// sorry for cross-posting
Hello,
A lot of heated discussion occur on talk pages – thus, edit conflicts
happen on talk pages a lot. To be able to solve these more effectively, the
Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional user
interface for this situation. This interface is shown to you when you write
on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the
same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict
interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment.
If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project
page [1].
This interface is created as a result of the Technical Wishes survey [2] in
2015, in which the German Wikipedia community wished for a simpler way to
resolve edit conflicts. For regular edit conflicts on article pages, the two
column conflict user interface was created, which has been available as a
beta feature since November 2018. The plan is to make this additional
interface for talk pages available in a few months.
We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature and let us
know what you think on our central feedback page [3]! -- For the Technical
Wishes Team: Max Klemm
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_c…
[2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_20…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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Hello ambassadors,
I got a report on Cantonese Wikipedia saying the "add sitelink" button on
the language bar has disappeared (for articles that aren't already linked
to Wikidata). Does anyone know what happened?
Deryck
Hello
Several maintenance operations on databases will be performed soon. These
operations target all wikis so as specific wikis. Please read this message
carefully.
A banner will be displayed on concerned wikis 30 minutes before each
operation.
However, it is always better to have these news being known, so please help
make your community aware of these maintenance operations!
*== April 30 - all wikis ==*
A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00
AM UTC. It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes.
During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be
delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted
services, please check on Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250733
*== May 5 - some wikis ==*
A maintenance operation will be performed on Tuesday 5th April at 05:00 AM
UTC. It impacts some wikis, for 15 minutes:
cebwiki
dewiki
enwikivoyage
mgwiktionary
shwiki
srwiki
frwiki
jawiki
ruwiki
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153
*== May 7 - some wikis and CentralAuth ==*
A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 7th April at 05:00 AM
UTC. It impacts some wikis, for 15 minutes:
arwiki
cawiki
eswiki
fawiki
frwiktionary
hewiki
huwiki
kowiki
metawiki
rowiki
ukwiki
viwiki
CentralAuth-based services (rename account, change password, etc.) may not
work. This will affect all wikis.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157
Thank you for your help,
Benoît
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Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Greetings,
As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph
service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will
take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do
not have or have disabled Javascript.
The change is in testing now, and will be appearing on mediawiki.org soon.
If you think this information is relevant to your community, please share
with them that the deprecation will occur in the near future.
Thanks, happy editing to you.
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124254
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Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Ambassadors,
I made a proposal for a new Wikiproject:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda
I tried to mark up the two main parts for translation and moved them to the
beginning. I have no idea if I used the translation extension right, I
haven't used it for half a decade.
Let me know what else you need. I would really appreciate if you could help
me reach the communities to spread the word about the proposal and to
gather feedback.
I am sorry if I made the request wrongly - please point me to how to do it
right, and I will gladly try to comply.
Thank you,
Denny