[Wikitech-ambassadors] Nigeria

[youssef]

Afriquia
Megamall Ain sebaa
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community

[youssef]

Good idea
www.lescoursiers.ma

diff.wikimedia.org

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 12:40 AM Chris Koerner  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today the Wikimedia Foundation would like to introduce a new community
> blog. It's called "Diff" (diff.wikimedia.org) and is a blog by – and
> for – the Wikimedia volunteer community to connect and share
> learnings, stories, and ideas from across our movement. We'd like to
> encourage you to learn more about Diff and how it can help you in
> sharing and learning from your fellow Wikimedians.
>
> Everyone is invited to contribute!
>
>
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-the-wikimedia-movement/
>
> The name “Diff” is in reference to the wiki interface that displays
> the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page. It
> also reflects the “difference” our communities and movement make in
> the world every day.
>
> For some background, Diff builds on lessons and  experiences from  the
> Wikimedia Blog, the Wikimedia Foundation News, and Wikimedia Space;
> previous posts from these channels are archived on Diff. The channel
> is primarily intended for community-authored posts, in which
> volunteers can share their stories, learnings, and ideas with each
> other.
>
> Diff offers a simple and accessible editorial process, moderated by
> Foundation communications staff and open to volunteers, to encourage
> participation from all — especially emerging and under-represented
> communities. Additionally, content on Diff can be written and
> translated into languages to reach a wide audience. Diff also has a
> code of conduct and comments can be flagged and moderated.
>
> Still curious to learn more?
>
>
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-the-wikimedia-movement/
>
> Yours,
> Chris Koerner (he/him)
> Community Relations Specialist
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Logging everyone out

[youssef]

Ok

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 10:47 PM Timo Tijhof  wrote:

> Everyone on Wikimedia wikis will shortly be logged out and will have to
> log back in again.
>
> The protections we deployed on June 26 failed to cover some cases.
> We have updated the traffic layer today to also protect against these
> cases.
>
> --  Timo Tijhof
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] هلا

[youssef]

Si

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 12:34 PM المستشار المستشار 
wrote:

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Breaking change on Wikidata?

[youssef]

thinks

Le mer. 27 mai 2020 à 16:05, Deryck Chan  a écrit :

> Hello ambassadors,
>
> I got a report on Cantonese Wikipedia saying the "add sitelink" button on
> the language bar has disappeared (for articles that aren't already linked
> to Wikidata).  Does anyone know what happened?
>
> Deryck
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Grievances about future technical administrator group

[youssef]

Ok
cont...@lescoursiers.ma
www.chatroom16.org

2018-07-23 23:41 GMT+01:00 Saint Johann :

> This might a wrong venue to discuss this but these were the worst 3 days
> of my participation in Wikimedia movement, and that feeling is probably
> shared by my colleagues.
>
> The consultation about the creation of new technical administrators group
> that just ended yesterday was an utter and total disaster for people with
> existing non-sysop groups for editing JS/CSS.
>
> In Russian Wikipedia, for 300 Kb already [1], people are weaponising every
> reading of the consultation document (which they, for some reason, consider
> akin to global policy) against, uniting the same-minded groups (local
> ‘engineer’ group was created under a ‘Technical administrator group’ RfC)
> for an umbrella of reasons:
> — Some tell that, apparently, after working for 2 years already and doing
> more edits than all sysops combined in JS/CSS, engineers do not have ‘at
> least as much trust as being an administrator’ since they weren’t elected
> like administrators (we are electing sysops with a vote and engineers are
> being elected with a discussion, so people argue that engineers do not have
> trust because they weren’t subjected to a vote).
> — Others claim that, because MediaWiki developer community decided to
> unite those rights under one group, merging any groups with it is not
> acceptable, and, moreover, the engineer group shouldn't be given those
> rights at all.
> — Moreover, some people claim that if a group would be too small, like
> engineers right now (12 accounts with 85 sysops), they could, in opinion of
> those people, usurp all editing of JS/CSS, decline to revert edits that are
> deemed controversial by community, and this justifies giving the
> permissions to all 85 existing sysops, even those that didn’t edit JS/CSS
> at all.
>
> I do not expect organisers of the consultation and MediaWiki developer
> community to intervene into a discussion that's happening in a foreign
> language, but I really think that it all comes down to focusing on projects
> that didn’t have any technical administrators and not explaining anything
> to projects that did. In the retrospective, I really wish that I did more
> push on this point on Phabricator [2] since this was a major point that I
> expected to backfire because of the vague wording of the document and that
> did backfire.
>
> What I would like to have from the global community, though, is a clear
> documentation for people who are affected by this change, because right
> now, because of misinformation, misreadings and over-interpretations, it
> could go as far as losing all interface editing permissions for me and
> others because the document in question didn’t go far enough on the
> qualifications and left too much to community’s assumptions.
>
> Oleg
>
> [1]: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Форум/Правила#Объеди
> нение_флагов_инженера_и_техадмина  /%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%
> D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%
> B8%D0%BB%D0%B0#%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%
> D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%84%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%
> B2_%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%
> B8_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0>
> [2]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015#4257719
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] CLs are hiring...

[youssef massour]

You are welcom Erica, i've just applied to offer at section [2], i will be
glad to e part of your team
Youssef Massour Elaoud
mass...@gmail.com

Le 10 mars. 2017 12:20 PM, "Erica Litrenta"  a
écrit :

Hey everyone,

apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]

Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.

So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).

Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration


[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data

[2] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3
gjf21#.WMGV0Rih3GI

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translation thanks

[youssef massour]

Dear Deborah,
As i understand from the alphabetical list of languages [4
],
i creat an account and translate some words, i hope it's the best way
best regars

2017-01-24 21:59 GMT+00:00 Deborah Tankersley :

> Hello,
>
> We want to thank everyone who have translated the text of the
> Wikipedia.org  Portal page - it looks great!
>
> Here's an image that we used recently during the Discovery team's
> quarterly review. It displays the portal page with the browser's primary
> language set to Armenian. [0
> ]
> [1
> 
> ]
>
> We've just added more text to be translated to translatewiki and we humbly
> ask for your help again. We would like the legal language (located in the
> portal page footer) [2 ] and a
> new section for the mobile apps [3
> ] to be translated.
>
> For anyone who'd like to view which text has already been translated and
> what still needs translating, you can view the alphabetical list of
> languages [4
> ]
> by percentage untranslated here [5
> 
> ].
>
> Thanks to everyone that has helped in the past and in the future!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Discovery Portal Team
>
> [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Discovery_
> Quarterly_Check-in_Q2-Q3_2016-2017.pdf
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia.org_wi
> th_primary_browser_language_in_Armenian.png
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153764
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154350
> [4] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessag
> eGroupStats&x=D&group=wikimedia-portals&language=ru
> [5] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3AMessag
> eGroupStats&x=D&group=wikimedia-portals&language=ru#sortable:2=asc
>
> --
> deb tankersley
> irc: debt
> Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Developer Wishlist Survey: propose your ideas

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*Propose your ideas before the end of January:*
*https://www.wikipedia.org *

*For new generation, must be the first website to see.*
[image: WikipediA]L’encyclopédie libre

2017-01-20 23:00 GMT+00:00 Srishti Sethi :

> That's right! At the Wikimedia Developer Summit, we decided to organize a
> Developer Wishlist Survey, and here we go:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist
>
> The Wikimedia technical community seeks input from developers for
> developers, to create a high-profile list of desired improvements. The
> scope of the survey includes the MediaWiki platform (core software, APIs,
> developer environment, enablers for extensions, gadgets, templates, bots,
> dumps), the Wikimedia server infrastructure, the contribution process, and
> documentation.
>
> The best part: we want to have the results published by Wednesday,
> February 15. Yes, in a month, to have a higher chance to influence the
> Wikimedia Foundation annual plan FY 2017-18.
>
> There's no time to lose. *Propose your ideas before the end of January, *
> either by pushing existing tasks in Phabricator or by creating new ones.
> You can find instructions on the wiki page
> . Questions and
> feedback are welcome especially on the related Talk page.
>
> The voting phase is expected to start on February 6 (tentative). Watch
> this space (or even better, the wiki page).
>
> Cheers,
> Srishti Sethi
> Developer Advocate, Technical Collaboration team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
>
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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2017, week 03)

[youssef massour]

Think's,
Best Regards
Youssef Massour Elaoud

2017-01-16 23:32 GMT+00:00 Johan Jönsson :

> Hi,
>
> The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03>.
> Below is the English version.
>
> You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
> Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
> can add it to the next newsletter at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/Tech/News/Next>.
>
> More information on how to contribute is available at <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also
> contact me directly.
>
> As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
>
> ———
>
>  Other languages:
>
> العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ar> • ‎čeština
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/cs> • ‎Ελληνικά
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/el> • ‎English • ‎
> español <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/es> • ‎فارسی
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fa> • ‎suomi
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fi> • ‎français
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/fr> • ‎עברית
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/he> • ‎italiano
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/it> • ‎日本語
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ja> • ‎नेपाली
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ne> • ‎polski
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/pl> • ‎русский
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/ru> • ‎svenska
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/sv> • ‎тоҷикӣ
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/tg-cyrl> • ‎українська
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/vi> • ‎中文
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/03/zh>
>
> Latest *tech news
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
> Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
> Not all changes will affect you. Translations
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03> are
> available.
>
> *Recent changes*
>
>- You can now upload WebP files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebP> to
>Commons. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27397>
>
> *Problems*
>
>- video2commons <https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/> was down
>for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video
>transcoders. It is now back up. [2]
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153488>
>
> *Changes this week*
>
>- There is a new magic word
><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words>
> called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are
>at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier
>for translators. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59603>
>- When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give
>a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions
>will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [4]
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34950>
>- You will be able to use  to write chemical formulas. Before
>you could use .  should be replaced by . [5]
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153606>
>- You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown
>on Special:UncategorizedCategories
><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedCategories>. The
>list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist&action=edit&redlink=1>
>. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126117>
>- The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing
>tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can
>add this code to your personal CSS
><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css>: #wpTextbox1
>{ height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like
>you want to. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26430>
>- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake
>