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Welcome to
Meta-Wiki
! You might be confused about what Meta is, but this page hopes to explain the answer to some common questions.
What is Wikipedia and what is the
Wikimedia Foundation
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See
wmf:FAQ
What is Meta-Wiki?
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Meta-Wiki
(or just "Meta") is a
wiki
used for coordinating the various
Wikimedia projects
, including
Wikipedia
and its sister projects, such as
Wiktionary
Wikinews
, and
Wikibooks
. Its uses vary quite a bit, but looking at the
RecentChanges
at any time will give you an idea of what happens on Meta. It is also used for coordinating events and
meetups
of Wikimedians (including
Wikimania
) and formerly
outreach
. Meta also hosts several
grant proposals
research projects
, and some of the
fundraising
for the Wikimedia Foundation. Meta also has pages about the
local chapters
and
thematic organizations
of the Wikimedia movement and various
reports
. Meta is multilingual, and many users help translate its content.
It is home to the
requests for new languages
proposals for closing projects
, as well as
proposals for new projects
Stewards
perform global actions affecting all Wikimedia wikis here. It is here that the global
Spam blacklist
Title blacklist
Interwiki map
, and
project portals
(like
www.wikipedia.org
) are hosted. Only Meta admins, stewards, and staff can edit these pages, and they all have a special format (Regex, special table format, raw HTML code, respectively).
I mainly edit Wikipedia (or another Wikimedia sister project). How is Meta different? Does it have the same policies as my project?
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What languages can be used on Meta-Wiki? How can I help by translating into my language?
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Main articles:
Translation requests
and
Multilingualism
Although English is the
de facto
lingua franca, Meta-Wiki is a multilingual project, and any language may be used. If you have an account, you can help by setting your language in
Special:Preferences
and
signing up for translation notifications
in your language, although this is not necessary. If you have an account, you can add a list of languages you speak to
your userpage
as described in
User language
Anyone can view the statistics for translations into a language by going to
Special:LanguageStats
and entering your language's code (usually
w:ISO 639
). Some other pages for which translations are always needed include
Template:Main Page/WM News
, which uses a special format, and ...
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