Уикипедиэ:Лъэпкъыгъуэ ӀухьэпӀэ

Language support group for Kabardian

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

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

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 20:14, 19 ЩӀышылэм и 2012 (MSK)

Support the Babel extension for your language

The Babel extension is used in the WMF to indicate the proficiency for a language. For the Kabardian language there is no localisation available yet. Would you be so kind and help us out ? Thanks, 20:14, 19 ЩӀышылэм и 2012 (MSK)

One year Kabardian Wikipedia

Hello Kabardian Wikipedians,
congratulations, today it is now 1 year since the kdb.wikipedia.org subdomain was created. From the Wikimedia Incubator & Language Committee, we would like to get some feedback from newer wikis about their situation.

We prepared some questions about what we would like to know. Feel free to answer as many of them as you like.

1. How has activity developed after the subdomain's creation? (in comparision with the situation on Incubator)
2. Is it now easier to be found by new users? How was the reception of the new wiki: in media maybe? in friends/family circles?
3. Were your exceptions in general fulfilled or not?
4. Would you have done something in a better/different way in hindsight?
5. Is there anything where you say 'This should have been better during the testing phase (Incubator, Langcom)'?
6. What was nice/easy/desirable on Incubator? :-)

Best regards, --MF-W 07:01, 18 Гъатхэпэм и 2012 (MSK)

Hmm. This wiki will be mutually eligible with Adyghe Wikipedia, which will perform mass copying of pages from Kabardian Wikipedia before translating into Adyghe. I fulfill this wiki. --Adyghe (talk) 08:54, 18 Гъатхэпэм и 2012 (MSK)

Активность и количество новых участников Вы можете увитеть на специальных страницах раздела, то что появился домен kbd это конечно очень хорошо для адыгского (кабардино-черкесского) языка, в разделе принимают участие так же носители и адыгейского (ady) языка, но, в информационном плане конечно же было бы лучше, если поддержка прошла на уровне региональных правительственных информационных каналов (телевидение, газеты и т.д.) так как сайты общественных адыгских организаций после открытия раздела дали достаточно информации о нас, но активных и постоянных участников в проект это к сожалению не добавило. Возможно (а скорее всего нужно) работу над популяризацией проекта необходимо начинать развивать не только в сети интернета. Богупс (talk) 12:00, 22 Гъатхэпэм и 2012 (MSK)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 20:36, 14 ЩакӀуэгъуэм и 2014 (MSK)

ru:Кабардино-черкесские имена

Можете написать такую статью в русской и в этой википедии? Можете использовать эту внигу: ru:Справочник личных имён народов РСФСР--Kaiyr (talk) 20:02, 29 ЩакӀуэгъуэм и 2014 (MSK)

Вики-сабантуй

Приглашаю всех в вики-сабантуй который пройдет 24-26 апреля 2015 года в Уфе. Регистрация тут. Срок подачи заявок: до 31 марта 2015 года включительно. --Kaiyr (talk) 21:27, 2 Дыгъэгъазэм и 2014 (MSK)

Feedback request: VisualEditor's special character inserter

I apologize for writing in English. Please translate this message so that all of your editors can read it. Thank you!

Hi everybody, my name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm writing to you because the Editing team at WMF wants to know what you think about VisualEditor and its new ⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽ tool. This change will affect all users on about 50 Wikipedias, including your Wikipedia. Many editors at these Wikipedias need a special character tool to be able to write articles correctly, which is why we are asking you now.

The new special character inserter tool is available in VisualEditor now. Admins at your wiki can change the contents by following the directions at mediawiki.org.

New design for the special character inserter. The red arrow points to the button for the tool, which is marked with Ω (omega).

To test the ⧼visualeditor-specialcharacterinspector-title⧽ tool, please:

1. Opt-in to VisualEditor by going to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures and choosing "VisualEditor". Save your preferences.
2. Edit any article or your user page in VisualEditor by clicking on the new "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab at the top of the page. See the mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide for information on how to use VisualEditor.
3. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on Mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know what you think about this new design. It is important that they hear from as many editors as possible. You may leave your comments in any language.

When the special character tool has been refined a little more based on your thoughts, we will offer VisualEditor by default to all editors at this wiki. If you want to help prepare, please read the advice on mediawiki.org.

Thank you, Elitre (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 12 Гъатхэпэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki

Hello again. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you can translate this message!

VisualEditor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia on Monday, March 30th. VisualEditor is software that allows people to edit articles without needing to learn wikitext code (like typing [[ to start a link). You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test VisualEditor right now. To turn it on, select "Beta" in your preferences. Choose "VisualEditor" and click save.

Now, when you press the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" button to edit an article, you will get the new VisualEditor software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын". (After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either VisualEditor or the current wikitext editor.) For more information about how to use VisualEditor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.

More information about preparing for VisualEditor is posted here.

• It's easier to add templates if you've added TemplateData instructions to them.
• Please help translate the pages about VisualEditor here and on MediaWiki.org, and its user interface. See VisualEditor TranslationCentral for general information. To translate the user guide, go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select "НапэкIуэцIыр зэхъуэкIын". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, 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 change old translations. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. Contact me personally if you need help with that.
• We need your help to improve the software! Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. If you notice major issues affecting your project, please leave a note on my talk page. If it's an emergency (like an unexpected bug causing widespread problems), reach out to James Forrester, the Product Manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org or on IRC in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel.

Wrong target page? Fix it here • Sign up for VisualEditor's multilingual newsletter

Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 22:38, 19 Гъатхэпэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor now active here

Click this icon while in VisualEditor for a link to the User Guide.

Hello again (and again, apologies for using English on this page. Please do translate my message, if you can!).

As some of you have noticed, this Wikipedia now has VisualEditor (VisualEditor or "VE") enabled for all users. There are now two tabs for editing: "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын". Click "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" to use VisualEditor. Click "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" to edit using wikitext markup.

All edits using VisualEditor will be tagged with "Tag:VisualEditor" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories. To access the User Guide for VisualEditor, click on the "(?)" icon in VisualEditor's toolbar. If you wish to disable VisualEditor, this can be done under "Editing" in your preferences.

Please report any software "bugs" or errors you find at MediaWiki’s VisualEditor Feedback page. Translations for the user interface and its help guide are still needed: you can learn how to support your community with this and other tasks at this instructions page. Please contact me if you need further help though. Happy editing, User:Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:09, 30 Гъатхэпэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

Did you know?

With Citoid in VisualEditor, you click the 'book with bookmark' icon and paste in the URL for a reliable source:

Citoid looks up the source for you and returns the citation results. Click the green "Insert" button to accept its results and add them to the article:

After inserting the citation, you can change it. Select the reference, and click the "Edit" button in the context menu to make changes.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's performance, the Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.

Recent improvements

VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.

The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.

Citoid requires good TemplateData for your citation templates. If you would like to request this feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.

Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.

The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.

You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance ​on the page.

The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.

Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.

Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead. (T90734)

Looking ahead

The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.

The team is discussing a test of VisualEditor with new users at the English Wikipedia, to see whether they have met their goals of making VisualEditor suitable for those editors. The timing is unknown, but might be relatively soon. (T90666)

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Can you translate from English into any other language? Please check this list to see whether more interface translations are needed for your language. Contact us to get an account if you want to help!
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

22:48, 10 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2015 (MSK)

Content Translation beta-feature is now available

Здравствуйте,

Инструмент Content Translation был включен как бета-функция в Кабардинской Википедии. Чтобы переводить, включите бета-функцию и пройдите на страницу вашего вклада или прямо на страницу перевода, выберите язык, с которого вы переводите, и напишите название статьи, которую вы хотите перевести. Если такая статья уже есть на вашем языке, будет показано предупреждение. Когда вы закончите писать перевод, вы можете опубликовать её как полноценную страницу в Кабардинской Википедии. Если страница с таким же названием будет создана пока вы переводите, вам будет предложено сохранить ваш перевод как черновик в вашем пространстве пользователя. Количество созданных статей показано на странице статистики.

Это первая проба этого инструмента на вашем языке, и возможно, что вы обнаружите неисправности, о которых мы ещё не знаем. Мы будем отслеживать как инструмент используется здесь, но мы просим вас сообщать нам о найденных вами неисправностях на странице обсуждения, или через Фабрикатор. Вы можете найти дополнительную информацию на странице описания проекта.

Спасибо!

Hello, Content Translation has now been enabled as an opt-in beta feature on this Wikipedia. To start translating, enable the beta feature and go to Special:ContentTranslation or to your contributions page and create a new translation by selecting the source language, the article name and target language. If the article already exists then a warning will be displayed. After you translate the article, you can publish it directly as a new page on the Wikipedia. In case the article gets created by another user while you were translating, you will see an option to save the newly published translation under your user namespace. The number of published pages can be seen on the Content Translation stats page.

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 that prevent you from using the tool. For more information, please read about how to use the tool. You can also view a short screencast on how to use Content Translation. My apologies for writing this announcement only in English and Russian. Please feel free to translate this message for wider distribution. Thank you.--Runab WMF (talk) 20:48, 7 Накъыгъэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

13:44, 13 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages. The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools and fixed many bugs and changed some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages (where applicable). Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector. (T98085)

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter. (T70425)

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter. (T95696) The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter. (T53049)

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the VisualEditor Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The team is planning the second VisualEditor-related "translathon" for July. Please follow this task on Phabricator for details and updates! Announcements will follow in due course.

Subscribe, unsubscribe or change the page where this newsletter is delivered at Meta. If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

15:00, 13 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2015 (MSK)

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. Translations made between July 15th and July 19th (CDT time zone) qualify.

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!
Elitre (WMF) 23:56, 13 Бадзэуэгъуэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Did you know?

You can add quotations marks before and after a title or phrase with a single click.

Select the relevant text. Find the correct quotations marks in the special character inserter tool (marked as Ω in the toolbar).

Click the button. VisualEditor will add the quotation marks on either side of the text you selected.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

Your wiki can customize the first section of the special character inserter in VisualEditor. Please follow the instructions at mediawiki.org to put the characters you want at the top. In other changes, if you need to fill in a CAPTCHA and get it wrong, then you can click to get a new one to complete. VisualEditor can now display and edit Vega-based graphs. If you use the Monobook skin, VisualEditor's appearance is now more consistent with other software.

Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at mediawiki.org if you can help.
• If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
• Please file requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 01:28, 15 ШыщхьэӀум и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Switch to visual editing".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

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 fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Link and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Insert Images and media" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Delete" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" tabs into a single "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
• Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
• The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 21:17, 30 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2015 (MSK)

Национальность первых секретарей Кабардино-балкарского обкома

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• Павлович Болеслав Ольгердович (1921 - 3.1923)
• Михайлов Степан Андреевич (3.1923 - 4.1924)
• Боровицкий Иван Николаевич (5.1925 - 7.1928)
• Повалюхин И. И. (7.1928 - 9.1928)
• Дулин В. М. (10.1928 - 3.1929)
• Фёдоров (5.1929 - 1.1930)
• Севастьянов (2.1930 - 5.1930)
• Кудрявцев Александр Васильевич (13.11.1938 - 12.1939)
• Мазин Николай Петрович (10.4.1944 - 5.1949)
• Бабич Василий Иванович (5.1949 - 12.1956)
• Зумакулов Борис Мустафаевич (1.9.1990 - 23.8.1991)--Kaiyr (talk) 17:15, 12 Дыгъэгъазэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" tabs into a single "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Гъэтэрэзыгъуэ tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
  • Always give me the source editor, and
  • Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Elitre (WMF), 03:06, 25 Дыгъэгъазэм и 2015 (MSK)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" tabs into a single "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Гъэтэрэзыгъуэ tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Editing mode:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

• Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
  • Remember my last editor,
  • Always give me the visual editor if possible,
  • Always give me the source editor, and
  • Show me both editor tabs. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
• Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Elitre (WMF), 04:06, 25 Дыгъэгъазэм и 2015 (MSK)

Новостной бюллетень Википедии на языках России от 12 янв 2016 г.

Уважаемый коллега, "Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие разделов Википедии на языках России от имени всех участников движения Викимедиа. Ваши усилия способствуют сохранению нематериального культурного наследия планеты, а также достижению идеалов Фонда Викимедиа и уставных целей российской национальной организации НП «Викимедиа РУ». В этом выпуске: 15 января участники Движения Викимедиа во всём мире отмечают 15-летие Википедии – посмотрите проект пресс-релиза об этом. m:Wikimedia Russia теперь также и на башкирском и на саха (якутском)! Какой будет следующим? Фонд Викимедиа инициировал процесс обновления Викимании. На английский язык переведены материалы Заглавной страницы ru.wikimedia.org. Двигаемся дальше... Приложение Википедия на Андроид с добавленной интерактивной картой признано Лучшим Приложением 2015 г. У этой рассылки появилась своя площадка! Теперь есть где познакомиться с сутью проекта и управлять своей подпиской. Вносите вклад в несколько проектов Викимедиа? Хотите отслеживать связанные изменения? Появился удобный инструмент! Теперь для анализа трендов и выявления лучших практик используются данные Викимедиа проекта «Статистика». Участники ТатВики из Казани запустили проект Вики-встречи в конце месяца. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? Здорово! Смело добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск! Также смотрите ru:Проект:Разделы Википедии на региональных языках России/Новости/Архив и m:Расскажите нам о вашей Википедии. Первоначальный список доставки данного информационного бюллетеня сформирован вручную на базе публичных данных, доступных через соответствующую таблицу, однако он открыт для вступления всех желающих. Чтобы получать данный ежемесячный бюллетень на страницу в вашем личном пространстве или на один из форумов (одну из досок объявлений) вашего раздела, пожалуйста добавьте соответствующие данные в разделы ниже. Чтобы отписаться, просто удалите их из списка.

Dear colleague, "Great thanks of all Wikimedia movement participants goes to each and everyone who contributes into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. Your efforts support preservation of Intangible cultural heritage of humanity, as well as achieving the Vision of Wikimedia Foundation and Charter objectives of the Russian national Wikimedia chapter. In this issue: On January 15 Wikimedia movement participants around the world are celebrating 15th anniversary of Wikipedia – take a look at the draft press-release about it. m:Wikimedia Russia is now also available in Bashkir and in Sakha! Will your language team be the next one to join our efforts? Wikimedia Foundation initiated Wikimania renewal process. ru.wikimedia.org homepage materials are now available in English. Our multilingualism project is moving further... Wikipedia Android app, now with interactive map, named a Best App of 2015 This newsletter now has its own homepage! You can now learn about the essence of the project and manage own subscription. Contributing into a number of Wikimedia projects? Want to track related changes? New convenient tool just for that! Trend analysis and best practices discovery is now based on Wikimedia project «Statistics data». Tatar Wikipedia participants from Kazan have launched End-of-the-month Wikimeetups project. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Great! Be bold - add a link into the next month issue! See also ru:Проект:Разделы Википедии на региональных языках России/Новости/Архив and m:Tell us about your Wikipedia. Original delivery list for this newsletter is generated manually from publicly available data accumulated in and accessible through respective table, but anyone is welcome to join in. To receive this monthly bulletin into your personal talk page or that of one of the community pages in your language edition, please use the following syntax to add delivery target address in the subsections below. To unsubscribe, just remove it from the list.

-- Frhdkazan (talk) 18:02, 12 ЩӀышылэм и 2016 (MSK)

Объединение усилий по популяризации Википедий на региональных языках

• Создал wmru:Заглавная страница/tt и m:Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/tt. Приглашаю подумать о создании версий на вашем родном языке. Текст на Мете (второй) можете изменять и дополнять на основе Вашего богатого опыта. С уважением, --Frhdkazan (talk) 18:58, 18 ЩӀышылэм и 2016 (MSK)
  • Создал wmru:Шаблон:Проекты Викимедиа на языках России/kbd, правьте по необходимости. Вам также могут пригодиться аналоги ru:Шаблон:Государственные языки России и ru:Шаблон:Википедии на языках народов России. С уважением, --Frhdkazan (talk) 21:14, 27 ЩӀышылэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #3 (февр.'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #3 (Feb.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: На сайте ВМРУ заработал механизм перевода страниц PageTranslation и настроено автоматическое определение предпочитаемого пользователем языка отображения контента. Служебная:Регистрация переводчиков В нашем братстве ожидается пополнение: одобрен перевод тестового раздела на адыгейском языке в общее пространство. Самых вежливых и полезных участников проекта "сосчитает" 'Thanks report'. В Башкирской Википедии заработал машинный переводчик Опубликован список наиболее редактируемых статей РуВики за 2015 г. Статистика: первая полная за месяц на базе WikiStats и помесячная посещаемость за год (заглавные страницы, stats.grok.se) Подготовка образовательных видео по работе в Википедии и родственных проектах (с субтитрами) вышла на стадию препродакшен. Категория:Средства массовой информации на языках России и аналог в английской Википедии готовы для улучшения и связывания. Викимедийцы Башкортостана запустили оффлайн Вики-школу с занятиями и домашним заданием. Викиновости:Многоязычность: Русский раздел предоставил пространство и всячески содействует развитию версий на региональных языках России. Участники Викиданных приглашают малые Википедии, желающие повысить энциклопедическую полезность раздела для его читателей, принять участие в тестировании возможностей инструмента Placeholder. В РуВики запущен проект Сайнпост-Дайджест. Размещенное на Мета-Вики описание проекта "Википедии на языках России" и его подстраницы можно не только редактировать, но и переводить на ваши родные языки. Добро пожаловать! Следующий проект коллег из БашВики - Неделя Башкортостана в РуВики. Чтобы Википедия жила вечно, Фонд Викимедиа создал Целевой финансовый фонд Wikimedia Endowment. Викимедиа РУ приветствует языки народов России - заглавная страница теперь и на казахском, на саха (якутском) и на татарском. Кто следующий? m:Wikimedia Russia теперь также и на аварском! Какой будет следующим? Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: PageTranslation is installed and User's content language preference recognition is set up at Wikimedia Russia wiki. Special:Translator signup Our community is about to increase: Incubator Wikipedia in Adyghe language is getting its domain soon. 'Thanks report' "discloses" kindest and most useful wiki-contributors. Machine translation started working in Bashkir Wikipedia RuSsian Wikinews published the list of most edited articles in Russian Wikipedia in 2015 Statistics: first WikiStats-based full monthly report and stats.grok.se based two-year monthly Main Page Pageviews. Filming motivational and educational videos on contributing into Wikipedia and its sister projects (with subtitles) is now in pre-production. Category:Media by language of Russia and its Russian mirror are ready to be improved or linked to. Wikimedians of Bashkortostan launched offline Wiki-School with classes and homework. Викиновости:Многоязычность: Russian Wikinews is ready to lend space and otherwise support development of versions in regional languages of Russia. Wikidata participants invite small Wikipedias that want to increase own encyclopedic utility for their readers to take part in testing opportunities offered by ArticlePlaceholder feature. RuWiki partocipants launched The Signpost Digest project. "Wikipedias in the languages of Russia" project description on Meta and its sub-pages don't have to be limited to editing, you can also translate them in your mother tongues. Welcome! Next project of our colleagues from BashWiki - Bashkortostan dedicated week in RuWiki. To make Wikipedia eternal, Wikimedia Foundation has established Wikipedia Endowment. Wikimedia RU welcomes languages of Russia on its wiki - homepage materials can now be also viewed in Kazakh, in Sakha and in Tatar. Which language is going to join those next? m:Wikimedia Russia is now also available in Avar! Will your language team be the next one to join our efforts? Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 14:05, 12 Мазаем и 2016 (MSK)

Адыгейская Википедия

Коллеги, запущена Адыгейская Википедия! Приглашаем всех, кто знает язык к нам создавать статьи и дополнять существующие. Илья Драконов (talk) 13:23, 14 Мазаем и 2016 (MSK).

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

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 fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" tabs into a single "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Гъэтэрэзыгъуэ tab of Special:Preferences:

• Remember my last editor,
• Always give me the visual editor if possible,
• Always give me the source editor, and
• Show me both editor tabs. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.

Let's work together

• Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
• Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

Elitre (WMF), 22:21, 26 Мазаем и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #4 (март'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #4 (Mar.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: 15, 22 и 24 марта будут плановые 15-минутные перерывы в возможности редактировать Википедию. Википедии на адыгейском исполнился месяц. 8-11.04 в Петрозаводске пройдёт Финно-угорский вики-семинар 2016. ТатВики: Без механизма патрулирования никак нельзя... Minority Translate - инструмент для быстрого создания контента в Википедии через интерфейс для быстрого перевода со статей на других языках.. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитическая таблица за январь 2016. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: On March 15, 22 & 24 expect up to 15-minute interruptions of Wikipedia editing. Wikipedia in Adyghe is now 1 month old. 2016 Finno-Ugrian Wiki-Seminar will take place on April 8-11 in Petrozavodsk. TatWiki: Life without Flagged Rivisions? Impossible... Minority Translate is an app working to simplify translation work for small Wikipedias. Current Stats and Jan.2016 analytical table. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 11:13, 15 Гъатхэпэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #5 (апр'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #5 (Apr.'16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #5 (апр'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #5 (Apr.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Википедии на языках России наизнанку: загляним к ним в бэк-офис Фоторепортаж с башкирского Вики-семинара в Янгантау. Представители ВМРУ озвучили свои предварительные намерения о предоставлении сообществу каждого из разделов на языках народов России по одной полной стипендии для выступления с докладом о развитии раздела и участия в круглых столах в ходе ежегодной Вики-конференции. Ближайшая – сентябрь/октябрь 2016, Санкт-Петербург. Финно-угорский вики-семинар 2016 пройдет 6-9 мая. В азербайджанский, башкирский, казахский, русский, саха, украинский и другие разделы пришла Вики-Весна. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитическая таблица за февраль 2016. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Inner peace of Wikipedias in the languages of Russia: lets sneak into their back-office Foto-report from Bashkir Wiki Seminar (25-31.04). WMRU representatives stated preliminary intents to provide one full stipend for each of the Wikipedias in the languages of Russia communities to attend its annual Wiki-conference to present on the state of the project development and participate in the round tables. The nearest one is in Saint-Petersburg in Sept/Oct. 2016. Finno-Ugric Wiki-seminar 2016 will take place on May 6-9. Azeri, Bashkir, Kazakh, Russian, Sakha, Ukrainian and many other Wikipedias welcome Wiki-Spring. Current Stats and Feb.2016 analytical table. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #6 (май'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #6 (May.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Article Placeholders запущен: как работать в Викидата Трансляция Вики-премии 2016 с 11:00 мск 16 мая. Допустимо ли копивио в суверенной ТатВики... Всемирный курултай башкир наградил бюрократа БашВики. Итоги финно-угорского викисеминара 2016. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитическая таблица за март 2016. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Article Placeholders launched: simplest work in Wikidata Wiki-Award 2016 broadcast since 11:00 CET on May 16. Copyvio in sovereign ttwiki: how acceptable?... World Kurultay of Bashkirs awarded bawiki bureaucrat. Results of Finno-Ugric Wiki-seminar 2016. Current Stats and March 2016 analytical table. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 21:29, 15 Накъыгъэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #7 (июнь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #7 (June'16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #7 (июнь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #7 (June'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Повышение ценности малого языкового раздела Википедии В добавок к тому, что уже опубликовал в рамках постерного доклада на Финноугорском викисеминаре 2016, хочу поделиться следующей находкой и пригласить и Вас пользоваться ей – для себя я её назвал «Интервикификацией»: Статья, посвящённая каждому дню года обычно имеет раздел «Праздники и памятные даты» и мы, несомненно, гордимся тем, что знаем о событиях, важных для наших соседей по планете и в мире Википедии. В татароязычном разделе Википедии я уже некоторое время как собираю подобную информацию из соседних разделов, снабжаю её наименованием на соответствующем языке (которую подкрепляю ссылкой на статью об этом мероприятии в соответствующем разделе) и ссылками на внешний авторитетный источник (особенно при отсутствии таковых в статье в соответствующем языковом разделе или даже отсутствии самой статьи – например лишь упоминание события на pl:9 czerwca#Święta или es:9 de junio#Celebraciones). При этом я соблюдаю рекомендации Павла Львовича Каганера, что я сам должен прочитать материал в соответствующей внешней ссылке, если таковая является обязательной (в отличие от однозначных случаев типа Autonomy Day, День автономии, Ålands självstyrelsedag, Itsehallintopäivä) На соответствующих страницах ТатВики конечно же пока не отражаются все праздники и памятные даты по всем дням всех стран и народов, но то, что я собрал и подтвердил за последние два года можете смело забирать и обогащать свои разделы. Так даже самый маленький раздел может ощутить свою подлинную интернациональность, а его читатели – его значимость и ценность... Текущие показатели проектов. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Increasing utility of Wikipedias in small languages I'd like to share one more tool left unmentioned in my poster presentation @ Finno-Ugric Wikiseminar 2016 & invite you to start using it – I've called it «Interwikification»: An article dedicated to a specific day of the year usually has «Holidays and memorable days» section and we all are certainly proud to know about events special to our neighbors on the planet who contribute into Wikipedia. It's been a while since I've started visiting neighboring Wikipedias to gathering such info for Tatar Wikipedia, providing it with original language title (linking to a specific article in respective language), as well as links to external respectable sources (especially if such links/article are missing in respective Wikipedia – say the event is just mentioned at pl:9 czerwca#Święta or es:9 de junio#Celebraciones). At the same time I follow Paul Kaganer's (User:Kaganer) recommendation that I must read the material in the external link myself, since Wikipedia itself is not always reliable (except probably such cases as Autonomy Day, День автономии, Ålands självstyrelsedag, Itsehallintopäivä) Respective ttwiki pages certainly do not reflect all special dates of all countries, peoples and social groups, but feel free to use what I've gathered over the last two years to enrich your Wikipedias. Thus even very small language Wikipedia becomes truly international, helping its readers to feel the importance of their language... Current Stats. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 13:50, 14 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki, which you may already seen in the latest issue of 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 coming week 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. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 17:01, 24 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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)-07:21, 28 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Insert" menu and click the "References list" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Insert" in the dialog to insert the References list. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

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 fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" and "Кодыр зэгъэзэхуэжын" tabs into a single "Зэгъэзэхуэжын" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Гъэтэрэзыгъуэ" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "НапэкӀуэцӀыр итхэнн" button will say "НапэкӀуэцӀ илъхьэн…". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. 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: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It 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 around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

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, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 20:20, 3 Бадзэуэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #8 (сентябрь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #8 (September '16)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России», выпуск #8 (сентябрь'16) / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter, issue #8 (September '16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. Поздравляем всех с началом очередного учебного года! В этом выпуске: 11.09-11.10.2016 в башвики проходит Вики-марафон «Месячник Башкортостана». 23-26.09.2016 в Ижевске пройдёт «Уральский вики-семинар 2016». Открыта регистрация участников на Х международную Вики-конференцию 2016, которая в этом году пройдёт 1-2.10.2016 года в Санкт-Петербурге. Ежегодный форум российских волонтеров посвящён развитию проектов Викимедиа на языках народов России, а также проблемам свободного создания и распространению знаний в целом. Расходы на проезд и проживание производится за счет собственных средств, средств спонсоров, и при соответствии определенным критериям, можно просить стипендию по грантовой программе «Travel & Participation Support» Фонда Викимедиа, или региональных чаптеров. 1-30.11.2016 года пройдёт ежегодный международный Вики-марафон «Месяц Азии». В этом году от нас также подтвердили участие аварский и башкирский разделы. Викимедийцы Башкортостана 15-17 июля осуществили вики-экспедицию в Бурзянский район. На территории Шульган-Ташского заповедника были посещены места, упоминающиеся в башкирском эпосе «Урал батыр» (Капова пещера, озеро Йылкысыккан), местный музей бортевого пчеловодства; проведены дискуссии, теоретические и практические занятия в формате вики-семинара. См. фотоотчёт на Викискладе. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. Our congratulations & best wishes on the occasion of a New School Year! In this issue: On 11.09-11.10.2016 our BashWiki colleagues organize «Bashkortostan Month» Edit-a-thon. On 23-26.09.2016 Izhevsk will host «Ural Wiki-Seminar 2016». On 1-2.10.2016 Saint-Petersburg will host Хth International Wiki-Conference 2016. Participant registration for this annual forum of Russian volunteers dedicated to developing Wikimedia projects in the languages of Russia, as well as overall free creation and distribution of knowledge is now officially open. Travel and lodging costs are born by participants, sponsors, and regional chapter or Wikimedia Foundation Grants, such as «Travel & Participation Support». Annual International «Wikipedia Asian Month» Edit-a-thon will take place on 1-30.11.2016. This year, Team Russia's team leader efforts are confirmed to be supported by Avar и Bashkir sections. On 15-17.07.2016 Wikimedians of Bashkortostan have organized Wiki-Expedition to Burzyansky District. On top of visiting Kapova Cave & Jylqysyqqan lake, mentioned in Bashkir epic poem «Ural-batyr», participants also learned about local honey hunting traditions in Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve's dedicated museum, made Wiki-Seminar style presentations, held discussions and engaged in practical editing sessions. See photo-report in Wikimedia Commons. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 13:10, 3 ФокӀадэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #9 (окт./Oct'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Викиданные: перечень элементов для перевода полей Обозначение и Описание – в перечне языков щёлкаете ссылку на нужный, внизу открывшегося окошечка жмёте кнопку "> Run", открываете элементы из полученного списка и правите/переводите эти два поля. Одобрено создание раздела Википедии на ливвиковском диалекте карельского языка! Сообщества разделов Википедии на языках народов России были упомянуты на пленарных сессиях Уральского викисеминара в Ижевске и Всероссийской вики-конференции 2016 в Санкт-Петербурге. Сентябрьские новости о коллегах за рубежом: Первая Википедия на коренном языке Австралии, Викимарафон о коренных народах США, Популяризация местных языков как инструмент повышения использования возможностей Интернета народами Африки. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikidata: the list of elements with missing Label и Description translation – click the necessary language link in the list, press "> Run" at the bottom of the opening query page, open elements from the resultant elements list and edit/translate these two fields. Rejoice for Livvi Karelian Wikipedia, which has been recently approved for coming out of the Wikimedia Incubator! Communities of Wikipedias in the languages of Russia presented at the plenary sessions of Uralic Wiki-Seminar in Izhevsk and All-Russia Wiki-Conference 2016 in Saint Petersburg. September news about colleagues abroad: Australia's first indigenous Wikipedia, Indigenous people marathon in U.S., Local language promotion as a tool to increase Internet use in Africa. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 14:35, 3 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

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

• You can now set text as small or big.[1]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[2] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[3]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[4]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[5]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[6] In the future, the "НапэкӀуэцӀыр итхэнн" button will say "НапэкӀуэцӀ илъхьэн…". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[7]

Future changes

The 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

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• 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, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

20:49, 15 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Егорова (Хашхожева) Татьяна Борисовна

http://zampolit.com/dossier/egorova-tatyana-borisovna/ Егорова (Хашхожева) Татьяна Борисовна, Председатель парламента КБР. Кабардинка или русская?--Kaiyr (talk) 17:40, 22 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #10 (ноя./Nov.'16)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Cамые активные викиженщины в России – безусловно в Башкортостане! Обучают вики-бабушек из Байназарово (Бурзянский район) Простой и надёжный способ обеспечить своему языку жизнь в эру искусственного интелекта Успейте включить свой родной язык в проект «Википедию на Луну»! (до 31.10.2016) Поддержим срочный грант в помощь сибирскотатарской Википедии Приглашаем к участию в организации и проведении марийского викисеминара Вики-Пайрем 2017 (Йошкар-Ола, 14-17.06.2017) Октябрьские новости о коллегах за рубежом: Википедии на языках Индии как инструмент расширения открытого доступа, Испанские Викиженщины со-организовали женский викимарафон в Национальной библиотеке, Национальная Библиотека Шотландии и Wikimedia UK привлекают носителей шотландского к улучшению Кельтской Википедии, Городской фестиваль – прекрасный повод для тематического викимарафона, Национальный музей Швеции передал 3000 изображений в Викисклад, Обучение курдских википедистов в Иракском Курдистане, Вики Любит Женщин в Нигерии. Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Most active WikiWomen of Russia are certainly from Bashkortostan! Training for Wiki-Grandmas from Baynazarovo (Burzyansky District) Simple and most reliable way to guarantee your native language will live on in AI era. Still possible to include your native tongue into «Wikipedia to the Moon» project (till 31.10.2016) Invitation to support urgent grant to help Siberian Tatar Wikipedia Invitation to join in organizing and participating at Вики-Пайрем 2017 Mari Wikiseminar in Yoshkar-Ola, 14-17.06.2017) October news about colleagues abroad: Indian language Wikipedias for greater open access in India, Spanish Wikimujeres helped organize a feminine edit-a-thon in the National Library, The National Library of Scotland and Wikimedia UK are recruiting more Gaelic speakers in an effort to improve Uicipeid, City festival as an opportunity to organize edit-a-thon, Stockholm's Nationalmuseum releases 3,000 images on Wikimedia Commons, Training for Kurdish Wikipedians in Iraqi Kurdistan, Wiki Loves Women in Nigeria. Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 13:16, 25 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2016 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #11 (янв./Jan.'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: На заметку: * Wikipedia ранжируется в Google так же, как и любой другой сайт, Использование Викиданных для обучения искусственного интелекта IBM Watson (англ.), Самые важные статьи англоВП по категориям (англ.), СМИ: Рязанские чиновники отредактировали Wikipedia, чтобы снести дом, Эксперт: Предновогодняя кампания Википедии по сбору пожертвований — мастер-класс по использованию эмоционального интеллекта! (англ.), ВП – это самый большой энциклопедический ресурс планеты по медицине, но в нём иногда отсутствует ключевая информация (англ.), Wikipedia ‘facts’ depend on which language you read them in, The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap В конце 2017 года на Луну отправится более 31,500 избранных статей и списков из всех Википедий, включая все разделы ВПнаЯР (даже ady и olo)! Поддержать новичков? Обратная связь? КазВП использует MediaWiki:Sitenotice Представьте себе мир, где каждый библиотекарь добавил в Википедию не менее одной ссылки на источники. Викимания-2017 пройдёт 9-13 августа в Монтреале (Канада). Заявки на стипендии для участия принимаются до 20 февраля. Новый отчёт: «Кто, как и откуда читает разделы ВП на языках России?» Видео #FactsMatter2016 (проверяемость фактов) с субтитрами — выбирать из [сс]. Новости о коллегах за рубежом: How Indian Language Wikipedias Are Making Knowledge Accessible to All, Wiki Loves Africa: Wikipedias call for an increased coverage of the African continent - Ventures Africa, Romania: How to download Wikipedia for offline access Текущие показатели проектов и аналитика. Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Take note: Training IBM Watson using Wikidata, The Open Wikipedia Ranking2016, Russian Wikipedia page edited in favor of a building's demolition from local administration IP address, Wikipedia's New Email Campaign Is a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence, Wikipedia is the world’s largest medical resource, but crucial information is often missing, Wikipedia ‘facts’ depend on which language you read them in, The slow and steady battle to close Wikipedia’s dangerous gender gap, Google: Wikipedia Is Ranked By Google Like Any Other Web Site At the end of 2017 over 31,500 WP's FAs and FLs will head for the Moon, including all WPs in the Languages of Russia (even newbies like ady & olo)! Supporting new editors? Looking for reader feedback? KazWP uses its MediaWiki:Sitenotice Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia. Wikimania-2017 will be held on August 9-13 in Montréal, Canada. Participation Scholarship applications accepted till Feb.20. New Report: «WPs in the Languages of Russia Readership» Video: #FactsMatter2016 — choose subtitles from [сс]. December news about colleagues abroad: How Indian Language Wikipedias Are Making Knowledge Accessible to All, Wiki Loves Africa: Wikipedias call for an increased coverage of the African continent - Ventures Africa, Romania: How to download Wikipedia for offline access Current Stats and analytics. Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 17:52, 19 ЩӀышылэм и 2017 (MSK)

Приглашение на Вики-весна 2017 года

Извините что по русски.

Дорогое сообщество,

В прошлом году к сожалению ваша общность пропустила участвовать в состязание Вики-весна и мы приглашаем вас принять участие в конкурсе в этом году! Если кто-нибудь хочет стать местным организатом, пожалуйста, подпишитесь на список рассылки на https://lists.wikimedia.bg/mailman/listinfo/ceespring-localorganisers, добавьте свое сообщество в мета-странице с участниками и обсудите издания конкурса на странице обсуждения (Talk:Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017/Participants). Там вы также найдете информацию о некоторых вещей, которых мы ожидаем от местных организаторов. Мы с нетерпением ждем ответа в ближайшее время!

От имени международных организаторов,--Алиса Селезньова (talk) 22:35, 7 Мазаем и 2017 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #12 (фев./Feb.'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Новости ВМРУ: Отчёт собрания 2017-01-30 Продолжается конкурс «Узнай Россию. Начни с Дона» Программа Вики-Пайрем_2017 (14-18.06.2017) Миссия: Отснять и описать Сахалин (июнь 2017) Новое в рамках движения Викимедиа: Ресурсный центр (статья в блоге); Инициатива «Здоровое сообщество» (статья в блоге) GLAM: Викимедиа впервые представлена в совете членов проекта Europeana Викиданные: Викиданные: новая площадка для культурного наследия Вики-Библиография: Конгресс 2017 пройдёт в Вене 23-25 мая. Википедия в образовании В школе: Википедия меняет подход к современному среднему образованию (Часть 1), Часть 2, Часть 3 В ВУЗе: Манифест Википедии, О том, как студенты изучают медицину, овладевают навыками совместной работы, и трансформируют Википедию, Как понимать, что Википедию “может править каждый”?, Гендерные стереотипы в Википедии – и что с этим делать Вашим студентам, ВикиПроекты, важность статей и их качество: интимные связи (1/2), Этой весной учиться править Википедию будет 7500 студентов из 335 учебных групп На заметку: Behörden pfuschen an Wikipedia-Einträgen herum - Basel (Базель: За последние 5 лет статьи, касающиеся работы государственных офисов редактировались с их IP-адресов почти 290 раз.) На момент 16-летия Википедии, (физические) энциклопедии практически обеценились Этот бот написал больше статей в Википедию, чем кто-либо ещё Старший юрист Фонда Викимедиа: Википедия стоит на фундаменте общественного достояния Самыми ценными являются правки, усиливающие истинность информации в статьях. Три причины, почему представителям наук о Земле стоит править Википедию Анализ эволюции содержания идентичных статей в разных языковых разделах Википедии Лучшие практики: Руководство по Викискладу для новичков (на англ.) Новости о коллегах за рубежом: India: Wikipedia and women Daily Mail? НеАИ. И список «потенциальных неАИ» англоВП. Учащиеся используют Арабскую Википедию как инструмент для овладения навыками цитирования источников, составления текстов, и критического мышления (анализа) Первым штатным википедистом на гэльском шотландском стала Сьюзан Инфографика УкрВП Украина Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikimedia Russia News: Meeting report 2017-01-30 On-going contest «Discover Russia. Start from Don» Вики-Пайрем_2017 seminar program (14-18.06.2017) Mission: to photograph & describe Sakhalin (June 2017) Wikimedia movement-wide developments: Wikimedia Resource Center (blog post); Community health initiative (blog post) GLAM: Wikimedia for the first time represented on Europeanas member council Wikidata: Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage WikiCite: 2017 Congress will take place in Vienna on May 23-25. Wikipedia in Education In high school: Change in Modern Schooling Education with Wikipedia (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3 In college: The Wikipedia Manifesto, How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia, What Does It Mean to Say That “Anyone Can Edit” Wikipedia?, Wikipedia’s Gender Bias – and What Your Students Can Do About It, WikiProjects, Article Importance, and Article Quality: An Intimate Relationship (1/2), Wiki Edu expects 7,500 students in around 335 courses to contribute to the site this spring Keep in mind: Behörden pfuschen an Wikipedia-Einträgen herum - Basel (Basel: In the past five years, government IP address have been found to edit articles relating to their jobs about 290 times.) [Physical] Encyclopaedias now virtually worthless as Wikipedia celebrates 16th anniversary This Bot Has Written More Wikipedia Articles Than Anybody WMF Senior Legal Counsel: Wikipedia is built on the public domain The most useful additions are those that add to the veracity of the information in a given article. Three Reasons Why Earth Scientists Should Edit Wikipedia Analysing Temporal Evolution of Interlingual Wikipedia Article Pairs Best practice: Beginners' guide on Wikimedia Commons in English News about colleagues abroad: India: Wikipedia and women Daily Mail? Not RS. And a list of EnWP Potentially unreliable sources. Students use Arabic Wikipedia as a tool to learn important skills like referencing sources, writing, and critical thinking Susan becomes first ever Gaelic Wikipedian-in-Residence UkWP Ukraine Infographics Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 16:41, 16 Мазаем и 2017 (MSK)

Примите участие в построении стратегии движения Викимедиа

К чему нам стоит
стремиться
в ближайшие 15 лет?

Вопрос выше можно понять по-разному:

• Что должно направлять нашу совместную работу в ближайшие 15 лет?
• Как мы хотим повлиять на мир в ближайшие 15 лет?
• Какова самая важная цель в ближайшие 15 лет?
• Что может направлять и вдохновлять наше движение в ближайшие 15 лет?
• Как мы могли бы ускорить наше развитие в ближайшие 15 лет?
• Чем мы будем известны в ближайшие 15 лет?

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За последние 16 лет участники проектов Викимедиа создали крупнейшую свободную базу знаний в истории человечества. За это время мы превратились из небольшой группы редакторов в огромное разнообразное сообщество, к которому принадлежат как редакторы, так и разработчики, организаторы, читатели, жертвователи и партнёры.

«Фонд Викимедиа» организует опрос среди участников с целью понять, к чему нам как движению стоит стремиться в ближайшие 15 лет. Чего мы достигнем через 15 лет? Какую роль мы хотели бы играть в мире в 2030 году? Кто присоединится к нашему движению? Какие нам предстоят свершения? Ваше мнение по этому поводу важно и им можно поделиться уже сегодня (в русскоязычной Википедии). Вы также можете высказать своё мнение здесь на любом удобном вам языке (но учтите, что мне наиболее понятны русский и английский) или организовать собственное обсуждение на добровольных началах.

Обсуждение проходит в следующие 4 недели. Если у вас будут какие-то вопросы по поводу процесса, их можно оставить на странице обсуждения главного опроса — я обязательно постараюсь ответить на них. Если вы не хотите получать подобные уведомления на русском языке, напишите. stjn (WMF) [Saint Johann] 20:14, 17 Гъатхэпэм и 2017 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter - #13 (апрель/April'17)

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Вики-весна — 2017 Википедия в образовании: Почему я учу своих студентов редактировать Википедию (видео, фран.), Википедия в учебном плане Гейдельбергского университета (нем.), NPR: Чему могут научиться студенты, когда пишут в Википедию (англ.) Главное в википедийных сообществах России одной строкой: Новости ВМРУ: 23 апреля — Вики-премия 2017. Календарь на месяц Изображение дня На заметку: Википедия учит важности проверки фактов (англ.), I4OC: инициатива по открытому цитированию (англ.), В ходе коллаборативного процесса все сообщества выбирают, что зафиксировать, а что опустить (исп.), Карьерные выгоды участия в движении обмена знаниями (англ.) Лучшие практики: Азербайджанский культурный центр в Узбекистане вносит вклад в развитие uzwiki Новости о коллегах за рубежом: Викимедиа Аргентина сотрудничает с аргентинским минобром в подготовке инструкторов по редактированию Википедии (исп.) Открываю миру индийскую культуру ч/з Википедию (англ.) Викимедийцы Каравали предоставляют оффлайн-контент деревенским школам, в которых изучают язык тулу (англ.) План: довести Эстонскую Википедию до миллиона статей! (англ.) Испанские политики привержены усилению присутствия баскского языка в Википедии. Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2017 Wikipedia in Education: Why I teach my students editing Wikipedia (video, fr), Wikipedia in the University of Heidelberg curriculum, NPR: What Students Can Learn By Writing For Wikipedia Single line News from Russia's Wikipedia communities: Wikimedia Russia News: Wiki-Award 2017 on April 23rd. Calendar for the Month Picture of the Day Keep in mind: Wikipedia is a fantastic tool, and it teaches us the value of fact-checking, Initiative for Open Citation, All linguistic communities decide to record and omit something throughout a collaborative process (es), Career benefits of sharing knowledge Best practice: Azerbaijani Cultural Center in Uzbekistan contributing into uzwiki News about colleagues abroad: Wikimedia Argentina is collaborating with the Argentinian Ministry of Education to train instructors how to edit Wikipedia. Sharing Indian culture with the world through Wikipedia Karavali Wikimedians to supply content offline to Tulu students in village schools Ambitious plan: let’s increase Estonian Wikipedia to one million articles! Politicians in Spain are committed to increasing the presence of the Basque language on Wikipedia. Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 14:53, 20 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2017 (MSK)

Обсудите основные темы будущей стратегии движения Викимедиа

В результате первого цикла обсуждения стратегии движения Викимедиа, проходившего по всему движению с 15 марта по 18 апреля 2017 года, на основании 1800 сообщений от участников было выделено пять основных тем, затронутых в большинстве сообщений:

• Здоровые и открытые сообщества

К 2030 году участие в проектах Викимедиа должно стать радостным, приносящим удовлетворение и открытым как для опытных участников, так и для новичков.

• Технологическая эпоха

К 2030 году движение Викимедиа будет работать с современными технологиями и решениями, чтобы сделать знания доступнее и проще к использованию.

• По-настоящему глобальное движение

К 2030 году движение Викимедиа преодолеет барьеры на пути к знаниям и будет поддерживать сообщества в ранее лишённых внимания частях мира.

• Наиболее уважаемый источник знаний

К 2030 году проекты Викимедиа будут считаться наиболее надёжными, качественными, нейтральными и важными источниками свободных знаний в мире.

• Составная часть экосистемы знаний

К 2030 году движение Викимедиа значительно улучшит качество, многообразие и доступность свободных знаний по всему миру.

К каждой теме задаётся по пять вопросов, чтобы понять их значение для участников русскоязычных проектов, потенциальные ограничения и найти необходимые компромиссы. Если вам это удобно, вы можете высказать своё мнение в русскоязычных опросах, проходящих в русской Википедии и на Мета-вики, или напрямую в своём проекте на любом удобном вам языке (но учтите, что мне полностью понятны только русский и английский).

  Присоединиться к обсуждению в русской Википедии

  Присоединиться к обсуждению на Мета-вики

Обсуждение будет проходить с 11 мая по 12 июня 2017 года. Если у вас будут какие-то вопросы по поводу процесса, их можно оставить на моей странице обсуждения — я являюсь координатором русскоязычных сообществ (и добровольно помогаю в проектах на языках России и Центральной Азии) и обязательно постараюсь ответить на них. (Please help translate to your language.) stjn (WMF) [Saint Johann] 20:28, 12 Накъыгъэм и 2017 (MSK)

Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

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.

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

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. 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 spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard 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 as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

• A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
• A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [8]
• The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. 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. [9]
• You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [10]
• The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [11]
• The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [12] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [13]
• You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [14]
• Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [15]
• The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [16]
• A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [17]
• There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [18]

Future changes

• The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [19]
• The kind of button used to Зэрыщытынум еплъын, ‎ЗэхъуэкӀыныгъэ хэлъхьахэр, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [20]
• The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [21]
• 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, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

21:06, 12 Накъыгъэм и 2017 (MSK)

ВАЖНО: Проверка активности администраторов

Здравствуйте. В 2013 году решением международного сообщества была принята политика, касающаяся порядка снятия т.н. «расширенных прав» (администратор, бюрократ и т.д.). В соответствии с этой политикой стюарды контролируют активность администраторов во всех вики-сайтах Фонда Викимедиа, где нет собственной политики снятия прав по неактивности. Насколько нам известно, в вашем разделе отсутствует формальная процедура лишения «расширенных прав» для неактивных учётных записей. Это означает, что теперь такими вопросами будут заниматься стюарды, в соответствии с новыми правилами проверки активности администраторов.

Мы определили, что критериям активности не соответствуют следующие участники (более 2-х лет нет правок и не отмечены никакие административные действия в журналах):

1. Master Shadow (администратор)

Эти участники скоро получат уведомление с просьбой начать дискуссию в сообществе (если они хотят сохранить некоторые или все свои права). Если участники не отреагируют, то их расширенные права будут отменены стюардами.

Тем не менее, если вы, как и сообщество, желаете вместо глобального процесса создать собственный алгоритм контроля, принять какое-то другое решение по поводу этих неактивных обладателей прав, или уже принимаете меры, которые мы не учли, оставьте, пожалуйста, сообщение на доске объявлений для стюардов в Мета-вики, чтобы мы знали, что в вашем разделе можно не заниматься контролем прав. Спасибо, Rschen7754 04:35, 13 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2017 (MSK)

Бюллетень «Википедии на языках России» / «Wikipedias in the languages of Russia» newsletter – #14

Уважаемый коллега, Большое спасибо всем и каждому, кто вносит свой вклад в развитие Разделов Википедии на языках России. В этом выпуске: Дискуссионные группы проекта в Vk.com и в Facebook.com На встречу к Викимании-2017 Предварительная программа мероприятия Подготовка проекта выступления и постера от имени наших проектов План действий по повышению посещаемости малых Вики: "Календарь на Заглавную": + бурятская, луговомарийская, кабардинская, крымскотатарская и аварская вики "Изображение дня": + вепсская, калмыкская, карачай-балкарская и аварская вики Научно-практическая конференция по развитию Википедий на языках коренных и автохтонных народов "Кельтский узел 2017", Эдинбург (Великобритания), 6.07.2017 Текущие показатели разделов ВП:ЯР, их читателей, и аналитика. Список сайтов со свободным использованием материалов от ВМРУ Подписаться/Отписаться. Готовы поделиться своими новостями или опытом? добавляйте ссылку в следующий выпуск!

Dear colleague, Great thanks go to each and everyone contributing into developing Wikipedias in the languages of Russia. In this issue: Project discussion groups in Vk.com & in Facebook.com Towards Wikimania-2017 Preliminary Programme Drafting lightning talk & poster on behalf of our projects Action plan to increase small wiki readership & participation: "Events of the month": + bxr, mhr, kbd, crh & avwiki "Picture of the Day": + vep, xal, krc & avwiki Celtic Knot Conference 2017 on supporting Celtic & Indigenous Languages, Edinburgh (UK), 6.07.2017 Current Stats on WP:LR and its Readership, as well as analytics. WMRU's List of websites under free license Subscribe/Unsubscribe. Ready to share own news or valuable experience? Add a link into the next month issue!

--Frhdkazan (talk) 16:52, 15 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2017 (MSK)

Языки сайтов госорганов

Здравствуйте! давайте напишем сайтам гос органов если там нет местного государственного языка то предложить добавить версию сайта на местном государственном языке. В этой таблице вся статистика и ссылки на сайты парламентов и правительств Республик: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Языковая_политика_в_России#Язык_сайтов_госорганов --Kaiyr (talk) 01:11, 6 Бадзэуэгъуэм и 2017 (MSK)

Баннерная кампания про Российскую Викимедиа конференцию 2017

Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о Российской Викимедиа конференции 2017 (для читателей разных вики из России + русская вики глобально). Спасибо.--Frhdkazan (talk) 18:58, 27 ФокӀадэм и 2017 (MSK)

Баннерная кампания про Приволжский вики-семинар 2017

• EN: Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Volga WikiSeminar 2017 announcement (all active WPs in languages of Russia, except Azerbaidjani, Kazakh, Finnish and Ukrainian; globally, except Ukraine). Thank you & sorry if this announcement is not available in your preferred language.
• RU: Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о Приволжском вики-семинаре 2017 (все активные ВП на языках России, кроме азербайджанской, казахской, украинской и финской; глобально, кроме Украины). Спасибо и приношу извинения, если данное объявление недоступно на предпочитаемом вами языке.--Frhdkazan (talk) 15:03, 9 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2017 (MSK)

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. [22]
• Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [23]
• 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. [24]
• 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. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

23:56, 2 Гъатхэпэм и 2018 (MSK)

WikiGap 2018 Russia

• EN: Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for WikiGap 2018 Russia article contest. (8 March - 8 April, all IPs from Russia, WPs only, 1 banner impression per week). Thank you.
• RU: Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о российском викимарафоне WikiGap 2018 (8 марта - 8 апреля, все IP из России, только Википедии, 1 показ в неделю). Спасибо.--Frhdkazan (talk) 18:00, 6 Гъатхэпэм и 2018 (MSK)

Public Domain 2018 Russia

• EN: Dear colleagues, please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Public Domain 2018 Russia uploads & article contest. (18 March - 30 June, all IPs from Russia, Wp/Ws/Commons, 1 banner impression per two weeks). Thank you.
• RU: Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о российском викимарафоне Общественное достояние 2018 (18 марта - 30 июня, все IP из России, Википедии/Викитеки/Викисклад, 1 показ в две недели). Спасибо.--Frhdkazan (talk) 21:39, 8 Гъатхэпэм и 2018 (MSK)

2018 FIFA World Cup Cities Regions

RU:

Уважаемые коллеги!
Викимедиа Россия (ВМРУ) выступает со-организатором открытого мультиплатформенного конкурса «Узнай Россию. Города и регионы ЧМ по футболу 2018» (14 марта-15 июля). Для уведомления о возможности участия пользующихся Википедией, Викигидом и Викискладом жителей и гостей России инициирована баннерная кампания CentralNotice.

• Проект баннера (RU)

«Узнай Россию. Города и регионы ЧМ по футболу 2018»

Пиши статьи, загружай изображения и выигрывай призы!

• Срок: 20 мая - 3 июня 2018 г.
• Аудитория: незарегистрировавшиеся посетители
• Разделы: en-ru-tt и возможно в иных, на языке которых будет готова локальная посадочная страница (преимущественно из числа Википедий на языках народов России)
• Частота показов: низкая, по усмотрению CN-админов, желательно не более 3-4 всплываний в неделю (Limit traffic 3% like WMDE Spring 2018?).
  

Прошу высказать своё мнение, предложения по изменению баннера или настроек ниже, а лучше на страничке заявки на баннер на языке данного уведомления. Будем благодарны, если поможете нам создать или улучшить баннер и посадочную страницу проекта на Вашем языке.
От имени баннерной программы Викимедиа РУ, с уважением

EN:

Dear colleagues!
Wikimedia Russia (WMRU) is a co-organizer of Discover Russia. 2018 FIFA World Cup Cities & Regions Wiki-Marathon (March 14 - July 15). Targeted CentralNotice banner campaign is initiated to inform Wikipedia, Wikivoyage & Wikimedia Commons visitors from among residents & guests of the Russian Federation about this opportunity.

• Draft Banner (EN)

Discover Russia. 2018 FIFA World Cup Cities & Regions

Write articles, upload images and win prizes!

• Terms: 20 May - 4 June 2018
• Audience: Anonymous visitors
• Wikipedia editions: en-ru-tt and possibly others, who will have local language landing page (though we mainly concentrate on Wikipedias in the languages of Russia)
• Weight & impression: low, TBD by CN-admins, preferably no more than 3-4 impressions per week (Limit traffic 3% like WMDE Spring 2018?).
  

We invite you to express your opinion, voice your proposals about improving the banner or its settings, here or (better) at banner request page in the language of this notification. We will be grateful if you can help us to create or improve the banner and the project landing page in Your language.
On behalf of WMRU Banner Program, respectfully--Frhdkazan (talk) 00:57, 21 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2018 (MSK)

Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018 Russia

EN:

Please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for ongoing annual Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018 article writing contest.
Proposed settings: Month long, only in Russia, WPs in en-kk-myv-ru-tt & possibly others (local landing page, mainly from m:Wikipedias in the languages of Russia), low impression TBD by CN admins.
On behalf of Wikimedia Russia Banners Program, respectfully --Frhdkazan (talk) 11:21, 21 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2018 (MSK)

RU:

Пожалуйста выскажитесь про баннерную кампанию CentralNotice для уведомления читателей о ежегодном викимарафоне «Вики-весна» (21 марта-31 мая).
Предложенные настройки: длинной в месяц, только в России, разделы ВП на en-kk-myv-ru-tt и возможно в иных (локальная посадочная страница, преимущественно из числа Википедий на языках народов России), низкая частота показов по усмотрению CN-админов.
От имени баннерной программы Викимедиа РУ, с уважением --Frhdkazan (talk) 11:21, 21 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2018 (MSK)

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. [25]

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. Thank you!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

17:17, 2 ЩакӀуэгъуэм и 2018 (MSK)

Public Domain 2019 Russia

Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о российском викимарафоне Общественное достояние 2019 (18 февраля — 31 марта, все IP из России, Википедии/Викитеки/Викисклад, 1 показ в две недели). JukoFF (talk) 18:08, 30 ЩӀышылэм и 2019 (MSK)

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)

21:32, 23 Бадзэуэгъуэм и 2019 (MSK)

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)

14:12, 29 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2019 (MSK)

Выпускники и наставники России 2019

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WikiGap 2020 Russia

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new жэуап етын tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

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

22:24, 8 Мэлыжьыхьым и 2020 (MSK)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:33, 17 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2020 (MSK)

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:55, 9 Бадзэуэгъуэм и 2020 (MSK)

Alumni and Mentors of Russia 2020

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WikiGap 2021 Russia

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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 16 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2021 (MSK)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

17:14, 24 Мэкъуауэгъуэм и 2021 (MSK)

Alumni and Mentors of Russia 2021

Уважаемые коллеги, пожалуйста выскажите своё мнение по поводу баннерной кампании CentralNotice для объявления о российском конкурсе статей Конкурсы/Выпускники и наставники России 2021 (15 сентября - 30 ноября 2021, все IP из России, Википедии, 3 показа в неделю, в течении ноября). Спасибо. JukoFF (talk) 16:40, 11 Жэпуэгъуэм и 2021 (MSK)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 21:55, 2 Накъыгъэм и 2022 (MSK)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Теухугъуэ щӀэуэ щӀэдзэн" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "ЗэхъуэкӀыныгъэхэр илъхьэн". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (тепсэлъыхьын) 02:24, 23 Мазае 2023 (MSK)