The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
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The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/21
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I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
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There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
//Johan Jönsson
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On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should
be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language.
Looking forward to have them on translatewiki.net !
Purodha
On 21.05.2016 13:52, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I would suggest
> taking them to meta to settle on what they should be exactly, and also
> then documenting them (including arguments) to make sure that they can
> be used consistently throughout the projects.
>
> I was wondering about the colors. Have we considered the
> MediaWiki/OOjs UI color theme already. In my opinion the portal feels
> more cologneblue than Vector right now..
>
> Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the
> lack of options for reuse of these improvements by other portals, and
> I personally think it would be great to start expanding parts of the
> development to other portals now.
> I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of
> reusable elements among the portals, that allows for some consistency,
> but trying to avoid blandness and uniformity. Simple things like a
> library of Less variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot
> for these kinds of efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted
> to that, so that other portal pages can benefit.
>
> For community participation, I also have some ideas:
> 1: There is no README.md
> 2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version.
> The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks
> like:
> https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.ht…
> That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you
> have links like that to the readme/meta page.
> 3: Update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals>
>
> DJ
>
>> On 20 mei 2016, at 18:45, Deborah Tankersley
>> <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to the
>> Wikipedia.org
>> page footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister
>> wiki
>> projects are really all about. Check it out at www.wikipedia.org or
>> view a
>> mobile screen capture here
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Descriptive-text_sister_projects-wikipe…>
>> .
>>
>> We also wrapped up a quick, one question survey that ran for a week on
>> the
>> portal to determine how visitors arrive at the page. The results
>> showed
>> that many of the visitors arrive by clicking on a bookmarked link or
>> by
>> typing in 'wikipedia' in their browser. We had many encouraging and
>> uplifting comments as well - see the full results here
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.…>
>> .
>>
>> In the coming weeks and months we'll be reaching out to many of those
>> survey takers who graciously provided their name and email addresses
>> to
>> engage in deeper conversations on how they use the portal and
>> Wikipedia in
>> general.
>>
>> As always, more detailed information is available on wiki for the
>> Wikipedia
>> Portal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> and A/B
>> testing
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing>.
>>
>> On behalf of our happy little Wikipedia.org Portal team,
>>
>> Deb
>> --
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>> Product Manager, Discovery
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello,
MediaWiki software is being used by NASA to help gather and access
information more efficiently.
This story is available on the Wikimedia blog and Meta-Wiki for
translation. We would like the story translated into Chinese and Russian,
however all other language translations are encouraged and appreciated.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/%E2%80%9CIt_pays_itse…
Thank you in advance for taking the time to consider this message and or
help translate this story.
Best,
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Digital Communications Intern | Wikimedia Foundation
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*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>
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The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/20
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There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
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Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, I appreciate your help and feedback.
//Johan Jönsson
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Cross wiki notifications will be released by default on *May 12 at 23:00
UTC*.
Documentation has been updated and need translations:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-He…
During the beta phase, the cross-wiki notifications feature was enabled by
over 18,000 accounts across more than 360 wikis. We receive great feedback
from a lot of very happy users. After that 3-months long beta period during
which we made adjustments, that feature will be released by default on May
12 at 23:00 UTC.
Users who don't want to receive cross-wiki notifications can turn them off
at individual wikis. More information is available on the documentation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help%3ANotifications%2FCross-wi…>.
The talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications> is
still open for any questions or feedback.
Do not hesitate to spread that information on your wiki! :)
Thanks,
Benoît
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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/19
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PDT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language.
There may be a few more edits by Friday, but the existing content
should generally remain fairly stable. I will let you know on Friday
in any case.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns. As
always, we appreciate your help and feedback.
Sorry for that late announcement,
Benoît
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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
