All -
I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
places.
Announcement follows.
Thanks for any & all help,
Erik
Subject: Important: New edit patrolling features available
As of today, the "FlaggedRevs" extension is available to any wiki
community that wishes to use it. FlaggedRevs is a tool for patrolling
changes, identifying high quality article versions, and changing the
default version shown to unregistered users. It's highly configurable.
As such, we're making it available in two configurations:
1) A minimally intrusive "patrolling" configuration;
2) Custom configurations per your request.
== Who needs this feature and where can I see it? ==
Larger wiki communities will probably benefit more from the use of
this feature than smaller ones. If you have problems keeping vandalism
in check, and/or want to experiment with new ways to identify high
quality content, you should look into this functionality.
You can see an English language demo installation of the feature at:
http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
The feature is in production use on the German Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/
The German Wikipedia uses a custom configuration where the most recent
vandalism-patrolled version, if any, is shown to unregistered users.
You can track the progress of their use of the patrolling feature
here:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
== Patrolling Configuration ==
In the Patrolling Configuration, any user who has been registered for
more than 21 days and has made at least 150 edits will be
automatically given the permission to patrol changes for vandalism.
Only changes made by users who are not permitted to patrol changes
need to be patrolled.
In addition, sysops will be given the permission to flag versions of
"featured articles" in accordance with existing nomination processes.
(In other words, this gives you the ability to identify specific
_versions_ of an article as "featured", rather than the article as a
whole.) Finally, sysops will be permitted to define on a per-page
basis that changes need to be patrolled before being visible to
unregistered readers. This is an alternative to semi-protection; it
doesn't make sense to use both on a given page.
The use of these features is subject to policies that your wiki
community will need to develop. They should be used carefully until
such a policy is in place.
To activate the patrolling configuration,
1) File a request on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ of type
"enhancement", component "site request". You may need to create a
BugZilla account to do this.
2) Title your request "Enable FlaggedRevs Patrolling Configuration on
(my project name)".
3) Post a link to your BugZilla request to your project's "Village
pump" and mailing list, if available.
If there are no objections on the BugZilla page, the request will be
considered valid after 7 days. (It may still take a while longer to
process it.)
== Custom Configurations ==
The FlaggedRevs extension is highly flexible in its configuration. We
are willing to accommodate custom requests. Since some configurations
of FlaggedRevs could be considered highly disruptive, the requirements
are somewhat higher.
1) Read about the configuration options at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
and experiment with the live demo at:
http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
2) Create a page in the "Project:" namespace (e.g. "Wikipedia:",
"Wikibooks:") of your wiki community describing the configuration you
want to use.
3) Create a BugZilla request as above, titled "Enable FlaggedRevs
custom configuration on (my project name)" pointing to the proposal
page you have created. Provide an English translation of all relevant
information if possible - or we may not be able to help you.
4) Post a link to your proposal and to the BugZilla request to the
various relevant channels of your wiki community, e.g. "village pump",
mailing list.
If there are no objections within 14 days, your request will be
considered valid. If there are objections, please try building
consensus. If necessary, you can also resort to a poll (a very large
majority, at least two thirds, is generally necessary).
Note that custom configurations will take longer to process, and might
sit in the technical support queue for several weeks.
Our developers will _only_ look at the information attached to the
BugZilla request, so please make sure that everything relevant is at
least linked from there.
== Translators needed ==
The user interface of the FlaggedRevs extension needs to be translated
into as many languages as possible. The extension can be localized
using http://translatewiki.net/ - please follow the instructions there
to become a translator.
== User interface developers needed ==
If you are a PHP developer with JavaScript/CSS experience, your help
in improving the user interface experience (by improving the CSS or
adding AJAX features) would be appreciated. Just check out a fresh
copy of the MediaWiki code and the FlaggedRevs code and get started:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversionhttp://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
If you need committer access to our version control system, please
e-mail <commitaccess at wikimedia dot org>, attaching your SSH key and
desired username as per the above link.
I will post the announcement on Persian Wikipedia.
Hojjat (aka Huji)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 16:14:50 -0700
> From: "Erik Moeller" <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> <b80736c80805301614h56e33c7dp423daea1658bbe59(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> All -
>
> I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> places.
>
> Announcement follows.
>
> Thanks for any & all help,
> Erik
>
>
> Subject: Important: New edit patrolling features available
>
> As of today, the "FlaggedRevs" extension is available to any wiki
> community that wishes to use it. FlaggedRevs is a tool for patrolling
> changes, identifying high quality article versions, and changing the
> default version shown to unregistered users. It's highly configurable.
> As such, we're making it available in two configurations:
>
> 1) A minimally intrusive "patrolling" configuration;
> 2) Custom configurations per your request.
>
> == Who needs this feature and where can I see it? ==
>
> Larger wiki communities will probably benefit more from the use of
> this feature than smaller ones. If you have problems keeping vandalism
> in check, and/or want to experiment with new ways to identify high
> quality content, you should look into this functionality.
>
> You can see an English language demo installation of the feature at:
> http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
>
> The feature is in production use on the German Wikipedia:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/
>
> The German Wikipedia uses a custom configuration where the most recent
> vandalism-patrolled version, if any, is shown to unregistered users.
> You can track the progress of their use of the patrolling feature
> here:
>
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english<http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Eaka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english>
>
> == Patrolling Configuration ==
>
> In the Patrolling Configuration, any user who has been registered for
> more than 21 days and has made at least 150 edits will be
> automatically given the permission to patrol changes for vandalism.
> Only changes made by users who are not permitted to patrol changes
> need to be patrolled.
>
> In addition, sysops will be given the permission to flag versions of
> "featured articles" in accordance with existing nomination processes.
> (In other words, this gives you the ability to identify specific
> _versions_ of an article as "featured", rather than the article as a
> whole.) Finally, sysops will be permitted to define on a per-page
> basis that changes need to be patrolled before being visible to
> unregistered readers. This is an alternative to semi-protection; it
> doesn't make sense to use both on a given page.
>
> The use of these features is subject to policies that your wiki
> community will need to develop. They should be used carefully until
> such a policy is in place.
>
> To activate the patrolling configuration,
>
> 1) File a request on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ of type
> "enhancement", component "site request". You may need to create a
> BugZilla account to do this.
>
> 2) Title your request "Enable FlaggedRevs Patrolling Configuration on
> (my project name)".
>
> 3) Post a link to your BugZilla request to your project's "Village
> pump" and mailing list, if available.
>
> If there are no objections on the BugZilla page, the request will be
> considered valid after 7 days. (It may still take a while longer to
> process it.)
>
> == Custom Configurations ==
>
> The FlaggedRevs extension is highly flexible in its configuration. We
> are willing to accommodate custom requests. Since some configurations
> of FlaggedRevs could be considered highly disruptive, the requirements
> are somewhat higher.
>
> 1) Read about the configuration options at:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
> and experiment with the live demo at:
> http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/
>
> 2) Create a page in the "Project:" namespace (e.g. "Wikipedia:",
> "Wikibooks:") of your wiki community describing the configuration you
> want to use.
>
> 3) Create a BugZilla request as above, titled "Enable FlaggedRevs
> custom configuration on (my project name)" pointing to the proposal
> page you have created. Provide an English translation of all relevant
> information if possible - or we may not be able to help you.
>
> 4) Post a link to your proposal and to the BugZilla request to the
> various relevant channels of your wiki community, e.g. "village pump",
> mailing list.
>
> If there are no objections within 14 days, your request will be
> considered valid. If there are objections, please try building
> consensus. If necessary, you can also resort to a poll (a very large
> majority, at least two thirds, is generally necessary).
>
> Note that custom configurations will take longer to process, and might
> sit in the technical support queue for several weeks.
>
> Our developers will _only_ look at the information attached to the
> BugZilla request, so please make sure that everything relevant is at
> least linked from there.
>
> == Translators needed ==
>
> The user interface of the FlaggedRevs extension needs to be translated
> into as many languages as possible. The extension can be localized
> using http://translatewiki.net/ - please follow the instructions there
> to become a translator.
>
> == User interface developers needed ==
>
> If you are a PHP developer with JavaScript/CSS experience, your help
> in improving the user interface experience (by improving the CSS or
> adding AJAX features) would be appreciated. Just check out a fresh
> copy of the MediaWiki code and the FlaggedRevs code and get started:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Subversion
> http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
>
> If you need committer access to our version control system, please
> e-mail <commitaccess at wikimedia dot org>, attaching your SSH key and
> desired username as per the above link.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:40 -0500
> From: "Pedro Sanchez" <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> <9ac45b70805301637v6d79d489uebaca9b5ffb0d888(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> > previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> > mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> > English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> > foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> > lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> > places.
> >
>
> I'm translating the interface at betawiki into spanish, I expect to
> finish today or tomorrow morning. Is it still time for that?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:14:46 -0300
> From: "Luiz Augusto" <lugusto(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Translators-l] FlaggedRevs availability announcement
> To: "Wikimedia Translators" <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Message-ID:
> <6ab3ffc80805301914ie654f68n311d2ea55df0cc8b(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > > All -
> > >
> > > I would appreciate help with the following announcement. As with the
> > > previous announcement, I'd like it to be sent to as many language
> > > mailing lists & village pumps as possible. My plan is to send the
> > > English language announcement on Wednesday, June 4, at 11:00 UTC to
> > > foundation-l and all multilingual and English language project mailing
> > > lists. I would need your help to send it to other lists, languages &
> > > places.
> > >
> >
> > I'm translating the interface at betawiki into spanish, I expect to
> > finish today or tomorrow morning. Is it still time for that?
> >
>
> UI already fully translated into Portuguese (done by me and Malafaya @
> betawiki)
>
> Announcement going to be translated by me yesterday and spammed on all
> Portuguese Wikimedia projects (Village pumps) or at 2:00 AM (UTC) or at
> 16:00 from 4 July
>
It's time to remember one of those English proverbs I leaned in high school: "Good things come in threes!"
1. After being enabled on the German language Wikipedia a few weeks ago[1], Flagged revisions is a hit. Over 255.000 content pages have been reviewed (a third of all content pages) by almost 3.000 users[2]. The in my humble opinion Wikipedia with the highest quality content, now ensures that anonymous readers get to read checked versions of content, reducing chances of innocent bystanders being confronted with all kinds of pranks and filth. Great stuff.
2. Three days ago a shell user created a large number (15) of new MediaWiki wikis (Thanks Tim!)[3]. Many of those in languages that did not have a Wikimedia project yet (9). Thanks to everyone who has taken and is taking the time to make Wikimedia projects even more omnipresent. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
3. Last Tuesday, the illustrious "Bug 57" was finally closed[4]. Using multiple Wikimedia projects has never been this easy before. Yay! for meta projects like Wikimedia Commons. Now where's that WYSIWYG editor so that the learning curve does not have to be this steep[5]? I am putting a EUR 1000,00 bounty on the first to get one working properly and approved by Brion before the end of 2008. Contact me for details if you are serious about working on this. I am certain there are more people that would chip in for this[6] - and MediaWiki needs it to stay an interesting wiki engine outside of the WMF projects.
4. As you may not know (who am I anyway), I am heavily involved in the MediaWiki localisation project, which tries to make MediaWiki available in as many languages as possible. In the end of 2007 I formulated four ambitious goals for the project[7]. By the end of the year, 120 languages should have a minimal localisation (proper localisation for 'read only', back then 48 languages), 90 languages should have a localisation for at least 90% of all MediaWiki messages (then 50), 50 should have a 90% localisation of extension messages used by Wikimedia (then 11) and 20 should have a 65% localisation of all extension messages supposed in the MediaWiki localisation project (then 7)[8]. In December 2007, I thought all of those goals would be just or well beyond reach. Well, impossible really. Today the first of the forementioned four goals was reached: 20 languages now have a 65% or more localisation of the 3,700 messages of the extensions supported by Betawiki. Translators for Esperanto and Vietnamese completed the 20 languages. MediaWiki now has minimal localisation for 112 languages, an excellent localisation exists for 65 languages, and 16 languages have excellent support for the extensions that the WMF uses[9,10]. Brilliant if you ask me. And still we need more. There are Wikimedia projects in over 270 languages (counting Incubator projects) and MediaWiki supports about 313 languages. The least we should do is offer language communities a user interface in the language their parents taught them - nothing better to feel at home.
Ouch. I have to learn how to count… And I was not even done yet. Just wanted to share my happiness :).
Siebrand
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-May/042705.html
[2] http://toolserver.org/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-May/038008.html
[4] http://leuksman.com/log/2008/05/28/bug-57-laid-to-rest/
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
[6] The bounty is made available through the 'MediaWiki accessibility project' of Stichting Open Progress (http://www.openprogress.org), subsidised by HIVOS (http://www.hivos.nl/). Acceptance criteria include a proper 'back and forth' conversion of 2,000 English language Wikipedia main namespace pages.
[7] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2007-December/000571.html
[8] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics_in_time
[9] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics
[10] the relatively low rise in localisation completeness for WMF extension is mainly due to the large increase in messages for CentralAuth and FlaggedRevs; translators need some time to catch up.
As I had to update the config files for pywikipediabot for CommonsDelinker, I thought I might as well inform you of the 15 new Wikimedia wikis that were created today[1,2].
* ['wikinews']['cs']
* ['wikinews']['hu']
* ['wikipedia']['ext']
* ['wikipedia']['gan']
* ['wikipedia']['hif']
* ['wikipedia']['kaa']
* ['wikipedia']['mdf']
* ['wikipedia']['myv']
* ['wikipedia']['sah']
* ['wikipedia']['srn']
* ['wikipedia']['szl']
* ['wikisource']['ln']
* ['wikiversity']['cs']
* ['wikiversity']['ja']
* ['wikiversity']['pt']
Thanks go to Tim[3] for creating them. In general all the languages for which wikis have been created have a fair to excellent localisation status. Your continued efforts on this are appreciated. Please visit http://translatewiki.net and get those languages to 100% across the board[4].
Cheers! Siebrand
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13264
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14252
[3] https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log
[4] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics
[Also sent to the translators who volunteered to translate board election
pages. Apologies, then, to those who will get this message twice.]
Hello everyone,
This is just a quick e-mail to say that the voter notification e-mail has
been added to the list of pages to translate for the elections. It's four or
five sentences long, so it shouldn't take up any more than 5 minutes or so
of your time.
The original English-language page is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Email/en
And the main translation page is, of course, still here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation
I'll take advantage of this update to mention that we are still looking for
English>Arabic translators willing and able to help translate the board
elections pages; only a couple of pages of the ar: versions have been done
(or started and not finished). Please pitch in if you can. The Hebrew,
Hungarian, Ukrainian and Bahasa Indonesia pages also need work.
Cheers,
--Maria
[[User:Arria Belli]]
Hello all!
Would you guys mind translating the sitenotice announcing that
Wikimania Registration is open and adding it wikis where you are an
admin? Coordination page is on Meta-Wiki, see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Wikimania/Sitenotice_20…>.
Thanks!
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
---
Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to
this address will probably get lost.
Hello,
We currently have 30 translations. If you'd like to help, please see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>.
Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages /
total size of all pages):
* 100: cs, de, el, en, es, fa, fr, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, ru, sv,
zh-hans, zh-hans
* 40+: ca
* 20+: he
* 10+: it
* 1+: eo, eu, fi, hr, ml, uk, yue
* 0: ar, id, hu.
Translation progress this week (in the above levels):
* 0 -> 100: cs, el
* 1 -> 100: es, ko
* 80 -> 100: fa, ja, nl
* 10 -> 40: ca
* 0 -> 1: yue
* no change: ar (80), eo (1), eu (1), fi (1), he (20), hu (0), hr (1),
id (0), it (10), ml (1), uk (1)
* was already complete: de, en, fr, nb, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant.
==See also==
* detailed information: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>
* ask a question: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008>
* previous translation report:
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2008-May/000657.html>
--
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
from foundation-l.
Head up, folks ;) While it is not very soon (in weeks, I mean), but in
this summer, Florence said it would be a "full update" - so for us,
full update of our engaging language version as well.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] privacy policy update
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello,
During the last board meeting, the board approved the following resolution
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will amend its privacy policy
to notify, when possible, those members of the community whose
personally identifiable data has been sought through, or produced as a
result of, civil or criminal legal process, except when such
notification is forbidden by state or federal law in the United States
of America.
This change of policy was suggested early march by Nsk92, following the
Video Professor incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29/Archive_25…
After I was informed of this request, I added it on the board agenda and
asked Mike Godwin to come with an appropriate text.
As a matter of interest, I had asked Mike to review entirely, and to
work on a full update of our privacy policy. We should expect a full
draft for this summer. However, I felt that this little update could
anticipate the brand new summer version.
Thanks
Florence
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