1. Lots of new sites created in the last few weeks:
Neapolitan Wikisource - nap.wikisource.org Hindi Wikisource - hi.wikisource.org N'Ko Wikipedia - nqo.wikipedia.org Balinese Wikipedia - ban.wikipedia.org Mon Wikipedia - mnw.wikipedia.org
Very soon: Minangkabau Wiktionary Sakizaya Wikipedia (This would be a good topic for a separate "What's making you happy this week" email)
The creation of new wikis was broken for some time for technical reasons, but now it works. Thanks to everyone who helped fix it. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212881 and related tasks.
2. Foundation staff (including myself) are sincerely interested in treating developers of onwiki tools such as templates, modules, and gadgets as actual developers, and improving their experience. A place was created for collecting feedback about this in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237490 . Some constructive replies arrived there already, and it makes me happy. We'd love to see more! The sooner you send it, the better—this will be one of the topics discussed at the Tech Conference next week!
If you aren't a developer of templates and gadgets yourself, please forward this request to the people in your wiki who do it.
On what is perhaps a more personal note, I just want to express my appreciation to all the developers, maintainers, importers, and translators of templates, modules, and gadgets on all wikis: you are doing much-needed innovative work, you are doing it quietly, and you are doing it brilliantly. Feel free to be louder—you deserve praise and better tools.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ה׳, 7 בנוב׳ 2019 ב-0:01 מאת Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com>:
Hello colleagues,
Welcome to a new "lightweight" version of WMYHTW. I hope that this version is nearly as enjoyable as the "heavyweight" versions from previous months.
*Job openings*
- Shared by Lydia Pintscher (WMDE): Product Manager for Wikibase
< https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/job/5246357?jobDbPVId=14376022&a...
.
- Shared by Nemo: Biodiversity Heritage Library Program Manager for the
Smithsonian Libraries < https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/11/now-hiring-program-manager.html
.
*For your listening enjoyment*
- Performed by *User:La Pianista
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:La_Pianista*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:La_Pianista *Albéniz - Rondeña from Iberia, Book II < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Alb%C3%A9niz_-_Ronde%C3%...
*Images from Norway*
- From the main page of Norsk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language Wikipedia: a house martin (*Delichon urbicum*). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delichon_urbica_NRM.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyU28D1C1-4
- From the main page of Nynorsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorsk
Wikipedia: the rural area of Folkestad, Volda, Norway https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folkestad_3_juni_2011.jpg
*Wikipedia for public good*
- Today's English Wikipedia Article of the Day: "Digital media use and
mental health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media_use_and_mental_health"
*Approaching a milestone*
- English Wikipedia is approaching a total of 6 million articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics.
Closing comments
- Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jon Harald Søby>User:Jon Harald Søby https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by for the Nynorsk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorsk translation.
- What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
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