Hello
A server switch will happen on March 20, at 14:00 UTC. All wikis will be in
read-only mode for a few minutes.
We will inform communities as we usually do, through Tech News. Also, a
banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the event. We need your
assistance to inform your communities through local channels.
You can link to the information page we usually use: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch>.
Thank you in advance,
Benoît
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Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello,
This is Amal Ramadan, the Sr. Community Relations Specialist supporting the
Wikipedia mobile apps team.
Our Android team is working on Image Recommendations
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Image_Recommenda…>
that
will enhance accessibility and user engagement within the Wikimedia mobile
apps; our engineers are adding a new lint error type, which is planned to
match images without alt text and are expected to trigger on a large number
of pages.
It is planned to use this lint category to feed both existing linter-based
correction workflows and a "microtask" workflow in the Wikipedia mobile
app, where small work tasks can be presented to users in a relevant context.
We want to make sure this won’t be disruptive to existing linter system
users and that updates to support the new lint type can be coordinated.
Our current technical evaluation doesn't expect performance problems from
this, but if it's overloading people's workflows, we want to be sure to
accommodate those needs.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work towards
enhancing the Wikipedia mobile app experience.
You can reach out to us with your feedback if there's any at
aramadan(a)wikimedia.org
Respectfully,
*Amal Ramadan* (She\Her)
Sr. Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
The second edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
(January 2024) is available at this link: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…
>.
This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides
updates from October–December 2023 quarter on new feature development,
improvements in various language-related technical projects and support
efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get
involved in projects.
To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If
you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter,
please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee…
>.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the WMF Language team
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>