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Uitgeverij streepje b.v.

Kan iemand |uitgever=-| vervangen door | met een bot of AWB? B.v. op geurflard en kraambox. Zie [1].
@Marcel coenders, als je niet weet wie de uitgever is of er is geen uitgever mag je die parameter gewoon overslaan. - Alexis Jazz (overleg) 1 apr 2024 18:14 (CEST)

Uitgevoerd --MarcoSwart (overleg) 2 apr 2024 15:16 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [3][4]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 apr 2024 05:36 (CEST)

Jcwf moderator buiten dienst

Na ruim 16 jaar moderator van WikiWoordenboek te zijn geweest, heeft Jcwf laten weten dat hij wat rustiger aan doet en zich er daarom vooral op toelegt artikelen op zijn vakgebied toe te voegen aan de Afrikaanse Wikipedia. Om die reden is hij nu moderator buiten dienst geworden, met ruim 92 duizend bewerkingen op zijn naam. Dat aantal zegt nog lang niet alles, want hij heeft altijd veel aandacht besteed aan de kwaliteit van onze lemma's en heeft ook een groot aandeel gehad in het ontwikkelen van de opzet waar we vandaag de dag nog altijd op voortbouwen. Ik wil dit moment graag aangrijpen om hem daarvoor te bedanken. MarcoSwart (overleg) 2 apr 2024 19:31 (CEST)

Diminutiva tanta

Bij het aanvullen van de trefwoordregel met een lidwoord, kom ik een paar honderd regels tegen met het sjabloon {{dimt}} bij woorden/betekenissen die in het Nederlands alleen als verkleinwoord voorkomen. Het lijkt me naar de lezer toe consistenter om hiervoor dezelfde aanpak te gebruiken als bij woorden die alleen als meervoud of enkelvoud voorkomen (zie {{plurt}} en {{singt}}:

1. Het sjabloon ook bruikbaar maken voor andere talen (met Nederlands als verstekwaarde).
2. In plaats van "dim.t." een voor meer lezers begrijpelijke omschrijving gebruiken.
3. Als het woord niet ook een verkleinwoord is van een ander trefwoord, het sjabloon gebruiken onder Woordherkomst en -opbouw. Het gaat dan immers om een kenmerk dat niet aan de betekenis is gekoppeld, maar iets zegt over de opbouw van het woord.
4. Als het woord ook een betekenis heeft waarin het gewoon het verkleinwoord van een ander trefwoord is, het sjabloon toevoegen aan de betreffende betekenisomschrijving(en). Het is immers aan die betekenis gekoppeld. In deze gevallen kan {{noun-dim}} meestal als eerste betekenis worden gebruikt, in plaats van een vermelding als afzonderlijk woord. Dat laatste is strikt genomen immers niet waar en voor de lezer ook niet erg overzichtelijk.
5. Het onderscheid tussen 3 en 4 ook laten doorwerken in de categorisering.

Voor dit doel heb ik tijdelijk {{dimt2}} aangemaakt, en het bij wijze van voorbeeld op aalbessenboompje en aapje gebruikt. Mijn idee zou zijn om {{dimt}} aan te passen, zodat het identiek wordt aan {{dimt2}}, dat daarna verdwijnt. Dit zal in de meeste gevallen ook gepaard moeten gaan met een aanpassing van de pagina's in kwestie. Ik wacht de komende 2 weken eerst de reacties op dit voorstel af. MarcoSwart (overleg) 4 apr 2024 22:25 (CEST)

Uitgelicht bij 12 april

Op WikiWoordenboek:Woord van de dag/Kandidaat staan voor 12 april (over drie dagen vanaf nu dus) twee verschillende pagina's genomineerd: dominee en station. Is twee pagina's uitlichten op dezelfde dag de bedoeling? (De pagina's in kwestie heb ik geloof ik zelf afgelopen jaar voorgedragen, maar zonder specifieke datum waarop ze op de hoofdpagina zouden moeten verschijnen).

N.B. Op zich zou iets als dit mogelijk wel kunnen als we echt voldoende pagina's hadden om uit te lichten (zeg maar 700 of meer in een heel jaar, wat dan neerkomt op twee individuele kandidaten per dag), maar zover is het (voorlopig nog) niet, denk ik. De Wikischim (overleg) 9 apr 2024 00:50 (CEST)

Dit was gewoon een verschrijving, "station" is op 8 juli aan de beurt. De vaste koppeling tussen datum en woord is in mijn ogen niet zo handig, omdat er geen echte relatie tussen die twee is. Mijn idee is om een sprong te maken naar een lijst van 491 woorden. Qua aantal lijkt me dat voor ons haalbaar en als we zo'n lijst blijven doorcirkelen benadert dat voor de doorsnee lezer het effect van een willekeurig gekozen woord. MarcoSwart (overleg) 10 apr 2024 13:21 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [5][6]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [8][9]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [10]

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MediaWiki message delivery 9 apr 2024 01:37 (CEST)

Beurzen voor deelname Wikimania

Dit jaar vindt [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania Wikimania] van 7-10 augustus plaats in Katowice (Polen).

Wikimania is de jaarlijkse wereldwijde conferentie voor iedereen die betrokken is bij een van de Wikimediaprojecten. Wikimedia Nederland stelt weer een aantal  reisbeurzen beschikbaar voor Wikimedianen die erbij willen zijn. Een volledige beurs is maximaal €1.300. Het is ook mogelijk een beurs aan te vragen voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 3 mei door het invullen van [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeAbvxCtSSQYTyUSeUG0rDAkEvwdsMemwSR6qohpqW6hh9YQ/viewform dit formulier]

Om een beurs aan te vragen hoef je geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland. We willen in ieder geval één beurs geven aan iemand die nog nooit eerder naar Wikimania is geweest. JansenKirsten (overleg) 10 apr 2024 10:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Ongedaan gemaakt" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [11][12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [13][14]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [15]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [16]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [17]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 apr 2024 01:29 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [18]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [19][20]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Speciaal:MijnPagina/vector.js to Speciaal:MijnPagina/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22 apr 2024 22:28 (CEST)

Naming convention of Templates

Hi all,

I'm a casual user of many wiktionary editions and also the developper of the DBnary resource that parses wiktionary data to make it available explicitely to automatic processes. I have been looking at the Dutch edition and something struck me when compared with other edition and this is the incoherence of template naming convention.

When I first looked at the Dutch wiktionary, it was quite clear that templates like {{-noun-}} or {{-pron-}} where introducing a new section in the wiktionary page. This was a rather important finding, because when editing a page, the structure is important to now what part of the page you are dealing with. And this is especially important since, (unlike most other editions), the headings are not explicitely given in the source of the page, but only through the templates.

However, today I'm totally confused by the entries because the naming convention has not been followed, leading to wikicode like :

{{-nlnoun-|{{pn}}|[[{{pn}}en]]|[[{{pn}}je]]|[[{{pn}}jes]]}}
{{-noun-|nld}}
{{-l-|n}}

where the first line leads to a morphology table, the second line to a new section and the third line to a simple text + bold value.

This is really a bad choice for understanding the wikicode and its relation to the page structure. Are the Dutch maintainer aware of this and is there any plan to ensure the naming convention used are followed for better wikicode readability ?

Thanks Dodecaplex (overleg) 23 apr 2024 11:28 (CEST)

Clear naming conventions would of course be useful. In fact, there is even more room for improvement of our legacy templates in other aspects too. Some templates don't render well on mobile screens. Many templates lack documentation an even more lack TemplateData. Unfortunately, our capacity to improve templates is rather limited and our editors often prioritise expanding the lexicographic content over increasing the readability of the wikicode. If I read back in our history, this was the main reason for using templates for headings.

As far as I know, there has never been a rule limiting the {{- start to headings. Using it for morphology tables like {{-nlnoun-}} was already practised on a large scale when I joined WikiWoordenboek. So its use was apparently extended to "sections" without explicit headings.

The template {{-l-}} isn't just a lay-out element, but can be seen as a low-level heading, grouping meanings with a common root and morphology. MarcoSwart (overleg) 23 apr 2024 22:06 (CEST)

Yes , I am afraid you are correct.

When I started with the Dutch dictionary the situation was already rather cumbersome.

Apart from -nlnoun- there were also -nlstam-, -esstam-, -esnoun-, -nlverb- and -nlpronom-pers- that had to be treated as 'non-section introducing'.

In fact, every template whose name ended at noun-, stam- or verb-.

I also parse the contents from time to time and this is not a simple task.

Another irritating fact has been the introduction of many templates that almost have the same action and are only meant for different languages.

I suppose that is the consequence of a way of working where everybody can do whatever he wants.

In fact, it would have been nice to have the system designed by persons with a high level of lexicographic knowledge.

I believe that we have at the moment at least one person (Marco) that fulfills this criterium.

Unfortunately it is too late to reshuffle the whole design so we continue as it is Kvdrgeus (overleg) 24 apr 2024 08:49 (CEST)

Vote now to select members of the first U4C

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Help met het vertalen in uw taal

Dear all,

I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 apr 2024 22:21 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Overlegactiviteit weergeven"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [22]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [23]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [24]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [25]
  • a WikiWoordenboek in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [26]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [27]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [28]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [29]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [30]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [31]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [32][33]

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MediaWiki message delivery 30 apr 2024 05:33 (CEST)

Gevallen waarin Sjabloon:wel-GB "slechts gedeeltelijk toepasbaar" is

Het volgende komt weliswaar niet heel vaak voor, maar de laatste tijd zie ik het zelf wat vaker: een Nederlands woord is in een bepaalde betekenis opgenomen in woordenlijst.org, terwijl er daarnaast een ander, meestal verouderd gelijkluidend woord bestaat (al dan niet met dezelfde etymologische herkomst) dat de woordenlijst niet (meer) kent. Meestal heeft de Van Dale het dan ook niet en kun je het beste naar deze site om meer informatie over het uit de "gewone" woordenboeken verdwenen (of misschien nooit opgenomen) woord te vinden.

Een voorbeeld van zo'n geval is huiden; er bestaat naast de alledaagse meervoudsvorm een gelijkluidend verouderd werkwoord, maar over dat laatste meldt de officiële woordenlijst niets. Wel is het verouderde werkwoord hier te vinden.

Is er bij dit soort homoniemen een manier om Sjabloon:wel-GB zo af te stemmen dat beter duidelijk is dat het bijv. (zoals in dit voorbeeld) alleen maar op het substantief betrekking heeft? Ik zou het natuurlijk ook gewoon zo kunnen doen (afgelopen maand blijkt gebruiker:Kvdrgeus dit overigens op dezelfde pagina te hebben teruggedraaid), maar deze oplossing is ook niet optimaal in gevallen waarin het gaat om (ook etymologisch) verschillende woorden die wel tot dezelfde woordsoort behoren; dit laatste [dezelfde woordsoort] geldt toevallig niet op het voorbeeld van huiden, maar wel bijv. bij peel (opmerkelijk detail; Van Dale blijkt de betekenis "veenland" nou net weer níet te hebben, terwijl dit de enige betekenis wordt gegeven op woordenlijst.org is; anderzijds noemt Van Dale hier een betekenis "halm", die de woordenlijst weer niet heeft). De Wikischim (overleg) 6 mei 2024 01:38 (CEST)

De woordenlijst is uitdrukkelijk geen woordenboek en vermeldt de betekenissen alleen als indicatie. Voor zover het louter om toegevoegde betekenissen gaat aan een vorm die in de woordenlijst is beschreven, kan {{wel-GB}} gewoon worden gebruikt.

Er zijn ook gevallen waarin een woord(vorm) niet kan worden opgevat als een toegevoegde betekenis, omdat de woordsoort, genus of flexie anders is. De oplossing is in dat geval om {{niet-GB}} met een toepasselijke parameter, net vóór het betreffende woordsoortsjabloon te gebruiken, naast {{wel-GB}} voor het hele lemma. Deze aanpak is al op honderden lemma's gebruikt; ik heb bij wijze van illustratie ook "huiden" en "peel" hiermee aangevuld. MarcoSwart (overleg) 6 mei 2024 12:41 (CEST)

Bedankt! Hoewel ik het zelf voor het algehele overzicht nog steeds niet helemaal optimaal vind, doe ik het dan voorlopig op deze manier daar waar nodig. Overigens is dat dan dus ook weer niet heel vaak. De Wikischim (overleg) 6 mei 2024 13:06 (CEST)

Ongehoord feestgedruis: 20 jaar, 900.000 pagina's, 3 miljoen pageviews per maand

In alle stilte is WikiWoordenboek afgelopen week 20 jaar oud geworden. Ditmaal was er niet zoveel animo om aparte feestelijkheden te organiseren, maar we hebben het jubileum wel luister bijgezet door ongeveer terzelfder tijd de grens van 900.000 pagina's te overschrijden, terwijl voor het eerst in onze geschiedenis 12 maanden achter elkaar telkens meer dan 2,5 miljoen pagina's werden geraadpleegd en de afgelopen 4 maanden zelfs elke keer meer dan 3 miljoen. MarcoSwart (overleg) 6 mei 2024 13:01 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Overlegactiviteit weergeven"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [34][35]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [36]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [38][39]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [40]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [41]

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 mei 2024 18:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [42]
• If you use the user-preference "Voorvertoning weergeven zonder de pagina opnieuw te laden", then the template-page feature "Voorvertoning weergeven met dit sjabloon" will now also work without reloading the page. [43]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [44]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [45]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [46][47]
• The Speciaal:Zoeken results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [48]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [49]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [50][51]

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MediaWiki message delivery 14 mei 2024 01:58 (CEST)

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 14 mei 2024 23:23 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [52]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [53][54]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [55][56]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21 mei 2024 01:04 (CEST)

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 22 mei 2024 04:26 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [57][58]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [59]

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MediaWiki message delivery 28 mei 2024 02:15 (CEST)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • –
• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 3 jun 2024 10:15 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [60]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [61]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [62]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [63][64]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 jun 2024 00:35 (CEST)

Sjabloon:-nlstam- kan duidelijker

Ik wou de volledige vervoeging van willen opzoeken, maar kon nergens in het lemma de link daarnaartoe vinden. Na enig verder zoeken blijkt deze onder het weinig beschrijvende woordeken "volledig" verschuild te gaan. Zou daar iets beters van gemaakt kunnen worden, zoals "volledige vervoeging" en misschien zelfs in een vet lettertype? Het hele sjabloon blinkt niet uit in duidelijkheid: als je op een van de andere links klikt kom je op algemene pagina's terecht, en dat ontmoedigt nogal om op de link in het vakje middenonder te klikken. Eerder zou ik die link bijvoorbeeld helemaal bovenaan het sjabloon plaatsen. – gpvos♫Gebruiker:Gpvos 4 jun 2024 16:44 (CEST)

Ik vermoed dat de vervoegingstabellen ooit naar een aparte pagina verplaatst in een tijd dat lange pagina's nog een lange laadtijd voor de lezer met zich meebrachten. Zelf vind ik het logischer om deze tabellen als uitklapscherm te presenteren, net als andere wiktionary's.

Daarnaast is de huidige vormgeving heel erg toegespitst op de schermen van computers, terwijl we vandaag de dag net iets vaker op een mobieltje worden geraadpleegd.

Tenslotte: de problemen waar we het hier over hebben beperken zich niet tot de Nederlandse vervoegingen, maar doen zich soms ook bij andere talen voor. MarcoSwart (overleg) 5 jun 2024 23:53 (CEST)

Ik vind het ook wel een goed idee om het tamelijk nietszeggende volledig hier te vervangen door iets anders, bijv. volledige vervoeging. De noodzaak van een inklapscherm als alternatief voor een subpagina zie ik daarentegen niet meteen. Is er geen andere, wiki-technisch wat minder ingrijpende manier om de vervoegingstabellen wat leesbaarder te maken vanaf mobiele telefoons? Overigens vind ik in het algemeen dat je alles toch nog altijd het beste ziet vanaf een gewoon, "klassiek" computerscherm. De Wikischim (overleg) 6 jun 2024 00:34 (CEST)

Over de sectie van "Etymologie" van leenwoorden in het Nederlands; "voor het eerst aangetroffen in...." ontbreekt hier vaak nog

Ik wil nu weer even aandacht voor het volgende. Bij woorden die rechtstreeks uit een andere taal in het Nederlands zijn overgenomen , meldt de sectie "Etymologie" nu vaak alleen de taal van herkomst (in veel gevallen is deze informatie eigenlijk niet zo heel interessant, althans voor mijzelf, omdat de taal van herkomst vaak zo al wel duidelijk is; tegenwoordig is dit bijna altijd het Engels, bij oudere leenwoorden het vaakst het Frans, Latijn of Duits). Er staat dan weer niet bij in welk jaar het leenwoord in het Nederlands voor het eerst in een tekstcorpus is aangetroffen. Dit laatste staat er wel standaard bij volledig inheemse woorden (erfwoorden), terwijl dit hier nou net wèl weer interessantere informatie zou zijn. Die informatie kan dus nog op veel plekken toegevoegd worden bij "Etymologie"; een suggestie dus voor een mogelijk nieuw deelproject.

Een ander belangrijk aspect is hier de opbouw en verdere herkomst van het woord zelf, maar de beschrijving daarvan hoort dan natuurlijk weer niet onder de ingang "Nederlands" maar bij de betreffende sectie eronder (die het woord in zijn oorspronkelijke vorm in de taal van herkomst behandelt). De Wikischim (overleg) 9 jun 2024 01:33 (CEST)

Je hebt zeker gelijk dat het nuttig is om "aangetroffen vanaf" ook toe te voegen bij woorden die niet in het Chronologisch woordenboek van Nicoline van der Sijs staan. Ik heb dat ook een aantal keren gedaan, maar het kan heel wat uitzoekwerk met zich meebrengen.

Met je opvatting dat het beter is om de verdere opbouw en herkomst van een woord te beschrijven in de taal van waaruit het ontleend is, ben ik het helemaal eens. Wanneer een lemma of sectie of herkomsttaal bestaat, hevel ik die informatie ook vaak daarheen over. MarcoSwart (overleg) 10 jun 2024 13:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [65]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [66]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [68][69]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [70]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [71]

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 jun 2024 22:20 (CEST)

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at [email protected].

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 11 jun 2024 10:45 (CEST)

Toegankelijke opmaak

Sjoerddebruin heeft het initiatief genomen om de opmaak van WikiWoordenboek meer toegankelijk te maken, aan de hand van de adviezen die de WMF daarvoor heeft opgesteld. Na wat overleg lijkt het praktisch om dit via deze projectpagina te laten lopen. Zo hebben we een duidelijk plaats voor overleg over dit onderwerp en zijn de aanpassingen ook voor de toekomst overzichtelijk gedocumenteerd. Wanneer dit project tot een groot aantal aanpassingen op beveiligde pagina's gaat leiden, is het mijn voorstel om Sjoerddebruin tijdelijk de bevoegdheden van een interfacemoderator te geven. MarcoSwart (overleg) 14 jun 2024 14:03 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [72]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [73][74]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [75]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [76]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [77]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [78][79]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [80]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [81]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 jun 2024 01:48 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [82]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [83]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [84]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [85][86]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [87]

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 jun 2024 00:32 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at [email protected].

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 25 jun 2024 12:52 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [88]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [89]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [90][91]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [92]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [93]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [94]

Future changes

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 jul 2024 01:59 (CEST)

"To do"-lijst: IPA-notaties en nog toe te voegen uitspraakbestanden voor Engelse woorden

Op veel (vooral de wat nieuwere) pagina's in Categorie:Woorden in het Engels ontbreken momenteel nog de IPA-notaties. Ik ben zelf onvoldoende hierin thuis om me eraan te gaan wagen.

Ook zijn er geregeld meerdere uitspraakbestanden die toegevoegd kunnen worden; in het Engels kennen veel woorden immers meerdere standaarduitspraken voor bijv. de VS. het VK en Canada, Australië soms ook nog. Soms is er helemaal geen uitspraakbestand beschikbaar, of het is er dan weer niet voor de Amerikaanse uitspraak maar wel weer voor een andere standaardvariant van het Engels (in de meeste gevallen is dit andersom, dus alleen van de Amerikaanse uitspraak is dan een bestand beschikbaar). De Wikischim (overleg) 6 jul 2024 12:57 (CEST)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 8 jul 2024 05:46 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey

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MediaWiki message delivery 8 jul 2024 23:31 (CEST)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 10 jul 2024 02:03 (CEST)

Thuisarts.nl gebruikt ook het wikiwoordenboek als woordenboek

Ik zag op thuisarts.nl dat ook daar het wikiwoordenboek wordt gebruikt als woordenboek. Marcel coenders (overleg) 13 jul 2024 17:19 (CEST)

Dat is leuk nieuws, maar het zou nog leuker zijn met een linkje. MarcoSwart (overleg) 18 jul 2024 22:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [95]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 jul 2024 03:31 (CEST)

Reischaaf vs reeschaaf

De items reischaaf en reeschaaf gaan over precies hetzelfde onderwerp, met alleen een iets andere schrijfwijze, zie Van Dale Groot Woordenboek, 13de druk. Waarom zijn er dan twee verschillende items in het WikiWoordenboek? VanBuren (overleg) 17 jul 2024 11:53 (CEST)

Zie WikiWoordenboek:Conventies en afspraken#REDIRECT. Op Wikipedia zijn dit soort gevallen in de regel een redirect, maar niet hier. Elke individuele schrijfwijze krijgt hier een eigen pagina, ongeacht of het "slechts" om een variant van hetzelfde woord gaat. De Wikischim (overleg) 18 jul 2024 01:06 (CEST)

Dan zou je toch op zijn minst verwachten dat ze ook naarelkaar verwijzen. Waarom wel een melding 'synoniem' in item reischaaf maar niet in item reeschaaf? VanBuren (overleg) 18 jul 2024 08:41 (CEST)

Die ontbrak idd. nog, bij deze toegevoegd op reeschaaf. Dank je voor het hierop wijzen. Overigens vraag ik me af of "synoniem" of "alternatieve schrijfwijze" ( {{-writ-}} ) hier nu de beste parameter is. De Wikischim (overleg) 18 jul 2024 11:45 (CEST)

Omdat de andere schrijfwijze een andere uitspraak weergeeft, is {{-writ-}} hier geen gelukkige keus. Het is wel praktijk om bij dit soort synoniemen "(uitspraakvariant)" toe te voegen. Het is wel mogelijk om met {{-writ-}} aan te geven dat "reischaaf" en "rijschaaf" schrijfwijzen van elkaar zijn.

Het verschil tussen Wikipedia en WikiWoordenboek op dit punt laat zich eenvoudig verklaren. Een encyclopedie beschrijft onderwerpen: als er meer woorden zijn om dat onderwerp aan te duiden, horen die naar hetzelfde artikel te leiden, maar als één woord op heel verschillende onderwerpen kan duiden, komen die niet in één artikel terecht. Een woordenboek beschrijft woorden: alle uiteenlopende betekenissen ervan komen op dezelfde pagina terecht, maar een ander woord met eenzelfde betekenis, krijgt een eigen pagina: de uitspraak, afbreking, flexie en gebruiksmogelijkheden kunnen immers verschillen; "betekenis" is niet de enige eigenschap die we van woorden geven. MarcoSwart (overleg) 18 jul 2024 22:47 (CEST)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

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Ter info: (opnieuw) nominatie woordenboeksjablonen op WP

Zie hier. Bijna twee jaar geleden was er ook al deze nominatie, dat ook nog even ter herinnering. Weliswaar is dit op zich een geheel WP-interne aangelegenheid, maar het gaat wel over een deel van de sjablonen die hierheen linken. De Wikischim (overleg) 19 jul 2024 14:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [96]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [97]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [98]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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