Ah3kal

Γεια χαρά! Αυτή είναι η σελίδα συζήτησής μου. Μπορείτε να ξεκινήσετε ένα νέο θέμα (ενότητα) πατώντας εδώ Προκειμένου να διατηρούνται οι συζητήσεις ολόκληρες, σε ένα μέρος: ♦ Αν άφησα ένα μήνυμα στη δική σας σελίδα συζήτησης, απαντήστε μου εκεί φροντίζοντας να έχετε βάλει ειδοποίηση (σύνδεσμο στο όνομα χρήστη μου και υπογραφή σας). ♦ Αν γράψατε εσείς ένα μήνυμα εδώ, θα απαντήσω εδώ, και θα φροντήσω να λάβετε αυτόματη ειδοποίηση. ♦ Αν ανοίξετε νέα συζήτηση μην ξεχάσετε παρακαλώ να βάλετε επικεφαλίδα (χρησιμοποιώντας == ==)! Η σελίδα συζήτησής μου αρχειοθετείται αυτόματα από το Ah3kal.Archive.bot, ωστόσο κάποιες συζητήσεις ενδέχεται να διαγράφονται, αν αναζητάτε κάτι που είπαμε εδώ και δεν το βρίσκετε, κοιτάξτε στο ιστορικό ή στο αρχείο ↓. Φιλικά, Ah3kal

Αρχείο: 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019-2021(flow) • 2023-2024

Copyrights αρχείου

Ομολογώ πως με έχει μπερδέψει το αιτιολογικό εδώ. Προσωπικά, δεν θεωρώ πως είναι αρκετό ώστε να τεκμηριωθεί εύλογη χρήση ή να εξασφαλισθεί άδεια συμβατή με τα προβλεπόμενα εντός του εγχειρήματος. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 10:50, 11 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης: Δεν χρειάζεται εύλογη χρήση, το αρχείο είναι ελεύθερο και μπορεί άνετα να ανέβει στα commons. Ο Ταμπτάκος ήταν αναρχικός και η φωτογραφία του Στίνα είναι από βιβλίο για αυτόν που εκδόθηκε από αναρχική συλλογικότητα. [1] Στο βιβλίο αναφέρονται επι λέξη αυτά που γράφει και στην άδεια: «Anti-copyright: Η χρήση του υλικού αυτού του βιβλίου είναι ελεύθερη, αρκεί να αναφέρεται η πηγή. Το βιβλίο διανέμεται και σε ανοιχτό ψηφιακό αρχείο, όπως και το ιστορικό φωτογραφικό υλικό του Γιάννη Ταμτάκου». Το οποίο νομίζω ότι είναι συμβατό με την αδεία που έχει. Δεν νομίζω ότι μπορεί να υπάρχει αμφιβολία ότι το φωτογραφικό αρχείο τους το διέθεσε ελεύθερα ο Ταμτάκος. και δεν έχουμε λόγο να αμφιβάλουμε ότι η φωτογραφία είναι όντως από το αρχείο του. Το αν έχει ή όχι τα δικαιώματα, (δηλ ποιος είναι ο φωτογράφος κτλ) νομίζω ότι από την στιγμή που η ευθύνη είναι στην έκδοση δεν πρέπει να μας απασχολεί. Ο εκδότης με δική του ευθύνη μας λέει ότι το κείμενο και το φωτογραφικό αρχείο είναι ελεύθερο, και αν δεν έχουμε κάποιο λόγο να το αμφισβητήσουμε, το δεχόμαστε. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 11:12, 11 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ναι, αυτή ακριβώς ήταν η ένστασή μου, επί της ουσίας. Δηλαδή, άλλο πράγμα ο εκδότης και άλλο ο φωτογράφος. Ο φωτογράφος, άνετα, θα μπορούσε να είναι φωτογράφος ο οποίος έχει νομικά κατοχυρωμένα τα δικαιώματα των έργων-φωτογραφιών του, ασχέτως εάν η συλλογικότητα που εξέδωσε το εν λόγω βιβλίο δεν (φαίνεται να) πιστεύει στον θεσμό-έννοια των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων. ΥΓ. Στα Commons, θεωρητικά, δεν νομίζω πως θα μπορούσε να ανέβει, καθώς οποιαδήποτε αμφιβολία περί του καθεστώτος των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων είναι κατά του αρχείου και όχι υπέρ της παραμονής του στα Commons. Αυτό, τουλάχιστον, είναι κάτι το οποίο έχω δει και διαπιστώσει να χρησιμοποιείται ως επιχείρημα εκεί. Εδώ ένα λινκ όπου το εξηγεί, αν και μάλλον απλοϊκά. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 11:18, 11 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Δεν είναι ακριβώς έτσι, γιατί στην περίπτωση αυτή ο εκδότης αναφέρει ρητά ότι ελεύθερο είναι και το κείμενο και το φωτογραφικό αρχείο. Οπότε αν δεν υπάρχει απόδειξη περί του αντιθέτου δεχόμαστε ότι έχει και τα δικαιώματα του αρχείου. Είναι όπως όταν ανεβαίνει μια εικόνα που υπάρχει και αλλού και στέλνει κάποιος email λέγοντας ότι είναι δική του. Αν δεν έχουμε σοβαρό λόγο (=αποδείξεις ότι λέει ψέμματα) το δεχόμαστε. Έτσι και εδώ δεχόμαστε τον λόγο του εκδότη από την στιγμή που δεν έχουμε κάποια απόδειξη ή έστω ένδειξη ότι λέει ψέμματα (Δηλαδή να ξέρουμε π.χ. ότι για μία από τις φωτογραφίες του βιβλίου έχει στην πραγματικότητα άλλος τα δικαιώματα και άρα χάνεται η αξιοπιστία γενικά της δήλωσης του εκδότη). Η ευθύνη άλλωστε έχει μετατοπιστεί από εμάς στον εκδότη και αν αποδειχτεί στο μέλλον ότι δεν είναι έτσι, εμείς απλά διαγράφουμε τότε την εικόνα. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 11:28, 11 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [2][3]
• After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [4]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [5]
• Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [6]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [7][8]

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Worldcat

Καλησπέρα και πάλι και από εδώ. Έχω παρατηρήσει εδώ και κάποιο καιρό πως - μάλλον; - πρέπει να έχει γίνει κάποια αλλαγή στο worldcat στην αρχιτεκτονική του ιστότοπου, καθώς, πλέον, οι σύνδεσμοι προς αυτό που δίδονται μέσω του προτύπου "authority control" δεν λειτουργούν. Ίσως φαντάζομαι να χρειάζεται αντικατάσταση το url; 😕🤷‍♂️ 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 19:24, 12 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Μπορείς να μου δώσεις ένα παράδειγμα γιατί δεν βρίσκω πρόχειρο. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 02:12, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Εδώ κάτω κάτω στην μπάρα, ενδεικτικά, εάν πατήσεις το λινκ του worldcat ύστερα από φόρτωμα άνω του κανονικού σε βγάζει ένα error 404, οπότε προφανώς κάτι πρέπει να πηγαίνει λάθος. Εὐθυμένης Β΄ (συζήτηση) 11:08, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Β΄: Δεν ξέρω αν είναι κάτι που μπορεί να λυθεί τοπικά και πως. Και από τα wikidata αν πας κατευθείαν, πάλι δεν δουλεύουν οι σύνδεσμοι. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 11:24, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ναι, το έχω προσθέσει και με τη σχολή μου πως το ψαχτήρι τους θέλει - ουσιαστικά - διπλή προσπάθεια και κόπι-πέιστ με τον χέρι από την κεντρική σελίδα του ιστότοπου προκειμένου να βγει άκρη. Κρίμα και ελπίζω πραγματικά να το φτιάξουν σύντομα για όσο λιγότερη ταλαιπωρία γίνεται όλων. 😕 Εὐθυμένης Β΄ (συζήτηση) 11:26, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Arsmusique (09:42, 13 Μαρτίου 2024)

Πώς καταχωρώ το τραγούδι και τους υπόλοιπους συντελεστές ενός εκδομένου τραγουδιού στο λήμμα του ενός από αυτούς (και γνωστού στιχουργού) ; Ευχαριστώ ! --Arsmusique (συζήτηση) 09:42, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Arsmusique Καλημέρα, δεν κατάλαβα ακριβώς τι θέλεις να κάνεις. Μπορείς να μου πεις πιο συγκεκριμμένα; Θέλεις στο λήμμα ενός τραγουδιού να βάλεις τον στιχουργό; Στο πλαίσιο πληροφοριών ή κείμενο; Ή κάτι άλλο; —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 09:48, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Είμαι μουσικός ,δεν έχω ξανασχοληθεί με την wikipedia, και μπαίνοντας τυχαία στο λήμμα συνεργάτη μου στιχουργού (με τον οποίο έχουμε φτιάξει 2 τραγούδια μαζί )συγκεκριμένα στη Δισκογραφία του, σκέφτηκα να τα καταχωρήσω.Ρωτάω αν μπορώ και πώς. Arsmusique (συζήτηση) 10:31, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Γενικά η επεξεργασία είναι εύκολη. Πατώντας «επεξεργασία» όταν βρίσκεσαι στο λήμμα που θες μπορείς να το επεξεργαστείς. Μπορείς να βρεις πληροφορίες και στο Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή στην επεξεργασία με VisualEditor/1 για την απλή επεξεργασία ή και στο Βοήθεια:Κώδικας wiki σχετικά με την επεξεργασία κώδικα. Ωστόσο αν πρόκειται για πληροφορίες που αφορούν εσένα καλό είναι να έχεις υπόψη σου την πολιτική Βικιπαίδεια:Σύγκρουση κινήτρων —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 10:46, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

ΥΓ. ping @Arsmusique —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 10:48, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ! 2A02:587:1E4D:7600:9C5F:7DBC:83F5:99E7 17:41, 13 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Πατριάρχης Βουλγαρίας Νεόφυτος

Καλημέρα. Έχεις δίκιο, απλώς δεν άνοιγε το συγκεκριμένο site επανειλημμένα. Επέμενα, όπως καταλαβαίνεις, γιατί πρόκειται για πολλή σημαντική πληροφορία, που αν δεν ήταν, θα αμαύρωνε το πρόσωπο του οποιουδήποτε, ακόμη περισσότερο ενός Πατριάρχη. Καλή συνέχεια. Spartacos31 (συζήτηση) 09:36, 14 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

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Recent changes

• The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [9]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [10]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [11][12][13]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [14]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [16][17]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [18][19]

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Πρότυπο

Καλησπέρα, εδώ βλέπω πρέπει να έχει γίνει κάποιο λάθος με τον τίτλο του χρησιμοποιούμενου προτύπου, δηλαδή, "ονότητα" αντί του σωστού "οντότητα". 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 17:52, 20 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Ευχαριστώ, το διόρθωσα —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 17:54, 20 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

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Recent changes

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [20][21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 25 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Όνομα χρήστη

Καλησπέρα, πριν από περίπου έναν μήνα είχα αφήσει προσωπικό μήνυμα στον χρήστη εδώ, ωστόσο, όπως είναι εύκολα ορατό καμία ενέργεια σχετική δεν έχει γίνει και καμία προσπάθεια μετονομασίας παρά μόνο κανονική πάνω κάτω τακτική συνεισφορά. Οπότε, τώρα τί; 😕🤷‍♂️ 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 21:32, 26 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης, κανονικά φραγή αλλά χωρίς να γίνει φραγή σελίδας συζήτησης και email ώστε να μπορεί να υπάρξει επικοινωνία από δω και πέρα αν θελήσει παραπάνω οδηγίες.—Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 01:20, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ελπίζω να ήταν όπως πρέπει το συνοδευτικό-επεξηγητικό μήνυμα της φραγής. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 11:55, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Μια χαρά! Με αφορμή αυτό, ως προς το χρονικό του θέματος, είχα σκεφτεί κάποτε μήπως πρέπει να έχουμε μια κοινή υποσελίδα στο ΣΔ όπου να καταγράφονται τέτοιες εκκρεμότητες που έχει δοθεί προθεσμία ώστε να μπορεί κάθε διαχειριστής να έχει εικόνα αν θέλει, και κυρίως για να μην ξεχαστεί κάποια υπόθεση. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 14:01, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Ah3kal: Ναι, εξαιρετική ιδέα. Ένα πράγμα πχ. όπως έχουμε τα boxes για τα αχρησιμοποίητα αρχεία κ.ο.κ. Ειλικρινά, άμα δεν έβλεπα επεξεργασίες του χρήση χθες βράδυ και δεν μου έκανε "κλικ" το όνομα, αφού είδα και το μήνυμα στη σελίδα συζήτησής του, παίζει να το είχα ξεχάσει εντελώς. 😅🤔 Βέβαια, από εκεί και πέρα το ερώτημα είναι το εξής... Φτιάχνουμε συγκεκριμένο πρότυπο-μήνυμα ειδοποίησης με πολύ συγκεκριμένο wording/phrasing που κατηγοριοποιεί τις σχετικές "παρεμβάσεις" ώστε να τις βρίσκουμε ή απλά έχουμε ανοιχτή μία σελίδα σαν πίνακα που ο καθένας πάει και προσθέτει τα δικά του; 😕 Προσωπικά, θα θεωρούσα το πρώτο ως καλύτερη επιλογή αν και περισσότερο απρόσωπη είναι η αλήθεια... 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 14:06, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Το σκέφτηκα αυτό με το πρότυπο, αλλά αν ο χρήστης αδειάσει την σελίδα και δεν το καταλάβει κάποιος (αφού το άδειασμα σελίδας συζήτησης γενικά είναι επιτρεπτό) φεύγει και το πρότυπο, οπότε προσωπικά τείνω περισσότερο στην δημιουργία καταλόγου. Δυο τρεις υποθέσεις που είχα διαχειριστεί εγώ τις είχα βάλει σε υποσελίδα μου αλλά θα προτιμούσα κάτι κοινόχρηστο ώστε να μπορεί άλλος διαχειριστής να αναλάβει αν εγώ ξεχαστώ ή απουσιάσω για καιρό. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 14:17, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Μήπως κάτι σε σκριπτάκι με ημιαυτοματοποιημένη προσθήκη; 🤔 Βλέπε πχ. το ισχύων σύστημα στα Commons με τις προτάσεις συζήτησης διαγραφής που με ένα κλικ έχουμε όλο το "πακέτο", δλδ. πρόταση, κατηγοροποίηση στις προτάσεις ημέρας και ενημέρωση του εμπλεκόμενου συντάκτη... Εντάξει μετά, προφανώς, εννοώ να το προσαρμόσουμε στις ανάγκες της περίστασης της δικής μας πάντα... 😅 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 14:21, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Αυτό θα ήταν τέλειο, αλλά δεν έχω τις τεχνικές ικανότητες να το κάνω να δουλέψει. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 14:25, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ναι, ούτε εγώ πολύ δυστυχώς. 😕 Και δεν ξέρω πώς θα μπορούσα άμα και εφόσον υπάρχει κάτι αντίστοιχο στην fr@wiki για να μεταφέρω προς τα εδώ. 😐 Η αλήθεια είναι πως δεν έχουμε πολλούς χρήστες (πλέον;) που να είναι οκ ή πρόθυμοι να κάνουν παρόμοια χαμαλοδουλειά. 🤔 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 14:28, 27 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Συγνώμη

Είναι ένας βάνδαλος αποδεδειγμένα χρήστης (παρακολούθησα τις συνεισφορές του), μου έβρισε τη Μάνα και εσύ του ρίχνεις μια βδομάδα μόνο?

Συγνώμη αλλά δεν συμφωνώ. Αόριστα είναι η σωστή ποινή χωρίς δεύτερη κουβέντα. Montigliani (συζήτηση) 13:44, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Montigliani Αν ξανακάνει κάτι όταν επιστρέψει θα φραγεί. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 13:46, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Θα το ξανακάνει να είσαι σίγουρος. Για μένα αυτός δεν υπάρχει κι αν τον συναντούσα θα έκοβα τη γλώσσα. Αυτό όμως είναι δικό μου θέμα. Τα λήμματα όμως είναι δικό σας και θα τα βανδαλίσει ξανά και ξανά. Montigliani (συζήτηση) 13:57, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Montigliani Αν επαναλάβεις απειλές για φυσική βία θα φραγείς και εσύ. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 14:03, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Διέγραψε σε παρακαλώ και τη σελίδα συζήτησής μου https://el.wiki.x.io/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CF%87%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7:Montigliani για να μη μου τη λερώνει αυτό το σίχαμα και συγνώμη για τη συμπεριφορά μου. Montigliani (συζήτηση) 14:06, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ. Montigliani (συζήτηση) 19:43, 29 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

Ματιά

Καλησπέρα, εάν μπορείς σε παρακαλώ ρίξε μία ματιά εδώ. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 16:42, 31 Μαρτίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Δεν ξέρω, δεν έχω άποψη, από πρόχειρη ματιά μου φαίνεται χρήσιμος ως εξωτερικός σύνδεσμος. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 04:30, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Για να είμαι ειλικρινής, ούτε κ εγώ είμαι πολύ βέβαιος για το τί ακριβώς να πιστέψω. Έχει την εικόνα, είναι αλήθεια, ως προς ορισμένα χαρακτηριστικά, "σπαμαρίσματος", αλλά από την άλλη δεν έχω σαφή εικόνα για το πόσο καλό ή όχι είναι ποιοτικά. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 09:40, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης Ίσως να το θέσεις στην Αγορά για να το δουν και συντάκτες που ασχολούνται με τον κινηματογράφο και που μπορεί να έχουν πιο εμπεριστατωμένη άποψη. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 09:43, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Σίγουρα, εδώ έχεις ένα δίκιο. Απλά, από την άλλη πλευρά, δεν μου αρέσει να "κρεμάω με τα μανταλάκια" δημοσίως έτσι πράγματα. Και επειδή "μας διαβάζουν πολλοί" εννοείται. Γι'αυτό προτιμώ, πρώτα, να σιγουρευτώ με κατ'ιδίαν αν και δημόσιες συζητήσεις, για αρχή. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 09:46, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Κηπευτικά

Με βάση αυτά τα τρία λινκ ([22], [23], [24]) είναι αλήθεια με ενδιαφέρει λίγο να γράψω μερικές λέξεις για το θέμα αυτό - το οποίο έχει αποσιωπηθεί στο ομώνυμο λήμμα - ακριβώς για να φύγουμε λίγο από το επίπεδο του "αστικού μύθου" στο οποίο βρίσκεται η συγκεκριμένη ιστορία, συνήθως, γενικά. 😅 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 10:03, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@Εὐθυμένης τελευταία φορά που ήμουν ενήμερος για το ποδόσφαιρο ήταν ακόμα χίλια εννιακόσια ενενηντακάτι, αν δεν υπήρχε το Euro 2004 ούτε αυτόν δεν θα τον ήξερα. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 11:36, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Αααα, μάλιστα. OK, no worries. Καλά μην νομίζεις, ούτε κι εγώ είμαι κανένας "καμμένος", μακριά από μένα τέτοια φαινόμενα. 😅😂😂 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 11:43, 1 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [26][27]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:36, 2 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Παεης στην Φεγγάρι στα δίχτυα (18:36, 8 Απριλίου 2024)

Γειά --Παεης (συζήτηση) 18:36, 8 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Γειά σου. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 02:54, 9 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [28][29]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [30]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [31][32]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [33]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 8 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Stavrosganotis (15:25, 13 Απριλίου 2024)

Χαιρετώ, Ονομάζομαι Σταύρος Γανωτής και δεν είναι κρυφό πως είμαι ο διευθυντής του κινηματογραφικού ιστότοπου-βάσης δεδομένων filmy.gr. Εάν ως χρήστης της Βικιπαίδεια αναρτώ κάποιον -εξωτερικό πάντα αλλά και ποτέ "εμφυτευμένο" σε κείμενο- σύνδεσμο προς τον ιστότοπο μου, αντιτίθεμαι σε κάποιον κανονισμό σας; Πάντα αυτό που αναρτώ είναι πιστεύω συνεπές με τη φύση της αντίστοιχης σελίδας, και πάντα προσφέρει έγκυρη πηγή πληροφορίας. Άλλωστε, δεν είναι τυχαίο ότι παρότι αυτό εκκίνησα να το κάνω μόλις αυτό τον μήνα, υπάρχουν ήδη εκατοντάδες λινκ στη Βικιπαιδεία που αφορούν προσωπική μου δουλειά, από τον καιρό ήδη που ήμουν αρχισυντάκτης του cine.gr, πόσο μάλλον και ως κριτικός, που είναι και η βασική μου ιδιότητα εδώ και 17 χρόνια. Και ειλικρινά, δεν ήμουν εγώ ή κάποιος συνεργάτης μου που τα αναρτούσε. Εάν παρόλα αυτά είμαι εκτός πλαισίου, ζητώ ειλικρινά συγνώμη και την απεγγράφη μου από τη Βικιπαιδεία. Με βαθιά εκτίμηση για τη δουλειά σας (ασχέτως τι θα μου απαντήσετε), Σταύρος Γανωτής --Stavrosganotis (συζήτηση) 15:25, 13 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@Stavrosganotis Καλησπέρα, (1) από την στιγμή που ο ιστότοπος είναι δικός σας γενικά δεν συνίσταται να τοποθετήσετε εσείς συνδέσμους, είτε με λογαριασμό είτε ασύνδετος γιατί υπάρχει σύγκρουση κινήτρων (2) και κυριότερο, η μαζική εισαγωγή συνδέσμων σε πολλά λήμματα γενικά δεν είναι καλή ιδέα, ιδίως αν προέρχεται από ένα χρήστη, δηλαδή ακόμα και αν π.χ. εγώ αποφάσιζα να βάλω τον σύνδεσμο ταυτόχρονα σε πολλά λήμματα θα ήταν προβληματικό παρόλο που δεν έχω σχέση με τον ιστότοπο. Η καθιέρωση του συνδέσμου ως σύνδεσμος που τυπικά μπαίνει σε λήμματα ηθοποιών όπως π.χ. το IMDB θα πρέπει να γίνει μέσω συλλογικής συζήτησης ή ακόμα καλύτερα χωρίς βία, αυθόρμητα, αν μπει ανεξάρτητα σε βάθος χρόνου από πολλούς χρήστες σε πολλά λήμματα.

Τέλος, δεν έχω άποψη για τον ιστότοπο καθώς δεν ασχολούμαι με τον κινηματογράφο, οπότε η γνώμη μου είναι να αφήσετε τον χρόνο να δείξει. Αν ο ιστότοπος κριθεί χρήσιμος για τα λήμματα της Βικιπαίδειας θα χρησιμοποιηθεί από τους χρήστες που λημματογραφούν για τον κινηματογράφο. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 20:46, 13 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Αναιρέθηκε" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [34][35]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [36][37]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [38]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [39]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [40]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:29, 15 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Κοντος12 στην Αθήνα (07:15, 17 Απριλίου 2024)

Θέλω να με ξεμπλοκάρεις και να κάνουμε μαζί επεξεργασίες όπου χρειάζεται στο βικιπαίδεια .τις πληροφορίες τις παίρνω από βιβλία της γλώσσας και της γεωγραφίας αυτό που σου λέω θέλω να το πεις στο cubic star όταν το δεις στείλε μήνυμα. --Κοντος12 (συζήτηση) 07:15, 17 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@Κοντος12 Είτε τα βιβλία είναι λάθος είτε διαβάζεις λάθος τις πληροφορίες, και μόνο που βάζεις σε κάποιες πόλεις διπλάσιο πληθυσμό από ότι στο 2011 θα έπρεπε να σε υποψιάσει. Πλέον δημοσιεύτηκαν τα πλήρη επίσημα αποτελέσματα της απογραφής του 2021 εδώ [41]. Όταν λήξει η φραγή σου μπορείς να τα χρησιμοποιήσεις με προσοχή αφού έχεις κατανοήσει την διαφορά μεταξύ δήμου, δημοτικής κοινότητας και οικισμού/πόλης. Άλλο π.χ. ο Δήμος Κομοτηνής, άλλο η Δημοτική Ενότητα Κομοτηνής άλλο Δημοτική Κοινότητα Κομοτηνής και άλλο η Κομοτηνή, στο λήμμα Κομοτηνή θα μπει πληθυσμός 51.732 και όχι 54.165 ούτε 60.160 ούτε 65.243, αν βάζεις τους πληθυσμούς ανάκατα ακόμα και άθελά σου υποβαθμίζεται η Βικιπαίδεια, για αυτό και οι φραγές. Τέλος μέχρι να λήξει η φραγή σου μην συνεισφέρεις από άλλο λογαριασμό. Όταν λήξει, δήλωσε με ποιον λογαριασμό θέλεις να συνεχίσεις ώστε οι υπόλοιποι να φραγούν μόνιμα. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 01:17, 18 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από MinasMalatos (20:26, 17 Απριλίου 2024)

Γειά Πως μπορώ να φτιάξω μια σελίδα? --MinasMalatos (συζήτηση) 20:26, 17 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@MinasMalatos: Γειά σου! Δες την σελίδα Βοήθεια:Πώς να δημιουργήσετε μια σελίδα καθώς και Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος και Βικιπαίδεια:Το πρώτο σου λήμμα —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 01:08, 18 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Κοντος12 στην Αθήνα (18:16, 18 Απριλίου 2024)

Με την αποσαφήνιση δεν δίνεις καθαρή απάντηση για το τι είναι αθηνα --Κοντος12 (συζήτηση) 18:16, 18 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [42]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [43][44]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Ειδικό:ΗΣελίδαΜου/vector.js to Ειδικό:ΗΣελίδαΜου/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [45]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:28, 22 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Giannis095088 (17:18, 28 Απριλίου 2024)

Καλησπερα, νοριτερα το απογευμα σημερα αλλαξα τη σελιδα του Άκη Σακελλαρίου, με λιγα λογια προσθεσα το οτι επεξε στο θεατρο "ο κυκλος των χαμενων ποιητων" και καποιος μετα απο 1-2 λεπτα αφερεσε (σχεδον) ολη την κατηγορια στη σελιδα του Άκη Σακελλαρίου "θεατρο", πως το αντιστρεφω; εχει πολλες ανερεσεις. --Giannis095088 (συζήτηση) 17:18, 28 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

@Giannis095088, τα περιεχόμενα στα οποία αναφέρεσαι αφαιρέθηκαν με την αιτιολογία ότι δεν τεκμηριώνονταν. Μπορείς να ξαναπροσθέσεις ότι πιστεύεις ότι ταιριάζει στο λήμμα προσθέτοντας την κατάλληλη τεκμηρίωση. Μπορείς να διαβάσεις τη σελίδα Βικιπαίδεια:Επαληθευσιμότητα —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 05:24, 30 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Helen00helen (10:07, 29 Απριλίου 2024)

σας ευχαριστω

Tech News: 2024-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Εμφάνιση δραστηριότητας συζήτησης"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [46]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Βικιπαίδεια in Betawi (w:bew:) [47]
  • a Βικιπαίδεια in Kusaal (w:kus:) [48]
  • a Βικιπαίδεια in Igala (w:igl:) [49]
  • a Βικιλεξικό in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [50]
  • a Βικιθήκη in Burmese (s:my:) [51]
  • a Βικιθήκη in Malay (s:ms:) [52]
  • a Βικιθήκη in Georgian (s:ka:) [53]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [54]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [55]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [56][57]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 30 Απριλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Γιώργος Γιουβρής (15:33, 4 Μαΐου 2024)

Θα ήθελα να σας ρωτήσω δύο ερωτήσεις 1. Σε δύο σελίδες της βικιπαίδειας πάτησα το αστεράκι και μου είπε ότι τώρα θα της παρακολουθώ. Το θέμα είναι ότι δεν ξέρω που να πατήσω για να τις ξαναβρώ χωρίς να της αναζητήσω. 2. Επιθυμώ να αλλάξω το όνομα μου στην βηκηπαίδια --Γιώργος Γιουβρής (συζήτηση) 15:33, 4 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

@Γιώργος Γιουβρής: Καλησπέρα, οι σελίδες που έχεις προσθέσει για παρακολούθηση εμφανίζονται στο Ειδικό:ΕπεξεργασίαΛίσταςΠαρακολούθησης. Μπορείς να βρεις αυτόν τον σύνδεσμο πάνω δεξιά, το δεύτερο εικονίδιο είναι η λίστα παρακολούθησης. Για να αλλάξει το όνομα χρήστη πρέπει να κάνεις αίτηση στο Ειδικό:GlobalRenameRequest —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 19:40, 4 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Πειραιας

θέλω να εγκρίνεις την αλλαγή που εκανα στην ιστοσελίδα του Πειραιά στη βικιπαιδεια επειδή και στην αρχαιότητα είχε το ίδιο ονομα 46.177.7.93 16:01, 5 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Εμφάνιση δραστηριότητας συζήτησης"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [58][59]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [60]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [61]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [62][63]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [64]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [65]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:44, 6 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Christosk92 στην Evania appendigaster (20:48, 8 Μαΐου 2024)

Γειά σας, πως θα μπορούσα να βάλω φωτογραφία σχετικά με μία δημοσίευση που δημιούργησα; Για την ακρίβεια, στην αγγλική δημοσίευση υπάρχει φωτογραφία και κατηγορίες που δεν πέρασαν στην Ελληνική μετάφραση και θέλω να τις περάσω. --Christosk92 (συζήτηση) 20:48, 8 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Christosk92 (00:11, 9 Μαΐου 2024)

Στο ένα λήμμα "Τίπουλα" έχω κάνει λάθος τον τόνο στον τίτλο, το σωστό είναι "Τιπούλα" όμως δεν μπορώ να το αλλάξω. Και στο λήμμα "evania appendigaster" δυστυχώς δεν μπόρεσα να καταφέρω να βάλω τον πίνακα με τις κατηγορίες που υπάρχει στολην αγγλική μετάφραση. Αν μπορείτε κάποια βοήθεια. --Christosk92 (συζήτηση) 00:11, 9 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από ΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΑΚΗ (10:46, 13 Μαΐου 2024)

Καλησπέρα σας! Θέλω να ανεβάσω μια πιο πρόσφατη φωτογραφία σε μια βιογραφία. Πως μπορώ να το κάνω? Αυτή η φωτογραφία σε ποια μορφή και ανάλυση πρέπει να είναι? Αλλάζει ταυτόχρονα σε όσες γλώσσες δημοσιεύεται ήδη ή πρέπει να το επαναλάβω? Ευχαριστώ Σοφία Στεφανάκη --ΣΟΦΙΑ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΑΚΗ (συζήτηση) 10:46, 13 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [66]
• If you use the user-preference "Χρήση άμεσης προεπισκόπησης (JavaScript) (πειραματικό)", then the template-page feature "Προεπισκόπιση σελίδας με αυτό το πρότυπο" will now also work without reloading the page. [67]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [68]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [69]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [70][71]
• The Ειδικό:Αναζήτηση results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [72]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [73]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [74][75]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 13 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Ancient of Plays (14:08, 17 Μαΐου 2024)

Γεια σας. Εντοπίζω σε πολλά λήμματα πληροφορίες που είναι είτε ελλιπείς είτε δεν συμπεριλαμβάνουν τα στοιχεία που προσφέρει η μέχρι σήμερα επίσημη βιβλιογραφία που τα αφορά. Για ποιον λόγο λοιπόν ο πρώτος συντάκτης ενός λήμματος διαγράφει αδικαιολόγητα τις προσθήκες που προσφέρει κανείς, μαζί με τις παραπομπές; Πώς γίνεται να υπάρξει αντικειμενικότητα; Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ. --Ancient of Plays (συζήτηση) 14:08, 17 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [76]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [77][78]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [79][80]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 20 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Γιάννης Μπουρνέλης (10:12, 24 Μαΐου 2024)

Παρακαλώ πως μπορώ να βάλω στη Wikipedia όλες τις πληροφορίες για το όνομά μου; Γιάννης Μπουρνέλης Ηθοποιός-Μίμος --Γιάννης Μπουρνέλης (συζήτηση) 10:12, 24 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [81][82]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [83]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:15, 28 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Eglantine1978 (04:36, 29 Μαΐου 2024)

Γεια σας! εχω ήδη επεξεργαστεί κάτι και έχει δημοσιευτεί...δε το βρίσκω όμως και δεν ξέρω αν είναι ορατό..μετά το μεσημ'ερι που θα επιστρέψω από τη δουλειά, θα ήθελα να ασχοληθώ λίγο...μποτείτε να με βοηθήσετε; Μετά τις 2 σήμερα... --Eglantine1978 (συζήτηση) 04:36, 29 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από GreekMusica στην Χρήστος Κωνσταντόπουλος (τραγουδιστής) (23:02, 31 Μαΐου 2024)

Πώς μπορεί να προστεθεί φωτογραφία στον συγκεκριμένο καλλιτέχνη; --GreekMusica (συζήτηση) 23:02, 31 Μαΐου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Αντρέας Πιπερίδης (07:44, 1 Ιουνίου 2024)

Γειά σας. Ήθελα ως εικονογράφος με πολλές εκθέσεις και άρθρα στο διαδυκτιο καθώς κι ένα εξώφυλλο σε πρόσφατο βιβλίο της αποστολικής διακονίας της εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος της επίσημης εκκλησίας του κράτουςοπως και την αναγνώριση από το πατριάρχειο φαναριού Να συμμετέχω ως ιδιότητα Ζωγράφου εικονογράφου στην βικιπαιδεια ετών 51 τώρα είμαι. Με πάμπολλα έργα πρωτότυπης δημιουργίας --Αντρέας Πιπερίδης (συζήτηση) 07:44, 1 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [84]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [85]
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιπαίδεια in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [86]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [87][88]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:35, 3 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Kostas koubounis (00:08, 6 Ιουνίου 2024)

Έχω ανεβάσει ένα λήμμα με τίτλο "low greed". θέλω να το επεξεργαστώ και να ανεβάσω φωτογραφίες --Kostas koubounis (συζήτηση) 00:08, 6 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Thassoshosting (10:39, 7 Ιουνίου 2024)

Γεια σας, ενώ δημοσίευσα ένα λήμμα δε φαίνεται στην μηχανή αναζήτησης. Γιατί συμβαίνει αυτό; Περνάει κάποια ώρα για να φανεί; Ή περνάει κάποια έγκριση; --Thassoshosting (συζήτηση) 10:39, 7 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [89]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [90]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [91]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [92][93]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [94]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [95]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:20, 10 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [96]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [97][98]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [99]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [100]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [101]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [102][103]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [104]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [105]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:49, 17 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από DIMITRIOS BOTHOS (09:27, 22 Ιουνίου 2024)

γειά σας θα ήθελα να προσθέσω μια Ελληνική εφεύρεση VENDING MACHINE FOR SELECTED QUANTITIES OF DISTINCT PERFUMES με international application PCT/GR2014/000045 μπορείτε να με βοηθήσετε? --DIMITRIOS BOTHOS (συζήτηση) 09:27, 22 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [106]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [107]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [108]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [109][110]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [111]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 24 Ιουνίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Nefelistam (01:01, 1 Ιουλίου 2024)

Γεια χαρά. Πως μπορώ να προσθέσω πληροφορίες για ένα πρόσωπο; --Nefelistam (συζήτηση) 01:01, 1 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [112]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [113]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [114][115]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [116]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιπαίδεια in Mandailing (w:btm:) [117]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [118]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 1 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Giorgos Gourouvas (08:21, 6 Ιουλίου 2024)

Καλησπέρα σας θα ήθελα να σας ρωτήσω πως κανω μπλε μερικά κείμενα που θέλω να τονίσω καταγωγή ηλικία όνομα εργασία --Giorgos Gourouvas (συζήτηση) 08:21, 6 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:32, 8 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [119]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:31, 16 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Basilis Rogkanidis (12:43, 16 Ιουλίου 2024)

Θέλω να φτιάξω για την ομάδα Βίκος Ιωαννίνων στο μπάσκετ κάτι στην βικιπαίδεια --Basilis Rogkanidis (συζήτηση) 12:43, 16 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Μάνια Πασχαλίδου (10:56, 18 Ιουλίου 2024)

Πώς μπορώ να ανεβάσω καινούργιο λήμμα; --Μάνια Πασχαλίδου (συζήτηση) 10:56, 18 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [120]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [121]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [122]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04, 23 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Giannispapavasileiou (22:41, 23 Ιουλίου 2024)

Γεια σας --Giannispapavasileiou (συζήτηση) 22:41, 23 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιταξίδια in Czech (voy:cs:) [123]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:11, 29 Ιουλίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [124][125]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Βικιταξίδια wikis over the next few months. The Αγγλικά Βικιταξίδια and Εβραϊκά Βικιταξίδια were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 5 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Αντζυ Ν (02:45, 6 Αυγούστου 2024)

Στην ανεύρεση με λέξη ολυμπιακολι αγώνες γράφετε οτι ο Δημ. Βικέλας είναι Μακεδόνας και θελω αν σας πω αφου φυσικά το ψάξετε και εσείς οτι ο Δημήτριος Βικέλας ειχε καταγωγή απο τη Σύρο Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ --Αντζυ Ν (συζήτηση) 02:45, 6 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Stamatella στην Χρήστης:Stamatella/πρόχειρο (08:54, 12 Αυγούστου 2024)

Καλημέρα σας, μπορείτε παρακαλώ να μου πείτε ποιο βήμα πρέπει να ακολουθήσω τώρα για την τελικη δημοσίευση; ευχαριστώ --Stamatella (συζήτηση) 08:54, 12 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [126]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιπαίδεια in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [127]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:22, 12 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Mariokell (13:08, 17 Αυγούστου 2024)

Καλησπερα Θέλω να κάνω κάποιες αλλαγές σχετικα με την έλενα Ράπτη, υφυπουργό τουρισμό ύστερα από αίτημα της. Είμαι συνεργατης της Υφυπουργού. Λέγομαι Κέλλης Μάριος, παρακαλώ περιμένω την καθοδήγηση σας. Το mail μου είναι mariokellis@yahoo.gr --Mariokell (συζήτηση) 13:08, 17 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Ολγα Λωλα (10:40, 19 Αυγούστου 2024)

Καλησπέρα. Εκανα εγγραφή στην Wikipedia γιατί υπάρχει λάθος καταγραφή για συγγενικά μου ιστορικά πρόσωπα. Συγκεκριμένα στην σελίδα Δόριζα ( κοινότητα Αρκαδίας), το χωριό της μητέρας μου στα ιστορικά πρόσωπα υπάρχει συγγενικό λάθος. Εσείς αναφέρετε ότι ο Γιάννης Ζεύγος (Ταλαγανης) είναι πατέρας του θείου μου Δημήτρη Ταλαγανη. Δεν ισχύει. Ο Ζεύγος είχε ένα παιδί κορίτσι την Ροξανη . Ο Δημήτρης τον είχε θείο. Πώς θα το αλλάξουμε; --Ολγα Λωλα (συζήτηση) 10:40, 19 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [128]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [129][130]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:54, 20 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Ariadnikatsiampoula (08:48, 20 Αυγούστου 2024)

Καλημέρα,

Θα ήθελα να ρωτήσω πως μπορώ να κάνω καταχώριση νέου λήμματος ?

Ευχαριστώ --Ariadnikatsiampoula (συζήτηση) 08:48, 20 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [131]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:33, 26 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από J-Gr - Phil (17:32, 30 Αυγούστου 2024)

Έγραψα ένα λήμμα και έχει αναρτηθεί Σημείωμα ότι είναι αυτοβιογραφικό. Δεν είναι αυτοβιογραφικό, αφορά σε έναν καθηγητή φιλοσοφίας στο ΕΚΠΑ. Έχω δει αντιστοιχως να υπάρχουν για πολλά άλλα πρόσωπα εν ζωή, γιατί μπορεί να θεωρήθηκε αυτοβιογραφικό; Τι μπορώ να κάνω για να αφαιρεθεί το Σημείωμα;

ευχαριστώ --J-Gr - Phil (συζήτηση) 17:32, 30 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από J-Gr - Phil (18:33, 30 Αυγούστου 2024)

Το λήμμα μου μόλις διαγράφτηκε. Αυτό είναι μεγάλο κρίμα, γιατί ετοιμαζα σειρά λήμμάτων για καθηγητές της φιλοσοφίας στην Ελλάδα με διεθνή παρουσία Λυπάμαι, γιατί προβάλλουμε ξένους διανοητές και αποσιωπούμε τους Έλληνες. Η Βικιπαιδεία θα μπορούσε να είναι μια καλή ευκαιρία για αυτό. Προφανώς ασχολούμαστε μόνο με το Χόλυγουντ... --J-Gr - Phil (συζήτηση) 18:33, 30 Αυγούστου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the Ειδικό:ΜηΧρησιμοποιούμεναΠρότυπα page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [132]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [133]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [134]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:07, 3 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από George Mamassis (08:12, 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Θα ήθελα να δημιουργήσω ένα καινούριο λήμμα για την επιχείρησή μου. Ποια είναι η διαδικασία που πρέπει να ακολουθήσω; --George Mamassis (συζήτηση) 08:12, 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Alexandros Samaris (08:09, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Καλημέρα, θα ήθελα να ερωτήσω ένα πράγμα. Πως αλλάζω το όνομα του χρήστη μου επειδή το Σαμάρης είναι ψευδώνυμο; --Alexandros Zacharia (συζήτηση) 08:09, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [135][136]
• Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [137]

Project updates

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [138]
• Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [139]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Improvements and Maintenance

• Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
• The new automated Ειδικό:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [140]
• References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [141]
• It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [142]
• Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [143]

Technical project updates

• Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [144]

Tech in depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
  • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Elina Kontou (16:05, 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Πώς μπορώ να δημιουργήσω ενα δικό μου καινούργιο; --Elina Kontou (συζήτηση) 16:05, 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature

• Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
• The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
• It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [145]
• Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [146][147]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• From Wikimedia Enterprise:
  • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
  • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

• The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Bakanakas (04:58, 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Έκανα μια δημοσίευση αλλά διαγράφηκε αναφορικάε την γεωπολιτική στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο μπορείτε να με βοηθήσετε να το φτιάξω; --Bakanakas (συζήτηση) 04:58, 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Lenakar90 στην Κύκλος του Willis (08:23, 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Hello! I have translated the circle of Willis image that is open and available on Wikipedia in Greek. To upload it, which segment should I choose? The image is not mine but is open to the commons. I really appreciate any help you can provide. --Lenakar90 (συζήτηση) 08:23, 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Tpelagidis (12:37, 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024)

Hello, I have added many references in the page I created (https://el.wiki.x.io/wiki/%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A0%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82). Is absolutely necessary to add sources too? And if yes, can you please guide me how because I can't find the instructions. Also, what is the difference between references and sources? I have added articles and official sites in the reference area. Thank you in advance. --Tpelagidis (συζήτηση) 12:37, 27 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [148]
• For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [149]
• The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

• The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [150]

Meetings and events

• October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
• November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [151]

Updates for editors

• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [152]
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [153]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [154]
• Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Βικιπαίδεια in Komering (w:kge:) [155]
  • a Βικιπαίδεια in Mooré (m:mos:) [156]
  • a Βικιλεξικό in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [157]
  • a Βικιφθέγματα in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [158]
  • a Βικινέα in Shan (n:shn:) [159]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:43, 7 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [160][161]
• WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [162]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [163]
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [164]
• Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [165]

In depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Darko.7314 στην Πανιώνιος (ποδόσφαιρο) (01:47, 17 Οκτωβρίου 2024)

Μπορώ να προσθεσω ονόματα στους προεδρους της Ομάδας. --Darko.7314 (συζήτηση) 01:47, 17 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Nipenthes (14:52, 20 Οκτωβρίου 2024)

Γεια, μπορω να γραψω βιογραφια για εν ζωη συγγραφεα; Αν ναι, με ποιο τροπο; --Nipenthes (συζήτηση) 14:52, 20 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [166][167][168][169][170]
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "19 November 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [171][172]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [173]
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [174]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:52, 21 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Nikbxos75 (12:48, 28 Οκτωβρίου 2024)

Γεια σας. Πως μπορω να δημιουργησω το βιογραφικο μου ως κωφος ερασιεχνης μετεωρολογος, ειμαι γνωστος για τις ακριβες μου προβλεψεις για τον καιρο στην Κερκυρα, και εχω γινει Συμβολο Εμπευσης για πολλους; --Nikbxos75 (συζήτηση) 12:48, 28 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [175]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [176]
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [177]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:56, 28 Οκτωβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από StavroulaTs (10:45, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2024)

που ειναι το προχωρημένο προχειρο? --StavroulaTs (συζήτηση) 10:45, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [178]
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [179]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [180]

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:50, 4 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Showman2000 στην Συζήτηση:Δήμος Κορδελιού-Ευόσμου (13:00, 6 Νοεμβρίου 2024)

Μήπως μπορείς να αλλάξεις τον τίτλο και να βάλεις δήμος Κορδελιού ευοσμου --Showman2000 (συζήτηση) 13:00, 6 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Nikbxos75 στην Νικόλαος Σ. Βλάχος (17:46, 8 Νοεμβρίου 2024)

Είδα ότι η αιτιολογία της διαγραφής του λήμματος, "Νικόλαος Σ. Βλάχος" το οποίο δεν ισχύει στην εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα; --Nikbxos75 (συζήτηση) 17:46, 8 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [181]
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [182]

Updates for technical contributors

• In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [183]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

• Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [184]

Meetings and events

• 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:07, 12 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [185]
• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [186]

Updates for technical contributors

• On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [187][188]

In depth

• There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
• Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
• A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:01, 19 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)