Wikipedia:Landsbybrønden/Save/Publish

Save-Publish

The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Gem side” button to “Offentliggør side” and “Offentliggør ændringer”. “Offentliggør side” will be used when you create a new page. “Offentliggør ændringer” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[1][2]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Offentliggør side” and “Offentliggør ændringer”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Gem side” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Gem side” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Offentliggør side” and “Offentliggør ændringer”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9. aug 2016, 20:03 (CEST)

@Whatamidoing (WMF) Is translatewiki seperate from the Single User Login infrastructure used on other Wikimedia sites? My login doesn't carry over and I can't use my user credentials. Mvh. InsaneHacker (🖂) 10. aug 2016, 16:40 (CEST)

Yes, it's a separate login, but once you get in, it's just MediaWiki. I believe the instructions we had provided here may still apply? Hope this helps, --Elitre (WMF) (diskussion) 10. aug 2016, 16:56 (CEST)