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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
প্রিয় Tahmid,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা এবং Bishnupriya ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 01:50, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voting/Translations
প্রিয় Tahmid,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা এবং Bishnupriya ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voting/Translations পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2022-03-06।
To make the voting available in as many native languages as possible, we would appreciate your help in translations!
This is 189 words only, just a few minutes of simple work and it is an important contribution to strengthen your community's voice.
Thank you very much for your help, DBarthel (WMF)
আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 13:51, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
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21:16, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2022
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [2][3]
Problems
- There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
- There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [4]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
- When using
uselang=qqxto find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [5] 
Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights through their group memberships. Before, only those with thedeleterevisionright could access this special page. [6]- On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [7]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
- The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [8]
Events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.
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22:07, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Growth Newsletter #20
Welcome to the twentieth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Suggested edits
As of February, 300,000 suggested edits have been completed since the feature was first deployed in December 2019.
Add a link is the team's first structured task, deployed in May 2021. It has improved outcomes for newcomers. The team is now working on a second iteration based on community feedback and data analysis. Improvements will include: improved algorithmic suggestions, guardrails to prevent too many similar links to be added, and clearer encouragement for users to continue making edits. After adding these improvements, we will deploy this task to more Wikipedias.
Add an image is the second structured task built by our team. It was deployed in November 2021 to four pilot Wikipedias. This is a more challenging task for newcomers. However, it adds more value to articles (so far, over 1,000 images have been added). We are currently learning from communities and from the data on what is working well and what needs improvements. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. We will soon deploy this task to more Wikipedias as a test.
"Add a link" and "Add an image" now both have a limitation on how many of these tasks newcomers can do per day. It is meant to discourage careless newcomers from making too many problematic edits.
Positive reinforcement
Over the last two years, the Growth team has focused on building suggested edits: easy tasks for newcomers to start with. We have learned with this experience that these tasks help many newcomers to make their first edits. Now, the team is starting a new project : "positive reinforcement". Its goal is to make newcomers proud of their editing and to make them want to come back for more of them. With the positive reinforcement project, we are considering three kinds of features:
- Impact stats: give newcomers the ability to see how many people read the articles they edit.
- Leveling up: encourage newcomers to progress from easier tasks to harder tasks.
- Personalized praise: encourage mentors and other editors to "thank" and award newcomers for good work.
This project is just beginning, and we hope for community thoughts on the direction. We know that things can wrong if we offer the wrong incentives to newcomers, so we want to be careful. Please visit the talk page to help guide the project!
News for mentors
- The mentor dashboard is available at all wikis. It helps mentors see who their mentees are and keep track of their activity. It is automatically activated where a list of mentors has been created. If you need assistance to create a list of mentors, please contact us.
- The mentor dashboard has a new module: settings. It is now possible for mentors to define their status (active or away). They can specify the volume of questions they want to receive, and they can claim mentees in an easier way. It is also possible for mentors to quit, which will automatically reassign their mentees to other mentors.
- We are working on an ability for a mentee to opt-out (and back in) to having a mentor.
- Previously, in the table that displays mentees activity, the filters displayed all mentees, even the ones with zero edits or lots of edits. We have changed this so that only mentees with between 1 and 500 edits are visible by default. Mentors can change this value in their filters.
- We are currently working on a special page for mentors to sign-up.
Some wikis have created userboxes that mentors can display on the user pages. If your wiki has one, please link it to Wikidata!
Scaling
Previously, at most Wikipedias, only 80% of newcomers were getting the Growth features. This was done for experimentation, to have a control group. We have changed this setting. Now 100% of new accounts at all Wikipedias get the Growth features (except a few, kept as test wikis). We invite communities to update their onboarding documentation and tutorials. Please include the Growth features in it. To help you, we have created an help page that can be translated and adapted to your wiki.
How to help
Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work. We regularly update it.
Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
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17:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New code release schedule for this week
- There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.
Recent changes
- You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [9]
- The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [10]
Future changes
- Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [11]
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16:01, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: ContribuLing 2022/Program
প্রিয় Tahmid,
আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা এবং Bishnupriya ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। ContribuLing 2022/Program পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:
এই পাতাটির অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম। অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2022-03-31।
আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।
আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।
আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!
Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী, 15:49, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [12][13]
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19:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)