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ଆସନ୍ତୁ, ସଙ୍ଘ ସୂଚନା ଫଳକ (Community portal) ରେ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ କରିବା । ଏଠାରେ ଆପଣ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ କଣ ଘଟୁଛି ତାର ଖବର ଜାଣିପାରିବେ ଆଉ ନୂଆ ଖବର, କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକଳାପ ଆଦି ଦେଖିପାରିବେ । ଏହା ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଘଟୁଥିବା ଘଟଣାସମୂହର ସୂଚନାଫଳକଟିଏ, କିଛି ଆଲୋଚନା କରିବା ପାଇଁ
ଆଲୋଚନା ସଭା
କୁ
ଯାଆନ୍ତୁ, ଯଦି ଆପଣ ଜଣେ ନୂଆ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ, ତେବେ
ଚାଟସଭା
କୁ
ଯାଇ ସିଧାସଳଖ ପ୍ରଶ୍ନ ପଚାରିପାରିବେ । ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ସମ୍ପାଦକମାନେ ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ ରିଲେ ଚାଟ (IRC) ଯୋଗେ ମଧ୍ୟ ବିଚାର ଆଲୋଚନା କରିଥାନ୍ତି ଅତୀତରେ ହୋଇଥିବା ଆଲୋଚନାମାନ
ଏଠାରେ
ଦେଖିପାରିବେ ।
ବୋଧହୁଏ ଆପଣ ଏହାସବୁ ଖୋଜୁଥିବେ...
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର କାମରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବା:
ଲେଖା ସାଇତିବେ
କେମିତି ଦେଖନ୍ତୁ, ନହେଲେ
ପ୍ରଶ୍ନଟିଏ
ପଚାରନ୍ତୁ
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର
ଦ୍ରଷ୍ଟବ୍ୟ ସାରଣୀ
ପାଇଁ ଉତ୍ତର ।
ଅନ୍ୟ ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀମାନଙ୍କ ସହ ଆଲୋଚନା:
ଆଲୋଚନା ସଭା
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ମୂଳ ଆଲୋଚନା/ଫୋରମ
ଅସୁବିଧା ସବୁର ସମାଧାନ ପାଇଁ ଜାଗାଟିଏ:
ଲେଖାରେ ମତ ଅମେଳ ପାଇଁ ନିୟମ
ବ୍ୟବହାର କରନ୍ତୁ
ନିହାତି ଦରକାରି କାମ
ନିହାତି ଦରକାରି କାମ: ଏଥିରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ସବୁଠୁ ପ୍ରଥମେ ହେବାକୁଥିବା କାମସବୁର ଏକ ତାଲିକା ତିଆରି କରାଯାଇଛି । ଆପଣ ଯଦି ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ ନୁଆ ତେବେ ଏସବୁ ଆପଣଙ୍କୁ ନିଶ୍ଚିତ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିବ ।
The visual editor is now active here
Hello again. This message is only available in English at this time: ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
In the wikitext editor, the pencil icon allows you to switch to the visual editor.
In the visual editor, the [[ ]] (square brackets) icon allows you to switch to the wikitext editor.
Please note that the button will soon say
ପୃଷ୍ଠା ପ୍ରକାଶ
or
ବଦଳ ପ୍ରକାଶ କରନ୍ତୁ
, due to an unrelated change.
As some of you have noticed,
this Wikipedia now has
the visual editor
(ଭିଜୁଆଲ-ଏଡ଼ିଟର) enabled for all registered users
. The rollout to logged-out users will likely happen in a week or so.
For an
explanation of how the editing system now works and how to choose/go back to your favorite setting, please see my previous announcement above
If you wish to
change your editing system preferences now, this can be done from
this link to your Preferences
--> ସମ୍ପାଦନା --> ସମ୍ପାଦନା ଧାରା:
All edits using the visual editor will be tagged with "ଭିଜୁଆଲ ସମ୍ପାଦନା" in recent changes, watchlists, and page histories. To access the
User Guide for the visual editor
, click on the "(?)" icon in its toolbar.
Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues directly in
Phabricator, the new bug tracking system
or on at
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
; by all means, feel free to also
ping or contact me directly
if you prefer.
In case of emergency (like an unexpected bug causing widespread problems), please contact James Forrester, the product manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org or on
IRC
in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel.
Happy editing!
Respectfully,
Elitre (WMF)
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PS: Are you seeing interface messages that are not in this wiki's language? Please fix this by providing translations
here
. Translations may be also provided for the
user guide
. Please contact me if you want guidance in contributing translations!
Just a heads-up that rollout of the visual editor on this wiki is now complete. Please refer to my previous messages for details. You can
read the "checklist"
that was written to help communities like yours in their process of adapting the visual editor to their customs and needs. Best,
Elitre (WMF)
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ରିଭିଜନସ୍ଲାଇଡ଼ର
ଆପଣଙ୍କ ଉଇକିରେ ଏକ
ବିଟା ସୁବିଧା
ଭାବେ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବ । ରିଭିଜନସ୍ଲାଇଡ଼ର ତୁଳନା (diff) ପୃଷ୍ଠାରେ ଏକ ସ୍ଲାଇଡ଼ର ଦେଖଣା ଯୋଡ଼ିଥାଏ ଫଳରେ ଆପଣ ତୁଳନାମାନଙ୍କ ଭିତରେ ସହଜରେ ଯା'ଆସ କରିପାରିବେ । ଏହି ସୁବିଧା
ଜର୍ମାନ ସଂଘର କାରିଗରୀ ଆଶାତାଲିକାରୁ
ଆଶାଟିଏ ପୂରଣ କରେ । ସଭିଙ୍କୁ ଏହି ସୁବିଧା ପରଖ କରିବାକୁ ଅନୁରୋଧ ଆଉ ଏହା ଆପଣଙ୍କ କାମରେ ଲାଗିବ ବୋଲି ଆଶା!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
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Grants to improve your project
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ:
Greetings! The
Project Grants program
is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.
Submit a grant request
Get help
: In
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Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
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Creative Commons 4.0
Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested,
take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki
Apologies that this message is only in English.
This message can be read and translated in more languages here
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Editing news n.3-2016
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?
Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving language support.
Recent changes
You can now set text as small or big.
Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.
A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
At many wikis, you can now add
maps
to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.
The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.
In the future, the "ସାଇତିବେ [Save]" button will say "ପୃଷ୍ଠା ପ୍ରକାଶ". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.
Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including
Thai
Burmese
and
Aramaic
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The
2017 wikitext editor
will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help
set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki
? Have you written or imported
TemplateData
for your most important citation templates?
Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new
VisualEditor Community Taskforce
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
Elitre (WMF)
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (November 2016)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Foreign Affairs
- Journal of international relations and U.S. foreign policy
OpenEdition
- Journals in the social sciences and humanities
Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences
- French and English language scientific journals
ASHA
- Speech–language–hearing journals
Tilastopaja
- Athletics statistics
Expansions
EBSCO
- Many new databases added
Taylor & Francis
- Strategic, Defence & Security Studies collection
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
. Sign up today!
--
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Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.
In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.
Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation.
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New way to edit wikitext
Summary
: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a
wikitext mode for the visual editor
. Please
go try it out
We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving
the visual editor
based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the
citoid service
for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.
All wikis now have access to this mode as a
Beta Feature
. When enabled, it replaces your existing
wikitext editor
everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an
opt-in-only
Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "ସବୁ ନୂଆ ବିଟା ଫିଚର ଆପେ ଆପେ ସକ୍ରିୟ କରେ".
The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the
current wikitext editor
). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and
vice versa
), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to
work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work
with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.
This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode
on the feedback page
. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.
James Forrester
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Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well.
to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(15 December 2016)
Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(23 December 2016)
Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(8 January 2017)
Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(11 January 2017)
Introduction of williamsworks
Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 February 2017)
The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(10 February 2017)
Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well.
to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(16 February 2017)
Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(24 February 2017)
Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 March 2017)
Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions
More information about the movement strategy is available on the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
This message, "
We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
", was sent through multiple channels by
Gregory Varnum
on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by
Nicole Ebber
to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups)
: Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors):
On Meta
or your
local language or project wiki
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Find out more about the movement strategy process
Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the
engagement support teams
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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections
The
Board of Trustees
(Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Please read the
letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates
The
candidacy submission phase
will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the
three community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) –
Board nominations
April 7 – April 20 –
Board candidates questions submission period
April 21 – April 30 –
Board candidates answer questions
May 1 – May 14 –
Board voting period
May 15–19 –
Board vote checking
May 20 –
Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found
on Meta-Wiki
. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
election talk page on Meta-Wiki
, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
On
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
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Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app
Wikidata description editing
is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.
We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive
results
including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.
We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities.
As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at
the talk page for this project
or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!
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New Page previews feature
New Page previews feature
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Hello,
The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable
Page previews
a beta feature
known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.
A quick note on the implementation:
For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from
their user preferences
page.
For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.
You can read more about
the feature
and
the tests we used to evaluate performance
, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions
on the talk page
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
American Psychiatric Association
– Psychiatry books and journals
Bloomsbury
Who's Who
, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and
Whitaker's
Gaudeamus
– Finnish humanities and social sciences
Ympäristö-lehti
– The Finnish Environment Institute's
Ympäristö-lehti
magazine
Expansions
Gale
– Biography In Context database added
Adam Matthew
– all 53 databases now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
EBSCO
Taylor & Francis
and
Newspaperarchive.com
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2017 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14.
Click here to vote
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2017 Board of Trustees election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
From May 9, the
Two Column Edit Conflict View
will be available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
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Editing News #1—2017
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "ନିଜ ବଦଳସବୁ ପରଖନ୍ତୁ".
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding
the new visual diff tool
. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
new wikitext editing mode
is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The
2017 wikitext editor
has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new
visual diff tool
is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components.
The team have added
multi-column support for lists of footnotes
. The
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this.
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow.
The ଶ୍ରେଣୀସମୂହ item has been moved to the top of the ପୃଷ୍ଠା ବିକଳ୍ପ menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.
There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
You can now create
tags (sometimes used as
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
The ବିଶେଷ ସଙ୍କେତ menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,
Tpt
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption.
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control
Shift
on a PC, or
Command
Shift
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is
Control
or
Command
respectively.
Future changes
The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017.
The kind of button used to ଦେଖଣା [Preview], ବଦଳ ଦେଖାନ୍ତୁ, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use
OOjs UI
. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this:
The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes.
The
outdated 2006 wikitext editor
will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See
a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org
if you are uncertain which one you use.
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Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia
Hello,
I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.
One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.
The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal:
fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia
, via the Visual Editor.
We already
asked for feedback in 2015
, and collected some interesting ideas which we
shared with you in this thesis
. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.
We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.
You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video,
on this page
. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
RevisionSlider
RevisionSlider
will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
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Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)
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The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified
5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations
- each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to
join the online and offline discussions taking place
on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
Healthy, Inclusive Communities
The Augmented Age
A Truly Global Movement
The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
On the
movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki
, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee
and
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at
on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC elections page
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at
the FDC Ombudsperson elections page
The
candidacy submission phase
will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the
five community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the
community-selected ombudsperson
. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) –
Nominations
May 15 – May 28 –
Candidates questions submission period
May 29 – June 2 –
Candidates answer questions
June 3 – June 11 –
Voting period
June 12–14 –
Vote checking
June 15 –
Goal date for announcing election results
More information on this year's elections can be found at
the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on
the talk page on Meta-Wiki
, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections
wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Accessible editing buttons
The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.
You can see and use the
old
and
new
versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.
Comparison of old and new styles
Buttons before the change
Buttons after the change
However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system.
If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see
mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.
This change will probably reach this wiki on
Tuesday, 18 July 2017
. Please leave a note at
mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons
if you need help.
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Page Previews (Hovercards) update
Hello,
A quick update on the progress of enabling
Page Previews
(previously named Hovercards) on this project. Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. As mentioned in December we're preparing to remove the feature from Beta and make it the default behavior for logged-out users. We have recently made a large update to the code which fixes most outstanding bugs.
Due to some issues with our instrumentation, we delayed our deployment by a few months. We are finally ready to deploy the feature. Page Previews will be off by default and available in the user preferences page for logged-in users the week of July 24th. The feature will be on by default for current beta users and logged-out users. If you would like to preview the feature, you can enable it as a
beta feature
. For more information see
Page Previews
. Questions can be left
on the talk page
in your preferred language.
Thank you again.
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RfC regarding "Interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing to decrease impersonation"
There is currently a RfC open on Meta regarding "
requiring those involved with paid editing on Wikipedia to link on their user page to all other active accounts through which they advertise paid Wikipedia editing business.
Note this is to apply to Wikipedia and not necessarily other sister projects, this is only to apply to websites where people are specifically advertising that they will edit Wikipedia for pay and not any other personal, professional, or social media accounts a person may have.
Please comment on meta
. Thanks. Send on behalf of
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Discussion on synced reading lists
Discussion on synced reading lists
Hello,
The Reading Infrastructure team at the Wikimedia Foundation is developing a cross-platform reading list service for the mobile Wikipedia app. Reading lists are like bookmark folders in your web browser. They allow readers using the Wikipedia app to bookmark pages into folders to read later. This includes reading offline. Reading lists do not create or alter content in any way.
To create Reading Lists, app users will register an account and marked pages will be tied to that account. Reading List account preferences sync between devices. You can read the same pages on different mobile platforms (tablets, phones). This is the first time we are syncing preference data between devices in such a way. We want to hear and address concerns about privacy and data security. We also want to explain why the current watchlist system is not being adapted for this purpose.
Background
In 2016 the Android team replaced the simple Saved Pages feature with Reading Lists. Reading Lists allow users to bookmark pages into folders and for reading offline. The intent of this feature was to allow "syncing" of these lists for users with many devices. Due to overlap with the Gather feature and related community concerns, this part was put on hold.
The Android team has identified this lack of synching as a major area of complaint from users. They expect lists to sync. The iOS team has held off implementing Reading Lists, as syncing was seen as a "must have" for this feature. A recent
technical RfC
has allowed these user stories and needs to be unblocked. Initially for Android, then iOS, and with web to potentially follow.
Reading lists are private, stored as part of a user's account, not as a public wiki page. There is no sharing or publishing ability for reading lists. No planned work to make these public. The target audience are people that read Wikipedia and want to bookmark and organize that content in the app. There is a potential for the feature to be available on the web in the future.
Why not watchlists
Watchlists offer similar functionality to Reading Lists. The Reading Infrastructure team evaluated watchlist infrastructure before exploring other options. In general, the needs of watchlists differ from Reading Lists in a few key ways:
Reading lists focus on Reading articles, not the monitoring of changes.
Watchlists are focused on monitoring changes of pages/revisions.
The Watchlist infrastructure is key to our contributor community for monitoring content changes manually and through the use of automated tools (bots). Because of these needs, expanding the scope of Watchlists to reading purposes will only make the project harder to maintain and add more constraints.
By keeping the projects separate it is easier to scale resources. We can serve these two different audiences and prioritize the work accordingly. Reading Lists are, by their nature, less critical to the health of Wikipedia/MediaWiki.
Multi-project support. Reading Lists are by design cross-wiki/project. Watchlists are tied to specific wikis. While there have been many discussion for making them cross-wiki, resolution is not in the near term.
More information can be found on MediaWiki.org
where feedback and ideas are welcome.
Thank you
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Changes to the global ban policy
Hello. Some changes to the
community global ban policy
have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at
m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy
. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially.
Matiia
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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it
easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from
the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India
. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The
prototype evaluation
received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF.
Mobile print styles
will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see
the project page on MediaWiki.org
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Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships
Hi all,
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for
Wikimania 2018
which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted.
Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit:
wm2018:Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and
the associated FAQ
before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at:
wm2018:Talk:Scholarships
. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!
Best regards,
David Richfield
and
Martin Rulsch
for the
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User group for Military Historians
Greetings,
"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at
Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians
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Editing News #1—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can now use the
visual diff tool
on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you
enable the Beta Feature
for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since
the last newsletter
, the
Editing Team
has spent most of their time supporting
the 2017 wikitext editor mode
, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving
the visual diff tool
. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
The
2017 wikitext editor
is
available as a Beta Feature
on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at
mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance
The
visual diff tool
was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also
enable the new Beta Feature
for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and
Special:RecentChanges
Wikitext syntax highlighting
is available as a Beta Feature for both
the 2017 wikitext editor
and the 2010 wikitext editor.
The
citoid service
automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up.
Your wiki can have this service. Please
read the instructions
. You can
ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki
Let's work together
The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming
Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting
Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact
Dan Garry
The
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns
on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can
request multi-column support
for your wiki.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
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AdvancedSearch
From May 8,
AdvancedSearch
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The feature enhances the
search page
through an advanced parameters form and aims to make
existing search options
more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the
Library Card platform
Rock's Backpages
– Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
Invaluable
– Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
Termsoup
– Translation tool
Expansions
Fold3
– Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
Oxford University Press
– The Scholarship collection now includes
Electronic Enlightenment
Alexander Street Press
Women and Social Movements Library
now available
Cambridge University Press
Orlando Collection
now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Baylor University Press
Loeb Classical Library
Cairn
Gale
and
Bloomsbury
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new
global preferences page
. Visit
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New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
(ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ)
Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
and
MediaWiki:Vector.js
which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group,
interface-admin
, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with
.css
or
.js
that is either in the
MediaWiki:
namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change
here
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).
This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr
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Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
(ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ)
Hi all,
as
announced previously
, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the
interface-admin
(Interface administrators) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at
Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr
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Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
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• ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
On
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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The Community Wishlist Survey
The Community Wishlist Survey. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
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Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has wrapped up most of their work on the
2017 wikitext editor
and
the visual diff tool
. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
The Editing team has published an
initial report about mobile editing
The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can
read the report
The Reading team is working on a
separate mobile-based contributions project
The 2006 wikitext editor is
no longer supported
. If you used
that toolbar
, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your
editing preferences
local gadgets
, or
beta features
The Editing team described the history and status of
VisualEditor
in
this recorded public presentation
(starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
The Language team released
a new version of Content Translation
(CX2) last month, on
International Translation Day
. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.
Let's work together
The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website.
Please read
their ideas
and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
The
Community Wishlist Survey
begins next week.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Example of improvements
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like
Template:Unreferenced
or
Template:More citations needed
. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have
some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly
and also further
documentation on our work so far
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile,
please leave a note on the project talk page
or
file a task in Phabricator
and we will help you.
ସାଧୁବାଦ!
CKoerner (WMF)
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Community Wishlist Survey vote
The Community Wishlist Survey. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
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Advanced Search
Advanced Search
will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the
search page
, even if you don’t know any
search syntax
. Advanced Search originates from the
German Community’s Technical Wishes project
. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the
central feedback page
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new
password policy and requirements
You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on
the talk page
ସାଧୁବାଦ!
CKoerner (WMF)
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Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL)
is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is
Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at
Participants
page.
To know more about the contest, check out our
Commons Page
and
FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Love Team
Imagine... the sum of all love!
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FileExporter beta feature
Coming soon: the beta feature
FileExporter
A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The
FileExporter
. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community:
Please check your wiki's
configuration file
if you want to use this feature.
The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on
mediawiki.org
meta.wikimedia
, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on
wikisource.org
. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found
on the project page
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your
user preferences
. The best place for feedback is the
central talk page
. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's
Technical Wishes project
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
You will
not be able to edit
the wikis for up to 30 minutes on
17 January 07:00 UTC
. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are
not
affected
on this page
. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
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Talk to us about talking
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a
global consultation about communication
. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
First,
sign up your group here.
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
Finally, please go to
Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org
and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us
how your group communicates
You can read more about
the overall process
on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can
leave feedback about the consultation process
in the language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the
Library Card platform
Kinige
– Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
Gale
– Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
JSTOR
– New applications now being taken again
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Baylor University Press
Taylor & Francis
Cairn
Annual Reviews
and
Bloomsbury
. You can request new partnerships on our
Suggestions page
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
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Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
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You will
not be able to edit
most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on
11 April 05:00 UTC
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Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a
Medium-Term Plan proposal
covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on
the talk page
, by April 20. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new
Edit Cards for editing links
in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Welcome back to the
Editing
newsletter.
Since
the last newsletter
, the team has released two new features for the
mobile visual editor
and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to
make editing on mobile web simpler
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the
mobile site
. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
Section editing
The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
The team studied this with an A/B test.
This test showed
that contributors who could use section editing were
1% more likely to publish
the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
Loading overlay
The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are
now available to everyone
using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects.
Watch
these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
Edit cards
: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.
Go here to see how:
Try Edit Cards
Mobile toolbar refresh
: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
Mobile visual editor availability
: This A/B test asks:
Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?
We are collaborating with
20 Wikipedias
to answer this question.
Usability improvements
: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
Wikimania:
Several members of the Editing Team will be attending
Wikimania
in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the
Community Growth space
. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
Talk Pages:
In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin
improving talk pages
and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
The
VisualEditor on mobile
is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
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Update on the consultation about office actions
Hello all,
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team
announced
a future consultation about partial and/or temporary
office actions
. We want to let you know that the
draft version
of this consultation has now been
posted on Meta
This is a
draft
. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.
For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted.
Please post it on the draft talk page
. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.
Please visit
the consultation draft on Meta-wiki
and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.
Thank you for your input! -- The
Trust & Safety team
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New tools and IP masking
Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools
could
be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project
on Meta
and
post comments and feedback
. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
Johan (WMF)
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The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started
Hello,
In a
recent statement
, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
requested that staff hold a consultation
to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians
to join this consultation and give their feedback
from 30 September to 30 October.
How can you help?
Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
--
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Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ହେଲୋ. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some
improvements to the desktop interface
over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at
mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
ସାଧୁବାଦ!
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Beta feature "Reference Previews"
A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki:
Reference Previews
. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found
on the project page
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your
user preferences
and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the
central talk page
. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's
Technical Wishes project
--
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the
Editing team
talks about their work on the
mobile visual editor
, on
the new talk pages project
, and at
Wikimania 2019
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember?
Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page.
Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the
talk page for this project
The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
The
Talk Pages Consultation
was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The
Phase 2 Report
of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here:
Talk Page Project project page
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the
"Getting involved"
section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the
visual editor on mobile
. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at
Talk:VisualEditor on mobile
Edit Cards
What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.
On 3 September, the Editing team released
version 3 of Edit Cards
. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
There is an
updated design
on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new,
combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target
Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Edit cards talk page
Toolbar
The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together.
Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar
In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
One toolbar:
All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
New navigation:
The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
Seamless switching:
an
improved workflow
for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the
Toolbar feedback talk page
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended
Wikimania 2019
in Sweden. They led a session on
the mobile visual editor
and a session on
the new talk pages project
. They tested
two
new
features
in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in
the team's report on Wikimania 2019
Looking ahead
Talk Pages Project:
The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page:
Getting involved
Testing the mobile visual editor as the default:
The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
VisualEditor as mobile default project page
Measuring the impact of Edit Cards:
This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist:
Edit Cards project page
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Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project
Hello
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project,
please visit the Meta page
. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete
this simple Google form
. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
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Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.
You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at
the planned feature
. Let us know what you think on our
central feedback page
! -- For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE)
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.
The
Editing team
has been working on
the talk pages project
. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the
Talk pages consultation 2019
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.
The team is building a
new tool for replying
to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.
Please
test the new Reply tool
On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a
Beta Feature
editors at four Wikipedias:
Arabic
Dutch
French
, and
Hungarian
. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
The team is planning some upcoming changes.
Please
review the proposed design
and share your thoughts on the talk page.
The team will test features such as:
an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
a rich-text visual editing option, and
other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the
"Get involved"
section of the project page. You can also watch
these pages:
the main project page
Updates
Replying
, and
User testing
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Editing news 2020 #2
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The new features include a toolbar.
What do you think should be in the toolbar?
This issue of the
Editing
newsletter includes information the
Talk pages project
, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.
Reply tool
: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "Discussion tools". The Beta Feature will get
new features
soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
. You can
test the new features
on the
Beta Cluster
now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
New requirements for user signatures
: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in
Special:Preferences
. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
New discussion tool
: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can
see the initial design on the project page
Research on the use of talk pages
: The Editing team worked with the
Wikimedia research team
to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)
This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.
The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
Please visit the
campaign page
to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.
With kind regards,
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - ୧୩:୫୪, ୧ ଜୁଲାଇ ୨୦୨୦ (IST)
feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community
Feedback on movement names
ହେଲୋ. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ if necessary. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a
survey
in 7 languages about
3 naming options
. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a
Community Open Letter
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --
The Brand Project team
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Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the
survey privacy statement
Editing news 2020 #3
ଖବର ସମ୍ପାଦନ କରିବା 2020 #3
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ଡେସ୍କଟପ'ରେ ଭିଜୁଏଲ ଏଡିଟର ବ୍ୟବହାର କରି
50 ମିଲିୟନରୁ ଅଧିକ ସମ୍ପାଦନ
ଆଇଛି ।
Seven years ago this month, the
Editing team
offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
More than
50 million edits
have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
More than
2 million new articles
have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
The visual editor is
increasingly popular
. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
In 2019,
35% of the edits by newcomers
(logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has
increased every year
Almost
5 million edits on the mobile site
have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the
mobile visual editor
in 2018.
On 17 November 2019, the
first edit from outer space
was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩🚀
Editors have made more than
7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor
, including starting
600,000 new articles
in it. The
2017 wikitext editor
is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can
enable it in your preferences
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Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia
Hi all,
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020
after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation
. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list
. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)
Abstract Wikipedia
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Abstract Wikipedia mailing list
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Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis
The
FileExporter and FileImporter
will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history.
How does it work?
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's
configuration file
which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.
If you want to know more about the
FileImporter extension
or the
Technical Wishes Project
, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:
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Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on
Tuesday, September 1st 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL owl says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our
research access program
. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the
Library Card platform
Al Manhal
– Arabic journals and ebooks
Ancestry.com
– Genealogical and historical records
RILM
– Music encyclopedias
Many other partnerships are listed on
our partners page
, including
Adam Matthew
EBSCO
Gale
and
JSTOR
A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our
recent blog post
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Invitation to participate in the conversation
ହେଲୋ. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on
Meta
. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
We are excited to share
a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct
, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.
The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the
Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review
. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
To learn more about the UCoC project, see the
Universal Code of Conduct
page, and the
FAQ
, on Meta.
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions,
The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation
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Wiki of functions naming contest
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ହେଲୋ. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of
functions
. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki. ସାଧୁବାଦ! --
Quiddity (WMF)
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Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
ହେଲୋ. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ.
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details,
check the full announcement
ସାଧୁବାଦ!
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Important: maintenance operation on October 27
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, October 27 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
ହେଲୋ.
Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-wiki.
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Quiddity (WMF)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
The
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the
Community Tech
team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on
୩୦ ନଭେମ୍ବର
, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.
The communities will vote on the proposals between ୮ ଡିସେମ୍ବର and ୨୧ ଡିସେମ୍ବର.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.
You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
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Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist
Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on
this page
. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (
in your preferences
). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use
this Phabricator ticket
. Thanks!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
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2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th
Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020
Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information
here
about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
We invite all registered users to vote on the
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the
Community Tech
, are one of the
Wikimedia Foundation
teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
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IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, etc.) was adopted by
global community consensus
in 2013. According to this policy, the
stewards
are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the
admin activity review
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no logged actions for more than 2 years):
Odisha1 (administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the
stewards on Meta-Wiki
so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --
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Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
ହେଲୋ. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ. ସାଧୁବାଦ!
Wikimania will be a virtual event this year
, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again,
the ESEAP Core Organizing Team
will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how
you
can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event.
Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
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Project Grant Open Call
This is the announcement for the
Project Grants program
open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for
#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions
with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Video tutorials
for writing a strong application
General
planning page
for Project Grants
Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and
submit your proposal
by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrants
wikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language.
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL owl says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our
research access program
. You can sign up to access research materials on the
Library Card platform
Taxmann
– Taxation and law database
PNAS
– Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO
– New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of
other collections available
, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our
blog post
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
This message was delivered via the
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Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Greetings!
You are invited to participate in
Feminism and Folklore
writing contest
. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of
suggested articles here
You can also support us in translating the
project page
and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our
project page
. Thank you.
Feminism and Folklore team,
Joy Agyepong
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Wikifunctions logo contest
ହେଲୋ. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-Wiki. ସାଧୁବାଦ! --
Quiddity (WMF)
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Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its
project page
Drafting Committee: Call for applications
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see
Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee
2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested
key questions
. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please
in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see
Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations
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Line numbering coming soon to all wikis
Example
From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (
CodeMirror extension
), which is supported in the
2010
and
2017
wikitext editors.
More information can be found on
this project page
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
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Intimation about the Research Proposal on Gender Gap
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. We would like to inform you that we (
User: Praveenky1589
and
User: Nitesh Gill
) have proposed a research project for Project Grant. The study will focus on analyzing gender-based differences in leadership of Indian Wikimedia communities. The purpose of the research project is to analyse the growth of projects under different leadership, reasons behind the difference in engagement, contribution and iterations of the project. It also aims to study-
How male and female leadership impacts volunteer contribution and their retention?
The output of events under different leadership and the future of projects and leaders.
The study will be conducted on the last 5 years of online and offline activities. For knowing more about the project please visit the
proposal page
and share your valuable feedback and suggestions on the talk page.
We look forward to refining it more following your valuable inputs and questions.
Thank you
Nitesh Gill
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Suggested Values
From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to
TemplateData
and will then be shown as a drop-down list in
VisualEditor
. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values:
[1]
[2]
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021
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Welcome to the first issue of
Universal Code of Conduct News
! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to
subscribe here
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please
add your name here
if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
Affiliate consultations
– Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (
continue reading
2021 key consultations
– The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (
continue reading
Roundtable discussions
– The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (
continue reading
Phase 2 drafting committee
– The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (
continue reading
Diff blogs
– The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (
continue reading
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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be
hosted virtually
for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the
Core Organizing Team
(COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program
- Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information
here
Below are some links to guide you through;
Program Submissions
Session Submission Guidelines
FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements
- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section
here
Office Hour
- If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found
here.
Best regards,
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On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
Editing news 2021 #2
Read this in another language
Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (
Source
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of
the Reply Tool
. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped
newer editors
communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were
more likely
to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also
less likely
to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to
resolve a technical challenge
. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the
Wikipedias that participated in the study
. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion tools"
in Beta Features
now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at
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Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021)
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says log in today!
The Wikipedia Library
is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
Cabells
– Scholarly and predatory journal database
Taaghche
- Persian language e-books
Merkur
Musik & Ästhetik
, and
Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse
- German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
Art Archiv
Capital
Geo
Geo Epoche
, and
Stern
- German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally,
De Gruyter
and
Nomos
have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to
The Wikipedia Library
with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the
project page on Meta
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (
T132084
). If you can translate the notification please do so
at TranslateWiki
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This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review
The
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee
would like comments about the
enforcement draft guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.
Comments can be shared in any language on the
draft review talk page
and
multiple other venues
. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:
Wikimania 2021 session
(recorded 16 August)
Conversation hours
- 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
Roundtable calls
- 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks
here
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end
Thank you for participating in the
2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the
Elections Committee
completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the
data produced during the election
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the
Community Wishlist Survey
2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a
dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes
Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year
In the past, the
Community Tech
team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the
Wishlist for 2021
in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the
Wishlist for 2020
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities
We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet
We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the
talk page
, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting
September 15th at 23:00 UTC
. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase
If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the
new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox
. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
Feedback
What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
How would you like to use our new
sandbox?
What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the
talk page
(in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
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Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021
Movement Strategy announces
the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent
diversity in the Movement
. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following
skills
Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
Are ready to find compromises.
Focus on inclusion and diversity.
Have knowledge of community consultations.
Have intercultural communication experience.
Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy
here
. Please contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org with questions.
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
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We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
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. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Hello!
As we have
recently announced
, we, the team working on the
Community Wishlist Survey
, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on
September 15th, 23:00 UTC
on Zoom, and will last an hour.
Click here to join
Agenda
How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
Why we decided to change the date
from November 2021 to January 2022
Update on the
disambiguation
and the
real-time preview
wishes
Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them
on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page
or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez
(the
Community Tech
manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
Join online
Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
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Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24
This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.
The 15 member committee will be selected with a
3-step process
Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.
The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.
We are very happy about the wide range of diverse Wikimedians that are running for the election and selection processes for the drafting committee of the Movement Charter! As the number of candidates is quite large and thus informing yourself about them might be a bit more complicated, we want to try something different this time: We want to organize a so-called “Voting Advice Application
(or “Election Compass
) with statements related to the Movement Charter. All candidates can propose their statements
here
For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please
have a look at Meta
. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).
Best,
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Select You the question statements for candidates of Drafting Committee Movement Charter
Into 2021-10-04 11:59:59 UTC you can select
question statements
for the
candidates
of
Drafting Committee
Movement Charter
. ✍️
Dušan Kreheľ
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Universal Code of Conduct News - Issue 4
Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 4, October 2021
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Welcome to the fourth issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
If you haven’t already, please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to be notified about future editions of the newsletter, and also leave your username
here
if you’d like to be contacted to help with translations in the future.
Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review Wrap-up
- The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review will come to a close on 17 October 2021, after more than two months of extensive consultations. (
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Roundtable Discussions and Conversation Hours
- Another successful roundtable session happened on September 18, 2021 to discuss the EDGR. One last conversation hour will be happening on October 15th, 2021. (
continue reading
Movement Charter Drafting Committee Elections
- The Movement Charter Drafting Committee selection process has kicked off and will be open until October 25, 2021. Contributors to Wikimedia projects can elect their favorite candidates on to the committee. (
continue reading
New Direction for the Newsletter
- As we round-up the consultation processes for the Universal Code of Conduct, the facilitation team is currently envisioning new directions for the newsletter. (
continue reading
Diff Blogs
- Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff. (
continue reading
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Learn how Movement Strategy Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans
Movement Strategy Implementation grants now provide more than $2,000 USD to put Movement Strategy plans into action. Find out more about Movement Strategy Implementation grants, the criteria, and how to apply
here
Also, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee election is still ongoing. It would be great to increase community participation. If you haven't voted now is the time. Please
vote here
before October 24. Regards,
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Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee Members
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.
The
election results have been published
. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee:
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
Anne Clin (Risker)
Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy)
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
Richard (Nosebagbear)
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
Ciell (Ciell)
The affiliate process has selected six members:
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini)
Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin)
Georges Fodouop (Geugeor)
Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur)
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members:
Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF)
Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)
The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.
If you are interested in engaging with
Movement Charter
drafting process, follow the updates
on Meta
and join the
Telegram group
You can read this announcement in other languages
here
With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team
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Closing the comment period for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Draft Guidelines
Thank you for your continued comments and ideas on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines. Your responses have helped to build a stronger Universal Code of Conduct.
If you have not already provided your comments, now is the time as the drafting committee has been
meeting to update the enforcement guidelines
. The drafting committee wants to consider all comments as they make their updates. Please submit any comments by the end of November. The Committee hopes to finish its revisions before the end of the year, and the revised guidelines will be published as soon as they have been completed.
The next steps for the Universal Code of Conduct include conversations about ratification of the enforcement guidelines. There will be
a conversation about ratification on Nov 29
The Wikimedia Foundation will make recommendations to the Board of Trustees about the ratification of the guidelines in December. The recommendations will inform the next steps in the Universal Code of Conduct process.
Best,
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Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the above confirmed questions before the call opens.
Community members can also organise local conversations during the call. You can find more information about this upcoming call for feedback
here
Best,
Zuz (WMF)
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Feminism and Folklore 2022
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Greetings! You are invited to participate in
Feminism and Folklore 2022
writing competion. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles focused on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles
here
You can also support us in organizing the contest on your local Wikipedia by signing up your community to participate in this project and also translating the
project page
and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Feel free to contact us on our
talk page
or via Email if you need any assistance...
Thank you.
Feminism and Folklore Team
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The Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open
The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.
With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.
There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:
What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?
There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.
Join the conversation.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance,
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5
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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022
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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to receive these updates.
Call for Feedback about the Board elections
- We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 7th February 2022. (
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Universal Code of Conduct Ratification
- In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (
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Movement Strategy Implementation Grants
- As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (
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The New Direction for the Newsletter
- As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (
continue reading
Diff Blogs
- Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (
continue reading
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Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review
Hello everyone,
The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the
Universal Code of Conduct
across the movement. Comments about the guidelines can be shared here or
the Meta-wiki talk page
There will be conversations on Zoom on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC.
Join the UCoC project team and drafting committee members to discuss the guidelines and voting process
The
timeline is available on Meta-wiki
. The voting period is March 7 to 21.
See the voting information page for more details
You can read the full announcement
here
. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
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Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated
The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.
The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a
Leadership Development Task Force
and how
you can help
. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.
Best,
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Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March
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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that
Wiki Loves Folklore
an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the
15th of March 2022
. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the
translation
of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Best wishes,
International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore
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Coming soon
Several improvements around templates
Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:
Fundamental improvements of the
VisualEditor template dialog
),
Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (
) (for the template dialogs in
VisualEditor
2010 Wikitext
and
New Wikitext Mode
),
and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension
CodeMirror
) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “
Templates
” project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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Thank you for your feedback about the Board of Trustees election
The
Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections
is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on
three key questions
and received broad discussion on
Meta-wiki
, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The
reports
are on Meta-wiki.
This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Zuz (WMF)
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Invitation to Hubs Global Conversation
Hello!
The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (
read the report
), but we're not finished yet.
Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (
see Hubs Dialogue
). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.
The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us.
More information on the event on Meta-wiki
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Zuz (WMF)
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Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022
Hello everyone,
The ratification voting process for the
revised enforcement guidelines
of the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) is now open!
Voting commenced on SecurePoll
on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please
read more on the voter information and eligibility details
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can
read more about the UCoC project
You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocproject
wikimedia.org
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Zuz (WMF)
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Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow
International photographic contest
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your
local Wikipedia is participating
A special competition called
Wiki Loves Falles
is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and
Falles
in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on
Catalan Wikipedia project page
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)
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Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the
Leadership Development Working Group
initiative. A
summary of the feedback
can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please
review the information about the working group
, share with community members who might be interested, and apply
here
if you are interested.
Best,
Zuz (WMF)
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Join the Community Resilience and Sustainability Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis
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The
Community Resilience and Sustainability
team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a conversation hour led by its Vice President
Maggie Dennis
Topics within scope for this call include Movement Strategy, Board Governance, Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Community Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions and feedback, and let's talk! You can also send us your questions in advance.
The meeting will be on 24 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
check your local time
).
You can
read details on Meta-wiki
Best,
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Feminism and Folklore 2022 ends soon
Feminism and Folklore 2022
which is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia ends soon that is on
31 March 2022 11:59 UTC
. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such as
folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more
Keep an eye on the project page for declaration of Winners.
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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Leadership Development Working Group: Reminder to apply by 10 April 2022
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Hello everyone,
The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven
Leadership Development Working Group
. The purpose of the working group is to advise leadership development work. Feedback was collected in February 2022 and a
summary of the feedback
is on Meta-wiki. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and is closing soon on April 10, 2022. Please
review the information about the working group
, share with community members who might be interested, and
apply if you are interested
Thank you,
From the Community Development team
Best,
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Results from the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification vote published
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The Trust and Safety Policy team published the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification vote. The vote ended 21 March 2022.
See the results and read more on Meta-wiki.
Best,
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6
Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022
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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
Leadership Development -
A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (
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Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! -
The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (
continue reading
Movement Discussions on Hubs -
The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (
continue reading
Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! -
Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (
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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! -
The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (
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Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly -
Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (
continue reading
Diff Blogs -
Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (
continue reading
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Join the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan conversations with Maryana Iskander
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Hello,
The
Movement Communications
and
Movement Strategy and Governance
teams invite you to discuss the
2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
, a plan of record for the Wikimedia Foundation's work.
These conversations continue
Maryana Iskander
's
Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer listening tour
The conversations are about these questions:
The
2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy
sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. What is working well? How can we improve?
Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. Let's collect your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?
You can find
the schedule of calls on Meta-wiki
The information will be available in multiple languages. Each call will be open to anyone to attend. Live interpretation will be available in some calls.
Best regards,
2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates
Zuz (WMF)
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The Board of Trustees seeks candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
Read more on Meta-wiki.
The
2022 Board of Trustees election
is here! Please consider submitting your candidacy to serve on the Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
The Wikimedia community will vote to fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.
Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the
Apply to be a Candidate page
Thank you for your support,
Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022
Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL owl says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections at
Wiley
– journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
OECD
– OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
SPIE Digital Library
– journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research
Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today!
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Next steps: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
The Community Affairs Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees would like to thank everyone who participated in the recently concluded community vote on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC).
While the Enforcement Guidelines did reach a threshold of support necessary for the Board to review, we encouraged voters, regardless of which way they were voting, to provide feedback on the elements of the enforcement guidelines that they felt needed to be changed or fixed, as well as why, in case it seemed advisable to launch a further round of edits that would address community concerns.
Foundation staff who have been reviewing comments have advised us of some of the emerging themes, and as a result we have decided as Community Affairs Committee to ask the Foundation to reconvene the drafting committee and to undertake another community engagement to refine the enforcement guidelines based on the community feedback received from the recently concluded vote.
Further, we are aware of the concerns with the note 3.1 in the Universal Code of Conduct Policy. We are directing the Foundation to facilitate a review of this language to ensure that the Policy meets its intended purposes of supporting a safe and inclusive community, without waiting for the planned review of the entire Policy at the end of year.
Please visit
here
to read the full announcement.
Best,
Zuz (WMF)
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Coming soon: Improvements for templates
Fundamental changes in the template dialog.
Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:
The
template dialog
in VisualEditor
and in the
2017 Wikitext Editor
(beta) will be
improved fundamentally
This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.
project page
talk page
In
syntax highlighting
CodeMirror
extension), you can activate a
colorblind-friendly
color scheme with a user setting.
project page
talk page
Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from
WMDE Technical Wishes'
focus area “
Templates
”.
We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!
--
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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Editing news 2022 #1
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New editors were more successful with this new tool.
The
New topic tool
helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can
read the report
. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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Call for Election Volunteers
The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the
upcoming Board of Trustees election
The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.
A total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help change the participation for this year's?
Election volunteers will help in the following areas:
Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions
Volunteers should:
Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner
Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up
here
to receive updates. You can use the
talk page
for questions about translation.
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Report on Voter Feedback from Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines Ratification
Hello all,
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) project team has completed the analysis of the feedback accompanying the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines.
Following the completion of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Draft in 2022, the guidelines were voted on by the Wikimedian community. Voters cast votes from 137 communities, with the top 9 communities being: English, German, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian Wikipedias, and Meta-wiki.
Those voting had the opportunity to provide comments on the contents of the Draft document. 658 participants left comments. 77% of the comments are written in English. Voters wrote comments in 24 languages with the largest numbers in English (508), German (34), Japanese (28), French (25), and Russian (12).
A report will be sent to the Revision Drafting Committee who will refine the enforcement guidelines based on the community feedback received from the recently concluded vote. A public version of the report is
published on Meta-wiki here
. The report is available in translated versions on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language
Again, we thank all who participated in the vote and discussions. We invite everyone to contribute during the next community discussions. More information about the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines can be found
on Meta-wiki
Best,
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Revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
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Hello all,
We'd like to provide an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. After the conclusion of the community vote on the guidelines in March, the
Community Affairs committee (CAC)
of the Board
asked that several areas of the guidelines be reviewed for improvements
before the Board does its final review. These areas were identified based on community discussions and comments provided during the vote. The CAC also requested review of the controversial Note in 3.1 of the UCoC itself.
Once more, a big thank you to all who voted, especially to all who left constructive feedback and comments! The project team is working with the Board to establish a timeline for this work, and will communicate this next month.
Members of the two prior
UCoC Drafting Committees
have generously offered their time to help shape improvements to the Guidelines. You can read more about them and their work
here
, as well as read
summaries of their weekly meetings in 2022
Wikimedians have provided many valuable comments together with the vote and in other conversations. Given the size and diversity of the Wikimedia community, there are even more voices out there who can give ideas on how to improve the enforcement guidelines and add even more valuable ideas to the process. To help the Revisions committee identify improvements, input on several questions for the committee’s review is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (
Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions
Policy text revision discussions
) to get your ideas to the Committee - it is very important that viewpoints are heard from different communities before the Committee begins drafting revision proposals.
On behalf of the UCoC project team
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Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!
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Hi, Greetings
The winners for
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images
here
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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Hi all,
Community members in the
2022 Board of Trustees election
are invited to
propose statements to use in the Election Compass.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Movement Strategy and Governance News - Issue 7
Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022
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Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's
Movement Strategy recommendations
, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent
Movement Strategy Weekly
will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
Movement sustainability
: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (
continue reading
Improving user experience
: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (
continue reading
Safety and inclusion
: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (
continue reading
Equity in decisionmaking
: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (
continue reading
Stakeholders coordination
: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (
continue reading
Leadership development
: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (
continue reading
Internal knowledge management
: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (
continue reading
Innovate in free knowledge
: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (
continue reading
Evaluate, iterate, and adapt
: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (
continue reading
Other news and updates
: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (
continue reading
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Announcing the six candidates for the Board of Trustees election
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Hi everyone,
The Affiliate Representatives have completed their voting period. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:
Tobechukwu Precious Friday (
Tochiprecious
Farah Jack Mustaklem (
Fjmustak
Shani Evenstein Sigalov (
Esh77
Kunal Mehta (
Legoktm
Michał Buczyński (
Aegis Maelstrom
Mike Peel (
Mike Peel
You may see more information about the
Results
and
Statistics
of this Board election.
The Affiliate organizations selected representatives to vote on behalf of the Affiliate organization. The Affiliate Representatives proposed questions for the candidates to answer in mid-June. These answers from candidates and the information provided from the Analysis Committee provided support for the representatives as they made their decision.
Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.
Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.
What can voters do now?
Review the results of the Affiliate selection process
Read more here about the next steps in the 2022 Board of Trustee election
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Vote for Election Compass Statements
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
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Hi all,
Volunteers in the
2022 Board of Trustees election
are invited to
vote for statements to use in the Election Compass
. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 3: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 16: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Delay of the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
Hi all,
I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting for the Board of Trustees election.
As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an
Election Compass
to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election process.
To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election.
Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.
The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
Please find this message translated in additional languages
here
Best regards,
Zuz (WMF)
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On behalf of the Elections Committee
Invitation to join Movement Strategy Forum
Hello everyone,
The
Movement Strategy Forum
(MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation. It provides a great opportunity to share your Movement Strategy(MS) work, find collaborators, and get even more support and ideas for your MS projects. We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration using an inclusive multilingual platform.
The
Movement Strategy
is a collaborative effort to imagine and build the future of the Wikimedia Movement. Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy, from a comment to a full-time project.
Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, say hi
here
and go ahead and join or start a conversation on the recommendation you are most passionate about! Feel free to discuss your MS project ideas and plans or even reports from MS projects you have worked on. To get started, you can also watch
this video
The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for this MS Forum in May. After a 2-month review period, we have just published the
Community Review Report
. It includes a summary of the discussions, metrics, and information about the next steps.
We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!
Best regards,
Zuz (WMF)
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The 2022 Board of Trustees Election Community Voting period is now open
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Hi everyone,
The Community Voting period for the
2022 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
If you are ready to vote, you may go to
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now.
You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to Close
Hello,
The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to affiliates' questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
Hello everyone,
The
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee
is requesting comments regarding the
Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
. This review period will be open from
8 September 2022 until 8 October 2022.
The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on the following four areas:
To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
To simplify the language for more accessible translation and comprehension by non-experts;
To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused
The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by
8 October 2022
. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further revising the guidelines based on community input.
Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta
, and a
comparison page in some languages.
Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the Revisions Guideline Talk Page. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines; please see Meta times and details:
Conversation hours
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published
here
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average
87% of active logged-in users
of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to
any other skins
. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
[Why is a change necessary]
The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects.
The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective]
The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results]
The skin introduces a
series of changes
that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out]
Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in
your preferences
and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
How can editors change and customize this skin?
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
our repository
for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
Our plan
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022
. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the
talk page of the project
. We will gladly answer! Also,
see our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Announcing the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period
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Hi everyone,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2022 Board of Trustees election
process. Your participation helps seat the trustees the community seeks on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
These are the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election:
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Mike Peel
You may see more information about the
Results
and
Statistics
of this Board election.
The Board will complete their review of the most voted candidates, including conducting background checks. The Board plans to appoint new trustees at their meeting in December.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee.
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Update on Vector 2022
Hello. I'm sorry for not communicating in your language. I'll be grateful if you translated my message. I'm writing on behalf of the
Web team
working on the new skin,
Vector 2022
We wanted to apologize for the delays in the deployment of Vector 2022. We know many of you are waiting for this eagerly. We have been delaying the deployment because we have been working on the logos. It has taken us more time than originally expected. Once the logos are ready, we will let you know the exact date of deployment.
We are planning for either the next (more likely) or the following week
. If your wiki doesn't currently have a localized logo, we encourage you to
reach out to us
and we can help make one.
We invite you to
get involved in the project
. Contact us if you have any questions or need any help, particularly with the compatibility of gadgets and user scripts. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ହେଲୋ
The
Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023
, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday,
23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC
and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in
the CWS sandbox
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
ସାଧୁବାଦ!
Community Tech,
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Feminism and Folklore 2023
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2023
writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a
Wiki Loves Folklore
gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a
list
of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on the
meta project page
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in
this Google form
and mark a mail to
support@wikilovesfolklore.org
with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team
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Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the
Editing
team's work:
The Editing team will finish adding new features to the
Talk pages project
and deploy it.
They are beginning a new project,
Edit check
Talk pages project
Some of the upcoming changes
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the
Talk pages project
. Nearly all
new features
are available now in the
Beta Feature for
Discussion tools
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "ନୂଆ ଯୋଡ଼ନ୍ତୁ" button. You will be able to turn them off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
. Please
tell them what you think
Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)
An A/B test for
Discussion tools
on the mobile site
has finished. Editors were
more successful with
Discussion tools
. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning
a project to help new editors of Wikipedia
. It will help people identify some problems before they click "ବଦଳ ପ୍ରକାଶ କରନ୍ତୁ". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please
watch
that page for more information. You can
join a conference call on 3
March
2023
to learn more.
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ଏହି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟି ଅନ୍ଯ ଭାଷାରେ ପଢ଼ନ୍ତୁ
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଫାଉଣ୍ଡେସନ
ଏହାର ପ୍ରାଥମିକ ଏବଂ ମାଧ୍ୟମିକ ଡାଟା ସେଣ୍ଟର ମଧ୍ୟରେ ସୁଇଚ୍ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରେ । ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏବଂ ଅନ୍ୟ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିସବୁ ଏକ ବିପର୍ଯ୍ୟୟ ପରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଅନଲାଇନ ରହିପାରିବେ ବୋଲି ଏହା ନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବ । ସବୁକିଛି କାମ କରୁଥିବା ସୁନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଟେକ୍ନୋଲୋଜି ବିଭାଗକୁ ଏକ ଯୋଜନାବଦ୍ଧ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ । ସେମାନେ ଏକ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରରୁ ଅନ୍ୟ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରକୁ ସୁଇଚ କରିପାରିବେ କି ନାହିଁ ତାହା ଏହି ପରୀକ୍ଷା ଦର୍ଶାଇବ । ପରୀକ୍ଷା ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରସ୍ତୁତ ହେବା ଏବଂ କୌଣସି ଅପ୍ରତ୍ୟାଶିତ ସମସ୍ୟା ସମାଧାନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବା ପାଇଁ ଅନେକ ଦଳ ଆବଶ୍ୟକ ।
୧ ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ
ରେ ସବୁ ଟ୍ରାଫିକ ସୁଇଚ ଅନ ହେବ । ଏହି ପରଖ
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ବେଳେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେବ ।
ଦୁର୍ଭାଗ୍ୟବଶତଃ
ମିଡ଼ିଆଉଇକିରେ
ଥିବା କିଛି ସୀମାବଦ୍ଧତା ହେତୁ ସୁଇଚ ତିଆରି ହେବା ସମୟରେ ସମସ୍ତ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବନ୍ଦ ହେବା ଜରୁରୀ । ଏହି ବାଧା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କ୍ଷମା ମାଗୁଛୁ ଏବଂ ଭବିଷ୍ୟତରେ ଏହାକୁ କମାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କାମକରୁଛୁ ।
ଆପଣ ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତ ଉଇକିରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ କିନ୍ତୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ବୁଧବାର ୧ ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ ୨୦୨୩ ଦିନ ଆପଣ ଏକ ଘଣ୍ଟା ପାଇଁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ଆପଣ ଏହି ସମୟରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବା ସାଇତିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟାକଲେ ଏକ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶ ଦେଖିବେ । ଆମର ଆଶା ଯେ ଏହି ମିନିଟଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ କୌଣସି ସମ୍ପାଦନା ନଷ୍ଟ ହେବନାହିଁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଆମେ ଏହାର ଗ୍ୟାରେଣ୍ଟି ଦେଇପାରିବୁ ନାହିଁ । ଆପଣ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟିଏ ଦେଖିଲେ ଦୟାକରି ସବୁକିଛି ସାଧାରଣ ନ ହେବା ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ଅପେକ୍ଷା କରିବେ । ତା'ପରେ ଆପଣ ନିଜର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକୁ ସାଇତିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଆମର ପରାମର୍ଶ ହେଲା କାଳେ କିଛି ହେବ, ଆପଣ ପ୍ରଥମେ ନିଜ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନର ଏକ ନକଲ କରିଥିବେ ।
ଅନ୍ୟ ପ୍ରଭାବ
ପଛରେ ଚାଲିଥିବା କାମ ହୁଏତ ଧୀର ହେବ ଏବଂ କିଛି ବନ୍ଦ ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇପାରେ । ନାଲି ଲିଙ୍କସବୁ ସାଧାରଣ ଭଳି ଅପଡେଟ ହୋଇନପାରେ । ଆପଣ ଆଗରୁ କେଉଁଠି ଯୋଡ଼ାହୋଇଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗଟିଏ ଗଢ଼ିଲେ ଲିଙ୍କଟି ସାଧାରଣଠାରୁ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ନାଲି ହୋଇ ରହିବ । କେତେକ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ଧରି ଚାଲିଥିବା ସ୍କ୍ରିପ୍ଟକୁ ବନ୍ଦ କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ ।
ଆସନ୍ତା କେଇ ସପ୍ତାହରେ କୋଡ଼ ଚଳାହେବ ବୋଲି ଆଶାକରୁଛୁ । ତେବେ ପରିଚାଳନା ପାଇଁ ପରେ ଦରକାର ହେଲେ ଅବସ୍ଥା ଦେଖି କେତେକ କୋଡ଼କୁ ନିୟମିତ ଭାବେ ଅଚଳ କରାଯିବ ।
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। ସବୁ ବଦଳ ନିର୍ଘଣ୍ଟରେ ଘୋଷଣା କରାଯିବ । ଏ ବାବଦରେ ଅଧିକ ସୂଚନା ପରେ ଦିଆଯିବ । ଏହି ପରିଚାଳନାର ୩୦ ମିନିଟ ଆଗରୁ ସବୁ ଉଇକିରେ ଏକ ଘୋଷଣାନାମା ଜାରୀ କରାଯିବ ।
ଦୟାକରି ଏହି ସୂଚନା ଆପଣଙ୍କ ସମୁଦାୟର ବାକିମାନଙ୍କୁ ଜଣାନ୍ତୁ ।
Trizek (WMF)
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
and
, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive
prizes
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA)
talk
) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk?
Submissions are open until March 28
. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
ଏହି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟି ଅନ୍ଯ ଭାଷାରେ ପଢ଼ନ୍ତୁ
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଫାଉଣ୍ଡେସନ
ଏହାର ପ୍ରାଥମିକ ଏବଂ ମାଧ୍ୟମିକ ଡାଟା ସେଣ୍ଟର ମଧ୍ୟରେ ସୁଇଚ୍ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରେ । ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏବଂ ଅନ୍ୟ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିସବୁ ଏକ ବିପର୍ଯ୍ୟୟ ପରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଅନଲାଇନ ରହିପାରିବେ ବୋଲି ଏହା ନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବ । ସବୁକିଛି କାମ କରୁଥିବା ସୁନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଟେକ୍ନୋଲୋଜି ବିଭାଗକୁ ଏକ ଯୋଜନାବଦ୍ଧ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ । ସେମାନେ ଏକ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରରୁ ଅନ୍ୟ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରକୁ ସୁଇଚ କରିପାରିବେ କି ନାହିଁ ତାହା ଏହି ପରୀକ୍ଷା ଦର୍ଶାଇବ । ପରୀକ୍ଷା ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରସ୍ତୁତ ହେବା ଏବଂ କୌଣସି ଅପ୍ରତ୍ୟାଶିତ ସମସ୍ୟା ସମାଧାନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବା ପାଇଁ ଅନେକ ଦଳ ଆବଶ୍ୟକ ।
୨୬ ଅପ୍ରେଲ
ରେ ସବୁ ଟ୍ରାଫିକ ସୁଇଚ ଅନ ହେବ । ଏହି ପରଖ
୧୪:୦୦ UTC
ବେଳେ ଆରମ୍ଭ ହେବ ।
ଦୁର୍ଭାଗ୍ୟବଶତଃ
ମିଡ଼ିଆଉଇକିରେ
ଥିବା କିଛି ସୀମାବଦ୍ଧତା ହେତୁ ସୁଇଚ ତିଆରି ହେବା ସମୟରେ ସମସ୍ତ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବନ୍ଦ ହେବା ଜରୁରୀ । ଏହି ବାଧା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କ୍ଷମା ମାଗୁଛୁ ଏବଂ ଭବିଷ୍ୟତରେ ଏହାକୁ କମାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କାମକରୁଛୁ ।
ଆପଣ ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତ ଉଇକିରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ କିନ୍ତୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ବୁଧବାର ୨୬ ଅପ୍ରେଲ ୨୦୨୩ ଦିନ ଆପଣ ଏକ ଘଣ୍ଟା ପାଇଁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ଆପଣ ଏହି ସମୟରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବା ସାଇତିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟାକଲେ ଏକ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶ ଦେଖିବେ । ଆମର ଆଶା ଯେ ଏହି ମିନିଟଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ କୌଣସି ସମ୍ପାଦନା ନଷ୍ଟ ହେବନାହିଁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଆମେ ଏହାର ଗ୍ୟାରେଣ୍ଟି ଦେଇପାରିବୁ ନାହିଁ । ଆପଣ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟିଏ ଦେଖିଲେ ଦୟାକରି ସବୁକିଛି ସାଧାରଣ ନ ହେବା ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ଅପେକ୍ଷା କରିବେ । ତା'ପରେ ଆପଣ ନିଜର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକୁ ସାଇତିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଆମର ପରାମର୍ଶ ହେଲା କାଳେ କିଛି ହେବ, ଆପଣ ପ୍ରଥମେ ନିଜ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନର ଏକ ନକଲ କରିଥିବେ ।
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ପଛରେ ଚାଲିଥିବା କାମ ହୁଏତ ଧୀର ହେବ ଏବଂ କିଛି ବନ୍ଦ ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇପାରେ । ନାଲି ଲିଙ୍କସବୁ ସାଧାରଣ ଭଳି ଅପଡେଟ ହୋଇନପାରେ । ଆପଣ ଆଗରୁ କେଉଁଠି ଯୋଡ଼ାହୋଇଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗଟିଏ ଗଢ଼ିଲେ ଲିଙ୍କଟି ସାଧାରଣଠାରୁ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ନାଲି ହୋଇ ରହିବ । କେତେକ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ଧରି ଚାଲିଥିବା ସ୍କ୍ରିପ୍ଟକୁ ବନ୍ଦ କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ ।
ଆସନ୍ତା କେଇ ସପ୍ତାହରେ କୋଡ଼ ଚଳାହେବ ବୋଲି ଆଶାକରୁଛୁ । ତେବେ ପରିଚାଳନା ପାଇଁ ପରେ ଦରକାର ହେଲେ ଅବସ୍ଥା ଦେଖି କେତେକ କୋଡ଼କୁ ନିୟମିତ ଭାବେ ଅଚଳ କରାଯିବ ।
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Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello,
As follow-up to
the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either
sign up on the Meta-Wiki page
, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.
Read more on Meta-Wiki
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF)
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Automatic citations based on ISBN are broken
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We have recently become unable to access the WorldCat API which provided the ability to generate citations using ISBN numbers. The Wikimedia Foundation's
Editing team
is investigating several options to restore the functionality, but will need to disable ISBN citation generation for now.
This affects citations made with the
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, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts, such as the autofill button on
refToolbar
. Please note that all the other automatic ways of generating citations, including via URL or DOI, are still available.
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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
UCoC Project Team
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Announcing the new Elections Committee members
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
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This wiki will soon be able to use the
inline audio player
implemented by the
Phonos
extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing
audio links that play on click
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:
The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the
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below.
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The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to
read about the features
and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this
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Thank you!
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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
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Best,
RamzyM (WMF)
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଫାଉଣ୍ଡେସନ
ଏହାର ପ୍ରାଥମିକ ଏବଂ ମାଧ୍ୟମିକ ଡାଟା ସେଣ୍ଟର ମଧ୍ୟରେ ସୁଇଚ୍ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରେ ।
ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ଏବଂ ଅନ୍ୟ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିସବୁ ଏକ ବିପର୍ଯ୍ୟୟ ପରେ ମଧ୍ୟ ଅନଲାଇନ ରହିପାରିବେ ବୋଲି ଏହା ନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବ । ସବୁକିଛି କାମ କରୁଥିବା ସୁନିଶ୍ଚିତ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉଇକିମିଡ଼ିଆ ଟେକ୍ନୋଲୋଜି ବିଭାଗକୁ ଏକ ଯୋଜନାବଦ୍ଧ ପରୀକ୍ଷା କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ । ସେମାନେ ଏକ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରରୁ ଅନ୍ୟ ଡାଟା କେନ୍ଦ୍ରକୁ ସୁଇଚ କରିପାରିବେ କି ନାହିଁ ତାହା ଏହି ପରୀକ୍ଷା ଦର୍ଶାଇବ । ପରୀକ୍ଷା ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରସ୍ତୁତ ହେବା ଏବଂ କୌଣସି ଅପ୍ରତ୍ୟାଶିତ ସମସ୍ୟା ସମାଧାନ କରିବା ପାଇଁ ଉପଲବ୍ଧ ହେବା ପାଇଁ ଅନେକ ଦଳ ଆବଶ୍ୟକ ।
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ଥିବା କିଛି ସୀମାବଦ୍ଧତା ହେତୁ ସୁଇଚ ତିଆରି ହେବା ସମୟରେ ସମସ୍ତ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବନ୍ଦ ହେବା ଜରୁରୀ । ଏହି ବାଧା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କ୍ଷମା ମାଗୁଛୁ ଏବଂ ଭବିଷ୍ୟତରେ ଏହାକୁ କମାଇବା ପାଇଁ ଆମେ କାମକରୁଛୁ ।
ଆପଣ ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତ ଉଇକିରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ କିନ୍ତୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ବୁଧବାର ୨୦ ସେପ୍ଟେମ୍ବର ୨୦୨୩ ଦିନ ଆପଣ ଏକ ଘଣ୍ଟା ପାଇଁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ଆପଣ ଏହି ସମୟରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବା ସାଇତିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟାକଲେ ଏକ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶ ଦେଖିବେ । ଆମର ଆଶା ଯେ ଏହି ମିନିଟଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ କୌଣସି ସମ୍ପାଦନା ନଷ୍ଟ ହେବନାହିଁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଆମେ ଏହାର ଗ୍ୟାରେଣ୍ଟି ଦେଇପାରିବୁ ନାହିଁ । ଆପଣ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟିଏ ଦେଖିଲେ ଦୟାକରି ସବୁକିଛି ସାଧାରଣ ନ ହେବା ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ଅପେକ୍ଷା କରିବେ । ତା'ପରେ ଆପଣ ନିଜର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକୁ ସାଇତିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଆମର ପରାମର୍ଶ ହେଲା କାଳେ କିଛି ହେବ, ଆପଣ ପ୍ରଥମେ ନିଜ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନର ଏକ ନକଲ କରିଥିବେ ।
ଅନ୍ୟ ପ୍ରଭାବ
ପଛରେ ଚାଲିଥିବା କାମ ହୁଏତ ଧୀର ହେବ ଏବଂ କିଛି ବନ୍ଦ ମଧ୍ୟ ହୋଇପାରେ । ନାଲି ଲିଙ୍କସବୁ ସାଧାରଣ ଭଳି ଅପଡେଟ ହୋଇନପାରେ । ଆପଣ ଆଗରୁ କେଉଁଠି ଯୋଡ଼ାହୋଇଥିବା ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗଟିଏ ଗଢ଼ିଲେ ଲିଙ୍କଟି ସାଧାରଣଠାରୁ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ନାଲି ହୋଇ ରହିବ । କେତେକ ଅଧିକ ସମୟ ଧରି ଚାଲିଥିବା ସ୍କ୍ରିପ୍ଟକୁ ବନ୍ଦ କରିବାକୁ ପଡ଼ିବ ।
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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
More on the Meta-wiki page
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
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Coming soon: Reference Previews
A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with the
PagePreviews feature
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them,
you can opt out
. If you are
using the gadgets
Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.
Help page
Project page with more information (in English)
Feedback is welcome
on this talk page
-- For
Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes
team,
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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(New) Feature on
Kartographer
: Adding geopoints via QID
Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the
project page
. If you have any comments, please let us know on the
talk page
. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
Feminism and Folklore 2024
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2024
writing competition from February 1, 2024, to March 31, 2024 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a
Wiki Loves Folklore
gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign on
CampWiz
tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the
meta project page
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the
Article List Generator by Topic
and
CampWiz
. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team
Stay connected
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2024
an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 31st
of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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A new feature for previewing references on your wiki
Apologies for writing in English. If you can translate this message, that would be much appreciated.
Hi. As announced some weeks ago
] [
, Wikimedia Deutschland’s
Technical Wishes
team introduced
Reference Previews
to many wikis, including this one. This feature shows popups for references in the article text.
While this new feature is already usable on your wiki, most people here are not seeing it yet because your wiki has set
a gadget as the default
for previewing references. We plan to remove the default flag from the gadget on your wiki soon. This means:
The new default for reference popups on your wiki will be Reference Previews.
However, if you want to keep using the gadget, you can still enable it in
your personal settings
The benefit of having Reference Previews as the default is that the user experience will be consistent across wikis and with the
Page Previews feature
, and that the software will be easier to maintain overall.
This change is planned for February 14. If you have concerns about this change,
please let us know on this talk page
by February 12. – Kind regards,
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
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ଆପଣ ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତ ଉଇକିରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ କିନ୍ତୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
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ଆପଣ ଏହି ସମୟରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବା ସାଇତିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟାକଲେ ଏକ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶ ଦେଖିବେ । ଆମର ଆଶା ଯେ ଏହି ମିନିଟଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ କୌଣସି ସମ୍ପାଦନା ନଷ୍ଟ ହେବନାହିଁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଆମେ ଏହାର ଗ୍ୟାରେଣ୍ଟି ଦେଇପାରିବୁ ନାହିଁ । ଆପଣ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟିଏ ଦେଖିଲେ ଦୟାକରି ସବୁକିଛି ସାଧାରଣ ନ ହେବା ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ଅପେକ୍ଷା କରିବେ । ତା'ପରେ ଆପଣ ନିଜର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକୁ ସାଇତିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଆମର ପରାମର୍ଶ ହେଲା କାଳେ କିଛି ହେବ, ଆପଣ ପ୍ରଥମେ ନିଜ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନର ଏକ ନକଲ କରିଥିବେ ।
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
add agenda items to the document here
We look forward to your participation!
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
on
June 20, 2024
at
14.00-15.00 UTC
your local time
). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
Meta talk page
or email the MCDC at
mcdc@wikimedia.org
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Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS) 2024 - Scholarships
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Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS) 2024
is focused on using technology to enhance inclusivity across Wikipedia and its associated projects. We aim to explore strategies for engaging underrepresented communities and languages while also strengthening the technical foundation. By fostering collaboration between developers, users, and researchers, we can unite our efforts to create, innovate, and advance the technology that drives open knowledge.
We invite community members residing in India who are interested in attending WTS 2024 in person to apply for scholarships by July 10, 2024. The summit will be held at IIIT Hyderabad, India, in October 2024.
To apply, please fill out the application form by clicking
this link
].
On behalf of the WTS 2024 Scholarship Committee
Kasyap
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
project task page
. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated
Talk page
Thank you, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.
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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
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ଆପଣ ସ୍ୱଳ୍ପ ସମୟ ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତ ଉଇକିରେ ପଢ଼ିପାରିବେ କିନ୍ତୁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ବୁଧବାର ୨୪ ସେପ୍ଟେମ୍ବର ୨୦୨୫ ଦିନ ଆପଣ ଏକ ଘଣ୍ଟା ପାଇଁ ସମ୍ପାଦନା କରିପାରିବେ ନାହିଁ ।
ଆପଣ ଏହି ସମୟରେ ସମ୍ପାଦନା ବା ସାଇତିବାକୁ ଚେଷ୍ଟାକଲେ ଏକ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶ ଦେଖିବେ । ଆମର ଆଶା ଯେ ଏହି ମିନିଟଗୁଡ଼ିକରେ କୌଣସି ସମ୍ପାଦନା ନଷ୍ଟ ହେବନାହିଁ କିନ୍ତୁ ଆମେ ଏହାର ଗ୍ୟାରେଣ୍ଟି ଦେଇପାରିବୁ ନାହିଁ । ଆପଣ ତ୍ରୁଟି ସନ୍ଦେଶଟିଏ ଦେଖିଲେ ଦୟାକରି ସବୁକିଛି ସାଧାରଣ ନ ହେବା ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ଅପେକ୍ଷା କରିବେ । ତା'ପରେ ଆପଣ ନିଜର କାର୍ଯ୍ୟକୁ ସାଇତିପାରିବେ । ତେବେ ଆମର ପରାମର୍ଶ ହେଲା କାଳେ କିଛି ହେବ, ଆପଣ ପ୍ରଥମେ ନିଜ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନର ଏକ ନକଲ କରିଥିବେ ।
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
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The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
ହେଲୋ. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
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Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Dear Wikimedia communities,
We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.
Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.
In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026,
Wiki Loves Ramadan
is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.
We invite you to explore the
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Meta page
to learn how you can participate and
your community.
Photo campaign on
Wikimedia Commons
If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons
Early registration for updates is now open via the
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We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
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Feminism and Folklore 2026 starts soon
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Invitation to Organize Feminism and Folklore 2026
Dear Wiki Community,
We are pleased to invite Wikimedia communities, affiliates, and independent contributors to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2026
writing competition on your local Wikipedia.
The international campaign will run from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and aims to improve coverage of feminism, women’s histories, gender-related topics, and folk culture across Wikipedia projects.
About the Campaign
Feminism and Folklore
is a global writing initiative that complements the
Wiki Loves Folklore
photography competition. While Wiki Loves Folklore focuses on visual documentation, this writing campaign addresses the
gender gap on Wikipedia
by improving encyclopedic content related to folk culture and marginalized voices.
What Can Participants Write About?
Communities can contribute by creating, expanding, or translating articles related to:
Folk festivals, rituals, and celebrations
Folk dances, music, and traditional performances
Women and queer figures in folklore
Women in mythology and oral traditions
Women warriors, witches, and witch-hunting narratives
Fairy tales, folk stories, and legends
Folk games, sports, and cultural practices
Participants may work from curated article lists or generate new article suggestions using campaign tools.
How to Sign Up as an Organizer
Organizers are requested to complete the following steps to register their community:
Create a local project page on your wiki
(see sample)
Set up the campaign using the
CampWiz
tool
Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
Campaign timeline
Local and international prizes
Request a site notice from local administrators
(see sample)
Add your local project page and CampWiz link to the
Meta project page
Campaign Tools
The Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced tools to support organizers and participants:
Article List Generator by Topic
– Helps identify articles available on English Wikipedia but missing in your local language Wikipedia. The tool allows customized filters and provides downloadable article lists in CSV and wikitable formats.
CampWiz
– Enables communities to manage writing campaigns effectively, including jury-based evaluation. This will be the third year CampWiz is officially used for Feminism and Folklore.
Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access the tools
Learn More & Get Support
For detailed information about rules, timelines, and prizes, please visit the
Feminism and Folklore 2026 project page
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out via:
Meta talk page
Email us using details on the contact page.
Join Us
We look forward to your collaboration and coordination in making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a meaningful and impactful campaign for closing gender gaps and enriching folk culture content on Wikipedia.
Thank you and best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2026 International Team
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Invitation to Host Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Your Country
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Hello everyone,
We are delighted to invite Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and community organizations worldwide to participate in
Wiki Loves Folklore 2026
, an international initiative dedicated to documenting and celebrating folk culture across the globe.
About Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Folklore
is an annual international photography competition hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and encourages photographers, cultural enthusiasts, and community members to contribute photographs that highlight:
Folk traditions and rituals
Cultural festivals and celebrations
Traditional attire and crafts
Performing arts, music, and dance
Everyday practices rooted in folk heritage
Through this campaign, we aim to preserve and promote diverse folk cultures and make them freely accessible to the world.
Project page on Wikimedia Commons
Host a Local Edition
As we celebrate the
eight edition
of Wiki Loves Folklore, we warmly invite communities to organize a local edition in their country or region. Hosting a local campaign is a great opportunity to:
Increase visibility of your region’s folk culture
Engage new contributors in your community
Enrich Wikimedia Commons with high-quality cultural content
Sign up to organize
If your team prefers to organize the competition in
either February or March only
, please feel free to let us know.
If you are unable to organize, we encourage you to share this opportunity with other interested groups or organizations in your region.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions, need support, or would like to explore collaboration opportunities, please feel free to contact us via:
The project Talk pages
Email:
support@wikilovesfolklore.org
We are also happy to connect via an online meeting if your team would like to discuss planning or coordination in more detail.
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
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Parser Unification
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Join the sixth Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month on Wikipedia!
Join our campaign!
ଦୟାକରି ନିଜ ଭାଷାରେ ଅନୁବାଦ କରିବାରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରନ୍ତୁ
Dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the sixth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from
1st April
until
30th April 2026
The initiative aims to promote knowledge about Ukrainian culture abroad by creating and improving Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. This year marks the sixth edition of the campaign, which will focus on contemporary culture, making today’s artistic voices and practices more visible to international audiences.
How to participate?
Choose an article from the suggested list → Write an article in your language, or improve an existing one according to the rules → Add your contribution to the contest page and calculate your points → Win prizes and receive a certificate of participation → Become a promoter of truthful knowledge about Ukraine.
Check our main page for more information
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
If not, then we encourage you to translate the
landing page of the contest
and
banner
into your own language.
Also, we set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in this challenge!
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
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What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
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P1846
P180
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list of pages
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Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
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to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
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May 1, 2026
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Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
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