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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.

(Distributed via global message delivery 03:39, 30 Afirilu 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)

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The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.

Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.

(Distributed via global message delivery 18:29, 30 Afirilu 2013 (UTC). Wrong page? Correct it here.)

Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

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Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.
Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
  • A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
  • MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
  • VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
  • A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
  • New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
  • The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
  • The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]
Future software changes
  • The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
  • An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
  • The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
  • A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
  • The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]
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Trademark discussion

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Hi, apologies for posting this in English, but I wanted to alert your community to a discussion on Meta about potential changes to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy. Please translate this statement if you can. We hope that you will all participate in the discussion; we also welcome translations of the legal team’s statement into as many languages as possible and encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please see the Trademark practices discussion (on Meta-Wiki) for more information. Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (talk)

X!'s Edit Counter

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(Sorry for writing in English. You can translate the proposal.)

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ChatAutomation 04:30, 23 Yuni 2013 (UTC)

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Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09

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On July 9, 2013, Universal Language Selector (ULS) will be enabled on this wiki. The ULS provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). Making it available here is the last phase of making ULS available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 12:29, 4 Yuli 2013 (UTC) (via Global message delivery).[Mai da]

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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Hello, Sorry for English but It's very important for bot operators so I hope someone translates this. Pywikipedia is migrating to Git so after July 26, SVN checkouts won't be updated If you're using Pywikipedia you have to switch to git, otherwise you will use out-dated framework and your bot might not work properly. There is a manual for doing that and a blog post explaining about this change in non-technical language. If you have question feel free to ask in mw:Manual talk:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit, mailing list, or in the IRC channel. Best Amir (via Global message delivery). 13:16, 23 Yuli 2013 (UTC)[Mai da]

HTTPS for users with an account

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Greetings. Starting on August 21 (tomorrow), all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. More information is available at m:HTTPS.

If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on bugzilla, on IRC (in the #wikimedia-operations channel) or on meta. If you can't use the other methods, you can also send an e-mail to https@wikimedia.org.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 19:08, 20 Agusta 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[Mai da]

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Request for consultation on this community logo

First, I’d like to apologize for the English. If you can, please help to translate this for other members of your community.

The legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation would greatly appreciate your input on the best way to manage the "community logo" (pictured here) to best balance protection of the projects with community support. Accordingly, they have created a “request for consultation” on Meta where they set out briefly some of the issues to be considered and the options that they perceive. Your input would be invaluable in helping guide them in how best to serve our mission.

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 02:31, 24 Satumba 2013 (UTC) (wrong page? You can fix it.)[Mai da]

Notifications

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Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you -- and let you take quick action.

(This message is in English, please translate as needed)

Greetings!

Notifications will inform users about new activity that affects them on this wiki in a unified way: for example, this new tool will let you know when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links -- and is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki projects.

We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to almost all other Wikimedia sites, and are aiming for a 22 October deployment, as outlined in this release plan. It is important that notifications is translated for all of the languages we serve.

There are three major points of translation needed to be either done or checked:

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:37, 4 Oktoba 2013 (UTC)[Mai da]

(via the Global message delivery system) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

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Hi all,

Please join the consultation about the Community logo that represents Meta-Wiki: m:Community Logo/Request for consultation.

This community consultation was commenced on September 24. The following day, two individuals filed a legal opposition against the registration of the Community logo.

The question is whether the Wikimedia Foundation should seek a collective membership mark with respect to this logo or abandon its registration and protection of the trademark.

We want to make sure that everyone get a chance to speak up so that we can get clear direction from the community. We would therefore really appreciate the community's help in translating this announcement from English so that everyone is able to understand it.

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 20:11, 8 Oktoba 2013 (UTC)[Mai da]

Introducting Beta Features

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(Apologies for writing in English. Please translate if necessary)

We would like to let you know about Beta Features, a new program from the Wikimedia Foundation that lets you try out new features before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but in a way that's not disruptive.

Beta Features is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org. It will also be released on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki this Thursday, 7 November. Based on test results, the plan is to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013.

Here are the first features you can test this week:

Would you like to try out Beta Features now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the Beta Features page.

After you've tested Beta Features, please let the developers know what you think on this discussion page -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla. You're also welcome to join this IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 18:30 UTC.

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. They are very grateful to all the community members who helped create this project — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future.

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:59, 5 Nuwamba 2013 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

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Hi all,

The Wikimedia legal team invites you to participate in the development of the new Wikimedia trademark policy.

The current trademark policy was introduced in 2009 to protect the Wikimedia marks. We are now updating this policy to better balance permissive use of the marks with the legal requirements for preserving them for the community. The new draft trademark policy is ready for your review here, and we encourage you to discuss it here.

We would appreciate if someone would translate this message into your language so more members of your community can contribute to the conversation.

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

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I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 Janairu 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

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On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

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Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 Faburairu 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wiktionary better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 Faburairu 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

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Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:55, 13 Maris 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

  • April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
  • April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team


Pronunciation Recording

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Visual workflow draft for pronunciation recording gadget; If you have trouble watching this video here, watch it on vimeo. A more extensive/explanative version is available.

Dear Wiktionary community!

About me
My name is Rainer Rillke, and I have been volunteering at Wikimedia Commons for 3 years now, gathering experience around media files. I've been always interested in how things work and how one could improve them.
The idea
One idea that appeared last Summer was allowing the recording of small chunks of speech, uploading that to Wikimedia Commons in the background and including this into a Wiktionary entry without having the hassle doing everything by hand or installing additional software. That idea led to the foundation of MediaWiki extension PronunciationRecording during the Google Summer of Code. However, this was not completed; instead development is stale for over 5 months now.
My proposal
To make this going to work, so Wiktionary has an immediate benefit of this feature, I would like to provide the work done so far as a gadget and add some more work in regard to usability. You can see my plan at m:Grants:IEG/Finish Pronunciation Recording. And more importantly, you can give me a hand, if you are interested by writing your comments.

Thanks and kind regards --Rillke (talk) 17:25, 7 Afirilu 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

This message was delivered based on commons:User:Rillke/gmd/prg. Translation fetched from: commons:User:Rillke/prg/en -- Rillke(q?) 17:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Media Viewer

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Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 Mayu 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

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Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 Yuni 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 Agusta 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Process ideas for software development

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’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 Agusta 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Grants to improve your project

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Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

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Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 Oktoba 2014 (UTC)[Mai da]

Global AbuseFilter

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Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:36, 14 Nuwamba 2014 (UTC)

[Global proposal] m.Wiktionary.org: (all) Edit pages

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MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like ha.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 22:33, 1 Maris 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Inspire Campaign: Improving diversity, improving content

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This March, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas for improving gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. Less than 20% of Wikimedia contributors are women, and many important topics are still missing in our content. We invite all Wikimedians to participate. If you have an idea that could help address this problem, please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 31.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive, positive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign and help this project better represent the world’s knowledge!

(Sorry for the English - please translate this message!) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:01, 4 Maris 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

SUL finalization update

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Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:45, 13 Maris 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Stewards confirmation rules

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Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 16:13, 10 Afirilu 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Nominations are being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections 2015

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections 2015

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This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core

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Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

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Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

22:00, 19 Yuni 2015 (UTC)

HTTPS

[gyarawa]

Apologies for writing in English.

Hi everyone.

Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been working towards enabling HTTPS by default for all users, including unregistered ones, for better privacy and security for both readers and editors. This has taken a long time, as there were different aspects to take into account. Our servers haven't been ready to handle it. The Wikimedia Foundation has had to balance sometimes conflicting goals.

Forced HTTPS has just been implemented on all Wikimedia projects. Some of you might already be aware of this, as a few Wikipedia language versions were converted to HTTPS last week and the then affected communities were notified.

Most of Wikimedia editors shouldn't be affected at all. If you edit as registered user, you've probably already had to log in through HTTPS. We'll keep an eye on this to make sure everything is working as it should. Do get in touch with us if you have any problems after this change or contact me if you have any other questions.

/Johan (WMF)

01:50, 20 Yuni 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

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The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:07, 24 Yuli 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images

[gyarawa]
The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:09, 24 Yuli 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

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Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

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The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

[gyarawa]


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:42, 31 Yuli 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?

[gyarawa]

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?

[gyarawa]

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information

[gyarawa]


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 1 Agusta 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 00:20, 19 Agusta 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site

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Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 18:12, 2 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 20:52, 4 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Open call for Individual Engagement Grants

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My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 22:02, 4 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

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(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 21:01, 22 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals!

[gyarawa]

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22:44, 22 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Reimagining WMF grants report

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(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:56, 28 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Reimagining WMF grants report

[gyarawa]

(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 19:31, 28 Satumba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 9 Nuwamba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

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Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:48, 10 Nuwamba 2015 (UTC)

Harassment consultation

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Please help translate to your language

The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

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This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Community Wishlist Survey

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Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:39, 1 Disamba 2015 (UTC)[Mai da]

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

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This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:58, 18 Disamba 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Taimako[Mai da]

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

[gyarawa]

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 21:58, 18 Disamba 2015 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Taimako[Mai da]

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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Please help translate to your language

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:49, 5 Janairu 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

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Please help translate to your language

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:49, 5 Janairu 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

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Please help translate to your language

Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:06, 18 Janairu 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

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Please help translate to your language:

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 16:47, 31 Maris 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Server switch 2016

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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April.
On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).

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 a code freeze for the week of 18 April.

No non-essential code deployments will take place.

This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 17 Afirilu 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Standard bot policy

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Hello,

To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage (interwiki) linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots. At this moment the Wiktionaries are not supported by Wikidata yet, so interwiki bot activity will still be present in this project.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page (or the community page where bot requests are handled) from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page at Meta-Wiki.

Thank you very much, --MarcoAurelio 10:50, 29 Yuni 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Done. MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:28, 13 Yuli 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]
[gyarawa]

Please help translate to your language

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-13:06, 29 Yuni 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

[gyarawa]

Please help translate to your language

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-03:05, 1 Yuli 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Save/Publish

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The Editing team is planning to change the name of the “Adana shafi” button to “Wallafa shafi” and “Wallafa sauye-sauye”. “Wallafa shafi” will be used when you create a new page. “Wallafa sauye-sauye” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.[16][17]

This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in Tech News when it happens.

If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for “Wallafa shafi” and “Wallafa sauye-sauye”.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that “Adana shafi” would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “Adana shafi” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.

Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The Legal team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.

Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes {{int:Publishpage}} and {{int:Publishchanges}} to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in your account preferences, these wikitext codes produce “Wallafa shafi” and “Wallafa sauye-sauye”.

Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 9 Agusta 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

RevisionSlider

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From September 13th on, RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16:08, 12 Satumba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikidata for Wiktionary: let’s get ready for lexicographical data!

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Hello all,

Sorry for writing this message in English, please feel free to translate it in your own language below.

The Wikidata development team will start working on integrating lexicographical data in the knowledge base soon and we want to make sure we do this together with you.

Wikidata is a constantly evolving project and after four years of existence, we start with implementing support for Wiktionary editors and content, by allowing you to store and improve lexicographical data, in addition to the concepts already maintained by thousands of editors on Wikidata.

We have been working on this idea for almost three years and improving it with a lot of inputs from community members to understand Wiktionary processes.

Starting this project, we hope that the editors will be able to collaborate across Wiktionaries more easily. We expect to increase the number of editors and visibility of languages, and we want to provide the groundwork for new tools for editors.

Our development plan contains several phases in order to build the structure to include lexicographical data:

  • creating automatic interwiki links on Wiktionary,
  • creating new entity types for lexemes, senses, and forms on Wikidata,
  • providing data access to Wikidata from Wiktionary
  • improving the display of lexicographical information on Wikidata.

During the next months, we will do our best to provide you the technical structure to store lexicographical data on Wikidata and use it on Wiktionary. Don’t hesitate to discuss this within your local community, and give us feedback about your needs and the particularities of your languages.

Information about supporting lexicographical entities on Wikidata is available on this page. You can find an overview of the project, the detail of the development plan, answers to frequently asked questions, and a list of people ready to help us. If you want to have general discussions and questions about the project, please use the general talk page, as we won’t be able to follow all the talk pages on Wiktionaries. If you don’t feel comfortable with English, you can write in your own language and hopefully someone will volunteer to translate.

Bests regards, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Grants to improve your project

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 30 Satumba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Creative Commons 4.0

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Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested, take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki.

Apologies that this message is only in English. This message can be read and translated in more languages here. Joe Sutherland (talk) 01:34, 6 Oktoba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Password reset

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I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (hira) / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:59, 13 Nuwamba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Adding to the above section (Password reset)

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Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 14 Nuwamba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

New way to edit wikitext

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Summary: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a wikitext mode for the visual editor. Please go try it out.


We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving the visual editor based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.

Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the citoid service for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.

All wikis now have access to this mode as a Beta Feature. When enabled, it replaces your existing wikitext editor everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an opt-in-only Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Automatically enable most beta features".

The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the current wikitext editor). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.

This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode on the feedback page. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --19:31, 14 Disamba 2016 (UTC)[Mai da]

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 20:31, 15 Faburairu 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process

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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 19:43, 9 Maris 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)

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This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:

Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.

There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:

Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).

Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.

This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?

We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.

Sincerely,

Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams

05:09, 18 Maris 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

  • April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
  • April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
  • April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
  • May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
  • May 15–19 – Board vote checking
  • May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
    • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
  • Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
    • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections(at)wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 03:37, 7 Afirilu 2017 (UTC) • Please help translate to your language • Get help

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May

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Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
  • If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
  • There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:33, 11 Afirilu 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

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Hello all,

(I'm sorry to write in English, feel free to translate in your own language below)

From April 24th, a new interlanguage link system will be deployed on all Wiktionaries. This extension, Cognate, automatically links the pages with the same title between the Wiktionaries. This means they no longer have to be added in the pages of the main namespace.

This new feature has been developed by Wikimedia Deutschland as the first step of the project Wikidata for Wiktionary, but does not rely on Wikidata.

To allow the feature to operate, all the former interlanguage links have to be removed from the wikitext. You can do this by using a bot, as it was done on Wikipedia in the past. If you leave them in they will overwrite the automatic links.

During the development we had a lot of discussions with Wiktionary editors to understand their needs, but it's possible that some automatic links don't work as you would expect. If you find some bugs or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to add a sub-task on Phabricator or add a message on this talk page.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

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This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help

19:14, 3 Mayu 2017 (UTC)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View

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From May 9, the Two Column Edit Conflict View will be available as a beta feature on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:42, 8 Mayu 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

RevisionSlider

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RevisionSlider will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the German Community’s Technical Wishlist. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:44, 16 Mayu 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)

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Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki

The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.

You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.

Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:

On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation • Please help translate to your language • Get help

21:09, 16 Mayu 2017 (UTC)

Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections

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Translations of this message are available on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.

The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.

The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

  • May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
  • May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
  • May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
  • June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
  • June 12–14 – Vote checking
  • June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results

More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections(at)wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery • Translate • Get help

21:06, 23 Mayu 2017 (UTC)

[gyarawa]
Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: From June 20th, we are going to store the interwiki links of all the namespaces (except main, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you have any question or concern, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 08:38, 1 Yuni 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]
[gyarawa]

Hello,

I’m sorry to write this message in English. Please help us translating the full message here!

Short version: Since yesterday, we are able to store the interwiki links of all the Wiktionaries namespaces (except main, citations, user and talk) in Wikidata. This will not break your Wiktionary, but if you want to use all the features, you will have to remove your sitelinks from wikitext and connect your pages to Wikidata.

Important: even if it is technically possible, you should not link Wiktionary main namespace pages from Wikidata. The interwiki links for them are already provided by Cognate.

Long version available and translatable here.

If you encounter any problem or find a bug, feel free to ping me.

Thanks, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:28, 21 Yuni 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

Enabling Page Previews

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Enabling Page Previews

Hello,

Based on the positive results of a series of quantitative and qualitative tests, the Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable the Page Previews feature for this project.

Page Previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. However, we realize the needs of the Wiktionary community will not be satisfied by the current implementation of the feature. We are interested in developing separate previews for Wiktionary that will display the wiktionary definition of an item, as well as an image, if available.

We'd like to invite some discussion around interest in this feature, as well as the requirements and elements that would make it useful for the Wiktionary community.

CKoerner (WMF) 15:02, 6 Yuli 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

Accessible editing buttons

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The MediaWiki developers have been slowly improving the accessibility of the user interface. The next step in this transition will change the appearance of some buttons and may break some outdated (non-updated or unmaintained) user scripts and gadgets.

You can see and use the old and new versions now. Most editors will only notice that some buttons are slightly larger and have different colors.

  • Comparison of old and new styles
  • Buttons before the change
    Buttons before the change
  • Buttons after the change
    Buttons after the change

However, this change also affects some user scripts and gadgets. Unfortunately, some of them may not work well in the new system. If you maintain any user scripts or gadgets that are used for editing, please see mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons for information on how to test and fix your scripts. Outdated scripts can be tested and fixed now.

This change will probably reach this wiki on Tuesday, 1 August 2017. Please leave a note at mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons if you need help.

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:56, 27 Yuli 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

Columns for references

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Please help translate to your language • Read this in another language

Hello,

At the request of Wikipedia editors, a new feature has been added to MediaWiki. Long lists of references (also called citations or footnotes) will automatically be displayed in columns. This will make it easier for most people to read the references, especially on narrow screens. Short lists of references will not be affected.

I plan to enable this new feature at this wiki on Monday, 11 September 2017. After that date, use the normal <references /> tag on any page with many references to see this feature. If you do not want columns used on that page, then use this wikitext code instead: <references responsive="0" />

If you believe that this new feature is not appropriate for this wiki, or if you need help adjusting templates, then please contact me at mw:Contributors/Projects/Columns for references. --User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

18:23, 1 Satumba 2017 (UTC)

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Nuwamba 2017 (UTC)[Mai da]

[gyarawa]

Hello all,

(Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.)

One year ago, the Wikidata team started deploying new automatic interwiki links for Wiktionaries. Today, the links for the main namespace are automatically displayed by a Mediawiki extension, and the links for other namespaces are stored in Wikidata. You can find the documentation here (feel free to help translating it in your language).

We would like to know if you encountered problems with the system, if you would have suggestions for further improvements. This could be for example:

  • Some automatic links don’t work as expected
  • Some problems you encountered with entering links (for non-main namespace) in Wikidata
  • Some new features you’d like to have, related to links

To give feedback, you have two options:

  • Let a message on this talk page
  • Let a message here. If you do so, please mention me with the {{ping}} template, so I can get a notification.

Our preferred languages are English, French and German, but you can also let a message in your own language if you feel more comfortable with it.

I’m looking forward for your feedback! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:24, 24 Afirilu 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

AdvancedSearch

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From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:53, 7 Mayu 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata

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Hello,

Sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate the content of this message below.

After several years discussing about it, and one year of development and discussion with the communities, the development team of Wikimedia Germany has now released the first version of lexicographical data support on Wikidata.

Since the start of Wikidata in 2012, the multilingual knowledge base was mainly focused on concepts: Q-items are related to a thing or an idea, not to the word describing it. Starting now, Wikidata stores a new type of data: words, phrases and sentences, in many languages, described in many languages. This information will be stored in new types of entities, called Lexemes, Forms and Senses.

The goal of lexicographical data on Wikidata is to provide a structured and machine-readable way to describe words and phrases in multiple languages, stored in a same place, reusable under CC-0. In the near future, this data will be available for Wiktionaries and other projects to reuse, as much as you want to.

For now, we’re at the first steps of this project: the new data structure has been released on Wikidata, and we’re looking for people to try it, and give us feedback on what is working or not. Participating to this project is the opportunity for you to have a voice in it, to make sure that your needs and requests are taken in account very early in the process, and to start populating Wikidata with words in your language!

Here’s how you can try lexicographical data on Wikidata:

  • First of all, if you’re not familiar with the data model, I encourage you to have a look at the documentation page. If you’re not familiar with Wikidata at all, I suggest this page as a start point.
  • You can also look at the Lexemes that already exists (search features will be improved in the future).
  • When you feel ready to create a word, go on d:Special:NewLexeme.
  • If some properties that you need are missing, you can suggest them on this page (if you’re not sure how to do it, just let a message on the talk page and someone will help you).
  • The main discussion page is d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data. Here, you can ask for help, suggest ways to organize the data, but also leave feedback: if you encounter any bug or issue, let us know. We’re looking especially to know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.

In any case, feel free to contact me if you have a question or problem, I’ll be very happy to help.

Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:20, 23 Mayu 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

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. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:19, 10 Yuli 2018 (UTC)

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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(Please help translate to your language)

Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 Yuli 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[Mai da]

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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(Please help translate to your language)

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 (talk) 13:08, 30 Yuli 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[Mai da]

Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard

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Screenshot of the Hub view

Sorry for writing this message in English. Feel free to help translate it below.

Hello all,

A few months ago, we asked you for feedback about Cognate, the system allowing interwikilinks between Wiktionaries (on main namespace). Several community members gave some suggestions, one of them was to provide statistics about these interwikilinks.

The Wikidata team is pleased to present you the Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard, a website presenting a lot of interesting information about how Wiktionaries are connected to each others. You can find there, for example:

  • the most interlinked Wiktionary entries not having a page on your Wiktionary
  • the number of interlinks between each possible pair of Wiktionaries
  • visualizations of the relationships between different Wiktionaries

To learn more about the tool, you can have a look at the documentation (please help us translating it in your language!). The interface of the tool itself can also be translated in other languages by using this page.

If you find a bug, please let a comment on this Phabricator task or ping me onwiki. Thanks a lot, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:08, 14 Agusta 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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(Please help translate to your language)

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 (talk) 12:39, 27 Agusta 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[Mai da]

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

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Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

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) (talk)

13:33, 6 Satumba 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

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The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until 11 November. The communities will vote on the proposals between 16 November and 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

11:06, 30 Oktoba 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

[gyarawa]

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

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) (talk) 19:34, 13 Nuwamba 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

Community Wishlist Survey vote

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The Community Wishlist Survey. Please help translate to your language.

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 Nuwamba 2018 (UTC)

[gyarawa]
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) (talk) 11:02, 26 Nuwamba 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

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Please help translate to your language

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) (talk) 20:03, 6 Disamba 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

Selection of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019

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Dear all,

Sorry for posting this message in English and last minute notification. The Tremendous Wiktionary User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is an yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Tremendous Wiktionary User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wiktionary needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement.

For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is very close to 24 hrs. The last date for registration is 17 December 2018. As a last minute effort, there is a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit created.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wiktionary-l mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group, -- Balajijagadesh 05:56, 16 Disamba 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

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Please help translate to your language

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!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:12, 27 Disamba 2018 (UTC)[Mai da]

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) 09:41, 14 Janairu 2019 (UTC)[Mai da]

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)

18:40, 16 Janairu 2019 (UTC)

Talk to us about talking

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"icon depicting two speech Bubbles"

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:

  1. First, sign up your group here.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:
    1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
    2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
    3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
    4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
    5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
  4. 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 Faburairu 2019 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 Afirilu 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request

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Please help translate to your language

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) (talk) 17:35, 12 Afirilu 2019 (UTC)[Mai da]

Update on the consultation about office actions

[gyarawa]

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 Agusta 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

[gyarawa]

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)

14:19, 21 Agusta 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

[gyarawa]

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 Satumba 2019 (UTC)[Mai da]

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

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Please help translate to your language

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) (talk)

07:15, 16 Oktoba 2019 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

[gyarawa]

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) (talk) 19:01, 22 Janairu 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

[gyarawa]

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) 14:14, 26 Faburairu 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

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, 19:39, 2 Yuli 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.

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 [1] 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 [2]. 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 [3]. 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)

  1. ↑ Abstract Wikipedia
  2. ↑ User:Denny
  3. ↑ Abstract Wikipedia mailing list

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:13, 9 Yuli 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement [Mai da]

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) 09:13, 6 Agusta 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

[gyarawa]

Karanta wannan sakon a wani yaren

Wikimedia Foundation zata gwada cibiyar data sakandare Wannan zai tabbatar da hakan Wikipedia da sauran Wikimedia wikis na iya zama kan layi koda bayan bala'i Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana bukatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da aminci daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Yana bukatar kungiyoyi da yawa don shirya don gwajin kuma ya kasance don kasancewa don daidaita duk wata matsalar da ba a zata ba.

Za su canza duk zirga-zirga zuwa ciniyar bayanan sakandare ta gaba Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki a ciki MediaWiki, duk gyara dole ne a dakatar yayin da muke juyawa. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan rudani, kuma muna aiki don rage shi a nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, duk wikis na wani kankanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya shirya ba har zuwa awa daya a ranar Talata, Satumba 1st. Gwajin zai fara a [lokaci 14:00 UTC] (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, kuma a New Zealand a 02:00 NZST ranar Laraba 2 ga Satumba).
  • Idan kayi kokarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga sakon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya garanti ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan yakamata ku sami damar adana edutarku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa kayi kwafin canje-canje naka da farko, idan da hali.

Sauran sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasuyi hankali kuma wasu zasu iya faduwa. Ba za a iya sabunta hanyoyin hadin da sauri ba kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Wasu rubutun dadewa dole ne a tsaya.
  • Za a sami daskare lamba na mako na Satumbar 1st, 2020. Kayan aiki marasa mahimmanci na asali baza su faru ba.

Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin idan ya cancanta. Za ka iya read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da kowane canje-canje a cikin jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar game da wannan. Da fatan za a raba wannan bayanin tare da jama'ar ku.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:49, 26 Agusta 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 Satumba 2020 (UTC) 
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Hello all, and sorry for writing in English. Feel free to translate this message below.

The Wiktionary Cognate Dashboard presents interesting data about the extension powering your sitelinks. I just wanted to let you know that the URL of this tool changed: it is now accessible at https://wiktionary-analytics.wmcloud.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ . The former URLs, https://wmdeanalytics.wmflabs.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ and https://wdcm.wmflabs.org/Wiktionary_CognateDashboard/ , will be disabled on September 25th. Don't forget to update your documentation pages accordingly.

If you have questions about the tool or the URL switch, feel free to ping me. Cheers, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 11:46, 14 Satumba 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wiki of functions naming contest

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Please help translate to your language.

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! --Quiddity (WMF)

21:16, 29 Satumba 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

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Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. 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! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:11, 7 Oktoba 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

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Karanta wannan sakon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation yana gwada sauyawa tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanan sa na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da hakan Wikipedia da sauran Wikimedia wikis na iya zama kan layi koda bayan bala'i Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana bukatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da aminci daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Yana bukatar kungiyoyi da yawa don shirya don gwajin kuma ya kasance don kasancewa don daidaita duk wata matsalar da ba a zata ba.

Zasu canza duk zirga-zirgar ababen hawa zuwa cibiyar data ta farko akan Talata, Oktoba 27 2020.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki a ciki MediaWiki, duk gyara dole ne a dakatar yayin da muke juyawa. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan rudani, kuma muna aiki don rage shi a nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, duk wikis na wani kankanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Talata, 27 ga Oktoba. Gwajin zai fara a [lokaci 14:00 UTC] (14:00WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, kuma a New Zealand a 03:00 NZDT ranar Laraba 28 ga Oktoba).
  • Idan kayi kokarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga sakon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya garanti ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan yakamata ku sami damar adana edutarku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa kayi kwafin canje-canje naka da farko, idan da hali.

Sauran sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasuyi hankali kuma wasu zasu iya faduwa. Ba za a iya sabunta hanyoyin hadin da sauri ba kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Wasu rubutun dadewa dole ne a tsaya.
  • Za a sami daskararren lamba na mako na 26 ga Oktoba, 2020. Kayan aiki marasa mahimmanci na asali baza su faru ba.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin idan ya cancanta. Za ka iya read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da kowane canje-canje a cikin jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar game da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a dukkan wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Da fatan za a raba wannan bayanin tare da jama'ar ku.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 21 Oktoba 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

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! --Quiddity (WMF)

22:11, 5 Nuwamba 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

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2021 Community Wishlist Survey yanzu ya bude! Wannan binciken shine tsarin da al'ummomi ke yanke shawarar menene Community Tech ƙungiya ya kamata suyi aiki akan shekara mai zuwa. Muna ƙarfafa kowa da kowa don gabatar da shawarwari har zuwa ranar ƙarshe akan 30 Nuwamba, ko tsokaci kan wasu shawarwari don taimakawa inganta su. Kungiyoyin za su jefa ƙuri'a kan shawarwarin da ke tsakanin 8 Disamba kuma 21 Disamba.

Kungiyar Tech tana mai da hankali kan kayan aiki don ƙwararrun editocin Wikimedia. Kuna iya rubuta shawarwari a cikin kowane yare, kuma za mu fassara muku su. Mun gode, kuma muna fatan ganin shawarwarinku!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 Nuwamba 2020 (UTC)

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!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:40, 30 Nuwamba 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 Disamba 2020 (UTC)[Mai da]

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

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Muna gayyatar duk masu amfani da sukayi rijista suyi zabe akan 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. Kuna iya yin zabe daga yanzu har zuwa 21 Disamba don yawan buri daban-daban yadda kuke so.

A cikin binciken, ana tattara sabbin abubuwa da ingantattun kayan aiki don gogaggen editoci. Bayan jefa kuri'a, zamu yi iya kokarin mu don biyan bukatun ku. Zamu fara da wadanda suka shahara.

Mu, Community Tech, muna ɗaya daga cikin ƙungiyoyin Wikimedia Foundation. Muna ƙirƙira da haɓaka gyare-gyare da kayan aikin gyaran wiki. Abinda muke aiki akai an yanke shi ne bisa ga sakamakon binciken Abinda muke aiki akai an yanke shi ne bisa ga sakamakon binciken fata na Al'umma. Sau ɗaya a shekara, zaku iya gabatar da buƙatu. Bayan makonni biyu, zaku iya zaɓar waɗanda kuka fi sha'awar su. Abu na gaba, zamu zaɓi buƙatu daga binciken don aiki akan su. Wasu daga cikin burin na iya samun izini ta hanyar masu haɓaka ayyukan sa kai ko wasu rukunin ƙungiyoyi.

You can view and vote all proposals here.

Muna jiran kuri'un ku. Mun gode!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 Disamba 2020 (UTC)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

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Wikimania's logo.

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 Janairu 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:

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 projectgrantsSamfuri:atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:01, 28 Janairu 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikifunctions logo contest

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Hello. Ku taimaka a zaɓar fasalin siffar logo ta sabuwar Wikifunctions wiki. Zaɓe a fara a yau kuma zai gudana har makonni biyu. Idan kuna son shiga ciki, toh ku shiga dan samun bayani da yin zaɓe yanzu a meta wiki. Thank you! --Quiddity (WMF)

01:51, 2 Maris 2021 (UTC)

Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa Kashi na 2

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Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (GTG) ta samar da gamayyar yardadden ɗabi'a ga dukkanin Wikimedia movement da duk sauran manhajojinta. Aikin a yanzu yana a Karo na 2 ne, ta fitar da bayyanannun hanyoyin ƙarfafawa. Zaku iya karanta ƙarin bayani akan dukkanin aikin a shafin aikin.

Kwamitin rubuta Daftari: Kira dan nema

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Gidauniyar Wikimedia tana ɗaukar ma'aikatan sakai da su shiga cikin kwamiti ɗin da zasu nemi hanyar ƙarfafa tsarin. Ma'aikatan sakai a kwamitin zasu bayar da tsakanin awa 2 zuwa awa 6 a kowane sati daga ƙarshen Afrilu har Yuli da kuma sakewa a Oktoba da Nuwamba. Akwai muhimmanci na ganin kwamiti ɗin ya haɗa mabanbanta da ɗaukar kowa, da haɗa ƙwarewa daban-daban, ta haɗa ƙwararrun masu bada gudunmawa da sabbi, da wasu da suka samu ko suka yi martani, da kuma waɗanda aka tuhume su akan ƙarya da cin zarafi.

Dan nema da samun ƙarin sani game da yadda gudanarwar take, duba Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa/Kwamitin Daftari.

2021 tuntuɓar al'ummu: Sanarwa da kira ga ƴan sakai / mafassara

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Daga 5 Afrilu – 5 Mayu 2021 akwai tattaunawa akan manhajojin da dama akan yadda za'a ƙarfafa tsarin ta UCoC (GTG). Muna neman masu sakai dasu fassara muhimman abubuwa, da kuma taimakawan gudanar da tuntuɓa a harsunan su ko manhajojin su ta amfani da waɗannan muhimman tambayoyi. Idan kuna son ku taimaka da sakai ga ɗaya daga cikin matakan nan, ku tuntube mu acikin kowane irin harshe da kuka fin son amfani da shi.

Domin samun sani sosai game da wannan aiki da sauran tattaunawa dake gudana, duba Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa/2021 tuntuɓa.

--SOyeyele (WMF) ( magana) 20:47, 5 Afirilu 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:08, 12 Afirilu 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 Afirilu 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

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Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read 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)

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:05, 11 Yuni 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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;

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,

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:19, 16 Yuni 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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Karanta wannan a wani yare • Jerin rajista na wannan wasiƙar ta harsuna da yawa

Kananan masu ba da gudummawa suna sharhi ƙimar kammalawa a duk ɗaukacin Wikipedia
Lokacin da sababbin shiga suke da kayan Amsa kuma sukayi kokarin sanyawa a shafin magana, sun fi samun nasarar buga tsokaci. (Source)

A farkon wannan shekarar, ƙungiyar Editing ta gudanar da babban binciken the Reply Tool. Babban maƙasudin shine gano ko Kayan Amsawa sun taimaka newer editors sadarwa a kan wiki. Manufa ta biyu ita ce ganin ko maganganun da sabbin editoci suka yi ta amfani da kayan aikin ana bukatar a mayar da su akai-akai fiye da tsoffin editocin da aka yi tare da editan shafi na wikitext na yanzu.

Sakamakon mahimmanci shine:

  • Sabbin editoci waɗanda suke da atomatik ("default on") samun damar amsar kayan aiki sun kasance more likely don gabatar da tsokaci akan shafin magana.
  • Bayanan da sababbin editoci suka yi da Kayan Amsa suma sun kasance less likely da za a koma baya fiye da maganganun da sabbin editoci suka yi da gyaran shafi.

Wadannan sakamakon sun baiwa kungiyar Editing kwarin gwiwa cewa kayan aikin na taimakawa.

Kallon gaba

Kungiyar tana shirin yin kayan aikin Amsa ga kowa a matsayin zaɓi na ficewa a cikin watanni masu zuwa. Wannan ya riga ya faru a cikin Larabawa, Czech, da Hungary Wikipedia.

Mataki na gaba shine resolve a technical challenge. Bayan haka, zasu tura kayan aikin Amsa da farko zuwa Wikipedias that participated in the study. Bayan wannan, za su tura shi, a matakai, zuwa sauran Wikipedias da duk wikis da WMF ta shirya.

Kana iya kunnawa "Kayan aikin tattaunawa" A mafi kyaun fasali yanzu. Bayan ka samu manhajar mayar da martanin, kana iya sauya saituttukan ka kowanne lokaci Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (mataga)

14:15, 24 Yuni 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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Karanta wannan sakon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation yana gwada sauyawa tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanan sa na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da hakan Wikipedia da sauran Wikimedia wikis na iya zama kan layi koda bayan bala'i Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana bukatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da aminci daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Yana bukatar kungiyoyi da yawa don shirya don gwajin kuma ya kasance don kasancewa don daidaita duk wata matsalar da ba a zata ba.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki a ciki MediaWiki, duk gyara dole ne a dakatar yayin da muke juyawa. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan rudani, kuma muna aiki don rage shi a nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, duk wikis na wani kankanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Talata, 2021-06-29. Gwajin zai fara a [lokaci 14:00 UTC] (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, kuma a New Zealand a 02:00 NZST ranar 2021-06-30).
  • Idan kayi kokarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga sakon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya garanti ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan yakamata ku sami damar adana edutarku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa kayi kwafin canje-canje naka da farko, idan da hali.

Sauran sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasuyi hankali kuma wasu zasu iya faduwa. Ba za a iya sabunta hanyoyin hadin da sauri ba kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Wasu rubutun dadewa dole ne a tsaya.
  • Za a sami daskararren lamba na mako na 2021-06-28. Kayan aiki marasa mahimmanci na asali baza su faru ba.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin idan ya cancanta. Za ka iya read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da kowane canje-canje a cikin jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar game da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a dukkan wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Da fatan za a raba wannan bayanin tare da jama'ar ku.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:19, 27 Yuni 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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) 22:59, 17 Agusta 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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.

20:58, 1 Satumba 2021 (UTC)

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.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

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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.

A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet

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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!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

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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!

Feedback

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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) (talk) 00:24, 7 Satumba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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(_AT_)wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) 17:10, 10 Satumba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Server switch

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana buƙatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da amincewa da chanji daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Ana buƙatar ƙungiyoyi da su zauna cikin shiri kuma su kasance a kusa don magance duk wata matsala da ke iya tasowa yayin gyaran.

Zasu canza duk zirga-zirgar zuwa cibiyar data ta farko a ranan Talata, Oktoba 27 2020.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Talata, 2021-09-13. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe [lokaci 14:00 UTC] (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, kuma a New Zealand a 02:00 NZST ranar 2021-06-30).
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • 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.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar dangane da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (hira) 00:46, 11 Satumba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Talk to the Community Tech

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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

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

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (hira) 03:04, 11 Satumba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

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This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

  • Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
  • Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
  • Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).--SOyeyele (WMF) (talk) 20:01, 23 Satumba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Muna muku maraba da sababbin membobi na Movement Charter Drafting Commitee

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Zaben na Kwamitin masu fitar da Tsarin Tafiyar da harkokin Wikipedia ya kammala.

Kwamitin zai yi zama nan ba da jimawa ba don fara aikinsa. Kwamitin na iya nada wasu mambobi har uku don dinke bambance-bambancen da ke tattare da kwarewa.

Idan kuna sha'awar yin aiki da tsarin tsara Movement Charter, bi sabuntawar on Meta sannan ku shiga Telegram group.

Tare da godiya daga kungiyar Dabarun Cigaba da Gudanarwa.--SOyeyele (WMF) (talk) 19:38, 2 Nuwamba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

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(_AT_)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.--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 14:44, 29 Disamba 2021 (UTC)[Mai da]

Yanzu an buɗe Kira don jin ra'ayi game da Kwamitin amintattu

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Zaka iya neman wannan sauƙin fassararre zuwa ƙarin harsuna a shafin Meta-Wiki.
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Kiran Raddi: An buɗe Zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu kuma za'a rufe ranar 7 ga Fabrairu 2022.

Tare da wannan Kira na Jin ra'ayi, Ƙungiyoyin Dabarun gidauniya da Gudanarwa suna ɗaukar wata hanya ta daban. Wannan hanya ta ƙunshi ra'ayoyin al'umma daga 2021.Maimakon jagoranci tare da shawarwari, an tsara kiran a kan muhimman tambayoyi daga Kwamitin Amintattu. Mahimman tambayoyin sun fito ne daga ra'ayoyin game da zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu na 2021. Manufar ita ce zaburar da zance na gamayya da haɓaka shawarwarin haɗin gwiwa game da waɗannan mahimman tambayoyin.

Kasance da tattaunawar.

Mafifici,

Dabarun Ƙungiya da Gwamnati--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 23:41, 12 Janairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

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Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read 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 7th 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)

--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 16:23, 18 Janairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review

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Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the Universal Code of Conduct across the movement. Comments about the guidelines can be shared here or the Meta-wiki talk page.

There will be conversations on Zoom on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the UCoC project team and drafting committee members to discuss the guidelines and voting process.

The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. See the voting information page for more details.

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation.--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 00:11, 4 Faburairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated!

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Hello everyone!

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development 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 here. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.

Thank you!--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 11:20, 10 Faburairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!

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Hello everyone,

A 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:

You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msg(_AT_)wikimedia.org or ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 12:22, 21 Faburairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

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

MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 04:50, 22 Faburairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Coming soon

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Yana zuwa nan ba da jimawa ba: Haɓaka da yawa a kusa da samfuri

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Sannu, daga ranar 9 ga Maris, gyare-gyare da yawa game da samfuran za su kasance akan wiki ɗin ku:

Duk waɗannan canje-canjen wani ɓangare ne na aikin “Templates” na WMDE Technical Wishes. Muna fatan za su taimake ku a cikin aikinku, kuma za mu so jin ra'ayoyin ku akan shafukan magana na waɗannan ayyukan.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 Faburairu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 11:22, 5 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Gayyatar taron Jigogi: Tattaunawar Duniya akan 2022-03-12 a 13:00 UTC

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki.
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Sannu!

Ƙungiyoyin Dabarun Motsi da Gudanarwa na Wikimedia Foundation suna son gayyatar ku zuwa taron na gaba game da "Yanki da Tashoshin Jigogi". Ƙungiyar Wikimedia tana kan aiwatar da fahimtar abin da Yanki da Jigogi ya kamata su kasance. Taron mu a watan Nuwamba ya kasance kyakkyawan farawa (karanta rahoton), amma ba mu gama ba tukuna.

A cikin makonnin da suka gabata mun gudanar da hirarraki kusan 16 tare da ƙungiyoyin da ke aiki don kafa jigogi sadarwa a cikin mahallinsu ( duba Tattaunawar Hubs). Waɗannan tambayoyin sun sanar da rahoton da zai zama tushen tattaunawa a ranar 12 ga Maris. An shirya buga rahoton a ranar 9 ga Maris.

Taron zai gudana ne a ranar 12 ga Maris, 13:00 zuwa 16:00 UTC akan Zuƙowa. Za a bayar da fassarar cikin Faransanci, Sifen, Larabci, Rashanci, da Fotigal. An buɗe rajista, kuma za a rufe ranar 10 ga Maris. Ana gayyatar duk mai sha'awar batun don kasancewa tare da mu. Ƙarin bayani kan taron akan Meta-wiki.

Gaisuwa mafi kyau,

Kaarel Vaidla 13:47, 10 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]
Dabarun Motsi


Amincewa da jagororin Dokar Ka'idojin Duniya za a bude zabe daga ranar 7 zuwa 21 ga Maris, 2022

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Sannun ku,

Tsarin amincewa da tsarin revised enforcement guidelines na Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) ta buɗe yanzu! An fara kada kuri'a akan SecurePoll a ranar 7 ga Maris 2022 kuma za a kammala ranar 21 ga Maris 2022. Da fatan za a karanta ƙarin kan bayanan masu jefa ƙuri'a da cikakkun bayanan cancanta.

Dokar Ka'idojin Duniya (UCoC) tana ba da tushe na ɗabi'a mai karɓuwa ga ɗaukacin motsi. An buga jagororin tilastawa da aka sake sabunta ranar 24 ga Janairu 2022 azaman hanyar da aka gabatar don amfani da manufofin a cikin motsi. Kuna iya karanta ƙarin game da aikin UCoC.

Hakanan zaka iya yin sharhi akan shafukan magana na Meta-wiki a kowane harshe. Hakanan kuna iya tuntuɓar ƙungiyar ta imel: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Gaskiya,

Dabarun Ƙungiya da Gwamnati

Wikimedia Foundation--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 13:52, 10 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

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.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

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 MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 14:41, 14 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Leadership Development Working Group: Nema shiga ciki! (14 Maris zuwa 10 Afrilu 2022)

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Barka dai kowa da kowa,

Mungode wa kowa da ya samu kasancewa acikin bayar da martani na Leadership Development Working Group. Taƙaitaccen martanin za'a iya samun sa a Meta-wiki. Wannan martanin za'a yaɗa ga masu aikin dan sanin aikin da zasu gudanar. Lokacin neman buƙatar shiga cikin masu aikin yanzu a buɗe yake kuma za'a rufe ne a Afrilu 10, 2022. Ku bibiyi bayanai game da masu aikin, ku yaɗa tare da al'ummar ku da zasu so hakan, kuma ku nema shiga ciki idan kuna so.

Godiya gare ku.

Daga Ƙungiyar Cigaban Al'umma.
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 12:31, 18 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

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Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 17:21, 28 Maris 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Sakamako akan Tsarin Halayya na Kowa da Kowa da aka gindaya

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Barkan mu,

Muna so mu gode wa Wikimedians sama da 2,300 waɗanda suka shiga cikin ƙuri'ar da aka kammala kwanan nan a kan Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). A wannan lokacin, ƙungiyar masu binciken sa kai ta kammala nazarin sahihancin ƙuri'ar da the final results are available on Meta-wiki. Ana iya samun taƙaitaccen taƙaitaccen bayani a ƙasa

  • 58.6% Ee, 41.4% A'a
  • Masu ba da gudummawa daga wiki na gida 128 sun shiga cikin jefa ƙuri'a
  • Sama da harsuna talatin ne aka tallafa a cikin ƙuri'ar.

Abin da wannan sakamakon ke nufi shi ne cewa akwai isasshen tallafi ga Hukumar don sake duba takardar. Ba yana nufin an cika ƙa'idodin tilastawa ta atomatik ba.

Daga nan, ƙungiyar aikin za ta tattara tare da taƙaita sharhin da aka bayar a cikin tsarin jefa ƙuri'a, kuma a buga su akan Meta-wiki. Za a ƙaddamar da ƙa'idodin tilastawa ga Kwamitin Amintattu don la'akari da su. Hukumar za ta yi nazari kan abubuwan da aka bayar yayin jefa kuri'a, kuma ta bincika ko akwai bangarorin Jagororin da ke bukatar karin gyare-gyare. Idan haka ne, waɗannan tsokaci, da shigarwar da aka bayar ta hanyar Meta-wiki da sauran tattaunawar al'umma, za su samar da kyakkyawar mafari don sake fasalin Jagororin don biyan buƙatun da al'ummomin suka bayyana a cikin martanin masu jefa ƙuri'a.

A yayin da Hukumar ta ci gaba tare da tabbatarwa, ƙungiyar ayyukan UCoC za ta fara tallafawa takamaiman shawarwari a cikin Jagororin. Wasu daga cikin waɗannan shawarwari sun haɗa da yin aiki tare da membobin al'umma don kafa Kwamitin Gina U4C, fara shawarwari kan horarwa, da tallafawa tattaunawa kan inganta tsarin rahoton mu. Har yanzu da sauran abubuwa da yawa a yi, amma za mu iya matsawa zuwa mataki na gaba na wannan aikin.

Mutane da yawa sun shiga cikin tabbatar da manufofin da ka'idojin tilasta aiki ga al'ummominmu. Za mu ci gaba da yin aiki tare a kan cikakkun bayanai na shawarwari masu karfi da aka tsara a cikin Jagororin kamar yadda Wikimedians suka gabatar da aikin ta hanyoyi daban-daban a cikin shekarar da ta gabata.

Har ila yau, muna godiya ga duk wanda ya shiga cikin amincewa da Dokokin Tilastawa.

Don ƙarin bayani game da sakamako, da fatan za a koma zuwa the Results page.

Gaisuwa

User:SNg (WMF)

Stella Ng a madadin Kungiyar Ayyukan UCoC

Babban Manaja, Dokokin Amincewa da Tsaro
13:23, 8 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)

Dabarun Harka da Labaran Mulki – Fitowa ta 6

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Fitowa ta 6, Afrilu 2022Karanta cikakken wasiƙar

Barka da zuwa fitowa ta shida na Dabarun Motsawa da Labaran Mulki (wanda aka fi sani da Labaran Ka'idodin Ka'idodin Duniya)! Wannan wasiƙar da aka sabunta tana rarraba labarai masu dacewa da abubuwan da suka faru game da Yarjejeniya ta Motsawa, Ka'idar Halayyar Duniya, Tallafin Aiwatar da Dabarun Motsawa, zaɓen hukumar da sauran batutuwan MSG masu dacewa.

Za a rarraba wannan wasiƙar a kowane wata, yayin da za a kuma ƙara sabuntawa akai-akai kowane mako ko mako biyu ga masu biyan kuɗi. Da fatan za a tuna da yin rajistar nan idan kuna son samun waɗannan sabuntawa.

  • Ci gaban Jagoranci - Ƙungiyar Aiki tana Ƙaddamarwa! - An rufe aikace-aikacen shiga Rukunin Ayyukan Ci gaban Jagoranci a ranar 10 ga Afrilu, 2022, kuma za a zaɓi membobin al'umma har 12 don shiga ƙungiyar aiki. (a ci gaba da karantawa)
  • Sakamako na Amincewa da Ka'idojin da'a na Duniya ya fito! - Tsarin yanke shawara na duniya game da aiwatar da UCoC ta hanyar SecurePoll an gudanar da shi daga 7 zuwa 21 ga Maris. Sama da masu jefa ƙuri'a 2,300 daga aƙalla ayyukan gida 128 daban-daban sun gabatar da ra'ayoyinsu da sharhi. (a ci gaba da karantawa)
  • Tattaunawar Motsawa akan Tashoshi - An gudanar da taron Tattaunawa na Duniya akan Yankuna da Jigogi. Asabar 12 ga Maris, kuma ya samu halartar 84 Wikimedians daban-daban daga ko'ina cikin harkar. (cigaba da karantawa)
  • Bayan Tallafin Motsi na Buɗe! - Tun farkon shekara, an amince da shawarwari shida tare da jimillar ƙimar kusan dala 80,000. Kuna da ra'ayin aikin dabarun motsi? Kai gare mu! (a ci gaba da karantawa)
  • Kwamitin Zana Yarjejeniya Ta Harka Ta Gabata! - Kwamitin membobi goma sha biyar da aka zaba a watan Oktoba 2021, sun amince da muhimman dabi'u da hanyoyin gudanar da aikinsa, kuma sun fara samar da tsarin daftarin Yarjejeniyar Harka. (cigaba da karantawa)
  • Gabatar Da Dabarun Motsi-Mako- Ba da Gudunmawa da Biyan kuɗi! - Teamungiyar MSG ta ƙaddamar da tashar sabuntawa, wacce ke da alaƙa da shafuka Dabarun Motsi daban-daban akan Meta-wiki. Subscriber don samun labarai na yau da kullun game da ayyuka daban-daban masu gudana. (ci gaba da karantawa)
  • Diff Blogs -Duba wallafe-wallafen kwanan nan game da Dabarun Motsi akan Wikimedia Diff. (ci gaba da karantawa)

--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 22:43, 14 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Join the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan conversations with Maryana Iskander

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Hello,

The Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan, a plan of record for the Wikimedia Foundation's work.

These conversations continue Maryana Iskander's Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer listening tour.

The conversations are about these questions:

  • The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
  • The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. What is working well? How can we improve?
  • Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. Let's collect your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

You can find the schedule of calls on Meta-wiki.

The information will be available in multiple languages. Each call will be open to anyone to attend. Live interpretation will be available in some calls.

Best regards,
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 23:16, 14 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Matakai na gaba: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) da UCoC Dokoki na tilastawa

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Kwamitin Al'umma na Hukumar Amintattu ta Wikimedia Foundation na son gode wa duk wanda ya halarci zaben da aka kammala kwanan nan kan ka'idojin aiwatar da Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC).

Kungiyar sa kai ta sa-ido ta kammala nazarin sahihancin kuri’un tare da bayar da rahoton jimillar kuri’un da aka samu a matsayin 2,283. Daga cikin kuri'u 2,283 da aka samu, jimlar 1,338 (58.6%) mambobin al'umma ne suka kada kuri'a don aiwatar da tsarin, kuma jimlar 945 (41.4%) mambobin al'umma ne suka kada kuri'ar kin amincewa. Bugu da kari, mahalarta 658 sun bar sharhi tare da kashi 77% na maganganun da aka rubuta cikin Ingilishi.

Mun gane kuma mun yaba sha'awar da sadaukarwar da membobin al'umma suka nuna wajen samar da al'ada mai aminci da maraba da ke dakatar da halayen ƙiyayya da guba, da tallafawa mutanen da irin wannan ɗabi'a ke nufi, kuma suna ƙarfafa mutane masu aminci su kasance masu ƙwazo akan ayyukan Wikimedia.

Ko da a wannan matakin da bai cika ba, wannan yana bayyana a cikin maganganun da aka karɓa. Yayin da ka’idojin aiwatar da doka suka kai ga cimma matsaya na goyon bayan da ya wajaba hukumar ta sake dubawa, mun karfafa masu kada kuri’a, ba tare da la’akari da yadda suke zaben ba, da su bayar da ra’ayi kan abubuwan da suka shafi ka’idojin tilastawa da suke ganin akwai bukatar a canza ko gyara, kamar yadda da kuma dalilin da ya sa, idan da alama yana da kyau a ƙaddamar da wani zagaye na gyare-gyare wanda zai magance matsalolin al'umma.

Ma’aikatan gidauniyar da suka yi bitar tsokaci sun shawarce mu kan wasu jigogi da suka kunno kai, don haka ne muka yanke shawarar a matsayinmu na kwamitin al’amuran al’umma da mu nemi gidauniyar ta dawo da kwamitin da aka zayyana tare da sake yin wani aikin na al’umma don daidaita ka’idojin aiwatar da aiki bisa la’akari da yadda ake aiwatar da dokar. ra'ayoyin al'umma da aka samu daga kuri'ar da aka kammala kwanan nan.

Domin a fayyace, an tara wannan ra'ayin zuwa sassa 4 kamar haka:

  1. Don gano nau'i, manufa, da kuma amfani da horon;
  2. Don sauƙaƙa harshe don sauƙin fassara da fahimta ta waɗanda ba ƙwararru ba;
  3. Don bincika manufar tabbatarwa, gami da ribobi da fursunoni;
  4. Don sake duba ayyukan masu cin karo da juna na keɓantawa/kariyar wanda aka azabtar da kuma haƙƙin saurare.

Wasu batutuwa na iya fitowa a yayin tattaunawa, musamman yayin da daftarin Dokokin Dokoki ke tasowa, amma muna ganin waɗannan a matsayin abubuwan farko da ke damun masu jefa ƙuri'a kuma muna neman ma'aikata su sauƙaƙe nazarin waɗannan batutuwa. Bayan ci gaba da shiga tsakani, Gidauniyar yakamata ta sake gudanar da zaɓen al'umma don tantance ƙa'idodin da aka sabunta don ganin ko sabuwar takardar tana shirye don tabbatar da ita a hukumance.

Bugu da ƙari, muna sane da damuwa tare da bayanin kula 3.1 a cikin Ka'idodin Halayyar Duniya. Muna ba da umarni ga Gidauniyar ta sauƙaƙe nazarin wannan harshe don tabbatar da cewa Manufar ta cika manufofinta na tallafawa al'umma mai aminci da haɗin kai, ba tare da jiran nazarin da aka tsara na gabaɗayan Manufar ba a ƙarshen shekara.

Bugu da ƙari, muna gode wa duk waɗanda suka shiga, suna tunani game da waɗannan ƙalubale masu mahimmanci da wahala da kuma ba da gudummawa ga ingantattun hanyoyi a cikin motsi don yin aiki tare da kyau.

Best,

Rosie

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)
Acting Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
---SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 15:59, 26 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates

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The Board of Trustees seeks candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election. Read more on Meta-wiki.

The 2022 Board of Trustees election is here! Please consider submitting your candidacy to serve on the Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.

Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the Apply to be a Candidate page.

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 15:59, 26 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

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.

In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages!

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:13, 29 Afirilu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 Mayu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election - Call for Election Volunteers

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Tawagar Dabarun Motsi da Gudanarwa na neman membobin al'umma da za su yi aikin sa kai na zaɓe a zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu na gaba.

Tunanin Shirin Sa-kai na Zaɓe ya fito ne a lokacin Zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu na Wikimedia na 2021. Wannan shirin ya zama mai nasara. Tare da taimakon masu sa kai na Zaɓe mun sami damar ƙara wayar da kan jama'a da shiga cikin zaɓen da masu jefa ƙuri'a 1,753 sama da 2017. Gabaɗaya jama'a sun fito da kashi 10.13%, ƙarin kashi 1.1 cikin ɗari, kuma 214 wikis sun sami wakilci a zaben.

Amma jimillar wikis 74 da ba su shiga ba a 2017 sun samar da masu kada kuri’a a zaben 2021. Za ku iya taimaka canza shiga?

Masu sa kai na zaɓe za su taimaka a fagage masu zuwa:

  • Fassara gajerun saƙo da kuma sanar da tsarin zaɓen da ke gudana a tashoshin al'umma
  • Na zaɓi: Kula da tashoshi na al'umma don sharhi da tambayoyi

Masusakai zasu yi:

  • Kula da manufofin sararin samaniya na abokantaka yayin tattaunawa da abubuwan da suka faru
  • Gabatar da jagororin da bayanan zaɓe ga al'umma a cikin tsaka tsaki

Kuna so ku zama mai sa kai na zaɓe kuma ku tabbatar da wakilcin al'ummarku a cikin ƙuri'a? Yi rajista here don karɓar sabuntawa. Kuna iya amfani da talk page don tambayoyi game da fassarar.
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 23:58, 5 Mayu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Report on Voter Feedback from Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines Ratification

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Hello all,

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) project team has completed the analysis of the feedback accompanying the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines.

Following the completion of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Draft in 2022, the guidelines were voted on by the Wikimedian community. Voters cast votes from 137 communities, with the top 9 communities being: English, German, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian Wikipedias, and Meta-wiki.

Those voting had the opportunity to provide comments on the contents of the Draft document. 658 participants left comments. 77% of the comments are written in English. Voters wrote comments in 24 languages with the largest numbers in English (508), German (34), Japanese (28), French (25), and Russian (12).

A report will be sent to the Revision Drafting Committee who will refine the enforcement guidelines based on the community feedback received from the recently concluded vote. A public version of the report is published on Meta-wiki here. The report is available in translated versions on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Again, we thank all who participated in the vote and discussions. We invite everyone to contribute during the next community discussions. More information about the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines can be found on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the Universal Code of Conduct project team
--SOyeyele (WMF) (tattaunawa) 15:58, 23 Mayu 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

2022 Kwamitin Amintattu Na Kira Ga 'Yan Takara

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Zaben 2022 Board of Trustees Yanzu haka an rufe kiran da aka yi na ‘yan takara. Wannan Kiran ya sa 'yan takara 12 daga cikin al'umma su gabatar da aikace-aikacen su. Ƙara koyo game da 2022 Board of Trustees candidates.

Kwamitin Bincike yanzu zai yi la'akari da aikace-aikacen 'yan takara tare da basira da ka'idojin da Hukumar ta bayar. Amintattun suna neman wasu ƙwarewa da ƙwarewa don inganta ƙarfin Hukumar. Bayan Kwamitin Bincike ya kammala nazarin su, za a buga kimar kowane ɗan takara. Waɗannan ƙimar don dalilai ne na bayanai kawai.

Don ƙarin bayani game da zaɓen Hukumar na 2022, kuna iya samun jadawalin lokaci, bayanan zaɓe da sauran hanyoyin shiga on Meta-wiki.

Mungode da taimakon ku,

Dabarun Motsawa da Gudanarwa a madadin Kwamitin Zabe da Kwamitin Amintattu
--86.6.234.218 13:55, 3 Yuni 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

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

--MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 16:12, 4 Yuli 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

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Hi all,

Community members in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass

July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements

July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements

August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements

August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements

August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 16:06, 11 Yuli 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Movement Strategy and Governance - Issue 7

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Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

  • Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
  • Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
  • Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
  • Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
  • Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
  • Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
  • Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
  • Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
  • Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)

Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 10:59, 19 Yuli 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Announcing the six candidates for the Board of Trustees election

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Hi everyone,

The Affiliate Representatives have completed their voting period. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:

You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.

The Affiliate organizations selected representatives to vote on behalf of the Affiliate organization. The Affiliate Representatives proposed questions for the candidates to answer in mid-June. These answers from candidates and the information provided from the Analysis Committee provided support for the representatives as they made their decision.

Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.

Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.

What can voters do now?

Review the results of the Affiliate selection process.

Read more here about the next steps in the 2022 Board of Trustee election.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 19:49, 20 Yuli 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Vote for Election Compass Statements

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Hi all,

Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

  • July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass
  • July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
  • July 23 - August 3: Volunteers vote on the statements
  • August 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
  • August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
  • August 16: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August


Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 17:47, 26 Yuli 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Delay of the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

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Hi all,

I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting for the Board of Trustees election.

As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an Election Compass to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election process.

To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election.

Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.

The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 23:59 UTC.

Please find this message translated in additional languages here.

Best regards,

On behalf of the Elections Committee

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 09:35, 16 Agusta 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Invitation to join 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. It provides a great opportunity to share your Movement Strategy(MS) work, find collaborators, and get even more support and ideas for your MS projects. We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration using an inclusive multilingual platform.

The Movement Strategy is a collaborative effort to imagine and build the future of the Wikimedia Movement. Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy, from a comment to a full-time project.

Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, say hi here and go ahead and join or start a conversation on the recommendation you are most passionate about! Feel free to discuss your MS project ideas and plans or even reports from MS projects you have worked on. To get started, you can also watch this video.

The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for this MS Forum in May. After a 2-month review period, we have just published the Community Review Report. It includes a summary of the discussions, metrics, and information about the next steps.

We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!

Best regards,

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 10:02, 19 Agusta 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

The 2022 Board of Trustees Election Community Voting period is now open

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Hi everyone,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 21:14, 23 Agusta 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to Close

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Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 17:24, 30 Agusta 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee is requesting comments regarding the Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period will be open from 8 September 2022 until 8 October 2022.

The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on the following four areas:

  1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
  2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and comprehension by non-experts;
  3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
  4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused

The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by 8 October 2022. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further revising the guidelines based on community input.

Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta, and a comparison page in some languages.

Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the Revisions Guideline Talk Page. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines; please see Meta times and details: Conversation hours

The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published here.

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 13:29, 9 Satumba 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    Vector 2022
  • A section of an article
  • Vector legacy (current default)
    Vector legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    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.

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 04:15, 22 Satumba 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Sanar da sakamakon wucen gadin zaɓukan Al'umma na Kwamitin Amintattu na 2022

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki.
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Barka kowa da kowa,

Mun gode wa kowa da ya kasance a cikin gudanar da Zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu na 2022. Shigar ku ya sanya zaunar da amintattun da al'umma suke so shiga cikin Kwamitin Amintattu Gidauniyar Wikimedia.

Waɗannan su ne sakamakon wucen gadin zaɓukan Al'umma na zaɓen Kwamitin Amintattu na 2022:

Kuna iya ganin ƙarin bayani akan Sakamakon da Ƙididdiga na zaɓen Kwamitin.

Hukumar za ta kammala nazarin ’yan takarar da suka fi kada kuri’a, ciki har da gudanar da tantance bayanan. Hukumar ta shirya nada sabbin amintattu a taron ta na watan Disamba.

Da alkhairi,

Tsarin Gudanarwa da Shugabanci (Movement Strategy and Governance)

Wannan saƙon an aika shi ne a madadin Board Selection Task Force da Kwamitin Zaɓuɓɓuka

Zuz (WMF) (tattaunawa) 09:28, 22 Satumba 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

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(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

Hello

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

  • Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
  • Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
  • Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
  • Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

Thank you! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 16:44, 15 Disamba 2022 (UTC)[Mai da]

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
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 Kayan aikin tattaunawa.

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 "Sabon sashe" 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 Kayan aikin tattaunawa on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Kayan aikin tattaunawa. 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 "Wallafa sauye-sauye". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (hira) 23:25, 22 Faburairu 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana buƙatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da amincewa da chanji daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Ana buƙatar ƙungiyoyi da su zauna cikin shiri kuma su kasance a kusa don magance duk wata matsala da ke iya tasowa yayin gyaran.

Duk zirga-zirga za su kunna 1 Maris. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe 14:00 UTC.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Laraba 1 Maris 2023.
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • Muna sa ran tura lambar za ta faru kamar kowane mako. Koyaya, wasu daskarewar lamba-by-case na iya faruwa akan lokaci idan aikin ya buƙaci su daga baya.
  • GitLab ba zai kasance ba na kusan mintuna 90.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar dangane da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

Trizek (WMF) (Mahawara) 21:21, 27 Faburairu 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Shigar da Shirin Maraba na Wikimania 2023

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Kuna so ku karbi bakuncin taron cikin-mutum ko kama-da-wane a Wikimania 2023? Wataƙila taron bita na hannu, tattaunawa mai ɗorewa, wasan kwaikwayo mai ban sha'awa, hoto mai kayatarwa, ko maganan walƙiya da ba za a taɓa mantawa da ita ba? Ana buɗe aikace-aikacen har zuwa 28 ga Maris. Taron zai sami keɓantattun tubalan, don haka ana maraba da ƙaddamarwa da abubuwan da aka riga aka yi rikodi. Idan kuna da wasu tambayoyi, da fatan za ku kasance tare da mu a tattaunawa mai zuwa a ranar 12 ko 19 ga Maris, ko ku tuntuɓe ta imel a wikimania@wikimedia.org ko ta Telegram. Karin bayani akan-wiki.

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana buƙatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da amincewa da chanji daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Ana buƙatar ƙungiyoyi da su zauna cikin shiri kuma su kasance a kusa don magance duk wata matsala da ke iya tasowa yayin gyaran.

Duk zirga-zirga za su kunna 26 Afirilu. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe 14:00 UTC.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Laraba 26 Afirilu 2023.
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • Muna sa ran tura lambar za ta faru kamar kowane mako. Koyaya, wasu daskarewar lamba-by-case na iya faruwa akan lokaci idan aikin ya buƙaci su daga baya.
  • GitLab ba zai kasance ba na kusan mintuna 90.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar dangane da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

MediaWiki message delivery 00:41, 21 Afirilu 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

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(_AT_)wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:01, 26 Afirilu 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

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. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, 04:21, 27 Mayu 2023 (UTC)

Sanar da sababbin membobin kwamiti

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Zaka iya nemo wannan saƙon wanda aka fassara zuwa ƙarin wasu harsunan a kan Meta-wiki.
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Barkan ku na nan,

Muna farin cikin sanar da kwamitin sababbin membobin da mashawarta. Kwamitin Zaɓe yana taimakawa tare da tsarawa da aiwatar da tsari don zaɓar amintattun Zaɓaɓɓun Al'umma da Ƙungiyoyi don Kwamitin Amintattu na Gidauniyar Wikimedia. Bayan an gudanar da zabukan fitar da gwani, ƴan takarar da suka fi kowa ƙarfi sun tattauna da hukumar inda aka bukaci ƴan takara hudu su shiga kwamitin zaben. An bukaci wasu 'yan takara huɗu su shiga a matsayin masu ba da shawara.

Godiya ga daukacin waɗanda da suka gabatar da sunayensu don tantancewa. Muna sa ran yin aiki da kwamitin zabe nan gaba kadan.

A madadin Kwamitin amintattu na Gidauniyar Wikimedia,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:00, 28 Yuni 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 Agusta 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani Don tabbatar da cewa komai yana aiki, sashen Fasahar Wikimedia yana buƙatar yin gwajin da aka shirya. Wannan gwajin zai nuna idan zasu iya dogara da amincewa da chanji daga wannan cibiyar zuwa wancan. Ana buƙatar ƙungiyoyi da su zauna cikin shiri kuma su kasance a kusa don magance duk wata matsala da ke iya tasowa yayin gyaran.

Duk zirga-zirga za su kunna 20 Satumba. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe 14:00 UTC.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Laraba 20 Satumba 2023.
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • Muna sa ran tura lambar za ta faru kamar kowane mako. Koyaya, wasu daskarewar lamba-by-case na iya faruwa akan lokaci idan aikin ya buƙaci su daga baya.
  • GitLab ba zai kasance ba na kusan mintuna 90.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar dangane da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:23, 15 Satumba 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Hanyoyi sun buɗe ga Kwamitin Haɗin Kai, Kwamitin Ombuds, da Kwamitin Binciken Shari'a

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Ya kasance kowa da kowa! Kwamitin Bayani na m:Special:MyLanguage/Affiliations Committee (AffCom), da Kwamitin Bincike na m:Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee (CRC) suna neman sabbin mambobi. Wadannan kungiyoyin masu sa kai suna ba da muhimmiyar tallafi da kulawa ga al'umma da motsi. Ana ƙarfafa mutane su zabi kansu ko ƙarfafa wasu da suke jin za su ba da gudummawa ga waɗannan ƙungiyoyi don yin amfani. Akwai ƙarin bayani game da matsayin kungiyoyin, ƙwarewar da ake buƙata, da kuma damar yin amfani da ita a shafin Meta-wiki.

A madadin ƙungiyar Taimako ta Kwamitin,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:42, 9 Oktoba 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Yi bita tare da bayar sharhi a kan ƙunshi na zaɓin ƙa'idodin Hukumar Amintattun Gidauniyar Wikimedia Foundation ta shekarar 2024

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Za ku iya samun wannan saƙon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki.
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Zuwa ga kowa da kowa

Da fatan za a yi bita kuma ku bayar da tsokaci kan ƙunshi ƙa'idodin zaɓen Hukumar Amintattu ta Wikimedia Foundation daga yanzu har zuwa 29 ga Oktoba 2023. Kunshin ƙa'idodin zaɓin ya dogara ne da tsoffin juzu'in Kwamitin Zaɓe kuma za a yi amfani da shi a zaɓin Kwamitin Amintattu na 2024. Bayar da maganganun ku a yanzu zai taimaka musu wajen samar da tsari mai santsi, mafi kyawun zaɓin hukumar Ƙari a kan shafin Meta-wiki.

Mafi kyau,

Katie Chan
Shugaban kwamitin zaɓe

01:13, 17 Oktoba 2023 (UTC)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in three weeks?

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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.

Global preferences

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

  • Top of an article
  • Vector legacy (current default)
    Vector legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    Vector 2022
  • A section of an article
  • Vector legacy (current default)
    Vector legacy (current default)
  • Vector 2022
    Vector 2022

About the skin

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Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

  • The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
  • 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 jump 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 tested wikis.
  • 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.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan

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If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 14 November. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (hira) 01:09, 26 Oktoba 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Hello, the change will be done later today. Please ping me or write on my talk page if you have any comments! Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (tattaunawa) 16:57, 29 Nuwamba 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

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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. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 12:31, 13 Disamba 2023 (UTC)[Mai da]

Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences

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Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.

Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.

The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.

For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

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, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

Zaɓe kan Yarjejeniya don Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Assalamu alaikum,

Ina zuwa gare ku a yau don sanar da cewa lokacin jefa kuri'a na Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) ya buɗe yanzu. Membobin al'umma na iya jefa ƙuri'a da ba da sharhi game da kundin ta hanyar SecurePoll yanzu har zuwa 2 Fabrairu 2024. Wadanda suka bayyana ra'ayoyin ku a lokacin ci gaban Tsarukan Tirsasawa na UCoC za ku san wannan tsari saba.

Sigar na yanzu na kundin ta Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa yana kan Meta-wiki tare da fassarori.

Karanta kundin, jeka jefa kuri'a kuma raba wannan bayanin ga sauran al'umma ku. Zan iya faɗi da gaba gaɗi cewa Kwamitin Gina U4C yana ɗokin halartar ku.

A madadin Kungiyar Ayyukan UCoC,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:09, 19 Janairu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Kwanaki na ƙarshe don jefa ƙuri'a a kan Kundin ta Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Assalamu alaikum,

Ina zuwa gare ku a yau don tunatar da ku cewa lokacin kada kuri'a na kundin tsarin Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) zai rufe ranar Fabrairu 2. Membobin al'umma na iya jefa ƙuri'a da ba da sharhi game da kundin ta hanyar SecurePoll. Wadanda suka bayyana ra'ayoyin ku a lokacin ci gaban Tsarukan Tirsasawa na UCoC za ku san wannan tsari saba.

Sigar na yanzu na kundin ta Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa yana kan Meta-wiki tare da fassarori.

Karanta kundin, jeka jefa kuri'a kuma raba wannan bayanin ga sauran al'umma ku. Zan iya faɗi da gaba gaɗi cewa Kwamitin Gina U4C yana ɗokin halartar ku.

Mafi kyau,

RamzyM (WMF) 17:01, 31 Janairu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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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.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:24, 12 Faburairu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Rahoton rattabawar Kundi ta U4C da Kiran U4C don 'ƴan takara yanzu

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Barkan mu,

Ina rubuto muku a yau da muhimman bayanai guda biyu. Na farko, rahoton sharhin daga Kwamitin Daidaitawa ta Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) rattabawar Kundi yana samuwa yanzu. Na biyu, kiran 'yan takara na U4C yana buɗewa yanzu har zuwa Afrilu 1, 2024.

Kwamitin Daidaitawa ta Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) ƙungiya ce ta duniya da aka sadaukar don samar da adalci da daidaito aiwatarwa ta UCoC. Ana gayyatar membobin al'umma don ƙaddamar da aikace-aikacen su na U4C. Don ƙarin bayani da alhakin U4C, don Allah sake duba Kundi ta U4C.

Bisa ga kundin, akwai kujeru 16 a kan U4C: kujeru takwas na al'umma da kujeru takwas don tabbatar da cewa U4C na wakiltar bambancin motsi.

Kara karantawa kuma gabatar da aikace-aikacenku akan Meta-wiki.

A madadin Kungiyar Ayyukan UCoC,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 Maris 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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More languages • Please help translate to your language

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] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[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.

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 Maris 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani

Duk zirga-zirga za su kunna 20 Maris. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe 14:00 UTC.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Laraba 20 Maris 2024.
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • Muna sa ran tura lambar za ta faru kamar kowane mako. Koyaya, wasu daskarewar lamba-by-case na iya faruwa akan lokaci idan aikin ya buƙaci su daga baya.
  • GitLab ba zai kasance ba na kusan mintuna 90.
Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin. Za a sami karin sanarwar dangane da wannan. Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

Trizek (WMF), 00:00, 15 Maris 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Ku yi zaɓe yanzu don zaɓar membobin U4C na farko

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Ya ku mutane,

Ina rubuto muku ne domin sanar da ku lokacin kada kuri'a na Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) yana buɗe yanzu zuwa Mayu 9, 2024. Karanta bayanin a kan shafin zabe akan Meta-wiki don ƙarin koyo game da zaɓe da cancantar masu jefa ƙuri'a.

Kwamitin Daidaitawa da Gamayyar Tsarin Gudanarwa (U4C) ƙungiya ce ta duniya da aka keɓe don samar da daidaito da daidaiton aiwatar da UCoC. An gayyaci membobin al'umma don gabatar da aikace-aikacen su na U4C. Don ƙarin bayani da alhakin U4C, da fatan sake duba Kundi ta U4C.

Da fatan za a raba wannan sakon tare da membobin al'ummar ku don su ma su shiga ciki.

A madadin Kungiyar Ayyukan UCoC,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:21, 25 Afirilu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

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Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 21:23, 14 Mayu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Gayyatar jin ra’ayoyi akan hanyoyin zagayen rayuwar Sibling Project

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Zaku iya samun wannan sako an fassara a wasu sauran harsuna a shafin Meta-wiki Please help translate to your language

Ya ku mambobin Kwamiti,

Kwamitin Hakokin Jama’a (CAC) na Kwamitin Amintattu na Gidauniyar Wikimidya na gayyatar ku don tofa albarkacin bakin ku a kan daftarin Hanyoyin Zagayen Rayuwar Shirin Sibling Project. Wannan daftarin Hanyoyin na bayyana matakai da abubuwan da ake bukata wanda aka ba da shawara akai game da budewa ko rufe shirin Sibling Project ta Wikimidiya, sannan ta yi kudurin tabbatar da cewa duk wani sabon shiri da aka amince da shi ya tunkari hanyar nasara. Wannan daban yake da hanyoyin budewa ko rufe nau’in shafukan harshe, wanda kwamitin harsuna ko kuma dokar rufe shafi ke kula da shi

Zaku iya samun karin bayani a wannan shafin, da kuma hanyoyin da zaku fadi ra’ayoyinku tun daga yau har zuwa karshen yinin ranar Yunin 23, 2024, a ko ina a fadin duniya.

Hakanan zaka iya watsa bayanai game da wannan tare da al'ummomin shafin da kuke aiki tare da su ko kuke tallafawa, kuma zaka iya taimaka mana mu fassara hanyoyin tsarin zuwa wasu harsuna, don haka mutane zasu iya shiga tattaunawar a cikib harsunan su.

A madadin CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:26, 22 Mayu 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Sanar da Kwamitin Gudanar da Halin Duniya na farko

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Kuna iya samun wannan saƙon an fassara zuwa ƙarin wasu yaruka akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Barka,

Alkalan zaben sun gama bitar kuri’un. Muna bibiyar sakamakon zaben Kwamitin Tsare-tsare don Dokokin Tsarin Halayya (U4C) na farko.

Muna farin cikin sanar da mutane masu zuwa a matsayin membobin yanki na U4C, waɗanda za su cika wa'adin shekaru biyu:

  • Arewacin Amurka (Tarayyar Amurka da Kanada)
    • –
  • Arewaci da Yammacin Turai
  • Latin Amurka da Karibiyan
    • –
  • Tsakiyar Turai da Gabashin Turai (CEE)
    • —
  • Kasashen Saharar Afirka
    • –
  • Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka
  • Gabas, Kudu maso gabas ta Asiya, da Fasific
  • Asiya ta Kudu
    • –

An zabi mutane masu zuwa don zama manyan mambobi na U4C, suna cika wa'adin shekara guda:

Godiya ga duk wanda ya shiga cikin wannan tsari da kuma godiya sosai ga 'yan takara don jagorancinku da sadaukarwa ga ƙungiyar Wikimedia da al'umma.

Nan da makonni kadan masu zuwa, kwamitin U4C zasu fara kaddamar da taro da shirye-shiye na shakarun 2024-2025 a wajen tabbatar da kaddamarwa da bita akan UCoC da Hanyoyin Tursasa su. Bibiyi aikinsu a Meta-wiki

A madadin Kungiyar Ayyukan UCoC,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:15, 3 Yuni 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Rubutun ƙarshe na Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia yanzu yana kan Meta

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Barka kowa da kowa,

Rubutun ƙarshe na Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia yanzu yana kan Meta a cikin harsuna sama da 20 don karatun ku.

Menene Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia?

Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia takarda ce da aka tsara don ayyana ayyuka da nauyi ga duk membobi da ƙungiyoyin tafiyar Wikimedia, gami da ƙirƙirar sabuwar hukuma - Majalisar Duniya - don shugabancin tafiyar.

Kasance tare da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia "Kaddamar Jam'iyyar"

Kasance tare da “Kaddamar Jam'iyyar” a ranar 20 ga Yuni, 2024 a 14.00-15.00 UTC (lokacin gida). A yayin wannan kiran, za mu yi bikin fitar da Kundi ta ƙarshe kuma za mu gabatar da abin da Kundi ta kunsa. Shiga ku koyi game da Kundi kafin kada kuri'ar ku.  

Ƙuri'ar rattabawa da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar

Za a fara kada kuri'a a SecurePoll a ranar 25 ga Yuni, 2024 da karfe 00:01 UTC kuma za a kammala ranar 9 ga Yuli, 2024 da karfe 23:59 UTC. Kuna iya karanta ƙarin game da tsarin jefa ƙuri'a, ƙa'idodin cancanta, da sauran cikakkun bayanai akan Meta.

Idan kuna da wasu tambayoyi, da fatan za a bar sharhi akan Shafin magana na Meta ko yi imel ɗin MCDC a mcdc@wikimedia.org.

A madadin MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:45, 11 Yuni 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Zaɓuɓɓuka don tabbatar da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia yanzu ta buɗe - jefa kuri'ar ku

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Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Barka kowa da kowa,

Zaɓuɓɓuka don tabbatar da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia yanzu ta buɗe. Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia takarda ce da aka tsara don ayyana ayyuka da nauyi ga duk membobi da ƙungiyoyin tafiyar Wikimedia, gami da ƙirƙirar sabuwar hukuma - Majalisar Duniya - don shugabancin tafiyar.

Ana samun sigar ƙarshe ta Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia akan Meta a cikin yaruka daban-daban.

Za a fara kada kuri'a a SecurePoll a ranar 25 ga Yuni, 2024 da karfe 00:01 UTC kuma za a kammala ranar 9 ga Yuli, 2024 da karfe 23:59 UTC. Da fatan za a karanta ƙarin akan bayanan masu jefa kuri'a da sauran cikakkun bayanai.

Bayan karanta Kundi, don Allah zabe a nan kuma raba wannan bayanin.

Idan kuna da wasu tambayoyi game da ƙuri'ar rattabawa, tuntuɓi Hukumar Zabe ta Kundi ta cec@wikimedia.org.

A madadin CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:52, 25 Yuni 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Zaɓuɓɓuka don tabbatar da tsarin rattabawa da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia yana ƙare nan ba da daɗewa ba

[gyarawa]
Kuna iya samun wannan sakon da aka fassara zuwa ƙarin harsuna akan Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Barka kowa da kowa,

Wannan tunatarwa ce mai kyau cewa za a rufe lokacin kada kuri'a don tabbatar da Tsarin Dokan Tafiyar Wikimedia a ranar 9 ga Yuli, 2024, da karfe 23:59 UTC.

Idan ba ku jefa kuri'a ba tukuna, don Allah ku jefa kuriʼa a kan SecurePoll.

A madadin Hukumar Zabe ta Kundi,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:47, 8 Yuli 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 10 Yuli 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

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,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 17:53, 18 Yuli 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Vote now to fill vacancies 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 August 10, 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.

In cooperation with the U4C,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:47, 27 Yuli 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C

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Dear all,

The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. 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.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:30, 6 Agusta 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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 the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

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Hi all,

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!

MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 23:20, 22 Agusta 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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) 14:07, 2 Satumba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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

MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 12:15, 3 Satumba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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Karanta wannan saƙon a wani yaren • Please help translate to your language

Wikimedia Foundation za'a gwada chanji tsakanin cibiyoyin bayanai na farko dana sakandare. Wannan zai tabbatar da cewa Wikipedia da sauran wikis na wikimedia na iya tsayuwa akan yanar gizo koda bayan wata ruɗani

Duk zirga-zirga za su kunna 25 Satumba. Gwajin zai fara daga karfe 15:00 UTC.

Abin takaici, saboda wasu iyakoki na cikin MediaWiki, dole a dakata da duk gyararraki dole ne a yayin da muke yin sauyin. Muna neman afuwa game da wannan tsaiko, kuma muna aiki don raguwarsa nan gaba.

Za a nuna wata tuta a kowace wikis mintina 30 kafin wannan aikin ya faru. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.

Zaka iya karantawa, amma banda gyara, a duka wikis na wani ɗan ƙanƙanin lokaci.

  • Ba za ku iya yin wani gyara ba har na tsawon awa ɗaya a ranar Laraba 25 Satumba 2024.
  • Idan kayi ƙoƙarin gyara ko ajiyewa awannan lokacin, zaku ga saƙon kuskure. Muna fatan cewa babu gyara da za ayi asara awannan lokacin, amma ba za mu iya tabbatar muku ba. Idan ka ga sakon kuskuren, to don Allah a jira har komai ya koma daidai. Sannan ne zaku samu damar adana gyaran ku. Amma, muna ba da shawara cewa ku kwafe canje-canjen ku tun daga farko, idan da hali.

Wasu sakamakon:

  • Ayyukan bango zasu Kasance a hankalu kuma wasu za'a iya ajiye su. Tana iya kasancewa hanyoyin hadin masu kalar-ja ba zasu dawo ba da sauri kamar yadda aka saba. Idan ka kirkiri labarin da aka riga aka danganta shi a wani wuri, hanyar hadi zata zauna a kalar-ja fiye da yadda aka saba. Dole ne a tsaida duk wasu rubutun masu dadewa
  • Muna sa ran tura lambar za ta faru kamar kowane mako. Koyaya, wasu daskarewar lamba-by-case na iya faruwa akan lokaci idan aikin ya buƙaci su daga baya.
  • GitLab ba zai kasance ba na kusan mintuna 90.

Ana iya jinkirta wannan aikin dangane da yadda hali ya bada Za ka iya karanta tsarin a read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Za a sanar da duk wanu canji na wannan jadawalin.

Ayi kokarin yadda wannan bayanin tare ga jama'ar ku.

Trizek_(WMF), 09:37, 20 Satumba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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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.
MediaWiki message delivery (tattaunawa) 18:56, 27 Satumba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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: https://forms.gle/f66MuzjcPpwzVymu5

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 03:19, 6 Oktoba 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team

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:

  1. Christel Steigenberger
  2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
  3. Victoria Doronina
  4. 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


MPossoupe_(WMF) 08:26, 14 Oktoba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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:

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,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:09, 16 Oktoba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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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, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:28, 22 Oktoba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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.

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 05:11, 29 Oktoba 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 <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

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 19:55, 21 Nuwamba 2024 (UTC)[Mai da]

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