(*A translated version of this message may be available at Meta.*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
)
Greetings everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation’s community liaisons
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons> want to continue
improving the collaboration between WMF software development teams and our
communities. We want to include more and more diverse people to work
together in friendly environments. For this goal, tech ambassadors and tech
translators play a crucial role. How can we support them (you!) better?
We would like to strengthen the roles of tech ambassadors and tech
translators. Make these roles more visible to new potential volunteers,
more enjoyable to contribute to, and more recognized across the Wikimedia
movement.
For this reason, we are calling current and prospective contributors to
help us define not only a solid definition of the roles, but also related
metrics that we will adopt as part of our Key Performance Indicators. We
will also explore pain points and opportunities for improvement in the
workflow of these roles. This activity has already started with a review of
Tech News as a way to effectively disseminate technical information, and
will continue with a review of other major product newsletters, among other
things.
We are sharing a draft of role definitions and KPIs. Of course, the end
result might be much different, depending on your input!
The *feedback period goes from** Tuesday, August 8th to the 22nd**.* (Rest
assured that even if we may not be able to reply to each message, we will
read and consider all of them.)
You have the opportunity to share your thoughts in the following ways:
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*Online*, in the 2 megathreads at https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_collaboration_in_product_
development/Tech_ambassadors_and_translators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_coll…>
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*Online*, by replying privately (not to the list, please!) to this
message;
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*In person* at Wikimania this week, by meeting us on Saturday 12,
3-3:45pm, in Salon 2, level 2 of the venue for a focused chat. Please
help us spread the word, as this meeting is not featured on the Programme!
(maybe retweet this
<https://twitter.com/Elitre/status/893510196726837248>?);
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*In person*, by meeting us at the Community Engagement table
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TP4_xzlxDm6rjNoDQNxEVZV62lefmuHaK8I…>
(#1 in map
<https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village#Location>)
in Wikimania’s Community Village.
If you're already onboard with being more involved, testing new features,
giving or gathering feedback on more complicated issues, and generally
being your community's hero, just sign up instead in the tables:
*active tech ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List> - active tech
translators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Translators/List> .*
We are looking forward to seeing where this will lead all of us!
Elitre,
Senior Community Liaison
Technical Collaboration team
PS: I'm about to jump on planes to Montreal: I plan to spread the word
about the initiative above
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_collabora…>
in other venues (such as specific pages on Meta) soon.
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TL;DR: "New filters for edit review" is a project to add multiple features
to RecentChanges pages and Watchlists. The project page has been totally
rewritten to reflect the current status of this project, now stable. The
deployment by default will happen soon
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164489>, starting by *Catalan*, *French*
and *Hebrew* Wikipedia. Those three languages have priority, but
translations in all languages are welcome.
Direct translation link:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Ed…
(64
translation units).
This is the second version of the New filters for edit review page. The
first one has been translated when the Beta feature has been released on
May 2017. This new version is stable and will not change anymore (some
elements may be removed or some dates updated, but that will be minor
changes).
I know many of you have already spent time on that page and I want to thank
you for this. The success of this new feature was also possible because of
the documentation in user language.
This new version has been created based on user feedback received and
questions from the users about the features. We hope this rewriting will
help people to apprehend the new features for RecentChanges the best way.
Unfortunately, the new page doesn't kept anything from the previous
version. It has been a tough decision to take but we have done our best to
provide a page easy to translate.
As always, I'm available if you have any question.
Thank you very much for your continuous effort to provide translations for
everyone.
On behalf of the Global Collaboration team,
Benoît
--
Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
The latest tech newsletter is ready for early translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/35
Direct translation link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…
This is a fairly long issue, but I think it has a number of important
updates – asking for feedback on local overrides for global
preferences, syntax highlighting, notifications when someone tries and
fails to log in to your account, ability to block others from pinging
you.
I'm planning to send the newsletter on Monday afternoon (UTC), i.e.
Monday morning PT. The existing translations will be posted on the
wikis in that language. Deadlines:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/For_contributors#The_deadlines
There may be a 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.
(If you haven't translated Tech News previously, see this email:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2017-January/003773.html
Please do tell me if there's anything I can help you with.)
(Small addition, regarding the ability to mute users from pinging you
– it's probably going to be deployed next week, so if you have a
Translatewiki account and it hasn't been translated to your language,
you could take a look at
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-echo&fi…)
//Johan Jönsson
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Please translate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editing/Columns_for_references
Direct link for translation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-E…
For these languages:
العربية • español • français • italiano • polski • português •
українська • ייִדיש • 中文
the translations are already complete, except for the need to update one
sentence with the new date.
I also hope that someone can translate this short message (just 8 simple
sentences!) into German, Russian, Armenian, and Swedish. Every translation
is welcome, but these four are among of the most active language
communities affected by this project.
This message will probably be sent out at the end of this week.
Thank you!
--
Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
Hello translators,
We noticed that some wikis have content namespaces that do not show up in
search results. We'd like to ask the communities if they want these pages
to appear in search results by default.
If I could please ask for your assistance, your help will make it possible
to ask the communities in their language and ensure clarity to the question.
The post in questions is six sentences long. The list at the bottom of the
page does not need to be translated.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Content_namespaces_searc…
As always, thank you in advance for any assistance.
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
For security reasons, Internet Explorer 8 on XP won't work with the
Wikimedia wikis in the future. We need to tell the users:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Johan_(WMF)/IE8XP
I'm especially looking for translations to these languages:
العربية. বাংলা, Deutsch, español, فارسی, français, Hausa, हिन्दी,
Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, português, русский, Kiswahili,
Türkçe, 中文
Thank you – your help is much appreciated.
//Johan Jönsson
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Hey All,
I have a strategy related translation request for all languages EXCEPT:
ar, bn, de, es, fr, he, hi, it, ja, nl, pl, pt, ru, zh.
These have already been completed by our community strategy coordinators.
Though feel free to proofread.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centra…
Regards
--
Seddon
*Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
*Wikimedia Foundation*