On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 3:42 PM Pine W via Commons-l < common...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the news, Keegan. I'm cross-posting the info to other lists > with the date boldly corrected. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > --- > > Hi all, following up on last month's announcement... [0] > > Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either > Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature > to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you > might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already: > > * Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on > mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel > free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons. [1] > * Test out using captions on Beta Commons. [2] > * Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you > have anything you'd like to say prior to release. [3] > > Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January > with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as > anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as > well as a link to join, are on Meta. [4] > > Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to > the IRC office hour on Thursday. I'll reply to this post once I confirm > exactly what day file captions will be released to Commons. > > 0. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=331569911#Structured_data_-_Multilingual_captions_beta_testing > 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:File_captions > 2. https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ > 3. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captions_testing > 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > common...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > Captions are scheduled to go live tomorrow, Thursday 10 January, between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC. The time window may change at the last minute, and the team my hold the deployment (or roll it back) if last minute problems occur. Should that happen I will keep you all informed, and I'll see you all at the IRC office hour tomorrow. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
