Vikipedijos forume galima diskutuoti su kitais projekto dalyviais apie Vikipedijos projektą visais jums rūpimais klausimais, ypač susijusiais su Vikipedijos vidaus tvarka. Forumas nėra skirtas pagalbos dėl naudojimosi Vikipedija prašymams (tam galima pasinaudoti puslapiu Vikipedija:Pagalbos biuras) ar klausimams apie dalykus, nesusijusius su Vikipedija (tam galima pasinaudoti puslapiu Vikipedija:Informacijos biuras).

Naują temą galima įrašyti pasinaudojus šia nuoroda.

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Hi everyone,

The regional CEE Hub is looking for a Program Specialist to join our staff team!

Are you someone experienced with Wikimedia who wants to help volunteers? Do you participate in Wiki Loves… and other related projects, and do you have ideas and skills to help others improve their efforts? Do you enjoy working with people from different countries? Are you able to work on your own, feel comfortable on Meta-Wiki, and understand how Meta works? If this sounds like you and you're interested in working with the CEE hub team, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Program Specialist, you will:

  • Support affiliates and communities in developing and implementing impactful programs,
  • Strengthen regional cooperation and cross-border projects,
  • Help guide campaigns and initiatives across the CEE region,
  • Work closely with the CEE Hub team and community members.

This is a part-time (0.8–0.9 full-time equivalent), remote position open to candidates based in the CEE region or nearby time zones.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 10, 2025 ➡️ Learn more and learn how to apply on Meta: Wikimedia CEE Hub – Program Specialist ⬅️

If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this opportunity with them!

Cat-a-lot is a JavaScript gadget that helps with moving, removing and adding files (as well as articles or subcategories) between, from and to categories and it is widely used on Wikimedia Commons, where it is accessible for every user after enabling the gadget in your Preferences.

Complete explanation of the tool, along with the images and demonstration video it is accessible on Wikimedia Commons.

If your Wikipedia is struggling with performing this repetitive task when you need to move pages between categories and remove pages from a category, Cat-a-lot could be activated for your Wikipedia as well.

Installation can be done as your user script or as a project gadget and codes can be found here. Installation is already done on Polish and Romanian wikis from our CEE Region.

English phrases from MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js/translating can be translated and saved in MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js/ro (for example).

CEE Hub Technical Advancement Group is willing to support your community in the installation of the tool, and to offer support in case of bugs, as we can report them to the development team. Just leave a message below with any issues you encounter.

--MediaWiki message delivery (aptarimas) 12:42, 18 lapkričio 2025 (EET) (on behalf of the CEE Hub Technical Advancement Group)Atsakyti

Jau ir anksčiau netrūko problemų dėl autovertimų, dabar prisidėjo ir "AI slop". Keliantiems tokius straipsnius, tas AI slop'as, matyt, atrodo ne taip jau ir blogai (gal kaip tik labai pažangu). Ar neatrodo, kad tie visi algoritmai gali palaipsniui, ypač kalbant apie ilgalaikę perspektyvą, nukonkuruoti Vikipediją? Na, pasiskaito žmogus, ką ChatGPT sugeneravo, ir gana. Lankytojų srautas jau, panašu, kiek sumažėjo (žr. ). Autovertimai vėlgi tobulėja, tai ar nenutiks taip, kad žmonėms tiesiog užteks pasiskaityti didžiosios wiki straipsnio autovertimą, o mažosios wiki beliks aktualios tik tam tikroms temoms?.. --Homo ergaster (aptarimas) 13:09, 29 lapkričio 2025 (EET)Atsakyti

Pirma, ką mes laikome mažom wikėm? Fareriečių projektas, galima sakyti, žlugęs. Koks tridešimt dar juda, bet visi skundžiasi sumažėjusiais srautais (rašytojų, koreguotojų, atnaujintojų; lankytojų, galimai irgi). Yra dar mažesnių projektų, tai jie iš anksto pasmerkti. Sakysime, uzbekai, atrodo, eina Cebuano pėdomis. /// DI gali kažką tik tuo atveju, kai yra informacijos ta tema. Kadangi dirbu su egzotika, ten joks DI tokios pelkės nepereis. Bus atsakyta, kad babytė Jadzė nežinomas/neistorinis asmuo, duomenų nėra. Arba jūs, tikriausiai, juokaujate. Su futbolo klubais irgi. Bus nežinomi stadionai ir viskas, kas nėra parašyta juodu ant balto. Ne viską sugeneruos, neišmąstys, nepateiks objektyviai. Pasiklaustume, futbolininkas buvo geriausias spalio mėnesį ir pan., atsakytų, kad nei jis geriausias, nei ką... O mums reikia info, kurį mėnesį pripažintas geriausiu žaidėju. Kol kas nematau jokios naudos iš DI. -- Makenzis (aptarimas) 13:26, 29 lapkričio 2025 (EET)Atsakyti
Vikipedija baigsis, kai (jei) DI taip ištobulės, kad kiekvienas pats sau galės greitai susikurti patikimą enciklopediją. O kad srautai mažėja, nes pilka masė jau dabar pradeda teikti prioritetą DI, deja, nenuostabu... --Obivan Kenobi (aptarimas) 13:40, 29 lapkričio 2025 (EET)Atsakyti
Aš kūriau Tomas Stelmokas, ir šią savaitę kai ką... Žinote, ieškau informacijos, sakau pasižiūrėsiu, ką DI sugeba. Nemoka atpažinti nuotraukų, hidranto nuo dviračio ir pan. Analizuoti duomenų iš rungtynių ataskaitų ir pan. Ten kur reikia kasti lyg ekskavatoriui, tiesiog pereina per soc. tinklus, dar kažką. Rezultatas nuviliantis. /// Paleidau į wiki straipsnį, tai DI lyg kokia erkė iš karto kabinasi į wikipediją. Tiesiog žaibo greitumu. Jeigu reiktų kurti apie mažai žinomą futbolininką, kurio nėra wiki, tai DI užsivafliuos, pripasakos nesąmonių. /// Obivan, š`kiasi, pats asmuo turi būti vaikščiojanti enciklopedija, mokėti analizuoti informaciją, kritiškai vertini pateikiamas naujienos. DI išmokytas "nusirašinėti" nuo wiki. Ką parašysiu wiki, tą ištransiuos... O jeigu kažkas netraukia? Vakar viena damutė ėmė klausinėti, kas Jakudza yra... nežino, tai tokiai net mintis nekiltų pasiklausti DI`o, pagooglinti... nežino ir nežino. Klausinėja. -- Makenzis (aptarimas) 12:10, 4 gruodžio 2025 (EET)Atsakyti
Truputį pasidomėjau, kaip tie uzbekai gyvena, tai, pasirodo, buvo ten toks grandiozinis en:WikiStipendiya. Na, ir prikepė daug varganų autovertimų... Kaip ne kiekviena virėja gali valdyti valstybę, taip ir ne kiekvienas mužikas gali sukurti bent jau pakenčiamą wiki straipsnį. Tai vat, reikėtų kritiškai vertinti informaciją. O dabar ką, pasiskaito, ką DI sugeneravo, ir priima už gryną pinigą. Tas pats ir su wiki: žmonės nelabai supranta, kaip ta wiki veikia, kartais net nežino, kad rašyti ir redaguoti gali bet kas (vėlgi prisiminus ) su visom iš to kylančiom pasekmėm. Kažkur en wiki mačiau, kad pačioj pradžioj būta planų, kad atsiras tapatybės patikros, dalis straipsnių bus su patikrintom stabiliom versijom ir pan. O dabar ką, atsiverčia skaitytojas straipsnį Jupiteris ir randa vandalo nesąmonę, kad tai pirmoji pagal nuotolį planeta nuo Saulės. Esant dabartiniam modeliui, tokie dalykai neišvengiami. Ar gali toks projektas atrodyti labai rimtai? Tai ne. Homo ergaster (aptarimas) 11:14, 8 gruodžio 2025 (EET)Atsakyti
Pvėluotai prisidedu prie diskusijos. Kad liks svarbi tik Angliškoji Vikipedija, nes dauguma moka anglų kalbą, o DI užtektų imti informaciją iš jos arba žmonėms patiems en. wiki pasiskaityti, nesutikčiau. Tarybiniais laikais visi mokėjo rusų kalbą, bet dėl to neišnyko lietuviška spauda, knygos, vadovėliai, žiniasklaida. Kaip sakėte, DI pats informacijos nesukuria, naudojasi tuo, kas yra, o jei sukuria, tai dažnai ta „informacija“ būna DI haliucinacijos. Anksčiau įdomumo dėlei klausiau DI, kas yra aliatyvas, ir gavau atsakymus, kad tai yra slapyvardis arba alternatyva. Taip pat man buvo paaiškinta, kad Dovilės Filmanavičiūtės vyras yra Filmanavičius, o Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis yra Vytauto Landsbergio senelis iš motinos pusės. DI turi dar labai patobulėti, o Vikipedija, manau, liks vienu informacijos šaltinių, iš kurio duomenis ims ir DI. Suprantama, dėl konkurencijos skaitytojų sumažės, bet tai nėra baisus dalykas.--Ed1974LT (aptarimas) 12:05, 24 kovo 2026 (EET)Atsakyti
DI daug padeda, pvz., sudėti dvigubus laužtinius skliaustus, su viki šablonais. Tačiau labai daug daro klaidų. Pvz., kai paprašiau paieškoti apie Mykolo koplyčią Bernardinų bažnyčioje, visiškai sumaišė informaciją ir paieškojo apie šv. Kykolo bažnyčią, ir pan. Visa informacija apie bažnyčių ekserjerus, interjerus ir taip sudėtingai parašyta, bet DI labai painiojasi. Pvz., susiginčijau dėl Antakalnio Jėzaus, ar dešinėje, ar kairėje, žinau, kur ta statula, nes ne kartą buvusi, mačiusi, DI susipainiojo, o kai ketvirtą kartą ėmiau teigti, jog kitaip, nulūžo, tipo parašė - something wrong. Pakoreguotą DI nuotrauką, buvo ryškumas pakeistas, čia atmetė, nes nusimušė nuotraukos duomenys. Kol kas DI nepakeičia enciklopedijų pildymo, viską reikia tikrinti, kai ištobulės, bus matyt...--Stela (aptarimas) 12:19, 24 kovo 2026 (EET)Atsakyti

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 sign up your community.

📷 Photo campaign on Wikimedia Commons

If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:

Early registration for updates is now open via the Event page

Stay connected and receive updates:

We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.


The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team 21:45, 16 sausio 2026 (EET)

Prašome padėti išversti į jūsų kalbą

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:

  1. Create a local project page on your wiki (see sample)
  2. Set up the campaign using the CampWiz tool
  3. Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
    • Campaign timeline
    • Local and international prizes
  4. Request a site notice from local administrators (see sample)
  5. 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:

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

Stay connected:  

Prašome padėti išversti į jūsų kalbą

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

MediaWiki message delivery (aptarimas) 15:21, 18 sausio 2026 (EET)Atsakyti

23:01, 19 sausio 2026 (EET)

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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.

If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.

There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.

To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.

Content Transform Team 02:42, 18 vasario 2026 (EET)Atsakyti

Sveiki Lithuanian Wikipedia,

I apologize that this message is not in your language. Prašome padėti išversti į jūsų kalbą.

The WMF Language and Product Localization team is planning to launch a campaign project to encourage more native speakers to contribute to your Wikipedia.

Our approach

We will invite native speakers through Lithuanian Wikipedia homepage to join a 3-week onboarding program in an Event registration page. This program will:

  • Guide them step-by-step through an onboarding material on how to edit and use contribution tools to expand articles.
  • Surface vital articles that the community has prioritized for improvement and editing tasks can be worked on to improve those articles.

Through this guided onboarding program we will see if this approach will increase contributions from new editors or less experienced editors in your Wikipedia. You can read more about the project here in this page.

Tasks you can volunteer to help us with

To make this project successful, we need your community’s help with these key tasks:

Timeline and Next Steps

Please, help us complete these tasks by March 20, 2026. We plan to launch the program on March 23, 2026.

We understand this is a big effort and truly appreciate any help you all can provide. Your support can help grow your community and make Lithuanian Wikipedia stronger.

Please let us know If your community is interested in this project and would help us with the tasks by replying on this thread.

Thank you for your time and support!

UOzurumba (WMF) (aptarimas) 11:34, 26 vasario 2026 (EET)Atsakyti

Hi everyone,

Starting from 1 April 2026, the CEE Hub will begin reviewing and supporting Rapid Fund applications for Central and Eastern Europe, in close cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation. This change is part of our shared effort to bring support closer to communities and make the process more accessible and responsive to local contexts.

You will still apply through the same system (Fluxx), and WMF will continue handling contracts and fund transfers. What changes is that the CEE Hub becomes your first point of contact, offering guidance, reviewing applications, and staying closer to your ideas throughout the process.

We encourage you to reach out to Toni, our Grants Specialist before applying. A short conversation can help clarify your idea and make things smoother from the start.

  • ☝️ Rapid Funds remain open year-round (with possible delays in June and December).
  • ☝️ For Central Asian communities: the process stays the same – you continue applying directly through WMF.

Join our online Q&A session to learn more (same content, two options to join):

More info & contact: Wikimedia CEE Hub/Rapid Grants

--MediaWiki message delivery (aptarimas) 14:21, 31 kovo 2026 (EEST)Atsakyti

Join our campaign!

Prašome padėti išversti į jūsų kalbą

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!

OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 04:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

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: P14226.

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 P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (aptarimas) 20:11, 3 balandžio 2026 (EEST)Atsakyti