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I have started a discussion about the length of certain global renamer candidacies above. --Rschen7754 19:45, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Is there any mechanism to help in these types of queries?

Hi, I am from Hindi Wikipedia. Recently there has been a query on our village pump if there is a mechanism to know the list of articles present on 30 or more Wikipedias, so that such articles can be translated into Hindi (when they are not on our Wiki, and obviously most translations from English Wikipedia). Is there a mechanism by which we can arrive at such a list? --Muzammil (talk) 08:31, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

List of articles every Wikipedia should have says: «Thanks to Wikidata it's also possible to list the top 1000 most translated (linked) pages in some languages, at Wikidata Terminator» (though it currently has a problem). Is that link not visible enough? Where did you look for this information and where could I add it so that it's found more and more easily? --Nemo 08:50, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
@Nemo bis: List of articles every Wikipedia should have - Society and social sciences is a standard list (similar to many other related lists). I am not disputing with that. I am saying based on editors' interests cross-wiki I/Hindi Wikipedians would like to have a tool listing articles present on 30 or more Wikipedias (in addition to standard lists).--Muzammil (talk) 10:21, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
Yes, and the tool does that.[1] Is this what you need? sadly it's not available for Hindi yet, I filed the request at [2]. --Nemo 13:41, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
@Nemo bis: Thank you very much!Thank you very much! --Muzammil (talk) 18:34, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

Handling of steward abuse

Quite a few local Wikimedia projects' administrator policies provide for deprivation of access in case of abuse. Why doesn't the Stewards policy contain the said norm? --Синкретик (talk) 13:16, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

It does. Stewards policy#Poll after a year. --Nemo 13:39, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I see. I meant the abuse that required immediate intervention. --Синкретик (talk) 14:09, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
I guess it wasn't considered when the policy was written; feel free to propose a change. In the absence of a policy, the "default" position of an RFC to propose removal of the rights would seem to apply. However, it's worth saying that Stewards agree as part of standing for election to abide by the Oversight and CheckUser policies and not following these policies is clearly stated as grounds for removal of Steward rights (e.g., see CheckUser_policy#Removal_of_access). QuiteUnusual (talk) 14:22, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
(edit conflict) That's extremely unlikely to happen, but it would fall under the "don't override consensus" section and would be performed with a request at Steward requests/Global permissions. Why extremely unlikely? Because stewards act in public and collegially, so a steward action rarely is made which most stewards would disagree with; and if it happens, it's quickly reversed; and it would take a wheel war after that, for a single steward to be an immediate risk. Unless there are privacy policy violations, in which case the Ombudsman commission should be contacted instead. --Nemo 14:42, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia planning on joining the "Go Slow Day" on Sep 10th?

Has there been any discussion about this? Links? Jason Quinn (talk) 15:52, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

It would be helpful if a link was provided: does the initiative have an official web page? In the meanwhile, [3]. Ah, apparently their website is https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/ (via [4]; parbleu, what horrible unusable websites). --Nemo 15:54, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Noting it doesn't actually make the sites slow, just gives an "annoying" loading thing to notify users of the problem. Once per site I guess. Reedy (talk) 16:30, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, CentralNotice does that all year long already. :P --Nemo 17:20, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Currently this is some discussion on the English Wikipedia. Mike VTalk 19:58, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Preview of banners

Hello. I am trying to set up the future banner for the Wiki Loves Africa contest. And I wanted to simplify things in inspiring myself from similar banners to create my banner. Problem is that I just can not figure out how to "preview" banners (see the final version actually displayed in the central notice). If I pick up a recent example... here is the banner for the month of contribution [5]. There are links that obviously invite us to "preview" the banner. But when I click on these links... it leads me to totally unrelated pages on Wikipedia. So, yeah... how do I see already existing banners ? Thanks Anthere (talk) 17:01, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

@Anthere: The banner is at the top of the page. 'Preview on-wiki' links to a Special:Random https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Random&banner=Contrib_mnth&uselang=en&force=1 --Glaisher (talk) 17:10, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Ahhhh. Right :) Thanks Anthere (talk)
That is, an URL like https://fr.wikipedia.org/?banner=Contrib_mnth&force=1 is supposed to reliably show you the banner as it will actually be. --Nemo 17:15, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Good one. Thanks Anthere (talk)

Need for Hindi Wikipedians by number of contributions

Hello. This is a list of Wikipedians ordered by number of edits in the English language Wikipedia. I will be thankful if a similar tool is made available for the list of Wikipedians ordered by number of edits in the Hindi language Wikipedia - something which is non-existent as of now. Thanks in advance. --Muzammil (talk) 17:31, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Is stats:EN/TablesWikipediaHI.htm#wikipedians not enough? It usually is, for non-huge wikis. Otherwise you should in theory be able to get the full list from Wikistats csvs directly, but I'm not sure they're being kept up to date online. --Nemo 17:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Here are the top 1000 users by edit count, excluding current bots and global bots. You can export it to whatever format you want (CSV, JSON, etc.). PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:00, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

@PiRSquared17: Thank you very much!Thank you very much! for link. By the way, does the link provide static information (current status only) or dynamic (updated periodically, say daily/weekly)? --Muzammil (talk) 08:54, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

If you login, you can run an update with real-time data. --Nemo 10:01, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
@Nemo bis: Thank you very much!Thank you very much! for the info. In that case I guess output will be with a separate query number. --Muzammil (talk) 13:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Estimate of core community's monetary value

How much time does the average core community wikimedian donate per year?

I'm thinking about this, currently, because I used a f'rinstance figure for it in an (alas, less articulate than I'd wish) comment on Lila's user talk (yonder). The point I was trying for was that the fair-market value of what the core community donates is, well, substantial. Picturing English Wikipedia with a round 1000 core constributors, I said if they averaged a conservative 100 hours per year that'd be 100,000 hours per year. I mean 100 to be low enough to be really safe — is it? I contribute a whole lot more than that to my home project (English Wikinews), but I don't have a good sense of the English Wikipedia core community. The point of my post to Lila was that if you treat that as unskilled labor, with the 100-hour estimate, it'd be a million dollars, but it's actually skilled labor and should be valued considerably higher. --Pi zero (talk) 14:30, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

When non-profits try to calculate their income from volunteers, the value for volunteer time (in the US) is usually assumed to be the mean wage, which was about US $20 an hour the last time I looked (NB mean and not median; the mean is noticeably higher than the median wage). Since we have people all over the world, this is not necessarily a good number to apply to everyone.
I've seen the core community size for en.wp estimated at 3,000, but the number depends significantly on how you define "core". Editors around the top-500 mark (based purely on the number of edits) at en.wp are probably making 500 or more edits a month. At the 1000 mark, it's probably 300 or so edits each month.
Also, "active" and "productive" aren't the same. Every experienced editor has encountered people who spend a lot of time posting, but who accomplish remarkably little, or who even end up wasting so many other people's time that they have a negative effect on productivity. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:07, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
My own notion of "core" is probably linked to the ratio of productive edits. My sense is, contributors core in that sense are undervalued at twenty dollars an hour, if you're talking US rates. I can see the question of whether to use US rates could be argued back and forth.
All of this is, of course, to a significant extent a conceptual trap, since realistically the core community are irreplaceable if driven away en masse, and therefore by definition priceless. It's significant that (as I think I saw someone pointing out somewhere) the conjectural users the Foundation seems to be targeting are likely to have a poor productive-edit ratio, so that bringing in a lot of them would put more burden on the currently-endangered core. My reason for even looking at the estimated monetary value is, frankly, hoping to put things in terms that could be appreciated by someone who isn't able to appreciate the other reasoning they've been presented with.
But meanwhile, I've gotten genuinely curious about how much time the "core" people put in.
Number of edits doesn't tell you that, I think. For one thing, if someone is putting very little time in per edit, their edits may be least productive; that isn't always true, of course. Edits to clean up other people's unproductive edits may sometimes require relatively little time per edit. The nature of the edits can also make a huge difference, too. To take an example from English Wikinews, some reporters compose an article off-wiki and submit it in a single edit, while the reviewer may make a large number of edits during review, each small enough to have a useful edit summary and meaningful diff to make clear exactly what the reviewer is doing and why, with the result that counting edits one might imagine the reviewer was doing one or two dozen times as much "work" as the reporter (actually, for an inexperienced reporter the reviewer may do much more work, while for a sufficiently experienced reporter the reviewer may sometimes do much less). I'm less widely experienced with the patterns on Wikipedia, but I expect there are similarly skewed cases in parts of the workflow, as well as, of course, variations of individual style. So, interesting though number of edits is, it may not correspond to time spent, even if one restricts attention to the "core". --Pi zero (talk) 01:51, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Help Needed: For Project started to improve CATEGORIES on WP

Hi, there has been a serious discussion to set up a technical system on Wikipedia that will allow users to both sort and view categories either alphabetically or by topic. Until now there is no single system or method at work in categories that has allowed them to become disorganized and, well, "un"categorized in spite of being named as such! In order to remedy this situation, please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#CatVisor; Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#JQuery workaround; Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Update requested, as well as the the steady work at User:Paradoctor/CatVisor; User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Planned features; User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#JQuery workaround by Salix alba; User:Paradoctor/CatVisor#Releases (alpha 2; alpha 1; alpha 0). In order to successfully complete and implement the proposed improvements, the input and deployment of the Wikimedia Foundation is needed as well as the attention of its professional staff is required in order to successfully fully implement the project. Please direct this communication and request to the most appropriate technical and decision-making individuals. Thank you so much in advance! Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 02:03, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

  • How about technical system on Wikipedia that will allow users to view alternative category trees (category trees, which are created by the individual or group of editors)? Now we have only one common, edited by the community, no individual сategory tree. To make such a feature ("alternative category trees") - a large technical problem? Fractaler (talk) 08:54, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Could someone please have a look at sco:Template:Shortcut, as, in Read view, it seems to throw up an extra pair of double-square brackets? Maybe cf. en:Template:Shortcut, which appears not to be doing this, in case that helps? It Is Me Here t / c 12:07, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Fixed[6]. --Stryn (talk) 16:55, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
winkThanks! It Is Me Here t / c 12:31, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Just wanted to point this out to someone. Looks like it might be spam. 162.17.205.153 17:40, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


JavaScriptless math typesetting

I'm not using JavaScript. Can I have the math back in MathML, please? MathJax doesn't do a thing in my setup. --Gryllida 23:14, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Using 3D objects to illustrate a Wikipedia article

Can someone point me to a discussion about importing or embeding objs (3D objects) into Wiki, please? Can we not export open source objs? This Coffee Maker from Sketchgfab (not open) for example. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 12:15, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Changes in Babel needed for Urdu

Screenshot of Urdu Babel - circled red indicated "English" written in Urdu whereas green indicates correct "Urdu" in Urdu script.

Hello. I was referring to this userpage on incubator. I remember that in this userpage as well as in other userpages, for Urdu under Babel table, the link is rightly placed for the Urdu language. But the display is wrong - it is English (انگریزی) instead of Urdu (اردو).

Can anybody help me with the correction display of the language name? --Muzammil (talk) 13:46, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

You can fix it here. I would do it for you but I'm busy right now, sorry. PiRSquared17 (talk) 13:55, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Hindustanilanguage, I've fixed it for you :) --Stryn (talk) 14:11, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
@Stryn: Just checked Users:By_language:ur. for Urdu under Babel table, the link is rightly placed for the Urdu language. But the display is wrong - it is English (انگریزی) instead of Urdu (اردو). Probably you've corrected for User-N but User-1,2,3,4 and 5 need to corrected. Please make the changes on TranslateWiki. --Muzammil (talk) 10:10, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
@Hindustanilanguage: Seems fine to me. Perhaps the changes from translatewiki were not affected yet at the time when you checked it (it usually takes few days). Can you confirm it's ok now? --Stryn (talk) 16:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
@Stryn: I think the screenshot and description should make things fine for you. --Muzammil (talk) 08:43, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
@Hindustanilanguage: Strange... How I see it is here. Maybe you should purge your cache? --Stryn (talk) 10:33, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
@Stryn: Thank you very much!Thank you very much!. Now it's fine. --Muzammil (talk) 19:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

ORCID

I've created a userbox, {{User ORCID}} for users who have an ORCID identifier. You can see it in use on my user page. ORCID identifiers disambiguate contributors with similar names, and unify the works of people who have published under different names. Anyone may sign up for one, free, and I encourage you to do so, and to display it using this template. More information on the use of ORCID identifiers by Wikimedia project editors may be found at w:en:WP:ORCID. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Logo changes on eu:Wikipedia

Hi! We recently made our 200.000th article and we want to put this file as logo. Can someone unblock it? -Theklan (talk) 08:30, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Do you mean changing the logo at the top left corner? If so, you could do that easily by adding the following code to eu:MediaWiki:Common.css. Before it is implemented, make sure that there is full consensus for it and that the file is fully-protected at Commons.
#p-logo a {
	background-image: url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Euskarazko_Wikipedia_200.000.png)!important;
}
--Glaisher (talk) 15:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Fresh category members tool idea

Hi. I'd like to (and I'm almost in the process of) write a tool which would show latest category members -- with subcats, recursively -- for new page patrol purposes. It would be a web app where you type a wiki name and category name and get a list of category members sorted by time. Later on I'd have to implement pages (if there's too many) or limit the time frame. Is this worth doing given that categories would move to Wikibase soon? If so, how soon? Thoughts? (P.S. Please distribute to sister projects village pumps). Gryllida 07:34, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Partially dedicated WMF mainframer

I have initiated a proposal here for a Dedicated Programming Compiler, Grants:IEG/Dedicated Programming Compiler that may be possible either with appropriate firewalls using the WMF mainframe or a dedicated standalone. We are looking for a partially dedicated WMF mainframer who may be able to help install various (one or more) programming language compilers. These compilers or interpreters can then be used for teaching computer programming courses or lessons at Wikiversity. Any suggestions, comments, criticisms, or personnel recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Or, are those at WMF paid already to do this if the proposal is approved so that proposal funds may be used elsewhere? Marshallsumter (talk) 14:52, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

New wikipedia "wikipedia bahasa semende"

How about make new wiki with other language wich not yet haven in Wikipedia like "Wikipedia bahasa semende" — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Az marzuq (talk)

@Az marzuq: If the language has an ISO code and enough native speakers to form a community and audience, you can propose the creation of a Wikipedia in that language at Requests for new languages. --Yair rand (talk) 03:02, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Assessing mobile edits on Hindi Wikipedia

Hello, there has interesting discussions in the press and the electronic media about the viewership and mobile edits on Hindi Wikipedia.

Can somebody help with a query to know the real extent of edits on this Wikipedia. Else, the information estimates might not give an accurate picture. --Muzammil (talk) 19:12, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

User:Maryana (WMF) and User:Deskana (WMF) both deal with mobile editing. One of them might be able to get the information that you would like. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:54, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
@Hindustanilanguage: Hi there! So, all mobile edits on all Wikimedia wikis are tagged. These tags allow you to filter the edits. For example, this list will show you all edits made to the Hindi Wikipedia using either the mobile web interface or the mobile app, and you'll see that each edit also includes another tag that tells you specifically whether it was made through web or apps. If you want more information than that provided by the tags, you'll have to be more specific about what it is that you want and why you want it. Hopefully that helps. --Dan Garry, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:59, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
@DGarry (WMF), Maryana (WMF), and Whatamidoing (WMF):, thanks for the info, but I already knew that information. I need a more classified info such as:
  1. No. of Mobile editors
  2. Monthly Mobile edits
  3. New articles created through Mobile edits
  4. Nature of Mobile edits - major / minor.
Regards, --Muzammil (talk) 09:11, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Statistics has the links you're looking for. And now Limn even has deep links at last, wow, so I can link you directly, in order:
  1. http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/edits-monthly-active-editors ,
  2. http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/monthly-contributions ,
  3. no idea,
  4. is there even a minor edit checkbox? --Nemo 09:17, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi Nemo,

  • Does 1 & 2 pertain specifically to HiWP or is it an overview of all Wikis / Wikipedias?
  • For normal WP edits, I see checkbox "This is a minor edit". Categorization/ decategorization through Hotcat is automatically marked as minor. --Muzammil (talk) 18:04, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
  • All wikis. There may be similar graphs for hi.wiki somewhere but I don't remember right now.
  • Yes, but on Mobile? I doubt HotCat is available on Mobile, is it. --Nemo 18:08, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Nemo, but please, if you ever get HiWP-specific info, please post a message, here before the bot cuts the discussion abruptly, or on my talkpage, afterwards. --Muzammil (talk) 19:49, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Most viewed articles - Hindi Wikipedia not included

Hello. http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitrends/2013.html list does not include Hindi and many other Indian language while it includes Vietnamese and Slovak Wikipedia. Please include Hindi as well. --Muzammil (talk) 09:30, 30 September 2014 (UTC)