Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members..

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 08:46, 16 січня 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Doroga.ua

Знайшов ось такий сайт [1]. У футері є дозвіл на використання матеріалів сайту за наявності посилання на сайт. Формат сайту дуже близький до нашого: теж є описи, маршрути і т.д. Може, скористаємося джерелом? Бо щось наша машинка заглохла... [2] AtUkr (обговорення) 19:25, 16 січня 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

На жаль, такого дозволу для Вікімандрів недостатньо. Адже сайт не дозволяє а ні використовувати матеріали з комерційною метою, а ні модифікувати. В ідеалі звичайно потрібен саме дозвіл на використання під ліцензією CC-BY-SA 3.0 --RLuts (talk) 20:41, 16 січня 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Українське лого

Щойно завантажив українізовані власноруч svg та png логотипи Вікімандрів. Може варто замінити англомовний? --Lystopad (обговорення) 00:11, 9 лютого 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Непогано вийшло. Я за. --Voll (обговорення) 12:34, 9 лютого 2014 (EET)[відповісти]
SVG-версія складається з растрового зображення [3] (для порівняння: [4]), треба переробити на вектор --RLuts (talk) 15:46, 10 лютого 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

 

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Вікімандри better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 21:44, 28 лютого 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Кандидатура в адміністратори

Через напругу в країні забув про справи. :-( Стюард натякнув що в мене закінчується тимчасове адміністрування і треба подати заявку на подовження. Прошу всіх взяти участь у голосуванні: Вікімандри:Адміністратори#Voll (друга номінація) --Voll (обговорення) 22:43, 28 лютого 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 23:56, 13 березня 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

  • April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
  • April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

Новини Вікімедіа, березень 2014

Головні моменти звіту Фонду Вікімедіа і технічного звіту за березень 2014 року, з підбіркою найважливіших подій руху Вікімедіа
 
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Media Viewer


Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 00:29, 24 травня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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A Fistful of Nuggets - Виклик українській вікі!

 

Привіт, всім!

Я поставив завдання всіх мовних проектів Wikivoyage: для завершення трохи більше 10 статей за деякими із золотих самородків Уельсу - маленький куточок нашої планети, де я народився і хліб! Кожна стаття потребує кількох основних елементів: сну, пити і їсти, а також 2000 байт тексту. Перша мова, щоб завершити виклик отримає золотий дракон Barnstar - а як користувач, який зібрав найбільшу кількість очок. Удачи!

Я з нетерпінням очікуємо зустрічі з Вами на седан - будь ласка, додайте точок себе і відзначте сітку, щоб показати, що це робиться! Велике спасибі, або, як ми говоримо, у великій країні (Уельс, звичайно!) - "! Diolch уп Fawr" Llywelyn2000 (обговорення) 17:06, 2 червня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

Новини Вікімедіа, Квітень 2014

Головні моменти звіту Фонду Вікімедіа і технічного звіту за Квітень 2014 року, з підбіркою інших найважливіших подій руху Вікімедіа
 
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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki


 
Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 00:54, 20 червня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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First competition of the Romanian Wikivoyage Project

From July 1 to September 1, all Wikivoyage projects will be invited to take part in our first competition. The challenge is: Improve the article Romania in your language!

 
Here you can find out the way, how you can earn points for your edits. The Wikivoyage with the most points, as well as the one who has helped the most are rewarded with the Romanian Wikivoyage Project Medal!

A competition by: Vladislavian (обговорення) 14:48, 30 червня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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.

-- JurgenNL (talk) 20:35, 21 серпня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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 01:15, 22 серпня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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Badge function in Wikidata

Dear Wikivoyagers, contributors, readers, travellers...
Wikidata has introduced badges to denote good and featured articles in Wikipedia. These article statuses are displayed with stars in the interlanguage links. Maybe you think, this feature is useful on Wikivoyage and should be implemented on Wikivoyage as well. There is a discussion on meta to develop a common strategy and request the needed functionality from Wikidata. Please joine the discussion, if you are interested in the new feature. (Sent by DerFussi via MassMessage) 09:37, 22 серпня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

Grants to improve your project

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.

Кандидатура в адміністратори

Прошу всіх взяти участь у голосуванні: Вікімандри:Адміністратори#Voll (третя номінація) --Voll (обговорення) 23:05, 24 вересня 2014 (EEST)[відповісти]

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 grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. 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) 20:04, 26 жовтня 2014 (EET)[відповісти]


Global AbuseFilter

Привіт!

Фльтр зловживань — це розширення MediaWiki, призначене для попередження вандалізму та спаму. У 2013 році глобальні фільтри зловживань були увімкнені лише для обмеженої кількості вікі, зокрема - для Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Віківидів та (на початку 2014) всіх "малих вікі". Нещодавно глобальні фільтри зловживань були увімкнені і для "вікіпроектів середнього розміру". Цими фільтрами зараз управляють стюарди на Мета-Вікі, і вони вже проявили свою ефективність у запобіганню масових спам-атак у різних проектах Вікімедіа. Однак зараз немає однозначної політики щодо того, яким чином глобальними фільтрами зловживань варто управляти надалі, хоча є певні пропозиції. Зараз розглядається запит на коментар щодо політики управління глобальними фільтрами зловживань. Тим часом окремі вікі можуть відмовитись від використання глобального фільтра зловживань. Вони можуть просто додати запит до цього списку на Мета-Вікі. Якщо у Вас виникли якісь запитання, можете поставити їх на m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Спасибі,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher19:34, 14 листопада 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature

 

Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you translated this message!

VisualEditor, a rich-text editor for MediaWiki, will soon be available on this wiki as a Beta Feature. The estimated date of activation is Wednesday, 26 November.

To access it, you will need to visit the Бета-функції page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Автоматично увімкнути максимум бета-функцій" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.

Then, you just have to click on "Редагувати" to start VisualEditor, or on "Редагувати код" to edit using wikitext markup. You can even begin to edit pages with VisualEditor and then switch to the wikitext editor simply by clicking on its tab at any point, and you can keep your changes when doing so.

A guide was just published at mediawiki.org so that you can learn how to support your community with this transition: please read and translate it if you can! You will find all the information about the next steps there. Please report any suggestions or issues at the main feedback page. You will also receive the next issues of the multilingual monthly newsletter here on this page: if you want it delivered elsewhere, for example at your personal talk page, please add the relevant page here.

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 20:12, 21 листопада 2014 (EET)[відповісти]

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

21:00, 26 грудня 2014 (EET)