Wikipedia:Community Portal/Archive-6

FileExporter beta feature

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:41, 14 Sunguti 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January

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

18:55, 16 Sunguti 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

Trizek (WMF) 15:01, 21 Nyenyenyani 2019 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

  • Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
  • Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
  • JSTOR – New applications now being taken again

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 17:40, 13 Nyenyankulu 2019 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April

10:56, 8 Dzivamusoko 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Thank you! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:35, 12 Dzivamusoko 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #1—July 2019

18:32, 23 Mawuwani 2019 (UTC)

Update on the consultation about office actions

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

New tools and IP masking

14:18, 21 Mhawuri 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:14, 30 Ndzhati 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

07:18, 16 Nhlangula 2019 (UTC)

Beta feature "Reference Previews"

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 09:47, 23 Nhlangula 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

11:12, 29 Nhlangula 2019 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 Sunguti 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:15, 26 Nyenyenyani 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

19:27, 8 Dzivamusoko 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

20:33, 17 Khotavuxika 2020 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

 
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 Mawuwani 2020 (UTC)

feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community

Feedback on movement names

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Thank you!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:42, 2 Mawuwani 2020 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Editing news 2020 #3

12:55, 9 Mawuwani 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:10, 9 Mawuwani 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement [reply]

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): we want to hear from you.

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:14, 6 Mhawuri 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 26 Mhawuri 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)


Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 Ndzhati 2020 (UTC)

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

Invitation to participate in the conversation

Wiki of functions naming contest

21:22, 29 Ndzhati 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

Thank you! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:17, 7 Nhlangula 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 21 Nhlangula 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

22:10, 5 Hukuri 2020 (UTC)

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 Hukuri 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Proposal to enable an experimental open source machine translation system for Tsonga

Content translation has been used already by many communities to translate more than 700,000 Wikipedia articles. We want to help communities with potential to grow by using translation more. We propose to enable experimental support for a basic machine translation system for Tsonga within Content Translation. Over time, it can improve with the help of the community.

Background

For some languages, Content translation offers Machine Translation as a starting point for users to edit and improve. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, which prevent the publication of only lightly edited machine translations. As a result, the translations produced with the tool are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.

Unfortunately, Tsonga is not supported by any of the translation services currently integrated in the tool such as Apertium, Google or Yandex. This requires editors to write their translations from scratch.

Proposal

We want to propose the integration of OpusMT, an Open source Neural Machine Translation system that supports the English-Tsonga language pair. You can try the translation engine on this example website (select "ts" in the dropdown menu on the right side). Although the translation service is based on MarianMT, a powerful neural network system, the quality of the final translations heavily depends on the availability of translation data which is limited for Tsonga at the moment. This means that:

  • The translation quality will be very low initially. When using the translation service you should still expect that you'll have to rewrite most of the content. This may not be an extra effort compared to the current situation, given that users have to write their translations from scratch since there is no alternative machine translation system available.
  • Quality will improve over time as more articles are translated. Each translation created with Content Translation (using machine translation or from scratch) will contribute to the global corpus of translation examples used by the system. Thus, the more translations are created with the tool, the better the machine translation service will become.

We believe that this approach will help the less-supported languages over time. We want to check if this plan sounds good to the Tsonga community, and encourage Tsonga editors to translate Wikipedia articles with the tool. In this way, your translations not only help expand the knowledge available in your language, but also become a way to improve the free machine translation service that can be used inside and outside Wikipedia.

Note that the usage of OpusMT machine translation is optional and editors are free to translate without using such services.

Impact

On the Tsonga Wikipedia, more than 150 articles have been created with Content Translation since 2015 (compared to more than 800 articles created from scratch in the same period). So we don’t expect a high volume of new content as an immediate result of this experiment. In any case, we want to encourage editors to report any issues they find with the tool while creating or reviewing translations.

In order to make sure that the content created using the new machine translation system results in a productive contribution, we’ll keep track of the translations created with the tool and their deletion ratios. In addition, we’ll set stricter limits on machine translation to enforce more intensive editing of the initial low quality machine translation.

We want to make sure the expectations are clear before enabling the new system. Please share your questions and your thoughts on the idea. We’ll proceed only if there are no major concerns from the community.

Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) (talk) 13:34, 14 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Community Response

@Aaharoni-WMF:, This is such a welcome development and would greatly lighten the translation load on my end for sure. I am mindful that machine translation would not always be in line with the native sentence construction. will this tool enable me to revise the translation before deploying it? -- Thuvack (talk) 08:33, 17 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for the response, Thuvack!
Yes! In Content translation, machine translation is only provided as a first step, and the human editor must edit it before publishing. The software will prevent the publishing of machine translation that was not edited at all, and it will show warnings about machine translation that was edited very slightly. How much is "slightly" can be further adjusted according to the feedback from the community. --Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) (talk) 08:56, 17 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Awesomeness! looking forward to test driving this tool! -- Thuvack (talk) 12:02, 17 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thuvack, it's deployed now!
Just start a translation in Content Translation, try translating a paragraph of prose, and after a few moments you'll see a machine translation. There will probably be many mistakes, but the more you translate well, the better it will get over time.
Also, Content Translation is currently defined as a beta feature. Is it OK to move it to being a usual preference? It will be enabled by default, but users will be able to disable it. It was already done in more than forty languages, and didn't cause any disruptions or increases in vandalism. --Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) (talk) 15:47, 17 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Aaharoni-WMF:, Yes, I have been using the content translation tool for some time now. I support the mainstreaming of this tool. --Thuvack (talk) 10:42, 6 Sunguti 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 N'wendzamhala 2020 (UTC)