विकिसूक्तिः:समुदायद्वारम्

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लोगोचिह्ने विकिसूक्तिरिति शब्दस्य प्रयोगः (Use of विकिसूक्तिः word in the logo)

नमस्कारः। अत्र विकिसूक्तौ यथाऽस्माकं योगदातारः इच्छन्ति, तथा लोगोचिह्ने विकिसूक्तयः इत्यस्य स्थाने विकिसूक्तिः इति शब्दः समावेष्टव्यः अस्ति। तदर्थमत्र छन्दाकलनं (voting) क्रियते। कृपया स्वमतं प्रकाशयन्तु। धन्यवादाः।

समर्थन--Narayanan V T (सम्भाषणम्) ११:०४, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)म्

Yप्रस्तावकत्वेन। -Hemant wikikosh (अम्भाषणम्) ०८:४४, १७ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)
Yअनुमोदयामि। - SumanaKoundinya (अम्भाषणम्) १२:३८, १७ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)

Yअनुमोदयामि। -Bhaskar Bhatt Joshi (अम्भाषणम्) १४:१९, १७ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)
Yअनुमोदयामि। -Sayant Mahato (अम्भाषणम्) १२:२२, १९ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)
Yअनुमोदयामि। - Shubha (अम्भाषणम्) १७:३७, १८ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)
Yअनुमोदयामि। -Jnanesh Marathe (अम्भाषणम्) १७:४४, १८ जूलय् २०१३ (IST)
Yअनुमोदयामि। -Narayanan V T (अम्भाषणम्) १२:२७, १९ जूलय् २०१३ (IST) अनुमोदयामि - पङ्कजा

One year Sanskrit Wikiquote

Hi & please accept my congratulations on the 1st anniversary of the creation of sa.wikiquote.org which was on 6 February.
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 expectations 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 ०५:५६, १० फ़ेब्रुवरि २०१४ (IST)

Request for approval

Hello all, because your wiki doesn't accept global bots and because at April 8th we will start migrating interwiki links from Wikiquote to Wikidata, I need to request for approval, so hereby I ask for approval, My bot (Dexbot) did the task of connecting pages of Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Wikivoyage before (and It had the responsibility of removing iw links from that Wikis). My bot already did this task very successfully and It has more than 12M edits in Wikidata which more than 10% of them are about connecting pages. Best Ladsgroup (अम्भाषणम्) १९:०४, ६ अप्रैल २०१४ (IST)

Because there is no objection after seven days I'm going to start my botLadsgroup (अम्भाषणम्) ०५:२९, १४ अप्रैल २०१४ (IST)

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

— २३:०६, १४ नवम्बर २०१४ (IST)

विकिसूक्तिजालपुटे लघुसार्वत्रिकविभवसङ्केतप्राप्त्यै समर्थनम् (ShortUrl on Samskrit wiki projects)

संस्कृतविकिपुटस्य सम्पर्कम् अन्यजालपुटेषु दानावसरे अत्यन्तं दीर्घं सार्वत्रिकविभवसङ्केतं (URL) प्राप्नुमः यश्च बहुधा क्लेशं जनयति । अस्याः समस्यायाः निवारणाय तान्त्रिकसाहाय्यं प्रार्थितमस्ति येन हिन्दीभाषापुटेषु शिरोनाम्नः अधः यः लघुः सङ्केतः दृश्यते तादृशः सङ्केतः प्राप्यते । विकिपीडिया, विकिस्रोतः, विकिसूक्तिः, विकिकोशः, विकिपुस्तकानि - इत्येतेषु इदं सौलभ्यं प्राप्तव्यमस्ति । तन्निमित्तं भवतां समर्थनम् अत्र सूचयन्तु ।

It has been proposed to provide short url facility(replacing the tawp.in shorturl external installation) on Samskrit wikiquote project. Find below the consensus of Community.--Sayant Mahato (सम्भाषणम्) ०९:४९, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)

1. समर्थनम्--Shubha (सम्भाषणम्) १०:०१, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)
2. समर्थनम्--Sayant Mahato (सम्भाषणम्) १०:१६, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)
3. समर्थनम्--Narayanan V T (सम्भाषणम्) ११:०४, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)
4. समर्थनम्--Premaskanth13 (सम्भाषणम्) १२:१०, ३ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)
5. समर्थनम्----Vaishnavi (सम्भाषणम्) १३:१०, ४ अप्रैल २०१५ (IST)

Correction of namespace names in Sanskrit

English	Old Sanskrit	New Sanskrit	Status
(Main)	मुख्यम्	मुख्यम्	Not need
Talk	सम्भाषणम्	सम्भाषणम्	Not need
User	योजकः	योजकः	Not need
User Talk	योजकसम्भाषणम्	योजकसम्भाषणम्	Not need
Wikipedia	विकिपीडिया	विकिपीडिया	Not need
Wikipedia talk	विकिपीडियासम्भाषणम्	विकिपीडियासम्भाषणम्	Not need
Also:	----	-----	I don't know
Wiktionary	Wiktionary	विकिशब्दकोशः	Please put new
Wiktionary talk	Wiktionaryसम्भाषणम्	विकिशब्दकोशसम्भाषणम्	Please put new
Wikibooks	Wikibooks	विकिपुस्तकानि	Please put new
Wikibooks talk	Wikibooksसम्भाषणम्	विकिपुस्तकसम्भाषणम्	Please put new
Wikiquote	विकिसूक्तिः	विकिसूक्तिः	Not need
Wikiquote talk	Wikiquoteसम्भाषणम्	विकिसूक्तिसम्भाषणम्	Please put new
Wikisource	Wikisource	विकिस्रोतः	Please put new
Wikisource talk	Wikisourceसम्भाषणम्	विकिस्रोतस्सम्भाषणम्	Please put new
File	----	सञ्चिका	Please put new
File talk	----	सञ्चिकासम्भाषणम्	Please put new
MediaWiki	मीडियाविकि	मीडियाविकि	Not need
MediaWiki talk	मीडियाविकिसम्भाषणम्	मीडियाविकिसम्भाषणम्	Not need
Template	फलकम्	फलकम्	Not need
Template talk	फलकस्य सम्भाषणम्	फलकसम्भाषणम्	Please put new
Help	सहाय्यम्	साहाय्यम्	Please put new
Help talk	सहाय्यस्य सम्भाषणम्	साहाय्यसम्भाषणम्	Please put new
Category	वर्गः	वर्गः	Not need
Category talk	वर्गसम्भाषणम्	वर्गसम्भाषणम्	Not need
Module	Module	मॉड्यूल	Please put new
Module talk	Module talk	मॉड्यूलसम्भाषणम्	Please put new

नमस्ते सर्वेभ्यः ! संस्कृतविकिपीडिया, संस्कृतस्रोतः इत्यादिषु प्रकल्पेषु नामाकाशानां दोषाः सन्ति । तेषां परिवर्तने मया अत्र मत्कुणः (Bug) स्थापितः अस्ति । अत्र कृपया स्वमतं दत्त्वा कार्यस्यास्य समर्थनं करोतु इति निवेदनम् । अस्तु । ॐNehalDaveND^•✉•✎ ०५:५८, ८ जून २०१५ (UTC)

चर्चा

एषः निर्णयः संस्कृतविकिपीडिया-समुदायेन स्वीकृतः आसीत् । अधुना एतस्य मत्कुणस्य कार्यं समापयितुं विकिसूक्तेः समुदायेनापि पुष्टिः करणीया । येन एतत् कार्यं पूर्णताङ्गच्छेत् । सर्वेभ्यः निवेदयामि यत्, सर्वे परिवर्तनं पुष्टयितुं स्वस्य मतं यच्छन्तु इति । NehalDaveND (सम्भाषणम्) १७:२७, ७ मई २०१६ (IST)

समर्थनम्

• समर्थनम् -- RAMKRISHNA RAVAL (सम्भाषणम्) १७:३०, ७ मई २०१६ (IST)

• समर्थनम् -- Yograj (सम्भाषणम्) १७:३२, ७ मई २०१६ (IST)

• समर्थनम् -- प्रतिमा (सम्भाषणम्) १७:३४, ७ मई २०१६ (IST)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें

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) १९:३१, २४ जून २०१६ (IST)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें

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)-०९:५१, २८ जून २०१६ (IST)

IST समयवलयस्य स्थापनम्

नमः सर्वेभ्यः अस्माकं प्रकल्पे भारतीयकालमानस्य आवश्यकतात्वात् मया अत्र मत्कुणः स्थापितः अस्ति। कृपया स्वमतं अत्र दत्त्वा एतस्य कार्यस्य पूर्णतायै योगदानं ददातु। अस्तु। NehalDaveND (सम्भाषणम्) १३:०१, १५ मार्च २०१७ (IST)

Columns for references

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें • Read this in another language

Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 24 July 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

००:५६, १८ जुलाई २०१७ (IST)

देवनागरी-अङ्कम् उत्सर्गत्वेन स्थापयितुम्

नमः सर्वेभ्यः! संस्कृतभाषायाः विकिपीडिया, विकिस्रोतः, विकिसूक्तिः, विकिशब्दकोशः, विकिपुस्तकम् इत्यादीनां प्रकल्पानाम् अङ्काः देवनागर्याम् एव उत्सर्गत्वेन भवेयुः इति समुदायस्य दीर्घकालीनः विचारः आसीत्। परन्तु कथं करणीयम् इति अस्पष्टम् आसीत्। जयप्रकाशमहोदयः तत्सम्बद्धं मार्गं प्राप्तवान् अस्ति। परन्तु तस्य कृते अस्माकं संस्कृतभाषायाः सर्वप्रकल्पानां समुदायैः देवनागरी-अङ्काः उत्सर्गत्वेन स्थापयितुं समर्थनं करणीयम् इति प्रथमं सोपानम्। अतः सर्वेभ्यः निवेदयामि यत्, कृपया कार्येऽस्मिन् स्वस्य समर्थनं कृत्वा साहाय्यं करोतु इति। NehalDaveND (सम्भाषणम्) १५:२५, १३ जनवरी २०१८ (IST)

समर्थनम्

समर्थनम् अतीव महत्त्वपूर्णं कार्यम्। प्रतिमा (सम्भाषणम्) १५:५५, १३ जनवरी २०१८ (IST)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Rschen7754 ०५:२६, २७ मई २०१९ (IST)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

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

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

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

Johan (WMF)

१९:४८, २१ अगस्त २०१९ (IST)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

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

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

How can you help?

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

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

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

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

-- Kbrown (WMF) २२:४४, ३० सितम्बर २०१९ (IST)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें

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

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

We would like individual feedback on the following:

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

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

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

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

As well as the following constraints:

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

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

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

कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि ! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

१२:४५, १६ अक्तूबर २०१९ (IST)

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) ००:३१, २३ जनवरी २०२० (IST)

Feedback on movement names

नमस्ते!. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें if necessary. कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि !

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, ०१:०९, ३ जुलै २०२० (IST)

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.

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) ०१:४०, १० जुलै २०२० (IST) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

Read this message in another language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) १९:१९, २६ आगस्ट् २०२० (IST)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

नमस्ते!. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें. कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि !

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, २३:२५, १० सेप्टेम्बर् २०२० (IST) 

Wiki of functions naming contest

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें.

नमस्ते!. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि ! --Quiddity (WMF)

०२:४३, ३० सेप्टेम्बर् २०२० (IST)

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

नमस्ते!. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें.

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.

कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि ! Qgil-WMF (talk) २२:४०, ७ अक्टोबर् २०२० (IST)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

Read this message in another language • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवाद करने में सहायता करें

The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 2020.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) २२:४१, २१ अक्टोबर् २०२० (IST)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

नमस्ते!. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. कृतज्ञतां निवेदयामि ! --Quiddity (WMF)

०३:४१, ६ नवेम्बर् २०२० (IST)

2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण

अब 2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षणखुल चुका है! यह सर्वेक्षण के द्वारा समुदाय कम्युनिटी टेक (Community Tech) अगले साल के लिए काम तय करता है। हम आपको ३० नवेम्बर् तक नए प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत करने के लिए या अन्य प्रस्तावों पर टिप्पणी कर उन्हें बेहतर बनाने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं। समुदाय ८ डिसेम्बर् और २१ डिसेम्बर् के बीच प्रस्तावों पर मतदान करेंगे।

कम्युनिटी टेक टीम (Community Tech team) अनुभवी विकिमीडिया संपादकों के लिए साधनों पर केंद्रित है। आप किसी भी भाषा में प्रस्ताव लिख सकते हैं, और हम उन्हें आपके लिए अनुवाद करेंगे। आपका धन्यवाद! हम आपके प्रस्तावों को देखने के लिए उत्सुक हैं!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) १०:४६, २० नवेम्बर् २०२० (IST)

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

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) २०:०९, ३० नवेम्बर् २०२० (IST)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १६:२५, ७ डिसेम्बर् २०२० (IST)

सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण 2021

हम सभी उपयोगकर्ताओं को 2021 सामुदायिक विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण पर मतदान करने के लिए आमंत्रित करते हैं। आप अब से २१ दिसम्बर तक जितने चाहें उतने विभिन्न विषयों के लिए मतदान कर सकते हैं।

सर्वेक्षण में, अनुभवी संपादकों के लिए नए और बेहतर उपकरणों की इच्छा एकत्र की जाती है। मतदान के बाद, हम आपकी इच्छाओं को पूरा करने की पूरी कोशिश करेंगे। हम सबसे लोकप्रिय विषयों के साथ शुरुआत करेंगे।

कम्युनिटी टेक विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन की टीमों में से एक हैं। हम संपादन और विकी मॉडरेशन टूल बनाते और सुधारते हैं। हम जो काम करते हैं, उसे कम्युनिटी विशलिस्ट सर्वेक्षण के परिणामों के आधार पर तय किया जाता है। साल में एक बार, आप नए विषयों को जमा करवा सकते हैं। दो सप्ताह के बाद, उन विषयों वोट कर सकते हैं, जिनमें आप सबसे अधिक रुचि रखते हैं। उस के बाद काम करने के लिए सर्वेक्षण से हमारी टीम इच्छाएं चुनती है। कुछ इच्छाएँ स्वयंसेवक डेवलपर्स या अन्य टीमों द्वारा दी जा सकती हैं।

हम आपके वोटों का इंतजार कर रहे हैं। धन्यवाद!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

२१:१३, ११ डिसेम्बर् २०२० (IST)