සාකච්ඡාව:මුල් පිටුව/2013

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.). 15:40, 19 ජනවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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 20:50, 30 ජනවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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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 16:16, 21 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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විකිදත්ත පළමු අදියර (භාෂා සබැඳි) මෙම විකිපීඩියාවට පැමිණෙයි (මෙය ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ලැබුනු පනිවුඩයක සිංහල පරිවර්තනයකි)

මෙය ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ලිවීම ගැන කණගාටුවෙමි. කවුරුන් හෝ ස්වදේශීය භාෂාවට පරිවර්තනය කරතැයි බලාපොරොත්තු වෙමි. (මෙම වාක්‍යය අදාල නොවේ. සිංහලට පරිවර්තනය කර ඇති බැවිනි)

විකිදත්ත දැන් කිහිප මසක සිට ප්‍රවර්ධනය කෙරෙමින් පවතියි. එහි පළමු අදියර ඔබගේ විකිපීඩියාවෙහි දිගහැරුමට දැන් කාලය එළඹී ඇත. පළමු අදියර වන්නේ භාෂා සබැඳි කළමනාකරණයට පහසුකම් සැලසීමයි. එය දැනටමත් හන්ගේරියානු, හීබ්‍රෑ, ඉතාලියානු, සහ ඉංග්‍රීසි විකිපීඩියාවන්හී භාවිතා වෙයි. ඊළඟ පියවර වන්නේ මෙම විස්තීර්ණය අනෙකුත් සියළු විකිපීඩියාවන්හී භාවිතයට ඉඩ සැලසීමයි. මෙය සිදුවීම දැනට සැලසුම් කර ඇත්තේ මාර්තු 6 වන දින සිදුකිරීමටය.

විකිදත්ත යනු කුමක්ද?

විකිදත්ත යනු ඔබ සාමාන්‍යයෙන් තොරතුරුකොටු වල දකින දත්ත ගබඩා කර තැබීම සඳහා වන මධ්‍ය ස්ථානයකි. එය විකිමාධ්‍ය කෙමන්ස් වැනි යැයි මදකට සිතිය හැකි මුත් බහුමාධ්‍ය වෙනුවට එය දත්ත (රටක ජීවත්වන වැසියන් සංඛ්‍යාව හෝ ගඟක දිග හෝ වැනි) සඳහා පමණක් වෙයි. මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතියෙහි පළමු (භාෂා සබැඳි මධ්‍යගතකිරීම) දැනට ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙමින් පවතී. තවත් අලංකාර දේ ඉදිරියට සිදුවීමට නියමිතයි.

සිදුවන්නට යන්නේ කුමක්ද?

විකිපෙළෙහි අන්තර්ගතය තුලින් පැමිණෙනවාට අමතරව, විකිදත්ත උපයෝගී කර ගෙනද පැති තීරුවෙහි භාෂා සබැඳි දර්ශනය වීමට නියමිත වෙයි. මේවා සංස්කරණය කිරීමට, භාෂා සබැඳිවල පහළට රෝල් කොට, සංස්කරණය යන්න ක්ලික් කරන්න. ලිපියෙහි විකි පෙළෙහි හස්තීය ලෙසින් මෙම සබැඳි නඩත්තු කිරීමට ඔබහට තවදුරටත් අවශ්‍ය නොවෙයි.

තවත් තොරතුරු දැනගැනුමට සහ ප්‍රශ්න විමසීමට මට හැකි වන්නේ කොහිද?

en:wp හී සංස්කාරකවරු සංස්කාරකවරු සඳහා අවශ්‍ය සියළු තොරතුරු අඩංගු අනර්ඝ පිටුවක් තනා ඇති අතර එයට අමතරව මෙම විහිදුම සඳහා නිඅපැ ද ඇත. ඔබ හට තිබිය හැකි ප්‍රශ්න නිඅපැ හී සංවාද පිටුව තුලින් විමසන්න.

විකිදත්ත පිළිබඳ යාත්කාලීන තොරතුරු දැනගැනුමට මට අවශ්‍යය

විකිදත්ත ආශ්‍රිතව සිදුවන සියල්ල පිළිබඳ යාවත්කාලීන වීමට, කරුණාකර, සහභාගවූ පරිශීලකයන්ගේ සාකච්ඡා පිටු වෙත සතිපතා එවෙන පුවත්ලිපිය සඳහා දායකයෙකු වන්න. පෙර සංස්කරණයන් මෙතැනින් දැක බලා ගත හැක.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:16, 21 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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පරිවර්තනය----ශ්වෙත (talk) 03:55, 22 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

මුල් පිටුවේ බොරු

"1936 දී ජර්මනියේ වොක්ස්වැගන් මෝටර් රථ නිපදවීම ඇරඹුනේ මෙම දිනයේ දීය. " (පෙබරවාරි 26) යැයි පැවසීම බොරුවකි. සමාගම අරඹා ඇත්තේද 1937දීය. ----ශ්වෙත (talk) 13:26, 26 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

"1989: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වාමාංශික දේශපාලකයෙකෞ වන කොල්වින් ආර්. ද සිල්වා මහතා මියයෑම. "යැයි පෙබරවාරි 27 පලකිරීමට යන්නේද බොරුවකි. එතුමා මිය ගියේ 1987 දීය. ----ශ්වෙත (talk) 13:32, 26 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

"සංඝරාජ උතුමාණන් ක්‍රිස්තු වර්ෂ 1698 ජූනි මස තුම්පනේ උපන්නද උපන් දිනය නිසියාකර නිගමනය කල නොහැක. උපත පිළිබඳව සඳහන් වන්නේ දෙවන විමලධර්මසූරිය රජුගේ රාජ්‍ය කාලයේ පසළොස්වන වසරේ පොසොන් මස අටවක සත්වන දිනයේදීය යනුවෙනි. සමහරුන් එය 16 වන දින යැයිද සමහරුන් ජූනි 19 දින යැයිද පවසති." එනයින් එය ජූනි 18 යැයි නියත ලෙසින් කිව නොහැකි අතර " 1698: සංස්කෘතික පුනර්ජීවනයට දායකවූ වැලිවිට සරණංකර හිමි ගේ උපන් දිනය අදයි." යයි ජූනි 18 යෙදීම සාවද්‍ය වෙයි. --- ශ්වෙත (talk) 13:53, 26 පෙබරවාරි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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 23:09, 6 මාර්තු 2013 (යූටීසී)

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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. 20:20, 13 මාර්තු 2013 (යූටීසී) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

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 17:11, 5 අප්‍රේල් 2013 (යූටීසී)

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Request for comment on inactive administrators

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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!) 05:17, 24 අප්‍රේල් 2013 (යූටීසී)

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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 19:20, 24 අප්‍රේල් 2013 (යූටීසී)

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Article requests related to diseases

Do you do article requests related to medical diseases? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:11, 31 මැයි 2013 (යූටීසී)

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

The Wikipedia Library 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, Ocaasi 21:19, 16 ජූනි 2013 (යූටීසී)

Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)

My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for Cochrane Collaboration accounts at the COCHRANE sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi 21:53, 16 ජූනි 2013 (යූටීසී)

"විකිපීඩියා භාෂාවන්"

Hello. Can someone update the "විකිපීඩියා භාෂාවන්" section because there are some mistakes that can been seen. One of it is that the link for Malay's Wikipedia (Wikipedia bahasa Melayu) which is already had more than 200,000 articles but still in "ලිපි 50,000 කට වඩා වැ" section. Thank you. - 26 Ramadan (talk) 04:41, 4 නොවැම්බර් 2013 (යූටීසී)

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