Wikipedia:Kuvendi

Ky është Kuvendi i Wikipedias shqipe. Këtu diskutohen dhe merren vendimet më të rëndësishme që kanë të bëjnë me Wikipedian shqipe. Temat të cilat nuk kanë të bëjnë me Wikipedian largohen menjëherë. Fillo një diskutim tani n.q.s. nuk do të presësh sa të karikohet e gjithë faqja. Lexo më përpara që të shikosh nëse pyetja juaj është bërë nga dikush tjetër. Mos e shtyp butonin "kryej ndryshimin" më shumë se një herë se mund të dali pyetja disa herë! Shërbyesi mund të jetë i ngarkuar, por do të përgjigjet me kalimin e kohës. Për të pasur një pasqyrë dhe për të ruajtur sadopak rendin keni parasysh këto rregulla: Për secilin diskutim që e filloni këtu parashtroni vetëm një temë. Diskutuesi i parë fillon prej kryerreshtit. Përgjigjet vijojnë me : të cilat e largojnë rreshtin djathtas. Përgjigjja tjetër vijon me dy :: dhe kështu me radhë deri sa të bëhen pesë përgjigje (:::::) pastaj i gjashti vazhdon prej fillimi pa dy pikat. Çdo diskutim duhet të nëshkruhet jo me emër por me shenjën --~~~~ dhe atë menjëherë pas shkrimit e jo në kryerresht. Po patët ankesa rreth Wikipedia-s ose përdoruesve, mund t'i bëni tek Wikipedia:Ankesa.

Arkivi i kuvendimeve. Fillo një temë të re diskutimi.

Administrata Mirësevini • Ankesa • Rregullat • Kuvendi • Promovimi • Ambasada • Anëtarët • GNU • PyetjePergjigje • Përshtypjet • Robotët (Bots) • Rregullat e votimit Ndihmë Kërkimi • Të drejta autori • Pasqyra • Redaktimi • Artikulli • Livadhi • Fillestarëve • Antarëve • Kategorive Pema e kategorisë Klikoni mbi shenjën "+" për të parë të gjitha kategoritë: ► !Kategori kryesore

E RËNDËSISHME: Shqyrtim i aktiviteteve të Administratorëve

Përshëndetje. Një politikë në lidhje me heqjen e të "drejtave të avancuara" (administratorë, burokratë, etj) është përvetësuar kohët e fundit nga konsensusi i komunitetit botëror (komuniteti juaj ka marrë një njoftim rreth diskutimit). Sipas kësaj politike, kujdestarët po rishikojnë aktivitetin e administratorëve në wikit e vogla. Sipas njohurive tona më të mira, wiki juaj nuk ka një proçes formal për heqjen e të "drejtave të avancuara" nga llogaritë joaktive. Kjo do të thotë se kujdestarët do të merren me këtë sipas shqyrtimit të aktiviteteve të administratorëve të ri këtu.

Ne kemi vendosur që përdoruesit e mëposhtëm plotësojnë kriterin inaktivitetit (pa redaktime dhe pa regjistrime për më shumë se 2 vjet):

1. Bet 0 (administrator)
2. Dan (administrator)
3. Dori (burokrat, administrator)
4. Ko.S.ystem.OV (administrator)
5. Mig (administrator)

Këta përdorues do të marrin një njoftim së shpejti, duke ju kërkuar atyre të nisin një diskutim komuniteti nëse duan të mbajnë disa ose të gjitha të drejtat e tyre. Nëse përdoruesit nuk përgjigjen, atëherë të drejtat e tyre të avancuara do të hiqen nga kujdestarët.

Gjithësesi, nëse ju si komunitet do të doni të krijoni një proçes të shqyrtimit të aktivitetit duke zëvendësuar atë botëror, doni të merrni një tjetër vendim në lidhje me këta mbajtës të të drejtave inaktivë, ose nëse tashme keni një politikë që ne na ka shpëtuar, atëherë njoftoni kujdestarët në Meta-Wiki në mënyrë që ne të mos vazhdojmë me shqyrtimin e të drejtave në wikin tuaj. Faleminderit, Rschen7754 19 Korrik 2014 01:16 (CEST)

Updates related to VisualEditor

Please help translate this message in your language. Thanks :)

Hi, everybody. This is a reminder that we invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during the next office hours with James Forrester (Product Manager):

• Thursday, August 14, 9:00 UTC;
• Thursday, September 18, 16:00 UTC.

If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your question at mediawiki.org or on my talk page by the day before, and I will try to get a response. We plan to continue these monthly sessions as long as there is community interest, and to announce them through the VisualEditor global newsletter as well (please subscribe your talk page there to get the latest news about the software).

Most of the VisualEditor team will be at Wikimania in London in August! You'll be able to meet the developers during the Hackaton or at the following sessions:

• VisualEditor — helping users edit more easily, Saturday, August 9;
• VisualEditor — engineering against the odds, Sunday, August 10.

WMF community liaisons will share a booth with community advocates at the Community Village and look forward to talking to you there. Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 31 Korrik 2014 18:02 (CEST)

VisualEditor global newsletter—July and August 2014

The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number of items that need to be translated. The user guide is also being updated.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

• Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
• You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
• All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "Cite" menu, including the "Referenca" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Vendos" menu. The "<visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip>" is still added via the "Vendos" menu.
• When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
• All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
• The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
• The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30. There is a VisualEditor Translation Sprint going on during Wikimania; whether you're in London or not, any contributions are welcome!

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 9 Gusht 2014 16:40 (CEST)

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (diskutimet) 13 Gusht 2014 04:38 (CEST)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21 Gusht 2014 19:35 (CEST)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22 Gusht 2014 00:15 (CEST)

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Fonde per te permiresuar projektin

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (diskutimet) 2 Shtator 2014 18:52 (CEST)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 9 Shtator 2014 18:22 (CEST)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 11 Shtator 2014 09:29 (CEST).

PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

Ngarko skedarë, Eksperti për ngarkim?

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki there is little community activity around uploads: less than 50 "grise" actions in "Skeda" last year.

I guess this wiki doesn't have the interest or energies to maintain complex templates and metadata, especially for EDP files. I propose to

• send users to commons:Special:UploadWizard from the sidebar and
• limit local "Ngarkoni skeda" to the "Administrues" group (for any emergency uploads),

so that no new work is needed on this wiki and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons.

All this will be done around 2014-09-30.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove this wiki from the list.
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
3. In all cases, existing files will not be affected, but everyone is welcome to join m:File metadata cleanup drive. The goal is to give better credit to the authors who provided us their works.

Nemo 18 Shtator 2014 21:12 (CEST)

Problemi i trajtës së pashquar dhe asaj të shquar në enciklopedi

Kjo temë është trajtuar dhe më parë, por ka ngelur pa një zgjidhje dhe ka krijuar një lëmsh në Uikipedian në shqip. Do të doja të ngrija problemin e mungesës së një standardi në Uikipedian në shqip. Kemi artikuj që titulli është në të shquarën, e kemi dhe nga ato që janë në trajtën e pashquar. Në faqen e parë është vënë si rregull që artikujt të emërtohen në trajtën e shquar, por kjo nuk është në rregull nga ana gramatikore. Të gjitha enciklopeditë në shqip kanë zërat/hyrjet në trajtën e pashquar, si p.sh. ~pyll, Shqipëri, mal, makinë etj. Përveç se në shqip, në të gjitha gjuhët e tjera që kanë rregulla të ngjashme me tonat, emërtimet në enciklopedi janë në trajtën e pashquar, si p.sh. në italisht foresta (dhe jo La foresta=pylli), ose në anglisht (forest dhe jo "the forest"), apo në rumanisht (parlament dhe jo parlamentul=parlamenti). Si do t'ia bëjmë ta zgjidhim këtë lëmsh në Uikipedian në shqip? (Edvini (diskutimet) 24 Shtator 2014 22:27 (CEST))

Shqetesim me vend l-a-l, sa here baj ndoj biografi habitem mbi sa mbrapsht jane rendite ne krye te krese artikujt. Kur shkruejta njihere per sa i perket titujve "Bej/bej", "Pashe/pashe"... nuk asht çoi kandar gja shqetesimi im. Urojne te gjejne mirekuptim i yti. Une kam gati 1 vit e sa pa qene aktiv dhe e njejta amulli vazhdon.--S. Saiti (diskutimet) 25 Shtator 2014 00:28 (CEST)

Nuk po shoh ndonjë reagim. E gjithë kjo është punë vullnetare, por ata që kanë më shumë tagër këtu, duhet të përgjigjen së paku se pse nuk biem në një marrëveshje për strukturën e enciklopedisë, që mos ta lemë të trashet puna.(Edvini (diskutimet) 10 Tetor 2014 22:44 (CEST))

Reagoj dhe kundërshtoj ashpër përdorimin e trajtës së pashqueme në tituj t'artikujve. Përjashtim mund të bajnë vetëm emnat e përveçëm. Qe arsyet:

1. Titulli i artikullit luen të njejtin rol si titulli i librit. Zakonisht, në gjuhën shqipe:

   (a) titulli në trajtë të shqueme paraqet:
         (1) temën që e trajton vepra (Gjella e Shën Mërisë së Virgjër, Prilli i thyer, Bardha e Temalit, etj.); ose
         (2) vetë sendin ose trajtën e shkrueme të tij (Kanuni i L. Dukagjinit, Kur'ani, E drejta romake, etj.); kurse
   (b) titulli në trajtë të pashqueme paraqet:
         (1) natyrën e veprës (Poezi, Roman pa kornizë, Kronikë në gur, Kangë kreshnikësh, etj.);
         (2) natyrën e temës (kryesisht koncepte abstrakte, si p.sh., Shpresa të mëdha, Kujtime, etj.); ose
         (3) nji shembullar ose sasi të nji sendi a lande (Kujtime, Receta gatimesh, Hyrje në biologji, etj.).

Do t'ish mirë, për shembull, që artikulli i Wikipedisë për ambëlsina ta ketë titullin në trajtën e shqueme. Sepse kur e hap, nuk pres me gjetë aty nji sasi ambëlsinash (përveç shkrimit dhe përmbajtjes së mirë, kuptohet). Dhe tash, që ta kuptoni ma lehtë argumentin tim, zavendësoni fjalën "ëmbëlsirë" edhe me ndonji gja ma pak të dëshirueshme.

2. Gjuhët e hueja jan pasqyrë e mirë me i shqyrtue kur vendosim ndonji rregull për shqipen, por përvoja e tyne asht e ndryshme dhe jo detyruese ndaj gjuhës sonë. Ne kemi gjuhën tonë, doket tona, Kanunin tonë, dhe tymin tonë të duhanit që askush s'guxon me na e prishë.

3. Wikipedia përgjithsisht e përdor kryefjalën e fjalisë hapëse për titull t'artikullit. Ta zamë, Wikipedia anglisht shkruen: "Albania, officially the Republic of Albania, is a country in..." Artikulli titullohet "Albania." Në gjuhën shqipe, kryefjala asht gati gjithmonë në trajtën e shqueme ose e paraprime me nji përcaktor si "një" ose "disa." Përjashtim bajnë vetëm disa tekste të shkrueme që fillojnë me fjalë si "Sekretari i Parë . . . , aktivistë të Partisë, të rinj dhe të reja, dhe badihavxhinj të fshatit e qytetit përuruan sot ujësjellësin me kapacitet 10 litra në orë . . . ."

4. Wikipedia, me përjashtim të Wikipedisë ruse dhe ndonji simotre të saj, nuk asht e ndërtueme si nji fjalor, tue përfshi këtu fjalorët enciklopedikë të botuem dikur ndër shqiptarë. Enciklopedi të tilla ka pasë dhe ka edhe në gjuhë tjera, por Wikipedia nuk asht nji prej tyne.

5. Meqë shum tituj artikujsh përmbajnë fjalë të ndërkombtarizueme, asht ma lehtë me gjetë materiale për to në gjuhën shqipe nëse titujt jan të shquem. Njajësi në trjatën e pashqueme duhet të jetë trajta e parapëlqyeme; trajta e pashqueme dhe shumësi mund të jepen në disa raste për t'iu shmangë dykuptimsive ose ku ka gjasë që lexuesi të mos i dijë ato forma tjera. (Ka do fjalë që dallojnë vetëm në të shqueme, si p.sh., rregull/rregulli dhe rregull/rregulla.) Nëse trajta e pashqueme e lehtëson lidhjen e materialeve shqipe me tekste në gjuhët e tjera n'internet, atëherë mund ta përfshijmë si rregull edhe trajtën e pashqueme të gati çdo titulli, por e shquemja le të mbetet forma parsore.

6. Së mbrami, duhet me mendue se si do ta kërkojnë shqiptarët nji artikull. A do ta gugllojë fjalën "luan" apo "luani"? Po në Wikipedi, çka do të lypë me pa: "milingonë" apo "bubrrecat"? "Fli" apo "flija"? "Kaskader" apo "kaskaderi"? Ndoshta në kët çashtje nuk fiton gjithmonë trajta e shqueme, por unë kam bindjen se primja fillestare e shqipfolësve asht me u nisë me trajtën përcaktuese.

Të fala, --Getoar TX (diskutimet) 11 Tetor 2014 09:55 (CEST)

Shqipja ka një përvojë të gjatë të të shkruarit të enciklopedive, dhe titujt kanë qenë e janë gjithmonë në të pashquar. Vetëm këtu në Uikipedia po e shohim këtë rregull logjik të kundërshtohet e të mos zbatohet. Po të jap vetëm dy shembuj shumë praktikë që të them se pse në enciklopedi zakonisht termat janë në të pashquar: Ismail Kadare-e pashquar, Ismail Kadareja-e shquar; Nju Jork-e pashquar, Nju Jorku-e shquar. Pse nuk janë shkruar atëherë 'Ismail Kadareja', 'Nju Jorku'? Gjithsesi, tani që është bërë një lëmsh në Uikipedia, të paktën të rregullohet me ridrejtime e të shkruhet e shquara aty ku është e pashquare dhe e pashquare aty ku është e shquara. (Edvini (diskutimet) 11 Tetor 2014 22:58 (CEST))

Wiki Loves Monuments Kosovë e Shqipëri

Pershendetje, Kosova e Shqiperia jane bere pjese e gares se fotografive te monumenteve te mbrojtura Wiki Loves Monuments e cila njeherish mbledhe foto per Commons. Te gjitha udhezimet jane ne uebfaqe. Jeni te miresardhur te ngarkoni foto ne Commons deri me 15 tetor per t'u kualifikuar per çmime.

Desha te pyes, pasi qe ne Kosove nuk kemi IP-jat tona prandaj global notice per vizitoret nga Kosova nuk dergon te gara jone por te ajo e Serbise, a munden administratoret te na perkrahin duke e ndryshuar deri me daten 15 tetor banerin tjeter qe fton per kontribute per te perkrahur kete gare:? --Arianit (diskutimet)

Monuments of Spain Challenge

Excuse me for not speaking Albanian yet.

Wikimedia España invites you to join the Monuments of Spain Challenge. And what’s that? It’s a contest. You have to edit, translate or expand articles about the Spanish monuments and you will be granted points. So you’re not just writing about wonderful buildings: you can get prizes!

The time of the contest will include all October and any information you may need is right here.

Join in and good luck!

PS: We would be grateful if you could translate this note into Albanian.

B25es on behalf of Wikimedia España.

B25es (diskutimet) 28 Shtator 2014 07:28 (CEST)

Wikipedia Weekend në Tiranë!

Pershendetje! WikiAkakademia Shqiptare organizon për herë të parë në Shqipëri Wikipedia Weekend në datën 1 dhe 2 Nëntor 2014. Nqs dikush është i interesuar të jetë pjesë e këtij aktiviteti është i lutur të aplikoje si speaker këtu. Më shumë detaje gjeni në webiste: wikiakademia.openlabs.cc --GretaDoci (diskutimet) 6 Tetor 2014 13:52 (CEST)

Popes (papë)

Hello Albanian Wikipedia! In my work for Wikidata I noticed you have double pages about two popes. Papa Piu XII is the same person as Papa Pio XII, and Papa Inoçenti VIII is the same as Papa Innocenci VIII. Also the categories, some are categorized in Kategoria:Papë and some in Kategoria:Papë të Kishës katolike. It would be great if someone took a look at this situation, merged the two pages and cleared up the categories. (Also, one of the categories could be added to d:Q5646628.) Faleminderit! Më vjen keq, nuk flas shqip. - FakirNL (diskutimet) 13 Tetor 2014 11:32 (CEST)

Also Papa Pius I, Papa Piu II to Papa Piu X, Papa Pio XI and (as mentioned above) Papa Piu XII+Papa Pio XII. Not very consistent. - FakirNL (diskutimet) 18 Tetor 2014 22:54 (CEST)

Never mind, the merger was easier than expected and required no actual knowledge of the Albanian language so I went ahead and did it myself. - FakirNL (diskutimet) 20 Tetor 2014 17:14 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #8—2014

Did you know?

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that replaced some categories with a link to the system message MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Wikipedia from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

The tool for editing TemplateData has been deployed to 30 more Wikipedias this week. Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template page or a subpage, and then click the "Manage TemplateData" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes

Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect and mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358).

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community is available. Thank you all for your work.

This was the first translatable VisualEditor newsletter, so thanks to everybody who made this possible! If it hasn't been delivered in your language, and you'd like to help with translations in the future, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre (WMF), so that you will be notified when the next issue is due.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please join the office hours on Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 18:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Africa and Europe) and on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC on IRC.

Give feedback on VisualEditor at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

13 Tetor 2014 11:49 (CEST)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would not contain any additional user rights. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 26 Tetor 2014 19:04 (CET)

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (diskutimet) 31 Tetor 2014 13:46 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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:

• DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • English signup
  • Deutsch signup
• Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
• Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
• British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
• Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
• Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
• JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.6 Nëntor 2014 00:19 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 14 Nëntor 2014 18:34 (CET)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

Did you know?

VisualEditor is also available on the mobile version of Wikipedia. Log in and click the pencil icon to open the page you want to edit. Click on the gear-shaped settings button in the upper-right corner to pick which editor to use. Choose "Edit" to use VisualEditor, or "Edit source" to use the wikitext editor.

It will remember whether you used wikitext or VisualEditor, and use the same editor the next time you edit an article.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor. Not all features are available on the mobile website.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and requests, and worked on support for editing tables and for using non-Latin languages. Their weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org. Informal notes from the recent quarterly review were posted on Meta.

Recent improvements

Basic support for inserting tables and changing the number of rows and columns in them was just introduced to Wikipedias. Advanced features, like dragging columns to different places, will be added later.

To help editors find the most important items more quickly, some items in the toolbar menus are now hidden behind a "Më tepër..." item, such as "I nënvijëzuar" in the styling menu.

The French Wikipedia should see better search results for links, templates, and media because the new search engine was turned on for everyone there. This change is expected at the Chinese and German Wikipedias this week, and the following week at the English Wikipedia.

The "pawn" system has been mostly replaced. Bugs in this system sometimes added a chess pawn character to wikitext. The replacement provides better support for non-Latin languages, with full support hopefully coming soon.

VisualEditor is now provided to editors who use Internet Explorer 10 or 11 on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer 9 is not supported yet.

The keyboard shortcuts for items in the toolbar menus are now shown in the menus.

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme from the User Experience/Design group. The appearance of dialog boxes has already changed in the mobile version. The appearance on desktops will change soon. You are welcome to compare the old "Apex" design and the new "MediaWiki" theme which will replace it.

Several bugs were fixed for internal and external links. Improvements to MediaWiki's search solved an annoying problem: If you searched for the full name of the page or file that you wanted to link, sometimes the search engine could not find the page. A link inside a template to a local page that does not exist will now show red, exactly as it does when reading the page. Due to an error, for about two weeks this also affected all external links inside templates. Opening an auto-numbered link node like [1] with the keyboard used to open the wrong link tool. These problems have all been fixed.

TemplateData

The tool for quickly editing TemplateData has been deployed to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on Thursday, 6 November. This tool was already available on the biggest 40 Wikipedias, and now all wikis will have access to it. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation. When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Manage TemplateData" button at the top. Read the help page for TemplateData to learn more about it. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

You can use the new autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter. The autovalue can be overridden by the editor, by typing something else in the field.

In TemplateData, you may define a parameter as "required". The template dialog box in VisualEditor will warn editors if they leave a "required" parameter empty, and they will not be able to delete that parameter. If the template can function without this parameter, then please mark it as "suggested" or "optional" in TemplateData instead.

Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. The appearance of the media search dialog will improve, to make picking between possible images easier and more visual. The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap.

The user guide is being updated to add information about editing tables. The translations of the user guide for most languages except Spanish, French, and Dutch are significantly out of date. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language. Talk to us if you need help exporting the translated guide to your wiki.

You can influence VisualEditor's design! Tell the VisualEditor team what you want changed during the office hours via IRC. The next sessions are on Wednesday, 19 November at 16:00 UTC and on Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC. You can also share your ideas at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Also, user experience researcher Abbey Ripstra is looking for editors to show her how they edit Wikipedia. Please sign up for the research program if you would like to hear about opportunities.

If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you! —Elitre (WMF)

15 Nëntor 2014 00:29 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

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:

• Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
• Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
• Pelican Books - ebook monographs
• Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.18 Dhjetor 2014 01:22 (CET)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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

Maratonë e Wikipedias në Kukës në muajin mars

Përshëndetje, në fund të marsit në Kukës do të mbahet një maratonë e Wikipedias në gjuhën shqipe me rreth 100 pjesëmarrës. Nëse ka vullnetar që dëshirojnë të ndihmojnë me mentorim dhe ligjërim në tema të ndryshme të Wikipedia-s, ju lutem më njoftoni. Vullnetarët do të kompensohen për shpenzimet personale. --Arianit (diskutimet) 18 Dhjetor 2014 16:02 (CET)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is now available. You can add and delete tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ^ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraf" into a "Block quote".

Some new keyboard sequences can be used to format content. At the start of the line, typing "* " will make the line a bullet list; "1." or "#" will make it a numbered list; "==" will make it a section heading; ": " will make it a blockquote. If you didn't mean to use these tools, you can press undo to undo the formatting change.

There are also two other keyboard sequences: "[[" for opening the link tool, and "{{" for opening the template tool, to help experienced editors. The existing standard keyboard shortcuts, like ^ Ctrl+K to open the link editor, still work.

If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

The current VisualEditor design will be replaced with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at mediawiki.org in late December and on other sites in early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

The Editing team plans to add auto-fill features for citations in January.

Planned changes to the media search dialog will make choosing between possible images easier.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Translations of the user guide for most languages are outdated. Only Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Dutch translations are nearly current. Please help complete the current translations for users who speak your language.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:00 UTC.
• File requests for language-appropriate "Bold" and "Italic" icons for the character formatting menu in Phabricator.
• The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
• If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. Thank you!

— Elitre (WMF)

26 Dhjetor 2014 19:59 (CET)

Titujt e Ndryshem por Permbajtja e Njejt

desha te ju lajmroj ju si staf qe te largoni qe ti fshini faqet Fshati dardani Tankosiqi Tankosiq pasi kane permbajtjen e njejt por edhe eshte krijuar nje faqe e re per kete vendbanim Dardani e cila eshte mire e rregulluar ne maksimum :)

Të falemnderit për vërejtjen. Problemi u rregullua. --Λeternus 31 Dhjetor 2014 10:04 (CET)

Wiki Academy Kukës

• Ky edicion special i Wiki Academy ka për qëllim që të përgatisë pjesëmarrësit që të shkruajnë në mënyrë profesionale duke u dhënë atyre mjetet dhe mësimet e nevojshme.

Qëllimi kryesor i Akademisë është që t’i aktivizoj të rinjtë në procesin e të mësuarit duke i përfshirë ata direkt në procesin e krijimit të artikujve për Wikipedia. Duke e zgjedhur temën, duke grumbulluar informacione dhe statistika studentët do të aftësohen në disa fusha të rëndësishme për të ardhmen e tyre.

Wiki Academy Kukës 21 -22 Mars 2015 / Gjimnazi "Havzi Nela" . Më gjerësisht këtu :http://wikiacademy.al/program.sq.html.--Planeti (diskutimet) 4 Shkurt 2015 17:27 (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins.

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

• starts a new task, like opening the Kryej ndryshimet dialog: blue ,
• takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation: green ,
• might remove or lose your work, like removing a link: red , or
• is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window: gray .

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor. (T67815, T73746.) This change fixed a couple of existing bugs and improved usability. (T73077, T73078.)

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once.(T78234.)

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedia requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace. (T86688, T87027.) If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• Please help complete translations of the user guide for users who speak your language.
• Join the weekly bug triage meetings beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC); information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins, and you can also contact James F. to learn more about this initiative.
• Talk to the Editing team during the office hours via IRC. The next session is on Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 19:00 UTC.
• Subscribe or unsubscribe at Meta. If you would like to help with translations of this newsletter, please 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)

5 Shkurt 2015 19:30 (CET)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. Cradel (administrator)
2. Joni (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Openbk (talk) 6 Shkurt 2015 19:43 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikipedia.org: (të gjitha) Redakto faqet

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like sq.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1 Mars 2015 23:32 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

• Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
• DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
• Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
• Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 2 Mars 2015 22:14 (CET)

Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.

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