Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-19Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! Frank Percy Smith (12 January 1880–24 March 1945) was a British naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer working for Charles Urban, where he pioneered the use of time-lapse and microcinematography. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-20Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Bernwood Forest was one of several forests of the ancient Kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill and church in Oakley, in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-21Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! June Dalziel Almeida (5 October 1930 – 1 December 2007) was a Scottish virologist, a pioneer in virus imaging, identification and diagnosis. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation. (...) She succeeded in identifying viruses that were previously unknown, including—in 1966—a group of viruses that was later named coronavirus. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-22Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  The Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex is located in central Finland close to the city of Kuopio. It is named after the nearby village of Siilinjärvi, located approximately 5 km west of the southern extension of the complex. Siilinjärvi is the second largest carbonatite complex in Finland after the Sokli formation, and one of the oldest carbonatites on Earth at 2610±4 Ma. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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The Signpost: 31 May 2020Edit
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member receives editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-23Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is en:Castle of the Pico Please be bold and help to translation this article!  The Castle of the Pico (in Italian Castello dei Pico) is a castle in the city center of Mirandola, in the province of Modena, Italy. Famous in Europe as a legendary impregnable fortress, it belonged to the House of Pico della Mirandola, who ruled over the city for four centuries (1311-1711) and who enriched it in the Renaissance period with important pieces of art. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-24Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Garúa is a Spanish word meaning drizzle or mist. Although used in other contexts in the Spanish-speaking world, garúa most importantly refers to the moist cold fog that blankets the coasts of Peru and northern Chile, especially during the southern hemisphere winter. Garúa is called Camanchaca in Chile. Garúa brings mild temperatures and high humidity to a tropical coastal desert. It also provides moisture from fog and mist to a nearly-rainless region and permits the existence of vegetated fog oases, called lomas. While fog and drizzle are common in many coastal areas around the world, the prevalence and persistence of garúa and its impact on climate and the environment make it unique (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-25Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Te Araroa (The Long Pathway) is New Zealand's long distance tramping route, stretching circa 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) along the length of the country's two main islands from Cape Reinga to Bluff. It is made up of a mixture of older tracks and walkways, new tracks, and link sections alongside roads. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Editing news 2020 #2Edit
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This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-26Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Vessel (TKA) is a structure and landmark which was built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Construction began in April 2017; it opened on March 15, 2019. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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The Signpost: 28 June 2020Edit
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-27Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. Punting is boating in a punt. The punter generally propels the punt by pushing against the river bed with a pole. A punt should not be confused with a gondola, a shallow draft vessel that is structurally different, and which is propelled by an oar rather than a pole. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-28Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  The Cobbler (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Artair) is a mountain of 884 metres (2,900 ft) height located near the head of Loch Long in Scotland. Although only a Corbett, it is "one of the most impressive summits in the Southern Highlands" (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/JulyEdit
হ্যালো Md. Golam Mukit Khan,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলা এবং Simple Englishর জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ the end of this week।
আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 20:26, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee/CharterEdit
হ্যালো Md. Golam Mukit Khan,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলা এবং Simple Englishর জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee/Charter পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।
আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 08:33, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3Edit
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
- More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
12:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-29Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is en:Coraline Ada Ehmke Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Coraline Ada Ehmke is a software developer and open source advocate based in Chicago, Illinois. She began her career as a web developer in 1994 and has worked in a variety of industries, including engineering, consulting, education, advertising, healthcare, and software development infrastructure. She is known for her work in Ruby, and in 2016 earned the Ruby Hero award at RailsConf, a conference for Ruby on Rails developers. She is also known for her social justice work and activism, the creation of Contributor Covenant, and promoting the widespread adoption of codes of conduct for open source projects and communities. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-30Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Amabie (アマビエ) is a legendary Japanese mermaid or merman with three legs, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies either an abundant harvest or an epidemic. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Tech/News/2020/32Edit
হ্যালো Md. Golam Mukit Khan,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলা এবং Simple Englishর জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Tech/News/2020/32 পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 05:26, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 August 2020Edit
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-32Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is en:Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Please be bold and help to translation this article!  During the first and second civil conflicts which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), all sides involved in the war actively recruited child soldiers, known locally as Kadogos which is a Swahili term meaning "little ones". It has been estimated that the militia led by Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was 30 percent children. In 2011 30,000 children were still operating with armed groups. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), released a report in 2013 which stated that between 1 January 2012 and 31 August 2013 up to 1,000 children had been recruited by armed groups, and described the recruitment of child soldiers as "endemic". (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-33Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! HelloFresh SE is an international publicly traded meal-kit company based in Berlin, Germany. It is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States, and also has operations in Canada, Western Europe (including Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands), New Zealand and Australia. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Tech/Server switch 2020Edit
প্রিয় Md. Golam Mukit Khan,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta-এ বাংলা এবং Simple English ভাষার একজন অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Tech/Server switch 2020 পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।
আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 13:02, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-34Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  GRS 1915+105 or V1487 Aquilae is an X-ray binary star system which features a regular star and a black hole. It was discovered on August 15, 1992 by the WATCH all-sky monitor aboard Granat. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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The Signpost: 30 August 2020Edit
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-36Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! In the early history of cinema, trick films were short silent films designed to feature innovative special effects (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Editing news 2020 #4Edit
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Reply toolEdit
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
- Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[1]
The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).
The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.
New requirements for user signaturesEdit
- The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
- Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.
Next: New discussion toolEdit
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.
15:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-37Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Margerie Glacier is a 21 mi (34 km) long tidewater glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska, United States within the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. The glacier begins on the southern slopes of Mount Root, elevation 12,860 feet (3,920 m), on the Alaska–Canada border flowing southeast down the valley, then turning to the northeast toward its terminus in Tarr Inlet. Margerie Glacier is one of the most active and frequently-visited glaciers in Glacier Bay, which was declared a National Monument in 1925, a National Park and Preserve in 1980, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in 1986 and a World Heritage Site in 1992. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-38Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  The Tepexpan Man is a Pre-Columbian-era woman skeleton, discovered by archaeologist Helmut de Terra in February 1947, on the shores of the former Lake Texcoco in central Mexico. The skeleton was found near mammoth remains and thought to be at least 10,000 years old. It was fancifully hailed by Time magazine as the oldest Mexican soldier. The skeleton was found lying face down with the arms under the chest and the legs drawn up to the stomach. The body most likely sunk into the mud surrounding it, leaving the shoulder, back, and hips exposed, which might explain why those elements are missing. It is possible that the body was originally deposited in the lake. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2020-39Edit
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article!  Cradleboards (Cheyenne: pâhoešestôtse, Northern Sami: gietkka, Skolt Sami: ǩiõtkâm) are traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America and throughout northern Scandinavia amongst the Sámi. There are a variety of styles of cradleboard, reflecting the diverse artisan practises of indigenous cultures. Some indigenous communities in North America still use cradleboards. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Invitation to complete a survey regarding WPWP CampaignEdit
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Tulsi Bhagat [ contribs | talk ]
Communication Manager, WPWP Campaign
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