Project:Village Pump/Flow/2021/09
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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
[edit]Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.
Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year
[edit]In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities
[edit]We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet
[edit]We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase
[edit]If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
Feedback
[edit]- What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
- How would you like to use our new sandbox?
- What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
- What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2021 (UTC) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Results for the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following four candidates received the most support:
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
- Victoria Doronina
- Dariusz Jemielniak
- Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at the end of this month.
Read the full announcement here. –xeno (talk) 02:06, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Server switch
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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, 14 September 2021.
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, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
- 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.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:45, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Talk to the Community Tech
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Hello!
As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.
Agenda
- How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
- Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
- Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
- Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
- Join online
- Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
- One tap mobile
- +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
- +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
- Dial by your location
See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:03, 11 September 2021 (UTC) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:03, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Request for wikitext talk page
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Hello! Could a passing administrator please change the content model of my talk page (User talk:Tol) to wikitext rather than Structured Discussions? Thank you! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:30, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
- Done! Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 20:53, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! Tol (talk | contribs) @ 20:54, 19 September 2021 (UTC)
About translation pages of Skin:Lakeus
[edit]In the original page Skin:Lakeus, the first line description is not seperated into two lines, but in Skin:Lakeus/zh, it is separated.
Also the "Planned Features" paragraph; the link to Skin:Vector using {{Ll}} with parameter nsp is set to 0; however it still shows the ns prefix in zh subpage, while the other two links does not.
Can someone help me fix these problem? I would like these to behave the same as the original page. Lakejason0 (talk) 08:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- (1)It is caused by {{NoteTA}}.
- (2){{Ll}} does not support translated namespace names (皮肤, etc.). Shirayuki (talk) 09:01, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- somehow the reply button does not work; I have put my reply below. Lakejason0 (talk) 09:38, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- (1)
hmm, but NoteTA is required in this case (since only `zh` is available for translation and we are told to use NoteTA and Language Converter syntax to apply regional differences); I guess I'll just say "fine".Seems like can be fixed by adding a return line after {{NoteTA}}. - (2) I simply would like to remove the prefix in that ll template. Why other two links are fine? Lakejason0 (talk) 09:38, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
- Use Skin: instead of 皮肤:. See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translations&message=Translations%3ASkin%3AVector%2FPage+display+title Shirayuki (talk) 10:22, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
Criação de Nova Página
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Este projeto trata-se do meu primeiro usando o MediaWiki. Quando tento criar uma página, surge um aviso de erro informando "Este site é para documentar o software MediaWiki . Não é o wiki que você configurou para sua aula, local de trabalho ou uso pessoal, nem é a Wikipedia."
Alguem saberia dizer por que isso acontece e como corrigir ? 189.109.32.66 (talk) 14:24, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
- You are on the wrong website. Please find another place to post your content. Clump (talk) 14:29, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
- Obrigado :) 200.178.114.203 (talk) 17:30, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
- Grande ajuda. 189.109.32.66 (talk) 17:23, 27 September 2021 (UTC)