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Ready for translation: Education Newsletter March 2024[edit]
March 2024 education newsletter released for translation. Please help our readers to read education newsletter in their native language. The latest education newsletter is ready for translation: here, Newsletter headlines link for translation: here, Individual articles for translation: Category:Education/Newsletter/March 2024. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 07:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Ready for translation: Education Newsletter April 2024[edit]
April 2024 education newsletter released for translation. Please help our readers to read education newsletter in their native language. The latest education newsletter is ready for translation: here Newsletter headlines link for translation: here (please translate by May 14, 2024) Individual articles for translation: Category:Education/Newsletter/April 2024. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 03:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC[edit]
Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.
We look forward to your participation!
MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
Msg delivery, mediewiki[edit]
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- What are you trying to explain in this context? Codename Noreste 🤔 La Suma 19:40, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Troll post, probably. --SHB2000 (t • c) 12:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Codename Noreste 201.175.148.135 12:19, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle[edit]
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Dear community members,
The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.
You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF) 02:24, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hi everyone! We are the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. We work on making it easier to read Wikimedia projects as part of the objective "Reading and media experience" of the current year’s annual plan. To achieve this goal, we have introduced the "Accessibility for Reading" beta feature. It adds a menu which works on the Vector 2022 skin and allows logged-in users to choose different font sizes and color schemes based on individual needs.
The menu introduces a new Standard font setting. It slightly increases the size and height of the font. It was selected based on multiple sources. You will find more information on this in the section "About the new Standard font setting".
What will change
- We are now ready to make the new Appearance menu available for logged-out and logged-in users.
- At the same time, we will also make the Standard option the new default for logged-out users only.
- If no breaking technical issues are found, we plan on making this change within the next two weeks.
- Later, this menu will also include the option to select dark mode, which for the time being will remain a beta feature. For more information, check out our project page.
About the menu
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The new menu will allow logged-in and logged-out users to set preferences for:
This menu has been tested as a beta feature by logged-in users across wikis as well as in user testing with readers. Based on the findings of these tests, we changed the menu to improve discoverability and ease of use, and to accommodate gadget compatibility. The menu will appear to the right of the page, immediately under the Tools menu if that has been pinned. Unlike the Tools menu, the Appearance menu is pinned by default, but can be unpinned. Once unpinned, it collapses under an icon at the top of the page. |
About the new Standard font setting
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The "Small" option is the current default. We will be changing this default to "Standard" for logged-out users, while keeping "Small" as the default for logged-in users. The "Standard" and "Large" options were built and tested based on the following:
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Our works so far and next steps
Logged-in users will remain with the "small" setting for the time being as their default, but can change to any other setting at any time. In a few months, we will study how many logged-in users switch to standard and start a conversation on whether it makes sense for logged-in users to make the switch as well. From the early data from the beta feature, 55% of sessions who interacted with the feature chose to use a setting that was standard or larger.
If you'd like to help, we have a few simple requests for you:
- Please, turn on the beta feature ("Accessibility for Reading (Vector 2022)")
- Try out the new menu. Is anything confusing? Do you understand all the labels and how the menu works?
- Try out the small, standard, and large sizes, the color schemes, and the width toggle. Reach out to us if you notice any bugs, or have questions or concerns.
If you'd like to learn more about the project, see our FAQ. Comments and questions are most welcome. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 23:34, 28 May 2024 (UTC)