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From 8 May 2018,
AdvancedSearch
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The feature enhances the
search page
through an advanced parameters form and aims to make
existing search options
more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
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The TWL OWL says sign up today!
The Wikipedia Library
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Expansions
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Update on page issues on mobile web
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Update on page issues on mobile web
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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)
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Global preferences are available
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Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new
global preferences page
. Visit
mediawiki.org for information on how to use them
and
leave feedback
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Administrator rights
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I would like to request adminship rights on the SiSwati Wikipedia. SiSwati is my mother tongue and I've been editing this Wikipedia for sometime now, but I feel limited when I want to edit some pages like the landing page, since there are some couple of things I would like to correct there. I've also recently attended Wikimania in Cape Town and during a hackathon have requested help with setting up proper info boxes for this Wikipedia, in order to do some stuff it required that I be a admin!
Bobby
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17:30, 27 Kholwane 2018 (UTC)
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New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
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Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like
MediaWiki:Common.css
and
MediaWiki:Vector.js
which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group,
interface-admin
, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with
.css
or
.js
that is either in the
MediaWiki:
namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change
here
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats).
This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr
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17:45, 30 Kholwane 2018 (UTC)
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Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors
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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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Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
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Hi all,
as
announced previously
, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the
interface-admin
Interface administrators
) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at
Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr
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12:40, 27 iNgci 2018 (UTC)
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Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 12 September 2018
On
Wednesday, 10 October 2018
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
User:Johan(WMF)
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Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
Editing Team
has wrapped up most of their work on the
2017 wikitext editor
and
the visual diff tool
. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
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The Editing team has published an
initial report about mobile editing
The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can
read the report
The Reading team is working on a
separate mobile-based contributions project
The 2006 wikitext editor is
no longer supported
. If you used
that toolbar
, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your
editing preferences
local gadgets
, or
beta features
The Editing team described the history and status of
VisualEditor
in
this recorded public presentation
(starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
The Language team released
a new version of Content Translation
(CX2) last month, on
International Translation Day
. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published.
Let's work together
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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 Lweti 2018 (UTC)
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
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Example of improvements
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like
Template:Unreferenced
or
Template:More citations needed
. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have
some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly
and also further
documentation on our work so far
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile,
please leave a note on the project talk page
or
file a task in Phabricator
and we will help you.
Thank you!
CKoerner (WMF)
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19:35, 13 Lweti 2018 (UTC)
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Community Wishlist Survey vote
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The Community Wishlist Survey.
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Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech
should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the
wishlist survey page
User:Johan (WMF)
18:13, 22 Lweti 2018 (UTC)
Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the
search page
, even if you don’t know any
search syntax
. Advanced Search originates from the
German Community’s Technical Wishes project
. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the
central feedback page
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new
password policy and requirements
You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on
the talk page
Thank you!
CKoerner (WMF)
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Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019
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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.
Wiki Loves Love (WLL)
is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.
The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.
The theme of 2019 iteration is
Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.
Sign up your affiliate or individually at
Participants
page.
To know more about the contest, check out our
Commons Page
and
FAQs
There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!
Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Love Team
Imagine... the sum of all love!
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FileExporter beta feature
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Coming soon: the beta feature
FileExporter
A new beta feature will soon be released on all wikis: The
FileExporter
. It allows exports of files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons, including their file history and page history. Which files can be exported is defined by each wiki's community:
Please check your wiki's
configuration file
if you want to use this feature.
The FileExporter has already been a beta feature on
mediawiki.org
meta.wikimedia
, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP and on
wikisource.org
. After some functionality was added, it's now becoming a beta feature on all wikis. Deployment is planned for January 16. More information can be found
on the project page
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test the FileExporter, please activate it in your
user preferences
. The best place for feedback is the
central talk page
. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's
Technical Wishes project
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
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No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January
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You will
not be able to edit
the wikis for up to 30 minutes on
17 January 07:00 UTC
. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are
not
affected
on this page
. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
18:54, 16 Bhimbidvwane 2019 (UTC)
Administrator rights
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I would like to request administration rights so that I may be able to edit
this infobox
template and correct some few spelling mistake on the landing page.
Bobby
shabangu
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11:28, 1 iNdlovana 2019 (UTC)
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Support (though Template:Umuntfu is not protected, so you should already be able to edit it). --
MF-Warburg
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13:32, 3 iNdlovana 2019 (UTC)
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Ngivuma
Jatrobat
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11:19, 3 Mabasa 2019 (UTC)
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Talk to us about talking
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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a
global consultation about communication
. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.
We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.
We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.
We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.
You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
First,
sign up your group here.
Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
Finally, please go to
Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org
and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.
You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.
Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us
how your group communicates
You can read more about
the overall process
on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can
leave feedback about the consultation process
in the language you prefer.
Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.
Trizek (WMF)
15:01, 21 iNdlovana 2019 (UTC)
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
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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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Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April
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You will
not be able to edit
most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on
11 April 05:00 UTC
. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You
can see which wikis are affected
. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
10:56, 8 Mabasa 2019 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a
Medium-Term Plan proposal
covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on
the talk page
, by April 20.
Thank you!
Quiddity (WMF)
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Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes
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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 iNhlaba 2019 (UTC)
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Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new
Edit Cards for editing links
in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Welcome back to the
Editing
newsletter.
Since
the last newsletter
, the team has released two new features for the
mobile visual editor
and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to
make editing on mobile web simpler
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
📲 Try Edit Cards
Recent releases
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Whatamidoing (WMF)
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18:32, 23 Kholwane 2019 (UTC)
Update on the consultation about office actions
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Hello all,
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team
announced
a future consultation about partial and/or temporary
office actions
. We want to let you know that the
draft version
of this consultation has now been
posted on Meta
This is a
draft
. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.
For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted.
Please post it on the draft talk page
. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.
Please visit
the consultation draft on Meta-wiki
and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.
Thank you for your input! -- The
Trust & Safety team
08:03, 16 iNgci 2019 (UTC)
New tools and IP masking
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Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools
could
be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project
on Meta
and
post comments and feedback
. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
Johan (WMF)
14:18, 21 iNgci 2019 (UTC)
The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started
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Hello,
In a
recent statement
, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
requested that staff hold a consultation
to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians
to join this consultation and give their feedback
from 30 September to 30 October.
How can you help?
Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
--
Kbrown (WMF)
17:14, 30 iNyoni 2019 (UTC)
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Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
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Hello
. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some
improvements to the desktop interface
over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at
mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
Thank you!
Quiddity (WMF)
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07:18, 16 iMphala 2019 (UTC)
Beta feature "Reference Previews"
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A new beta feature will soon be deployed to your wiki:
Reference Previews
. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now they will become available on more wikis. Deployment is planned for October 24. More information can be found
on the project page
As always, feedback is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your
user preferences
and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the
central talk page
. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's
Technical Wishes project
--
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
09:47, 23 iMphala 2019 (UTC)
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the
Editing team
talks about their work on the
mobile visual editor
, on
the new talk pages project
, and at
Wikimania 2019
Help
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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11:12, 29 iMphala 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia Asian Month 2019
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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.
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Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest
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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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Pacem in terris
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Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2020 kahle
inhlanhla lenhle
siyabonga —
Jatrobat
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Wiki Loves Folklore
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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
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06:15, 18 Bhimbidvwane 2020 (UTC)
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Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project
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Hello
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project,
please visit the Meta page
. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete
this simple Google form
. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
--
LMiranda (WMF)
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Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages
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Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.
You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at
the planned feature
. Let us know what you think on our
central feedback page
! -- For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE)
14:15, 26 iNdlovana 2020 (UTC)
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.
The
Editing team
has been working on
the talk pages project
. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the
Talk pages consultation 2019
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.
The team is building a
new tool for replying
to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically.
Please
test the new Reply tool
On 31 March 2020, the new
reply
tool was offered as a
Beta Feature
editors at four Wikipedias:
Arabic
Dutch
French
, and
Hungarian
. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact
User:Whatamidoing (WMF)
The team is planning some upcoming changes.
Please
review the proposed design
and share your thoughts on the talk page.
The team will test features such as:
an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
a rich-text visual editing option, and
other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the
"Get involved"
section of the project page. You can also watch
these pages:
the main project page
Updates
Replying
, and
User testing
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19:27, 8 Mabasa 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 iNhlaba 2020 (UTC)
Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)
This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.
The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
Please visit the
campaign page
to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.
With kind regards,
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 Kholwane 2020 (UTC)
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Feedback on movement names
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Hello
. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language.
Please help translate to your language
if necessary.
Thank you!
There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.
Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a
survey
in 7 languages about
3 naming options
. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a
Community Open Letter
Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.
Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --
The Brand Project team
, 19:42, 2 Kholwane 2020 (UTC)
Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the
survey privacy statement
Editing news 2020 #3
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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)
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12:55, 9 Kholwane 2020 (UTC)
Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia
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Hi all,
It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.
This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020
after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation
. We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.
We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.
There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list
. We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
Yours,
Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)
Abstract Wikipedia
User:Denny
Abstract Wikipedia mailing list
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20:10, 9 Kholwane 2020 (UTC)
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Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis
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The
FileExporter and FileImporter
will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history.
How does it work?
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's
configuration file
which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.
If you want to know more about the
FileImporter extension
or the
Technical Wishes Project
, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:
Max Klemm (WMDE)
09:14, 6 iNgci 2020 (UTC)
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Important: maintenance operation on September 1st
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on
Tuesday, September 1st 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)
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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!
--
The Wikipedia Library Team
09:49, 3 iNyoni 2020 (UTC)
This message was delivered via the
Global Mass Message
tool to
The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List
Invitation to participate in the conversation
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Hello
. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on
Meta
Please help translate to your language
Thank you!
We are excited to share
a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct
, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.
The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?
Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the
Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review
. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.
To learn more about the UCoC project, see the
Universal Code of Conduct
page, and the
FAQ
, on Meta.
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions,
The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation
, 17:55, 10 iNyoni 2020 (UTC)
Wiki of functions naming contest
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Hello
. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of
functions
. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Thank you!
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Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric
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Hello
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Please help translate to your language
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details,
check the full announcement
Thank you!
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Important: maintenance operation on October 27
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, October 27 2020
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, October 27. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2
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Hello
Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-wiki.
Thank you!
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22:10, 5 Lweti 2020 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey 2021
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The
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the
Community Tech
team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on
30 Lweti
, or comment on other proposals to help make them better.
The communities will vote on the proposals between
8 iNgongoni
and
21 iNgongoni
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.
You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
18:09, 20 Lweti 2020 (UTC)
Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion
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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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Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist
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Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on
this page
. Feel free to translate it in more languages!
As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (
in your preferences
). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use
this Phabricator ticket
. Thanks!
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2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th
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Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020
Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award
will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information
here
about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention,
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
10:55, 7 iNgongoni 2020 (UTC)
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Community Wishlist Survey 2021
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We invite all registered users to vote on the
2021 Community Wishlist Survey
. You can vote from now until
21 December
for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the
Community Tech
, are one of the
Wikimedia Foundation
teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
00:52, 15 iNgongoni 2020 (UTC)
Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event
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Hello
. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language.
Please help translate to your language
Thank you!
Wikimania will be a virtual event this year
, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again,
the ESEAP Core Organizing Team
will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how
you
can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event.
Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
, 15:16, 27 Bhimbidvwane 2021 (UTC)
Project Grant Open Call
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This is the announcement for the
Project Grants program
open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for
#Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions
with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
Video tutorials
for writing a strong application
General
planning page
for Project Grants
Program guidelines and criteria
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and
submit your proposal
by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrants
iThempleti:Atwikimedia
.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language.
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
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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!
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Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!
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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
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Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March
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Greetings!
You are invited to participate in
Feminism and Folklore
writing contest
. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of
suggested articles here
You can also support us in translating the
project page
and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our
project page
. Thank you.
Feminism and Folklore team,
Joy Agyepong
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02:40, 16 iNdlovana 2021 (UTC)
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Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally
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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,
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Wikifunctions logo contest
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Hello
. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at Meta-Wiki.
Thank you!
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Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations
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Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2
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The
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its
project page
Drafting Committee: Call for applications
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The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see
Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee
2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators
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From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested
key questions
. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please
in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see
Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations
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Global bot policy changes
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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!
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18:48, 6 Mabasa 2021 (UTC)
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Line numbering coming soon to all wikis
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Example
From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (
CodeMirror extension
), which is supported in the
2010
and
2017
wikitext editors.
More information can be found on
this project page
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
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Suggested Values
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From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to
TemplateData
and will then be shown as a drop-down list in
VisualEditor
. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values:
[1]
[2]
. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback
on this talk page
Timur Vorkul (WMDE)
14:08, 22 Mabasa 2021 (UTC)
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Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
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Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021
Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of
Universal Code of Conduct News
! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to
subscribe here
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please
add your name here
if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
Affiliate consultations
– Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (
continue reading
2021 key consultations
– The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (
continue reading
Roundtable discussions
– The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (
continue reading
Phase 2 drafting committee
– The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (
continue reading
Diff blogs
– The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (
continue reading
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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
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Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be
hosted virtually
for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the
Core Organizing Team
(COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program
- Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information
here
Below are some links to guide you through;
Program Submissions
Session Submission Guidelines
FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements
- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section
here
Office Hour
- If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found
here.
Best regards,
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On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
Editing news 2021 #2
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Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (
Source
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of
the Reply Tool
. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped
newer editors
communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were
more likely
to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also
less likely
to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to
resolve a technical challenge
. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the
Wikipedias that participated in the study
. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "
Discussion tools
in Beta Features
now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
Whatamidoing (WMF)
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14:14, 24 iNhlaba 2021 (UTC)
Server switch
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
01:19, 27 iNhlaba 2021 (UTC)
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New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The TWL OWL says log in today!
The Wikipedia Library
is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
Cabells
– Scholarly and predatory journal database
Taaghche
- Persian language e-books
Merkur
Musik & Ästhetik
, and
Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse
- German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
Art Archiv
Capital
Geo
Geo Epoche
, and
Stern
- German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally,
De Gruyter
and
Nomos
have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to
The Wikipedia Library
with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the
project page on Meta
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (
T132084
). If you can translate the notification please do so
at TranslateWiki
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13:23, 11 iNgci 2021 (UTC)
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Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review
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The
Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee
would like comments about the
enforcement draft guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.
These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.
Comments can be shared in any language on the
draft review talk page
and
multiple other venues
. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:
Wikimania 2021 session
(recorded 16 August)
Conversation hours
- 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
Roundtable calls
- 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks
here
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Xeno (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end
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Thank you for participating in the
2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the
Elections Committee
completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.
6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the
data produced during the election
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.
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The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January
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Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the
Community Wishlist Survey
2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a
dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes
Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year
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In the past, the
Community Tech
team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the
Wishlist for 2021
in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the
Wishlist for 2020
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
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We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
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We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the
talk page
, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting
September 15th at 23:00 UTC
. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
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If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the
new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox
. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
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What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
How would you like to use our new
sandbox?
What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the
talk page
(in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021
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Movement Strategy announces
the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent
diversity in the Movement
. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following
skills
Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
Are ready to find compromises.
Focus on inclusion and diversity.
Have knowledge of community consultations.
Have intercultural communication experience.
Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy
here
. Please contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org with questions.
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
(07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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Hello!
As we have
recently announced
, we, the team working on the
Community Wishlist Survey
, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on
September 15th, 23:00 UTC
on Zoom, and will last an hour.
Click here to join
Agenda
How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
Why we decided to change the date
from November 2021 to January 2022
Update on the
disambiguation
and the
real-time preview
wishes
Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them
on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page
or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez
(the
Community Tech
manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
Join online
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Select You the question statements for candidates of Drafting Committee Movement Charter
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Into 2021-10-04 11:59:59 UTC you can select
question statements
for the
candidates
of
Drafting Committee
Movement Charter
. ✍️
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01:59, 30 iNyoni 2021 (UTC)
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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open
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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.
Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.
The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.
Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <
Learn about the Drafting Committee: <
We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <
Read the full announcement: <
Go vote at SecurePoll on:
Best,
Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
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Learn how Movement Strategy Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans
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Movement Strategy Implementation grants now provide more than $2,000 USD to put Movement Strategy plans into action. Find out more about
Movement Strategy Implementation grants, the criteria, and how to apply
MNadzikiewicz (WMF)
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Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members
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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.
The
election results have been published
. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee:
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
Anne Clin (Risker)
Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy)
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
Richard (Nosebagbear)
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
Ciell (Ciell)
The
affiliate process
has selected six members:
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini)
Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin)
Georges Fodouop (Geugeor)
Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur)
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
The Wikimedia Foundation has
appointed
two members:
Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF)
Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))
The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.
If you are interested in engaging with
Movement Charter
drafting process, follow the updates
on Meta
and join the
Telegram group
With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team
15:53, 5 Lweti 2021 (UTC)
Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections
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The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.
Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?
Contact the
Movement Strategy and Governance team
on Meta, on
Telegram
, or via email at msg
wikimedia.org.
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Thank you.
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2022
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Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2022 kahle
inhlanhla lenhle
siyabonga —
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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.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Feminism and Folklore 2022
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Greetings! You are invited to participate in
Feminism and Folklore 2022
writing competion. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles focused on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles
here
You can also support us in organizing the contest on your local Wikipedia by signing up your community to participate in this project and also translating the
project page
and help us spread the word in your native language.
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Feel free to contact us on our
talk page
or via Email if you need any assistance...
Thank you.
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Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open
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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.
With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.
Join the conversation.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Xeno (WMF)
01:04, 15 Bhimbidvwane 2022 (UTC)
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Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories
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Dear community members,
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 (
This Month in Education
) invite you to join us by
subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page
or by
sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters
. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.
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.
Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the
complete archive
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5
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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022
Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to receive these updates.
Call for Feedback about the Board elections
- We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (
continue reading
Universal Code of Conduct Ratification
- In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (
continue reading
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants
- As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (
continue reading
The New Direction for the Newsletter
- As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (
continue reading
Diff Blogs
- Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (
continue reading
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Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review
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Hello everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a
statement on the ratification process
for the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
The
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by
volunteer-staff drafting committees
following community consultations.
The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. There is a
list of changes made
to the guidelines after the
enforcement draft guidelines review
Comments about the guidelines can be shared
on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page on Meta-wiki
To help to understand the guidelines and process, the
Movement Strategy and Governance
(MSG) team will be hosting Conversation Hours on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC.
Join the conversation hours to speak with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members about the updated guidelines and voting process
The
timeline is available on Meta-wiki
. The voting period is March 7 to 21. All eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the Enforcement guidelines, and share why.
See the voting information page for more details
Many participants from across the movement have provided valuable input in these ongoing conversations. The UCoC and MSG teams want to thank the Drafting Committee and the community members for their contributions to this process.
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
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Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated
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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.
The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a
Leadership Development Task Force
and how
you can help.
Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.
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Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March
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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,
We are pleased to inform you that
Wiki Loves Folklore
an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the
15th of March 2022
. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.
We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the
translation
of project pages and share a word in your local language.
Best wishes,
International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore
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Several improvements around templates
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Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:
Fundamental improvements of the
VisualEditor template dialog
),
Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (
) (for the template dialogs in
VisualEditor
2010 Wikitext
and
New Wikitext Mode
),
and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension
CodeMirror
) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).
All these changes are part of the “
Templates
” project by
WMDE Technical Wishes
. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.
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Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!
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vote in SecurePoll from 7 to 21 March 2022
is scheduled as part of the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines. Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments.
Read voter information and eligibility details.
During the poll, voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the proposed guidelines.
The
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The
revised enforcement guidelines
were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. A
Wikimedia Foundation Board statement
calls for a
ratification process
where eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the UCoC Enforcement guidelines in a vote. Wikimedians are invited to
translate and share important information
. For more information about the UCoC, please see the
project page
and
frequently asked questions
on Meta-wiki.
There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:
community panel
recorded on 18 February 2022 shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
The
Movement Strategy and Governance
(MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please
sign-up
to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the
Conversation Hour summaries
for notes from 4 February 2022 and 25 February 2022.
You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msg
wikimedia.org or ucocproject
wikimedia.org
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
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Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022
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The ratification voting process for the
revised enforcement guidelines
of the
Universal Code of Conduct
(UCoC) is now open!
Voting commenced on SecurePoll
on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please
read more on the voter information and eligibility details
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can
read more about the UCoC project
You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocproject
wikimedia.org
Sincerely,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
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00:52, 8 iNdlovu 2022 (UTC)
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Invitation to Hubs event: Global Conversation on 2022-03-12 at 13:00 UTC
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Hello!
The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (
read the report
), but we're not finished yet.
Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (
see Hubs Dialogue
). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.
The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us.
More information on the event on Meta-wiki
Best regards,
Kaarel Vaidla
Movement Strategy
01:31, 10 iNdlovu 2022 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow
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International photographic contest
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.
The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your
local Wikipedia is participating
A special competition called
Wiki Loves Falles
is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and
Falles
in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on
Catalan Wikipedia project page
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the
Leadership Development Working Group
initiative. A
summary of the feedback
can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please
review the information about the working group
, share with community members who might be interested, and
apply if you are interested
Thank you,
From the Community Development team
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Feminism and Folklore 2022 ends soon
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Feminism and Folklore 2022
which is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia ends soon that is on
31 March 2022 11:59 UTC
. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such as
folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more
Keep an eye on the project page for declaration of Winners.
We look forward for your immense co-operation.
Thanks
Wiki Loves Folklore international Team
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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
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6
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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022
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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.
This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe
here
if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
Leadership Development -
A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (
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Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! -
The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (
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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. (
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Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! -
Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (
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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! -
The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (
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Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly -
Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (
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Diff Blogs -
Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (
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Also, a draft of the
2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
has been published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during
several conversations
with Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander
See full announcement on Meta-wiki
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022
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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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Coming soon: Improvements for templates
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Fundamental changes in the template dialog.
Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:
The
template dialog
in VisualEditor
and in the
2017 Wikitext Editor
(beta) will be
improved fundamentally
This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.
project page
talk page
In
syntax highlighting
CodeMirror
extension), you can activate a
colorblind-friendly
color scheme with a user setting.
project page
talk page
Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from
WMDE Technical Wishes'
focus area “
Templates
”.
We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!
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Editing news 2022 #1
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New editors were more successful with this new tool.
The
New topic tool
helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can
read the report
. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
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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,
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Deployment of FLORES Machine Translation to Swati Wikipedia
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The WMF Language team plans to introduce a machine translation (MT) support for the Content Translation in Swati Wikipedia called FLORES. This means that you can choose to use
FLORES machine translation
when translating Wikipedia articles to Swati using
the Content Translation tool
The FLORES Machine Translation is provided by an
AI research team at Meta
through a free for use API key that allows the Content Translation to access the service on the FLORES server for an evaluation trial period. This MT will be set as default in your Wikipedia, but you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.
The Wikimedia Foundation has worked out an agreement that allows the use of FLORES without compromising Wikipedia’s policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user, and brand representation. You can find more information about the FLORES Machine translation on
this page
Please note that the use of the FLORES MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:
use it once it is deployed to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
provide feedback
about our plans, its quality once deployed and ask any questions you might have about this addition.
We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translations tool towards having better quality articles in Swati Wikipedia.
Thank you!
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FLORES Machine Translation deployed to Swati Wikipedia
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Hello Friends!
The WMF Language team is pleased to inform you that we have deployed the FLORES machine translation (MT) support for the Content Translation in Swati Wikipedia.
Please remember that the FLORES machine translation is set as default in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu. However, we would want your community to:
use it to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
provide feedback
about its quality and ask any questions you might have about this addition.
We look forward to your community using the Machine Translation support in Content Translation to create better quality articles in Swati Wikipedia.
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF)
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Revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
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Hello all,
We'd like to provide an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. After the conclusion of the community vote on the guidelines in March, the
Community Affairs committee (CAC)
of the Board
asked that several areas of the guidelines be reviewed for improvements
before the Board does its final review. These areas were identified based on community discussions and comments provided during the vote. The CAC also requested review of the controversial Note in 3.1 of the UCoC itself.
Once more, a big thank you to all who voted, especially to all who left constructive feedback and comments! The project team is working with the Board to establish a timeline for this work, and will communicate this next month.
Members of the two prior
UCoC Drafting Committees
have generously offered their time to help shape improvements to the Guidelines. You can read more about them and their work
here
, as well as read
summaries of their weekly meetings in 2022
Wikimedians have provided many valuable comments together with the vote and in other conversations. Given the size and diversity of the Wikimedia community, there are even more voices out there who can give ideas on how to improve the enforcement guidelines and add even more valuable ideas to the process. To help the Revisions committee identify improvements, input on several questions for the committee’s review is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (
Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions
Policy text revision discussions
) to get your ideas to the Committee - it is very important that viewpoints are heard from different communities before the Committee begins drafting revision proposals.
On behalf of the UCoC project team
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Enabling Content and Section translation tool in Swati Wikipedia
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Friends!
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Please help translate to your language
The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we will like to enable the Section and Content translation tool in Swati Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test the new
Section Translation tool
so you can:
Give us your feedback
Ask us questions
Tell us how to improve it
Below is background information about the tools, why we have chosen to enable them in your Wikipedia and how you can test the Section translation tool.
Background information
Content Translation
has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. However, the tool is not out of beta in Swati Wikipedia, limiting the discoverability of the tool and its use and blocking the enablement of the Section translation in your Wikipedia
Section Translation
extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones
Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device
We plan to enable the tools on Swati Wikipedia in the coming week if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tools and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have as a reply to this message or on
the project talk page
Try the Section translation tool
Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in
our testing instance
. Once it is enabled on Swati Wikipedia, you’ll have access to
with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.
Provide feedback
Please provide feedback about Section translation on
the project talk page
. We want to hear about your impressions on
The section translation tool
What do you think about our plans to enable it
Your ideas for improving the tool
Thanks and we look forward to your feedback and questions.
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Content and Section Translation tool enabled in Swati Wikipedia
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Friends!
The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we
have enabled the Section translation
and
Content translation
tools in Swati Wikipedia.
The
Content translation tool
can be discovered by users
through several entry points
. However, users not interested in translation can disable it
from their preferences
. Also, with the
Section translation tool
, you can start translating an article on your mobile device right when you notice it is missing in Swati. From a Wikipedia article in any language, switch languages and search for SiSwati. If the article does not exist, an option to translate it will appear, as shown in the image below.
Image of the entry point
We know that these tools will help translators in your community to add content using any device with ease. Content created with the Content and Section Translation tool will be marked with the "
contenttranslation
" and “
sectiontranslaiton
” tag, respectively, for the community to review. We’ll monitor the content created, but we are very interested in hearing about your experience using the tools and reviewing the content created with it.
So, enjoy the tools and
provide feedback
on improving it.
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Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out!
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Hi, Greetings
The winners for
Wiki Loves Folklore 2022
is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images
here
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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Community members in the
2022 Board of Trustees election
are invited to
propose statements to use in the Election Compass.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass
July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7
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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. (
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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. (
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Internal knowledge management
: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (
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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. (
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Thank you for reading!
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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
MNadzikiewicz (WMF)
14:03, 27 Kholwane 2022 (UTC)
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Vote for Election Compass Statements
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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
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Hi everyone,
The Community Voting period for the
2022 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:
Try the
Election Compass
, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the
candidate statements
and
answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks
and how the
Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
If you are ready to vote, you may go to
SecurePoll voting page
to vote now.
You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best,
Movement Strategy and Governance
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Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum
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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,
the Movement Strategy and Governance Team
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11:32, 29 iNgci 2022 (UTC)
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?
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The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average
87% of active logged-in users
of those wikis use Vector 2022.
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to
any other skins
. No changes are expected for users of these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
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[Why is a change necessary]
The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects.
The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.
[Objective]
The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes and test results]
The skin introduces a
series of changes
that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Try it out]
Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in
your preferences
and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.
How can editors change and customize this skin?
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It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
our repository
for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.
Our plan
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If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022
. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.
Request for more time to discuss the change
If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the
talk page of the project
. We will gladly answer! Also,
see our FAQ
. Thank you!
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Update on Vector 2022
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Hello. I'm sorry for not communicating in your language. I'll be grateful if you translated my message. I'm writing on behalf of the
Web team
working on the new skin,
Vector 2022
We wanted to apologize for the delays in the deployment of Vector 2022. We know many of you are waiting for this eagerly. We have been delaying the deployment because we have been working on the logos. It has taken us more time than originally expected. Once the logos are ready, we will let you know the exact date of deployment.
We are planning for either the next (more likely) or the following week
. If your wiki doesn't currently have a localized logo, we encourage you to
reach out to us
and we can help make one.
We invite you to
get involved in the project
. Contact us if you have any questions or need any help, particularly with the compatibility of gadgets and user scripts. Thank you!
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Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions
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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
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Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa
: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (
your local time
). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
North and South 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
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We thank you for your time and participation.
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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
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Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee
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Hi everyone! The Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for members. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to do so. There is more information below about the opportunity and the skills that are needed.
About the Ombuds commission
The Ombuds commission (OC) works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of
CheckUser
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Oversight
(also known as Suppression) tools. The Commission mediates between the parties of the investigation and, when violations of the policies are identified, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on best handling. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in these investigations when legally necessary. For more on the OC's duties and roles,
see Ombuds commission on Meta-Wiki
Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser/Oversight tools OR who have the technical ability to understand these tools and the willingness to learn them. They must be able to communicate in English, the common language of the commission. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners will serve
two-year terms
(note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
About the Case Review Committee
The Case Review Committee (CRC) reviews appeals of eligible Trust & Safety office actions. The CRC is a critical layer of oversight to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation office actions are fair and unbiased. They also make sure the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t overstep established practices or boundaries. For more about the role,
see Case Review Committee on Meta-Wiki
We are looking for current or former functionaries and experienced volunteers with an interest in joining this group. Applicants must be fluent in English (additional languages are a strong plus) and willing to abide by the
terms of the Committee charter
. If the work resonates and you qualify, please apply. Committee members will serve
two-year terms
(note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).
Applying to join either of these groups
Members are required to sign the
Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information
and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the
access to non-public information policy
and the
Foundation privacy policy
). These positions requires a high degree of discretion and trust. Members must also be over 18 years of age.
If you are interested in serving in either capacity listed above,
please write in English to the Trust and Safety team at ca
wikimedia.org (to apply to the OC) or to the Legal Team at legal
wikimedia.org (to apply to the CRC) with information about:
Your primary projects
Languages you speak/write
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Your thoughts on what you could bring to the OC or CRC if appointed
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Any other information you think is relevant
The deadline for applications is 31 December 2022 in any timezone.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you!
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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!
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Vote for your favourite Wikimedia sound logo
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We are really sorry for posting in English
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.
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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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Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2023 kahle
inhlanhla lenhle
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Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
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Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the
Editing
team's work:
The Editing team will finish adding new features to the
Talk pages project
and deploy it.
They are beginning a new project,
Edit check
Talk pages project
Some of the upcoming changes
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the
Talk pages project
. Nearly all
new features
are available now in the
Beta Feature for
Discussion tools
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "
Ngeta sihloko
" 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
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join a conference call on 3
March
2023
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All traffic will switch on
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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
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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
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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
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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
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Announcing the new Elections Committee members
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Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
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Coming soon: Reference Previews
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A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with the
PagePreviews feature
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them,
you can opt out
. If you are
using the gadgets
Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.
Help page
Project page with more information (in English)
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Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the
project page
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Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2024 kahle
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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
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Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
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Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
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Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2024
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 generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign on
CampWiz
tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the
meta project page
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the
Article List Generator by Topic
and
CampWiz
. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2024
an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 31st
of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
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I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on
20 March
. The test will start at
14:00 UTC
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 20 March 2024
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.
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This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
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The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
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June 20, 2024
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). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
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Plans to enable MinT for Wiki readers in Swati Wikipedia
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Swati Wikipedians!
Apologies as this message is not in your language,
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The
WMF Language team
has been working on
MinT for Wiki Readers
. This feature will allow communities to access more content that is only available in other languages with machine translation in Wikipedia. We have enabled the initial version of this feature first in Igbo Wikipedia, and your Wikipedia is the next to test and have this feature since it will be beneficial for reading content in other languages. For this, our team would like you to read about the feature and
test it
so you can:
Ask us questions
Tell us how to improve the feature
Give us your feedback on enabling it in your Wikipedia
About the feature
The MinT for Wiki Readers is a feature that will allow readers of Swati Wikipedia to expand their reading options and knowledge beyond the language they are familiar with in Wikipedia. For instance, if someone is interested in a topic or content that only exists in the Japanese language and the person is not familiar with the language. While using the mobile web version of Wikipedia, the reader can access the machine translation version of that content in the Swati language from the language selector or the article's footer (as shown in the media files below).
These machine-generated translations of content are clearly identified as such, and the human-created content is surfaced and recommended if available.
This feature is in its initial development. It is an early and functional version, and many aspects will be improved based on your community member's feedback on what works and what can be improved to better support your needs as readers.
How to try the tool
Before we enable this feature in your Wikipedia by the 5th July 2024, we invite members of your community to try MinT for Wiki Readers in your Wikipedia at
Special:AutomaticTranslation
and give us early feedback in this thread or on
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. Our team would like to know your impression on:
How do you use the feature
Anything we should consider for our plans to enable it?
Your ideas for improving it.
We greatly appreciate your time and effort in testing this tool. We eagerly look forward to your valuable feedback and questions, which will be instrumental in the further development of this feature. Thank you.
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The voting to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
available on Meta in different languages
and attached
here in PDF format
for your reading.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC
. Please read more on the
voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
vote here
and share this note further.
If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at
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This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
will be closed on
July 9, 2024
, at
23:59 UTC
If you have not voted yet, please vote
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Charter Electoral Commission
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U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the
UCoC
. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the
U4C Charter
In this special election, according to
chapter 2 of the U4C charter
, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:
four
community-at-large seats and
five
regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki
. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application on
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Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
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After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
Charter Electoral Commission
is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
As
communicated
by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on
July 9, 23:59 UTC
. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.
The final results of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,
1,710
voted “yes”;
623
voted “no”; and
113
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,
93
voted “yes”;
18
voted “no”; and
18
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted
not to ratify
the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv,
shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps
With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is
not ratified
We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.
The Charter Electoral Commission,
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Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through
August 10, 2024
. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote?
The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
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Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on
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We want your feedback
to make sure this feature works well for you:
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the current state of development on beta wiki and
let us know what you think
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The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document
here
and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the
Elections Committee
have certified the
results
for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on
Meta-Wiki
On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2024 Board of Trustees election
is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.
Learn more about the candidates by
reading their statements
and their
answers to community questions
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll
voting page to vote.
The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on
25 September
. The switch will start at
15:00 UTC
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.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
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 25 September 2024
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
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
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
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Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.
iThempleti:Tracked
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on
the project page
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
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Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming
Wiki Loves Ramadan
event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Survey link:
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 iMphala 2024 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team
Deployment of Dark mode in Swati Wikipedia
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Hello Swati Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not written in your native language,
Please help translate to your language
We are happy to announce that the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
have deployed
dark mode
here on Swati Wikipedia! This was possible because pages on your wiki have passed our checks for accessibility and other quality checks. Congratulations!
This was only possible due to the diligent work of editors and other technical contributors in your community who have made sure that templates, gadgets, and other parts of pages can be accessible in dark mode. Thank you all for making dark mode available for everybody!
For context, we would like to add that the Web team's work on dark mode has concluded. If on some wikis, the option is not yet available for logged-out users, this is likely because many pages do not yet display well in dark mode. As communities make progress on this work, we enable this feature on additional wikis once per month.
If you notice any issues after enabling dark mode, please create this page:
Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Reporting/ss.wikipedia.org
in MediaWiki (
like these pages
), and report the issue in the created page.
Thank you!
On behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
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Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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Hello all,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.
The following four candidates were the most voted:
Christel Steigenberger
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Victoria Doronina
Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email
cst@wikimedia.org
with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
--
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
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Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the
Wikidata item
sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the
General
section into the
In Other Projects
section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.
Please let us know
if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -
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11:28, 22 iMphala 2024 (UTC)
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Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
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Dear all,
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Survey Link:
Complete the Survey
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity
: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Application Link:
Apply Here
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:
Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:12, 29 iMphala 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
Srishti
19:54, 21 Lweti 2024 (UTC)
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Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!
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Dear All,
We’re happy to announce the launch of
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025
, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
Topic:
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
When: Jan 19, 2025
Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
Join Zoom Meeting:
Zoom meeting hosted by
Wikimedia Bangladesh
To get started, visit the
campaign page
for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Add
your community here
, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!
For the
International Team
12:08, 16 Bhimbidvwane 2025 (UTC)
Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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01:11, 24 Bhimbidvwane 2025 (UTC)
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I am antigone and am looking forward to seeing you and mmeeting you
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15:29, 28 Bhimbidvwane 2025 (UTC)
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I am Angela Constantinidis Tsourounakis and am also Antigone
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Feminism and Folklore 2025 starts soon
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2025
writing competition from February 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a
Wiki Loves Folklore
gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign on
CampWiz
tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the
meta project page
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the
Article List Generator by Topic
and
CampWiz
. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2025 International Team
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2025
an international media contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 31st
of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
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This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through
the end of day
, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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00:49, 3 iNdlovana 2025 (UTC)
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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that the next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon,
February 28th at 14:00 UTC
! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on the
wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Got a topic to share?
Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to
reply to this message
or add agenda items to the document
here
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January
. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there!
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
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Please help translate to your language
I am writing to you to let you know that
proposed changes
to the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
and
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
are open for review.
You can provide feedback on suggested changes
through the
end of day
on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.
Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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18:51, 7 iNdlovu 2025 (UTC)
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An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool
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Hello
Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not in your language,
Please help translate to your language
The
Language and Product Localization team
has improved the
Content Translation dashboard
to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.
With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users now have access to the capabilities shown in the image below.
Notice that in this screenshot, the new dashboard allows: Users to adjust suggestions with the "For you" and "...More" buttons to select general topics or community-created collections (like the example of Climate topic).  Also, users can use translation to create new articles (as before) and expand existing articles section by section. You can see how suggestions are provided in the new dashboard  in two groups ("Create new pages" and "Expand with new sections")-one for each activity.
In the current dashboard, you will notice that you can't adjust suggestions to select topics or community-created collections. Also, you can't expand on existing articles by translating new sections.
We will implement
this improvement
on your wiki
on Monday, March 17th, 2025
and remove the current dashboard
by May 2025
Please reach out with any questions concerning the dashboard in this thread.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Language and Product Localization team.
UOzurumba (WMF)
02:56, 13 iNdlovu 2025 (UTC)
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on
19 March
. The switch will start at
14:00 UTC
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.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
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 19 March 2025
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
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
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
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Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted
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The proposed modifications to the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
and the U4C Charter
are now on Meta-wiki for community notice
in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on
the wiki page for the election
soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the fifth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from
14th April
until
16th May 2025
. 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 contributions in every language!
The most active contesters will receive prizes.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
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!
OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA)
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16:11, 16 Mabasa 2025 (UTC)
Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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00:34, 17 Mabasa 2025 (UTC)
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Sub-referencing: User testing
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Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below
Hi I’m Johannes from
Wikimedia Deutschland
's
Technical Wishes team
. We are making great strides with the new
sub-referencing feature
and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:
Try it out and share your feedback
Please try
the updated
wikitext
feature
on the beta wiki
and let us know what you think, either
on our talk page
or by
booking a call
with our UX researcher.
Get a sneak peak and help shape the
Visual Editor
user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions –
sign up here to receive an invite
. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start
May 14th
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
Johannes Richter (WMDE)
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15:03, 28 Mabasa 2025 (UTC)
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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
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Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the
old Graph extension
was disabled in 2023
due to security reasons
. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the
Charts extension
, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the
EasyTimeline extension
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from
May 6
. Please, consult
our page on MediaWiki.org
to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also
consult the documentation
about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the
project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org
, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the
talk page
or at
Phabricator
Thank you in advance! --
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Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
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The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is
available on Meta-wiki
You may now
submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C
through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about
eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki
. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on
the discussion page for the election
. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
. Thank you in advance! --
Sannita (WMF)
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Proposal to enable the "Contribute" entry point in Swati Wikipedia
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Hello
Swati Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not in your language.
Please help translate to your language
The
WMF Language and Product Localization
team proposes enabling an entry point called "Contribute" to your Wikipedia.
The
Contribute
entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on
Edit discovery
, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.
Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Swati Wikipedia.
Who can access it
Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.
For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.
We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was to
make the entry point optional for experienced contributors
who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.
We plan to enable it
on mobile
for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 10th June 2025.
We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.
We look forward to your response soon.
Thank you!
On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team.
UOzurumba (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page
[link]
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.
[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page
[link].
Thank you!
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
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Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension
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Hello everyone,
(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)
The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of the
CampaignEvents extension
to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during the
week of June 23rd
This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.
The three main features of this extension are:
Event Registration
: A simple way to sign up for events on the wiki.
Collaboration List
: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at
Special:AllEvents
Invitation Lists
: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.
Note
: The extension comes with a new user right called
"Event Organizer"
, which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.
The extension is already live on several wikis, including
Meta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia
, and more (
See the full deployment list
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the
extension talkpage
. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.
Thank you!
Udehb-WMF
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Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
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Apologies for writing in English.
Please help translate to your language
Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the
2025 Election information page
. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at
12:00 UTC
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
The
call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open
from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on
this Meta-wiki page
or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
[1]
[2]
[3]
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Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
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Dear Wikimedia Community,
The
Community Affairs Committee (CAC)
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned
the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF)
to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki
projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.
Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources
. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,
failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones
. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Wikispore
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The
application to consider Wikispore
was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided
not to recommend
Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows
better flexibility
and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
Wikinews
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We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action
[4]
[5]
, see section 5
as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews
[6]
Initial metrics
compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options
mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
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We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:
Public consultation about Wikispore
and
Public consultation about Wikinews
. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
--
Victoria
on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force,
20:57, 27 iNhlaba 2025 (UTC)
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
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(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
project task page
. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated
Talk page
Thank you, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.
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Migration to Parsoid
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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the
Parser Unification
project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation.
There is
more information about our roll-out strategy
available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our
known issues
documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
NKohli (WMF)
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Server switch - Your wiki will be read-only for a short time soon
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on
24 September
. The switch will start at
15:00 UTC
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.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
You can contribute to the
translation or proofreading
of this banner text.
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 24 September 2025
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
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
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll voting page to vote
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello
. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
Wikifunctions
and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Thank you!
--
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello
. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Thank you!
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2026
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Sanibonani bagani, nibe 2026 kahle
inhlanhla lenhle
siyabonga —
Jatrobat
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12:38, 30 iNgongoni 2025 (UTC)
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Thanks very much. Same to you
Derek J Moore
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15:12, 20 Bhimbidvwane 2026 (UTC)
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Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
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Dear Wikimedia communities,
We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.
Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.
In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026,
Wiki Loves Ramadan
is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.
We invite you to explore the
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Meta page
to learn how you can participate and
your community.
Photo campaign on
Wikimedia Commons
If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons
Early registration for updates is now open via the
Event page
Stay connected and receive updates:
Telegram channel
Mailing list
We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team
19:45, 16 Bhimbidvwane 2026 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2026 starts soon
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Invitation to Organize Feminism and Folklore 2026
Dear Wiki Community,
We are pleased to invite Wikimedia communities, affiliates, and independent contributors to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2026
writing competition on your local Wikipedia.
The international campaign will run from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and aims to improve coverage of feminism, women’s histories, gender-related topics, and folk culture across Wikipedia projects.
About the Campaign
Feminism and Folklore
is a global writing initiative that complements the
Wiki Loves Folklore
photography competition. While Wiki Loves Folklore focuses on visual documentation, this writing campaign addresses the
gender gap on Wikipedia
by improving encyclopedic content related to folk culture and marginalized voices.
What Can Participants Write About?
Communities can contribute by creating, expanding, or translating articles related to:
Folk festivals, rituals, and celebrations
Folk dances, music, and traditional performances
Women and queer figures in folklore
Women in mythology and oral traditions
Women warriors, witches, and witch-hunting narratives
Fairy tales, folk stories, and legends
Folk games, sports, and cultural practices
Participants may work from curated article lists or generate new article suggestions using campaign tools.
How to Sign Up as an Organizer
Organizers are requested to complete the following steps to register their community:
Create a local project page on your wiki
(see sample)
Set up the campaign using the
CampWiz
tool
Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
Campaign timeline
Local and international prizes
Request a site notice from local administrators
(see sample)
Add your local project page and CampWiz link to the
Meta project page
Campaign Tools
The Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced tools to support organizers and participants:
Article List Generator by Topic
– Helps identify articles available on English Wikipedia but missing in your local language Wikipedia. The tool allows customized filters and provides downloadable article lists in CSV and wikitable formats.
CampWiz
– Enables communities to manage writing campaigns effectively, including jury-based evaluation. This will be the third year CampWiz is officially used for Feminism and Folklore.
Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access the tools
Learn More & Get Support
For detailed information about rules, timelines, and prizes, please visit the
Feminism and Folklore 2026 project page
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out via:
Meta talk page
Email us using details on the contact page.
Join Us
We look forward to your collaboration and coordination in making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a meaningful and impactful campaign for closing gender gaps and enriching folk culture content on Wikipedia.
Thank you and best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2026 International Team
Stay connected:
Invitation to Host Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Your Country
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Hello everyone,
We are delighted to invite Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and community organizations worldwide to participate in
Wiki Loves Folklore 2026
, an international initiative dedicated to documenting and celebrating folk culture across the globe.
About Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Folklore
is an annual international photography competition hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and encourages photographers, cultural enthusiasts, and community members to contribute photographs that highlight:
Folk traditions and rituals
Cultural festivals and celebrations
Traditional attire and crafts
Performing arts, music, and dance
Everyday practices rooted in folk heritage
Through this campaign, we aim to preserve and promote diverse folk cultures and make them freely accessible to the world.
Project page on Wikimedia Commons
Host a Local Edition
As we celebrate the
eight edition
of Wiki Loves Folklore, we warmly invite communities to organize a local edition in their country or region. Hosting a local campaign is a great opportunity to:
Increase visibility of your region’s folk culture
Engage new contributors in your community
Enrich Wikimedia Commons with high-quality cultural content
Sign up to organize
If your team prefers to organize the competition in
either February or March only
, please feel free to let us know.
If you are unable to organize, we encourage you to share this opportunity with other interested groups or organizations in your region.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions, need support, or would like to explore collaboration opportunities, please feel free to contact us via:
The project Talk pages
Email:
support@wikilovesfolklore.org
We are also happy to connect via an online meeting if your team would like to discuss planning or coordination in more detail.
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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13:21, 18 Bhimbidvwane 2026 (UTC)
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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21:01, 19 Bhimbidvwane 2026 (UTC)
Join the sixth Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month on Wikipedia!
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Join our campaign!
Please help translate to your language
Dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the sixth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from
1st April
until
30th April 2026
The initiative aims to promote knowledge about Ukrainian culture abroad by creating and improving Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. This year marks the sixth edition of the campaign, which will focus on contemporary culture, making today’s artistic voices and practices more visible to international audiences.
How to participate?
Choose an article from the suggested list → Write an article in your language, or improve an existing one according to the rules → Add your contribution to the contest page and calculate your points → Win prizes and receive a certificate of participation → Become a promoter of truthful knowledge about Ukraine.
Check our main page for more information
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
If not, then we encourage you to translate the
landing page of the contest
and
banner
into your own language.
Also, we set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in this challenge!
OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA)
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
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Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
P14226
What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
P14226
instead of the old
P1846
P180
structure. A
list of pages
was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.
Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
P1846
to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
statements will be removed after
May 1, 2026
. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.
Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
ZI Jony
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