विकिपीडिया:समुदायप्रवेशद्वारम्

• Discuss and review the interface translations for sanskrit wikipedia here.
• en: Requests for the bot flag should be made on this page. This wiki uses the standard bot policy, and allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots. Other bots should apply below, and then request access from a steward if there is no objection.

Article for deletion

hello, my name is roopa, can you please tell me why an article gets marked for deletion? my article अ कारान्त राम शब्दः is marked for deletion. if you can let me know how to get it right I can correct it so that there is access for people who are interested in learning shabdas in sanskrit.

A page gets marked for deletion if someone finds its content unsuitable for encyclopedia. Many people mark the South Asian wikipedian articles for deletion as they mistake them for vandalism. The best way to stay away from them is to categorize pages (put [[Category:Categoryname]] at the bottom of the page. Also, the articles formed by users with account are less likely to be tagged as such. Also please use --~~~~ as one's signature while discussing in pages like these. Thank you. --Eukesh 15:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Stewards election

Hello,

The stewards election has started on m:Stewards/elections 2005. Anyone can vote provided that he has a valid account on meta with a link to at least one user page, on a project where the editor is a participant, with at least 3 months participation to the project. Stewards can give sysop right on projects where there are no local bureaucrate. Please vote ! Yann 14:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

PS: Please translate this and put it in the Village Pump. Thanks. Yann 14:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

नेपालभाषाया : विकिपिडियाषु सन्देश:

Nepal Bhasa wikipedia has recently started developing here . We would like to increase co-ordination between the two wikipedia, share resources as well as to learn from this version. If someone is interested, please visit Nepal Bhasa Embassy. Plus, please consider joining here and forming an embassy and linking it here Thank you. --Eukesh

विकिपिडिया: देवनागरी टेम्प्लेट परियोजना

• Please visit this page for better co-ordination between Devnagari wikipediae as well as to increase the overall efficiency of these wikipediae.--Eukesh 20:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Devnagari

Sysop, please change your Mediawiki:Monobook.js with source from here to enable devnagari.--Eukesh 00:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Bot status BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 60 atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill ११:४२, ३ आषाढश्रावणे २००७ (UTC)

Bot request for User:Byrialbot

Hello! Sorry for not speaking Sanskrit. I ask for a bot flag for my interwiki bot Byrialbot so it will not fill the recent changes page with interwiki updates.

• Bot account: User:Byrialbot (contributions)
• Botmaster: User:Byrial
• Botmaster's home project: da:User:Byrial
• List of botflags on other wikipedias: als:, am:, an:, ang: ar:, arc:, ast:, az:, bat-smg:, be:, be-x-old:, bg:, bm:, bn:, bs:, bpy:, ca:, cdo:, ceb:, co:, cs:, cv:, cy:, da:, de:, el:, en:, eo:, es:, et:, fa:, ff:, fi:, fo:, fr:, frp:, fur:, fy:, ga:, gd:, gl:, he:, hi:, hr:, hsb:, hu:, hy:, id:, ie:, ig:, ilo:, io:, is:, it:, iu:, ja:, jv:, ka:, kl:, kn:, ksh:, ku:, kw:, la:, lb:, li:, ln:, lt:, lv:, mi:, mk:, ml:, mr:, ms:, nap:, nds:, nds-nl:, nl:, nn:, no:, nov:, nrm:, os:, pam:, pdc:, pms:, pt:, qu:, ro:, ru:, ru-sib: scn:, sco:, sh:, simple:, sk:, sl:, sm:, sq:, sr:, su:, sv:, sw:, ta:, te:, tg:, th:, tk:, tl:, tt:, uk:, ur:, uz:, vec:, vls:, vo:, war:, wo:, zea:, zh-classical:, zh-min-nan:, zh-yue:
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Technical details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot (constantly updated with svn) normally starting from da:, nn:, no: and sv:. It mostly runs manually assisted and I try to solve found interwiki conflicts when I can.

Thank you! Byrial १२:४३, २७ आषाढश्रावणे २००७ (UTC)

Bot status for PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Operator: it:User:Pipep
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Have bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, az, bat-smg, be-x-old, bn, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, en, eo, et, fo, fur, fy, ga, hr, id, is, ka, ksh, la, lb, li, lv, mk, ml, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, pms, roa-tara, scn, simple, sl, sr, sv, th, uk, vec, zea
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep १७:५९, ११ नभस्ये २००७ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild ०१:१६, २१ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००७ (UTC)

Thank you! it:User:Pipep १५:३१, २१ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००७ (UTC)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I'd like to implement the standard bot policy on this wiki. This will involve creating a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and adding a line at the top noting that it is used here. In particular, this policy allows automatic acceptance of known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests.

Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; it will be implemented in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. —Pathoschild ०१:१६, २१ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००७ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild २२:३६:४९, १६ अश्विनकार्तिके २००७ (UTC)

AlleborgoBot

Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot

• Operator: Alleborgo
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, in "-autonomous" mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.
• Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version
• Function Summary: interwiki
• Already has a bot flag in: ar, an, az, bar, bg, br, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, da, de, el, en, eo, es, eu, fa, fi, fr, frp, gl, he, hr, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, ja, jv, ka, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, mk, mi, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, th, tr, tt, uk, ur, vec, vi, vo, zh, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 65000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot १३:४५, १३ अश्विनकार्तिके २००७ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild २०:०८:५६, २५ कार्तिकमार्गशीर्षे २००७ (UTC)

Bot status for User:DragonBot

Hello! I would like request permission to run my interwiki bot DragonBot here and to get a bot flag for it.

• Bot accout: User:DragonBot (ml:ഉപയോക്താവ്:DragonBot/Contributions)
• Botmaster: User:DragonBot
• Botmaster's home project: ml:User:Jacob.jose
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: Malayalam(ml), English(en), Simple English(simple), Samogitian(bat-smg), Bengali(bn), Manipuri(bpy), Telugu(te), Russian(ru), Italian(it), Norwegian(no), Danish(da), Turkish(tr), Albanian(sq), Volapük(vo), Swedish(sv), Tamil(ta), German(de), Japanese(ja), Arabic(ar), Esperanto(eo), Romanian(ro), Catalan(ca), Spanish(es), French(fr)
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Technical details: Interwiki bot starting from wikis in South Asian Languages. Runs in Automated/Supervised mode. --Jacob.jose 1st November, 2007

Done. —Pathoschild २०:१४:२४, २५ कार्तिकमार्गशीर्षे २००७ (UTC)

Wikimedia Indian chpater

As you might be aware, we are planning to start an India chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see Wikimedia India for details. We're currently working on the draft of bylaws. If you are interested, please join the discussion on meta, and subscribe to the wikimediaindia-l mailing list. Utcursch १८:०१, १० मार्गशीर्षपौषे २००७ (UTC)

Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here to use your language in the interface, but if you would log in to for example the Japanese language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. In fact, of 1,736 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 1.48% of the messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages for 126 extensions, with 2,174 messages. Many of them are used in WMF projects and they are vital for understanding the wiki. Currently *.**% of the WMF extension messages have been translated. Translators for over 90 languages contribute their work to MediaWiki this way every month.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator privileges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on MediaWiki.org and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we will be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Thanks, Malafaya@Betawiki ०१:४९, ५ फाल्गुने २००८ (UTC)

• Currently 2.24% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM २१:२८, १३ मधुमासे २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 2.14% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ०४:१९, १९ वैशाखज्येष्ठे २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 2.10% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM १९:२६, ८ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 2.10% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. GerardM
• Currently 1.91% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ०७:२३, ११ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 1.83% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ०९:२२, १८ अश्विनकार्तिके २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 1.84% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ०८:५३, ११ कार्तिकमार्गशीर्षे २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 3.98% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ११:२२, १५ मार्गशीर्षपौषे २००८ (UTC)
• Currently 8.56% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM २०:२८, १२ पौषमाघे २००९ (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

The village pump

Could someome be so kind and move my contribution to your "village pump" and also, could someone please add a link to your village pump on meta ? Thanks, Malafaya@Betawiki ०१:४९, ५ फाल्गुने २००८ (UTC)

A couple of questions. (A) Does anyone actually ever intend to use this thing? (B) Does anyone know anything about the nitty-gritty of ITRANS? I ask because I know it has something to do with TeX, and because MediaWiki now has support for mathematical formulae in TeX and will soon have it for hieroglyphics, and it would be nifty to have it for devanagari.Kukkurovaca 03:39, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

Logo

How do we best translate Wikipedia The free encyclopedia to Sanskrit?

Wikipedia=विकिपीडिया the free encyclopedia = मुक्त: विश्वकोशम्

Please comment. Thanks--Eukesh १२:५७, २ आषाढश्रावणे २००७ (UTC)

My own knowledge of Sanskrit isn't good enough for this! What type of free does मुक्त: mean? No cost or freedom to edit? गिरिक ०५:४४, ८ आषाढश्रावणे २००७ (UTC)

Wikipedia in Pali is called विकिकोष (विकि 'wiki' + कोष 'dictionary, reference work'), so I don't see why we shouldn't use a similar name. (I would suggest the slightly more normalized spelling विकिकोशः-- with a visarga.) 'The Free Encyclopedia' would be (with proper sandhi) मुक्तो विश्वकोशः . (मुक्त is free as in speech). --शिवः ०३:२१, ९ आषाढश्रावणे २००७ (UTC)

Bot Status for Purbo_T

Hi, I'd like to ask for a bot flag for Purbo_T (contributions)

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha
• Function: interwiki link maintenance
• Operation: manually-assisted, occasionally in automatic or autonomous mode, starting mostly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn
• Already has bot flag on: aa, ab, ak, als, am, ang, ar, arc, as, av, ay, bat-smg, bar, be-x-old, bcl, bh, bi, bm, bn, bo, bs, bug, bxr, ca, cbk-zam, cdo, ce, chr, chy, co, cr, crh, cs, cu, da, de, diq, dsb, dz, ee, eml, el, eo, es, fa, ff, fi, fiu-vro, fj, fr, glk, gn, got, gv, ha, hak, haw, hi, hr, hsb, ht, hu, ie, ig, ik, ilo, io, is, ja, jbo, ka, kab, kg, ki, kl, km, kn, ko, ks, ksh, ku, kv, kw, ky, la, lb, lbe, lg, li, lmo, ln, lo, lt, lv, map-bms, mg, mh, ml, mn, mr, my, mzn, na, nah, nds, nds-nl, ne, new, ng, nl, nn, nov, nrm, nv, om, ny, or, os, pa, pag, pam, pdc, pih, pms, ps, rm, rmy, rn, roa-rup, roa-tara, rw, scn, sco, sd, sg, si, simple, sl, sm, sn, so, sr, st, stq, sv, tet, tg, th, ti, tk, tl, tn, to, tpi, ts, tum, tw, ty, udm, ug, uk, ur, ve, vec, vi, vls, vo, xh, yi, yo, za, zea, zh-classical, zh-yue, zu, more pending
• cumulated data on the bot is available from the toolserver

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach १०:४९, २३ फाल्गुने २००८ (UTC)

Bot flag granted. --Dungodung १०:२३, १ फाल्गुनचैत्रे २००८ (UTC)

SpBot

Hello. I would like to get a bot-flag on this wiki.

• Operator: de:User:Euku
• Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
• Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
• Already has bot flag on: 51 Wikipedias, for example: ar, bn, ca, cs, de, en, es, eu, da, fr, he, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, sq, tr. (on German Wikipedia since 2006, with >67.000 edits), look at details

Thank you! --Euku ०८:२४, ४ ज्येष्ठाषाढके २००८ (UTC)

done, --Spacebirdy ०९:५५, ३ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

Synthebot

Dear all, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.

• Operator: Julian Mendez
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic in autonomous mode; sometimes manually assisted to solve interwiki conflicts
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: more than 60 wikipedias, see SUL table

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian ०६:३३, ६ ज्येष्ठाषाढके २००८ (UTC)

done, --Spacebirdy ०९:५५, ३ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

Bot flag for StigBot

I hereby request botflag on this wiki for my bot StigBot.

• Owner’s account: Stigmj (talk)
• Bot account: StigBot (contribs • sul • makebot@meta )
• Function: mainly interwiki, but can be used in user-namespace for adding userpages etc. on request from the affected users.
• Software: Pywikipedia, updated from SVN before each run.
• Other: Runs manually initiated automatic supervised and sometimes entirely manual. Already has bot flag on: ar, bpy, en, eo, fr, no, oc, pt, ro and vo.

Best regards, Stigmj १३:०६, ८ ज्येष्ठाषाढके २००८ (UTC)

done, --Spacebirdy ०९:५५, ३ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

SieBot

Hi, I request a bot bit for SieBot.

• Botmaster : Siebrand
• Bot's name : SieBot
• List of botflags on others Wikipedias: Almost every Wikipedia (some 25 missing). See current list of user status and edits
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : SieBot is an interwiki bot starting at any Wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. It has made over 5 million edits since it started. Siebrand २२:४१, २६ ज्येष्ठाषाढके २००८ (UTC)

done, --Spacebirdy ०९:५५, ३ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

Global bots

Hello. The standard bot policy was updated to allow global bots, which are now technically possible. These are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots (the local policy or request page must explicitly allow them, or they won't get access on this wiki). The current requirements for global bots are:

• a global bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects;
• a global bot must have already been active on several wikis, with long-term contributions demonstrating its trustworthiness.

Does anyone object to allowing global bots on this wiki? I'll update the local policy in a week if there are no objections. Thanks. —Pathoschild १६:५८:१९, २८ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild १४:१४:२४, २३ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००८ (UTC)

Bot flag for WikiDreamer Bot

• Operator  : WikiDreamer
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : Automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia framework)
• Function Summary  : Interwiki
• Edit period(s)  : ~20/24H
• Edit rate requested  : 50 edits / 3 hours
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : 81 wikipedias
• Function Details  : Interwiki from French Wikipedia

I start my bot now for 50 test edits. Thanks! --WikiDreamer १२:३४, ३१ आषाढश्रावणे २००८ (UTC)

Bot flag for Ptbotgourou

• Operator: fr:User:Gdgourou
• Bot Account: Ptbotgourou
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic (-autonomous mode)
• Programming Language: Pywikipediabot via SVN updated daily
• Already has bot flag: 43 wikipedias

--Gdgourou १२:३२, २५ भाद्रपदाश्विने २००८ (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

Translatewiki.net update

• Currently 26.80% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM १५:४४, ३० सेप्टेम्बरमासः २००९ (UTC)
• Currently 27.47% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM १५:०३, १ नवम्बरमासः २००९ (UTC)
• Currently 27.42% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM १२:४४, १४ डेसेम्बरमासः २००९ (UTC)
• Currently 27.35% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM १५:३६, १८ जनवरीमासः २०१० (UTC)

• PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM १५:४४, ३० सेप्टेम्बरमासः २००९ (UTC)

Bot task approval and Bot flag for User:TinucherianBot

I will be using my bot account User:TinucherianBot to deliver the future Wikimedia India newsletter notices to the individual user talk pages ( Similar to the Wikipedia Signpost) in English & different Indian/Indic language Wikipedias. The newsletter will be only available in English as of now and will be mostly hosted on Wikimedia.in

The account already has a bot task approval on English Wikipedia and has over 131K edits globally .The bot needs approval and bot flags in the respective language Wikipedias for this task. The talk page delivery is only for the users who opt in for. The opt in list pages will be created soon.

For more details, see http://www.wikimedia.in/wiki/Newsletter#Approvals_for_Newsletter_delivery and announcement on Wikimedia India mailing list

Bot details :

• Bot name : User:TinucherianBot
• Operator : Tinucherian
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : Manually configured and automatically run under supervision.
• Programming Language(s) : C# , Auto Wiki Browser
• Function Summary : Delivery the future Wikimedia India newsletter notices
• Already has a bot flag on : en.wiki ( as of now)

I am requesting the approval of the bot task by this Wikicommunity and also bot flag for the bot account. Tinucherian १०:१२, ४ मार्च् २०११ (UTC)

It will be great if the bot flag is granted for this task. Thanks in advance - Tinucherian ११:०८, १७ एप्रिल् २०११ (UTC)

So you need the approval of the sa.wiki community for this? Yes Michael? •^Talk १८:३३, १७ एप्रिल् २०११ (UTC)

Is this being addressed? Ijon (चर्चा) १६:५५, २९ जून् २०११ (UTC)

Yep, sorry, forgot to put the Y Done tl. Bot flag granted. Rao7 •^Talk ०९:५६, ३० जून् २०११ (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

HiW-Bot

• Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
• Function Summary  : Interwiki, Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel so it can be used properly and easy. Double redirects will be added shortly
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes: DE, EN, AR, NL, NN, KA, DA, BE-X-OLD, BAT-SMG, ARZ and LB, others pending. see here
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py; parameters: -auto -all - log -catr

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to update Interwiki, and improve Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel so it can be used properly and easy by everyone.

Thank you for consideration! --Hedwig in Washington (चर्चा) ०२:४३, ४ सप्तम्बर् २०११ (UTC)

Done from Meta --Bencmq (चर्चा) ०७:३९, २१ अक्टोबर् २०११ (UTC)

Language support group for Sanskrit

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net. Thanks, Gmeijssen (चर्चा) २३:१४, ३० सप्तम्बर् २०११ (UTC)

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

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 ०१:१५, २७ अष्टोबर् २०११ (UTC)

वडोदरा (गुजरात) तः २४-७-२०१० तमे दिनाके संस्कृतवर्तमानपत्रस्य प्रारम्भः अभवत् l संस्कृतवर्तमानपत्रस्य प्रतिदिनं प्रकाशनं भवति l

WebFonts scheduled to go live on December 12

Looking at a website, only to be presented with little squares is the result of a computer not having the fonts necessary to show the characters used for a language. There is a modern method of providing people with a missing font; this is done by sending a font together with the text that is to be displayed.

The Localisation team of the Wikimedia Foundation is working hard to finish the WebFonts functionality. This will serve you with freely licensed fonts when these fonts are not present on your system. For regular users, there will be multiple fonts to choose from or to select none at all.

At translatewiki.net, we run the latest version of the WebFonts software at all times. This allows you to get familiar with the look and feel and follow its progress. To make it easy for you, we will copy the text of the article on your language from your wiki to the Portal:**/Webfonts page at translatewiki. The fonts that we use are the best Freely Licensed fonts we can find. For the Indic languages this is typically the Lohit font that is used in many Linux distributions.

The agenda of the localisation team is that WebFonts will go live on Monday December 12. At the India hackathon we learned about issues with some of the fonts and several issues we were able to resolve and others resulted in the filing of bugs at Red Hat. We are looking into having a triage meeting with Red Hat engineers to assess and address any and all issues.

When there are real issues that prevent the reading of the text, we may consider to postpone the WebFonts implementation for a particular language. We are open to technical solutions that improve the usability or acceptance. Apart from that, Wikipedia exist to bring information to everybody and WebFonts allows us to increase out audience.

We urge you to become part of the language support team for your language; language support teams are what we need because we cannot and do not know all the technical details of each language. Thanks, Gmeijssen (चर्चा) ०५:३९, २५ नवम्बर् २०११ (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• 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 ०३:०३, २२ दशम्बर् २०११ (UTC)

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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 १६:३१, १५ जनुवरि २०१२ (UTC)

I am back!!

I guys, I am back. In my absence period, I was learning better sanskrit and working for my organisation.

From now on wards, I would be highly active in my mission of enriching sanskrit wikipedia. --हर्षवर्धनः (Leodescal) १०:५७, १ फ़ेब्रुवरि २०१२ (UTC)

हार्दं स्वागतम् ! शुभा (चर्चा) ११:३९, १ फ़ेब्रुवरि २०१२ (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.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). १५:१७, १२ फ़ेब्रुवरि २०१२ (UTC)

aham sansrit chatra ,atra sahayogam datum etchami

Pending MediaWiki namespace changes

There is a request to change the names of MediaWiki namespaces for the Sanskrit language. As this is a change that is hard to undo, we are looking for conformation from the community that this is what you want. The changes can be found in this "Gerrit document".

We are looking for an answer by April 5th. Thanks, Gmeijssen (चर्चा) १०:०८, २५ मार्च् २०१२ (UTC)