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Deitschland

Guude! Ich bin von Deutschland (oder Deitschland, wie ihr sagen tätet ^^) und find's klasse, dass ihr des Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch so aufrechterhalten tut. Da ich aus Hessen bin, kann ich leider kein Pfälzisch (logo, gell?), sonst tät ich auch ma nen paar Artikel schreiben. Was mich aber mal interessieren würde: Sprecht ihr eigentlich auch Hochdeutsch, oder nur Platt? Naja, liebe Grüße aus Deutschland und muichts goud!

connectivity project

Hallo, my name is Anastasiya Lvova, I'm "duty" in Connectivity project. The essence of the "Connectivity" project is to study and enhance the coherence of Wikipedia, or, in other words, to improve hypertext navigation between articles. The project deals with deadends, isolated articles, non-categorized articles, transitivity of the category tree, etc.

We want to work with your language version, but we need configured MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage for it (with direct links to template namespace pages, for example, ru:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/de:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/fr:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage). Is it possible to set it up for our usage?

thanks in advance, Lvova 18:42, 12. Yuni 2010 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

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Voting for new time zone

Just a suggestion, since the majority of speakers of PA Dutch reside in Eastern Time, should the default time zone displayed not be ET instead of UTC? I can see on the map that there are some concentrations as far west as Missouri, but even so, it’s easier for most Americans to add/subtract an hour, than try to figure out GMT based on Daylight Savings Time, etc. w0rd, thanks —Wiki Wikardo 19:03, 19. Matz 2010 (UTC)

I support this request Xqt 14:53, 16. Sep. 2010 (UTC)

Fixed with bugzilla:29351. Xqt 11:34, 15. Yuni 2011 (EDT)

Fundraising 2010: Beat Jimmy Challenge

The Fundraising Committee is issuing all interested community members a challenge: we want you to beat Jimmy. The appeal from Jimmy Wales and the corresponding banner have been tested head-to-head with other successful banners, and the results are clear: it's our best performing message... by a lot. This year we have a lofty fundraising goal; we need all of our banners to bring in donations like the Jimmy Appeal, but no one wants to keep the Jimmy banner up for two months. We want to run donor quotes, and other wonderful ideas, but we have to have banners that work as well as or better than the Jimmy appeal.

We've just released the highlights from a donor focus group, and the results of our donor survey. With one month to the launch of the fundraiser, the messages we test must be driven by data from our tests and surveys - we can no longer rely on instinct alone.

We've redesigned our fundraising meta pages with the Jimmy challenge; check out the survey results and propose/discuss banners that reflect these findings. Add the banners you think will 'beat Jimmy' here to be tested Tuesday October 12 against Jimmy. -Dgultekin 19:09, 6. Okt. 2010 (UTC)

Benutzer:JackBot for the flag

Hallo, apparently LinkFA-Bot isn't enough to ensure all the Vorlage:Link FA presences, that's the reason why I propose my bot help. JackPotte 21:27, 2. Nov. 2010 (UTC)

We just have 2 bots who do this job. I guess it isn't necessary for a third one but consuming a lot of server ressources. Xqt 02:06, 3. Nov. 2010 (UTC)

Die Pälzisch Wikipedia is endlich aa live!

After years in the incubator, finally the Palatinate German Wikipedia is live as well. I think this is good news for the present Wikipedia, because the Palatinate German Wikipedia is likely to attract a lot of editors and it should be relatively straightforward to translate its articles into Pennsylvania Dutch.

The Pennsylvania Dutch Wikipedia is currently referring to itself as "Deitsch". I have noticed a long time ago that this is potentially confusing for the Wikipedias in other variants of German. With the promotion of the Palatinate German Wikipedia this has become a more pressing problem because it now has interwiki links "Deutsch" (-> standard German version) and "Deitsch" (-> Pennsylvania Dutch version). This is very confusing because from the point of view of a Pälzisch speaker this is precisely the same word, once in standard German and once in Pälzisch, always referring to standard German or the entire family of German dialects. If acceptable to the Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch speakers, the best solution would probably be to replace the official self-designation in the MediaWiki interface by "Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch". I note that Deitsch redirects to Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch, so I hope that this is acceptable. I have made a proposal at meta:Meta:Babel#Problem with the way a language version is displayed in interlanguage links. Hans Adler 10:00, 15. Nov. 2010 (UTC)

Kroaati

Hallo pdc Leud, ich bin vun Kroaatie un han paar Ardickele gschriiwe. Isch verstoo oi ain wenig Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch, drum han ich improofisirt. Ich hoff es iss rischtig gschriiwe. Ich finds schee das me Sprooch pfleget --Lipice 01:47, 13. Yen. 2011 (UTC)

Multilingual Challenge

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Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011. Sign up now! " Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby 13:35, 2. Moi 2011 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

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Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 21:11, 26. Okt. 2011 (EDT)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 22:01, 21. Dis. 2011 (EST)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 11:28, 15. Yen. 2012 (EST)

Language support group for Plautdietsch

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

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

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 13:59, 1. Han. 2012 (EST)

from Lothringen (France)

Heiya, isch bin vun Lothringen un han en paar Ardickele gschriiwe. Isch verstoo oi ain wenig Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch. Isch hoff es iss rischtig gschriiwe. Ich finds oi schee das me Sprooch pfleget! Regards. Jean-Marc Pascolo 09:50, 7. Han. 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 10:14, 12. Han. 2012 (EST)