വിക്കിപീഡിയ:Embassy/Archive 1

Sharing Best Practices

I am Natkeeran, admin from Tamil Wiki. This is just a small effort to share best practices between indi wikis.

Similar efforts:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_Wikipedia

Among the Indian Wikis Malayalam wiki is of good quality and growing considerably fast. Relatively, it has a large contributor base than other indi wikis. How did get this support? What are your priorities?

Tamil Wiki +ve

• Wiki Projects (Countires, Engineering, Chemical Elements etc)
• Subject Heading List
• Vocabulary lists and Wikionary (100000+ technical terms)
• Bot know how, but limited use
• Focus on Math, Science, Technology
• Good diaspora involvment

Tamil Wiki –ve

• Limited native user base (from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malyasia, Singapore)
• Very limited media exposure
• Encyclopedia writing style (mabye a -ve)
• Political and Lanauage issues are troblesome.

--Natkeeran 16:18, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

• As well as caste issues are troblesome.--தென்காசி சுப்பிரமணியன் (സംവാദം) 15:30, 6 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

Jyothis Comments

Natkeeran, First of all, thank you very much for starting this discussion. Let this discussion be a starting point for the exchange of ideas between Wikis. It is indeed a great idea to share the ideals and practices that each wiki holds on to.

In Malayalam Wikipedia, the quality of articles has a higher priority than the number of articles. We have decided that we will not keep articles that does not have atleast basic information included. Editors take utmost care to include whatever possible, and as they learn more about the Wiki style of writing, they will urge the new users to follow the standards of writing, articles formats and Title formats which we adhere to.

Regarding the users, we do not have many users residing in Kerala. Most of the users with a few exceptions are located outside kerala. However, I would say that we have a handful of people who are very active and announces that I sleep in Wikipedia :). We have editors who comes from very diverse backgrounds and that helps us cover many different subjects. The diverse locations of people also helps us in covering location based subjects too.

The primary catalyst to the amount of users lately is media coverage and blog activism. With a good amount of people blogging in Malayalam, We have a potential user base and editor base in making. Mathrubhumi, one of the main daily in Malayalam presented a nice article on Wikipedia on their supplement's main story. We used to conduct a blog based quiz program earlier, which can be completely answered if we look in wiki. This has also helped a little to increase the popularity of wiki among malayalam blog community. Every editor acts as an ambassador whenever they get a chance. We invite good bloggers and friends to wiki on any available occasion. Without a doubt, the users and editors who support this initiative unconditionally are an asset to our wiki.

Nice to see the effort of collaboration. Rome was not built in a day. What we need to do is a collective/organized effort to attract people's atention. We need to get people wiki-aware. The pearl in hand has more value than a diamond hidden in mud, of which no one has any knowledge about its existance. We know people from many facets of life. Why not we spread the word about wikipedia to people we know? word of mouth has been a marketing strategy for a while. the same can be applied here too :-). If we have teachers in the list, they can do a lot to promote usage of wiki. they can introduce wiki to students and encourage them to look at and contribute to wiki in their capacity. schools and other educational institutions are the bet way to lay foundation on creating a good user base. It is easier to get editors, once you have a user base.

Thanks again and looking forward to hear your thoughts about this. Questions and comments are welcome

--ജ്യോതിസ് 19:24, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Selvas Comments

Glad to see this discussion going. Jyotis, you make good points, and I think some of the marketing is surely lacking in Tamil Wiki. --Selva 19:49, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Nats Comments

Thank you for the comments. We can definitely benefit from sharing information and ideas. At Tamil wiki we have done good ground work, Policies, Guides, Initiatives. We did not just translate, we adopted and innovated to match our needs. From early on we had a minimum standard (3 lines including the definition, category, internal links, and inter wikilinks). We focused on quality, but we understood that it was an on going process.

As noted above we try to focus on non-controversial subjects, but at the same time it was important to record important current events (ex Eelam War).

We have been advised that our writing style is a bit strict according to some popular media standards. For instance, we try to use Tamil technical words whenever possible, and some people prefer using Tamil transliteration of English technical words. We also have minor dialect differences between Eelam Tamil and TN Tamil. Tamil Wiki has been a forum to develop an understanding and a common ground.

I am surprised to hear that most of the Malayala Wiki users are from aboard. It is the same case in Tamil Wiki, and like you noted it provides diversity. We have made a point to seek out Tamils across globe. This adds first hand local knowledge, as well as pictures.

There is a sizable Tamil blog community, and that is usually our recruiting place. But, we did not reach out to the extent you have done.

Learning Tamil Rendering, Typing, and Wiki are definitely notable technical barriers. Even average computer savy people find it difficult.

We conduct Tamil Wikipedia Annual Review at the end of each year, assessing our progress and brainstorming and planning our next year activities. We have done it for 2005, 2006, 2007. This is something you may want to consider.

We also have Tamil Wiki projects (ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:திட்டங்கள் ஒருங்கிணைப்புப் பக்கம்). These are projects with a definite goal, time allocation, and primes.

We give considerable attention to vocabulary. This is essential for Science Writing and Technical Writing. These are not highly developed in Tamil as in English, but some Tamil Wikipedia articles provide good examples.

We know we will never have articles about all videos games. Our aim is to cover important subjects such as math as extensively as possible.

Also, you may want to suggest (50 -100) articles about Kerala, Kerala culture, way of life, local technology, Malayalam and we can give priority to it.

We are currently exploring ways to create diverse articles using bots ta:விக்கிப்பீடியா:தானியங்கிக் கட்டுரையாக்கம். This requires information gathering.

In India, we can raise awrness about Wiki in general, and urge people to contribute to their local languages. Perhaps, the efforts to establish a Wikipedia Indian Chapter should be accelerated. Perhaps, even a Wikimania in India. Not impossible. --Natkeeran 20:02, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

pictures

I used to contribute via pictures uploaded to malayalam wiki and once it reached 500 I stopped it and started uploading to other wikis including Tamil. But Tamil wiki admins doesn't even seem to be aware of who is doing such activity, while in malayalam we promote such activism by selecting pictures as the freatured pictures and also by encouraging words by commenting on the pictures. This will certainly drive the contributors happy.

I used to upload pictures from flickr where the licences have been released under CC to malayalam and also to Commons. and a lot of requesting to release the licences under CC is also done from my part if the picture is found appropriate for wikipedia. Many succumb/oblige. I recently posted a request a similar request as a thread of discussion in two similar groups in flickr namely malayalikkoottam and India-Tamil nadu. While I got overwhelming support from the ealier which can be seen here the later completely denied such activity and almost banned me from the moderatorship

does this show some attitude problems with the tamizh speaking people towards the wikipedia or are they just scared of letting their picture copyable on the net

--ചള്ളിയാൻ ♫ ♫ 03:05, 22 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your notes and the effort. It bit of both, people are bit scared about letting go of their copyright, and probably they do not care about the public resource. In most cases sharing it common does not cost the person anything. We just have to campaign bit more about the benefit of public resources. Also, Wikipedia is now very strict about its pictures policy. We are playing a bit of catchup. I will delete the pciture you noted if necessary. --Natkeeran 23:26, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ 2008 (UTC)

Transliteration of long strings

In all the South Asian wikipedias with built-in transliteration, transliteration of long strings sometimes is not possible. Eg-sagarmatha (Nepalese name of Mt. Everest) is transliterated as സഗരമാതഅ on typing sa-ga-ra-maa-thaa rather than സഗരമാതാ. Is there some way to fix this?--Eukesh 21:53, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

if you want to type സഗരമാതഅ, you may try saagarmaatha_a. --ജ്യോതിസ് 22:30, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

or For സാഗരമാതാ try saagaramaathA--പ്രവീൺ:സംവാദം 07:41, 13 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. But my concern was regarding the enabling of "aa" thing rather than the other two. Thanks again. --Eukesh 10:40, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2008 (UTC)

India Week on Russian Wikipedia edition

Dear colleagues, Russian Wikipedia edition is starting a week of India on Nov 7-17, 2008. During this period, the Theme Week project participants and other Wikipedia users will try to cover as many India-related topics as possible. Your contribution to this project would be very much appreciated. --Munroe 23:09, 6 നവംബർ 2008 (UTC)

What are you editing?

I couldn't understand one thing is what are you people editing on Malayalam Wikipedia? Because most of the articles on Malayalam wiki are not more than 3-4 lines. Are you people just editing like adding and deleting points (.) to increase edits to finally increase the overall depth only? रोहित रावत 16:24, 15 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Rohit, good question. Please go ahead and start comparing the version diffs on each page and figure it out. On a second thought, why dont you learn ml and join us to find out what we do? We could use one more hand as an editor here ;-) --ജ്യോതിസ് 16:33, 15 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I would have joined you but unfortunately I don't know Malayalam language but I'll help if I find that it is needed and I can fulfill it. Thanks a lot for the answer. रोहित रावत 02:28, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Thats alright. I would be happy to see you contributing to Hi wiki, if you can spend enough time. Essentially its all a part of the same family. --ജ്യോതിസ് 03:10, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Rohit.. I have wondered about the quality of hindi wiki, while trying to expand the article of Lohri in malayalam wiki by referring the hindi version. Most of the Malayalees not even heard about the Lohri festival. You can also compare this article to find our the difference. --Vssun 04:37, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference.

To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply.

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2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, I am Theo and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Theo (WMF) 20:47, 20 ഒക്ടോബർ 2010 (UTC)

Contribute Campaign

Hi everyone, I wanted to inform everyone about the ongoing Contribute campaign for this year's fundraiser. As part of the campaign, we want to drive up participation on the Indian language Wikipedias, We have created a page on Meta where we can discuss and brainstorm Ideas on what we can do to improve Indian Language Wikipedias. I would like to invite anyone who is interested in contributing to join in, and share their thoughts. Thank you. [1]Theo (WMF) 17:52, 30 നവംബർ 2010 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Fundraiser 2011 translation

Hi! I am Jon Harald Søby, and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2011 fundraiser. I am looking for people who can help coordinating the translations into Malayalam for this year's fundraiser. The coordinator task is to help find translators and quality checkers, and make sure the translations are done in time. If you want to help out with coordinating, translating or quality checking, add your name to this list or send me an e-mail at jsoby@wikimedia.org. Jsoby 23:11, 18 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2011 (UTC)

Usurpation

Hi, where can I usurpate my nick on your project as here? Thank you for your help. 212.47.25.131 08:38, 21 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2011 (UTC)

How can i give a request here? I cant edit this page. My request is accesible on my talk page. Thank you for your advice. Palu (temp) 07:54, 18 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

Article request

Hi! Here is an article that would be nice to have in Malayalam:

• en:City of God (2011 film) -> സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ് (the article സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ് is about the Brazilian film while this one is an Indian film)

Thank you, WhisperToMe 16:42, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Terms of Use update

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 01:05, 27 ഒക്ടോബർ 2011 (UTC)

dear embassy wer auch immer du bist haben wir dich ganz dolle lieb deine d.katzeberger c.o kreissprache´

Protocol relative

I was looking at this wiki and got insecure content warnings from Chrome and Firefox. This is caused by links in MediaWiki:Common.css that look like url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ml/5/5c/Allpagesredirect.gif). These should be changed to url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ml/5/5c/Allpagesredirect.gif), so that they become protocol relative. TheDJ (സംവാദം) 08:44, 19 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 02:55, 22 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

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Translation Request

Hi Malyalam Wiki friends. As I don't know Malayalam language (though I wish I could learn it) but I need a piece of text which needs to be translated into Malayalam I need your help. Could you guys please translate this to Malayalam?

The text is: "Welcome to the embassy of the Hindi-Wikipedia! If you have any announcements or questions regarding international issues or the Hindi Wikipedia, you are invited to post them here or to the Talk page for this article. Posts can be in any language but posts in Hindi and English are most likely to be answered in a timely manner."

Thanks a lot in advance. My name is Rohit Rawat from Hindi Wikipedia. रोहित रावत (സംവാദം) 08:47, 25 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Hi Rohit,

here is the translation.

ഹിന്ദി വിക്കിപീഡിയയുടെ എംബസിയിലേക്ക് സ്വാഗതം. ഹിന്ദി വിക്കിപീഡിയ സംബന്ധിച്ച എന്തെങ്കിലും ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ താങ്കൾക്ക് ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അത് ഇവിടെ (അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ഈ താളിന്റെ സംവാദം താളിൽ) ചോദിക്കുക. ഏതു ഭാഷയിലും ചോദിക്കാമെങ്കിലും, ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലോ ഹിന്ദിയിലോ ചോദിക്കുകയാണെങ്കിൽ പെട്ടെന്ന് ഉത്തരം ലഭിച്ചേക്കാം.--ഷിജു അലക്സ് (സംവാദം) 10:01, 25 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the translation. रोहित रावत (സംവാദം) 17:03, 28 ഡിസംബർ 2011 (UTC)

Special Box for Indian Languages on Main Page

Telugu Wikipedia has been using a special box (Link to template in Telugu) on its main page to point to Indian language Wikipedias. Can you include a similar one on your main page?--Arjunaraoc (സംവാദം) 06:24, 9 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 16:23, 15 ജനുവരി 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

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Notable record holders from Kerala

There are many notable record holders from Kerala. I searched for them, but lack of infos. For example, I searched for L. Athira Krishna, a Guinness World Recorder. Kindly have a plan to increase your stuff.Before that have a look over this category. My suggestion is that have a plan to collect their fotos first.See you then. BYE! --தகவலுழவன் (സംവാദം) 06:56, 2 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)

Article request

ta:முசிறி-அலெக்சாந்திரியா வணிக உடன்படிக்கை

Helpful links

1. Little information in en wiki When did Egyptians start trading with Muziris is not known, but a document discovered in Egypt in 1980 and first published in 1985 confirms that by 2nd century CE it was well established. Known as the Muziris papyrus or the Vienna papyrus it is now preserved in a Vienna Museum.[17] This papyrus document mentions a loan agreement made by an Egyptian merchant and a merchant in Muziris, for exporting Gangetic Nard, ivorys and textiles. It also estimates the value of goods and a 25% tax for the items.

That Egyptian merchant gave this agreement to the Roman government as a guarantee for a loan and that is how this agreement survived through the ages. This discovery has opened a strong base to ancient international and trade laws in particular and has been studied at length by economists, lawyers as well as historians.[18]

1. http://historicalleys.blogspot.in/2010_06_01_archive.html

Soon @ June 3 2012 it'll be a first page article in Tamil Wikipedia. So try to translate it soon.--தென்காசி சுப்பிரமணியன் (സംവാദം) 15:57, 31 മേയ് 2012 (UTC)

Update on IPv6

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 01:13, 2 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 18:30, 5 ജൂൺ 2012 (UTC)

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Feature article request

Please try to make Chera dynasty as a feature article in Malayalam, English and Tamil Wikipedia. The problem in tamil is the quantity of books about Medieval and Later cheras is very very less. I can't found it in Tamilnadu libraries. The Books available about Cheras in Tamilnadu only concentrate on Sangam Period only. So I request you all to try to make Chera article in malayalam and english. Then we (tamil) can easily translate from that.--தென்காசி சுப்பிரமணியன் (സംവാദം) 06:54, 10 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)

Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

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Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 20:16, 19 ജൂലൈ 2012 (UTC)

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More opportunities for you to access free research databases

The quest to get editors free access to the sources they need is gaining momentum.

• Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of nearly 1200 published reference works from more than 70 publishers in every major subject, including general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. There are 125 full Credo 350 accounts available, with access even to 100 more references works than in Credo's original donation. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• HighBeam Research has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Thousands of new articles are added daily, and archives date back over 25 years covering a wide range of subjects and industries. There are 250 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.
• Questia is an online research library for books and journal articles focusing on the humanities and social sciences. Questia has curated titles from over 300 trusted publishers including 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as encyclopedia entries. There will soon be 1000 full access 1-year accounts available. All you need is a 1-year old account with 1000 edits. Sign up here.

You might also be interested in the idea to create a central Wikipedia Library where approved editors would have access to all participating resource donors. Add your feedback to the Community Fellowship proposal. Apologies for the English message (translate here). Go sign up :) --Ocaasi (talk) 02:19, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2012 (UTC)

Help writing name in Malayalam

Hi. Can someone please help me in writing the name "Dravidan University" in Malayalam language? Actually I need this name in Malayalam to write on a Hindi Wikipedia article. Better if you write the name directly here. Thanks a lot. रोहित रावत (സംവാദം) 18:24, 23 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2012 (UTC)

Y ചെയ്തു by Viswaprabha. See [2] --ശ്രീജിത്ത് കെ ^{(സം‌വാദം)} 19:02, 24 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2012 (UTC)

Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)02:05, 6 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 13:30, 10 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2012 (UTC)

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Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 03:05, 16 ഒക്ടോബർ 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:31, 19 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

• Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
• Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
• Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 20:40, 30 ജനുവരി 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.

Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.

What is Wikidata?

Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.

What is going to happen?

Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions?

Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata

To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:11, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

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Wikitravel

May I request that ഫലകം:Wikitravel and ഫലകം:Wikitravelpar be deleted? They're no longer in use as all content which was on WT is now in Wikivoyage:, a Wikimedia project. K7L (സംവാദം) 18:00, 25 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

- Done. Thanks --Anoop | അനൂപ് (സംവാദം) 19:26, 25 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 23:04, 6 മാർച്ച് 2013 (UTC)

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Unsourced Kerala Islam articles on en.wp

Help please. en:Nellikunnu Muhyaddin Juma Masjid and en:Thangal Uppapa is one of many which needs some local sources. Probably a Malayalam speaker is needed? In ictu oculi (സംവാദം) 11:39, 13 മാർച്ച് 2013 (UTC)

Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 20:09, 13 മാർച്ച് 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Arya Samaj in Kerala

Help please, can anyone provide Malayalam source for en:Vedabandhu Sharma. In ictu oculi (സംവാദം) 02:43, 18 മാർച്ച് 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.

What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

--Lydia Pintscher 17:04, 5 ഏപ്രിൽ 2013 (UTC)

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Request for comment on inactive administrators

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)

Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 05:02, 24 ഏപ്രിൽ 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here

Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.

A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.

What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.

How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:

• Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
• For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.

We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.

Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.

Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.

I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.

We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together. --Lydia Pintscher 19:14, 24 ഏപ്രിൽ 2013 (UTC)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

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[en] Change to section edit links

The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [3] [4]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [5]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [6]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [7]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [8]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [9] [10]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [11]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [12]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [13]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [14]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [15]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [16].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [17]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Unsubscribe • 20:56, 20 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20:56, 20 മേയ് 2013 (UTC)

Trademark discussion

Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

Universal Language Selector to replace Narayam and WebFonts extensions

On June 11, 2013, the Universal Language Selector (ULS) will replace the features of Mediawiki extensions Narayam and WebFonts. The ULS provides a flexible way of configuring and delivering language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings).

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Runab 14:09, 5 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC) (posted via Global message delivery)

Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up!

gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, 21:12, 16 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for ' accounts at the . Cheers, 21:47, 16 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

X!'s Edit Counter

(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 04:47, 23 ജൂൺ 2013 (UTC)

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Pywikipedia is migrating to git

Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:32, 23 ജൂലൈ 2013 (UTC)

HTTPS for users with an account

Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 19:26, 20 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

malayalam translation

Hi, i found some translations of the interface in malayalam. For me, they seem to be inappropriate for the required word. For example, view history is translated as നാൾവഴി കാണുക. I think, this translation literally means, "see by day". But, the page actually shows the edits. it should be changed to mean like "see by timeline" or "see by edits". My suggestion is ”കാലവഴി കാണുക” (see by time). Need clarification for malayalam wiki users. sorry, if i am wrong. Thanks. -தமிழ்க்குரிசில் (സംവാദം) 15:36, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2013 (UTC)

നാൾ = Day--122.174.215.173 15:29, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2013 (UTC)

but i dont think, day would be appropriate here. the page does not show the edits in each day. actually, it shows them in present to past order. We can't specifically say that it shows by days. any number of edits can be done in a single day and hence, it should be denoted generally as time. Need more clarification -தமிழ்க்குரிசில் (സംവാദം) 15:36, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2013 (UTC)

The word "നാൾവഴി" exactly means 'recorded history in a timely manner'. Don't read words dividing them unnecessarily. As far as the community is okay with any words for interface translations, they'll stay as they are. And also I don't think that nobody is really in a position to ask "clarification" to anybody (especially to community) about matters like these. :-) Regards.--പ്രവീൺ:സംവാദം 16:39, 31 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2013 (UTC)

Tamil Wikipedia turns 10. We need your wishes

Hi, this is Ravi from Tamil Wikipedia. We are celebrating our 10 years with an event in Chennai on 29th September. I invite you all to join us as it would be great to share our experiences and learn from each other. If you cannot make it to the event, please leave your best wishes for us here. --Ravidreams (Talk) 22:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 02:53, 24 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Notifications

Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

• Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:58, 4 ഒക്ടോബർ 2013 (UTC)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 20:34, 8 ഒക്ടോബർ 2013 (UTC)

Spelling of a movie name

There is discussion at en:Talk:Bhramachari (1972 film) about whether the name of this movie in English should be spelled "Brahmachari" or "Bhramachari". JohnCD (സംവാദം) 22:04, 19 ഒക്ടോബർ 2013 (UTC)

Introducting Beta Features

(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

• Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
• VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
• Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:20, 5 നവംബർ 2013 (UTC)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.

We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:46, 16 ജനുവരി 2014 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

• Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
• Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
• Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
• Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

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

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:56, 13 മാർച്ച് 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

• Summary of changes and FAQ
• Discussion page for feedback or questions
• Post on blog.wikimedia.org

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

Important VisualEditor announcement

Please help translate this message in your language. Thanks :)

Hi, everybody. As liaisons are spreading out to work on other Wikimedia Foundation products and VisualEditor has been active for some time, we are planning to make a few changes to the way liaisons support VisualEditor.

• We are publishing a global newsletter (in English). Sign up at Meta! The bulletin will include major announcements and updates, so that you will see fewer posts and translation requests by us on this page. We are going to deliver the next issue here as soon as it is available; to receive the following ones as well, please add this page or your talk page (or both) to the delivery list. You can even volunteer to translate the newsletter locally.
• We encourage you to leave feedback about VisualEditor on the relevant page at mediawiki.org, because that's the place the whole liaison team is going to monitor for centralized feedback from most wikis. We always appreciate community members' assistance! If you see VE-related enquiries on your Wikipedia that you can answer or that you can translate and post to mediawiki.org, that would be great!
• We invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during the next office hour on Monday, May 19th at 18:00 UTC with James Forrester (Product Manager). If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your question at mediawiki.org or on my talk page by the day before, and I will try to get a response. We plan to continue these monthly sessions as long as there is community interest.
• We remind you that the current ways to reach the Community Liaisons are listed at our respective user pages, and that a talk page message is always welcome and a good way to get/keep in touch.

Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 15:23, 16 മേയ് 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 മേയ് 2014 (UTC)

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 ജൂൺ 2014 (UTC)

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How to write കാഞ്ഞങ്ങാട് in Devnagari Marathi accurately

this edit change on Marathi language wikipedia probably by a Tamil Wikipedian was an effort to write കാഞ്ഞങ്ങാട് name correctly in Devanagari script for Marathi language, but probablly still he was not accurate enough.

Secondly in first Malyalam ULS option typing T gives ട് but in help image shown on Meta for the same T gives ട് is shown as just ട. ട് this alphabate I could not search in Malayalam language article on english wikipedia.

Mahitgar (സംവാദം) 08:54, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

ഉ:Mahitgar : for കാഞ്ഞങ്ങാട് (kaanjnjangngaat) - काञ्ञङ्ङाट् seems the correct trans litteration. ക - क, കാ - का, ഞ - ञ, ഞ്ഞ - ञ्ञ, ങ - ङ, ങ്ങ - ङ्ङ, ങ്ങാ - ङ्ङा, ട - ट, ട് - ट्. it must definitely not कान्हागड - which is sort of kanhagad. --:- എന്ന് - അരയശ്ശേരിൽ സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യപ്പണിക്കർ മനു✆ 18:02, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

It was me who did that change. :) Aksharamukha is a tool which can help transliterate between south asian scripts. That website is under maintenance. :( I will post the link here after it comes into existence again. Vinod, the author of the tool has explained about 10+ scripts. :) Correct me whenever I am wrong. -തമിഴ്ക്കുരിചില് தமிழ்க்குரிசில் (സംവാദം) 19:18, 16 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. I also tried to learn a little Malyalam alphabates and കാഞ്ഞങ്ങാട് (kaanjnjangngaat) - काञ्ञङ्ङाट् seems to be more accurate.

One more request would like to know any similler other Malyalam word and its Devanagari representation, since in Marathi and probabaly in north too usually ञ and ङ pronounciations do not come indipendantly but those come with some other consonant, so if not impossible Marathi people will find it difficult to pronounce ञ्ञङ्ङा part of the word.

@ ഉപയോക്താവ്:தமிழ்க்குரிசில் please do share Aksharamukha link will be waiting for the same.

once again thanks and warm regards Mahitgar (സംവാദം) 02:38, 17 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2014 (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 16:52, 2 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

Ten years of Wikipedia in Asturian language

Excuse me for not speaking Malayalam yet.

Oviedo, September 8, 2014

Asturian is alive and in use.

Next September 12 and 13, the Asturian Wikipedia community of users will celebrate with the support of Wikimedia España Chapter the tenth anniversary of Uiquipedia, the free encyclopedia in Asturian. The events will take place in Auditorio Príncipe Felipe (Plaza La Gesta, Oviedo).

The first article in Asturian was «Zazaki», a minority language spoken in Turkey. That first edit was in July 26, 2004. Ten years later, more than 800 000 edits have been made on almost 20 000 articles, and numbers are growing every day with the work of tens of volunteers. And it doesn’t stop there: other Wikimedia projects in Asturian have developed, such as Wikicionary, Wikisource and Wikiquote. Managed by Wikimedia Foundation, all of them make part of a global movement that started in 2001 when Wikipedia started with the goal of delivering freely all human knowledge.

To commemorate this date, Uiquipedia and Wikimedia España are carrying out two days of celebration events so that the projects in Asturian are better known. Literature, poetry music and traditions in Asturian will be present. It’s free and everybody is welcome. In addition, Wikimedia España will have its annual General Assembly in Oviedo.

See here the schedule of activities.

B25es (സംവാദം)

Change in renaming process

Part or all of this message may be in English. Please help translate if possible.

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:22, 9 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2014 (UTC).

PS. Please subscribe to the global monthly newsletter to receive further news about VisualEditor.

Monuments of Spain Challenge

Excuse me for not speaking Malayalam yet.

Wikimedia España invites you to join the Monuments of Spain Challenge. And what’s that? It’s a contest. You have to edit, translate or expand articles about the Spanish monuments and you will be granted points. So you’re not just writing about wonderful buildings: you can get prizes!

The time of the contest will include all October and any information you may need is right here.

Join in and good luck!

PS: We would be grateful if you could translate this note into Malayalam.

B25es on behalf of Wikimedia España.

Request for suggessions and openion

नमस्ते,

Before couple of weeks undersigned did small effort to study new users list at Special:Log/newusers for some languages (a chart is shown below). was created automatically (I dont know if correct Malyalam translation is എന്ന ഉപയോക്തൃ അംഗത്വം സ്വയം സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു ) category is much more for Indic language wikipedias (ref: a chart is shown below). The reson behind this is majority of people use english search engine versions (like as of google) there they naturally first reach to english wikipedia and they create account at english wikipedia then there after these people reach to their own mother tongue destination wikipedias. If search engines and keyboard languages as default would have been their mother tongues these people would have reached their own language wiki's faster. When a person reaches to this Special:UserLogin/signup new account opening form neither his mother tongue is asked on that form nor Universal language support is provided at Special:UserLogin/signup.

If you see at en wiki template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Not_English english wikipedia also has avoidable issues with unncessary non english use on en wikipedia.

When I studied Special:Log/newusers (new users list) for some of the language wikis from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias on wikis where was created automatically percentage is less and more account names are created in thier own languages progress and development of those wikis is likely to be better. What I wish to propose is even if some one is opening new account at en wikipedia new account opening form Special:UserLogin/signup on the basis of IP location identification these new account opening people should be asked for their language and supported with apropriate Universala Language input tools. If some one is from Chennai or Benglore they should be shown south Indian language options on priority where as if some one is from north indian platue they should be shown Marathi Hindi and other options based on the IP location. The whole purpose is to provide righ facility at the right time.

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Additional reasons are a) When some one sees a language s/he usually starts thinking in that language, the people usually opening account at english wikipedia and then reaching to mother tongue end up using english even at their mother tongue wikis, a proper support to users may improve their participation in wikipedia movement b) For a novice activating their own mother tongue at english wikipedia does not ocur naturally because it is not default c) even on local language wikis where ULS is available as default the small activation sign keeps apearing and disapearing in a distant corner and is not easy to understand for a novice I intend to ask for even video clip support in apropriate language be provided at Special:UserLogin/signup.

And also an option to reach to their own language wikipedia directly after registration of the new account.

I am just in process of consultation with indic wikipedian after their suggessions and openions I propose to open RFC may be at Meta and/or discuss the issue at apropriate forum.

मथळा मजकूर	Name of language wikipedia	Aprox percentage of Accounts created automatically per 250 new users i.e. most likely opening account at en wiki first	language script	शीर्षक
1	Swedish	40 %	Roman/ latin	उदाहरण
2	Hindi	80%	Devnagri	उदाहरण
3	Marathi	70%	Devnagri	उदाहरण
4	Dutch	28 %	Roman/latin	उदाहरण
5	German	25%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
6	Russian	20%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
7	French	30%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
8	Italian	30%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
9	Vietnamese	20%	Roman/latin	उदाहरण
10	Japanese	30%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
11	Chinese	6%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
12	Persian	40%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
13	Tamil	75%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
14	Urdu	80%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
15	Malyalam	80%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण
16	Bengali	60%	उदाहरण	उदाहरण

Your suggessions and openions are most welcome.

Mahitgar (സംവാദം) 09:49, 2 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:05, 26 ഒക്ടോബർ 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

• DeGruyter: 1000 new accounts for English and German-language research. Sign up on one of two language Wikipedias:
  • English signup
  • Deutsch signup
• Fold3: 100 new accounts for American history and military archives
• Scotland's People: 100 new accounts for Scottish genealogy database
• British Newspaper Archive: expanded by 100+ accounts for British newspapers
• Highbeam: 100+ remaining accounts for newspaper and magazine archives
• Questia: 100+ remaining accounts for journal and social science articles
• JSTOR: 100+ remaining accounts for journal archives

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.23:20, 5 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:34, 14 നവംബർ 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
• Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
• Pelican Books - ebook monographs
• Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 ഡിസംബർ 2014 (UTC)

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[Global proposal] m.വിക്കിപീഡിയ.org: (എല്ലാം) താളുകൾ തിരുത്തുക

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like ml.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:32, 1 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Project MUSE — humanities and social science books and journals
• DynaMed — clinical reference tool for medical topics
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society — pharmaceutical information and practice resources
• Women Writers Online — a digital humanities database focused on women's literature
• Newspapers.com — American newspapers database w/ Open Access opportunities (expansion of accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 21:14, 2 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Help us coordinate Wikipedia Library's distribution of accounts, communication of access opportunities and more! Please join our team at our new coordinator page.

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Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

• Inspire Campaign main page

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 20:02, 4 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

SUL finalization update

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 മാർച്ച് 2015 (UTC)

Stewards confirmation rules

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:13, 10 ഏപ്രിൽ 2015 (UTC)

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
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 (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud 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 lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

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, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC 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.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2015)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences (200 accounts)
• Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
• RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
• Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States (10 accounts)
• HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000 law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25 accounts)

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:12, 4 മേയ് 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at Global our new coordinator signup.

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

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 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (June 2015)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today!

Today The Wikipedia Library announces signups for more free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

• Taylor & Francis — academic publisher of journals. The pilot includes two subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences. (30 accounts)
• World Bank eLibrary — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. (100 accounts)
• AAAS — general interest science publisher, who publishes the journal Science among other sources (50 accounts)

New French-Language Branch!

• Érudit (en Francais) — Érudit is a French-Canadian scholarly aggregator primarily, humanities and social sciences, and contains sources in both English and French. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (50 accounts).
• Cairn.info (en Francais) — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online web portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Most sources are in French, but some also in English. Signups on both English and French Wikipedia (100 accounts).
• L'Harmattan — French language publisher across a wide range of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts).

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including an expansion of accounts for Royal Society journals and remaining accounts on Project MUSE, JSTOR, DeGruyter, Highbeam Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive. If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to make a request! Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 22:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

We need your help! Help coordinate Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! Please join our team at our new coordinator signup.

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HTTPS

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 ജൂൺ 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.

How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 05:07, 24 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

• All participants must have a registered user of at least one month antiquity on any Wikimedia project before the starting date of the campaign.
• All eligible contributions must be done until August 23, 2015 at 23:59 UTC
• Wiki link: Community Health learning campaign
• URL https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Community_Health_learning_campaign
• Contact: María Cruz / Twitter: WikiEval #CommunityHealth / email: evalwikimedia · org

Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 23:43, 31 ജൂലൈ 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is coming

(Sorry for writing in English)

When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects, there is currently a limitation in place that hinders some use cases: data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So, for example, the Wikipedia article about Berlin can only get data from the Wikidata item about Berlin but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. We are now removing this limitation. It is already done for many projects. Your project is one of the next ones. We will roll out this feature here on August 12.

We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to d:Wikidata:Contact the development team.

A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a single page. If it is too many pages, loading might get slow. We will have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need to tweak and how.

How to use it, once it is enabled:

• Parser function: {{#property:P36|from=Q183}} to get the capital from the item about Germany
• Lua: see mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua

Cheers Lydia Pintscher MediaWiki message delivery (സംവാദം) 17:46, 3 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)

research required

	७ १२ १ १४ २ १३ ८ ११ १६ ३ १० ५ ९ ६ १५ ४ 7 12 1 14 2 13 8 11 16 3 10 5 9 6 15 4 transcription of the indian numerals
most-perfect magic square from the Parshvanath Jain temple in Khajuraho

Hi! Some years ago I received a picture about a most-perfect magic square from the Parshvanath Jain temple in Khajuraho. According to magic square#India ^{Magic Squares and Cubes By William Symes Andrews, 1908, Open court publish company} the square is more then thousand years old / from the 10th-century. There is text above the square. Can anybody provide a translation and or additional details about this text?
testwiki:most-perfect magic square provides transliterations for a dozen of ISO 15924 scripts as Arab, Armn, Armi, Beng, Cyrl, Cyrs, Deva, Grek, Gujr, Guru, Hani, Hans, Hant, Hebr, Jpan, Knda, Kore, Latn including Roman numerals and binary), Lepc, Maya, Mlym, Mymr, Phnxl, Orya, Runr, Sinh, Syrc, ‎Syre, ‎Syrj, ‎Syrn, Taml, Telu, Tibt, Xsux and maybe some more. The wiki source code can be used for articles / stubs in languages using these scripts. Fonts are not optimized and all comments are welcome at the test subdomain page at testwiki:most-perfect magic square. Thanks for all your efforts in advance! lɛʁi ʁɑjnhɑʁt (Leri Reinhart)

‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 20:06, 19 अगस्त 2015 (UTC)

PAGEID: 289779 · REVISIONID: -

links here: https://ml.wikipedia.org/?curid=289779#research_required

short update (2015-08-19) :

The numbers are w:en:Gurmukhi numerals written in the Guru script see testwiki:most-perfect magic square#Guru

Thanks to Mahitgar the translation of the first two lines is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=1003896#Epigraph .

see the numerals in Mlym at testwiki:most-perfect magic square#Mlym

Wikidata: Access to data from arbitrary items is here

(Sorry for writing in English)

Hi everyone,

As I have previously announced here we have now enabled the arbitrary access feature here. This means from now on you can make use of data from any Wikidata item in any article here. Before you could for example only access data about Berlin in the article about Berlin. If you want to find out more or have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access. I hope this will open up great possibilities for you and make your work easier. Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:32, 12 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 (UTC)