Re: [Wikimedia-l] [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

[Vira Motorko]

Will Wikitech logo follow?

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чт, 1 квіт. 2021 о 16:40 Rajeeb  пише:

> Great job!! Congratulations to each and everyone who worked to get this
> feat achieved.
>
> Namaste,
>
> Rajeeb.
>
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 18:11, Amir Sarabadani  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:02 AM Rehman Abubakr 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Congratulations to Serhio, Amir, and the rest of the team, for the
>>> relatively smooth transition.
>>>
>>> A quick comment: I noticed that the favicon is still showing the old
>>> version. Is that due to an update lag, accidental omission, or is it
>>> intentional?
>>>
>>
>> You just need to clear the cache. Ctrl + Shift + R.
>>
>>>
>>> Yours truly,
>>>
>>> *Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>*
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *From:* MediaWiki-l  on behalf
>>> of Amir Sarabadani 
>>> *Sent:* 01 April 2021 04:57
>>> *To:* wikitech-l ; MediaWiki
>>> announcements and site admin list ;
>>> Wikimedia Mailing List 
>>> *Subject:* [MediaWiki-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and
>>> months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has
>>> been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
>>> https://mediawiki.org.
>>>
>>> The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
>>> ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
>>> diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
>>>
>>> However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it
>>> had several problems, including but not limited to:
>>>
>>>- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
>>>- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
>>>- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
>>>adaptations
>>>
>>> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
>>> form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
>>> above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
>>> React, Apache Kafka and many more.
>>>
>>> You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
>>> . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
>>> theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
>>>
>>> The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine:
>>> each petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an
>>> explicit core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they
>>> are part of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution
>>> never stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each
>>> project, the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone
>>> else to grow.
>>>
>>> The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
>>> abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
>>> adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
>>> docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
>>> guideline for MediaWiki now:
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
>>>
>>> We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches
>>> on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
>>> You can follow the work of rolling it out in
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
>>>
>>> I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on
>>> the main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the
>>> logos in this categ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Що робить вас щасливими цього тижня? / What’s making you happy this week? (Week of 6 October 2019)

[Vira Motorko]

Yay, it's turn for the Ukrainian language in the topic!

That's actually the thing that immediately makes me [even more] happy =)

This week I have personally more time to serve my community translating
relevant information, and this feels good.
Besides, any time someone uses 'thank' button to thank for a translation
edit, I receive an emotional boost.

Not that I'm trying to make everything about me, but if you see some Meta
page available in your language, different from English, and appreciate
this fact — don't forget to show your appreciation to the translator. It
means A LOT.
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пт, 11 жовт. 2019 о 10:38 Pine W  пише:

> Hello,
>
> This week's email is late and short, for which I apologize. I have a
> collection of information to share but I am trying to catch up on a backlog
> of email and today is already so late in the week that I decided to send a
> short email.
>
> I thank WMF Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (specifically
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Marostegui/>MArostegui
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Marostegui/>, Samwilson
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Samwilson/>, and Joe
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Joe/>) for timely engagement with a
> problem that some users encountered in September. See
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232698. Also see
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-October/092638.html
> for the "Wikimedia Production Excellence" newsletter for August 2019.
>
> The Commons Picture of the Day for 11 October 2019
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desenka_meadow_2016_G1.jpg> was
> taken in Ukraine. The description is "Meadow at dawn near Desenka railway
> halt. Ukraine, Vinnytsia Oblast, Vinnytsia Raion." The photo was taken
> by User:George
> Chernilevsky <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:George_Chernilevsky
> >.
>
> Also, I would like to thank User:Ата
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0> for making rapid
> translations into Ukranian on the few occasions that I have requested them,
> including the Ukranian translation for this email's subject line. Ата
> appears to be a frequent translator.
>
> Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
> appreciated on Meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>.
>
> What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
> language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Let's discuss first features of Desktop Improvements coming to Vector

[Vira Motorko]

Hi all,

I don't see any messages about the Desktop Improvements to wikimedia-l, so
I've decided to forward one from wikitech-l.

If I understand correctly, Desktop Improvements are changes to the desktop
version of the Vector skin, which are to be built throughout the next year,
features being added one by one. Several wikis already enjoy them by
default, and users of other wikis can find a respective tick in their
preferences to make new Vector visible.

Current features are said to not be permanent anyway but wouldn't it be
good for more people to see them while they are still work in progress?

See email text and links below.
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-- Forwarded message -
Від: Olga Vasileva 
Date: ср, 5 серп. 2020 о 15:33
Subject: [Wikitech-l] First desktop improvements features now available on
early adopter wikis


Hi all,

We’re happy to announce that the first two of many changes focused on
improving the desktop experience of the Vector skin [1] have been released
as a user preference to all projects and as default on a set of early
adopter wikis: Basque, Farsi, French, and Hebrew Wikipedias, French
Wiktionary, and Portuguese Wikiversity.

Since its introduction in 2009, the Vector skin has changed little, while
the needs of our readers and editors have shifted significantly, as have
their expectations for a quality reading experience that focuses on the
content itself. Over the next year, the readers web team [2] will be
researching and building out improvements to the desktop experience based
on research and existing tools built by our communities.

Our goal is to create a more welcoming reading and editing experience -
something that feels familiar yet makes it easier and quicker to read,
edit, and perform common functionality.

Our first change, a collapsible sidebar, allows users to collapse the
lengthy menu on the left side of the page. We believe this change improves
usability by allowing people to focus on the content itself - on reading,
editing, or moderating.

Our second change introduces a maximum line width to our content on pages
such as article pages and discussion pages. Studies have shown that
limiting the width can lead to better retention of content, as well as a
decrease in eye strain

You can opt into these features by unchecking “legacy vector” from the
appearance tab of your user preferences.

We’d also like to note that these are the first of a series of changes and,
as such, their visual characteristics are not permanent. Also - there might
be bugs. If you notice an issue or would like to learn more about the
project itself - please head to our project page [3].

Thank you!

Olga

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Readers/Web/Team
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements
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[Wikimedia-l] New writing challenge on Wikipedia, it's about Ukraine

[Vira Motorko]

Hello, dear Wikimedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, is launching a new writing challenge in
Wikipedia.

"Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month" lasts from 10 February to 10 March
2021. The campaign will be dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema,
music, literature, architecture, design, who have made a significant
contribution to world culture and about whom there are no articles in
Wikipedia.


Please help us spread this info in the language communities. I hope that
this challenge will help those who long wanted to read (and write) more
about Ukraine finally have excuse for it =)


On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukraine's_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month


Best,
User:Ата
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Blog post about new WMF affiliate-nominated trustees

[Vira Motorko]

Can be translated on Meta page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Meet_the_Wikimedia_Foundation’s_two_newest_trustees:_Christophe_Henner_and_Nataliia_Tymkiv

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech: October report

[Vira Motorko]

As far as I understand, in the table zero is shown for gadgets enabled by
default. It's confusing.

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2015-11-04 0:10 GMT+02:00 Danny Horn :

> In the Community Tech team, we're constantly striving to make the world
> better by creating helpful things and fixing unhelpful things. We're
> basically superheroes, and we wear capes at all times. Here's what we've
> been up to this month.
> * We built a new Special:GadgetUsage report that's live on all wikis; it
> lists gadgets used on the wiki, ordered by the number of users. Not to be
> clickbait or anything, but THE RESULTS WILL SHOCK YOU. Check it out at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage or your own
> favorite
> wiki.
>
> * HotCat is one of the most popular gadgets -- see: GadgetUsage report
> above -- which helps people remove, change and add categories. We fixed
> HotCat on over 100 wikis where it was broken, including Wikipedias in
> Egyptian Arabic, Ripuarian, Buginese and Navajo, and five projects in Farsi
> -- Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikivoyage and Wiktionary. You're
> welcome, Farsi! (More info on
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat
> )
>
> * CitationBot is a combination tool/on-wiki gadget that helps to expand
> incomplete citations. We got it running again after the https change,
> updated it, and fixed some outstanding bugs, including handling multiple
> author names. (See http://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/doibot.html for more
> info.)
>
> * We also built a prototype of a new tool called RevisionSlider, which
> helps editors navigate through diff pages without having to go back and
> forth to the history page. The prototype is live now on test.wp, and we'd
> love to get your feedback -- visit
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/RevisionSlider
>
> Coming up in November:
> * We're starting a big cross-project Community Wishlist Survey on November
> 9th, inviting contributors from any wiki to propose and vote on the
> features and fixes they'd like our team to work on. The survey page is on
> Meta, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey --
> please join us there on Monday to add your proposals.
>
> * While that's going on, we're currently considering work in a few
> different areas, including completing Gadgets 2.0 and building some modules
> to help WikiProjects.
>
> You can keep track of what we're working on by watching Community Tech/News
> on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News -- and feel
> free to leave questions or comments on the talk page. Thanks!
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy consultation - translation help?

[Vira Motorko]

I dare to send this to translators-l :)
​



*2016-01-12 17:11 GMT+02:00 Maggie Dennis >:*

> Hello, all. :)

>
As I know many of you are aware, the strategic planning consultation pages

> went up on Meta yesterday at

> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Community_consultation. The

> actual consultation should launch on January 18th. Right now, we are

> seeking translations.

>
I've requested help from the translator community but just wanted to

> request it here as well. We've put together a list of pages that need

> translation in the consultation at

> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Translations

>
I appreciate any help that you can offer and look forward to hearing your

> thoughts about strategy starting on January 18.

>
Best,

>
Maggie

>
​
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

[Vira Motorko]

Just for the interest of those who will translate - a Commons page with
subtitles already exists
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Soy_Wikipedista.webm.en.srt
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The documentary film of Wikimedia Argentina now available. Happy birthday Wikipedia!

[Vira Motorko]

Will someone Spanish-speaking write down Spanish subtitles as well? It
would be great!
Do it here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Soy_Wikipedista.webm.es.srt
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Soy_Wikipedista.webm.en.srt>

My deepest thanks =)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3

[Vira Motorko]

Thank you, Anna, for whom you become for me and for us!

Where are you going next? :)

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2016-02-09 19:49 GMT+02:00 Anna Koval :

> Dear friends,
>
> During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this
> movement and this organization.
>
> I have been honored to be your colleague and to work with you in service of
> the sum of all knowledge.
>
> In particular, I wish to note particular projects that have inspired me
> very much.
>
>- Working with Philippe Beautdette, Maggie Dennis, James Alexander, and
>Jan Eisfeldt to keep our community safe from threats of harm. [1]
>- Working with Patrick Earley, Nick Wilson, Erica Litrenta, Sherry
>Snyder, Oliver Keyes, and James Forester on the rollout of
> VisualEditor. [2]
>- Working with Yana Welinder and Heather Walls to design a user-friendly
>trademark policy. [3] [4]
>- Working with Siko Bouterse to support Individual Engagement Grants and
>movement diversity. [5] [6]
>- Working with Jake Orlowitz to promote the Wikipedia Library and the
>Wikipedia Adventure. [7] [8]
>- Working with Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez, Amanda Bittaker to encourage
>evaluation and learning. [9]
>- Working with Asaf Bartov to encourage regional cooperation in Central
>and Eastern Europe. [10]
>- Working with Floor Koudijs. Tighe Flanagan, Kacie Harold, Samir
>Elsharbaty, Rodney Dunican, Sage Ross, Jami Mathewson, and LiAnna Davis
> on
>the Wikipedia Education Program. [11]
>
> The Wikipedia Education Program is especially near and dear to my heart. It
> is a means of educating readers, recruiting contributors, and creating
> quality content. Since 2014, the number of education initiatives around the
> world has increased by 36%. [12] [13] And 25% of all education programs are
> in one of the regions that I directly supported. [14] I am so proud of what
> they have accomplished. And I am enthusiastic about what great things they
> have yet to achieve.
>
> I want to thank and compliment my current manager, Floor Koudijs. She is a
> competent, considerate, conscientious leader, and her diplomacy skills are
> unsurpassed. I am confident that the education team and the education
> program will continue to excel under her leadership. They are in the best
> hands.
>
> I want to thank and compliment my hiring manager, Maggie Dennis. She had
> faith that, although I wasn’t an active community member, I could be taught
> to be a good community advocate. I am so proud that I proved her right. She
> taught me how to work in accordance with and to have the utmost respect for
> the wiki way. [15]
>
> Wikipedia is a miracle, a monument to altruism. It is vital to the internet
> ecosystem, and it is vital to the education system. I hope that more young
> people especially will find their way to it and help out. And when they do,
> I hope that they are met with wise mentorship from veteran community
> members, just as I was.
>
> I intend to remain a Wikipedian even after I am no longer a WMF staff
> member. And, with that promise, I’ll see you on the wikis. [16]
>
> All the best,
> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Threats_of_harm
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
> [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy
> [4]
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/29/designing-a-user-friendly-trademark-policy/
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
> [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
> [8] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Adventure
> [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation
> [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe
> [11] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
> [12]
>
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education/Countries&oldid=70367
> [13] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries
> [14]
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACEE_2015_State_of_the_CEE_Movement_Presentation.pdf&page=28
> [15] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_wiki_way
> [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Msannakoval
>
> --
>
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> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "media" vs "images", "videos", "songs" and "files"

[Vira Motorko]

In Ukrainian "media" («медіа») is often used for "mass media" («мас-медіа»).

Nevertheless, if one uses "media files" («медіафайли») it is perfectly
clear to be meant "images, sounds and videos".

So while translating I use the word «медіафайли» (i.e. "media files") and
everything is OK.

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2014-10-22 17:36 GMT+03:00 Subhashish Panigrahi :

> I echo Amir. For instance, media is my native language Odia is often used
> for "print/digital media". Because of this reason I keep writing "images,
> audio, video, etc.) to clarify. Haven't yet got a better option.
>
> Best!
> Subha
>
> > On 22 ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2014, at 8:00 pm, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > In the user interface messages of MediaWiki and its extensions the word
> > "media" is usually used to refer to images, videos, sounds and files. It
> is
> > convenient, because they are handled similarly by the software.
> >
> > But it is also awful, because I'm quite sure that people don't talk to
> each
> > other about "media" in real life, but they do talk about "pictures",
> > "videos", and "sound recordings". Every time I translate messages that
> have
> > the word "media" in them, I think that a lot of users will not actually
> > understand them, and that if I would stand next to them, I'd have to
> > explain what that is.
> >
> > Is my impression wrong?
> >
> > Is it conceivable to consider that using the word "media" less in user
> > interface messages will make the interface clearer to the user?
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor"

[Vira Motorko]

I'm not very confident to say the author is completely right/wrong but the
words

the IDE would update display the source and the HTML together, and update
the HTML inrealtime. Source on the left, HTML on the right.

​made me feel interested.

If wikitext editor could display and update the result next to source I
would be happier contributor than now, for sure.​


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2014-10-25 20:20 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni :

> Because, even though I'm well aware of the fact that lots of experienced
> wikipedians love wiki syntax, the wiki syntax must go away, and will go
> away. Maybe in five years, maybe ten, maybe twenty. But it will go away.
> Investing effort in an IDE for it is pointless.
>
> Templates are, indeed, programs. Articles aren't. Wikidata and Winter (or
> something like Winter) will remove the need to edit transclusions as part
> of the articles' source code in maybe three years (maybe much less).
> Development should focus on that, rather than on an IDE for a language that
> should as soon as possible become transparent to all editors.
>
> (This is not an official representation of the Wikimedia Foundation's
> opinion.)
> בתאריך 25 באוק 2014 19:40, "Martijn Hoekstra" 
> כתב:
>
> > On Oct 25, 2014 6:17 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni"  >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Thank goodness this wasn't written five years ago, otherwise somebody
> > could
> > > get the awful idea to implement it.
> >
> > Having a side by side really time wikitext - display doesn't sound like
> an
> > aweful idea at all to me. I'm quite surprised anyone would find that
> aweful
> > actually. I don't understand why you're so dismissive of that idea.
> >
> > --Martijn
> > > בתאריך 25 באוק 2014 18:26, "Kim Bruning"  כתב:
> > >
> > > > I spotted this article linked from news.ycombinator.com,
> > > > arguing -well- what it says on the tin. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Apologies if someone else already posted a link.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure . Well, if we allow lua in templates,
> > > > I suppose things actually are already pretty Interesting.
> > > >
> > > > sincerely,
> > > > Kim Bruning
> > > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Winners Announced in World's Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments

[Vira Motorko]

Is there a blog post on https://blog.wikimedia.org/ about this?
Will it be?


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2014-12-23 0:33 GMT+02:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel :

> This press release is also available online here:
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Winners_Announced_in_World%E2%80%99s_Largest_Photo_Contest:_Wiki_Loves_Monuments
>
>
> Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
>
> *International jury selects top 10 photos from more than 321,000 worldwide.
> Over the four past years, more than 1.1 million images have been submitted
> to the contest.*
>
> The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
> <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/> announced today the 10 winning
> photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from
> September 1 - 30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded over
> 321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings, monuments and
> cultural heritage sites in 41 countries to Wikimedia Commons
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> for use on Wikipedia and
> other free knowledge projects.
>
> This year, the grand-prize winning photograph is an image of the Holy
> Mountains Monastery <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mountains_Lavra>,
> a
> complex of architectural monuments of national significance in Sviatohirsk,
> Ukraine, taken by Konstantin Brizhnichenko
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brizhnichenko>. The first written
> mention of the monastery was in 1526. In 1624, the monastery was officially
> recognized as the Sviatohirsk Uspensky Monastery. Before World War I, the
> monastery was inhabited by approximately 600 monks. During the 1930s, it
> was destroyed by the Soviets, along with other numerous religious sites
> throughout the Soviet Union. Today, the monastery community consists of
> more than 100 people, a number that increases each year.
>
> (Photo link:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg)
>
> The winner will receive flight and accommodations in Mexico to attend
> Wikimania, the international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to be
> held in July 2015 in Mexico City.
>
> According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wiki Loves Monuments is
> the world’s largest public photo competition. In it, people are asked to
> take pictures of monuments from participating countries and to upload them
> to Wikimedia Commons, enabling the photos to be used to illustrate
> Wikipedia in articles about these monuments and other subjects.
>
> “With over one million free images of heritage sites across the world, Wiki
> Loves Monuments is one of the world’s most important history projects
> today,” says Deror Lin, the international coordinator of the competition.
> “Year after year, volunteers document hundreds of thousands of heritage
> sites across the world and upload the images to the internet under a free
> license for the benefit of the current andnext generations. These people
> display the splendor of creativity and culture in their countries.”
>
> The competition is organized in 41 participating countries, each focusing
> on their national monuments and with their own national prizes. This year,
> every participating country submitted 10 nominations to the international
> jury who chose the winning pictures for the competition. A number of
> countries participated in the competition for the first time, including:
> Albania, Kosovo, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan and the
> Palestinian Authority.
>
> The contest was first organized in 2010 in the Netherlands and resulted in
> more than 12,500 pictures of Dutch monuments. Over the past four years more
> than 1.1 million images have been submitted to the contest.
>
> *2014 Wiki Loves Monuments Winners:*
>
>-
>
>1st Place - the Holy Mountains Monastery, Sviatohirsk, Ukraine by
>Konstantin Brizhnichenko -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg
>
>-
>
>2nd Place - Gare du Nord in Paris, France, by MrsEllacott (his image
>ranked 7thin the French national competition) -
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_du_Nord_December_2013.jpg
>-
>
>3rd Place - Jøvik and Great Cormorants near Ullsfjorden, Troms, Tromsø,
>Norway by Siri Uldal (7th place in Norway’s national competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jøvik_handelssted_04.jpg
>
>-
>
>4th Place - Alte Sennalpe Batzen (literally: Old Dair

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

[Vira Motorko]

Have I understood it correctly, that Wikipedia Zero traffic is free
only while through http, and not https?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

[Vira Motorko]

My POV is similar to Carlos's words. I think that private discussions
between two people should remain private.

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2014-03-24 6:30 GMT+02:00 Carlos M. Colina :

> Definitely a cultural thing -I still don't understand why someone can feel
> intimidated or harassed by that e-mailI'd better not go into details
> because it can be understood as  I'm attacking an ethnic/linguistic group
> of wikimedians :-)
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>
>  Original message 
> From: James Alexander 
> Date: 23/03/2014  23:47  (GMT+02:00)
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Carlos M. Colina
> wrote:
>
> > Wait, are we in kindergarden? I think Rupert's email was sent off-list,
> so
> > basically there is no need to bring it up to the list, regardless how
> > related it is to the thread. Private discussions between two people
> should
> > remain that, _private_, no?
> >
> > I just don't get it.
> >
> > M.
> >
>
> While in general that is the goal (private emails staying private) I would
> say that in a case like this, no, you have no expectation of privacy when
> you go 'off list' to, in my opinion, harass and intimidate someone about
> what they did on the list. I think Nathan was completely reasonable to
> bring it back on list and that MZs comment is completely correct. It's like
> 'taking it outside' of a bar to have a fight, the bar is completely
> reasonable in banning you for it and it's still illegal.
>
> Rupert's email was completely unacceptable and I'm glad Nathan brought it
> to our attention rather then either getting into a prolonged off-list
> debate that helps no one or letting it lie so that no one else was aware of
> the attacks.
>
> James
>
>
> > El 23/03/2014 04:33 p.m., MZMcBride escribió:
> >
> >  I just wanted to chime in here to say that, at least in a vacuum, I
> found
> >> Rupert's e-mail to be highly inappropriate and I found Nathan's response
> >> to it to be wholly appropriate.
> >>
> >> Rupert, I hope to never see a repeat of this incident, in which you
> >> attempt to badger a list participant and Wikimedia volunteer off-list
> with
> >> uninformed and irrelevant questions under the guise of "saving
> bandwidth"
> >> and faux concern. Cut it out.
> >>
> >> MZMcBride
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] We have an awesome Translation Tools....made for English speakers first

[Vira Motorko]

It is weird that, for example, chapters' pages on Meta should be written in
English and then translated into native language -- according to current
logic.

I agree with Charles, this change would be a step forward.
Sure, translators-l will also agree.

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2014-08-14 16:43 GMT+03:00 Charles Andrès :

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to draw your attention on the Translation Extension for
> Mediawiki, since 2 years now, community members ask to improve this
> extension by adding the possibility to select the original language.
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35489
>
> We are in a movement where the knowledge exchange is a primary concern, we
> have a really good tools to facilitate the translation of the
> documentation, but today we are still obliged to first translate "manually"
> in English before being able to use the Translate extension.
>
> I'm not a Tech guy, I try to read the bug's page linked before, and the
> only message I can get from is << you, non English speakers, are not our
> priority >>.
>
> The ability to translate in multiple language the documentation created by
> non English speakers is a major challenge, we need to make it happen more
> often.
>
> Everyday I heard French speaker saying that they do not belong to the
> Wikimedia Community because it's all in English/all for English, I do not
> pretend that improving the Translate extension will solve this issue, but
> it could be a little step forward.
>
> thank for your attention
>
>
> Charles
>
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