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Hello!

Have you noticed that some wikis have a different desktop interface? Are you curious about the next steps? Maybe you have questions or ideas regarding the design or technical matters?

Join an online meeting with the team working on the Desktop Improvements! It will take place on 17 May 2022 at 12:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC on Zoom. Click here to join. Meeting ID: 86217494304. Dial by your location.

Agenda

• Update on the recent developments
• Questions and answers, discussion

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes will be taken in a Google Docs file. Olga Vasileva (the Product Manager) will be hosting this meeting. The presentation part will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, Italian, Polish; also, only at the first meeting: Farsi, Vietnamese; only at the second meeting: Portuguese, Spanish, Russian. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the talk page or send them to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

At this meeting, both Friendly space policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces apply. Zoom is not subject to the WMF Privacy Policy.

We hope to see you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 05:02, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Ask on commons instead.

hi everyone

My problem: I wanted to upload a picture (png.) from my computer into my wikipage.

Everything looks good until i get this:

We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons.

I've got the permission to use this picture, it shows nothing sexualthere is nothing violent or anything at all in it. What should i do?

thanks.

Looking at task T146938, it looks like a filter used to prevent newbie users from uploading files to commons directly from other wikis (from the visual editor of a wiki different from commons). You should be able to upload it from commons: and then link to it from your page.

I don't understand :(

Me too :(

@Ciencia Al Poder Hi, even in commons link which you have provided above, I tried to upload my pics and I've authorised lisence to use these photos as the photos I'm trying to upload belongs to me but still I'm getting an automated error

"We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons.

The content must be freely licensed. Do not copy files illegally (in violation of copyright) from other websites.

If you believe that the file meets our licensing standards: Upload the file again or click "Retry failed uploads"/"Submit modified file description"

Please guide me how can I upload these pictures.

Please ask in c:Commons:Help_desk

I am getting exactly the same issue with my picture - one that I took, Any solutions?

No solution if you're asking here. See previous comment.

I got an notice while creating a page for my project "This site is for documenting the MediaWiki software. It is not the wiki that you set up for your class, workplace, or personal use, nor is it Wikipedia." This is a project that uses chat software to search MediaWiki. Can you help me create a page for it? Thank you very much!

Hi. Please consider adding it to the new toolhub, which aggregates various tools for interacting with mediawiki.

Try again

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T306233

On MediaWiki.org, the translation memory does not show any translation suggestions.

Hi,

I am a member of the PlanetQuest gaming community and as a good Fan, I want to create a wiki page in French, so that all players can go and find out about the game and learn new things.

But it is impossible for me to publish. I get this message:

"We're sorry, your edit was not saved as it matched the rule: new user youtube, &c.. This usually happens because the type of edit you made is often done by vandals and spammers. If that is not the case, we apologise.

If you believe your edit was constructive, please file a request here, explaining what you were trying to do."

How can I do?

Thanks in advance

Greetings

What page are you wanting to create? Does it fall with our content scope?

Hello!

Have you noticed that some wikis have a different desktop interface? Are you curious about the next steps? Maybe you have questions or ideas regarding the design or technical matters?

Join an online meeting with the team working on the Desktop Improvements! It will take place on 29 April 2022 at 13:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC on Zoom. Click here to join. Meeting ID: 88045453898. Dial by your location.

Agenda

• Update on the recent developments
• Questions and answers, discussion

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes will be taken in a Google Docs file. Olga Vasileva (the Product Manager) will be hosting this meeting. The presentation part will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Italian, and Polish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the talk page or send them to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

At this meeting, both Friendly space policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces apply. Zoom is not subject to the WMF Privacy Policy.

We hope to see you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

• Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
• Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

• Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
• Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

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Hello everyone! Coming from wb:de.

Pages that use score are expected to be in the tracking category "Score-use-category". But they only are after an edit, which isn't that big of a deal for a new wiki, but for an existing one it's inconvenient. A wild guess by me is score was used before the category existed (compare Phab:T219603). I looked at Help:Tracking_categories trying to shed some light on the problem. Just to find, that the category isn't even listed there, let alone an explanation if (that?) tracking categories are only used when a wiki-page is published. So:

• I wasn't able to correct the help page, because of lack of deeper knowledge of mediawiki,
• the talk page Help talk:Tracking_categories doesn't seem to be in use quite a bit, bit I think this topic is somewhat important (at least to know how to handle those situations), so I came here,
• I'm not sure, if a task on Phabricator makes sense, because I'm suspecting everything is as it's supposed to be, just causing inconvenience as a side effect,
• I don't expect there to be a "automated" solution to the initial problem, but at least I wanted to raise awareness.

Anyways help, if possible, would be greatly appreciated and if there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Thanks and best regards, HirnSpuk

I added that (and the other undocumented Ext:Score tracking category, score-deprecated-category) to Help:Tracking categories for you. Unfortunately I can't really help with the category only being added to pages after they're edited, but I would definitely recommend you file a Phabricator task about it - worst that happens is the task is declined as expected behavior (or just an issue that won't be fixed).

Existing pages don't get the tracking category automatically, if the tracking category didn't exist when the page was last edited. That's expected.

To add the tracking category, all pages should be reparsed, which is a very expensive operation.

When this situation happens, the best way to deal with it is to use the standard search function to grab a list of pages using a specific tag o parser function, and then run a bot to do a null edit on all those pages.

Thanks for all the help and the insight. Then I'll restrain from using phabricator. I expected a bot would be able to do the job. Thanks again, best regards, HirnSpuk

I wanted to report a bug via Phabricator, but<br/>

It seems that, if I want to log in to '''Mediawiki''' I need a different account than '''Wikipedia'''.

If this is so, why does '''Mediawiki''' need a different account than '''Wikipedia'''?

en.wikipedia / User:Steue

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It doesn't, wikipedia and mediawiki wiki are part of the SUL login environment, If you weren't automatically logged in via centralauth, You may just need to login again.

Phabricator is not powered by MediaWiki so it features its own authentication system, but we Use oAuth (the "Login with MediaWiki" button) so it will use the your SUL account details.

For more information on how to create a phabricator account, See Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account

On https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account the sub-chapter "Using your global wiki account", first asterisk-entry (bullited entry) reads: First, make sure you are [logged in] to Wikimedia. This link [logged in] leads to exactly the same page on which this link is located. Not a helpful link, to me. Steue (talk) 03:58, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

That is because you are already signed into a Mediawiki Wiki, Which is apart of the Wikimedia Single User Login environment.