Wikiversity:Babel/archive/2017

Install Extension:Translate

Hi, please let me know the detailed steps to have Extension:Translate installed on this Wiki, if a vote must happen, where and how should I launch it? --Psychoslave (talk) 20:38, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello I am in favor would be of great help (installation request will then be made on phabricator:), however, it is possible that no one has responded? --Samuele2002 (talk) 08:24, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Crochet.david What do you think? Two opinions are not sufficient to make the request. As for the extension I'm translations administrator on Meta and Wikispeicies so I know how it works and I would be willing to rearrange the pages to the extension (Page X/en should be moved to X prepared and marked for translation (+Tag translate etc ....) and then with Special:PageMigration connect the various language versions to eN). Of course they will make any change but nothing excessive. (But will in most cases remove the base page to allow the moving sub page in English so I could use the flag of admin to do all these tasks. In anticipation of this, and still my desire to help out more here I request here to be Custodianship. --Samuele2002 (talk) 00:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Crochet.david? --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 20:05, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For make changing the configuration of betawikiversity, a vote is need. knowing that the extension needing is for betawikiversity and not for a specific language, because the day the project will be independent, the extension installed will no longer serve. So the question is : is the extension used for betawikiversity or is it used for the Esperanto section ? Crochet.david (talk) 21:24, 17 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I favor the installation of the extension for the project not for a Esperanto section for translate pages help, guidelines and replace those esistensi because right now there is not an order, then it is very hindered reading guidelines from introductory texts pretty basic page. --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 18:11, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Support If possibilities are open. Why Can we not installed it.--Jayprakash (talk) 00:32, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I support this proposal.

Vito Genovese 14:13, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request on Phabricator --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 21:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I inform you that I will start to move subpages translated the tiny initial pages (eg /It ->/it /Fr -> /fr) to make them compatible with the extension translate. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 13:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Quick question: Are we going to keep a central main page in English and the translations thereof provided by the Translate extension? Or are we going to keep our independent main pages?

Vito Genovese 13:23, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Vito Genovese: I say we put the page in English as the primary and the other subpages of it and dependent on it or we do not understand anything. In fact, then I will move the subpage in English on the main page by deleting the contents of it (eg Wikiversity:About/En move to Wikiversity:About after deleting the content Wikiversity:About). --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 14:16, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Main page may be specific language indication (before independant) but after creation of the specific wikiversity, the main page may be similar. How to handle this with the translation extension ? Crochet.david (talk) 21:32, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have visited several WMF wikis where Translate is enabled, and have not come across a single wiki where the Translate is used for the Main Page. Come to think of it, each language project that we host here has varying qualities, and having a uniform main page is not the best idea.

I think we should be conservative about the use of Translate, and tag pages sparingly. Even though I am a fan of the extension, I believe it could get out of hand, and make everything English-centric around here. {{Browse}} has allowed us NOT to recognize a default language for Beta, and Translate might change that.

Vito Genovese 22:12, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that using {{ Browse}} reading pages is made difficult because they are sub-pages and is not immediately reach them from the home page given. They may at this point with this method at the end of the various subpages have in almost all cases the usual content. If you see incubator even there the extension for the pages is used. Yes have a page in a specific language to be used in the future Wikiversity think it is important but this would not be limited extension Tranlsate because anyway we should follow the criteria for when to mark a page as to translate it or not. However, a translated page is not necessarily the base page is in English can be in any language supported by the extension. And I would say that the service pages that will serve in the new Wikiversity should be like subpage of CODE LANGUAGE/Wikiversity in the local language: PAGENAME as is done on incubator and also because then the next export to the new Wikiversity along with this I would feel it would be easier what do you think if you follow the Incubator model that is to have all the pages in a language as subpages language code as it is one of the failings alleged during the closure proposal beta.Wikiversity. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 10:23, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Samuele2002: I agree with you on the unpracticality of {{Browse}}, which I had mentioned while writing my previous post, but apparently removed before posting it. You are also right about the possibility of translating source pages in other languages, but it should be quite rare, since English is the only true lingua franca of our age. Anyway, let's wait for the folks at Phabricator to enable it, and see how the experience will go.

Vito Genovese 11:29, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The extension is installed now will take a while 'to get ready to mark pages for translation. if someone wants to help is welcome :) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 23:44, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey I changed my rights. If anybody objections on it. Please informe me.--Jayprakash (talk) 03:17, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to help, if that's alright. Let's get busy! :)

Vito Genovese 06:44, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Crochet.david you assign the flag of translation administrator to Vito Genovese. I recommend you wait to mark a page as to translate the meantime moved subpages are translated to lower case as marking a page as to translate the sub-pages in different languages become unchangeable. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 12:45, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please you see mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 12:51, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Samuele2002: Sure, just tell us when you are done. By the way, "translation administrator" can be assigned by admins as well. See Special:UserRights/Vito_Genovese for instance. :)

Vito Genovese 13:07, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Vito Genovese: No administrators can only add and remove yourself as a translation administrator but can not add or remove it to other users. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 19:35, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Samuele2002:: Thank you. :) I realized it after posting the above message, but a little too late. :)

Vito Genovese 19:47, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

:) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 19:48, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Update Wikiversity logo

Hi! I notice that the current logo has the "dome" sort of facing down, as if it were a giant sphere rising from behind the building, rather than a dome sitting on top of the building. Therefore, I propose a new version of the logo (created by Julian Herzog). This new version also has the gradients removed, because they don't really add anything here. What do you think? Any support? Any objections? --Sophivorus (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Excellent work! A great improvement :) --Joseraeiro (talk) 22:51, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support I really like the logo --Samuele2002 (talk) 23:33, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Better if the thickness of the line of latitude is the same as the line of longitude. Crochet.david (talk) 05:31, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Crochet.david: Julian Herzog updated the logo making the lines of the same thickness. Is it ok now? --Sophivorus (talk) 12:48, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

SupportCrochet.david (talk) 15:35, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Support. At last! It would be a significant improvement at any rate. --pegasovagante (tell me) 08:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Support I think it'll be way better with the horizontal lines more light blue, not dark... --Martinligabue (talk) 12:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see dark line ? Crochet.david (talk) 16:26, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --M.shady (talk) 11:02, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I inform you that the community of it.wikiversity (including Martinligabue and pegasovagante) supports the new logo --Samuele2002 (talk) 14:31, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support -Jayprakash (talk) 20:59, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support but with one change I would like to see more of the WMF blue–green–red color scheme. Maybe just change it to look like "Wikiversity"? Or if you really want to be ambitious, make stripes in the globe red and green? What does everyone else think? Koavf (talk) 21:45, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, the logo has many elements so there are many ways to color it, of which coloring the words or the stripes are just two. Reaching consensus on a colored version of the logo will be very difficult, and there's no need for it, so I'm currently against adding color. --Sophivorus (talk) 00:32, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can not change so much a meta community decision ? Crochet.david (talk) 08:18, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Crochet.david: Of course we can. en.wikt changed their logo about four months ago. Koavf (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's not because one do it that all can do it. Crochet.david (talk) 09:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to leave only blue --Samuele2002 (talk) 13:15, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This decision will change at least 15 logos. Betawikiversity is not the place for. It is on metawiki that this decision must be taken.Crochet.david (talk) 13:34, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Atcovi (talk) 13:06, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support Cleaner and nicer. Amqui (talk) 15:13, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Thierry613 (talk) 19:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Guy vandegrift (talk) 17:17, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if it's late, but I also

Support the new logo. The principle "Keep It Simple" is a must when it comes to a logo. --Zerabat (talk) 22:22, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Hubertl (talk) 19:32, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's been a month and there's nothing but support, so I think that counts as consensus. I just contacted Julian Herzog to see if he can do some localized versions of the logo so that we can request the replacements at Phabricator. Let me know if anyone knows of any better way to deploy the logo. Thanks for participating! --Sophivorus (talk) 12:03, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Right, I think I've done the whole bunch. See File:Wikiversity logo 2017.svg for the version without text, the others are all linked as other versions there. I have used Gill Sans bold as the font since that appears to be the Wikimedia guideline. Please check if they look ok, especially but not exclusively the ones that do not use the Latin alphabet as I had to improvise somewhat for these and as I am not very familiar especially with the Korean and Japanese symbols. Also, thank you for the friendly and constructive comments! --Julian Herzog (talk) 11:15, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Julian! I compared one by one the text of your logos with those of the current logos. They all look perfect. However, I noticed that the German and Japanese Wikiversities both have their current logos with English text, rather than their own languages. Therefore, I'm thinking on requesting that those logos are updated to the English version, rather than the localized versions. If those communities then want to update their logos to the localized versions, they can start a Phabricator task for it. Any thoughts? --Sophivorus (talk) 14:25, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I agree, I just thought I'd give them the option to choose which version they want to use. --Julian Herzog (talk) 14:41, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I requested the update of the logo, check phab:T160491 and subscribe! --Sophivorus (talk) 02:33, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But, why in new logo have only one color?? With blue gradation was better.. --— Green Zero обг 20:55, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The new logo has been deployed on all Wikiversities. Thanks everyone!!! --Sophivorus (talk) 20:33, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 16:44, 20 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@Vito Genovese: @Jayprakash12345: @Crochet.david: How about making a policy with removal criteria of the flag of admin? It is now high time that beta.wikiversity has their own policy. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 07:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I think 1 year is Sufficient to remove inactive Users Admin Flag.--Jayprakash (talk) 07:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also I think 1 year is sufficient --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 12:58, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed.

Vito Genovese 12:58, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The default rule is two years. It is metawiki that manages the follow-up. To do our own rule is also to follow up on it. Are you thinking about it? Stewards have a good tracking tool. 1 year or 2 years, is this really important for us to apply a rule? Crochet.david (talk) 21:29, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly not important. Would not cause a burden either. Using something like this would to the trick (the date parameter can be kept up-to-date with parser functions). Either way is fine with me.

Vito Genovese 22:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The thing to consider is that beta.Wikiversity is a multilingual project and therefore should have dele autonomous rules without using the Meta rules. Also to give signs of a vibrant community and having the policies decided by the community of beta.Wikiversity. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 10:28, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is virtually no need for a policy deviating from the admin activity review. I am opposed to the idea to establish a local policy. --Vogone (talk) 23:13, 23 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Matiia (talk) 15:26, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [11]

Future changes

The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12]
The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13]
The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
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18:07, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:39, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)

Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.

You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.

Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:

On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to your language • Get help

21:08, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Add user groups to Autopatrollers and Rollbackers

I propose to add two user groups: Autopatrollers and Rollbackers both groups are used in so many wikis and are very useful.

Autopatrollers Rights:

autopatrol

Rollbackers Rights:

autopatrol
rolback

Both groups can be added and removed by administrators. What do you think? - Samuele2002 (Talk!) 11:25, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why not. Crochet.david (talk) 15:00, 21 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.

The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
June 12–14 – Vote checking
June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results

More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

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21:06, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Upgrading Quiz extension

Quiz extension is currently being upgraded while the bugs are begin fixed.Some features that were requested on Extension_talk:Quiz needs community consensus.

1.Upgrading feedback to be conditional.Currently feedback is shown for all questions in quiz and for all proposals/answer. More information at Phabricator - T166931

2.Color scheme for wrong and correct answers.Currently if a question is unanswered or incorrectly answered, the right and wrong options both are highlighted in same color(i.e red). It has been reported at Link and Help_talk:Quiz. The color scheme can be changed or the correct proposals/answers can be highlighted in green. More information at Phabricator - T165387