Hie all,
This to notify all project leads to apply to get booklets published for
their respective wikimedian projects at Wikimania 2014. Booklets help
projects to reach out better and help Foss enthusiasts to get involved
quicker. This year Wikimania is supporting each project, no matter now
small to grow so visit the page below for details, queries and to apply.
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Booklets
Spread the word!
Best Regards,
Aditya Chaturvedi.
Hey all,
I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default
typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This
was also mentioned in the last Tech News edition, and announced by Greg as
part of the deployment roadmap.
This will happen in the following order:
1. Test wikis and mediawiki.org tomorrow. That's Thursday, March 27th.
2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 11th.
3. All Wikipedias on Thursday April 3rd.
If people have questions, there is a summary of the changes and an
extensive FAQ at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh. There
will also be a post at blog.wikimedia.org tomorrow morning, and we have
other messages to go out on-wiki.
Wikitech-l subscribers: you may remember an extensive recent thread that
mostly debated the use of non-free fonts like Helvetica Neue and Georgia as
the primary fonts in the new font-family settings. We took this feedback to
heart. Thanks to patches/testing led by Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba, we
released a new version a couple weeks ago, which puts a set of fine FOSS
fonts first (say that ten times fast). For the curious, the relevant patch
is gerrit 120978.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <
ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I strongly recommend requesting watchlist notices on the larger projects,
> set to run for at least a few days before and after the deployment. That's
> less disruptive than a CentralNotice banner, and it will reach many of the
> active users (the users who are most likely to be fielding all the
> questions about the change).
This is a easy request to fulfill... except for the translation issue. Do
you just mean English? Or the larger versions across languages? I can do an
English watchlist notice on our larger projects, but have never gotten
these translated before. Feel free to advise off-list.
I'll go ahead and charge forward with an English-language watchlist notice
to run at least a week before the change is live on most Wikimedia
projects. Erica, Jan, and others who do outreach to non-English communities
may be able to help as well.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/