Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2013/October

Het voorlopig programma van de Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland is bekend!

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Commons, Wikidata, Outreach in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten.
Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.

De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.

Het voorlopig programma van de Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland is bekend! De conferentie is een mengeling van plenaire sessies en workshops waaruit iedereen zijn eigen programma ‘op maat’ kan samenstellen. Voor vaste bezoekers van deze website is deze dag een unieke gelegenheid om verhalen te horen over wat er om gebeurd rond Wikipedia en om andere vrijwilligers te ontmoeten. Kom zaterdag 2 november 2013 naar de conferentie en schrijf je vandaag nog in. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 06:42, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Original reporting output

Since May 1, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter first began tracking original reporting taking place across all projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan, Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with 44, September with 43 and July with 39.

In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English Wikinews publishing 60 stories.

LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each. If you are on this list, please seriously consider applying for accredited reporter status on English Wikinews. This will make it easier to identify contributors from around the globe to do original reporting on any special reporting projects done by The Wikinewsie Group.

For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020. Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should be playing to. Please consider translating your work into another language, or finding a local reporter to assist you with translation work and publishing policy. This will benefit all languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more opportunities for reporters.

The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to facilitate more cross-language work. The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies is a list of local policies. If some one from each project could complete the row for their language, it would be incredibly useful. Thank you.

Every month, The Wikinewsie Group puts out a newsletter. Please consider putting any local project news on the newsletter. This could include discussions on reporter accreditation, installation of new extensions, translation policies, WMF related discussions of interest to the project. We want to know what Wikinews projects are up to. We need your assistance with that. Please share what is happening. --LauraHale (talk) 16:03, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

• Whether I'm in the minority, or not, I feel that — with WORTNET as a perfect example — Meta has never worked at-all well at cross-language collaboration for Wikinews. And, given the lack of visibility I have (as tech support for wikinewsie.org) of peoples' use of wikinewsie.org email addresses (plus defined support channels for you all) I'm open to pretty much any suggestions regarding this.

Amgine is working on an improved version of the framework I put together for NewsieBot; one which should be straightforward enough for people with the most-basic of PHP knowledge to cobble together bot processes. (We hates PyWikiBot, we does! Yessss!) If we can better-track who is accredited, still active, etc, then there's less-likely to be issues with emails and so on.

The one last point to highlight is that we really need to upgrade to a virtual server setup whilst moving to Iceland. But, since that's going to be around £40 per month, it's something were I'd welcome other people starting to chip in towards costs. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 16:12, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
• There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [1]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [2]
• Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [3]
• You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [4]
• You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.

Future

• Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [5]
• Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [6]
• You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [7]
• You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.

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20:48, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech news, long time no see. (Sorry for missing delivery a few weeks ago. I was busy.) PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:48, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Not a problem; looks like a bunch of positive steps. I'd be very keen to see enWN move to https by default, and I assume we'd need to discuss and demonstrate community consensus to go that route. Since we're a fairly small wiki, I'd hope that makes us a good target for that sort of stuff. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:10, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi again

Hi there Wikinewsies. I don't know if the Water Cooler gets that much attention, but... here I go. One month ago, and after much thinking, I wrote an e-mail to an admin whom I respect because I wanted (and still want) to come back to Wikinews in my former position as an admin. I was an admin for two years here, and after a couple of continued incidents (incorrect deletion of an article, my account had its password changed and e-mail removed) I decided to take a break, while discussion was taking place. I did give an explanation related to the deletion of the article et al, which I'm not going to disclose publicly anyway, but I'm sure some of you received the message. I do acknowledge I messed things up, and I do agree with most comments at the discussion, but then you know I did do things well too; I contributed three (iirc) featured articles, and more than a hundred articles, most related to Chile and my former hometown. If possible, I'd be back here only to do cleanup, spam-killing stuff. But now, I'm here for the opinions, what do you think? D. Grez 16:13, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

I am not intimately familiar with the details. If you could start by submitting articles and commenting on submitted for review articles to assist reviewers, it would be much appreciated by me to get a better feel for you as a contributor I am not familiar with. --LauraHale (talk) 21:06, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

I'd love to submit articles, but I am kind of short of time to do the job; if I get to have the time to do so, I will. Re. commenting on reviews, I can do that, but I can't handle OR, as I can't seem to remember my password for the e-mail. Regards :-), D. Grez 21:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

• Given the way things went, your wikinewsie.org email address is no-more.

From my point of view — and, I think others around at the time may-well agree — there were some pretty bad blots on your copybook over the issue of deleting a published and archived article. Some period of re-earning privileges would be much preferable in-terms of rebuilding trust. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 15:46, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

"Potentially newsworthy"

Just in case anyone is looking for news articles to write about, I've been collecting together a Twitter list called potentially-newsworthy. It's a list of Twitter accounts for organisations, politicians and other newsmakers. I've been slowly going through and adding government bodies, politicians (British MPs, American Senators/Congressmen), advocacy groups (like the ACLU, NRA etc.), professional bodies (in areas like medicine and law), trade unions, political groups and other organisations and people who frequently say and do things that are newsworthy or have relevant opinions on things in the news. The idea is that you can go to this list and treat it as a potential news source feed, and you can use it to get opinions and other appropriate material to include in articles.

I'll be adding more things to it when I have time (probably at the weekend). I hope it is helpful to some of you. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:59, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like [[File:Gerrit_patchset_25838_test.svg|lang=de]] for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
• Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system. [8]

VisualEditor news

• You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [9]
• You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [10]
• When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [11] [12]

Future

• The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you. [13]
• MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
• The interface to reset your password will soon be changed. [14]

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16:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

The Echo release may be the most important news for enWN. PiRSquared17 (talk) 16:08, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Prijsuitreiking Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 tijdens de Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland op za 2 november

Dit Nederlandstalige bericht is geplaatst in De Kroeg of soortgelijke pagina op de projecten Wikipedia, WikiWoordenboek, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikinews, Commons, Wikidata, Outreach in de bestaande taalversies Nederlands, Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch en Zeeuws van deze projecten.
Dit bericht is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor mensen die in Nederland wonen.
Voel je vrij om dit Nederlandstalige bericht te vertalen in het Fries, Limburgs, Nedersaksisch of Zeeuws.

De Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland ondersteunt onder andere het werk van de vrijwilligers die op Wikipedia of een van de zusterprojecten daarvan actief zijn.

In 2011 en 2012 is een Guinness World Record gevestigd met de fotowedstrijd Wiki Loves Monuments. Zou er in 2013 een nieuw record gevestigd zijn? Aanstaande zaterdag 2 november vindt de prijsuitreiking plaats van de fotowedstrijd Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 tijdens de Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland. Voor vaste bezoekers van deze website is deze dag een unieke gelegenheid om verhalen te horen over wat er om gebeurd rond Wikipedia en om andere vrijwilligers te ontmoeten. Tijdens de conferentie is er Wikipediales voor beginners. Onder leiding van Sandra Rientjes, een ervaren mediator, zal er een gesprek gevoerd worden over de sfeer op Wikipedia. Er zijn in totaal 20 lezingen in drie tracks. Een track Wikipedia achter de schermen, een track over Wikipedianen aan het werk en track met vakdeskundigen over Wikipedia. Kom zaterdag 2 november 2013 naar de conferentie. Het aantal inschrijvingen loopt hard. Zorg dat je erbij bent en schrijf je vandaag nog in. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 21:23, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

New features

• The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [15]

VisualEditor news

• On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [16]

Problems

• On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [17]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
• In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [18]
• You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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19:19, 28 October 2013 (UTC)