutilated articles (which, if not done by someone with the designation steward, I would consider as something similar to vandalism). Which we could have done in a better way if there had been communication before. Any barnstars to be given? (and by the way, i tell our newbies in traing sessions that they should not worry too much if their edits are reverted or thrown out, because the people checking edits on large projects are wading thru heaps of shit and nonsense every hour and thus may become understandably a bit tired and rash in decisions... I would attribute the removal of some innocent text parts which I quoted above to such circumstance) Kipala (majadiliano) 08:10, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

I understand the block for Jimmwandishi, for I deleted many spam-like links by him, but non that of Mwangi2017, a simple and good contributor in different kinds of pages who is desiderous of learning from us how do better. Please, let you revert the block. Peace to you all! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 10:37, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi Riccardo Riccioni and Kipala, Praxidicae was removing these before the global lock because she had already requested a lock. The only thing that needed to happen was a steward to come around and lock, and this was all but guaranteed to be done: both accounts were link spammers and Mwangi2017 had already been blocked on en.wiki for sockpuppetry and spamming by @Yunshui:, another CheckUser and sysop on that project.

As I said, I get that this type of thing isn't widely understood: linkspamming is difficult to spot and we have sysops on all projects who aren't familiar with it. At the same time, these removals were solidly good because the links were promotional and some may in fact have been malicious (I refuse to visit them once it becomes clear they are not trustworthy URLs).

As for the good content: this is a common technique link spammers user: they add content that looks appropriate while their real goal is to include advertising links or even malicious links in articles. They're normally just deleted or completely reverted because it is too difficult to figure out what is true, what isn't, and what is just fluff meant to hide bad links. Praxidicae was acting within normal standards for dealing with cross-wiki linkspamming, which is why I think you're attracting attention of people like Rschen7754 and myself who are active on meta and familiar with how spam is dealt with globally. Anyway, again, thank you both for listening, because I know it is annoying to have someone from another project come and explain things, but I'm just trying to clarify why Praxidicae did what she did, and explain that it was in fact within global norms of behaviour. TonyBallioni (majadiliano) 18:25, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hi Tony, Thank you for your effort but I have to state that I do not agree with some parts of your explanation and I do not think that this a realistic view of these 2 cases.

Mwangi 2017 was blocked on enwiki (for what reasons soever) back in 2017 which is not my business. He has been present low-level on swwiki, edited, took advice and communicated with the guidance we gave him, and improved. That is an important aim we work for in our environment. There is not the slightest hint of malicious editing (if you see please show!), and surely no logic in assuming a malicious spammer stumbles over 2 years trying to edit honorable content with few edits in order to create an image of good-will. We block and throw out all the time malicious contributors (I did 3 permant blocks today - and we are usually very happy with the support we have from global level). I have not seen any argument in his case alleging bad intent. I can count and the numbers give no argument whatsoever for "Mass addition of scam/spam" which Praxidicae alleged. Mwangi 2017 is quite typical for a number of people we have here.

I save my breath about Jimmwandishi because my colleague considers him a pain in the ass, although even here there is no hint whatsoever of malicious editing.

I have no reason to doubt Praxidicae generally does a good and commendable job. But this action and the blown up debate was definitively not good practice. I have no taste to get into "global" debates but if it is considered "normal" to be upset about a request to communicate with a local active community before taking action, something is wrong with the attitude at that level. I cannot imagine this is agreed policy. As said before, I am personally thankful for global interventions (saw a few today!) but this was not a good practice. And we want Mwangi 2017 back, plus without strange abbreviations instead of understandable communication. Please help us to know the procedure.Kipala (majadiliano) 19:33, 4 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Wapendwa naona wakiulizwa kuleta mifano wanasita, tuone kama ukimya unaendelea. Namwelewa Riccardo anataka Mwangi2017 arudishwe. Kwa hiyo je tupinge azimio pale Meta? Kuhusu Jimmwandishi kimsingi jambo si tofauti sana ingawa alikuwa mgumu kiasi. Tumwache alivyo? Kipala (majadiliano) 08:01, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Nimeangalia kazi nyingi za Mwangi2017, jamaa huyu sioni kabisa kwanini azuiwe. Tena nilipoona kua Mkenya anafanya hariri na kuandika makala vizuri kama yeye ninifurahi sana kuona Wikipedia yetu kuwa na mhariri toka Kenya na ana Kiswahili kizuri. Je utaratibu wa kurudishwa ni upi? Hata mimi naunga mkono arudishwe.

Kesi ya "Mwangi2017" nimeikuta Meta: hapa—shida moja tu, mjadala wake umefungwa. Labda uuanzishe upya? Huyu mama kamshikilia kweli huyo jamaa.--_{'Muddyb Mwanaharakati'} ^'Longa' 12:09, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Mwangi is also a spammer. They are confirmed by a checkuser to Anjakretfep who is also spamming links cross-wiki but not only that, both were blocked elsewhere for terms of use violations which are not specific to anyone project, but all of them. Praxidicae (majadiliano) 12:30, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Kipala I'd also like to clarify that the fact that I am a global sysop is irrelevant to this discussion as nothing prevents any editor in good standing from editing where they please. I took no action here that could be even remotely construed as being done under the tools of a global sysop. I'd also like to add that these edits by Jimmiwandishi are not the edits of a good faith contributor, but someone who is spamming and that's just the first 30+ edits - I haven't gone through the rest as of yet, but I wanted to lay it out in clear terms for anyone who is confused as to why this is so blatantly a promo only account. There are a few scattered edits (less than 10) in which they add no links or valid links mixed with blatant scam/spam sites. Praxidicae (majadiliano) 13:09, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for showing examples, that does help. I now had time to go through the first 5 of your list. Wallah bin Wallah is definitively a person deserving an article (which the author did relatively solidly in not too good Swahili). So do you refer to the literature links like "Zawadi ya Sanda" which are disguised invites to http://freelancinghackers.com ? Yes, I have to accept, that is a very valid argument. Did you refer to these?Kipala (majadiliano) 13:42, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Kipala Can you please clarify your question? Those are not the only links I'm referring to and especially in the case of Mwangi, who repeatedly links this blatant spam and scam site that has no encyclopedic relevance anywhere. These are simply not good faith contributions, whether misguided or not, these put readers at great risk. Kipala, I'm also quite concerned about your earlier statements that you know some of the websites are spam but have no choice because there aren't better sources in Swahili, but this doesn't make sense to me as I've demonstrated that more than 90% of those sources I've tried to remove and still need to be removed are in English.Praxidicae (majadiliano) 13:55, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

• I'd also like to note after some research the links to this site are not educational either and interestingly enough, the same urls they are spamming there, are the same ones Jimmiwandishi, Hreflafa, JanetKihumba as well as KunguwaWambui who did so on ki.wikipedia. See links here, which almost entirely overlap with these users.

I too had suspected that Jimmwandishi, Hreflafa and JanetKihumba were one thing. --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 15:12, 5 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Hapa anaonyesha bei ya kuingiza viungo kwetu, basi tuwe macho!

Praxidicae As for your remark about clarifying my question: I reacted to the list you posted upstairs. No let me say that I am grateful for your intervention because we have learned something which had not recognized. Having said this, I imagine this interaction could have proceeded smoother with some communication before. None of us had seen a previuos warning from you to Jimmwandishi (the account edited swwiki only, plus 4x commons) which would have helped to understand the need for action. (Please enlighten me: is this not the usual procedure? That is at least what I remember from here and what we follow except in extrem cases (his hidden links to the "freelancinghackers" I consider as such but you had not yet reached there). Previous communication would have enabled us to recognize the problem, do the removals (with guidance fom you?) and avoid the problem we have now of checking for the mutilated pages left behind by his clumsy way of setting links you removed. Another point for me to ask you to pause for a while was that I saw not only links but also some correct and unlinked text passages removed (see above, I think it does matter to some extent if I understand the language or not.). Then you list some links as "spam" which are definitely not (like nation.co.ke) which made me wonder. Please rest assured that I have great respect for your work. The question of communication remains. Kipala (majadiliano) 11:32, 6 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Thanks to God for the good conclusion of the case. I also have learnt from it. I revised many times the contributions of Jimmwandishi, Hreflafa and JanethKihumba, I guessed also they were the same person, I deleted many of their openly commercial links, I reproached them sometimes and menaced to block them, but I stopped there. When Praxidicae so strongly came in, I appreciated. Let's go on together in peace! --Riccardo Riccioni (majadiliano) 07:34, 7 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:32, 23 Julai 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 08:03, 16 Agosti 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)

14:18, 21 Agosti 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

• Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);

• Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or

• Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 Septemba 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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Hello. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

• Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
• Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
• Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

• Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
• Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
• Put things in logical and useful places
• Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
• Eliminate clutter
• Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

• Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
• Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
• No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

Asante! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

07:18, 16 Oktoba 2019 (UTC)

Tarifa 2018/19 ya kundi la Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili

Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Tanzania/Annual_Report_2018/2019

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.

Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found on the project page.

As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 Oktoba 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

11:12, 29 Oktoba 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

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Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 16:57, 31 Oktoba 2019 (UTC)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (majadiliano) 14:16, 27 Novemba 2019 (UTC)