Is Wikimedia email a scam?
Talk:News
No, email from Wikimedia is never a scam. However, that an email looks like from Wikimedia does not mean it is from Wikimedia. This kind of confusion is the origin of all scams.
And also emails sent through the "email this user" feature might be scams, as the content of them is in no way controlled by Wikimedia.
Would it be possible to get an RSS feed of the updates on this page so that we can more-easily keep up with news and software updates?
Nope, that doesn't do what you think it does.
Can you elaborate?
When there are news updates, it's not the wiki page/code that gets updated. There's something that's embedded in the News wiki page already that's pulling the news feed from elsewhere.
You can see this if you go to the normal history page. Notice how infrequently the page code is actually changed:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=News&action=history
Oh, obviously.
Edit: sorry. Dumb URI error.
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:MediaWiki_News&feed=atom&action=history
I appreciate your persistence to try and help. Unfortunately, that feed is also not right. That one has items going back to Dec 22nd but none are Mediawiki version updates.
The update on 2022-12-22T22:17:06Z is "Release MediaWiki 1.39.0 is now available." How is that *not* what you are looking for? This feed shows all updates to that page, including new MediaWiki releases.
RSS Feed?
Correct.
Correct.
FWIW, I came here also looking for an RSS or atom feed that would display similar data to what is on the page, but via a feed.
And does the above resolve it for you?
What?
Richard Evans, Electronics & Data Systems Engineer At NASA Glenn Research Center, will be presenting on how MediaWiki is being used within NASA to help manage the testing of very large spacecraft to prove they can survive the harsh conditions of launch, orbit, and re-entry. The management platform is built from MediaWiki and several key extensions that provide workflow support. This evolving platform plans to incorporate the extensions that form the MediaWiki-powered Open CSP platform.
February 09, 2023, at 1600 UTC
Hello, everyone! The Community Tech team will be releasing a new feature, which is called Watchlist Expiry. With this feature, you can optionally select to watch a page for a temporary period of time. This feature was developed in response to the #7 request from the 2019 Community Wishlist Survey. To find out when the feature will be enabled on your wiki, you can check out the release schedule on Meta-wiki. To test out the feature before deployment, you can visit testwiki. Once the feature is enabled on your wiki, we invite you to share your feedback on the project talk page. For more information, you can refer to the documentation page. Thank you in advance, and we look forward to reading your feedback!
That's great. Thanks for all your hard work.
Now I was a little surprised when I saw outdated news in the Russian version.
I think it might be even more complicated than usual, because of the existing manual translations. I.e. I don't know what would happen if we simply added the usual <translate> markup, because all of the existing subpages are currently located where the software-generated pages would normally be placed. Maybe User:Nikerabbit can advise on the best way to solve this?
(See also Topic:V35xf4mp6jxeozb1 for earlier similar discussions.)
I think @Base can tell us how to do it :) We have already done this with some page.
It implies a lot of work to manually (or semi-automatically with Special:PageMigration) transfer the existing translations to Translate, but the process itself is quite straightforward. I've provided Iniquity with the information needed. But could you, Quiddity (WMF), lower the protection of the template so that Iniquity can start adding the translate tags?
IIUC, that template Template:MediaWiki News is cascade-protected via Template:Main page so I cannot lower it. But if you make the edits in a sandbox version, I'd be happy to copy them across when ready! :)
@Quiddity (WMF) User:Iniquity/sandbox. I think you can transfer it :)
Now done. The main page didn't break, so I think you're good to go on the rest of it. Thanks again!
Yes. It's really worked but the News page is showing <translate> tags. I think News page should be redirected to Template:MediaWiki News. Is that a good thing?
I've fixed that by piping the transclusion through template:TNT
This killed 14 years of translations for the German version of the template. I am pretty angry. How do we go about this?
@Kghbln I believe Iniquity plans to copy the historical translations across, per the comment earlier in the thread from Base (I.e. "It implies a lot of work to manually (or semi-automatically with Special:PageMigration) transfer the existing translations to Translate, but the process itself is quite straightforward. I've provided Iniquity with the information needed").
He will encounter problems here since the German translations not always matched the English original with regards to content and structure. Moreover it is probably the only language that was basically up to date at most of the times.
I hope that the strings match.
No, they do not. However I found another solution which is acceptable from my point of view. So no need to migrate. I am no longer grumpy. :D
Thanks! But it is necessary to translate in any case :)
All current news are translated via Translate. Good enough for me. Thanks for migrating.
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Hi, what happened with the language list on Wikipedia? The sorting used to be more or less alphabetic but now it is random. Were there any notifications or something?
As I mentioned at Talk:Universal Language Selector this is a bug and will hopefully be fixed soon.
Hi, can someone please add a line about the upcoming VE bug triage meetings ASAP, please? Thanks a lot,
Done If you have alternative copy, just post it here.
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I want to translate the news page in Persian. How should I do this?
Hey @Mobin2008, thanks for this question. This page doesn't seem available for translation, but more importantly, its scope is pretty limited. Would you rather be interested in helping deliver tech news more often to your community perhaps? As an example, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/28. Let me know what you think.
Is it not possible for me to translate this page into Persian?
The Mediawiki page, no. The Meta page, which is way more comprehensive as it also includes the information featured here, yes.
It is possible but not easy to translate this page. I'd agree with Elitre that your time would be probably more effectively spent on other translation needs, for now.
However, for reference: This page is currently setup using the ancient manual system.
You'd need to create an "/fa" subpage similar to Template:MediaWiki_News/fr, but you'd also need to manually notice any update to the English page via your watchlist or similar. (you can see how many of the existing translations are outdated, because of this problem).
Hope that helps!
My apologies, I hadn't even noticed that such a system was applied to this page. I just found the language navbox at the bottom of the page, which probably speaks volumes to how easily findable (and hence useful) these translations are? Glad that the user can achieve their goal though!
So how is this page translated into other languages?
@Mobin2008: I generally discourage it (your skills would be better utilized at almost anything in the regular translation system, but especially the "_High priority" group)
But if you're determined to do so, then copy Template:MediaWiki News into a new page at Template:MediaWiki News/fa... Oh, it looks like you figured it out already! :) Yup, that's it.
OK.I became aware of this.Good time, goodbye. All talk.
Note that on Wikidata, Wikidata:News already supported that
Would it be perhaps appropriate to link to the MWStake survey here? ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-July/082436.html ) [Ping @MarkAHershberger]
Sounds like a good idea!