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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) coming to this Wikipedia
Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally.
Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.
What is Wikidata?
Wikidata is a central place to store data that you can usually find in infoboxes. Think of it as something like Wikimedia Commons but for data (like the number of inhabitants of a country or the length of a river) instead of multimedia. The first part of this project (centralizing language links) is being rolled out now. The more fancy things will follow later.
What is going to happen?
Language links in the sidebar are going to come from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions?
Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata
To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages. You can see previous editions here.
--Lydia Pintscher 2013年2月21日 (礼拜四) 16:20 (UTC)
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Wikidata phase 1 (language links) live on this Wikipedia
Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 2013年3月6日 (礼拜三) 23:14 (UTC)
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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful
(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)
Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.
If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.
Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 2013年3月13日 (礼拜三) 20:31 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) coming to this Wikipedia
Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.
What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
- Use a parser function like {{#property:p169}} in the wiki text of the article on Yahoo!. This will return “Marissa Mayer” as she is the chief executive officer of the company.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 2013年4月5日 (礼拜五) 17:15 (UTC)
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- Yêu cầu thảo luận đối với bảo quản viên không còn hoạt động
(Vui lòng dịch thông điệp này vì lợi ích của các thành viên Wikimedia. Xin cũng dịch bản đề xuất.)
Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。
Xin chào!
Hiện đang có yêu cầu thảo luận mới tại Meta-Wiki liên quan đến việc tước quyền bảo quản viên đối với những thành viên Wikimedia đã lâu không còn hoạt động. Nói chung đề nghị này sẽ áp dụng cho những wiki hiện không có quy trình tước quyền bảo quản viên nếu không hoạt động một thời gian.
Chúng tôi cũng đang soạn danh sách các dự án có quy trình để tước quyền bảo quản viên những tài khoản không còn hoạt động tại trang thảo luận của thảo luận này. Xin vui lòng thêm dự án của bạn vào danh sách nếu bạn có quy định về bảo quản viên không còn hoạt động.
Tất cả mọi thảo luận đều được hoan nghênh. Thảo luận này dự kiến kết thúc vào ngày 21 tháng 5 năm 2013, nhưng có thể kéo dài nếu cần thiết.
Xin cảm ơn, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 2013年4月24日 (礼拜三) 05:29 (UTC)
- Phát hành qua Công cụ nhắn tin toàn dự án (Sai trang? Bạn có thể sửa lại.)
Wikidata phase 2 (infoboxes) is here
Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.
What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
- Use a parser function like {{#property:p159}} in the wiki text of the article on Wikimedia Foundation. This will return “San Francisco” as that is the headquarter location of the non-profit.
- For more complicated things you can use Lua. The documentation for this is here.
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.
--Lydia Pintscher 2013年4月24日 (礼拜三) 19:25 (UTC)
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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming
Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
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[en] Change to section edit links
The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
(Distributed via global message delivery 2013年4月30日 (礼拜两) 19:07 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)
Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
- A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
- MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
- VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
- A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
- New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
- The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
- The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]
- Future software changes
- The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
- An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
- The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
- A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]
If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.
You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 2013年5月20日 (礼拜一) 21:21 (UTC)Trademark discussion
Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)
Free Research Accounts from Leading Medical Publisher. Come and Sign up!
gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. I want to alert you to our latest donation.
- Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
- Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
- If you are active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)
Cheers, 2013年6月16日 (礼拜天) 21:23 (UTC)
Cochrane Library Sign-up (correct link)
My apologies for the incorrect link: You can sign up for ' accounts at the . Cheers, 2013年6月16日 (礼拜天) 21:58 (UTC)
(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)
Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.—cyberpower ChatAutomation 2013年6月23日 (礼拜天) 05:09 (UTC)
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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09
On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.
Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 2013年7月4日 (礼拜四) 13:04 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).
提刪請求
template:扩充提刪請求。
原因：幫新立个template:expand模板功能重複，基於新模板使用更加方便，葛咾申請提刪舊模板template:扩充。
help:建立編輯用戶頁面提刪請求。
原因：建立以後覺著功能弗到位，有更加好个形式替代，同樣申請提刪。
--782（讨论） 2013年7月14日 (礼拜天) 14:59 (UTC)
Pywikipedia is migrating to git
Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 2013年7月23日 (礼拜两) 13:56 (UTC)
VisualEditor and your Wikipedia
(Please translate this message)
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation will soon turn on VisualEditor for all users, all the time on your Wikipedia. Right now your Wikipedia does not have any local documents on VisualEditor, and we hope that your community can change that. To find out about how you can help with translations visit the TranslationCentral for VisualEditor and read the easy instructions on bringing information to your Wikipedia. The User Guide and the FAQ are very important to have in your language.
We want to find out as much as we can from you about VisualEditor and how it helps your Wikipedia, and having local pages is a great way to start. We also encourage you to leave feedback on Mediawiki where the community can offer ideas, opinions, and point out bugs that may still exist in the software that need to be reported to Bugzilla. If you are able to speak for the concerns of others in English on MediaWiki or locally I encourage you to help your community to be represented in this process.
If you can help translate the user interface for VisualEditor to your language, you can help with that as well. Translatewiki has open tasks for translating VisualEditor. A direct link to translate the user interface is here. You can see how we are doing with those translations here. You need an account on Translatewiki to translate. This account is free and easy to create.
If we can help your community in any way with this process, please let me know and I will do my best to assist your Wikipedia with this |exciting development. You can contact me on my meta talk page or by email. You can also contact Patrick Earley for help with translations and documents on Mediawiki. We look forward to working with you to bring the VisualEditor experience to your Wikipedia! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 2013年7月30日 (礼拜两) 19:17 (UTC)
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HTTPS for users with an account
Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.
If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.
Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 2013年8月20日 (礼拜两) 19:51 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.
The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.
Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 2013年9月24日 (礼拜两) 03:23 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)
(This message is in English, please translate as needed)
Greetings!
Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.
We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.
There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:
- Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
- Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
- Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 2013年10月4日 (礼拜五) 19:24 (UTC)
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封面改版计划
我计划拿中文维基百科个新版首页应用到吴语维基中，方案在此，请大家积极提出意见，或直接予以修改。如无问题，几天后我将让其成为正式封面。
另，致管理员：请先将用户:Lt2818/common.css中的内容添加到MediaWiki:Common.css中。--Lt2818 扯老空·我个贡献 2013年9月28日 (礼拜六) 13:15 (UTC)
覺得瑲朞（能界、現在）個封面忒死爻（哉），內容也嘸多少變化。弗搭各許（其他）話版一樣日加日（每日）有新個內容。最主要還是編個人忒少爻，還有內容要勿忒文，要勿忒白（北吳），忒白會寫起囉唆險（交關囉唆），長拔乃乃（交關長），要勿忒北方書面化（嘸吳語個特色，便只小可（稍為）用詞替代）。我覺得應該有吳語特色個書面文，吳語個書面文比較接近文言文，短小精，表達弗囉哩囉唆。馨若叻（這樣）會有檔次。 用書面詞組本身便嘸問題。--十弌（讨论） 2013年10月5日 (礼拜六) 02:26 (UTC)
speak out(吖出来) about the trademark registration(商标注册) of the Community logo(社区标志).
大家人好,
Please join the consultation(讨论会) about the Community(社区) logo that represents(代表) Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.
This community consultation was commenced(开始) on September 24. The following day(第二日), two individuals filed(申请) a legal opposition(反对) against the registration of the Community logo.
The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek(寻求) a collective(集体) membership(资格) mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.
We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore(因此) really appreciate(感谢) the community's help in translating this announcement(公告) from English so that everyone is able to understand it.
测试功能部署预告
很高兴宣布测试功能，你能够来维基百科或者其他维基媒体基金会项目网站上测试还朆向所有人发布个新特性。
测试功能让开发者来用户更多个环境中迭代软件，并且获取更多反馈使其变得更好。伊就是一个社群成员可以先体验将要发生个变化并且帮助设计师搭工程师根据他里个反馈改进产品个数字工场。
伊个几天你啊好帮助我里测试？第一批特性对已登录用户开放。来MediaWiki.org上启用或者来TestWiki上启用。
根据反馈，我里计划来2013年11月7号（周四）来Commons搭Meta部署测试功能扩展。欲搭我里个团队讨论伊只发布，我里邀请你加入2013年11月8号（周五）伊个IRC办公室时间聊天。来伊几周内测试并改善后，我里计划来2013年11月21号（周三）向所有维基站点部署该扩展。
下头是开始测试个第一批特性：
- 媒体展示器：伊个工具将改善你个多媒体浏览个体验。
- 排印更新：伊个测试功能使得文字更加可读、易理解搭一致。
- VisualEditor Formulæ：通过伊个可选特性，你可以来可视化编辑器中穿件并且编辑代数或者微积分数学公式。
欲测试新特性，来测试功能栏目中勾选你想测试个项目，并且点击'保存'（见截图）。如果你愿意，你可以来新个测试功能发布后默认启用它里——或者来任何辰光关闭伊点特性。为了简化伊个过程，该扩展来十一月个早点辰光来全球部署个辰光，一个小小个'测试'链接将会来靠近'参数设置'个地方显示。
试试测试功能并且让我里知道你对伊个项目有啥想法，可以来下头直接评论或者来伊个讨论页中评论。你也可以来每一个特性个讨论页中留言评论（见测试功能选项卡中个链接。如果你发现任何技术缺陷，请来伊搭回报。根据你个反馈，我里计划来2013年11月7号来全球所有维基站点部署测试功能扩展。
测试功能扩展由维基媒体基金会个设计团队搭多媒体团队开发，搭可视化编辑器团队合作。伊点团队搭其他团队将每隔几周增加一个新个特性。我里也邀请了社区开发者搭维基媒体基金会个设计师搭工程师一同工作，并通过该扩展测试新功能。欲准备一个新个测试功能，阅读伊点提示，检查伊个技术文档并且提交你个计划至新测试功能队列。
祝你愉快，覅忘了告诉我里你个想法！--Lt2818 扯老空·我个贡献 2013年11月8日 (礼拜五) 12:22 (UTC)
Call for comments on draft trademark policy
Hi all,
The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.
The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.
We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.
HotCat
HotCat已经部署。它是一只帮助注册用户来管理页面分类个工具。要使用个说话，来小工具里勾上它就可以咧。--满地红 扯老空 2013年12月29日 (礼拜天) 11:11 (UTC)
Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?
I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.
The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.
Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).
However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.
We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.
Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.
All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.
You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.
We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 2014年1月16日 (礼拜四) 06:47 (UTC)