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Tech News: 2014-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [1] [2]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [3] [4]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [5] [6]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [7] [8]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [9] [10]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [11]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [12]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [13] [14]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [15]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [16]

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23. jun 2014 kl. 07:20 (UTC)

Question

Hello EileenSanda, please tell me, why I have in spite of registration, again an IP-Number. What must I do, to reobtain my last User-Name? Regards -- 217.224.211.44 25. jun 2014 kl. 20:25 (UTC)

Just log in again, I can't see why you should not be able to log in again if you remember your username and password.

I can see that you make edits again with you username Sweeper, so it seems that the problem is solved? EileenSanda (talk) 27. jun 2014 kl. 07:20 (UTC)

United States Congress

Good morning EileenSanda, please can you delete one in the site at "leita". I made a mistake there and tried to correct it. Sorry, but it's not succeeded. Therefore one inscription is to much. Thanks and regards -- Sweeper (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 07:06 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean. United States Congress redirects to Kongressin í USA, I don't see any mistake there. EileenSanda (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 07:32 (UTC)

When you search United States Congress, there' is it double listed, so one is to much there. Regards -- Sweeper (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 08:16 (UTC)

Well, I have deleted it now, and when I search for United States Congress two results appear but I don't find any. You created the redirect in March 2014 (with another username) and you used the German word Weiterleitung and later changed it to the English Redirect. I think that is why is seems like there are two pages but there was only one and now there is none because you told me to delete it. EileenSanda (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 08:30 (UTC)

Well, it's a mystery to me, too. I think, it's o.k. -- Sweeper (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 08:38 (UTC)

Hello once more. A very good (so as you) German Admin told me, that's take a short time after deleting, then it will be correct. He was correct in saying. Now I edit it once more so you will be so kind and don't delete the new version, but now it is correct. Thanks and regards -- Sweeper (talk) 28. jun 2014 kl. 13:09 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [17] [18]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [19] [20]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [21] [22] [23] [24]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [25] [26]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [27] [28]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [29]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [30] [31]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [32]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [33] [34]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [35]

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30. jun 2014 kl. 06:53 (UTC)

Tavo Burat

Hi EileenSanda, how are you? Here it's too hot!

I made this new page about this politics and italian journalist, that defended for the whole life the right os the little Language to be alive and spoken.

Please, I ask 5 minutes of your time to translate a little the page in FO.

I'll help you to correcvt in IT, LMO and PT. Thank you very much for your precious help!

Rei Momo (talk) 3. jul 2014 kl. 12:29 (UTC)

Finally it's done :) I spent my holiday in Greece and London, but now I am back home. EileenSanda (talk) 31. jul 2014 kl. 14:15 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [36]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [37] [38]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [39] [40]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [41] [42]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [43] [44] [45]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [46] [47] [48]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [49]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [50] [51] [52]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [53]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [54] [55]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [56] [57]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [58] [59]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [60] [61]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [62] [63]

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7. jul 2014 kl. 07:07 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [64] [65]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [66] [67]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [68] [69] [70]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [71]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [72]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [73] [74]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [75]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [76] [77]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [78] [79]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [80] [81]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [82]

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14. jul 2014 kl. 07:48 (UTC)

hey

Could you delete this category? I created it, but there was a spelling mistake [83] Cheers!--Ursusmaritimus (talk) 14. jul 2014 kl. 12:24 (UTC)

Omg and this one too, sorry for the problem: [84]. I don't know what happened to me, probably a too long break from the Faroese Wikipedia haha. --Ursusmaritimus (talk) 14. jul 2014 kl. 12:30 (UTC)

Hey, it's done. Yes, you have perhaps just been away from the fo wikipedia for a bit too long :) I am not so active right now, I am on holiday in Greece, very nice here, regards EileenSanda (talk) 14. jul 2014 kl. 12:59 (UTC)

You are the guardian of this Wikipedia even on holidays haha. Have fun :) --Ursusmaritimus (talk) 15. jul 2014 kl. 10:35 (UTC)

Hey!

[85] - I'd like to create this category here, could you help me with translation?

[86], [87] - Wouldn't it be better for these categories to be in plural (-ar)? I can correct it in the articles then.

[88] - There is a spelling mistake here.

--Ursusmaritimus (talk) 28. jul 2014 kl. 15:21 (UTC)

Hello, yes, you are absolutely right, there is not only a spelling error in the last link but also a grammatical error, i is Danish, Norwegian etc. í is Faroese for the English word "in", and Noreg should be declined into Noregi in that sentence "Fjøll í Noregi" (althoug many of us would say "Fjøll í Norra"). I have created a new category with the correct spelling, thanks for letting me know. Regarding the category American people of Danish descent, we could say "Amerikanarar av danskari ætt" (ætt can mean family relation, but it can also mean wind direction) or we can say "Amerikanarar av donskum uppruna", perhaps the first one is better. You are also right about the singular form in the second and third link, Bólkur:Tónleikabólkur should rather be Bólkur:Tónleikabólkar and Bólkur:Føroyskur tónleikabólkur should be Bólkur:Føroyskir tónleikabólkar, which is the plural form. EileenSanda (talk) 31. jul 2014 kl. 14:37 (UTC)

Takk fyri! I'll let you know when I find something else :) (The incorrect bólkur about Norway is not deleted yet)--Ursusmaritimus (talk) 1. aug 2014 kl. 00:14 (UTC)

Sjálvur takk :) I have deleted it now, thanks! EileenSanda (talk) 1. aug 2014 kl. 06:42 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [89] [90] [91]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [92]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [93] [94]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [95]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [96]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [97]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [98]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [105]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [106]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [107]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [108]

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21. jul 2014 kl. 07:41 (UTC)

no:Suðuroy

Hei. Jeg har begynt å ta tak i artikkelen om no:Suðuroy på norsk. Flere av artiklene om bygdene har jeg ryddet opp i, slik som no:Hvalba, der du hjalp til, men også litt på no:Vágur, no:Ørðavík, no:Sumba og no:Porkeri. Jeg tror jeg begynner å få de viktigste avsnittene under kontroll, men det er fint om du kan ta en titt. Om næringsliv trenger jeg nok litt lokalkunnskap om hvilke fiskeribedrifter som er de viktigste for tiden. Fortsatt god sommer! – Erik F 22. jul 2014 kl. 20:05 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [109] [110]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [111]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [112] [113]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [114] [115]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [116] [117]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [118]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [119] [120]

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28. jul 2014 kl. 08:08 (UTC)

Tavo Burat

Thank youuuuu!!! Is there any place, or people I can translate in Italian o Portuguese for you?

Rei Momo (talk) 31. jul 2014 kl. 10:16 (UTC)

hello Rei Momo, I have been away for a while, that is why it took so long for me toranslate the text you requested. Well, I would be glaf if you translated a little bit about the Faroese swimmer Pál Joensen into Portuguese, there is already an article about him in the Italian Wikipedia. Regards EileenSanda (talk) 31. jul 2014 kl. 14:13 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [121]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [122] [123] [124]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [125]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [126] [127]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [128] [129]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [130]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [131] [132] [133] [134]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [135] [136] [137] [138]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [139] [140]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [141]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [142]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [143]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [144]

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4. aug 2014 kl. 07:37 (UTC)

Liv and Maddie

Could you improve the page about Liv and Maddie? I think a lot of the information present needs updating. And it could use more info. Also the articles in Danish, Swedish, and Greek aren't very good either. I even had to take off the plot text in Swedish because it was apparently copied from another site which I found when I tried to find information about the show in Swedish. I wanted to see which episodes have been translated to Swedish and what they're called but all I could find was that the plot text was apparently copied from another site. That, and I found from Liv & Maddie wiki how to say "Bam! What?!" (Maddie's catchprase) in Danish. How would you say it in Faroese? 172.243.0.31 7. aug 2014 kl. 07:53 (UTC)

I have updated it now. I don't know how to say Bam! What? in Faroese and why use it in Faroese as we see it in either Danish or English language? EileenSanda (talk) 7. aug 2014 kl. 22:14 (UTC)

The last IP to edit the page looked like they were trying to translate the English page, but they did it in Danish. It also looked machine-translated. The Swedish article also contains machine-translation. I saw the Swedish article about Barney & Friends was deleted as a machine-translation in Swedish. I wonder if the same might happen if sv:Liv och Maddie is not improved soon. Like I said the page sv:Barney och vänner was deleted on May 8 as a machine-translation. 64.134.31.191 20. aug 2014 kl. 23:08 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [145]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [146]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [147]

Future software changes

• Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [148] [149] [150]
• If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [151] [152]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [153] [154]
• An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [155]

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11. aug 2014 kl. 07:43 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
• There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [156] [157] [158]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [159] [160]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [161]
• You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [162]
• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [163]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [164] [165]

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18. aug 2014 kl. 07:16 (UTC)

Nea Salamis Famagusta FC

Many thanks!! Xaris333 (talk) 21. aug 2014 kl. 18:09 (UTC)

You are welcome :) EileenSanda (talk) 21. aug 2014 kl. 23:06 (UTC)

Ion Țiriac

Could you have a look there? Regards, Żyrafał (talk) 23. aug 2014 kl. 15:21 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

VisualEditor news

• There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [166]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [167]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [168] [169] [170]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
• After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [171]

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25. aug 2014 kl. 09:21 (UTC)

An important message about renaming users

Dear EileenSanda, My aplogies for writing in English. Please translate or have this translated for you if it will help. I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

The SUL finalisation will be taking place in stages, and one of the first stages will be to turn off Special:RenameUser locally. This needs to be done as soon as possible, on advice and input from Stewards and engineers for the project, so that no more accounts that are unified globally are broken by a local rename to usurp the global account name. Once this is done, the process of global name unification can begin. The date that has been chosen to turn off local renaming and shift over to entirely global renaming is 15 September 2014, or three weeks time from now. In place of local renames is a new tool, hosted on Meta, that allows for global renames on all wikis where the name is not registered will be deployed.

Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

In the meantime please update your local page where users request renames to reflect this move to global renaming, and if there is a rename request and the user has edited more than one wiki with the name, please send them to the request page for a global rename.

Stewards greatly appreciate the trust local communities have in you and want to make this transition as easy as possible so that the two groups can start working together to ensure everyone has a unique login identity across Wikimedia projects. Completing this project will allow for long-desired universal tools like a global watchlist, global notifications and many, many more features to make work easier.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the SUL finalisation, read over the Help:Unified login page on Meta and leave a note on the talk page there, or on the talk page for global renamers. You can also contact me on my talk page on meta if you would like. I'm working as a bridge between Wikimedia Foundation Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Stewards, and you to assure that SUL finalisation goes as smoothly as possible; this is a community-driven process and I encourage you to work with the Stewards for our communities.

Thank you for your time. -- Keegan (WMF) talk 25. aug 2014 kl. 18:24 (UTC)

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Yesterday Donald Tusk was elected President of the European Council. I added this information to the article. Could you translate it into Faroese? Żyrafał (talk) 31. aug 2014 kl. 12:54 (UTC)