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Dear Openbk,
Dear colleagues,
I know I have been inactive here for a very long time now. Due to busy real life, the same applies for my activities on the English and Dutch Wikipedias at the moment.
However, I would prefer to retain my administrator and bureaucrat rights on the Nauruan Wikipedia in order to be able to further monitor the developments on this Wikipedia in a very near future. I would like to enhance my activities here as well as further researching and learning the Nauruan language and looking for mother tongue speakers of Nauruan, both on the internet and in real life, who could become active editors and also administrators. Micronesia and Nauru have remained a principal focus among my interests during my less active periods here as well, and I have been following Nauruan current affairs all the time.
Many thanks in advance for your appreciated feedback.
Greetings,
Gertjan R.
talk
) 20:43, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Help about Nauruan language
Omo yoran
I am a student and I am doing a research project about Nauruan language. Please, I would want to know how do you say these words in Nauruan:
eyelash
eyelid
moustache (do you distinguish between beard [ebar] and moustache?)
nape
nipple
wrist
gums
Thank you very much for your contribuition.
Wikipedia to the Moon working phase
Dear Nauruan Wikipedia language community,
First of all, I am sorry to write this in English.
You may already have heard about
Wikipedia to the Moon
: A team of scientists called the “PT Scientists” are going to send a space craft to the moon in 2017 and they want to take Wikipedia along with them. Because Wikipedia is so big, we cannot send all of it to the moon. That is why the international Wikipedia-community has voted to send all “Featured Articles and Featured Lists“ from all languages in Wikipedia.
“Featured Articles“
is a category in many language versions of Wikipedia that collects the very best articles in that language. Your community does not currently have a „Featured Articles“ category. Ideally, we want to take every language on Wikipedia to the moon and we also want to take the best articles in your language. That is why we would like
you
to tell us what the very best articles in your language are.
There are two ways you could do this:
1) You could introduce the categories “Featured Article” and “Featured List” in your language version of Wikipedia and vote for the best articles and put them in the category. We will take every article that is tagged as a “Featured Article” or a “Featured List” to the moon
2) You could vote for the best articles in your language version of Wikipedia and put them all on one a new Wikipedia page. If you let us know where we can find that list
here
, we will also take the articles to the moon.
The deadline for Wikipedia to the Moon is 31 October 2016. After that date, we will put all the Featured Articles and Lists onto a special disc and give it to the “PT Scientists.” They will take the Wikipedia articles into space next year.
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Denis Schroeder (WMDE)
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) 14:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library accounts available now (August 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 now sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
Nomos
– Primarily German-language publisher of law and social sciences books and journals - 25 accounts
World Scientific
– Scientific, technical, and medical journals - 50 accounts
Edinburgh University Press
– Humanities and social sciences journals - 25 accounts
American Psychological Association
– Psychology books and journals - 10 accounts
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– Journals on a range of topics including business, education, health care, and engineering - 10 accounts
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
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Grants to improve your project
Please help translate to your language:
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
IdeaLab
or an upcoming
Hangout session
Learn from examples
of completed
Individual Engagement Grants
or
Project and Event Grants
I JethroBT (WMF)
talk
) 20:11, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Editing News #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.
[1]
Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.
[2]
A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
[3]
Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
[4]
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.
[5]
The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.
[6]
In the future, the "Save page" button will say "Publish page". 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.
[7]
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. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
17:50, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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
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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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18:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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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 "Review your changes".
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.
[8]
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.
[9]
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.
[10]
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.
[11]
The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access.
[12]
There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there.
[13]
You can now create
tags (sometimes used as
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor.
[14]
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed.
[15]
The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer,
Tpt
[16]
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.
[17]
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.
[18]
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.
[19]
The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, 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.
[20]
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.
[21]
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
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Elitre (WMF)
18:06, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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)
New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata
Hello all,
(Please help translate to your language)
The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.
You may know that
Wikidata
provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.
This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.
This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.
If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment
on the Phabricator ticket
Thanks go to
Matěj Suchánek
who developed this feature!
Thank you!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
talk
m:Requests for comment/Global centralnotice for the blockade of the Turkish government
Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through
m: centralnotice
to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the
Wikimedian appeal
If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks best regards. --
Samuele
2002
(Talk!)
22:13, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes
Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can
help translating it
Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.
Read and translate the full message
Thank you!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
08:33, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
(wrong target page? you can
fix it here
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
Scholarship Committee
19:24, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
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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) 10:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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
[22]
Wikitext syntax highlighting
is available as a Beta Feature for both
the 2017 wikitext editor
and the 2010 wikitext editor.
[23]
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.
[24]
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. Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)
20:56, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge
Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge
is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up
here
. Thank you very much.--
Breogan2008
talk
) 14:24, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias
Please help translate to your language
Mapframe
is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But
fifteen Wikipedias
, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.
A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s
Collaboration team
has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable.
Nine Wikipedias
that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.
Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know
on the project talk page
. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!
CKoerner (WMF)
talk
) 21:38, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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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18:03, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
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Update on page issues on mobile web
Update on page issues on mobile web
Please help translate to your language
Hi everyone. The
Readers web team
has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have
drafted a proposal on the design and implementation
of the project. We were also able to run
user testing on the proposed designs
. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
Readers care about page issues and consider them important
Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please
visit the project page
where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please
leave feedback on the talk page
CKoerner (WMF)
talk
) 20:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors
Hello.
The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.
TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.
TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.
It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.
You can
learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org
Technical documentation is also available
This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.
Thank you.
CKoerner (WMF)
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) 21:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
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.
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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. Thank you!
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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14:17, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
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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IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, 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 log actions for more than 2 years):
Gertjan R. (bureaucrat, 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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chen
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02:04, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes
Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it :)
Hello all,
Many language versions of Wikipedia use the content of
Wikidata
, the centralized knowledge base, to fill out the content of infoboxes. The data is stored in Wikidata and displayed, partially or completely, in the Wikipedia’s language, on the articles.
This feature is used by many template editors, but brought several issues that were raised by communities in various places: not being able to edit the data directly from Wikipedia was one of them.
This is the reason why the
Wikidata Bridge
project started, with the goal of offering a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki.
The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of
user research
has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project. The next steps of
development
will be achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting now until the end of 2019.
In order to make sure that we’re building a tool that is answering editors’ needs, we’re using agile methods in our development process. We don’t start with a fixed idea of the tool we want to deliver: we will build it together with the editors, based on feedback loops that we will regularly organize. The first version will not necessarily have all of the features you want, but it will keep evolving.
Here’s the planned timeline:
From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration with the communities.
We will first focus on early adopters communities who already implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
but we also welcome also communities who
volunteer to be part of the first test round
Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German, English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their potentially different needs.
Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other projects.
In any case, no deployment or big change will be enforced on the projects without talking to the communities first, and helping the template builders to prepare for the changes they will have to do on the infoboxes’ code.
If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:
Read and help translating
the documentation pages
Follow the
updates
and participate in
the first feedback loop
Talk about it with your local community
More ideas will be added
on this page
along the way
If you have any questions for the development team, feel free to ask them
on the main talk page
. You can also ask under this message, but if you expect an answer from me, please make sure to ping me.
Thanks for your attention,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
13:03, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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
PPelberg (WMF)
talk
) &
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
18:32, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
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
PPelberg (WMF)
talk
) &
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
11:12, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia Asian Month 2019
Please help translate to your language
Wikipedia Asian Month
is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer
to our Meta page
for organizers.
Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!
For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team
on wiki
or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.
MediaWiki message delivery
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) 16:57, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest
In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran,
Wikipedia Asian Month 2019
contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.
Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.
Wikipedia Asian Month International Team
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) 14:16, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore
Hello Folks,
Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as
Wiki Loves Folklore
from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at
Wikimedia Commons
. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at
Meta-Wiki
and
Commons
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
Tulsi Bhagat
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) 06:15, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
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
PPelberg (WMF)
talk
) &
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
19:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Bot approval request
Hello everyone,
mw:Multilingual Templates and Modules
was started by
Template:U
to help in centralisation of templates and modules. There's a
mw:Special:CentralAuth/DiBabelYurikBot
for the same which was approved on mrwiki some time back. Is it possible to get the approval for same in this wiki as well?
Capankajsmilyo
talk
) 13:43, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
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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20:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #3
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More than
50 million edits
have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
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
Whatamidoing (WMF)
talk
12:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
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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09:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
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Proposal to close Wikipedia Nauruan (Naoero)
Hello. Closure of Wikipedia Nauruan (Wikipedia Naoero) is proposed (
meta:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Nauruan Wikipedia
). Please feel free to input your comments there. Thanks. --
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) 23:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion
Hello!
I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language. According to
the list
, your wiki project currently is opted in to the
global bot policy
. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.
As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.
proposal
was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely,
global sysops
and
global renamers
, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like
ListeriaBot
By this message, I would like to invite you to comment
in the global RFC
, to voice your opinion about this matter.
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Martin Urbanec
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) 11:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
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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The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
--12:57, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!
Please help translate to your language
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2021
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 28th of February.
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.
Please support us in translating the
project page
and a
banner message
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
MediaWiki message delivery
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) 13:25, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally
Please help translate to your language
Hello everyone,
I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project:
m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like
WP:NPOV
, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see, Wikipedia currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see
m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally
Please feel free to
ask me
if you have any questions about this proposal.
Best regards,
--
Martin Urbanec
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) 14:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Global bot policy changes
Hello!
I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language. According to
the list
, your wiki project is currently opted in to the
global bot policy
. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after the
global RfC
was closed.
Global bots are now subject to a 2 week discussion, and it'll be publicized via a MassMessage list, available at
Bot policy/New global bot discussion
on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals.
For a bot to be considered for approval, it must demonstrate it is welcomed in multiple projects, and a good way to do that is to have the bot flag on at least 5 wikis for a single task.
The bot operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag (i.e., if a wiki doesn't want a bot to use the flag as it edits, that should be followed).
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Thanks for the fish!
talk
contribs
18:48, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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
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Editing news 2021 #2
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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
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14:14, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
Notice
Hi, I would just like to let you know I have linked most of the Australian city/town-related articles. Thanks.
153.107.192.208
04:02, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. --
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7elteven
could you link the article
Hamilton
on Wikidata? Thanks.
144.136.38.71
07:39, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
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
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T132084
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Good article nomination:
Naoero
Could someone (i.e an admin) put
Naoero
as a good article here? It's one of the best articles on this wiki. Thanks.
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
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 28th
of February.
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.
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Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (
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subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page
or by
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If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.
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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
Looking forward to seeing you on the call,
RamzyM (WMF)
13:18, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed
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Greetings,
The ratification voting process for the
revised enforcement guidelines
of the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.
The final results from the voting process will be announced
here
, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out
the voter information page
to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page
on Meta-wiki
in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocproject
wikimedia.org
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
RamzyM (WMF)
01:25, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
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
RamzyM (WMF)
13:54, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
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,
RamzyM (WMF)
15:54, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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. (
continue reading
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! (
continue reading
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. (
continue reading
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. (
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Diff Blogs -
Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (
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RamzyM (WMF)
06:43, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Next steps: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
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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).
The volunteer scrutinizing group has completed the review of the accuracy of the vote and has reported the total number of votes received as 2,283. Out of the 2,283 votes received, a total of 1,338 (58.6%) community members voted for the enforcement guidelines, and a total of 945 (41.4%) community members voted against it. In addition, 658 participants left comments with 77% of the comments written in English.
We recognize and appreciate the passion and commitment that community members have demonstrated in creating a safe and welcoming culture that stops hostile and toxic behavior, supports people targeted by such behavior, and encourages good faith people to be productive on the Wikimedia projects.
Even at this incomplete stage, this is evident in the comments received. 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.
For clarity, this feedback has been clustered into 4 sections as follows:
To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the training;
To simplify the language for easier translation and comprehension by non-experts;
To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
To review the conflicting roles of privacy/victim protection and right to be heard.
Other issues may emerge during conversations, and particularly as the draft Enforcement Guidelines evolve, but we see these as the primary areas of concern for voters and are asking staff to facilitate review of these issues. After further engagement, the Foundation should re-run the community vote to evaluate the revamped Enforcement Outline to see if the new document is then ready for its official ratification.
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.
Again, we thank all who participated, thinking about these critical and difficult challenges and contributing to better approaches across the movement to working together well.
Best,
Rosie
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)
Acting Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
RamzyM (WMF)
02:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates
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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
RamzyM (WMF)
15:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
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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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
Whatamidoing (WMF)
18:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Call for volunteers: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
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.
But a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help change the participation?
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.
Best regards,
RamzyM (WMF)
10:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Announcing the members of the Leadership Development Working Group
Hello all,
Following up my previous message about the
Leadership Development Working Group
: the
Community Development Team
has completed the candidate selection process and is happy to announce
fifteen volunteers
that are beginning work on this project.
Thank you for your support and participation throughout the process!
For the Community Development team,
RamzyM (WMF)
16:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
Hello all,
I’d like to share an update on the work on the
Enforcement Guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC):
see full announcement
In May 2022, the
UCoC project team
completed a report on the
2022 March ratification vote
about the Guidelines. Voters cast votes from at least 137 communities, and at least 650 voters added comments with their vote.
The report is available on
Meta-Wiki
Following the vote, the
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
asked
that several areas of the Guidelines be reviewed for improvements. A
Revisions Committee
will refine it based on community feedback.
see full announcement
In order to help the Revisions Committee, input from the community is requested. You can visit the discussions below:
Discussions related to revisions of the Enforcement Guidelines
Discussions related to revision of the UCoC policy text
Please let me know if you have any questions about these next steps.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
12:46, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates
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The
2022 Board of Trustees election
Call for Candidates has now closed. This Call led 12 candidates from the community to submit their applications. Learn more about the
2022 Board of Trustees candidates
The Analysis Committee will now consider the candidates’ applications with the skills and criteria provided by the Board. The trustees seek certain skills and competencies to improve the capacity of the Board. After the Analysis Committee completes their review, the ratings of each candidate will be published. These ratings are for informational purposes only.
For more information about the 2022 Board election, you may find the timeline, voting information and other ways to get involved
on Meta-wiki
Thank you for your support,
Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
RamzyM (WMF)
03:56, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Upcoming activities for the 2022 Board of Trustees election
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Hi all,
This message covers two upcoming activities for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
The Board of Trustees election will have an Election Compass to support voters in their decision-making process. Eligible voters can propose statements in July and vote on which statements are used in the Election Compass in late July. Please visit the
Election Compass page
for more information.
Join conversations with the 2022 Board of Trustees candidates July 27 to August 7. Each candidate will have a one hour conversation with the community. Each conversation will be recorded and made available for future viewing. Live interpretation will be available. Languages available will be announced when the dates are set. These conversations will be scheduled with the candidates once the results of the Affiliate Selection are available. That information will be shared on the
2022 Board of Trustees election campaign events
page.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
RamzyM (WMF)
01:16, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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. (
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Improving user experience
: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (
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Safety and inclusion
: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (
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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. (
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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. (
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Evaluate, iterate, and adapt
: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (
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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
RamzyM (WMF)
04:32, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election
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Hi everyone,
The Affiliate voting process has concluded.
Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. 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.
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.
Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.
The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period.
You may view the Board election timeline here
. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:
Read candidates’ statements
and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A
See the
Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement
Propose statements for the Election Compass
voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
RamzyM (WMF)
01:29, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Vote for Election Compass Statements
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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 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
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
RamzyM (WMF)
08:37, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Delay of the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
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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.
Best regards,
Matanya, on behalf of the Elections Committee
RamzyM (WMF)
12:22, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
RamzyM (WMF)
and
VChang (WMF)
17:09, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum
Hello everyone,
The
Movement Strategy Forum
(MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation.
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, engage in conversations, and ask questions in your language.
The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for the MS Forum in May 2022. There was a 2-month community review period, which ended on 24 July 2022. The community review process included several questions that resulted in interesting conversations. You can read the
Community Review Report
We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
RamzyM (WMF)
and
VChang (WMF)
15:58, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close
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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 Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seek
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community
. For translated versions, please see
here
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
VChang (WMF)
RamzyM (WMF)
13:08, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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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 Revised Enforcement Guidelines talk page
. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are a series of
conversation hours
planned about the Revised Enforcement Guidelines; please see Meta for the times and details.
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
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
16:27, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
Announcing the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election community voting period
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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
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and
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15:09, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Sound Logo
Hi all,
The Wikimedia sound logo contest has
officially launched
, welcoming scores of submissions from around the world. From 13 September to 10 October 2022, everyone, everywhere is invited to play a part in
The Sound of All Human Knowledge
If you want to learn more about sound logos, need help with your submission, or if you have a great idea for one, but don't know how to capture it, join this conversation with our technical partner
MassiveMusic
on
29 September 2022,
15:00-16:00 UTC
. Sign up directly on
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Review period on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct closed
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Dear Wikimedians,
Thank you for participating in the review of the
Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
. The UCoC project team and the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Revisions Committee
appreciate you all taking the time to discuss the guidelines, suggest changes, and ask questions.
This community review period lasted from 8 September 2022 to 8 October 2022.
Over the past four weeks, the UCoC project team has collected valuable community input from various channels, including three
conversation hours sessions
, where Wikimedians could get together to discuss the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines.
The Revisions Committee will review community input when they reconvene in the second week of October 2022. The UCoC project team will support them in providing updates as they continue their work and will continue to inform the community about all important developments and milestones as the Committee prepares the final version of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines that is currently scheduled for a community-wide vote in mid-January of 2023.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
VChang (WMF)
RamzyM (WMF)
10:46, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions
Hello all,
During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page
here
on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it
here
With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three
“Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter"
sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.
The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events:
Asia/Pacific
: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa
: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
Latin America/North America/ Western Europe
: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
On the
Meta page
you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.
Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors
Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become
Movement Charter Ambassadors
(MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages.
Regional facilitators
from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up
here
. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum.
We thank you for your time and participation.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
13:52, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Apply for Funding through the Movement Strategy Community Engagement Package to Support Your Community
The Wikimedia Movement Strategy implementation is a collaborative effort for all Wikimedians.
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants
support projects that take the current state of a
Movement Strategy Initiative
and push it one step forward. If you are looking for an example or some guide on how to engage your community further on Movement Strategy and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants specifically, you may find this
community engagement package
helpful.
The goal of this community engagement package is to support more people to access the funding they might need for the implementation work. By becoming a recipient of this grant, you will be able to support other community members to develop further grant applications that fit with your local contexts to benefit your own communities. With this package, the hope is to break down language barriers and to ensure community members have needed information on Movement Strategy to connect with each other. Movement Strategy is a two-way exchange, we can always learn more from the experiences and knowledge of Wikimedians everywhere. We can train and support our peers by using this package, so more people can make use of this great funding opportunity.
If this information interests you or if you have any further thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us as your
regional facilitators
to discuss further. We will be more than happy to support you. When you are ready, follow the steps on
this page
to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
Wikimedia Foundation
VChang (WMF)
and
RamzyM (WMF)
16:53, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Join the Movement Charter conversation hour for ESEAP region
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Dear all,
The
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) is currently collecting community feedback about three draft sections of the Movement Charter:
Preamble
Values & Principles
, and
Roles & Responsibilities
(statement of intent).
How can you participate and share your feedback?
The MCDC is looking forward to receiving all types of feedback in different languages from the community members across the Movement and Affiliates. You can participate in the following ways:
Attend one of the scheduled
community conversation hours with MCDC members
; detail for the ESEAP session below;
Fill out a
survey
(optional and anonymous);
Share your thoughts and feedback on the
Meta talk page
Share your thoughts and feedback on the
Movement Strategy Forum
Preamble
Values & Principles
Roles & Responsibilities
(statement of intent); or
Send an email to
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if you have other feedback to the MCDC.
The
community consultation session for the ESEAP region
will take place on
Friday, 9 December 2022
at
09:00-10:30 UTC
. The session will be held on Zoom; the link will be shared at the page 48 hours before the session. Live interpretation in
Chinese
Japanese
, and
Indonesian
will be available. The conversations will not be recorded, except for the section where participants are invited to share what they discussed in the breakout rooms. The facilitation team will take notes and produce a summary report afterwards.
If you want to learn more about the Movement Charter, its goals, why it matters and how it impacts your community, please watch the
recording (in English)
of the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions which took place earlier in November 2022. You can also watch the recording
in Chinese
and
in Japanese
Thank you for your participation.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
and
VChang (WMF)
01:01, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
Reminder to provide feedback on the Movement Charter content
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Hi all,
We are in the middle of the community consultation period on the three draft sections of the Movement Charter:
Preamble
Values & Principles
, and
Roles & Responsibilities
(statement of intent).
You are invited to attend the
community consultation session for East Asia, South East Asia, and the Pacific region (ESEAP)
which will take place on
Friday, 9 December 2022
at
09:00-10:30 UTC
. The session will be held on Zoom; please join the meeting via
this link
. Live interpretation will be available in
Indonesian
Japanese
, and
Mandarin Chinese
This community consultation period will end on 18 December 2022
. The
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) encourages everyone who is interested in the governance of the Wikimedia movement to share their thoughts and opinions on the draft content of the Charter. Apart from joining the live conversation, you can also share your feedback via different channels provided below:
Fill out an anonymous
survey
Share your thoughts and feedback on the
Movement Strategy Forum
Share your thoughts and feedback on the Meta Talk pages
Send an email to: movementcharter@wikimedia.org if you have other feedback to the MCDC
You can also find the
ESEAP facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team
at the
ESEAP 28th Community Meeting
on Sunday, 11 December 2022 to share your thoughts. Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for your participation in this community consultation!
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
06:37, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!
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Hello
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!
Thank you!
Community Tech,
STei (WMF)
12:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Movement Charter: End of the community consultation round 1
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On behalf of the
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our first
community wide consultation period
on the Movement Charter.
People from across the Movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of the
Movement Charter
. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so still by
giving the drafts a read
and filling out the
anonymous survey
, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close on
January 2, 2023
. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: movementcharter@wikimedia.org.
What’s next?
The
Movement Strategy and Governance team
will publish the final report with the summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.
After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.
We invite you to sign-up to the
MCDC monthly newsletter
, it will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice.
Monthly updates
are available on Meta to remain updated on the progress of the MCDC.
Interested people can still sign-up to become a
Movement Charter Ambassador
(MC Ambassador) to support their community. The MC Ambassadors Program grant program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.
We thank you for your participation, time and effort in helping to build the Charter for our Movement!
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
12:25, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
Vote for your favourite Wikimedia sound logo
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Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest
has started
. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices.
Learn more on Diff
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of
volunteer screeners
and the
selection committee
who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.
Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2023
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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,
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Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the
Enforcement Guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows
the March 2022 vote
, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s
Community Affairs Committee
requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led
Revisions Committee
worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed
here
, and a comparison of changes can be found
here
How to vote?
Beginning
January 17, 2023
, voting will be open.
This page on Meta-wiki
outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The
eligibility requirements
for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
12:28, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
Voting now open on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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The
voting period
for the
revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
is now open! Voting will be open for two weeks and will close at
23:59 UTC
on
January 31, 2023
. Please visit the
voter information page on Meta-wiki
for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.
For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our
previous message
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
12:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Voting on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct is closed
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The
vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
is now closed. The results will now be counted and scrutinized to ensure that only eligible votes are included. Results will be published
on Meta
and other movement forums as soon as they become available, as well as information on future steps. Thank you to all who participated in the voting process, and who have contributed to the drafting of Guidelines.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
11:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
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Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results
The recent community-wide vote on the
Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines
has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition.
Statistics
for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.
From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
16:06, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department
is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.
The Terms of Use (ToU)
are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.
This update comes in response to several things:
Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act
As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.
For further information, please consult:
The
proposed update of the ToU by comparison
The page for your
feedback
Information about
the office hours
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,
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VChang (WMF)
22:50, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
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 "Add topic" 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 "Publish changes". 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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Your wiki will be in read only soon
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The
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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.
All traffic will switch on
1 March
. The test will start at
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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 Wednesday 1 March 2023.
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.
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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.
GitLab
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This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
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Please share this information with your community.
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21:20, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, 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!
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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.
Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
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Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:
The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the
vote statistics on Meta-wiki
As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The
resolution can be found on Foundation wiki
and you can read more about the
process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.
There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
15:55, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
Report on voter comments from the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines ratification vote
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Hello all,
The Universal Code of Conduct project team has completed the analysis of the comments accompanying the ratification vote on the
revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
All respondents to the vote had the opportunity to provide comments regarding the contents of the revised Enforcement Guidelines draft document. A total of 369 participants left comments in 18 languages; compared to 657 commenters in 27 languages in 2022. The Trust and Safety Policy team completed an analysis of these results, categorizing comments to identify major themes and areas of focus within the comments.
The report is available in translated versions on Meta-wiki here
. Please help translate into your language.
Again, we are thankful to all who participated in the vote and discussions. More information about the Universal Code of Conduct and its Enforcement Guidelines can be found on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the Universal Code of Conduct project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
14:40, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Upcoming community review of the Movement Charter ratification methodology
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Hello everyone,
The
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) will propose a ratification methodology for the future
Movement Charter
on April 10, 2023. The proposed ratification methodology is a result of learnings from previous ratification processes.
The MCDC will organize a consultation period with the Wikimedia Movement to hear feedback on the proposed ratification methodology from
April 10 to 28, 2023
. People will be invited to share their feedback on the questions mainly via the Meta Talk page discussion, on the Movement Strategy Forum, and during the community conversation hours. The MCDC welcomes your input on some open questions.
Join the community conversation hours
The MCDC invites everyone interested in sharing their feedback on the proposed methodology to join the community conversation hours:
Community conversation hour #1
18 April at 10:00 UTC
your local time
Community conversation hour #2
24 April at 17:00 UTC
your local time
When signing up, please leave a comment if you need language support. Please note that language interpretation will be provided if at least 3 people expressed interest to participate in the following languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.
Thank you,
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
15:38, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Elections Committee: Call for New Members
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Hello everyone,
The
Wikimedia Foundation elections committee
(Elections Committee) is, from today until April 24, seeking an additional 2–4 members to help facilitate the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee (Board) selection process.
The 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election is being planned. New members are invited to join the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee oversees the Board of Trustees community seat selection process. Join the committee and contribute your valuable skills and ideas to the Trustee selection process.
There are eight community- and affiliate-selected seats on
the Wikimedia Foundation Board
. The wider Wikimedia community votes for community members to occupy these seats. In 2024, the Elections Committee will oversee this selection process for the community- and affiliate-selected seats with expiring terms. This process will be supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Elections Committee members sign up for three-year terms and will be asked to
sign a confidentiality agreement
. Members can expect to contribute 2–5 hours per week before the selection process and 5–8 hours per week during the selection process.
As an Elections Committee member, you will be responsible for:
Attending online meetings between now and the next election (mid-2024)
Attending onboarding and online training in May–June 2023
Working with the Committee to fulfill its
other responsibilities
New members should have the following qualities:
Fluency in English
Responsiveness to email collaboration
Knowledge of the movement and movement governance
If you would like to volunteer for this role, please
submit your candidacy by April 24, 2023 23:59 on
this Meta-Wiki page
You can
read the full announcement here
. Thank you in advance for your interest! If you are not interested but know someone who might be, share this message with them. Please let me know if you have questions.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
15:41, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Call for early input on the proposed Movement Charter ratification methodology
Hello all,
The [[
April 10 to 28, 2023
. Ratification of the [[
There are [[
Please share your feedback by:
Commenting on the [[
Commenting on the [
Joining the community conversation hours; the first conversation hour will take place on
18 April at 10:00 UTC
([
If you have any questions, kindly let us know.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
VChang (WMF)
13:33, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations
The main purpose of this message is to share with you the
draft annual plan
of the Wikimedia Foundation for the coming fiscal year from July 2023 to June 2024. The summary of the annual plan is available in multiple languages.
Some Excerpts from the Annual Plan Draft
The Wikimedia Foundation has remained in a period of transition. It welcomed new leadership last year, including a new Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product and Technology Officer. Additionally, the Foundation has navigated conversations with global communities on a range of important issues, from a future charter defining roles and responsibilities, to how we raise shared resources through banner fundraising. This year's Annual Plan attempts to provide more clarity on multi-year strategic issues that do not have quick fixes, and more detailed information on how the Foundation operates.
For the second consecutive year, the Wikimedia Foundation is anchoring its annual plan in the movement's strategy to
advance equity
. The intention is to connect the Foundation's work even more deeply with the
Movement Strategy Recommendations
to make even deeper progress towards the
2030 Strategic Direction
. This year, the Foundation is recentering its plan around
Product and Technology
, emphasizing our unique role as a platform for people and communities collaborating on a massive scale. If you are interested to learn more, you can find detailed information on
this meta page
Requesting Your Feedback
Your feedback is highly appreciated, whether being on
Meta discussion page
or sharing at your local discussion space. Your comments and reflections will help improve the proposal before the Foundation’s Board of Trustees considers the plan and budget in their June meeting.
Community Conversations
Everyone is also invited to participate in the
virtual conversation on 30th April 2023 at 6am UTC
(check your
local time here
), which is planned for participants from the Asia Pacific timezone. Kindly see the
Diff calendar here
Lisa Seitz Gruwell
, Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer will be joining the call to share more and learn about your thoughts. You can find the information relating to virtual conversations on the
collaboration page
. We look forward to seeing you in the upcoming conversation!
VChang (WMF)
13:31, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
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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)
19:00, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
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