Wikipedia:Potturinn

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Safn 1 (nóvember 2005 – júlí 2005) Safn 2 (maí 2005 – júní 2006) Safn 3 (apríl 2006 – ágúst 2006) Safn 4 (ágúst 2006 – desember 2006) Safn 5 (október 2006 – febrúar 2007) Safn 6 (febrúar 2007 – apríl 2007) Safn 7 (apríl 2007 – júní 2007) Safn 8 (júní 2007 – ágúst 2007) Safn 9 (ágúst 2007 – ágúst 2007) Safn 10 (nóvember 2007 – febrúar 2008) Safn 11 (febrúar 2008 – mars 2008) Safn 12 (apríl 2008 – jún 2008) Safn 13 (júl 2008 – jan 2009) Safn 14 (feb 2009 – des 2009) Safn 15 (jan 2010 – júl 2010) Safn 16 (ágú 2010 – des 2010) Safn 17 (jan 2011 – des 2011) Safn 18 (jan 2012 – sep 2012) Safn 19 (okt 2012 – feb 2013) Safn 20 (feb 2013 – jan 2014) Safn 21 (jan 2014 – feb 2015) Safn 22 (feb 2015 – apr 2016)

Potturinn er, auk WikiIS-l póstlistans og IRC spjallrásarinnar #wikipedia-is ^tengjast á Freenode almennur umræðuvettvangur íslensku Wikipediu. Vinsamlegast mundu eftir að skrifa undir og tímasetja athugasemdir þínar með því að skrifa ~~~~ fyrir aftan þær eða með því að ýta á undirskriftartáknmyndina.

Hefja nýja umræðu

Wikipedia to the Moon

Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 21. apríl 2016 kl. 15:35 (UTC)

Áfrámsent af wikiis-owner

Ég stjórna póstlistanum ennþá og fékk þetta:

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Each year we organise Wiki Loves Monuments in various countries around the world. It is a photo contest with local teams, supported by the international team. This year we especially like to support countries who have not participated before, like Iceland.

If you are interested in organisation, please look at this page for more information: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016/Organise

If you have any questions or need for support, feel free to contact me. We can support you in many ways.

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--Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (spjall) 6. júní 2016 kl. 19:14 (UTC)

Hi all, The above message was coming from me.

One of the things we like to do is that from all countries in the world the public can learn about the local cultural heritage. In may countries the national government has assigned/designated certain buildings as monument. Would be great if these are listed somewhere. Does anyone know if Iceland has monuments? If yes, where to find more information about those? Thanks! Romaine (spjall) 8. júní 2016 kl. 01:52 (UTC)

Icelandic monuments are assigned by the cultural heritage agency of Iceland. Their website is at minjastofnun.is. At the Icelandic part of their website is an list over Icelandic monuments. However, as with France, the copyright restrictions here mean that the list would need to be filtered as the FOP (Freedom-of-Panorama) clause is too restrictive for wikimedia commons. For an English speaker it is probably easiest to get the list through the carare project on Europeana, although that list is likely outdated (as of 2013).--Snaevar (spjall) 8. júní 2016 kl. 22:51 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 10. júní 2016 kl. 15:31 (UTC)

Photos of Icelandic politicians (and other personalities)

Hæ! :-) I apologize for writing in English - after years of rather lazy learning (it's just a hobby for me, as a Swiss person living in Switzerland), I understand quite a bit of Icelandic, but don't really feel comfortable writing. Well... I hope this is the right place for my suggestion. As I'm fascinated by everything Icelandic, one of the things I like to do is writing or expanding articles about Icelandic politicians in German-language Wikipedia, so we have there now e.g. articles for all current members of Alþingi. But what we don't have in most cases are photos - apparently, there is a distinct lack of free photos of Icelandic politicians and other personalities. I notice that even here in Icelandic Wikipedia, articles often use non-free photos (with NC restriction) that can't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons - and also aren't accepted in German-language Wikipedia. So, I wonder... as Iceland is a small country, maybe it would be possible for Icelandic Wikipedians to take some photos, for example at official events, to increase the amount of available free photos? Even organize some kind of "Wikipedia at the parliament" photo session? In Germany, for example, they successfully carried out a photo project at their parliament Bundestag, see de:Wikipedia:Landtagsprojekt/BT, and similar projects for parliaments of member states. I think that such a project in Iceland would be great, too! :-) Of course, more free photos of e.g. Icelandic artists, writers etc. would also be very welcome. Gestumblindi (spjall) 20. júní 2016 kl. 21:32 (UTC)

Cool project and a great idea :) --Akigka (spjall) 21. júní 2016 kl. 09:58 (UTC)

I think the idea has been raised before, although it's good to get a regular reminder until we get going! ;) I'm sure we could get to take a picture of the president-elect for Wikimedia Commons if we asked him. Just need someone with a proper camera willing to upload it to commons. Regarding the members of parliament, we could use the opportunity to organise an event like that soon after the elections next autumn. For other people, we could start hunting them down earlier to shoot them (with a camera). :D -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 26. júní 2016 kl. 10:35 (UTC)

@Svavar Kjarrval: "I'm sure we could get to take a picture of the president-elect for Wikimedia Commons if we asked him" - that would be great, would be a good first step to have a photo of Guðni Th. Jóhannesson; would be even greater if we had one for Commons before him taking office on August 1, so the Wikipedia articles in various languages don't have to be picture-less then... so, maybe one of you Icelanders will have a chance to take a photo sometimes in the near future? Gestumblindi (spjall) 14. júlí 2016 kl. 10:59 (UTC)

@Gestumblindi If a smartphone picture (Samsung Galaxy S4) would suffice, I could do it on my own. Although I'd think it would be better if someone with a better camera should make the appointment so we won't need to bother him again for a better quality picture so soon after the first one. -Svavar Kjarrval (spjall) 14. júlí 2016 kl. 12:41 (UTC)

@Svavar Kjarrval: As far as I know, the Galaxy S4 has a good camera, and a nice picture taken in good light would certainly be sufficient for the time being - better than having no picture at all anyway, I'd say? :-) Gestumblindi (spjall) 14. júlí 2016 kl. 22:54 (UTC)

Peace Treaties in Art 30 x 30 Challenge

		Peace Treaties in Art 30 x 30 Challenge
		Contest now open, come join us! All editors are encouraged to contribute their best in the depiction of peace in art. Tokens and prizes up for grabs.

Hi! The Peace Treaties in Art 30 x 30 Challenge is now on! Sorry I cannot speak your language, if someone translated this it would be fantastic:p In the meantime, we are very much looking forward to your participation in this inspirational contest aimed at creating, improving and translating articles on Peace Treaties in Art in the context of Donostia-San Seastián 2016 European Capital of Culture, aspiring to provide by dint of collaboration (quality!) material available in the Wikipedia about this compelling topic, both present and timeless. In keeping with our inclusive and multicultural approach, we are intent on encouraging production in minority languages, such as Icelandic.

The project, promoted by the Basque Wikimedians User Group, originates in the Peace Treaty exhibitions project taking place in Donostia-San Sebastián 2016 European Capital of Culture opening on June 17. The Wikipedia challenge extends from June 17 (starting 12 pm CET) to July 17, including a Wikimarathon to be held on 9 July, everyone is invited! Leave your imprint along with other fellow wikipedians, you will win awards (and our eternal gratitude!:) in the form of Barnstars and en:Donostia-San Sebastián stays! See you there, takk --Iñaki LL (spjall) 26. júní 2016 kl. 10:18 (UTC)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this message and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-1. júlí 2016 kl. 12:57 (UTC)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 1. júlí 2016 kl. 14:10 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Setja inn" menu and click the "Tilvísunarlisti" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "Setja inn" in the dialog to insert the Tilvísunarlisti. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "Breyta" and "Breyta frumkóða" tabs into a single "Breyta" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Breytingarflipinn" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "Vista síðu" button will say "Gefa út síðu". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
• Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Takk!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 3. júlí 2016 kl. 17:20 (UTC)

Open call for Project Grants

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.

Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5. júlí 2016 kl. 15:25 (UTC)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-8. júlí 2016 kl. 03:03 (UTC)

Save/Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Vista síðu” button to “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”. “Gefa út síðu” will be used when you create a new page. “Gefa út breytingar” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Vista síðu” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Vista síðu” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Gefa út síðu” and “Gefa út breytingar”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9. ágúst 2016 kl. 18:02 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our publisher donation program. You can now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Nomos – Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
• World Scientific – Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
• Edinburgh University Press – Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
• American Psychological Association – Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
• Emerald – Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, DeGruyter, Gale and Newspaperarchive.com.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 30. ágúst 2016 kl. 18:38 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language! Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Davíðshús - Wikipediagreinar um efni tengt Akureyri og nágrenni

Ég var að senda inn umsókn um eina viku í Davíðshúsi á Akureyri til wikipedia skrifa. Datt þá í hug að ef af verður þá væri það upplagt tækifæri fyrir Wikicamp og ef til vill væri það skemmtilegt og áhugahvetjandi ef einhver lítill hópur íslenskra wikipedians færi saman á staðina og reyndi að útbreiða fagnaðarerindið, fá fólk á svæðunum til að skrifa greinar og leggja í púkkið efni frá heimabyggð. Það eru víða svona hús á stöðunum eins og 1) Akureyri - Davíðshús, 2) Skriðuklaustur, 3) Hólmavík og ég veit að víða er í boði gisting þó hún sé ekki auglýst. Ég t.d. sjálf ræð yfir miklu húsnæði á Bolungarvík sem ég hef oft lánað í alls konar viðburði. Hvernig væri að hefja einhvers konar stuttar ferðir um landið og leita eftir styrkjum til þess þ.e. fyrir ferðakostnaði þeirra sem fara? Hér er bréfið sem ég sendi ___ Sent: 6. september 2016 11:30

To: Þorsteinn G. Jónsson <doddi@akureyri.is> Subject: Davíðshús umsókn

Ég óska eftir úthlutun í Davíðshúsi í eina viku, helst sumarið 2017 (ekki þó senni hlutann í maí, verð þá í Noregi). Aðrir tímar en sumarið koma þó til greina en vegna vissra aðstæðna væri betra að það væri að sumarlvagi.

Verkefni sem ég hyggst vinna að er verkefni sem ég hef unnið að mjög lengi. Það felst í því að skrifa greinar í íslensku wikipedia (is.wikipedia.org) um efni sem varðar íslenskan veruleika þ.e. náttúru, sögu og menningu. Ég hef reynt að taka fyrir ákveðin landssvæði og hef t.d. reynt að skrifa mikið af greinum tengdar Vestfjörðum og svæðum í Reykjavík.

Núna langar mig til að taka fyrir Akureyri og nálægar byggðir og skrifa greinar um hús og náttúru þar ásamt ýmsu um atvinnulíf og mannlíf á Akureyri fyrr á tímum og reyna að fá aðra til samstarf um það. Það er þvímíður ansi fáir sem skrifa greinar að staðaldri, ég giska á að við séum ekki nema um 20 og brýnt að það komi fleiri að því. Allar greinar á Wikipedíu verða að vera studdar heimildum og það er ekki vettvangur fyrir frumheimildir heldur lýsing á því sem hefur verið áður birt af ábyrgðum aðilum. Sem dæmi má nefna að ég skrifa mikið að greinum og greinastúfum um jurtir sem þrífast á Íslandi og þá hefur Lystigarðurinn á Akureyri og hans góði og nákvæmi vefur verið drjúg heimild en ég hins vegar skrifa grein sem er í tengslum við erlendar greinar um sömu jurt og með sams konar uppbyggingu. Það sem vinnst í því er að þá get ég notað gríðarstórt myndasafn (commons.wikimedia.org) og greinin nýtist líka þeim sem væru með annað tungumál.

Dæmi um hagnýta notkun á wikipediagreinum

Það er auðvitað hægt að fletta upp í wikipedia og skoða greinar þar en það eru margir möguleikar sem einnig eru varðandi fólk sem er á ferð og eingöngu með síma til að afla upplýsinga og taka þátt í ýmis konar leiðöngrum. Segjum svo að lystigarðurinn væri með QR kóða fyrir neðan merkingu á jurt á wikipediagrein um jurtina Mánaklungur https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mánaklungur þá myndi notandi sem væri með Wikipedia app og QR kóða app (flestir eru með slíkt og auðvelt að setja slíkt inn og kostar lítið eða ekkert). Á slóðinni http://qrpedia.org er hægt að slá inn slóð á grein í Wikipedia (hér er skjámynd með dæmi um slíkt http://i.imgur.com/azZnxmi.jpg Þessi QR kóði væri svo prentaður og komið fyrir af starfmanni (geta verið mjög litlir, bara frímerkjastærð)

Notandi sem kæmi að og skannaði QR kóðann með símanum sínum myndi fá greinina á því tungumáli sem hann hefur stillt símann sinn á (væntanlega sitt móðurmál). Annað dæmi um notkun wikipedia er að margir aðilar sem eru með kortbjóða upp á að wikipediagreinar um nærliggjandi staði eru aðgengilegar. Þriðja dæmið er að nota wikipedia sem ein gögn í símaleikjum og afþreyingu (pokemon go er dæmi um slíkan leik)

Ég hef reyndar skrifað nokkrar wikipediagreinar sem tengjast Akureyri s.s. greinar um atvinnulíf fyrri tíma t.d. verksmiðjurekstur á Gleráreyrum og ýmislegt annað

• https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B3v%C3%A9lar_Eyjafjar%C3%B0ar
• https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefjun_(verksmi%C3%B0ja)
• https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sjónarhæðarsöfnuðurinn
• https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ástjörn

Það væri fengur að geta unnið að slíkum greinaskrifum í námunda við staðina og reynt að nálgast myndefni sem tengist greinum og geta unnið í Amtbókasafninu ásamt því að skoða staðina.

virðingarfyllst Salvör Gissurardóttir lektor í upplýsingatækni og miðlun við Menntavísindasvið Háskóla ÍSlands ___ Hverjir eru með í að koma til Akureyrar á svona Wikicamp? --Salvor (spjall) 6. september 2016 kl. 13:26 (UTC)

Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson

Hello,

Can someone create a page about Icelandic film director Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson? Thanks in advance. Jihaim (spjall) 11. september 2016 kl. 13:34 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12. september 2016 kl. 15:08 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

• Submit a grant request
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants or Project and Event Grants

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30. september 2016 kl. 20:10 (UTC)

Creative Commons 4.0

Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6. október 2016 kl. 01:34 (UTC)

Editing News #3—2016

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?

Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

• You can now set text as small or big.[3]
• Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.[4] A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.[5]
• Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.[6]
• At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.[7]
• The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.[8] In the future, the "Vista síðu" button will say "Gefa út síðu". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.
• Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.[9]

Future changes

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

• Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.

• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Takk!

—Elitre (WMF)

15. október 2016 kl. 17:49 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Foreign Affairs - Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
• OpenEdition - Journals in the social sciences and humanities
• Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences - French and English language scientific journals
• ASHA - Speech–language–hearing journals
• Tilastopaja - Athletics statistics

Expansions

• EBSCO - Many new databases added
• Taylor & Francis - Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 1. nóvember 2016 kl. 18:30 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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Password reset

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (Spjall) / MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 13. nóvember 2016 kl. 23:59 (UTC)

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (spjall) 14. nóvember 2016 kl. 00:11 (UTC)

New way to edit wikitext

Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.

We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatically enable all new beta features".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14. desember 2016 kl. 19:31 (UTC)

Social time at the end of February ?

Góðan daginn ! I'm going to go to Reykjavík from France for work this February and would like to use this opportunity to meet fellow Wikipedians :) Anyone would be interesting to talk about Wikipedia, Commons, organization of Wikimedia User Groups, Foundation's Grants... around a lunch or a beer ? Léna (spjall) 12. janúar 2017 kl. 15:53 (UTC)

Hello Léna, that would be nice to meet. We should arrange a wikipedians meeting. When are you in Iceland? Since I very irregularly read our chat t hen you can contact me by mail salvor at hi.is --Salvor (spjall) 10. febrúar 2017 kl. 14:09 (UTC)

Hvernig tek ég út "Heimild vantar"

Hæ, var að skoða greinina Atlantshafslax og þar er hún flokkuð sem grein sem heimildir vantar en ég sé ekki annað en það séu þarna heimildir en ég finn ekki hvar ég tek þetta út þ.e. snið: heimild vantar --Salvor (spjall) 13. febrúar 2017 kl. 08:57 (UTC)

Greinin er merkt þannig að fullyrðingin "Vegna banns við laxveiðum í sjó eru íslenskir laxastofnar í ásætanlegu ástandi" vanti heimild með snið:Heimild vantar. Umrædd fullyrðing er í kaflanum Veiðar.--Snaevar (spjall) 13. febrúar 2017 kl. 17:46 (UTC)

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

• Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
  • Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
• Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
  • Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
• Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
  • Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
• Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
  • Introduction of williamsworks
• Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
  • The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
• Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
  • Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 15. febrúar 2017 kl. 20:31 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

• Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
  • Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
• Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
  • Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
• Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
  • Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 9. mars 2017 kl. 19:43 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

• Find out more about the movement strategy process
• Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

18. mars 2017 kl. 05:09 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

• April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
• April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
• April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
• May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
• May 15–19 – Board vote checking
• May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

• Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
  • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

• Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
  • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 7. apríl 2017 kl. 03:36 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help