Wikipedia:Bar/2015-2

A propòśit dal categorìi

Mè a era drē ch'andèva a ùsta, s'a nn'ìs pinsê ch'a srèv stê méj 'd turnèr in sìm'a 'l argumèint ch'a ìven bèle ciacarê in dal 2014: quand p'r eśèimpi mè a cât, c'm'a 'm è capitê incō, na categorìa ch'la gh'è bele, mo la s preśèinta mìa in dialèt e che invéci l'è in itagliàn, gh'aròm-j-a da scanślèr-la per cambièr-la cun la corespondàinta in dal dialèt? Incòr per stèr a quêl ch'a-j-ò catê incō: la "categorìa:Mobilio" la prèv èser cambièda cun la più emigliàna "categorìa:Mubìli"... Gh'ciâp-j-a? --Glo (discussioni) 22:26, 10 Lój 2015 (UTC)

Al prubléma 'l è che s'a s và atàc a quèl a s và anc in a risć ad scasàr incòsa, dònca o a s sà qvél ch'a s fà o sinò 'l è méj lasàr i quèi cum i èn. A s pōl sèmpar far na próa, s'la n và minga bèn a s pōl sèmpar turnàr indrē. Chè i tìtui dal categurìi scriti in itagliàn i gh'èn da quànd a séran cic e a pisàv'n in dal bucalèn. Ad sicûr un quèl minga tant bèl par mè 'l è védar di misćiùs, tìtui in itagliàn e tìtui in dialét, tìtui scrit in majùscul e tìtui scrit in minùscul, pò a sòn 'd acòrd ch'l è 'n prubléma da pôc, 'l è dimóndi pèś bcar-'s al Schistuśòma manśóni o al Wucherèria bancròfti tant par dir-'n una.--Mirandolese (discussioni) 08:17, 11 Lój 2015 (UTC)

A gh'ò da pinsèr-'gh a mōd...:-°°° --Glo (discussioni) 08:28, 11 Lój 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 05:08, 24 Lój 2015 (UTC)

Sa vrèv-el chilò? 'L inglés al n'è po' mia tant al mé fort.. Glo

Dear Glo Ip address, 'l è facil: thumb al stà per "dî grôs", nail al stà per "ùngia": Al significhê profònd dal tùt al riguèrdarèv egli ùngi, dî grôs in prìma lìgna, che in dal schisèr al ptòun dla polaròid, s't en 't tàj brìśa gli ùngi, al vìn davànti a 'l obietîv! Pò tùti chel sighli là, i gh'avràn anca lōr la spiegasiòun in di śmêlt da druèr sàimper p'r an fèr dal riflês 'd ùngia piturèda dàint'r el foto... Fà-'l acsè tant cheld anca lè?! --Glo (discussioni) 11:46, 24 Lój 2015 (UTC)

Fâ pur cum a vlî, a mè a n m inciàva gnint...--Mirandolese (discussioni) 17:18, 25 Lój 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: Template:@WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalTemplate:@wikimedia Template:Dotorg

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 23:42, 31 Lój 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

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When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

How to use it, once it is enabled:

Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 17:46, 3 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

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Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 Ago 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team have been working on mobile phone support. They have fixed many bugs and improved language support. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving language support and functionality on mobile devices.

Wikimania

The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%). There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

We published some graphs showing the effect of the event on the Translathon page. We thank the translators for participating and the translatewiki.net staff for facilitating this initiative.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

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Future changes

The team will be changing the appearance of selected links inside VisualEditor. The purpose is to make it easy to see whether your cursor is inside or outside the link. When you select a link, the link label (the words shown on the page) will be enclosed in a faint box. If you place your cursor inside the box, then your changes to the link label will be part of the link. If you place your cursor outside the box, then it will not. This will make it easy to know when new characters will be added to the link and when they will not.

On the English Wikipedia, 10% of newly created accounts are now offered both the visual and the wikitext editors. A recent controlled trial showed no significant difference in survival or productivity for new users in the short term. New users with access to VisualEditor were very slightly less likely to produce results that needed reverting. You can learn more about this by watching a video of the July 2015 Wikimedia Research Showcase. The proportion of new accounts with access to both editing environments will be gradually increased over time. Eventually all new users have the choice between the two editing environments.

Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page is now using Flow instead of LiquidThreads.
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If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
Please file requests for language-appropriate "Grasèt" and "Cursîv" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
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—Elitre (WMF), 22:28, 14 Ago 2015 (UTC)

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

Respond to questions on the discussion page of the idea.
Join a small group conversation.
Learn more about this consultation.

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

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Perché o Perchè?

(IT) Scusate il disturbo, ho tradotto dal lombardo all'italiano la voce sul dialetto comacchiese (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialetto_comacchiese) e un bot ha corretto nel testo in emiliano riportato da lmowiki i "perchè" in "perché".

Volevo sapere se la correzione del bot è valida anche nella vostra bellissima lingua o devo fare rollback. Grazie mille :)

--Sciking (discussioni) 16:08, 19 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Perché è italiano, Parchè è mirandolese/modenese, Parché è bolognese. Purtroppo dei ferraresi/comacchiesi qui non ce ne sono. In questo video, al minuto 3:58, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQffGQdjKE (fatto in dialetto ferrarese o comacchiese, non so), sembra che si dica parchè (con la A!) anche se la è finale è più chiusa di quella mirandolese/modenese e si avvicina alla é, in ogni caso per me è un PARCHÈ. P.S. l'aneddoto parla di una casa infestata dalla Póndga e di una donna che vuole che il cacciatore usi il suo fucile e sembra che lo usi davvero bene visto che chiede di tornare spesso... In quest'altro video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4LMW_dE8U (minuto 1:03) è sicuramente PARCHÈ però è ferrarese, non so se ci sono differenza con il comacchiese.--Mirandolese (discussioni) 17:05, 19 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Ò-j-a capî bèin?! Gh'ìn-i in del bandi chè śvèin di valid casadōr cun di bòun fuśîl? Perchè acsè se anc'a cà mìa a catìs la pundgòuna, alóra a savrò subìt chi ciamèr!... Mo intànt, da mêś a l'aséśi spirituèla di rimiramèint cuntìnuv di mé disiunàri in emigliàn, in dal carpśàn e in dal mudnéś a nn'ò mìa incòr catê gnint; in dal bulgnéś a gh'ò sōl da pugèr al mé Mir, e invéci a-j-ò catê, s'al psìs jutèr, na lettradùra cinèina ed discōrs fât in del canpàgni faintèini da di noster nôn, acsè: « Sè, parchè, a vedal, cla dóna che l'è a lè drì a lò, l'è la mòj de mi fiôl zné; l'è za tri énn che i s'è spusé e néch si sfrómbla tót al nöt cun di gnèch che a sét néca mè che a sò mëz sórd, d'int la mi cámbra cun tót i ós asré, di fiùl un s'n'è incóra vèst! » , discōrs scrìt in di noster dè da 'l prof. Mario Gurioli in dal só ùltem "Fët dla mi tëra", Faèinsa, 2011... Al còunt 'l è quêl 'd un nôn, ch'l è drē a lamintèr-es che anc se la nōra col fiōl tùti el nôt i gusen cun anc dimòndi fracâs, mo di fiōl a 'n gh'n'è mìa ancòr rivê, dôp bèin tri an. --Glo (discussioni) 20:22, 19 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Guàda bèn ch'a sòn vgnû da 'l tò bandi in chi dè chè c'n al sćiòp bèl càrag ma tè 't sēr andàda a far un viàś in Inghiltèra dònca 'l tò Póndghi ta t li tîn tuti, mè a n vój più savēr gnint, va mò là...--Mirandolese (discussioni) 20:30, 19 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Anca tè a s dirèv che 'l an pasê 't ēr andê dal bandi 'd Manchester, mo 't n'en 'm 'l ìv mìnga dìt mèinter che mè a era drē a ciamèr-et ch'a gh'ìva anc al garàg' col pònghi... A sun mè ch'a nn'in vój mìa savér-en :-p --Glo (discussioni) 20:51, 19 Ago 2015 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 Set 2015 (UTC)

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Set 2015 (UTC)

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New Wikipedia Library Database Access (September 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

EBSCOHost - this is one of our largest access donations so far: access to a wide variety of academic, newspaper and magazine sources through their Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete and MasterFILE Complete
Newspaperarchive.com - historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, UK and 20 other countries, and includes an Open Access "clipping" feature (1000 accounts)
IMF Elibary- a digital collection of the IMF's reports, studies and research on global economics and development (50 accounts)
Sabinet - one of the largest African digital publishers, based in South Africa, with a wide range of content in English and other European and African languages (10 accounts)
Numérique Premium - a French language social science and humanities ebook database, with topical collections on a wide range of topics (100)
Al Manhal - an Arabic and English database with a wide range of sources, largely focused on or published in the Middle East (60 accounts)
Jamalon - an Arabic book distributor, who is providing targeted book delivery to volunteers (50 editors)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including expanded accounts for Elsevier ScienceDirect, British Medical Journal and Dynamed and additional accounts for Project MUSE, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com, Highbeam and HeinOnline. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 19:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikiaperitivo!

Ciao a tutte/i! Un gruppetto di wikipediani/wikimediani attivo nella città di Bologna vuole lanciare un'iniziativa di incontro mensile un po' diversa da quelli canonici, più informale di un raduno e più divertente di un'editathon :) La serata è aperta a chiunque, e per il momento potrebbe essere semplicemente il momento giusto per fare la conoscenza reciproca e sondare idee per gli appuntamenti futuri, dove non mancheranno un buon aperitivo, chiacchiere, e occasioni di apprendimento per nuovi ed esperti. Ci incontriamo in centro a Bologna questa settimana, giovedì 24 alle 19.00 (clicca sul link per la mappa). Mi farebbe davvero piacere incontrare almeno qualcuno di voi lì! Mi fate sapere chi viene? A presto, --Elitre (discussioni) 10:47, 21 Set 2015 (UTC)

Ely cara, quanto sei ospitale!! Ti saprò dire, perché queste robe qua prevedono anche un discreto management di tutto il resto che la "reśdóra deve lasciare a casa da fare ("faccende" si chiamano dalle mie parti...)... al marito, quindi.. Nel migliore dei casi mi aggregherò alla cognata che ha studio lì vicino alla piazzona, in modo da tornare anche facilmente con lei.. Ma anche solo pre-figurandomi il film, mi sembra già da adesso.. Fantascienza: E chi ce l'ha il permesso di lasciare il lavoro anche solo per un tardo pomeriggio, nella migliore delle ipotesi? Sarà, credo, più facile, un'ipotesi simile, quando sarò più vicina alla Pensioneee!! :-00 --Glo (discussioni) 11:14, 21 Set 2015 (UTC)

Dai, per una volta poi si può fare, anche io in realtà devo organizzarmi come si vede e prevedo di arrivare più tardi, ma l'importante è esserci :) --Elitre (discussioni) 12:02, 21 Set 2015 (UTC)

Vedi che, per esempio, se si riuscisse a organizzare di domenica, per es. h. 14,30 - 15,00 per il caffè dopo la scorpacciata di turtlèin e saltìsa (burp!), sarebbe molto più agevole per tanti... ;-P --Glo (discussioni) 16:45, 21 Set 2015 (UTC)

Gloria, potrebbe essere un'idea da tenere in considerazione - bisogna vedere se però è fattibile per il locale, perché abbiamo cercato di individuare un orario che ci permettesse di averlo quasi esclusivamente per noi, in modo da avere un ambiente confortevole sia per il chiacchiericcio che per eventuali attività al computer. --Elitre (discussioni) 09:22, 22 Set 2015 (UTC)

Mmh, capisco, lascio a te le opzioni, sia perché io non bazzico tanto la Bologna dei localini, e anche perché non ho nessuna opportunità/chance di metterci i pensieri/idee :-°°° , --Glo (discussioni) 12:08, 22 Set 2015 (UTC)

Al 15śum cumpleàṅ dla Wikipedia

Al 15śum cumpleàṅ dla Wikipedia, e 'l muvimèint Wikimedia, gl'ìn adrē a 'rivèr! Nuèt'r a saròm lè in drìta per pianifichèr i só festegiamèint al 15 ed znêr 2016.

C'ma na manéra 'd partìr ala śvélta a pianifichèr dintór'n a 'l Quindicéśum, a gh'è na pàgina in dla Meta per Wikipedia 15. In dal chêś, nuèt'r a pianificòm perchè la pàgina la gh'àpia dai arsórsi c'ma:

Arsórsi per pianifichèr di evèint e di incòunter localmèint per festegèr al Quindicéśum.
Più infurmasiòun in sìm'a 'l mèt'r insèm el foto, i vìddeo, di cuntgnû dla Wikipedia, e di èter mêś.
Arsórsi per reclamiśèr ai media lochêl la nutìsia.

Many of the sections on the meta page are blank for now, but we’ll be working with you to add more information to the page over the next few months leading up to the birthday celebration in January. Please feel free to add, edit, and discuss what you’d like to see for Wikipedia’s 15th birthday!

Nuèt'r a n'vdòm l'óra 'd festegèr insèm a tè!

-La squèdra dal Comunicasiòun dla Wikimedia Foundation

JSutherland (WMF) (discussioni) 17:21, 22 Set 2015 (UTC)

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 Set 2015 (UTC)

Reimagining WMF grants report

(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 Set 2015 (UTC)

Wikiaperitivo #2

Ciao di nuovo! Un gruppetto di wikipediani/wikimediani attivo nella città di Bologna sta testando un'iniziativa di incontro mensile un po' diversa da quelli canonici, più informale di un raduno e più divertente di un'editathon :) La serata è aperta a chiunque, e per il momento è il momento giusto per fare la conoscenza reciproca e sondare idee per gli appuntamenti futuri, dove non mancheranno un buon aperitivo, chiacchiere, e occasioni di apprendimento per nuovi ed esperti. Ci incontriamo in centro a Bologna giovedì 29 alle 20.00 (clicca sul link per la mappa). Se ci siete battete un colpo... Se volete portate il vostro laptop, avremo il wi-fi a disposizione. A presto, --Elitre (discussioni) 06:53, 10 Oto 2015 (UTC) Gloria, ci onorerai della tua presenza?

Cara Ely gentilissima, come ti avevo già spiegato l'altra volta, quell'orario lì è un busillis trichechico impossibile da districare. Quando e se sposterete gli orari a una domenica primo pomeriggio, è invece alquanto probabile perché mi piace moltissimo la pizza del RossoPomodoro e il loro caffé napoletano, per cui sono spesso lì di passaggio. A una eventuale futura domenica, quindi, bye e statemi bene, --Glo (discussioni) 07:34, 10 Oto 2015 (UTC)

New "year" stubs

I see this wiki has just passed 5 000 articles, mainly because of hundreds of stubs for years created by an IP editor. Are these articles actually useful? Are they even proper Emilian-Romagnol? Usually when similar stubs show up on other wikis, they are quickly deleted because they are simple copy-and-paste jobs that don't look right to native speakers. Can someone check these articles and see if they should really stay here? - dcljr (discussioni) 05:36, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for writing in Italian... Controllati, risultano essere artt. scritti in Emiliano, precisamente in Modenese, dove in altrettanto poco tempo sto cercando di aggiungerci il Modello di riferimento e almeno un avvenimento utile. Lascio poi la parola ai miei colleghi emiliani, in particolare agli admin per altre loro valutazioni. --Glo (discussioni) 06:44, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Sono d'accordo le pagine vuote o con poco contenuto o non in lingua sono da cancellare. D'accordo che ora Gloria cerchi di ovviare inserendo alcuni dati però non si può essere obbligati a sistemare pagine vuote editate da emeriti sconosciuti o da utenti solo perchè vogliono che una loro pagina sia inserita anche sulla eml. Io, se Gloria è d'accordo, sarei dell'idea di cancellare le pagine ancora vuote e di lasciarla libera di editare pagine nuove a suo piacimento. --Lévi (discussioni) 07:55, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Riuscirò a risp meglio in pausa pranzo... forse.., Glo

...Guarda caso, infatti, oggi connessione ballerina... Rispondendo francamente (sorry, Lìvi di non essere esattamente d'accordo con te...) allora, e guardando anche le mosse dell'indirizzo IP dell'altra notte, sembrerebbe che lui avesse voluto raggiungere proprio la meta dei 5000 articoli, poiché d'incanto, raggiunta quella soglia, se ne spariva. Non è chiaramente che siamo qua a processare le intenzioni di un anonimo che in fondo, non è che volesse fare spam, ma forse proprio portare la ns. eml.wkp a quel traguardo là... A me piange un poco il virtual-cuore a vedere retrocedere il ns. nr. artt. tot. di circa 500/600 pagg., ma al tempo stesso non sono certo io che ho stabilito delle regole, e se dall'alto viene comandato diversamente, si farà quello che si deve. Cordial-simpaticamente, --Glo (discussioni) 12:01, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Anch'io non sono pienamente d'accordo con te Gloria per il semplice fatto che così si giustifica l'inserimento di pagine vuote per il solo scopo del raggiungimento di una certa quota ambita di voci, sarebbe come se, per avere un'enciclopedia corposa, la Treccani stampasse, nella sua enciclopiedia, pagine vuote. Sarei pienamnte d'accordo con te se quelle pagine contenessero almeno un qualche argomento ma così in bianco non servono a nulla, occupano solo spazio. Io non sarei nemmeno d'accordo mantenere una voce con una sola riga d'informazione ma ho sempre ovviato mettendo il template Abòz per non scoraggiare l'utente che ha fatto quelle voci con la speranza di stimolarlo a fare meglio ma non è mai servito. Se per esempio guardiamo le voci riguardanti qualche paesino a livello d'informazione non dicono nulla, dicono solo che "il tal paesino di n. abitanti è in provincia di…" questa non è un'informazione enciclopedica questa è un'informazione che va bene per una cartolina illustrata ma non per un'enciclopedia. Con simpatia. --Lévi (discussioni) 13:48, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

A me andrà bene la decisione degli amministratori. Bêś, Livi, --Glo (discussioni) 15:57, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

A 'm è però gnû in mèint 'n èter lavōr, reśdōr: che fèr e desfèr 'l è sè n bel lavurèr, mo se anc a risparmiòm un pô 'd forsi, ann è pò mìa ch'a sòm adrē a tōr in gir un quelchidùn! Vōt che quànd egli enciclopedìi i van in stampa, vōt chi 'n gh'àpien mìa un schéma vōd, da impinìr un pô ala volta cun quêl ch'a gh'à d'andèr... A m vin anca 'n pô d arlìa, dal volti... --Glo (discussioni) 20:30, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

...E se ùn al vlìs andèr a controlèr c'ma 'l è che cagli ètri lìngui i àn costruî el só pàgini di an in dal 2007 o anca dôp, alóra al vdrèv ch'egl'ìn partìdi pròpia cun dal pàgini vódi, lasèdi lè per chisà quant tèimp, prìma che in soquàti duśàini 'd èditasòun cìchi a gh'gnìs fóra na nutìsia per cichìna ch'la fùs... :::-| --Glo (discussioni) 21:50, 23 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Compromessino?! :-P Cancelliamo le 400 pagine create dall'IP di stanotte e quelle dove non ci ho ancora messo il becco (cioè tra il 1200 e il 1300), mentre conserviamo quelle dove ci ho un poco sovrascritto?! Grazie del generoso ascolto, --Glo (discussioni) 04:49, 24 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Please see an useful sc.answer, --Glo (discussioni) 14:09, 24 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in again… I haven't been following this discussion, since I don't read the languages it's being conducted in, but in case anyone's interested, as I post this comment, this wiki has 6 178 articles, 1 991 of which (by my count) are for years (at least, the article titles are simply numbers with no other text, like "(nùmer)"), and of those 1 759 were created by IP editors in the past week. I see some of the new stubs are being deleted. Is there a plan for how many will be kept and how many deleted? Just curious… - dcljr (discussioni) 00:59, 25 Oto 2015 (UTC)

You know this is a very small project, where Emilian-romagnol writers are now about 4 or 5. I checked other projects - the Latin one, or the Italian one, for example - and I saw that in the past (like 2007) many year pages started "skeletal". So I asked the admin Lévi if we can at least keep the year pages I over-wrote. Thank you, --Glo (discussioni) 07:15, 25 Oto 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "Passa alla modifica visuale".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the Culegamèint and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "Mèter dèinter Média" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "Cancella" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "Mudéfica" and "Mudéfica la surzéia" tabs into a single "Mudéfica" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "Mudéfica" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 18:18, 30 Oto 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 21:57, 9 Nov 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:47, 10 Nov 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 14:38, 1 Dec 2015 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (discussioni) 17:33, 1 Dec 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (December 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

Gale - multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources - 10 accounts
Brill - academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other languages - 25 accounts
Finnish Literature Society (in Finnish)
Magiran (in Farsi) - scientific journal articles - 100 articles
Civilica (in Farsi) - Iranian journal articles, seminars, and conferences - 50 accounts

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including EBSCO, DeGruyter, and Newspaperarchive.com. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 01:01, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Help us a start Wikipedia Library in your language! Email us at wikipedialibrary@wikimedia.org

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

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VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

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Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "Mudéfica" and "Mudéfica la surzéia" tabs into a single "Mudéfica" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "Mudéfica" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the Casella di modifica tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "Modalità di modifica:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- Ricorda il mio ultimo editor,
- Usa sempre l'editor visuale, se possibile,
- Usa sempre l'editor sorgente, and
- Mostrami entrambe le schede di modifica. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Grazie!

Elitre (WMF), 00:06, 25 Dec 2015 (UTC)

Bòn Nadäl a tütt

Sè, dài, Bòun Nadêl anc da pêrt mìa! Speròm che tant lavōr i s giùsten in méj, in dal grôs e anch in dal cìc! --Glo (discussioni) 20:46, 25 Dec 2015 (UTC)