User talk:PiRSquared17/Archive 2

More stuff on ang

Hey, could you please add this code to the bottom of ang's Common.css page:

table.hēafodtramettopborder {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/5/5d/H%C4%93afodtrametofermearc.png') repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtramettopleftcorner {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/2/2b/H%C4%93afodtramettopleftcorner.png') no-repeat left top; 
}

Also, could you remove the line:

table.hēafodtrametbred2 {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/8/86/H%C4%93afodtramet2.png') repeat left top; 
}

I will probably have more of almost the same to do again very soon. Just making absolutely sure this bit goes fine. Þoncie þē. Gott wisst (talk) 05:18, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Done diff. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:23, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Good news: The experiment worked. As such, could you go ahead and please now also add these lines:

table.hēafodtrametleftborder {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/f/fa/H%C4%93afodtrametborderleft.png') repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtrametbottomborder {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/9/91/H%C4%93afodtrametborderbottom.png') repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtrametrightborder {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/9/98/H%C4%93afodtrametborderright.png') repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtramettoprightcorner {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/0/01/H%C4%93afodtrametcornertopright.png') no-repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtrametbottomrightcorner {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/6/6d/H%C4%93afodtrametcornerbottomright.png') no-repeat left top; 
}
table.hēafodtrametbottomleftcorner {
  background:url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ang/1/12/H%C4%93afodtrametcornerbottomleft.png') no-repeat left top; 
}

Also, could you change the background vellum section to "repeat" rather than "no-repeat"? Thanks much. Gott wisst (talk) 22:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

More details

So I'm fussy. Could you take another look at my requests on tech ? Thanks. DS (talk) 03:11, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll look into it, tomorrow (no promises). PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:31, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Novità dall'Emiliana Gloria Sah

Ciao, Caro Amministratore, :-), tutto ok? Innanzitutto complimenti per i Tuoi avanzamenti.. Novità da parte mia sono che: tradurre verso il francese è per me ancora troppo difficile rispetto a quello che riescono a fare molto meglio i nativi francesi, così mi sono tolta dalla lista onde non intralciare un loro migliore lavoro in quel senso. Nella pagina di traduzione verso l'italiano delle Highlights febbraio 2012 è rimasta una sola frase che coi miei bottoni non riesco ad attivare, benchè sia già tradotta al meglio, secondo me.. INVECE VOLEVO SEGNALARTI un punto abbastanza invisibile, ma che però è al 100% sbagliato, e che solo dalla Tua cabina dei Bottoni Supremi credo si possa correggere, cioè che nel Template dei nativi in Lingua eml è totalmente sbagliata la scritta "Cl'utèint chè al gh'à 'na cumprensiòun native|natìva dl'English|Inglēs." (vedi la mia pagina utente in alto) che andrebbe invece scritta correggendola in "Cl'utèint chè al gh'à 'na cumprensiòun native|natìva d'Emilian|Emiliàn". Adesso andrò a vedere se anche gli altri bottoni d'Emiliano sono sbagliati, e se lo sono, Te lo verrò a scrivere.. Per adesso è tutto, Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 09:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Ciao, Gloria! Il testo è tradotto su translatewiki. Tu lo hai scritto. :) Ho coretto l'errore. Inoltre, puoi tradurre eml-1, eml-2, etc. su translatewiki.net. Ciao. PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:51, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

*hrmpf*

Useless content
[1] :-P Vogone talk 15:07, 22 April 2013 (UTC) ??? PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC) The wiki has 1. active local admins and 2. I wanted to do that, but got loads of delete conflicts :-S Vogone talk 15:13, 22 April 2013 (UTC) I'm a rogue GS. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:14, 22 April 2013 (UTC) Super-abusive! Can't the vandals come at a time when I am online? :O --MF-W 22:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Fixed

See your comments on my talk page regarding Translations:Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders/Global message/9/hi. Gentleman! you are correct. Thanks for fixing the problem. Krantmlverma (talk) 04:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for help

Hi PiRSquared17!

I would kindly ask you to have a look at my request here. Could you assist? Thank you, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 13:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw it. Working on it currently. ;) PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:59, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! Thank you :-). John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 14:10, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Is everything working out well with the CentralNotices? John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 11:32, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, busy in real life unfortunately. Try asking User:Thehelpfulone or RfH. I'll look into it if I have time. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:02, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I asked Thehelpfulone as well. Hopefully he can assist. Best, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 17:04, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi again PiRSquared17! I hope you are well! I was wondering if you perhaps could assist on WM:RFH? It seem like the CN was not activated for users that are not logged in. Perhaps it's as easy as a box not ticked in? I would be very grateful for your help. Best, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 21:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Done. PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:03, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for activating it! Could you also help with changing the texts? We have listed the new texts that we would like to be added here. Best, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 00:16, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

I'll look at this soon. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:20, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I was wondering if you could make a small grammatical change in the Swedish WLPA banner for me? It should say “Fotografera våra museers konstskatter, hjälp Wikipedia och vinn fina priser! Det är roligt och enkelt att delta!”

Thank you in advance! Best, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 16:03, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Done check PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you again! John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 17:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Kolega2357

Please protect my user page on Avar Wikipedia. Reason self request. Like this (‎[edit=autoconfirmed] (indefinite) ‎[move=autoconfirmed] (indefinite))). Greeting! --Kolega2357 (talk) 13:10, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

I can't see any vandalism on that page. -- Tegel _(Talk) 13:16, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Why does it need to be protected? It hasn't been edited other than interwiki bots. PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:24, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Request for comments

I sent a message to the mailing lists, besides it is a long standing issue with a lot of strong feelings, so I think it is normal to have such amount of responses. BTW, check Dropdown next to title 1 and Dropdown next to title 2. They would be Option 5.--Micru (talk) 14:11, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Board of Trustees Nominees

How do I nominate for someone on the Board of Trustees? Lucky102 (talk) 17:06, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Have you read Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2013? On [2] there are instructions, but please read this first and make sure you meet the prerequisites! PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Thank you for your confidence in me. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:25, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Rather than adding yet another section to your already huge talk page, PiRSquared17, I'll just hijack this section to add my thanks for autopatrolling me too. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 06:43, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

C'è una pagina molto orfana e scollegata in Category:eml

Ciao, Piq17, sono a segnalarTi questa pagina molto scollegata agli aggiornamenti, perchè mentre vedo in Translatewiki che altre pagine (per es. Portal:eml) si aggiornano molto prima, questa Category:eml ci mette delle settimane ad aggiornarsi, poi credo anche che non sia corretta nell'elenco da 0 a 5 riguardo alla comprensione della lingua Emiliano-romagnola. Credi che potremo migliorarla? Grazie, Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 09:07, 27 April 2013 (UTC) Thank you very much,PiRSquared17 (talk).I like for your directions I will make it clear._Manawa^{Education First}22:30, 27, April 2013 (UTC)

Help?

wave wave

trying to get this thing properly customized so it's usable and not ugly. Think you'll be available soon? DS (talk) 00:32, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, busy in real life unfortunately. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:02, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, Prq17, I'm interested in, tank you

Sempre coi miei tempi da piccola bradipa, ma ce la potrò fare; grazie, Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 08:25, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Ogni tanto - raramente però - trovo paroline insignificanti di 3 lettere (cui, che, ecc.) dove avvicinando la freccia del mouse mi compare una pubblicità non voluta.

Paroline di 3 lettere cliccabili, spesso in pagine talk-utente, dove appena passando vicino col mouse, compare un riquadro di pubblicità, che scompare se sempre col mouse mi allontano di 3-4 cm: potrebbero essere intrusioni dentro la wiki oppure qualche intromissione-virus dentro il mio computer? Mi puoi aiutare a capire? Grazie, --Gloria sah (talk) 22:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for writing in English, I don't have time to translate. It might be a virus: Wikipedia doesn't have ads. Are you sure you're viewing wikimedia.org or wikipedia.org? Try https://meta.wikimedia.org and I suggest you ask User talk:Nemo bis for more help, he can write Italian more easily (as a native speaker). PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:02, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Non ci capisco molto di informatica, ma vedo che è sempre lo stesso riquadro pubblicitario che compare (la stessa azienda), quindi in qualche modo è riuscita ad introdursi e a rimanere.. Ma presto (prox 2 o 3 settimane) dovrò chiamare il tecnico per rivedere altri 2 computer, così gli riferirò anche di questo problema.. Ciao, Grazie dell'interessamento, --Gloria sah (talk) 06:07, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Map

You forgot a little portion for Algic languages on the map. On West coast between 22 and 23. Amqui (talk) 02:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Same thing for Na-Dene. It has 5 small portions along West coast. Amqui (talk) 02:58, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Did the Algic one. These are tiny, but I'll try my best. PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Na-Dene has another portion you forgot close to the Mexico border beside 14 and 15. Amqui (talk) 03:01, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

How to become an Administrator

Hello, What are the things required for someone to become an Administrator? Hope to here from you soon. Enock4seth (talk) 09:13, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:29, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

autopatrolled

thank you! ;-) --Arnaugir (talk) 11:12, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem! PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:29, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

How to become an Administrator

Hello, What are the things required for someone to become an Administrator? Hope to here from you soon. Enock4seth (talk) 12:35, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. Enock4seth (talk) 21:32, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Xhosa

Hi. Just in case you haven't noticed, I answered your question about Xhosa on my talk page. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 05:52, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed and mentioned it to Oarabile who had the idea of having a Xhosa Wikipedia challenge (on the request for closing the project). PiRSquared17 (talk) 09:56, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Help:Unified login

Hello, wouldn't this be a good time to make this page translatable? People will shortly have a desperate need for updated information on the topic. On the other hand, plenty of information there will soon be superseded; if you're willing to migrate it to Translate, I can help identifying the parts that would be a waste of time translating. --Nemo 20:23, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the FAQ is mostly outdated more than useless, and both History and See also sections don't belong to a help page: both could be moved to a main namespace page Unified login or Unified login history to avoid breaking redirects. --Nemo 21:54, 2 May 2013 (UTC) P.s.: I just replied her! But there's little I can do I'm afraid.

So, do you first want me to split those parts out and update the rest where necessary? Do you agree with what above? --Nemo 06:44, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

I agree. Feel free to reorganize the page. It's a step forward considering we need a lot done by August. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

IRC

#wikilang on freenode. Amqui (talk) 02:32, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Blanking

[3] by this user [4]. Please, react. Kubura (talk) 02:52, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Done PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi. Thank you for the welcome message. But you can leave me message in English, preferably. Generally speaking, most of technical terms that are translated into Thai are quite confusing. Anyway, I'm new to the Wikimedia translation, but just would like to help out. Could take some time to get familiarized with the system and all the policies and guidelines. -- Jkonwp (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) No problem and thank you for your work as a translator! If you need help, feel free to ask me here, on Meta talk:Babylon, or on Meta:Babel. I'll leave messages to you in English in the future. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:57, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the effort, though :) Here's my questions. Am I supposed to translate every word? Can I leave some words as they are in English, as opposed to transcribing them into Thai? And what about words in the links to other wiki pages? -- Jkonwp (talk) 15:44, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

You can translate every word, but it's OK to leave some technical terms in English (sometimes with an explanation next to them). You can see if there's already a Thai term for the expression that is used on Wikipedia. I'm not sure about transliteration, though. Do not translate links like [[Foo]]. You can use a template for this if you want to, see template:ll, which only works for links on Meta. If you want, you can change the link to [[Foo|Bar]] where Bar is the translation of the Foo into Thai. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:05, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed. That definitely cleared things up for me. Here are some transliterated words that I can see from the Thai version of the welcome message: วิกิมีเดีย (Wikimedia), บาบิลอน (Babylon), บาเบล (Babel). Personally, I'd rather leave these words in English. -- Jkonwp (talk) 17:18, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Effettivamente ho controllato l'indirizzo là in alto e non era proprio quello puro..

Sono andata a controllare l'indirizzo là in alto, ed effettivamente (finchè trovavo le intrusioni pubblicitarie) era mancante almeno di 'https://' e in caratteri semi-trasparenti, alla fine della riga, dava un indirizzo parallelo - che non cito - a Google, che è sempre stra-colmo di pubblicità.. Ora non mi resta che tenere controllata, come giustamente mi hai suggerito, la barra dell'indirizzo là in alto.. (ora l'intruso non voluto si stava specializzando e metteva cliccabili parole più scelte e funzionali per il suo scopo, quali p.es. 'ottimo', 'giusto', 'preferito', attinenti ad un notevole significato di dovere preferire quella pubblicità...) Ero rimasta senza parole dal disgusto per la pessima intrusione-scocciatura.. Grazie ancora, Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 21:50, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Sai quand'è che cliccando, la pagina esce dalla protezione dell'https://? Quando clicco sulle traduzioni da fare che mi affidano dalla Centrale, lì esco dalla protezione e cado nel sito fac-simile, pieno di tranelli pubblicitari.. Devo ridigitare correggendolo, l'indirizzo giusto, altrimenti tutto il seguito resterò nelle pagine taroccate.. --Gloria sah (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Ecco cosa dice la solita pubblicità con foto di signora che tiene in mano un cellulare o simile: - ebay ne ha PAURA ! Un semplice trucchetto per fare paura ad ebay Ottenete degli iPad, iPhone etc etc ... con il 95% di sconto ! Leggete qui di seguito > > - poi passando vicino il mouse dice: - click to continue > by Coupon Drop Down - ; sorry, Pirq17 per farTi perdere tanto tempo, ma Ti ringrazio tanto dell'interessamento, Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 22:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

SBHandler

The SBHandler gadget is useful for adding and removing to the blacklist, especially from talk:Spam blacklist, especially useful when there are a clump of domains list through {{LinkSummary}}. If you are doing manually, it would be helpful to add the {{removed}}, {{declined}}, {{added}} templates so that Quentin's bot can archive those bits. To note that SBHandler works equally well on XWiki reports. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:58, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

TOTW

Do you have any good idea? --Shizhao (talk) 01:03, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Ouuuu

[5] And I wondered why my test account suddenly switched from https to http (thereby getting logged out) when posting the test request! Damn c&p. --MF-W 03:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

You have a new message

You have a new message at Steward requests/Global permissions.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 05:39, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Please get more experience in cross-wiki activity before requesting GR. Thanks! PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Www.wikivoyage.org

Hi, few more minor edits that I had missed. Please sync Www.wikivoyage.org_template/temp into Www.wikivoyage.org_template again. Thanks, --Rogerhc (talk) 23:35, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Done PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:44, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

penny for your thoughts

We are about to close wikimania2012, and I am thinking about a sitenotice that basically says that it is closed and now an archive. Wondering what are our opportunities for presenting that in a translated format, but you know my ignorance about all things translation-related, and that I rely on advice of the knowing. I am also thinking that this can almost be a universal type set of text that may be able to be applied to any closed wiki. Your ideas? Thoughts? Guidance? Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:28, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Use Meta:Language select if you really want to have translation. This is the best solution because users reading the wiki will probably not have an account (and therefore no language setting). I have set up language select in the MediaWiki:Common.js there, so just use the HTML-style code on the aforementioned Meta page as a template, by collecting translations from Meta. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:37, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Ahhh....^^;;

I read your comment on my talk page. I am an newbie so I though ch means Chinese. It was my mistake.Sorry... Wanderous (talk) 20:36, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

It's fine! Thanks for your work as a translator. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:35, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Greetings

17-plus yellow pigs

Always nice to see your ideas appearing here... –SJ talk  14:51, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! :-) Happy early Yellow Pigs Day to you. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:20, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Una pagina pressochè incaricabile

Ciao, Prq17, lo sai che questa pagina Special:SupportedLanguages è così lenta di caricamento - troppo grossa - che spesso non riesco ad aprirla? Forse non si potrebbe scomporre in 3 o 4 sezioni invece di tenerla così pesante?!? Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 22:59, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Ho chiesto a Federico di esaminare il problema. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:16, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Thx for your help

Moving Amical's subpages. very much appreciated.--Arnaugir (talk) 12:55, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Olympics

Those users are anti-Catalans. They are just mocking us - obviously they are not Catalans even though they are putting the Catalan flag everywhere. I don't know whether they should be globally blocked if they continue to do so, I didn't know they had been editing in other wikis. Thanks for letting me know!

by the way, is there any tool to look at global IP edits?--Arnaugir (talk) 07:44, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Try luxo:95.141.29.54 to look at global edits (IP or user). Or stalktoy. It was already globally blocked. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:49, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Sir, when some few people are banning you to label your business in a language other than Catalan, Spanish is prohibited, or when your kids will teaching the beautiful catalan language, english, french, or Korean (hahah. ..), but banning the Spanish due full of hatred laws, is a scandal, but that it is political and has nothing to see here.

But when my children see in the encyclopedia that Spain did not exist in 1888 or 1992 because some nationalist put the catalan flag of Spain on ca.wikipedia.org instead the spanish one because is prohibited, so that IS a scandal. Tomorrow your children can read that the Olympic Games were hosted in the "Independent State of Zoltan Catalan Galaxy", but, (sorry) in 1888 and in 1992 (and today), Spain DOES exist. I apologize for my vocation as a historian, but (...sorry) history is written.

About the fact that people laugh or attacks the fact of using anonymous IP: when you live surrounded by hate and violence that makes some few nationalist change history encyclopedias, I don't give a "bledo". Catalonia is my land, but I am also Spanish. of course.

Merge?

Yes please, if you're so kind. "Borrador" (draft) is not longer need it. Thanks a lot. --Ganímedes (talk) 09:58, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Done PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:49, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint

Hi, I have added a (belated) reply on my user talk page. Best, --Nicole Ebber (WMDE) (talk) 20:08, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay. If you need assistance adding news to Goings-on, feel free to ask for help. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:59, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

A cookie (what else?) for a well-rounded user!

Thank you for your help with my navigation links and portlet!
StevenJ81 (talk) 19:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Yum, thank you! I try to be well-rounded, after all πr^2 is the area of a circle. Feel free to ask me or Tech if you ever need help with JS or CSS (although I'm a n00b at CSS) PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:15, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Talk page cleanup

Hello π r², I see you decided to leave Talk:Wikimedia CAT at its old title even though the page has been moved to Amical Wikimedia. It seems to me that talk page should be moved with the main article... and merged with Talk:Associació_Amical_Viquipèdia. Could we discuss this on the talkpage? Thanks, –SJ talk  02:52, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Replied on Talk:Wikimedia CAT. PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:03, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Lezgian Latin letera Wikipedia

in Cyrillic Lezgian Wikipedia under the control of members of the Russian section and write them on the Russian language almost there Lezguin no. There are no participants Lezghins Lezgia (talk) 21:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

• PS. Cyrillic disgusts me like all Lezghins and how all nations had occupied Russia Lezgia (talk) 21:27, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Si può creare, secondo te, questa pagina (che io non lo so fare) o è meglio lasciar stare?!?

Ciao, Pirq17, Spero tutto bene lì da te, come anche qui da me, si viaggia, diciamo... Sai che ho notato che, mentre esistono le pagine corrispondenti in tante lingue, manca completamente questa pagina: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Translation/it che mi sembrerebbe utile creare (ma io non lo so fare), oppure credi che se finora non c'è mai stata, sia meglio continuare così (io ancora troppo profana per capirlo)? Ciao e Thank you in advance, --Gloria sah (talk) 21:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Ciao Gloria! Ho creato la pagina "Project:Translation/it", ma non sono sicuro che questa pagina sarà utile. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:15, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The Translate extension and Universal Language Selector were enabled on Wikimedia Commons on May 20. Commons users can now easily change languages, and translate pages with a friendly interface. [6]
• The Notifications feature, active on the English Wikipedia, now supports local blacklists and whitelists. It is possible to hide users (for example certain bots) from all notifications on the wiki. Also, e-mail notifications are now grouped. [7] [8]
• The first stable release of MediaWiki 1.21 for sites outside Wikimedia was published on May 25. [9]
• The tool storing information about languages (CLDR) was updated to the latest version (23.1). [10]
• Due to a software issue, users couldn't enable or disable Gadgets. The issue is now fixed.

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [11] [12]
• The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [13]
• The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [14]
• Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [15]
• Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [16]
• The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [17]
• During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [18]
• There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [19]

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Re: Meta-Wiki

Hi. Please see my reply on my talk page. I want the discussion consolidated there so it makes sense to others who might want to get involved. Plus I don't check my Meta watchlist, and so I would not know of your replies on your talk page. I get email notices for edits to my user talk page. --Timeshifter (talk) 02:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Voter e-mail

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Bonjour PiRSquared17, Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page User:SamoaBot/Wikidata Summary/translate est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici: traduire en français traduire en italien traduire en lituanien La priorité de cette page est basse. It is a new and improved version of User:Addbot/Wikidata Summary, featuring full support for "plural" directives and a new "$user" variable. We are working on enabling these summaries for all "new-generation" interwiki bots. Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue. Merci ! Les coordinateurs de la traduction de Meta‎, 07:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Cookie for you!

I see you are still making everyone else look lazy around here. ;p Great work! I keep running across your comments here and there, and you are always quick and responsive (RFH, forum, babel). Keep it up, though I don't have a savory pastry or cookie for you this time, I hope you'll consider one due. Also, come hang out on IRC some time! Thanks again! Theo10011 (talk) 07:58, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words! I've been a little busy lately. PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:52, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

May I ask another favor, please?

Hi πr². Thanks very much for all your help over the last week or so. It's really great to work with the friendly admins at the smaller wikis. It's a welcome change from things over at enwp and I truly appreciate the support. Could I ask another favor, please? Could you update the lede section at the top of Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2013? It also has a bunch of the old dates. Thanks very much for the help. 64.40.54.63 02:18, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Done, please check. :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:20, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! It looks perfect. 64.40.54.63 02:25, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Great! I would like to thank you once more for all your help with the elections. PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Translating the BOT page

Let me try tagging it fully :) –SJ talk  18:16, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Sure, I was starting by trying to get the chart translatable... turns out to be harder than I thought. Of course, it's possible to have the translations passed as parameters. PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:19, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok, all yours. You might check my work - I haven't used the extension recently. (Now I'm trying to figure out whether to translate docs on wmf:wiki in-place or should move them here.) –SJ talk  18:26, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm about to mark it for translation, but I'm wondering whether or not the stuff about the Nominating Committee is correct up-to-date. PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:35, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

It's got a historical on it so I'd say probably not, per the last edit summary, it appears it's been superceded by WMF Board Governance Committee. Could you also mark the OTRS page for translation PiRSquared? I'd do it myself but I'm a bit short of time at the moment. I think we can safely not translate the queue names, OTRS/Recruiting might also be a useful page to translate, and potentially OTRS/Volunteering/Header too (which is transcluded at the top of OTRS/Volunteering). Thehelpfulone 19:13, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

That's outdated. I'll look a the OTRS after I finish the Board. PiRSquared17 (talk) 19:17, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. @SJ, what are your thoughts on translating the Board related documents, in terms of where they should be translated (Meta/WMF wiki), and where they should go (Meta -> WMF wiki, or just stay on Meta, or just directly translate on WMF wiki)? Thehelpfulone 20:01, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Re the check PiR it looks good, not sure what the new <tvar|> tags are for though, does this show up in the translate extension? Thehelpfulone 20:13, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

You don't know tvar?! See mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration. xyz makes the translators write $foo instead of xyz in translations. Useful for long links. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:15, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Ah that is clever, thanks, don't know how I missed that before.. (maybe it's new?) Thehelpfulone 20:35, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Done BoT, doing OTRS. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:31, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

THO: I think I'd like to start a set of Resolution pages here on Meta, with translations here. Then the wmf: pages can be archival-status -- posted by the secretary, rarely updated, not open for comment... while the Meta pages can be well translated, and the talk pages of all translations could ideally link to a single multilingual talkpage. What do you think? –SJ talk  20:42, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I think that sounds like a good idea, it would mean translations could be done considerably more freely and we'd use the resolutions on wmf wiki as static 'official' versions. SJ would you like all the old resolutions to be copied across to Meta too? Perhaps a Resolution: namespace? PiR do you have any thoughts on the matter? Thehelpfulone 20:54, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I'll look at this later. Busy now. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:30, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that is a good first step. I don't think we need a resolution namespace; it can be under WMF Resolutions (we already have pages such as Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions; help welcome. We can move this subthread to the talk page there. –SJ talk  21:01, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Username policy

Rschen7754 answered your question, I just wanted to confirm that answer is correct. SpeedyGonsales (talk) 10:30, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll

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Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici:

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La priorité de cette page est haute. La date limite pour traduire cette page est 2013-06-06.

We could greatly use your help doing some quick translations for the SecurePoll (voting) interface that will be used for this years Board and FDC elections. The translation consists of a short, 2 sentence, intro for the vote and 3 short 'titles' saying which vote or question they will be on. The page also lists the candidates for each election which do not need to be translated but can be transliterated if that makes sense for your language/script. Thank you! If you have any questions please feel free to ask on the Elections talk page.

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Mo che carino! I vecchi amici non si scordano mai!!

Ma allora pensi ai miei problemi anche dopo che è passato del tempo! Allora è proprio vero che 'i vecchi amici non si scordano mai'!! Proverò a tradurre mentalmente la pagina che mi hai inviato, ma già dal titolo ne intuisco la sostanza.. Grazie moltissime, --Gloria sah (talk) 06:04, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [20]
• The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [21]
• There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [22]
• The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [23]
• The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [24]
• Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [25]
• Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [26].
• All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [27]
• The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [28]

Future software changes

• The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [29]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension. [30]
• MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [31]

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Advice regarding translation of the Wiki Project Med front page?

Thank you for your help there. Since then, several changes have been made to the current English version, which I fear may have broken the translation process. Is it possible to make changes to the current English version without interrupting the translations? (I need to add a section about memberships.) --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:22, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

If you add it, I will try to fix it. Tell me when done. Generally, it should be fine unless it contains <!--T:(something)--> or <translate> tags. PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Have I done that right? --Anthonyhcole (talk) 03:15, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Done Honestly, that page is kinda long to translate (and nobody has done a complete, or even half-done, translation either). It might be easier to translate if you split it into multiple pages, but I don't even know if translation of some of that stuff is needed. Of course, it's always nice to leave the possibility. If you need more assistance, feel free to ask. PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:01, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Merci

This function definitely should work crosswiki, I just wanted to thank you for this edit!!! --MF-W 15:13, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Haha, we need a "you're welcome" button for thank you notes too. More seriously, this could encourage new users to contribute, but it makes Wikipedia look like a social network (isn't it one already?). PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, I agree especially to the last part. :-P Vogone talk 15:21, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

A couple of days ago I almost pressed "thank" instead of "undo"... that would've been awkward. Ajraddatz (Talk) 15:38, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Wait until I thank you for your oppose votes in RFAs. --MF-W 17:11, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Possible, though I think you could seriously also encourage noobs by sending them a "thank you" via already existing tools, such as WikiLove or - shudder shudder, nobody at the Foundation's design department will have thought of that: writing on their talk page by hand :OOO (makes it even more social!) --MF-W 17:11, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

True, but now we can do it all in one click (just like rollback)! And nobody else can see what edit you're referring to, which is nice if you don't want other people to know you liked an edit... PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:40, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll

Bonjour PiRSquared17,

Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Translation/SecurePoll est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici:

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La priorité de cette page est haute. La date limite pour traduire cette page est 2013-06-06.

Please accept my apologies for the second notification. Because of the importance of the election and 2 new sentences that need to be translated we decided it was worth it to message everyone again. Please double check to make sure everything in your language is translated!

If you can please also translate the Central Notice banners that will alert people that the election has started (and when results are ready). So that we do not have to send out another notice you can find those translations:

Here (for the voting banner)

Here (for the results banner)

Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue.

Merci !

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FDC portal

Hi PiRSquared17, Theo just mentioned on IRC that I should ask you about the FDC portal organization. If there are things you would like to share that aren't already on the talk pages or something, please add them to FDC_portal/Feedback. We are doing a lot of revamp to the FDC area in the next few weeks and would love to know the issues you see there, some are very obvious but some may not be. Thank you, heather walls (talk) 18:39, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Announcement Universal Language Selector

Bonjour PiRSquared17,

Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page Announcement Universal Language Selector est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici:

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Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue.

Merci !

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Thank you!

Thanks, PiRSquared17, for speedily deleting the FDC page that I submitted for deletion. It was quite timely and prevented further confusion. I am grateful! Merci! KLove (WMF) (talk) 17:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

No problem! However, I liked Heather's message on that page. :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:46, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Re: User:Catlouvre

Hi PiRSquared, well, in my opinion that content could be considered as spam/promotional or something like off-topic, at least, according to the policy (it is supposed to be valid here too). Perhaps his user page should have been moved on his respective sandbox. IMHO even his sandbox on en.wiki includes spam material; on the other hand, if DannyB deleted that page, it could evidently be accounted as spam. Regards, --Frigotoni ...i'm here; 17:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Bot stuff

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Tech news: 2013-24 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.) The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [32] An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [33] Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu. Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia IRC channel on Freenode. [34] The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [35] A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [36] Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [37] Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [38] Future software changes A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [39] A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608). Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe. 20:10, 11 June 2013 (UTC) Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Highlights, May 2013 Bonjour PiRSquared17, Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Highlights, May 2013 est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici: traduire en français traduire en italien traduire en lituanien La priorité de cette page est moyenne. Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the most important Wikimedia Foundation activities, MediaWiki development work and other international Wikimedia news from last month. Completed translations will be announced on Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca and project village pumps. If you have questions about the translation notifications system, you can ask them at [40]. You can manage your subscription at [41]. Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue. Merci ! Les coordinateurs de la traduction de Meta‎, 18:36, 13 June 2013 (UTC) Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Highlights, April 2013 Bonjour PiRSquared17, Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Highlights, April 2013 est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici: traduire en français La priorité de cette page est moyenne. The French translation of this page is already 79% complete. It would be great if it could be completed soon, so that we can publish this version and the existing translation work has not been in vain. Merci! Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue. Merci ! Les coordinateurs de la traduction de Meta‎, 19:04, 13 June 2013 (UTC) Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Highlights, April 2013 Bonjour PiRSquared17, Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de italien sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Highlights, April 2013 est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici: traduire en italien La priorité de cette page est moyenne. The Italian translation of this page is already 66% complete. It would be great if the could be completed soon, so that we can publish this version and the existing translation work has not been in vain. Grazie! Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue. Merci ! Les coordinateurs de la traduction de Meta‎, 19:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

Could you check the speedy deletions cat? It appears that there's some translations in there but I suspect that I may wind up deleting the wrong thing. --Rschen7754 22:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

I think the deletions have already been handled. The incorrect translation subpages (Translations:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Translation/1/de, Translations:Wikimedia Foundation elections/FDC elections/2013/20/de) have already been moved to their correct /nl equivalents, and the redirects deleted. I don't think there's anything left to delete. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:56, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello

So I heard you like Subordonald. :D -Mh7kJ (talk) 15:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Yay! PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:52, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : PRISM

Bonjour PiRSquared17,

Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français, italien et lituanien sur Meta. La page PRISM est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici:

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La priorité de cette page est haute. La date limite pour traduire cette page est 2013-06-18.

Hi translators,

the Wikimedia Foundation legal team has just published this page, asking the Wikimedia community to comment on whether they should take any action with regards to the recently uncovered PRISM surveillance scandal.

I'll greatly appreciate your involvement & contributions to have this page translated into as many languages as possible as well as popularised as widely as possible — please let your communities know about this so we can make the most use of this consultation period.

Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue.

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Re: Talk:Tech/News/2013/25#mw:Extension:Campaigns

Me too :) odder (talk) 20:45, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [42]
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [43]
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [44].
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references. [45]
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [46]
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [47]
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [48]
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [49] [50]
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [51]
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [52]
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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EdwardsBot (talk) 22:33, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Just got a better translation

"I am against the closing of this project, for example, it is the first time today I visit this page because of limited access to internet. That page is of great assistance to us Xhosa speaking people, I am happy that I will be able to read the bible on a cell phone or on my computer in Xhosa and not only in English. Therefore honourable gentlemen, please allow us to intervene and wait for us before closing." Vgrigas (talk) 20:51, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Futura medaglietta al sacrificio..

Mo sei anche là in eml-wikipedia! Che piacere! Una vita che non si corrispondeva (troppe vicessitudini.. troppo lunghe da raccontare.. Quando però avrò raggiunto la quota di 1.000 traduzioni, qua in Meta, bisognerà che mi spedisci una medaglietta almeno per il sacrificio - le pagine difficili come PRISM portano via un sacco di tempo!! - Ci tengo, veh?  ;-) --Gloria sah (talk) 05:56, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, your edit is absolutely correct. Cheers ;) --Γλαύκος (talk) 18:30, 20 June 2013 (UTC) 18:28, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

RfC

This RfC should have a good chunk of participation. Can you make some suggestions on advertising it globally. It's already on Village Pump.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 02:57, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Try the mailing lists, Wikimedia Forum, Template:Main Page/WM News. For really important things (probably not needed in this case), you can ask an admin to create a CentralNotice or use global message delivery. Maybe GMD, but CentralNotice is overkill in my opinion (unless enabled only for autoconfirmed/admins). PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:08, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I consider this important. The concern whether or not this affects privacy seems to be very dynamic.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 03:11, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

If you're not already doing so, I'll add this to WM News and Wikimedia Forum. I personally don't participate in the mailing lists, so I'm not sure how to do that correctly. if you write a message, an admin or approved user can use global message delivery to send a message about the RfC to all Village Pumps. If you're done writing the RfC content, I'd recommend marking it for translation (any translation admin can do this for you). Translation encourages participation from users who don't understand English enough to read the proposal completely. If you really want to use CentralNotice, add the campaign to CentralNotice/Calendar. I would not make a CentralNotice for this without a discussion about it. Anything else? PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:18, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I really think CentralNotice is a bad idea, especially considering the current battle on Commons - that will doom this to fail. --Rschen7754 03:27, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Agreed about CentralNotice, but I don't know what the problem on Commons is. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:31, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I don't know what the problem is either, but I believe everyone has the right to voice their input. After all, TParis and I have the final say. Pi, please go ahead with that. I don't know how the mailing lists here either, I'm really tired, and you know your way around here better than I do.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 03:46, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I just sent out a message to wikimedia-l, labs-l. I'm going to be away for now, I'll do more later (maybe). PiRSquared17 (talk) 05:16, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Just had an idea. You could add a notice to the top of the Toolserver tool. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:49, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Wow. I didn't think of that. Unfortunately, I don't have control over the toolserver version.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 13:52, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I like the way you added it to the wmflabs version. Any chance TParis could do the same to the Toolserver one? Can you make the URL a link? PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:05, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I asked TParis to do it, but he hasn't responded yet. It's drawing from the sitenotice script.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 03:06, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Lots of responses ... it seems the global message was a success. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes it was. Thanks for your help. :-)—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 14:24, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Apparently some don't like the message. PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:46, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

That's going to be there problem if it turns out the opt-in will be disabled. :p—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 14:50, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

BFCola

I've extended this to indef since past accounts have been vandal-only and in many cases globally locked. Hope this is okay. --Rschen7754 02:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

It's fine. I guess I assumed too much good-faith there, when it was obviously bad faith... sorry. PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:59, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Better to assume more good faith than bad faith. :-)—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 03:01, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Lo sai che dopo settimane di connessione protetta https, ancora si ripresenta il mostro pubblicitario?!?

Ciao, Pirq17, te tutto bene? Sono stata tranquilla per alcune belle settimane, sulla connessione in https, poi, credo stamattina per la prima volta, ma poi anche oggi pomeriggio, si ripresenta uguale il mostro della pubblicità, sempre però su https, in questo modo: dentro una qualsiasi pagina di wikipedia, all'improvviso si fa tutta bianca la metà rettangolare destra dello schermo, e in piccolissimo in basso, scritto in colore grigio chiaro, diventa cliccabile la scritta "what' s this?" Cliccandola, si connette una pagina che dice "about blank" di un sito gynias.com, poi di lì cominciano le pubblicità.. Obbligatorio tornartene indietro in quanto non volevi finire lì, ma tornando alla pagina di partenza, trovi che il rettangolo bianco non se ne va.. Molto brutto, tutto questo.. --Gloria sah (talk) 15:35, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [53]
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [54]
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [55]
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [56]
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [57]
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [58]
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [59]

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [60]
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [61]
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [62]
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [63]
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [64]
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [65]
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [66]
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [67]

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Question

someone suggested that you might be interested here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Grassroots_campaign_for_Wikipedia_Zero_to_schools.2C_teachers.2C_administrators_and_communities...oh_and_a_short_film_too. Vgrigas (talk) 00:31, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

More Questions

Thankyou for your reply.

I'd also like to know how I can be the administrator of Chinese Wikivoyage and when Chinese Wikivoyage can become a formal site that use the domain of zh.wikivoyage.org instead of using incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/zh.

Please answer me in my talk page in Wikimeta.

（O.O）（o.o）（V.V） 02:16, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Re: Hid your logged out edit on Meta

You wrote: When you wrote 'no privacy prob', did you mean you wanted it public? If so, I can undelete it. Sorry. πr² (t • c) 09:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your action. No, I didn't want it public but I wasn't very concerned. My en.WP userpage includes my photo, real name and general location. I'm pretty open and didn't want to inconvenience a Meta admin but I do appreciate your effort. No need to spend more time on me due to my carelessness after followiung a link to Meta. Thanks again, Doctree (talk) 19:48, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
• On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [68]
• A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "Add topic" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [69]
• There was a short site outage on June 28.
• The automated Category:Pages with broken file links now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [70]
• The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [71]
• There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [72]
• The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [73]
• VisualEditor news:
  • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
  • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
  • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
  • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
  • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
  • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
  • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [74]

Future software changes

• VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
• From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages (bug #49505). [75]
• The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [76]

Erratum

• Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [77]

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14:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

French translation

Thanks for reaching out to me. See my answer on my talk page. Cheers for now, — Racconish^Tk 21:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Will reply there. PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, I translated the Data Retention Policy. Could you put it on the Foundations' site ? Thanks, — Racconish^Tk 14:11, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Done. Please check the copy on the Foundation wiki. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Great ! Thanks, — Racconish^Tk 16:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Turkish

Hi. "Kehanet. Değişik Türk dillerinde Yur ve Moğolcada Yor olarak da söylenir. Özellikle rüyalardan sonuç çıkarmak." is definitely in Turkish :)--Rapsar (talk) 17:35, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for confirming this! It looked like Turkish to me (and to Google translate), but I'm hardly an expert on Turkic languages: I can't speak any. :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem :) If you'd have any question like this, you can send a message to my talk page in Turkish Wikipedia. Have a nice day.--Rapsar (talk) 18:51, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

re: commons:File:VillaAvellinoFC.png

Yes please. Also, File:Parco_Bognar.jpg was uploaded this time. It's a blatant copyviol from some local TV. --.sEdivad (msg) 12:05, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech news: 2013-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
  • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [78]
  • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
• Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [79]
• Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [80]

Future software changes

• MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #8480). [81]
• It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [82]
• The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [83]
• The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [84]
• Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [85]
• First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [86]
• A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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18:39, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

How to change main page

Hey there, would you have any idea on how to change the main page on ang Wikipedia from "hēafodsīde" to "hēafodtramet"? The current setup is that "hēafodsīde" redirects to "hēafodtramet", but that is less than tidy. I myself will have a look in the system messages. Gottistgut (talk) 23:10, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, it's ang:MediaWiki:Mainpage. Please also update it on translatewiki, if possible. Hope this helps, PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:15, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 04:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:59, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Message

I'm actually writing on behalf of the individual concerned; paid editing, basically. --Cdelevigne101 (talk) 20:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Two questions

1. I just succeeded in having w:simple:Shabbat promoted to GA. Is there a cross-wiki bot to add the {{Link GA|simple}} template to other language versions of the article, or does that have to be done by hand?
2. Can I suppress Visual Editor in enwiki (and eventually other wikis)? I find it much harder to use than markup.

Thanks. StevenJ81 (talk) 06:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

1. I'm not completely sure about this, but I think reading en:Template:Link GA/doc will help. Sometimes a bot will do it[87][88], but it seems not all wikis have such bots (I haven't checked for crosswiki ones). For example, zu:Euro doesn't have Link GA/FA templates, but there are several equivalent articles with good/featured status. This might eventually become a Wikidata feature, which would make it much easier (cf. bugzilla:40810).
2. Yes. To hide VE, go to the Gadgets panel of preferences, go to the "Editing" header, and check "Remove VisualEditor from the user interface". This does not really disable VE; however, it does hide it from the interface. I'm not sure how the cross-wiki deployment will work exactly, but one way hide it from all wikis (probably) is this:
   1. Create an account on all wikis (there's a script for that!)
   2. Get global JavaScript
   3. Add

      mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-oldeditor.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
      

      to your global.js page.

   There may be an easier way, especially after bugzilla:50929 and/or global prefs and JS are implemented. This seems to be the only currently-working solution to globally disable it, but I'll ping Ironholds about that. One good thing about this solution is that you can use it to install other scripts (like popups, Twinkle, etc.) globally too, once you have global JS. And you can easily re-enable VE. PiRSquared17 (talk) 12:41, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

See response from Okeyes (Ironholds), a Community Liaison who is currently answering feedback about VE. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:23, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Absent an interwiki bot, I'm not especially sure that running a bot is so much faster than going from wiki to wiki. So far, I've gone through the 1,000,000+ wikis, plus Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. But I might wait; the latest Wikidata newsletter suggests this is now actively in the works.

As to the Visual Editor issue, I can work with that. Thanks for your help. Any other round foods you need these days? Pizza? Bagels? StevenJ81 (talk) 15:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm happy to help with any other technical things. As for the food: Pizza is still a pie (π), isn't it? :P PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

It's awfully tempting to assume the word "pie" comes from that, isn't it? (Except π wasn't used for this purpose until after 1700.) (;-) Have a good weekend. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:14, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Of course, you are always welcome to ask technical questions to me or anyone on Tech. Well, thank you for that cookie (and the offer for pizza/bagels), and have a happy weekend yourself! By the way, if we replace pi by "tau", we won't be able to make similar jokes. :( PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:20, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

xhwiki

Can you have a look at whether the first revision here was of any use? --MF-W 02:06, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Caralho, the page name, is a swear word in Portuguese, the native language of the IP's country (Brazil). As for the content, it's just copied from xh:isiNgesi, the page about the English language. Also, the added "que vontade de fuder" Portuguese text (Google translate it if you want) is vulgar. The first part means something like Caralho (que vontade de fuder) – language of English people/England (?). Basically, it's just about the English language with some Portuguese swears thrown in at the beginning. PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Now that you say it... we say "karallu" in Tetum and "futuere" in Latin! I clearly can't deal with languages at this time of day. Thanks. Deleted as vandalism now. --MF-W 02:25, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I'd expect a sysop on two Nguni language wikis (sswiki, sswiktionary) to be able to see that it's about English. ;) Compare: ss:SíNgísi "SíNgísi, lúlwîmi" - xh:isiNgesi "isiNgesi – ulwimi[...]". And, of course, translating the Portuguese text would have helped. But it's too late for you to deal with this, I agree. :P PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:30, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Exactly. :P --MF-W 02:50, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [89]
• The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example). [90]
• The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions. [91]
• The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
• VisualEditor news:
  • According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
  • Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
  • Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
  • Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
  • Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
• The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.

Future software changes

• A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [92]
• The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [93]
• Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [94] [95]
• Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [96]
• Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [97]
• A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [98]

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17:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Adminship at the Old English Wiktionary

Hello,

I was interested in becoming an admin at the Old English Wiktionary, and Gottistgut told me that I should talk to you about that. So how should I go about getting (temporary, at least) adminship there? I wish to become an admin there so that I'd have everything I need thoroughly clean the Old English Wiktionary up and get it to a (somewhat) acceptable state.

On an unrelated note, this user created a spammy page in the mainspace over there: http://ang.wiktionary.org/wiki/kalkulator_bmi

Thanks.

— Espreon (talk) 20:45, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello!

If you write a request on Wiktionary:Requests for adminship or the "Beer parlour", then you may request temporary adminship on SRP after a week or so with no opposes. If you need any more assistance, feel free to ask. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:28, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

OK, I'll go and do that.

And yes, I am on IRC (on Freenode, of course).

Thanks.

— Espreon (talk) 21:44, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Great! I'll support, since that wiki is in desperate need of cleanup. ##Anglisc? PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:47, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

##Anglisc indeed!

— Espreon (talk) 22:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

OK, it's been done: here

— Espreon (talk) 22:22, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Accidenti! Ho tutte le pagine in lingua delle wikipedie, ma anche wikimedia meta-wiki, pienissime di pubblicità..

Mi dispiace disturbarTi per delle noie tutto sommato soprassedibili, ma l'invasione delle adds ormai è pervasiva e quasi totale, almeno su questo terminale di casa, non ostante la versione protetta https, poichè su quello dell'ufficio non ce ne sono.. Si salva solamente, almeno per ora, MediaWiki.. Forse questo terminale qua è infettatissimo.. Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 12:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Ciao! Io non so come risolvere il problema. Hai letto il post sul blog? Mi dispiace, non sono un professionista IT. Che browser usi? (unrelated) Perché non esiste una pagina una pagina su Luciano Pavarotti su emlwiki? PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:13, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Caro Pirq17, sono enormemente lieta che Ti piacesse e piaccia big Luciano, poichè lui è-era-sarà tutti noi modenesi!! Il mio primo marito gli stampava (alla stampantina-A4 del '95-'96-'97) le partiture sia per lui, sia per i componenti dell'orchestra, durante i concerti annuali coi cantanti rock, dove gli arrangiamenti erano curati di volta on volta (niente di vetusto o recuperato, ma tutto sempre rinnovato): questo significava per la nostra piccola famiglia: curiosità, eccitazione, enorme attenzione e.. anche un discreto ruzzolo di soldini.. Il big se n'è andato ma lui resterà sempre nei nostri cuori e nella nostra terra.. Tornando alla eml.wikipedia, credo, almeno per quello che mi riguarda, che adesso stiamo componendo piccoli articoli per venire su nella classifica più rapidamente, perchè per ora ahimè, siamo al 193esimo posto per numero di articoli scritti (nr 2207 circa), poichè l'Articolo su Luciano, interessantissimo, indubbiamente, porterebbe via chissà quanto in lunghezza, in foto, in citazioni!! A presto (non preoccupiamoci più tanto di questo terminale corrotto, poichè pensa che la mia bimba più piccola (10 years old) col braccio ingessato, l'ha fatto cadere, rompendogli ahimè lo schermo..), --Gloria sah (talk) 21:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

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Re: System administrators list

AFAIK I provided an explanation on the edit summary and/or WM:RFH. The reason is that it split history and that the subpage is harder to follow (it has almost 150 watchers less), so for transparency it's better to keep it on the main page given that it's its main content. If there are no translatable updates, there's no need to remark. --Nemo 08:17, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25. [99]
• A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs. [100]
• VisualEditor news:
  • The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29. [101]
  • A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
  • SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
  • Users can now edit <nowiki>...</nowiki> blocks (bug #47678).
  • When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text. [102]
• Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
• A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.

Future software changes

• The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed. [103]
• Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457). [104]
• A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org. [105]

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21:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Acute -> macron script

Hello,

You forgot to make the acute -> macron script turn "ǽ" into "ǣ".

— Espreon (talk) 13:35, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Done, and FYI bugzilla:51917. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Autopatroll

Thanks for giving Autopatrolled flag! --Revi^Discuss_{SUL Info} 16:48, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem; you were already experienced on kowiki and Wikidata, and all your translations seemed fine. If you ever need help, feel free to ask me or on Meta:Babel. :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

SITENAME

Hello,

How do I edit SITENAME or get it edited?

Thanks,

Espreon (talk) 03:38, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I think you may need to request it on Bugzilla. See mw:$wgSitename. I'm sure you would get a response in #mediawiki. I'm a little busy now, so I probably can't help much. Actually, there may be a MediaWiki message overriding this - I'm not sure, so ask in #mediawiki. P.S. I think you can also give it different cases (for OE nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumental). Ask a dev on IRC or Bugzilla about that. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

RE: Ciao

ma ciao, sei Italiano? cioè scrivi in italiano? io sono e sono da un anno che sto imparando ad usare sia Wikipedia sia tutti gli altri progetti di Wiki da Wikibook a Wikisource, ecc... comunque, io sono un giovane Sordo siciliano! piacere mio... ^_^ --SurdusVII (talk) 18:54, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Non sono italiano, ma parlo italiano. Penso che ti ho visto in scn-wiki, no? Sapevi che si può modificare Wikipedia (etc.) in Lingua dei Segni su incubator:Wp/ase? Io penso che si può iniziare un progetto in LIS (ise). Ciao, PiRSquared17 (talk) 19:11, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

ciao, no non lo sapevo. anzi l'ho saputo tramite alcuni amici. si si sono su scn.wiki e sono di madre lingua siciliana. e come faccio a creare una specie di incubator:Wp/ise? come si funziona anche per incubator:Wp/ase? --SurdusVII (talk) 19:59, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [106]
• Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [107]
• Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [108]
• The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [109]
• It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [110]
• The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [111]
• Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [112], [113], [114]
• Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [115]
• A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
• VisualEditor news:
  • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [116]
  • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [117]
  • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [118] [119] [120] [121] [122] [123]
  • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
  • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
  • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
  • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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Gran abuso de notifications

Re bugzilla:52194, peux-you tentar zu disable quelques JS scripts, pour haree which ones possint ser causa de la Nicht-working?

For moi es fonctionne si yo fais ne'e: [124] (which makes no sense 'tall as it does not work if I do not uncomment the script from Werdna). Then I copied my global.js to my meta monobook.js, and it works now here, but not anymore all the time on enwiki (which also makes no sense 'tall since the scripts I have there did obviously not change at all). Entonces, antes de que escribo galimatías en el bug, sería muy maravilhoso se tu pourrais expérimenter ein bisschen as well ba haree if at least problema tua is easy to solve. --MF-W 12:48, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Global twinkle

Your script has been giving me trouble editing Wikidata. I only figured it out today. Here's what happens when that script is loaded: When add/edit link is pressed on an entry, some blank lines would come up instead of the usual edit field. See http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4033/3lwk.jpg Here I have pressed the link for jawiki, ptwiki & simplewiki (notice the vertical bars) and when add is pressed at Wikivoyage section, a blank line appears. Regards --Glaisher [talk] 10:18, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I have been a little busy recently, so I may not have time to answer follow-ups about this soon. I'll probably look into the problem eventually (no promises). However, here is my short-term recommendation: you can exclude certain wikis from using Twinkle by using code like in User:Hazard-SJ/global.js (search for the "twinkleWikisToExclude" part, just make it { wikidatawiki: true }). (and, of course, replace the importAnyScript stuff with the code you already have with morebits and twinkle) Hope this helps for now. Actually, I could make it automatically be disabled on Wikidata. Would that be better? PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:21, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Better, IMHO ;-) I have removed it from my d:/common.js though. --Glaisher [talk] 16:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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global.js

Thanks for your offer. (I'm watching; you don't need to TB.)

What I was playing with, but don't know enough js to do, is this:

• I now have the js we originally worked on—namely, the links to my various watchlists—as well as a link to a MediaWiki gadget (the local live clock) contained in my global.js file. I also load the old (non-VE) editor, per what you guys advised before. That global.js is being called successfully by my various local common.js scripts.
• I was trying to see if I could substitute the title "Watchlists" with a variable, which I could then fill in with a local title at common.js. So if the default title is "Watchlists", I might substitute that by Listes de suivi at frwiki, for example, without having to copy the whole code locally. If I can't, I can't; it's not a big deal. But that's what I've been playing with.

Separately, as an idea for that global substitution bot, one of the things I would potentially like to do is be able to duplicate my iw's across my user pages, since we are not supposed to put those into WD. However, if you do that directly, you end up with the local wiki's bold, black "iw link" in the middle of the user page, like happens on navboxes with the local page's link. Question is: can that bot be modified to skip each wiki's local iw in turn?

Thanks as always for your help. And I hope you never become User:TauRSquared8.5. StevenJ81 (talk) 23:31, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello! As always, it's my pleasure to answer these requests. It makes me think about some interesting problems, which I truly enjoy.

• I saw what you tried. Here is the correct way to do it in that style: Special:PermaLink/5708121. I also did a shorter one: Special:PermaLink/5708120. Either one should work, but I haven't tested them. I'm a bit busy. Please tell me if you encounter any problems.
• (Re: Synchbot thing) The obvious answer (to me, at least) is to wrap all the interwikis in <div style="display: none">[...]</div> (replace the "[...]" with the list of interwikis). I have a few more ideas about this, however, so I recommend asking Pathoschild about this.

  Rambling/Rant: You also have to worry about non-Wikipedia wikis (sister projects), so the solution below won't work. Why isn't this part of Wikidata anyway? You won't be able to update the iw list without either making another Synchbot request or doing a bunch of manual stuffz. Maybe you could use parserfunctions/variables to do this better. A better way for this might just be to ask Pathoschild. Until, of course, the WMF finally implements global user pages. If that will ever happen.

Regards, PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:57, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Another version: Special:PermaLink/5708275 if you prefer. Translate from central location. But I like the one you're using now. Does it work? PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:46, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

It works great. The advantage to this one is that you don't have to keep going back to global.js to add new translations. If you go to a different-language wiki and want to change the title you can, from inside that wiki. If you don't want to, you don't have to. Customizations belong in individual common.js files. (Just curious: in the version you just laid out [which I don't like as well, but is a cool solution], would it choose the translation by the display language I have chosen, or by the language of the wiki itself?)

The <span style="display:none"> works well on the iw links, too. (Do I know why WD isn't hosting this stuff? You're closer to WMF than I am, by a long stretch!) StevenJ81 (talk) 03:20, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

In the other version I just wrote, it uses the wiki's language. It can be changed to use the user language if you change the "wgContentLanguage" to "wgUserLanguage", which is a very minor edit. One advantage of that is that it sets the tabs for all wikis in that language, not just Wikipedia. That might not be important if you mainly edit WP, though. I do prefer the one I gave you earlier though, for the reasons you mention. Well, the Wikidata thing seems to be due to this RfC and its "sequel". Some valid points, but it does make interwiki linking of userpages much harder. And never hesitate to ask me for help on technical (or global/small wiki/Meta) matters. I'm going to be busy/away for a while this month, but I'll try to answer as soon as I can. :-) PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:35, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Have a good month. Certainly nothing urgent from me.

I suppose if I wanted to eat my cake and have it, too, I might like to be able to invoke a small menu from my local common.js. Consider Yiddish Wikipedia. There's a neat set of gadgets there; see w:yi:MediaWiki:Gadget-UseLangEn.js that allow one to quickly change the user interface there. So for someone like me, with just a little Yiddish, it is useful to be able to look at the interface in Yiddish sometimes, but in English most of the time. So it would be cool to have my title change languages at the same time. (Not, as far as it goes, that all of the rest of the interface actually changes languages when you run the gadget, or change your settings ...)

But let's face it: there are few languages in that category. There are languages I speak well enough to use the interface in (en, fr, he) and ones I don't (yi, lad). And most of the time I will use native language interface in the former category and English in the latter. And as far as it goes, Synchbot can even do the customized language link for my title pretty quickly, even in the few non-WP wikis I occasionally go to:

1. Synchbot basic common.js file
2. Synchbot watchlists='Listes de suivi' as a "prepend" to all fr.* wikis
3. Repeat preceding for he.* wikis, etc.

Anyway, this is fun stuff, but RL intrudes. Take care, and thanks for the help. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:28, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I think you have already found a solution that works, but, if you want to perfect it to use the language setting of the user, I recommend you either use the latest one I gave you with "wgContentLanguage" replaced by "wgUserLanguage" or modify the local js of your current version (what I recommend). So instead of watchlists='Listes de suivi', use

if (mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage') == 'fr') watchlists = 'Listes de suivi';

Actually, that might not work, if mw is not loaded by the time it runs the script. And it won't change the tab if you set your language to something else (e.g., using fr on enwiki ... but why would you want to do that anyway?). As I mentioned earlier, Special:PermaLink/5708275 will do this if you replace wgContentLanguage with wgUserLanguage. But then you have to go to global.js to modify the translations. You could also try using

$(document).ready(function() {
    if (mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage') == 'fr') watchlists = 'Listes de suivi';
});

in common.js if the other stuff I just wrote doesn't work. No guarantees that this will function properly though. ;) PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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Done :-) PiRSquared17 (talk) 14:48, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

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PiR^2, please read this carefully, and tell me how to proceed. I don't know in what planet this is acceptable. Cirt (the one who created that attack user page) deleted it, but then LauraHale recreated it. She knows it is not a sock, and that it is a public rename. [125] [126] [127] [128] Also, it has 0 edits on Wikinews, so calling it a "Wikinews sockpuppet" is completely uncalled for, and is just attacking my real name. To whom should I report this abuse? (Thanks for your help.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't really know what to recommend. Obviously public renames are not socks, at least per the English Wikipedia's policy w:Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. However, I would recommend just working on other wikis (e.g., Portuguese Wikinews) for a while, being nice, and then request it to a Wikinews admin again. After that period of time, they might even consider unblocking you, if you can show that they can trust you now. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:31, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Also, if you really want to report this alleged abuse, you may start a RFC. But I do not recommend this, as it's likely to only cause drama and more ill will between you and the Wikinews community. One of the last times a blocked/banned user filed an RfC, it caused a huge drama fest. So I hope that answers your last question. BTW, I personally believe that the user you are referring to has helped Wikimedia greatly, even if she has also made some mistakes (in your opinion). PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

P.S. I just asked LauraHale about this on IRC, and she said mentioned a possible compromise (quote from LauraHale): "1) The rename account (which en.wp shows was socking) would say it was a rename account that he could still log into and so is indefinetely blocked. 2) The brother's account could have the page deleted pending a successful unblock request." I can't really help with anything more than this. Another quote: "An unblock would involve 6 months of positive news contributing to another language Wikinews project, a demonstration of a clear understanding of news principles on the project (and especially why sockpuppeting would be a major breach of trust for a project engaged in original reporting), and no blocks on other projects for similar behavior that led to the en.wp and en.wn blocks to begin with." PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:05, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Socking involves deception. How could "Daniel Tomé" ever be socking when the difference to my account is just one letter? Worse, it redirected to my DanielTom account. And was a very public rename. [129] [130] [131] [132] It only has one accidental edit on Wikipedia [133] which was corrected 2 minutes later [134]. Check the diffs. The CU only shows that the public rename, and the renamed account, are related (which is true of the thousands of renames out there, not just of mine, obviously). Even if "Daniel Tomé" was socking at Wikipedia with its one (1) edit, and clearly it wasn't, but let's pretend, it was even more strikingly not socking at Wikinews, as it has zero edits there. So again, in what planet is this acceptable? ~ DanielTom (talk) 16:18, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

As I was asked to comment... DanielTom, you were told that on English Wikinews, individual reporter reputation is vitally important. It accumulates. As a project, we strongly condone sock puppeting in the extreme because it undermines the credibility of our original news reporting when there is deception involved. Given this attitude, the admin community supports blocks locally for sock puppeting on English Wikinews for sock puppeting done on other Wikimedia projects. We can compromise, remove the sock puppet thing for the rename, list it as YOUR account and then explain that both your DanielTom account and your original account are blocked indefinitely for the reasons already explained to you. If this is unacceptable, you may request a private hearing from English Wikinews arbitration committee, which 4 of the 6 members were involved in various blocking decisions related to you. --LauraHale (talk) 16:42, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Condone isn't the word you're looking for. Ajraddatz (Talk) 16:45, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't object to socks being blocked. I object to accounts that are clearly not socks, and which have zero edits on Wikinews, being blocked and tagged as socks. Are you going to say that all public renames by other users are also Wikinews sockpuppets? The "Daniel Tomé" page was deleted, and so it should be, as it has zero edits on Wikinews. If you really want it there, then it should be a redirect to my "DanielTom" account. (That would be less ideal, but I wouldn't object to it.) Cirt deleted the user page, and you recreated it, but it has no reason to exist, as we shouldn't be creating pages for public renames on every wiki where said users have never edited. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:03, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

At this point, I don't think there is any benefit to continuing this discussion on Pi's talk page. Daniel, Pi gave some very good advice above when he recommended that you start editing on another project and rebuild some sort of good reputation. If you want to discuss your block on the English Wikipedia or Wikinews (which I wouldn't recommend), then there are appropriate channels for that. Let's move on. Ajraddatz (Talk) 17:05, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Ajraddatz, your comment is completely devoid of content. "Let's" move on? What? Are you somehow involved in this? I didn't notice that it was your real name on the line. To be clear, no one is asking to be unblocked. We are talking about a userpage that wrongly calls "sock" to a public rename, which has zero edits on Wikinews. The "benefit" of this discussion would be that I wouldn't have to waste the community's time with a request for comment, since the nonsense user page can just be deleted. The fact that the account is a public rename isn't going to change in 6 months, 5 years, or 1000 years. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:37, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi again. Here is what Ajraddatz really meant by "Let's move on": he was referring to you (and LauraHale), not himself. I know that might sound strange to a non-native speaker, but the "let's" (let us) was not really including himself. Here is my comment on the userpage issue: I personally don't think this should be labelled as a sock either, but I have no control over this. I am not an admin there, and I don't want to get involved in drama. LauraHale mentioned a compromise above: to replace the page with "This is an account belonging to DanielTom. It is indefinetely blocked for X, Y and Z", and doing nothing to your brother's account without an unblock request. Would you be okay with having your original userpage be a redirect and having your new one be a big block notification [this is what Laura told me the conditions for being a redirect are]? Maybe a block notice with the current content under it?

Daniel, I agree--it is strange to call this a sock. But there's nothing I can really do about it. Laura has already mentioned a compromise above. I recommend you start contributing constructively to other wikis if you want to be unblocked. I have given you many suggestions. I recommend you take one, and drop this issue. Sorry for not being able to help more. (Sorry if this sounds rude, it was just supposed to be honest) PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:55, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Users who are blocked don't have their user pages defaced by petty admins. I was blocked on Wikinews for rather fabricated reasons, which I am not going to discuss here. The "Daniel Tomé" userpage should be deleted. It has zero edits. If she wants to keep it, then turn it into a redirect, Wouldn't that do the job of identifying it? (Or is the actual purpose to attack my real name?) I should mention I am already contributing on a number of different wikis, including Wikiquote, Commons, Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikisource, etc. (I appreciate your sincere comments, PiRS, you're one of the most sane people here.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment. There is really nothing I can do. The page is protected, I've been discussing this all day (I'm not even very involved), and, to be honest, I think I'm one of the only users who is not happy with your userpage situation. Ajraddatz seems to be neutral, but can probably understand how you feel. But, if I were you, I would discuss it somewhere else. And thank you for your edits on other projects. If you don't want this visible in search results for your name, then ask for it to be __NOINDEX__'ed (not here, please). But Laura's last comment seems to show that the admins there won't listen to you anymore. I just recommend to move on, and contribute to other projects. PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:44, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Now your old userpage redirects to your new one, and the new one lists the block reasons. Maybe Laura could have at least kept the soft redirect/content you had before under the block notice, but I have no control over this. Are you satisfied with this now? PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:10, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

No, I am not satisfied. Users who are blocked shouldn't have their userpages vandalized by the blocking admin. ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:16, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

The best compromise you will get has now been done. The Tomé page has been redirected to the DanielTom page, and the DanielTom page now says the user is blocked and explains why. The accounted connected to the brother will require a separate unblock request before any action will be considered. Hopefully, with this compromise done, we can all move on. --LauraHale (talk) 18:12, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Laura, where is the policy that allows you to deface a user page of a blocked user? When a user is blocked, you end there. People can read your reasons on the talk page. Admins can read it in the block log. Who are you trying to impress? I know you're trying to attack me, but come on, could you please grow up? (One notes you didn't change my user page when you blocked me. You only changed it today. Why?) ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:18, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

PiRSquared17, I apologize for any part I had in dragging you into this. As it is quite clear DanielTom has zero interest in working with the community, is only interested in getting his way, further dialog is pointless. There is clear precedent that allows block messages on other projects. We would have been more than happy with the sockpuppet notification, but DanielTom made clear he was not so the current option announcing why he was blocked works best. Rationale contributors know this is not vandalism when admins do that. DanielTom is keen to cite Wikipedia for things. User:Nimbley6 is one example where this is done there. The previous version of Daniel Tomé on Wikinews indicated such pages were culturally acceptable on Wikinews. The user has reached an intractable position, has an accumulated reputation which means he is likely never going to be perceived as community minded enough for this state to change. I apologize again to you PiRSquared17 and others involved. I promise not to engage any more with DanielTom on this issue and I will advise other English Wikinews administrators to do the same in order to mitigate future conflicts. --LauraHale (talk) 18:35, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

What is clear is that LauraHale wants to keep being abusive, and has just replaced one abuse with another abuse. Saying that I have "zero interest in working with the community" fails to note my hundreds of edits translating pages at Meta, not to mention the almost six thousand edits I have on Wikiquote, and many other constructive article edits on over 10 wikis, some of which mentioned above. Laura, please tell me why you didn't change my userpage when you blocked me, but only decided to deface it today? ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:44, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [135]
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [136]
• You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [137]
• You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [138]
• You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [139]
• Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [140]

Problems fixed

• There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
• Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
• There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [141]

VisualEditor news

• The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit ^beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
• You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
• You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for </code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
• You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [142]

Future

• Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [143]
• Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [144]
• Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [145]
• Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [146]
• The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [147]

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Possible bug at Simple

O! Most high and exalted Circular One! (Are you familiar with Flatland?)

There may be a bug at simplewiki, but I wanted to run it by you first. When I load my watchlist there, I am getting a "mixed https/http content" type of error notice. It's not in any of the scripts that I am running from my .js files, because I'm not having the trouble on any other page there. And I don't have the trouble at any other watchlist. On quick observation, I couldn't tell a difference between a version where I allowed the non-secure content and a version where I blocked it, so perhaps it is invisible content. In any event I thought I ought to report it.

Thanks, and have a good weekend. StevenJ81 (talk) 21:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I am familiar with Flatland, because I used to live there before I moved to Spaceland.

After a bit of investigation, I found the problem. See simple:MediaWiki talk:Common.js/watchlist.js. If you want to know how I found that, I can tell you, but I don't want to write out the details of how I debugged that right now. Have a good weekend! PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

No need for the details, and I see what you had Osiris do there. Thanks for taking care of it. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:29, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hello.

I posted the points I made on IRC in addition to some new findings on ang.wikipedia's mainpage's talk page, for the convenience of others.

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Espreon (talk) 05:38, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Global message access list

Hi there. If just put a request to be put on the access lsite here... I am not sure whether there is a formal procedure. So I just dropped a request there. I have to drop a message on all Wikivoyage language versions about interlanguage expeditions, projects and discussions frequently as well as announcements from the WV association as a thematic organisation. Thanks.... Stefan aka Fussi -- DerFussi 07:04, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for helping with cross-wiki coordination, and good luck getting Wikivoyage e.V. recognized as a ThOrg. :-) If you need help with the bot, just ask MZMcBride (I may also be able to help with some questions.). One important note: make sure all the links work before sending it! PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:15, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've created a list already but will check it first. Will do that tomorrow. The AffCom is waiting for my report... :) Thanks. -- DerFussi 16:28, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

SPCom

Hi PiRSquared17, thanks for the heads-up! Actually I asked about it some time ago. TBH I don't think there is enough interest to start a formal process for project adoption, at least not while we are in the "narrowing focus" phase, which means that all resources are centered mostly around Wikipedia. I believe that a more sensible strategy would be to collect the needs of existing sister projects and determining priorities. For external projects it could be possible to recommend which projects to fund, so they can be developed outside of the WMF umbrella for some years until the viability and the community support is shown.--Micru (talk) 15:32, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Ciao, Sai che oggi mi sembra di non riuscire più a salvare le mie traduzioni?

Ciao, Prq17; mi ero presa una - meritata, secondo me - vacanza dalle traduzioni e da tante altre cose... Ora che però volevo un po' (non però accanitamente come prima) ricominciare con le traduzioni, mi torna sempre indietro la risposta "UNSAVED" nonostante io ritenti più volte... Pensi che ci sia qualche intoppo? Grazie, --Gloria sah (talk) 12:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Come non detto: stasera sembra che io sia riuscita a salvare qualche mia traduzione. Non tenere conto pertanto di quanto sopra, che forse era stato solo un disguido momentaneo. Ciao, --Gloria sah (talk) 19:55, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

@Gloria sah:Bentornata! Non so perché le tue traduzioni non sono state salvate. Dimmi se succede di nuovo. Ciao, PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:25, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your prompt answer! :)

Dear PiRSquared17,

Thank you for taking an interest in my case, and responding so (astoundingly) fast! If I may, could I bother you regarding the procedural steps in order to file a request for Global IP block exemption on SRGP? Truth is, I don't really understand Wikipedia - it's almost as big as reality, and much too huge for me to comprehend beyond the most basic principles...

Best regards from Barcelona,

Jordissim

Dear Jordissim,

The steps to request global IP block exemption are listed on the SRGP (Steward requests/Global permissions) page itself, if you click the blue "expand" link.

It is possible that the request will not even be closed before the block expires, but I would expect a steward response within a day or two. Typically it takes 5 days, even though not much happens. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Although your English seems to be very good (as you haven't made any mistakes), I could ask some users to provide a translation into Spanish (or Catalan!) if you want. We have no native Spanish-speaking stewards, but there are obviously many other users who could help, and some stewards speak a little Spanish. Actually, Micru, who wrote a comment a few sections above, speaks Catalan and Spanish natively.

Regards,

PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:28, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Dear PiRSquared17,

I've been forced to create an account under a new nickname, which actually poses no practical problems I can think of since I've never been active at Meta-Wiki before. However, should you wish to send me a message, the addressee for this site is now --Jordissim77 (talk) 00:13, 7 September 2013 (UTC), and Jordissim at Wikipedia.org. I'd like to help you any way I can, if I can help you anyway you like.

Regards,

--Jordissim77 (talk) 00:13, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Problem solved, don't ask me how... Thanks! --Jordissim (talk) 02:37, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

luri lrc

Hello thanks for your helps
this is a luri lrc translate portal
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Lrc
how can I be a luri lrc translator?
so thanks. lrc lori (talk) 08:14, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello! I think you have already done the correct steps to request a new language, but I'm no expert. I recommend you continue to ask on translatewiki.net's Support page. Eventually, someone will add it (hopefully). Have a good day, PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:24, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello so thanks lrc lori (talk) 11:58, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Linkfix request

Hi PiRSquared17, Now you added the link to the Korean Wikipedia instead of the Korean Wikiversity, can you fix the link? Thanks! Romaine (talk) 00:10, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I must have been influenced by the first comment in that section. ;) Please forgive me! PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:15, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry, can happen. Thanks! Romaine (talk) 00:16, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Re: Thank you

Thank you for noticing me the link. Yes, it is kinda semi-automated: I'm personally overseeing this through AWB. --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 15:09, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Hey. :) Since you seem to be active at the moment, I'd like to exchange a word with you about Category:Proposed projects - other. I thought of creating it, in order to get rid of certain projects which "can't be properly categorised", but the three cases that happened to me so far to see are all about "contents" - broadly speaking.

I mean, Wikimurder is a specific project on murders, while WikiGuide and WikiBrain can be considered a sort of "Wikipedia junkyard". In your opinion, would it be better if I rename the category as "proposed projects - contents"? I can't find a good word for it, so I'm open to suggestions. :) --Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 15:37, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

@Sannita: I think that either "other" or "contents" is okay. Maybe Category:Proposed projects - inclusion (which already exists) is also a good category for the latter two, but I'm not sure. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:58, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

TUSC Account

Hi PiRSquared17. Thanks for the link - I've tried that before. I fill in the form and follow the instructions to edit the page displayed and close the tabe etc. The page then keeps saying it's checking for the edit but doesn't move on from there. The instructions do mention a "specific edit"- am I meant to a certain edit or just add some text and save? Thanks --Robevans123 (talk) 19:47, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Sisterhood

I replied and left you a message on the Forum and on Talk:Sister_Projects_Committee. Let's recruit some new interest... –SJ talk  07:11, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Answers

Thanks for answering on my talk page during my absence! --MF-W 21:53, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

No problem! ;) I just didn't want people to have to wait a few days/weeks for a response. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:54, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

You have new messages

Hello, PiRSquared17. You have new messages at Varnent's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Autopatrolled

Hey 3.1416*r*r (π=3.1416........ and r2 =r*r), I mean PiRSquared thanks for trusting me. It feels really good when you see you are trusted.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 18:28, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

No problem. :-) (from: $\pi r^{2}$) PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:35, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Help test better mass message delivery

Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)

For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)

You can test out MassMessage here: testwiki:Special:MassMessage. The biggest difference you'll likely notice is that any input list must use a new {{#target:}} parser function. For example, {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales}} or {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales|test2.wikipedia.org}}. For detailed instructions, check out mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage.

If you find any bugs, have suggestions for additional features, or have any other feedback, drop a note at m:Talk:MassMessage. Thanks for spamming! --MZMcBride (talk) 05:26, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Esino Lario Wikimania bid

Hi PiRSquared17, I have seen you have reverted this edit. The point is that I was wrong in the first place to rename that page. After talking with Iopensa, one of the main proponent of the bid I was told that while the Lake Como is more generally known than the municipality of Esino Lario, they think that the name Lake Como is inaccurate and they would like to go back to the old name), so I had to ask for the deletion of the redirect to move back the page. (Or at least I think this is the procedure). May you help me? Thank you. -- CristianCantoro (talk) 21:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

@CristianCantoro: Scusa! I did not understand the reason for deletion. Please forgive me. Ciao, PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:25, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
• There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [148]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [149]
• Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [150]
• You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [151]
• You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

Future

• Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [152]
• Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [153]
• You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [154]
• You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

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Please take another look

Hi PiRSquared, regards our brief convo on IRC today, could you please take another look at my talk page as there have been further developments which seem incongruous considering you thought I had handled this issue appropriately up till then. Thanks. AugurNZ ✐⌕ 07:45, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Highlights, August 2013

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ShareMap - interwiki

Hi, thanks for involvement in this case :) I left you answer on discussion page. Talk:Interwiki_map#ShareMap

--Jkan997 (talk) 08:33, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Notification de traduction : Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Wiki Loves Monuments in Syria, Jordan.

Bonjour PiRSquared17,

Vous recevez cette notification parce que vous êtes inscrit comme traducteur de français sur Meta. La page Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Wiki Loves Monuments in Syria, Jordan. est disponible pour la traduction. Vous pouvez la traduire ici:

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La priorité de cette page est haute. La date limite pour traduire cette page est 2013-10-20.

Votre aide est grandement appréciée. Des traducteurs comme vous aident Meta à fonctionner comme une communauté réellement multilingue.

Merci !

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Translating L2

Hi πr2, as I'm translating the L2 to pt-br I couldn't translate in this page informations inside the sync table and also in the groups section. Also the links for "create info page" are using this format: Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013/pt-br/Seattle,_WA but I think it should be something like Research:Labs2/Hackathons/November_9th,_2013/Seattle,_WA/pt-br . PS. i just answered you about translating that other page in my own talk page. HAndrade (WMF) (talk) 06:15, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I just saw the same link generation problem in this page, link " lista de participantes". HAndrade (WMF) (talk) 07:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Can you help me?

Hi PiRSquared17,

I have translated these 3,700 Chinese characters into the Romanized Hakka alphabet. This list cover 97.5- 99% of mainstream Chinese media.

Could you help me create an online automatic transliteration tool which can translate entire article texts into the Hakka language?

Proficiency in Chinese characters is not a requirement for you because on that page I have already shown which characters match to their Romanized Hakka equivalents.

--Hak-ngìn (talk) 13:22, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Hak-ngìn.

I do not know how to add that kind of support to MediaWiki's LanguageConverter, but I could probably figure it out.

Anyway, I created a bug report for that. A developer should do this. If none do this, I will write a JavaScript program for you.

Regards, PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:34, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Captions

Hi! I posted the captions on my talk page -

if you can migrate those to the system you had on meta, I'd be happy to provide a mention and a link in the blog post when it goes live, just let me know Victorgrigas (talk) 15:26, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

User rights

Thanks I have had to petition for some of these basic user rights on other wikis and it's a little silly since I've been around for awhile and never caused much of a ruckus. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:39, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

As you're very experienced on (the English) Wikipedia and other projects, I see no reason why you can't be trusted. :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)