On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:42 PM Pine W via Commons-l <
commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for the news, Keegan. I'm cross-posting the
info to other lists
with the date boldly corrected.
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0]
Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either
Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature
to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you
might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:
* Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on
mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel
free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1]
* Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2]
* Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you
have anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3]
Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January
with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as
anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as
well as a link to join, are on Meta. [4]
Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to
the IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm
exactly what day file captions will be released to Commons.
0.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&ol…
1.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions
2.
https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/
3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
4.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
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Captions are scheduled to go live tomorrow, Thursday 10 January, between
15:00 and 16:00 UTC. The time window may change at the last minute, and the
team my hold the deployment (or roll it back) if last minute problems
occur. Should that happen I will keep you all informed, and I'll see you
all at the IRC office hour tomorrow.
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation