Wikipedia:Bybrunnen/Massmeddelanden/Arkiv 2017

Går inte att redigera 20–30 minuter 19 april och 3 maj

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Wikimediastiftelsen kommer att testa sitt backupdatacenter i Dallas. Det är för att se till att Wikipedia och andra Wikimediawikier kan förbli nåbara även om någon form av katastrof skulle inträffa. För att försäkra att allt fungerar som det skall kommer den grupp som ansvarar för servrarna att genomföra ett planerat test när alla är förberedda och redo att omedelbart återställa allt till de vanliga servrarna om någonting går fel.

De kommer att lägga om all trafik till de nya servrarna på onsdag 19 april 2017. På onsdag 3 maj kommer de att styra om trafiken till det primära datacentret igen.

På grund av begränsningar i MediaWiki – den mjukvara Wikimediawikierna använder sig av – kan wikierna inte redigeras under tiden själva migrationen genomförs. Vi ber om ursäkt för detta, och arbetar för att minimera liknande problem i framtiden.

Samtliga Wikimediawikier kommer under en kortare tidsperiod vara möjliga att läsa men inte att redigera.

• Det kommer inte att gå att redigera i ungefär 20 till 30 minuter på onsdag 19 april och onsdag 3 maj. Testet kommer att börja 14:00 UTC, vilket innebär 16:00 svensk tid och 17:00 finländsk tid.
• Om du försöker spara en redigering under dessa tidpunkter kommer du att se ett felmeddelande. Vi hoppas att inga redigeringar kommer att gå förlorade under dessa minuter, men vi kan inte garantera det. Om du ser felmeddelandet, vänligen vänta tills allt fungerar som normalt igen. Sedan kommer du att kunna spara din redigering. Men vi rekommenderar att du kopierar dina ändringar först, för säkerhets skull.

Andra effekter:

• Vissa arbeten som körs i bakgrunden kommer att vara långsammare och några kan komma att sluta fungera. Röda länkar kan ta längre tid på sig för att uppdateras. Om du skapar en artikel som redan länkades någon annanstans kommer den länken att förbli röd längre tid än vanligt. Några långtidsskript kan behöva stoppas.
• Ingen ny kod kommer att tas i bruk under vecka 16 och vecka 18. Inga ej akuta uppdateringar kommer att göras.

Den här processen kan komma att skjutas upp om det skulle visa sig nödvändigt. Du kan läsa schemat på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle några ändringar ske kommer de att meddelas där. Det kommer fler uppdateringar om det här. Sprid gärna den här informationen i din lokala wikigemenskap. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 11 april 2017 kl. 19.33 (CEST)

Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app

Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.

We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.

We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!

-DBrant (WMF) 14 april 2017 kl. 10.41 (CEST)

New filters for Recent Changes - Beta deployment schedule for your wiki

Hello!

Sorry to write in English. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk! Please also inform everyone about this change.

The Collaboration team is going to launch a new Beta feature on your wiki, ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽. This deployment would happen on April 24 (hour to be precised). This new feature will be listed with all other Beta features.

What it this new feature?

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked by adding new useful features that will ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

• Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations.
• Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring, to quickly identify the ones that matter to you.

Some wikis have also access to Quality and Intent Filters, user predictions based on ORES that identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need assistance. A separate process has to be performed to have access to those predictions that will make Quality and Intent filters working.

What will happen?

When the deployment will be done, users who want to try the new filters will be able to do so by activating them in their Beta preferences. Other users who don't want to try the new filters will have nothing to do. They will see no changes in the Recent Changes page.

How to prepare this change?

You can discover the purpose of this project by visiting the quick tour help page. Also, please check the documentation (and help to translate it).

For an early trial, the new filters are available on mediawiki.org's Beta features.

You can ping me if you have questions. You can also check the FAQ.

All the best, Trizek (WMF) (diskussion) 19 april 2017 kl. 13.52 (CEST)

PS: if this message is not at the right place, please move it and ping me. :)

The deployment will happen at 14:00 UTC. Trizek (WMF) (diskussion) 21 april 2017 kl. 14.33 (CEST)

New Page previews feature

Ny sidförhandsvisningsfunktion

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Hej allihop.

Wikimediastiftelsens Reading-team har arbetat för att sidförhandsvisningar, betafunktionen tidigare benämnd Hovercards, som skall slås på som opt-in för inloggade användare och per automatik för oinloggade över på Wikimediaprojekten. Sidförhandsvisningsfunktionen ger en snabb liten förhandsvisning av en länkad artikel när man för muspekaren över länken, vilket ger en snabb förståelse för det länkade ämnet utan att behöva lämna artikeln man läser där och då. Vi räknar med att samla in återkoppling under de kommande veckorna och preliminärt slå på funktionen tidigt i maj 2017.

Kort om implementeringen:

• För inloggade användare som inte för tillfället testar betafunktionen kommer sidförhandsvisningarna att vara av. Användare kan slå på dem i inställningarna.
• För oinloggade användare kommer funktionen vara på som norm. Det går att slå av den genom inställningskugghjulet i förhandsvisningensfönstret.
• Användare som använder andra navigationspopupfönster (Navigation popups) kommer inte att kunna slå på sidförhandsvisningar medan de använder den. De måste slå av den funktionen innan de kan slå på sidförhandsvisningarna.

Du kan läsa mer om sidförhandsvisningsfunktionen och de tester som användes för att utvärdera den, testa den genom att slå på den i inställningarna, och lämna återkoppling eller frågor på diskussionssidan.

Tack, MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 19 april 2017 kl. 18.52 (CEST)

Hm. Språkfel gör denna översättning rätt obegriplig (analysera första meningen). Det är också märkligt att roboten skriver i eget namn. Varför står inte meta:User:CKoerner_(WMF) som avsändare? --LPfi (diskussion) 20 april 2017 kl. 11.32 (CEST)

Att inlägget singeras av roboten och inte av CKoerner (WMF) beror på att man gjorde fel när man använde massmeddelandefunktionen. Texten, åtminstone första meningen, är såvitt jag kan se översatt av Användare:Johan (WMF) som ju är svenskspråkig, så den bör vara begriplig och korrekt. /NH 20 april 2017 kl. 11.37 (CEST)

Där blev det väldigt stressat i översättningen, ser jag när jag läser första meningen. Jag kan bara be om ursäkt. Slarvigt översatt svenska är inte enklare att läsa än engelsk originaltext.

MassMessage-meddelanden distribueras av en bot, så när man av vana signerar med ~~~~ blir det, som NH konstaterar, inte människan bakom som signerar – man måste manuellt skriva sitt användarnamn, se till att det inte ser vansinnigt ut på wikier med skriftsystem som går från höger till vänster, och sedan tidsstämpla utan användarnamn med ~~~~~. Jag skall påminna CKoerner om detta. /Johan (WMF) (diskussion) 20 april 2017 kl. 14.21 (CEST)

(Fel blir det ju ibland. Jag menade mest att meddelandet inte var automatöversatt. /NH 20 april 2017 kl. 15.12 (CEST))

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

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

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3 maj 2017 kl. 21.14 (CEST)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

Från 9 maj kommer tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktsvyn vara tillgänglig som betafunktion på alla Wikimediawikier. Tvåkolumnsredigeringskonfliktvyn är ett nytt gränssnitt för att lösa redigeringskonflikter. Den sätter fokus på skillnader mellan redigeringarna som hamnat i konflikt så att det blir enklare att kopiera och klistra in bitar av texten och lösa problemet. Den här funktionen är tänkt att tillfredsställa önskemålet om användarvänligare redigeringskonfliktslösning som fanns på den tyskspråkiga gemenskapens tekniska önskelista. Alla är välkomna att testa funktionen och vi hoppas att den kommer att hjälpa dig i ditt redigerande!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 8 maj 2017 kl. 16.41 (CEST)

Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia

Inlägg flyttat till Wikipedia:Bybrunnen/Massmeddelanden#Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia.Yger (diskussion) 15 maj 2017 kl. 18.03 (CEST)

Hello,

I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.

One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.

The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.

We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. We would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.

We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.

You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.

You can either add your feedback on the talk page on Wikidata, or add a comment here. I’ll follow this discussion to make sure that all of your feedback is taken into account. However, it would be better to write your message on the central Wikidata page so everyone can read your input.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (diskussion) 15 maj 2017 kl. 17.32 (CEST)

RevisionSlider

RevisionSlider kommmer att vara tillgänglig på alla wikier från 17 maj. RevisionSlider ger dig möjlighet att enklare navigera mellan olika diffar i historiken. Du kan göra detta genom att dra mellan versionerna. Standardläget är att RevisionSlider är minimerad, och kan ses genom att man klickar på den. Det går också att stänga av den helt i användarinställningarna. RevisionSlider har funnits på tyska, arabiska och hebreiska Wikipedia i sex månader och varit en betafunktion på alla andra wikier de senaste åtta månaderna. Den har tillkommit som ett önskemål från tyskspråkiga gemenskapens önskelista. Tack till alla som testade RevisionSlider och gav värdefull återkoppling som gjorde funktionen bättre. Vi hoppas att RevisionSlider fortsätter att tjäna er väl i ert arbete.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16 maj 2017 kl. 16.44 (CEST)

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:

• Healthy, Inclusive Communities
• The Augmented Age
• A Truly Global Movement
• The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
• Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem

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

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16 maj 2017 kl. 23.08 (CEST)

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata

Inlägg hitflyttat från Bybrunnen.Yger (diskussion) 17 maj 2017 kl. 13.38 (CEST)

Hello all,

(Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk)

The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Tack! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

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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23 maj 2017 kl. 23.05 (CEST)

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Tack! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29 juni 2017 kl. 10.33 (CEST)

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

Some updates about Recent Changes page

Sorry to write in English. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk!

As you may already know, the Collaboration team has created a Beta feature. This feature is on your wiki since few months: "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽". You can activate it in your Beta preferences.

What is this feature again?

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked. It adds new features that ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

• Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations.
• Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
• Quality and Intent Filters - those filters use ORES predictions. They identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help.

This last set of filters is not available on your wiki. To get them, you have to finish the labeling campaign (1188 left to do, it will be done quickly, I guess!).

You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page.

What's new?

Since the release, we have fixed small bugs and improved the interface. We have also released a way to bookmark your favorite configurations of filters.

We plan to add more new features! The full list is on this Phabricator page (in English) but here are the most important ones:

• Filters for Namespaces and tagged edits and, later, filters for Categories and Usernames
• Redesign navigation by using an improved time selector and better integrated navigation options
• Add live updates
• Have a more clear interface by putting community-defined 'related links' into a collapsible panel

This last change is about links displayed on top of the RecentChanges (see how they look like on your wiki). We do that change because we have discovered that those links are not that much used. Also, they sometimes take a lot of space on small screens. To help people to focus on recent changes patrolling, we will hide those links, with an option to show them. We have created some examples to show you how it will look like. If you like to see those links all the time, you will have to click on the link to show them and they will remain open. We welcome your feedback about this change.

You can ping me if you have questions. If this message is not at the right place (I've hesitated to put it on Wikipedia:Bybrunnen/Massmeddelanden but it is not a message message technically speaking), please move it and tell me. :)

Most of this information was already introduced in the Collaboration monthly newsletter. Please subscribe to get regular updates!

All the best,Trizek (WMF) (diskussion) 6 juli 2017 kl. 12.11 (CEST)

Accessible editing buttons

The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.

• Comparison of old and new styles
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  Buttons before the change
• 
  Buttons after the change

However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 18 July 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 11 juli 2017 kl. 00.23 (CEST)

Page Previews (Hovercards) update

Hello,

A quick update on the progress of enabling Page Previews (previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.

Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a beta feature. For more information see Page Previews. Questions can be left on the talk page in your preferred language.

Thank you again.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21 juli 2017 kl. 00.32 (CEST)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Tack! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25 juli 2017 kl. 20.39 (CEST)

Beta feature: advanced filters and more options for Watchlists, starting September 5

Hello!

Sorry to write in English. Hjälp till att översätta till ditt språk!

As you may already know, the Global Collaboration team has created a Beta feature. This feature is on your wiki since few months: "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽". You can activate it in your Beta preferences.

What is this feature again?

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked. It adds new features that ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

• Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations, including filtering by namespace or tagged edits.
• Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
• Bookmarking to keep your favorite configurations of filters ready to be used.
• Quality and Intent Filters - those filters use ORES predictions. They identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help.

You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page.

What's new?

On September 5, the Beta feature will have a new option. Watchlists will have all features available now on the Beta Recent Changes improvements.

If you have already activated the Beta feature "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽", you have no action to take. If you haven't activated the Beta feature "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" and you want to try the filters on Watchlists, please go to your Beta preferences on September 6. It will not be possible to try the filters only on Recent Changes or only on Watchlist.

Please also note that later in September, some changes will happen on Recent Changes. We will release some features at the moment available in Beta as default features. This will impact all users, but we will provide an option to opt-out. I'll recontact you with a more precise schedule and all the details very soon.

You can ping me if you have questions.

All the best, Trizek (WMF) (diskussion) 24 augusti 2017 kl. 18.07 (CEST)

Draft strategy direction. Version #2

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In 2017, we initiated a broad discussion to form a strategic direction that will unite and inspire Wikimedians. This direction will be the foundation on which we will build clear plans and set priorities. More than 80 communities and groups discussed and gave feedback. We researched readers and consulted more than 150 experts. We looked at future trends that will affect our mission, and gathered feedback from partners and donors.

A group of community volunteers and representatives from the strategy team synthesized this feedback into an early version of the strategic direction that the broader movement can review and discuss.

The second version of the direction is ready. Again, please read, share, and discuss on the talk page on Meta. Based on your feedback, the drafting group will refine and finalize the direction.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 11 september 2017 kl. 12.12 (CEST)

RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"

There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business."

Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.

Please comment on meta. Thanks. Send on behalf of User:Doc James.

MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 17 september 2017 kl. 23.06 (CEST)

Förslaget har ett massivt stöd trots att det är oklart formulerat. Det verkar som om saken diskuterats länge på en-wp. Jag är förundrad att förslagsställaren Doc James (som är väldigt erfaren) inte brytt sig om att beakta motargumenten redan då han formulerade förslaget. Han borde rimligtvis ha kunnat förutse flera av dem.

Det är väldigt frustrerande att omröstningar startas om illa beredda förslag, och kan gå igenom då de inte röstas ner på basen av dålig beredning. I och för sig betyder RfC "request for comments", men då man har rubriker för "support" och "oppose" är det ju klart att man inte vill ha kommentarer utan röster. Eventuella omröstningar borde vänta tills man blivit av med alla brister i formuleringen, så att omröstningen skulle handla om själva sakfrågan och man senare vet vad man kommit överens om. Jag har svårt att förstå hur en sådan här okultur kunnat få sådant fotfäste. --LPfi (diskussion) 18 september 2017 kl. 10.15 (CEST)

Instämmer och också är detta en mycket tråkig trend (frånenwp) att ge allt fler regler, vi borde ju i stället ha färre och lita på sunt förnuft.Yger (diskussion) 18 september 2017 kl. 10.22 (CEST)

I det här fallet verkar det som regler snarare än sunt förnuft är vad som behövs (om det upplevda problemet är ett problem och lösningen en lösning), men den här arbetsgången, att man börjar rösta innan man funderat igenom problematiken och diskuterat möjliga lösningar, är inte ändamålsenlig. Det är också mycket problematiskt att omröstningarna blir så många att man inte hinner läsa diskussionerna, istället för att ett mindre antal intresserade och initierade skulle diskutera fram ett förslag, som sedan kan accepteras i konsensus, med omröstning om man så vill, men rimligen har man tagit hänsyn till kritiska röster så att motståndarna blir få. --LPfi (diskussion) 18 september 2017 kl. 13.17 (CEST)

Discussion on synced reading lists

Discussion on synced reading lists

Hello,

The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.

To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.

Background

In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.

The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent technical RfC has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.

Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.

Why not watchlists

Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:

• Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
• Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
  • The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
• By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
• Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.

More information can be found on MediaWiki.org where feedback and ideas are welcome.

Thank you

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20 september 2017 kl. 22.35 (CEST)

Wikimedia Movement Strategy phase 2, and a goodbye

Hallå!

As phase one of the Wikimedia movement strategy process nears its close with the strategic direction being finalized, my contractor role as a coordinator is ending too. I am returning to my normal role as a volunteer (Tar Lócesilion) and wanted to thank you all for your participation in the process.

The strategic direction should be finalized on Meta late this weekend. The planning and designing of phase 2 of the strategy process will start in November. The next phase will again offer many opportunities to participate and discuss the future of our movement, and will focus on roles, resources, and responsibilities.

Tack, SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskussion) 30 september 2017 kl. 14.47 (CEST)