Talk:How to contribute

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How are you doing Am new person in Wikipedia page

I read a lot by night time, four screens makes too much glare

I wish wikipedia had the same some other web pages have, a night mode.

something to make less white on the screen when we don't want it there

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4006/ for a project related to this off-topic question.

How to Upload someone's bio on wikipedia ?

Belongs to Project:Support desk.

we are migrating the mediawiki from 1.13 to 1.27.

as part of this we are trying to add below new enhancements as well

1) Open new page functionality 2) Rss feed support 3) Embedded html for media inclusion

kindly provide me the instructions to enable them

Hello @PrathapM13. This page is about contributing to MediaWiki. You may want to ask at Project:Support desk.

Sure, i will remove the comments here thanks for providing the right directions

Yes, this page is now a lot more cluttered than it used to be. However, I wanted to make sure we have all the relevant pages identified, put in context and linked. Before it would take a lot of experience for a newcomer to find those pages (a paradox). Now we are closer to this goal.

There next step is to work on one and only one landing page for each section. Then we can move many of the details to a visible "How to contribute" section in each of those pages" leaving here the very basic introduction for each section, a link to a main page and perhaps just an extra link to a popular / catchy destination within that topic.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

There is still one section missing: Promotion. But before we need to have a landing page for that. This will be my next task, related to Groups/Proposals/Promotion.

And there is one section we could get rid of: Donate. The link is good, but it can simply go in the first paragraph of the page, that I still want to polish a bit. Imagine a sentence like

You can edit, you can donate, and you can also contribute your technical skills in many ways.

This post was posted by Qgil-WMF, but signed as Qgil.

It feels weird to me that it would be the first item in the list, honestly. Just my 2c anyway.

If links with anchor makes through "Special:MyLanguage", such as Special:MyLanguage/Communication#Landing, requires that anchor was unchangeable in all languages. I've added fixed anchor in the Communication/ru, but this should be considered when migration to new translating system.

You're right. Usually, when the target page is translatable, we place some additional untranslatable anchors for the purpose of linking. We should probably migrate Communication to Translate, do you volunteer for the migration? ;)

Why not? This may be useful experience.

Nice! Reading the tutorial should probably be enough; when you have some free time, if you prepare the page for translation I can then mark ("approve") it and then you can import the old translations where possible. (For the following times a bureaucrat should definitely give you translation admin flag.) Let me know,

Please check my chsnges.

Current issues:

1. link to template {{MediaWiki Introduction}} (how to mark subpage as optional element ?)
2. link to template {{Irc}} (keeping as is)
3. how to make a localized categories? (I recently saw somewhere a template for this, but I can not find now)
4. need remove old language section at the bottom (saved until the migration)
5. how to import the old translations in semi-automatic mode?

Whoops, already approved. :-)

1. That's the correct way, translator can leave "en" if template doesn't exist in that language (better to document at /qqq for that unit). Template:Translatable navigation template attempts some magic.
2. Ok.
3. There's a template on translatewiki: and one on wm2012:, I don't remember here.
4. Removed now.
5. There's no way I'm afraid, for individual pages... Maybe we could figure out some semi-automated way to mark and import pages with a pattern (I proposed configuration pages). Now it's some manual work. I'm also unsure if the links to identi.ca etc. have something translatable; if translations didn't alter names, they can be removed from translation and made static I guess.

Edit: note that FuzzyBot is supposed to pass and update the subpages (i.e. override with the English version until translation are re-added) but there's currently some problem with the job queue so it didn't yet; translation works, though.

About links to identi.ca etc. - i agree, this should be untranslatable section. How to exclude it correctly?

I've just removed it from translation tags. I don't know if this gives problems on right-to-left languages, maybe some directionality fix will be needed there. Are you also importing the old translations?

Translating status:

• all from old translations imported (partially, what was here)
• full done: cs, da, en, es, fr, pl, ru
• in progress after importing: de, fi, ja, oc

Maybe you also do finish one translation, e.g. /it?

See "Template:Langcat", transferred from translatewiki.net