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Presenting Community Engagement Insights survey report: Tuesday, October 10, 1600 UTC

Hi ネイ,
I am reaching out to you because you signed up to receive updates about the Global Wikimedia survey.

We will be hosting a public event online to present the data, a few examples on how teams will be using it for annual planning, and what are next steps for this project. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 10, at 9:00 am PST (1600 UTC), and the presentation will be in English. You can watch the livestream here, and ask question via IRC on #wikimedia-office.

If you are unable attend, you can also find the report on meta, and watch the recording of the event at a later time.

We hope to have you join us online! -- María Cruz 23:28, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2017 officially starts!

Dear WAM organizer,

I’m Erick Guan, the coordinator of WAM 2017. Welcome to Wikipedia Asian Month 2017. Here is some information about organizations of events at a national level.

Timeline

The event lasts a month for the participants. As of the beginning of the event, please:

• Invite previous participants to join. We have a template you may want to use.
• Setup your WAM page in your local wikiproject if you haven’t done that.
• Link your WAM page at Wikipedia Asian Month 2017. It’s important for others to understand and connect to your community! Remove the X when you done that. WAM is organized at national level. So I have to ask you to put your country in front of your name if you haven’t done that.
• Publish a notification about WAM in site notice as well as village pump. Go public!
• Connect with us. Generally send me an email so that we can reach you for future information!
• Become the jury member in a campaign on Fountain which is an amazing tool for you to supervise participants’ articles. If you don’t have the campaign set up, please contact us! And put a link to your community’s campaign page for participants’ navigation.
• Organize a off-site editathon event. A coffee bar, internet and laptops. Though it’s optional. If you want to do that, please contact me.

In the following days, you should answer the questions from your community and supervise the submissions. Hope you have fun!

Interesting articles

Have some interesting articles in your mind or from community? Drop us a line so that we can exchange the information to other communities.

Looking for help

At all times, please send me an email at erick@asianmonth.wiki--Fantasticfears (talk) 23:01, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Military history user group title

Greetings, firstly thanks for your support and feedback to the proposal to form a user group for military historians of Wikipedia. As there is enough support for the proposal, it is time to choose a title, and go ahead. Please vote at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians#Group name. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk — mail) 11:45, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Greetings

Greetings, Ney. Thank you very much for flagging yourself as a translator fromm Japanese. My team and I are very thankful for that. It is an important service to your community. I am wondering if it's possible for you to consider to also list yourself as a tech ambassador for your community. If you need more information before deciding, please feel free to contact me! Thank you very much. Have a lovely weekend. Greetings from Italy, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:32, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi there! Not really being active in Phabricator, but I guess I can try. Also I have asked another user at that user's talk page (in Japanese) on whether he/she is willing to be a tech ambassador. That user translates tech news to Japanese so in my opinion is suitable to be tech ambassador and/or translator.--ネイ (talk) 11:08, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Again, thanks a lot. It was very sensible of you to consider Marine-Blue also a good fit for the task! I will see you around :) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 11:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

New community space for IdeaLab on Connect

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Translation: VisualEditor newsletter October 2018

Thank you for offering to help with translations. m:VisualEditor/Newsletter/2018/October is ready to translate now. /Whatamidoing (WMF)

18:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [1]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

—Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

WAM2018 on ja.wp

こんにちは。すでにmetaの方では、Wikipedia日本語版のWAM2018のオーガナイザーとして名前を記入していただいているかと思いますが、w:ja:WP:WAM の方の「世話人」欄にも追加していただいてもいいでしょうか？ --Takot (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

フィードバックの募集：記事内の節の自動お勧め機能

(Ney, Hello. Reaching out to you as you're among the "tech ambassadors" for this language. We'd really appreciate your help this week, and also you spreading the word to other experienced editors willing to lend a hand!)

ウィキメディア財団リサーチチームで開発中の新しいアルゴリズムは、編集者に向けて記事に追加する節を自動的にお勧めする機能です。このアルゴリズムは機械学習を応用、同様のトピックを扱う他の記事の節から、当該の記事に当てはまりそうな節を提示します。節のお勧め機能はウィキペディアの英語版とスペイン語版、日本語版とロシア語版、アラビア語版とフランス語版でご用意しています。 皆さんのような経験の長い編集者に、これら節のお勧めを検証して評価をいただき、機能改善に役立てたいと考えています！ お勧めが役に立つようでしたら、スタブ記事の拡大に取り組もうとする編集者向けのツール群に採用する計画です。

テスト用アプリをビルドしてありますので、節のお勧め機能に目を通してください。ご利用の言語版（複数可）の記事何本かでこのツールを試用し、お勧めのクォリティについての評価をプロジェクトのフィードバック専用トークページに投稿してください。もちろんツール自体のトークページに手短にフィードバックをする方法もあります。

もしご協力いただけるようでしたら、ぜひ手順の説明を読んで早速、取りかかってください。

よろしくお願いします。

ウィキメディア財団リサーチチーム
Jonathan Morgan、Diego Saez-Trumper --08:33, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: ?? Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

?? Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: ?? Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:33, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Hello from Tokyo

Hello Nei, I've done a couple of art+feminism events in Tokyo since 2018 and currently setting up the next editathon/conference for March. Are you doing any event for Asian Month this year in Japan? Looking to connect with other Wikipedians across Japanese/English Wikipedia who might be interested in mentoring at our event. Our grant proposal is here, please endorse if you have a moment.

Hi there - I could not help much but any case forwarded the message to User:さえぼー-san who regularly supports these events.--ネイ (talk) 07:14, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk pages project

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

11:11, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

Please help translate to your language

Greetings!

Thank you for organizing Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 for your local Wikipedia language. For rules and guidelines, refer to this page on Meta. To reach out for support for the contest or ask any query, reach out to us on our Contact Us page. Our International Team will be assisting you through out the contest duration. Thank you for your efforts in making this project successful.

Best wishes,

WAM 2019 International Team

Stay Updated  

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:46, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month international team.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

What's Next (WAM)!

Congratulations! The Wikipedia Asian Month has ended successfully and you've done amazing work of organizing. What we've got and what's next?

• We have a total of 10,186 articles made during this edition and it's the highest of all time.
• Make sure you judge all articles before December 20th, Once you finish the judging, please update this page.
• There will be two round of address collection scheduled: December 22th and December 27th 2019.
• Please report the local Wikipedia Asian Ambassador (who has most accepted articles) on this page, if the 2nd participants have more than 30 accepted articles, you will have two ambassadors.
• In case you wondering how can you use the WAM tool (Fountain) in your own contest, contact the developer Le Loy for more information.

Best wishes,

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:30, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

WAM Postcard

Hello, is it possible to send your own address by e-mail or is it mandatory to fill in the Google Document to get that postcard? Greetings from Germany, --FelixL. (talk) 23:40, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. ?? ?????
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:48, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, ????? ?? ?????? ???? ????? ??????? ??? ????? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ?? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ?? ??????? ???? ???? ????? ?? ??????? ?????? ?? ??????? ???? ??????? ?????? ??????? ????? ???????? ??????. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[2]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

15:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Renamers

Hi, I tried reaching out to Penn Station last month - w:ja:利用者‐会話:Penn Station#Global renamers - but didn't get a response. At present half the outstanding requests to be renamed are from Japanese users (11 out of 22). Japanese users aren't being served as well as they should be because of the shortage of Japanese speakers among the global renamers. My Japanese skills are non-existent - could you help recruit some trusted volunteers to put themselves forward for consideration at m:SRGREN. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 13:28, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

@Cabayi: Hi there. Thank you for reaching out. I do not have much idea on who to recruit since being a global renamer also requires a certain level of English skills.

I am willing to go to SRGREN but am not sure whether there will be enough support, since I have never been an OTRS member, and possibly insufficient cross-wiki experience. ネイ (talk) 12:00, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

There's a Japanese version of meta's policy & ja:Wikipedia:利用者名 to guide Japanese-only speakers. It's an understanding of the Japanese requests that's needed. We can always get a translation of the interface if there isn't one already.

I'd eagerly and happily support you for renamer, you're active om meta and several other wikis already, and an admin on ja. OTRS is, in my opinion, irrelevant - it's mostly people complaining that the metadata or "author" on their image uploads to commons didn't get altered as part of the rename. Cabayi (talk) 13:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

In that case, let me just have a try on requesting for the permissions. Thank you for your guidance. ネイ (talk) 14:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Global renamer

Hello ネイ. You have now the global renamer permissions. Please take a moment to read and familiarize yourself with the global renamers page and the global rename policy. As a global renamer you're also allowed to subscribe to the global renamers mailing list and, if you're an OTRS agent, access to the renamers private queue. Thanks for volunteering. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:43, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• We have preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[3]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[4] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[5] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. You can still turn it on or off for your own account in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[6] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at notifications-talk.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

いただいていたご質問について

いただいていた質問がブラックリスト化されており、回答ができませんでした。 使い方をよく理解しておらず、大変申し訳ありません。

meta:GlobalRenameQueue/Notes/72540

< Meta:GlobalRenameQueue? | Notes U-tan BOCCHIさんへ：w:ja:利用者‐会話:U-tan_BOCCHIでの警告に基づく依頼だと思われますが、BOCCHI。ご本人またはその団体の関係者であるかどうかについて、ご確認をお願いできますでしょうか。--ネイ (talk) 08:44, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

私は団体本人でもなく、関係者でもありません。 IDを変更するにはどうすればよろしいでしょうか。 U-tan BOCCHI (talk) 09:26, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

InternetArchiveBot on Japanese Wikipedia

Hello, ネイ. I am one of the maintainers of InternetArchiveBot and I am currently working on fixing outstanding problems across wikis, including Japanese Wikipedia. My understanding is that the bot was blocked for not respecting rate limits and for misidentifying many links as being broken. The first problem has been fixed and I am working on solving the second. In the meantime, I am wondering if the bot can be unblocked so that, when we are ready, we can re-apply for bot approval. We will not resume the bot until then. Thank you, harej (talk) 20:05, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello. Please let me know when you apply for bot approval - I can unblock when you do so. ネイ (talk) 04:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

ネイ, I have submitted a new bot application, so I am ready for the bot to be unblocked. Once the bot is unblocked, please move the contents of ja:利用者:Harej/new-iabot-userpage to ja:User:InternetArchiveBot and ja:利用者:Harej/iabot-header-style.css to ja:Template:InternetArchiveBot header/styles.css. Harej (talk) 19:16, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Write words in the video

Hi ネイ. Please can you help me by writing down what was mentioned in this video starting 7:40 till 8:05? because I'm having trouble understanding it.

Note: Of course, writing the words in the video, I want it to be in the same language as the Japanese video, and not by translating it into English, because I do not want the translation, but I want to know the words as you write them in Japanese. Best Regards.???? ???? ????????? (talk) 21:50, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

ネイ.???? ???? ????????? (talk) 11:38, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi there. How does this request relate to Wikimedia Project? ネイ (talk) 14:42, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi ネイ, not related to Wikimedia, but you mentioned: If you cannot read Japanese, you can refer to my User Page at Meta-wiki. That's why I made this request here. I should have introduced it on your talk page. Sorry.

About this request, can you implement it? please.???? ???? ????????? (talk) 15:28, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

ネイ.???? ???? ????????? (talk) 12:04, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Talk pages are not for discussions unrelated to Wikimedia Project. I am sorry to say that there is nothing I could help on this. ネイ (talk) 10:15, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Well ネイ, the request was wrong from the start so I will move it to your discussion page on the Japanese Wikipedia and please answer me there.???? ???? ????????? (talk) 10:48, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Please do not repeat the same request on my talk page(s). Any similar requests unrelated to Wikipedia Project will be declined. ネイ (talk) 10:51, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

14:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:43, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Muzeum Miniaturowej Sztuki Profesjonalnej Henryk Jan Dominiak w Tychach

Hi, I have posted a message about a museum in Poland, whose article has been translated into 18 Wikiprojects by a single editor, at Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam#Muzeum Miniaturowej Sztuki Profesjonalnej Henryk Jan Dominiak w Tychach. The Japanese article at ja:ミニチュア?プロフェッショナル?アート美術館 ヘンリク?ヤン?ドミニク has been tagged as unnatural or difficult to grasp. Several Wikipedias have deleted the museum's article as non-notable, but obviously that is a decision for each Wikipedia to make independently. Would you be interested in taking a look? TSventon (talk) 14:59, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Raised AfD at w:ja:Wikipedia:削除依頼/ミニチュア?プロフェッショナル?アート美術館 ヘンリク?ヤン?ドミニク with machine translation as the reason. ネイ (talk) 16:44, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Where to contact ja-wp patrollers?

Hi! I hope you are doing fine. We are working on fr-wp on a new patrolling software (fr:Wikipédia:Patrouille RC/Projet LiveRC 2.0/en). I would like to reach ja-wp patrollers to ask for their feedbacks about the Specifications list we made. Do you know on which page, on ja-wp, I could contact them?

Best, — Jules* ^talk 16:32, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

I think there is not a central location but w:ja:Wikipedia:Help for Non-Japanese Speakers could be a starting point. Then someone could translate the details into Japanese and post in jawp's Village Pump. ネイ (talk) 16:46, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice! — Jules* ^talk 16:48, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2

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The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:35, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

RFC notice

Hello, someone opened a request for comment on meta about your behaviour on Japanese Wikipedia. You may want to leave your comments on Requests for comment/user:ネイ Lemonaka (talk) 12:25, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Your feedback is requested

Hello ネイ, We are conducting a poll of global renamers and stewards regarding some future toolings related to some rename requests. Your feedback is requested at the poll on VRT WIKI. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 00:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

日本トルコ友好エディタソンにご参加いただきありがとうございました

お世話になっております。Eugene Ormandy です。この度は Event:Wikimedia Japan-Türkiye Friendship edit-a-thon I にご参加いただきありがとうございました。記念品として、バーンスターを贈呈いたします。今後ともお力添えいただけますと幸甚です。何卒よろしくお願いいたします。—Eugene Ormandy (talk) 14:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Spam article on jawiki

Hey there. I noticed you were on the antispam contacts list, so I thought I'd reach out. I recently completed an investigation into a massive cross-wiki spam operation, in which a network of accounts and IP proxies published articles about David Woodard and pushed information about him into several more articles; this took place across hundreds of Wikipedia projects. I wasn't certain if the Japanese article was affiliated with this push, as it came from a Fukushima-based IP, but judging by the mentions elsewhere, it seems the Japanese Wikipedia was affected by this spam campaign as well. The global stewards have already deleted the Woodard article from over 200 smaller Wikipedias, and individual projects have deleted their own articles on Woodard and removed mentions of him from others. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:23, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the information! There are no copyrights (or other legal) issues, the translation quality and notability (per w:en:Talk:David Woodard#Notability) is of a level that would survive AfD on jawiki. Hence I would prefer translating from the English version again after the English one is fixed, so as to avoid duplicate effort. Nevertheless, I removed several mentions from other articles.

The Fukushima-based IP translated hundreds of (mostly chemistry and astronomy-related) articles between July 2021 and January 2023, which behavior appears to be different from the description in en:User:Grnrchst/David Woodard report#Second mass-translation campaign. So my opinion is that this IP is not related to the spam network. ネイ (talk) 05:17, 3 July 2025 (UTC)