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කරුණාකර ඔබේ පණිවුඩය සමග අත්සන හා කාලමුද්‍රාව යොදන්න (යතුරුලියනයෙන් ~~~~ හෝ සංස්කරණ කාර්යපටියේ අත්සන් බොත්තම ක්ලික් කිරීමෙන්: ). කරුණාකර මෙම පිටුවේ අවසානයට නව මාතෘකාවන් එක්කරන්න .
« පැරණි සාකච්ඡා | ලේඛනාගාරය: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Overview යන ඉංග්‍රීසි පදය සිංහලයට පෙරැලීම

"Overview" යන ඉංග්‍රීසි පදය සිංහලයට පෙරැලීමේදී පළපුරුදු සහ ආධුනික පරිශීලකයෝ කිහිප දෙනෙක්ම එය "දල විශ්ලේෂණය" ලෙසින් පෙරලන බව දුටිමි. "සමාලෝචනය" යන්න වඩා සුදුසු බව දකිමි. --- Shwetha (talk) 01:57, 10 අප්‍රේල් 2017 (යූටීසී)

දළ විශ්ලේෂණය යනු යාන්ත්‍රික යෙදුමක්. එය නිර්මාණශීලී යෙදුමක් නොවෙයි. ඔබ ඒ ගැන අවධානය යොමුකිරීම ගැන තුති. නමුත් සමාලෝචනය යන්න conclusion යන්නෙහි අරුත ලෙසින් ද යොදා තිබෙනවා. මා සිතන්නේ සමස්ථාවලෝකනය යන යෙදුම වඩා සුදුසු බවයි. over view යනු සමස්තය අවලෝකනය කිරීමයි. විදහා දැක්වීමයි.

--Sasithmadu (talk) 01:28, 28 මැයි 2018 (යූටීසී)

මේක ගැන වෙන කාටවත් අදහසක් නැද්ද? Lee (talk) 11:44, 16 අගෝස්තු 2022 (යූටීසී)

@Lee "Overview ("සමාලෝචනය" හෝ කුමක් හෝ එය ) එහි අරමුණ විය යුත්තේ පාඨකයාට හොඳින් අර්ථය කෙටි කියවීමකින් වටහාගැනීම පිණිස , දක්වා ඇති මාතෘකාවෙන් ඔබ්බට යමින් පාඨකයාට මාතෘකාවේ දළ අදහසක් ගැනීමට වැඩි ඝනත්යවකින් තොරතුරු සහිතව විවේචනාත්මක සාරාංශයක් කතුවරයා විසින් පාඨකයාට සැපයීමයි.යෝජිත "සමාලෝචනය" යන්න "නිගමනය" යන අදහස දරයි.එය සුදුසු නැත . "සමස්ථාවලෝකනය" සුදුසු යැයි හැගේ.නාම විභාගය , නාමවිචාරය,සාරාංශය,පුනරුච්චාරණය,නැවත සලකා බැලීම,පරාවර්තනය සමාන අරුත් දෙයි . නමුත් භාෂාවේ යම් වචනයකට ද්වනි අර්ථ ,භාවිත අර්ථ,ලිඛිත අර්ථද තිබිය හැක.මේ හේතු නිසා සිංහල භාෂාවේ වචනවලට අර්ථ දැක්වීමේ අධිකාරී බලය සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂය සතුවේ. සිංහල භාෂාවේ වචන භාවිතයේ මතුවන ගැටලුවලට අර්ථ සැපයීමේදී විෂයේ ප්‍රවීණයන්ගෙන් ඒ පිළිබද අදහස් ගැනීම වටි. මේ සම්භන්ධයෙන් පරිශීලක @NisansaDdS ගෙන්ද අර්ථකතනයක් ගැනීම හැකි නොවෙයිද?. RsEkanayake 02:47, 12 නොවැම්බර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

අවසාන තීරණයේ අයිතිය ප්‍රජාව සතු වුවත්, සාකච්ඡාව සඳහා විෂයයේ ප්‍රවීණයන්ගේ අදහස් ලැබෙන්නේ නම් ඉතාම අගනා බවයි මගෙත් අදහස. Lee (talk) 03:05, 12 නොවැම්බර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

Overview යන්නට වැඩි දෙනා "දළ විශ්ලේෂණය" දමන්නේ දැනට ගූගල් ද, මධුර ද, ලයන් ද, දෙරණ ද එය දෙන බැවිනැයි හැඟේ. අනෙක් අතට ගත් විට "සමාලෝචනය" යොදන එකම තැන glosbe ය.

හැබැයි අනික්වාගේ නැකි එක වැදගත් දෙයක් glosbe පෙන්වයි. ඒ නම් වර්ථමාන ප්‍රජා භාවිතය කුමක්ද යන්නයි (@Lee කිවුවා වගේ). ඒ කොටසට යන්නට පෙර කිව යුතුයි ඕනෑම භාෂාවක ගුරුකුළ දෙකක් තියෙන බව. පළවෙනි ගුරුකුලය තමයි භාෂාව පෙරසිට ලියා ඇති නීතිය සදා රැකිය යුකුයයි කියන ගුරු කුලය. ලංකාවේ ගත්තාම හෙලහවුල එහෙම වැටෙන්නේ ඒ ගොඩට. අනික් ගුරුකුලය තමයි පෙර මොනවා ලියා තිබුනක් භාෂා සදා වෙනස් වෙන දේවල්ය, එදා වැරදිදේ අද පොදුව්‍යවහාරයේ යෙදේ නම් අද සිට ඒ පොදුු ව්‍යවහාරය ඉදිරියට නිවැරදි ලෙස ගතයුකු බව කියන ගුරු කුලය. මහාචාර්ය ජේ බී දිසානායක මෙන් ම මම ද ඉන්නේ ඒ අදහසේ ය. හැම භාෂාවේම මේ කණ්ඩායම් සදහටම රණ්ඩුවෙන් පසුවේ. ළඟදී ඉංග්‍රිිසි භාෂාවේ Oxford Dictionaryය මා ඉන්නා පිලට පාක්ශික පියවරක් ගත් කල බොහෝ රණ්ඩු මතුවිය. මේ ඔක්කොම කිවුවේ glosbe උදාහරණ ගැන මම ඊළඟ ඡේදයේ ලියන නිසාය. අනික් පිලේ අයෙක් ඇවිත් මම වැරදියයි කියන්නට පුළුවනි.

හරි. දැන් "දළ විශ්ලේෂණය" උදාහරණ ද "සමාලෝචනය" උදාහරණ ද හැර අනෙක් glosbe උදාහරණ බලමු. මේවා අරගෙන තිබෙන්නේ ප්‍රජාව යෙදුනු හැටියෙන්. ඒ කියන්නේ පොතේ මොනවා තිබුණත් අද ප්‍රජාව ලියන්නේ මෙහෙමයි,

1. ආකාර
2. සාරාංශයක්, කෙටියෙන් සලකා, කෙටියෙන් කියලා, සංක්ෂිප්තයකි
3. අදහසක්, සමස්ත අදහසක්
4. පසුබිම, තොරතුරු බිඳක්
5. දෘෂ්ඨිය, දර්ශනය
6. අරමුණ

මේ දෙස බැලුවාම පෙනෙන්නේ ප්‍රජාව සිංහලට හැරවීමේදී overview යන්න ඒ ඒ සන්දර්හයෙහි දී පිළිවෙලින් ways, summery, gist, background, vision, objective යන ඒවාට සමාන පදයක් ලෙස සලකා පරිවර්තනය කරන බවයි.

අනිත් පැත්ත දෙස බැලුවොත් නිල බලය අතින් සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂයට අධිකාරීබලය ඇතැයි @Rsekanayake කී කථාව ඇත්ත. නමුක් දුකට කරුණ නම් ප්‍රතිපාදන හිඟ බැවින් ඔවුන්ගේ දැන් වැඩ කරන්නේ සිංහල-සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂයේත් කොටසක් පමණි. ඉතුරුවා වසර ගණනාවක් තිස්සේම "ළඟදීම එනවා" තත්ත්වයේ පවතී. ගිය අවුරුද්දේ ඔවුන් හා එකතුව මම ද මහාචාර්ය ගිහාන් ඩයස් ද සෑදූ සිංහල ශබ්දකෝෂයත් සිංහල-සිංහල එකකි. එහි වචන ගණන අනෙක් ශබ්දකෝෂ වලට වඩා වැඩි වුවද සමහර වචන වලට සිංහල-ඉංග්‍රීසි හා සිංහල-දෙමල තේරුම් දැම්මද ඉංග්‍රීසි-සිංහල අතට තාම දත්ත මදිය.

මේ ඔක්කොම සලකා පෙෘද්ගලික මතය ගත්කල, "සමස්ථාවලෝකනය" හෝ "පූර්වාලෝකනය" විකිපීඩියා සන්දර්හයට වඩාත් සුදුසු බව මගේත් හැඟිමයි. NisansaDdS (talk) 06:32, 13 නොවැම්බර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:32, 23 ජූලි 2019 (යූටීසී)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

11:12, 29 ඔක්තෝබර් 2019 (යූටීසී)

Google Code-In will soon take place again! Mentor tasks to help new contributors!

Hi everybody! Google Code-in (GCI) will soon take place again - a seven week long contest for 13-17 year old students to contribute to free software projects. Tasks should take an experienced contributor about two or three hours and can be of the categories Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, and User Interface/Design. Do you have any Lua, template, gadget/script or similar task that would benefit your wiki? Or maybe some of your tools need better documentation? If so, and you can imagine enjoying mentoring such a task to help a new contributor, please check out mw:Google Code-in/2019 and become a mentor. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at our talk page. Many thanks in advance! --Martin Urbanec 07:28, 5 නොවැම්බර් 2019 (යූටීසී)

Siwiki email issue

Is fixed. See Phab:T249014. Posting here for visibility. Rehman 04:14, 3 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:25, 8 අප්‍රේල් 2020 (යූටීසී)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:33, 17 ජූනි 2020 (යූටීසී)

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:55, 9 ජූලි 2020 (යූටීසී)

Improving the translation support for the Sinhalese Wikipedia

Sorry about not being able to write in Sinhalese. I hope someone can translate this!

Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities, and we want to help additional wikis with potential to grow using translation as part of a new initiative.

Content translation facilitates the creation of Wikipedia articles by translating content from other languages. It has been used already to create more than half a million articles. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translations. In general, our analysis shows that the translations produced are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.

Sinhalese Wikipedia editors have used Content translation to create more than four hundred articles. Given the size of the editing community, we think that there is potential to use translation to create more articles, expand existing ones, and attract new editors that learn how to make productive edits. Translation can help the community to reduce the language gap with other languages and grow the number of editors in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with you to make Content translation more visible in the Sinhalese Wikipedia and support new ways to translate.

As a first step, during the next weeks we plan to enable Content translation by default on the Sinhalese Wikipedia. That will make it easy for users to discover the tool through several entry points. However, users not interested in translation will still be able to disable it from their preferences.

Please feel free to share any comment in this conversation thread.

Thanks! --අමිර් එ. අහරොනි (WMF) (talk) 13:28, 4 නොවැම්බර් 2020 (යූටීසී)

Technical maintenance planed‬

A maintenance operation will be performed tomorrow morning UTC time (Wednesday 17th at 07:00 AM UTC).

It will impact all wikis and is supposed to last up to one minute.

During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Thank you, SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:45, 16 පෙබරවාරි 2021 (යූටීසී)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:18, 16 ජූනි 2021 (යූටීසී)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:14, 24 ජූනි 2021 (යූටීසී)

Coolest Tool Award 2021: Call for nominations

The third edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations!

Tools play an essential role for the Wikimedia projects, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas and develop and maintain local and global solutions to support the Wikimedia communities. The Coolest Tool Award aims to recognize and celebrate the coolest tools in a variety of categories.

The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December. Deadline to submit nominations is October 27. More information: m:Coolest Tool Award. Thanks for your recommendations! -- SSethi (WMF) for the 2021 Coolest Tool Academy team 05:57, 19 ඔක්තෝබර් 2021 (යූටීසී)

Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us!

The Community Wishlist Survey 2022 starts in less than two weeks (Monday 10 January 2022, 18:00 UTC). We, the team organizing the Survey, need your help.

Translate important messages

Promote the Survey Among anyone and everyone you know who has an account on wiki. Promote the Survey on social media, via instant messaging apps, in other groups and chats, in your WikiProject, Wikimedia affiliate - wherever contributors with registered accounts may be.

Only you can make the difference

How many people will hear and read about the Survey in their language? How many will decide to participate? Will there be enough of you to vote for a change you would like to see? It all depends on you, volunteers.

Why are we asking?

• We have improved the documentation. It's friendlier and easier to use. This will mean little if it's only in English.
• Thousands of volunteers haven't participated in the Survey yet. We'd like to improve that, too. Three years ago, 1387 people participated. Last year, there were 1773 of them. We hope that in the upcoming edition, there will be even more. You are better than us in contacting Wikimedians outside of wikis. We have prepared some images to share. More to come.

What is the Community Wishlist Survey?

It's an annual survey that allows contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. Long years of experience in editing or technical skills are not required.

Thanks, and be safe and successful in 2022! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:15, 29 දෙසැම්බර් 2021 (යූටීසී)

Save the Date: Coolest Tool Award 2021: this Friday, 17:00 UTC

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Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC.

This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools!

Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.

Thanks for joining! andre (talk) -08:02, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Last two days for submitting proposals

Tomorrow is the last day for submitting proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.

Also, everyone is welcome to translate, promote, and discuss proposals. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 22 ජනවාරි 2022 (යූටීසී)

Rollout of the new audio and video player

Please help translate to your language

Hello,

Over the next months we will gradually change the audio and video player of Wikis from Kultura to Video.js and with that, the old player won’t be accessible anymore. The new player has been active as a beta feature since May 2017.

The new player has many advantages, including better design, consistent look with the rest of our interface, better compatibility with browsers, ability to work on mobile which means our multimedia will be properly accessible on iPhone, better accessibility and many more.

The old player has been unmaintained for eight years now and is home-brewn (unlike the new player which is a widely used open source project) and uses deprecated and abandoned frameworks such as jQuery UI. Removing the old player’s code also improves performance of the Wikis for anyone visiting any page (by significantly reducing complexity of the dependency graph of our ResourceLoader modules. See this blog post.). The old player has many open bugs that we will be able to close as resolved after this migration.

The new player will solve a lot of old and outstanding issues but also it will have its own bugs. All important ones have been fixed but there will be some small ones to tackle in the future and after the rollout.

What we are asking now is to turn on the beta feature for the new player and let us know about any issues.

You can track the work in T100106

Thank you, Amir 17:59, 17 පෙබරවාරි 2022 (යූටීසී)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 මැයි 2022 (යූටීසී)

Coolest Tool Award 2022: Call for nominations

The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award welcomes your nominations! What is your favorite Wikimedia related software tool? Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022! The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.

MediaWiki message delivery 18:30, 3 ඔක්තෝබර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

යූටීසී සහ UTC

සිංහල විකිපීඩියාවේ කාලමුද්‍රව තබන විට එහි අගින් වරහන් තුළ යෙදෙන ‘යූටීසි‘ යන්න එසේ සිංහල අකුරු වලින් යෙදීම නිවැරදි නොවන බව පෙන්වාදීමට කැමැත්තෙමි. ඇත්තෙන්ම එය එසේ යෙදෙන්නේ ඉංග්‍රීසි විකිපීඩියාවේ UTC යන්නෙහි පරිවර්තනයක් ලෙස විය හැක. නමුත් ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් එය යෙදෙන විට එය කෙටි යෙදුමක් නිසා ඊට යම් තේරුමක් ඇත.(UTC යනු Coordinated Universal Time යන්නෙට යෙදෙන කෙටි යෙදුමයි) නමුත් එය සිංහල අකුරු වලින් ලියූ විට එය එවැනි කෙටි පදයක් යැයි අදහස් කරන්නේ කෙසේද? එය හරියට සිංහල කෙටි යෙදුමක් වන රා.සේ.පි යන්න Ra.Se.Pi ලෙස ලිවීමක් වැනිය. පරිපාලක අවධානයට---- --Thirsty (talk) 11:57, 19 ජනවාරි 2015 (යූටීසී)

සමායෝත සාර්වත්‍ර වේලාව යැයි පදයක් UTC සඳහා ඇත. නමුත් සසාවේ යැයි ඔතැන භාවිතා කලහොත් කිසිවෙකුට එය තේරුම් යන්නේ නැත. යූටීසී යැයි භාවිතා කල හැකියි. මෙය විකිමාධ්‍ය පරිවර්තන වල සිදු කල යුතු යැයි මට සිතෙයි. -- Shwetha (talk) 13:55, 19 ජනවාරි 2015 (යූටීසී)

සමාවන්න! දැනටමත් යූටීසී නේද? ගැටළුවක් නැහැ නේද? මං හිතන්නේ. --- Shwetha (talk) 13:56, 19 ජනවාරි 2015 (යූටීසී)

මෙතන ප්‍රශ්නය තව ටිකක් සාකච්ඡා කළයුතුයි නේද? Lee (talk) 11:28, 9 ඔක්තෝබර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

@Thirsty ගේ පෙන්වාදීම නිවැරදියි. සමායෝත සාර්වත්‍ර වේලාව ලෙස සිංහල යෙදුමක් තිබේනම් එය අඔදවගත යුතුය. හුදෙක් කෙනෙකුට තේරුම් නොයාමම හේතු කරගෙන දැනට භාවිතාවන ඉංග්‍රීසි වදනක් නිල වශයෙන් සිංහල භාවිතයට පිළිගැනීම සිංහල සන්ධර්භය තුල සිදුකල නොහැක . උදා :- වින්ඩෝස් වැනි පරිගණක පද්දතියක් සම්පුර්නයෙන්ම සිංහල භාෂාවට හැරවුවොත් ඉංග්‍රීසි භාවිත කරන කෙනෙකුට එම පරිගණකය භාවිතය අපබ්‍රන්ශයක් විය හැක. නමුත් සිංහලය තුලින් ප්‍රවිෂ්ට වෙන කෙනෙකුට එය භාවිත කිරීමට අපහසුවක් නැත. මොකද සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව කතා කල යුත්තේ සිංහල ට ප්‍රමුක්ෂත්වය දීමෙන් මිසක් ඉංග්‍රීසි ගැන නොවේ. RsEkanayake 07:16, 16 නොවැම්බර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

Join the Coolest Tool Award 2022: Friday, Dec 16th, 17:00 UTC

The fourth edition of the Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC!

This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools!

Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.

Thanks for joining! -Komla

MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 5 දෙසැම්බර් 2022 (යූටීසී)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "මාතෘකාවක් එක්කරන්න" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "වෙනස්කම් පළ කරන්න". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (සාකච්ඡාව) 23:24, 22 පෙබරවාරි 2023 (යූටීසී)

Graph extension disabled

Yesterday the Wikimedia Foundation noted that in the interests of the security of our users, the Graph extension was disabled. This means that pages that were formerly displaying graphs will now display a small blank area. To help readers understand this situation, communities can now define a brief message that can be displayed to readers in place of each graph until this is resolved. That message can be defined on each wiki at MediaWiki:Graph-disabled. Wikimedia Foundation staff are looking at options available and expected timelines. For updates, follow the public Phabricator task for this issue: T334940

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:36, 19 අප්‍රේල් 2023 (යූටීසී)

අදාළ තැන නිවේදනය නම් එකතු කළා. අපෙත් මේක භාවිතා වෙනවා ද? -- Lee (talk) 00:54, 20 අප්‍රේල් 2023 (යූටීසී)

Temporary accounts for unregistered editors

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Next year, unregistered editors will start using temporary accounts.

In 2024, editors who have not registered an account will automatically begin using temporary accounts. These editors are sometimes called "IP editors" because the IP address is displayed in the page history.

The Trust and Safety Product team gave a presentation at Wikimania about this change. You can watch it on YouTube.

There is more information at m:IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (සාකච්ඡාව) 02:05, 30 සැප්තැම්බර් 2023 (යූටීසී)

Wikidata Property proposal Sinhala Cinema Database (https://www.films.lk/)

I have proposed a property on Wikidata for Sinhala Cinema Database (https://www.films.lk/). I believe this could be useful for Sri Lankan Sinhala & Tamil films in Wikidata. Kindly check d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Sinhala Cinema Database ID and share your thoughts. Regards Sriveenkat (talk) 11:47, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

මේ වෙබ් අඩවිය මොකක් ද? වැඩේ නම් හොඳයි වාගෙ, හැබැයි වෙබ් අඩවිය පිළිගැනීමක් තියෙන එකක් ද? -- Lee (talk) 12:14, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

Hi @Lee, Yes, Useful. This database like IMDb website for Sri Lankan films. If you don't know about Properties check: d:Help:Properties. I don't know Sinhala very well, So I can only understand what you wrote with the help Google Translator. I don't understand what you are finally saying Kindly tell that in English. Thank you Sriveenkat (talk) 12:33, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

@Sriveenkat:, Thanks. Will try to read and understand. I was thinking aloud on why that website looks like a personal website. -- Lee (talk) 14:43, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

@Lee Personal website? In my view website doesn't look like that. How please explain me. Sriveenkat (talk) 15:23, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

Website used in enwiki article : [1] Sriveenkat (talk) 16:02, 21 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

@Sriveenkat, Did you check the "CONTACT" page on the website? However, since nobody is opposing it's use on enwiki, I guess that counts. -- Lee (talk) 03:08, 22 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

@Lee Sorry for the delay. I my view, This website doesn't looks like a personal website. If a personal website does not contain general information that contains only thing like: Review, traveling, (I saw this movie today, I went to this town today) etc., I believe this is only on the contact page, We're not going to use the contact page on Wikidata for anything. Thank you for your support 🙂. Sriveenkat (talk) 16:28, 26 මැයි 2024 (යූටීසී)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

ජාතිය, ජනවර්ගය?

කවුරුහරි කියනවද මේ වචන/සංකල්ප වලට ගැළපෙනම සිංහල වචන මොනවද කියලා?

1. Race
2. Ethnicity
3. Nation
4. Racism

ජාතිය, ජනවර්ගය, වාර්ගිකත්වය, ජාතිවාදය, වර්ගවාදය, මේ වචන ගැන කලින් සම්මුතියකට ඇවිත් තියෙනවද? --Ben (talk) 11:21, 25 අගෝස්තු 2024 (යූටීසී)

Its too late probably but here you go.

1. Race and Nation both has the same most commonly used ජාතිය. only difference being according to what context its being used.

eg:

• black race කලු ජාතිය
• Indian nation ඉන්දියානු ජාතිය

so we can keep nation as it is and add a short description to race article just like its done on en.wiki - ජාතිය (මානව වර්ගීකරණය)

2. ethnicity's most commonly used word is ජනවර්ගය (again ජාතිය is also used).

3. Racism is ජාතිවාදය. VihirLak007^hmu!/_duh. 12:50, 22 ඔක්තෝබර් 2024 (යූටීසී)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.

Tracked in Bugzilla
Bug T66315

Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:58, 27 සැප්තැම්බර් 2024 (යූටීසී)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 22 ඔක්තෝබර් 2024 (යූටීසී)