Hey folks :)
The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles
on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage
article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia,
Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you
already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more
content available to our users and bring our projects closer together.
The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It
has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It
can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith
now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and
believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on
smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This
will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided.
If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature
please let me know and we'll disable it for you.
The ticket for tracking this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an extension called
“ArticlePlaceholder”
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the last
months.
One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia provides
is language.
There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. People
who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the
information available potentially vital to them.
The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support
them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article
Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or
other mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly
not actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have
an article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control
of the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults
so smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the
technical side of it.
I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace
http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopi…
The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets results
if there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or alias.
The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a topic
yet, they will still have basic information provided in their language. But
it also might increase the numbers of editors due to increased usefulness
of that Wikipedia.
We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by
deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension
and the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how
it evolves.
If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We would
start it as a beta feature.
Thank you,
Lucie (Frimelle)
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Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge.
That‘s our commitment.
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Hi all,
The Collaboration team is currently working on a variety of
improvements and updates to the Notifications (Echo) extension.[1]
One task is improving how the many different types of notifications
are sorted, into the two fly-out menus. Your feedback would be
especially appreciated here.
TL;DR: Please see this spreadsheet, listing the Current split, and 3
alternative groupings:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eVQVbzVhhVejEMnVqRBC98weBnfrnZqcGEx…
(or a simplified version, and without the 3rd more complex
"Experimental" grouping, at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123018
)
The team is currently recommending we start off with the "By urgency"
grouping. There is a list of Pros/Cons for each, in the spreadsheet.
Please give us feedback, either at phabricator, or at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sw196pvf5vwt6pku
Detailed information on the goals and background of this task, is
included in both the phabricator and mediawiki.org links.
Much thanks,
Quiddity / Nick
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications#Future_plans_and_requests_for_…
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Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation has started a consultation about strategic
priorities.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy
There is a survey with one question and several possibilities for each of
the main themes: Reach, Community, Knowledge. It is a good chance to
influence the WMF strategy with your individual voice. I really mean it!
Taking the survey took me about 15 minutes and I found the exercise
interesting.
This survey is being promoted across all Wikimedia projects. I'm forwarding
the announcement to this list in order to help assuring that our technical
communities are well represented. Please take the survey, and feel free
forwarding this message to whoever might be interested as well.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:37 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Community Consultation on strategic
approaches
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement
regarding our strategic approaches. This is a major step to help us
prioritize the work of the Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running
for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan.
Throughout 2015 the Foundation has been exploring how to prioritize its
work to best support the movement's goals, set forth, but not yet reached,
in the 2010-15 strategic plan.
The strategic approaches presented here are based on our vision, strategy
consultations in 2010 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2010-2015>
and 2015
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation>,
research on external impacts, and input from staff and a few small
community think groups on key challenges and potential solutions.
Timeline: These are our target dates for this process.
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January 11: Put up pages for translation (done)
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January 18: Launch of community consultation on key questions
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February 15: Close of consultation
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By February 26: Release synthesis of consultation
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By March 4: Publish first draft strategy for comment
We appreciate your time and efforts to help guide the Foundation in its
work to support the movement.
Warm regards,
Lila
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Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello,
Four months ago new maps were launched at https://maps.wikimedia.org.
Russian, Italian, and other GeoHack language Wikipedias have switched to
it, as well as WikiVoyage community. I have been working closely with the
creators of the current mapping projects like WikiMiniAtlas and WIWOSM
(Daniel Schwen, Kolossos/Tim Alder, Magnus, Simon Legner, Sylvain, and
others) on trying to merge them together into one platform.
I believe our maps are now stable and capable enough to serve all users of
GeoHack, and can really use community's help to migrate it. Migration is
very simple - modify *Template:GeoTemplate* and *MediaWiki:GeoHack.js* as
was done here:
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:GeoHack.js
Eventually I am hoping that we won't need to use this complicated approach,
once Kartographer extension is finished.
EXAMPLE:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?language=ru&pagename=%D0%9B%D…
Please email if you have any questions. Thanks!
P.S. You might like my other project - interactive graphs, available on all
wiki. Feedback is welcome.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo