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Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the
Enforcement Guidelines
for the
Universal Code of Conduct
will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows
the March 2022 vote
, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s
Community Affairs Committee
requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led
Revisions Committee
worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed
here
, and a comparison of changes can be found
here
How to vote?
Beginning
January 17, 2023
, voting will be open.
This page on Meta-wiki
outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The
eligibility requirements
for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
is now open! Voting will be open for two weeks and close at
23.59 UTC
on
January 31, 2023
. Please visit the
voter information page on Meta-wiki
for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.
For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our
previous message
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Voting closes soon on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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Voting
closes on the
revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
at
23.59 UTC
today,
January 31, 2023
. Please visit the
voter information page on Meta-wiki
for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote. More information on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process is available in this
previous message
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Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results
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The recent community-wide vote on the
Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines
has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition.
Statistics
for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.
From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.
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Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results
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The recent community-wide vote on the
Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines
has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition.
Statistics
for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.
From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.
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Community feedback cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of use starts
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department
is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.
The Terms of Use (ToU)
are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.
This update comes in response to several things:
Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act
As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.
For further information, please consult:
The
proposed update of the ToU by comparison
The page for your
feedback
Information about
the office hours
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Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the
Editing
team's work:
The Editing team will finish adding new features to the
Talk pages project
and deploy it.
They are beginning a new project,
Edit check
Talk pages project
Some of the upcoming changes
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the
Talk pages project
. Nearly all
new features
are available now in the
Beta Feature for
Discussion tools
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "
Adjuntez temo
" button. You will be able to turn them off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
. Please
tell them what you think
Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)
An A/B test for
Discussion tools
on the mobile site
has finished. Editors were
more successful with
Discussion tools
. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning
a project to help new editors of Wikipedia
. It will help people identify some problems before they click "
Publikigar chanji
". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please
watch
that page for more information. You can
join a conference call on 3
March
2023
to learn more.
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Your wiki will be in read only soon
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La
Wikimedia Fundamento
elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la
1 marto
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14:00 UTC
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Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je la
merkredo 1 marto 2023
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj
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Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive
prizes
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
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Reminder: Office hours about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use
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Hello everyone,
This a reminder that the
Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department
is hosting
office hours
with community members about
updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use
The office hours will be held today,
March 2, from 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC.
See for more
details here on Meta
Another office hours will be held on April 4.
We hereby kindly invite you to participate in the discussion. Please note that this meeting will be held in English language and led by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, who will take and answer your questions. Facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance Team will provide the necessary assistance and other meeting-related services.
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Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
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Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk?
Submissions are open until March 28
. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.
Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
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Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:
The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the
vote statistics on Meta-wiki
As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The
resolution can be found on Foundation wiki
and you can read more about the
process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.
There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
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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
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La
Wikimedia Fundamento
elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la
26 aprilo
. La provo komenciĝos je
14:00 UTC
Bedaŭrinde pro iuj limoj en
MediaWiki
la tuta redaktado devas esti interrompita dum la ŝaltado. Ni pardonpetas pro ĉi tiu interrompo, kaj ni laboras por mallongigi ĝin kiom plej eble en la estonteco.
Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je la
merkredo 26 aprilo 2023
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
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Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
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Hello,
As follow-up to
the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
Community members in good standing
Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either
sign up on the Meta-Wiki page
, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.
Read more on Meta-Wiki
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF)
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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
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The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
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, 04:20, 27 may. 2023 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2023
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Dear Wikimedians,
We are glad to inform you that the 2023 edition of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign is coming up in July.
This is a formal invitation to invite individuals and communities to join the campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and other relevant media files.
If you're interested in participating, please find your community or community closer to you to participate from the
Participating Communities
page. If you're organizer, please add your community or Affiliate to the page.
The campaign primarily aims to promote using images from Wikimedia Commons to enrich Wikipedia articles. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years. In this edition of the campaign, eligibility criteria have been revised based on feedback and campaign Evaluation Reports of the previous editions. Please find more
details about these changes and our FAQ on Meta-Wiki
For more information, please visit the
campaign page on Meta-Wiki
Kind regards,
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos International Team.
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Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
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Apologies if this message is not in your language,
⧼Please help translate⧽
to your language.
This wiki will soon be able to use the
inline audio player
implemented by the
Phonos
extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing
audio links that play on click
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the
English Wiktionary
below.
{{
audio
en
En-uk-English.oga
Audio (UK)
}}
Could become:

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to
read about the features
and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this
talk page
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF)
, on behalf of the Foundation's Language team
02:26, 27 jul. 2023 (UTC)
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)
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15:35, 28 di agosto. 2023 (UTC)
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La
Wikimedia Fundamento
elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj.
Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la
20 septembro
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14:00 UTC
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MediaWiki
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Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je la
merkredo 20 septembro 2023
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
Antaŭvideble, disdono de kodo okazos same kiel en la ceteraj semajnoj. Tamen, eblas haltoj en la kodo en kelkaj unuopaj okazoj.
GitLab
estos malhavebla dum ĉirkaŭ 90 minutoj.
Ĉi tiu projekto povas esti prokrastita se necese. Vi povas
legi la horaron ĉe wikitech.wikimedia.org
. Ajnaj ŝanĝoj estos anoncitaj en la horaro. Estos pli da informoj pri tio. Rubando estos montrata en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 30 minutoj antaŭ la operacio.
Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
More on the Meta-wiki page
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
01:12, 17 okt. 2023 (UTC)
Coming soon: Reference Previews
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A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with the
PagePreviews feature
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them,
you can opt out
. If you are
using the gadgets
Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.
Help page
Project page with more information (in English)
Feedback is welcome
on this talk page
-- For
Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes
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13:11, 15 nov. 2023 (UTC)
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(New) Feature on
Kartographer
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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
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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
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Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
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Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
Feminism and Folklore 2024
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2024
writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a
Wiki Loves Folklore
gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign on
CampWiz
tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the
meta project page
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the
Article List Generator by Topic
and
CampWiz
. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team
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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2024
an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 31st
of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
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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,
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA)
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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
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Vua Wiki balde divenos nur lektebla
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La
fonduro Wikimedia
modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos su
online
mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che
20 ma di marto
The test will start at
14:00 UTC
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi che
MediaWiki
, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on
Wednesday 20 March 2024
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
There will be more notifications about this.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
Please share this information with your community.
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Enabling machine translation support, Section and Content translation tools in your Wikipedia
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Ido Wikipedians!
Apologies as this message is not in your language,
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The WMF Language team plans to enable the Section and Content translation tools to Ido Wikipedia by default. Also, the team is considering adding
machine translation
(MT) support with
MinT
to the tools. MinT may be providing limited support for your language, so we want to make sure it is useful for your translation work. For this, my team would like members of your community to:
Test the machine translation support
in a test instance
. You can paste multiple pieces of content from different Wikipedia articles and check whether the provided result is a useful starting point for a translation.
Give us feedback if the machine translation quality is okay to be on your Wikipedia by default, as an optional service or if it is not useful at all.
Let us know if you have any objections to having the Section and Content translation enabled by default in this Wikipedia.
Below is background information about the tools and how you can test them.
Background information
Content Translation
has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. Since its release in 2015, the tool has aided the translation of more than one million articles across all languages. However, the tool is in beta in Ido Wikipedia, limiting its discoverability and use. Being in beta also blocks enabling the Section translation in your Wikipedia.
Section Translation
extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
Guide you to translate one section at a time to expand existing articles or create new ones
Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device
MinT (Machine in Translation) is a machine translation service hosted in the Wikimedia Infrastructure. It is designed to provide translations from many MT models. The model available for your Wikipedia is the
MADLAD-400 open-source translation model
Our request
The MADLAD-400 MT is available for your Wiki in our test instance. We want you to test it (translate sentences and paragraphs from articles) in our test instance:
. Let us know in this thread if the quality of the automatic translation generated is okay to enable it in Ido Wikipedia along with the Section and Content translation tool.
Our plans to enable the tools and the machine translation support
We plan to deploy the tools with the MT support by the 16th of April. If there are no objections from your community, we will deploy them. We want to provide the tools in the way they best serve the community, so we are open to make further adjustments after the deployment based on your experience.
We look forward to getting your feedback in this thread. Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF)
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Hi, UOzurumba! I've tested MinT with the text below
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore collapses after being hit by a container ship.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected President of Senegal.
A mass shoot­ing and ex­plo­sions kill 143 people at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia. (these 3 pages are from the section "in the news" in English Wikipedia.
I've noticed a serious error: it "added" the "translation of a phrase that is not part of the the original test"
la maxim multa homi esas en l'auto, ol povas esar tre doloroza
. In English it would be like "the majority of people are in the car, that must be painful"... (completely nonsense!!).
I'm an administrator of Ido Wiki, and yet the most active one. I beg that you do not adopt MinT to translate texts to Ido, only when it is "perfect enough to be useful". I'll try testing this and, if possible, I'll try to write to the creators of MinT, to see how could I help them to ameliorate its translations from English to Ido. If MinT is adopted "as is" it would be a disaster, because of the large quantities of mistakes it has produced just by translating these few phrases.
Best regards from São Paulo, Brazil,
Joao Xavier
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Thank you,
Joao Xavier
, for testing the
MADLAD-400 open-source translation model
in our
test instance
and giving us feedback on the quality of the translation. Since the quality is poor, we will suspend adding this machine translation model to your Wikipedia and only enable the Section and Content translation tool by default next week.
Once again, thanks for your valuable feedback.
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Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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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!
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF)
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
08:14, 3 jun. 2024 (UTC)
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Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2024
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Dear community members,
We are inviting you to participate in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024 campaign, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2024:
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.
The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation your language Wikipedia. We’d be glad for you to sign up directly at
WPWP Participating Communities page
on Meta-Wiki.
Thank you,
Reading Beans
/ readthebeans
gmail.com)
Project manager and coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024
The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
on
June 20, 2024
at
14.00-15.00 UTC
your local time
). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
Meta talk page
or email the MCDC at
mcdc@wikimedia.org
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Hello everyone,
The voting to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
available on Meta in different languages
and attached
here in PDF format
for your reading.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC
. Please read more on the
voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
vote here
and share this note further.
If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at
cec@wikimedia.org
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Hello everyone,
This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
will be closed on
July 9, 2024
, at
23:59 UTC
If you have not voted yet, please vote
on SecurePoll
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Charter Electoral Commission
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U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the
UCoC
. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the
U4C Charter
In this special election, according to
chapter 2 of the U4C charter
, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:
four
community-at-large seats and
five
regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki
. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
In cooperation with the U4C,
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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,
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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.
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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,
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Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
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Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on
the project page
We want your feedback
to make sure this feature works well for you:
Please try
the current state of development on beta wiki and
let us know what you think
Sign up here
to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.
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.
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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!
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the
Elections Committee
have certified the
results
for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on
Meta-Wiki
On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,
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Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2024 Board of Trustees election
is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.
Learn more about the candidates by
reading their statements
and their
answers to community questions
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll
voting page to vote.
The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Vua Wiki balde divenos nur lektebla
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Lektez ca mesajo en altra idiomo
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La
fonduro Wikimedia
modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos su
online
mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che
25 ma di septembro
The switch will start at
15:00 UTC
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi che
MediaWiki
, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on
Wednesday 25 September 2024
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
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Shablono:Tracked
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on
the project page
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
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Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming
Wiki Loves Ramadan
event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Survey link:
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 okt. 2024 (UTC)
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Proposal to enable the "Contribute" entry point in Ido Wikipedia
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Ido Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not in your language.
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The
WMF Language and Product Localization
team proposes enabling an entry point called "Contribute" to your Wikipedia.
The
Contribute
entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on
Edit discovery
, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.
Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Ido Wikipedia.
Who can access it
Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.
For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.
This feature is available in four Wikipedia (Albanian, Malayalam, Mongolian, and Tagalog). We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was to
make the entry point optional for experienced contributors
who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.
We plan to enable it
on mobile
for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 24th October 2024.
We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.
We look forward to your response soon.
Thank you!
On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team.
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Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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Hello all,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.
The following four candidates were the most voted:
Christel Steigenberger
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Victoria Doronina
Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email
cst@wikimedia.org
with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
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Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the
Wikidata item
sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the
General
section into the
In Other Projects
section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.
Please let us know
if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
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Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
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Dear all,
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Survey Link:
Complete the Survey
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity
: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Application Link:
Apply Here
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:
Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:11, 29 okt. 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
Srishti
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Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!
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Dear All,
We’re happy to announce the launch of
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025
, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
Topic:
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
When: Jan 19, 2025
Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
Join Zoom Meeting:
Zoom meeting hosted by
Wikimedia Bangladesh
To get started, visit the
campaign page
for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Add
your community here
, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!
For the
International Team
12:08, 16 jan. 2025 (UTC)
Enabling Dark mode for logged-out users in this Wikipedia
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Wikipedians,
Apologies, as this message is not written in your native language.
Please help translate to your language
The
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
will be enabling
dark mode
here on your Wikipedia by February 2025 now that pages on your wiki have passed our checks for accessibility and other quality checks. Congratulations!
The plan to enable is made possible by the diligent work of editors and other technical contributors in your community who ensured that templates, gadgets, and other parts of pages can be accessible in dark mode. Thank you all for making dark mode available for everybody!
For context, the Web team has concluded work on dark mode. If, on some wikis, the option is not yet available for logged-out users, this is likely because many pages do not yet display well in dark mode. As communities make progress on this work, we enable this feature on additional wikis once per month.
If you notice any issues after enabling dark mode, please create a page:
Reading/Web/Accessibility for reading/Reporting/xx.wikipedia.org
in MediaWiki (
like these pages
), and report the issue in the created page.
Thank you!
On behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Feminism and Folklore 2025 starts soon
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2025
writing competition from February 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a
Wiki Loves Folklore
gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign on
CampWiz
tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
Request local admins for site notice.
Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the
meta project page
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the
Article List Generator by Topic
and
CampWiz
. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our
project page
. Feel free to contact us on our
meta talk page
or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2025 International Team
Stay connected
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to participate in the
Wiki Loves Folklore 2025
an international media contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the
1st till the 31st
of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and
submitting
them in this commons contest.
You can also
organize a local contest
in your country and support us in translating the
project pages
to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our
project Talk page
if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
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Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
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Please help translate to your language
This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through
the end of day
, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that the next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon,
February 28th at 14:00 UTC
! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on the
wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Got a topic to share?
Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to
reply to this message
or add agenda items to the document
here
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January
. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there!
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
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My apologies for writing in English.
Please help translate to your language
I am writing to you to let you know that
proposed changes
to the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
and
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
are open for review.
You can provide feedback on suggested changes
through the
end of day
on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.
Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
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An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool
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Saluto
Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not in your language,
Please help translate to your language
The
Language and Product Localization team
has improved the
Content Translation dashboard
to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.
With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users now have access to the capabilities shown in the image below.
Notice that in this screenshot, the new dashboard allows: Users to adjust suggestions with the "For you" and "...More" buttons to select general topics or community-created collections (like the example of Climate topic).  Also, users can use translation to create new articles (as before) and expand existing articles section by section. You can see how suggestions are provided in the new dashboard  in two groups ("Create new pages" and "Expand with new sections")-one for each activity.
In the current dashboard, you will notice that you can't adjust suggestions to select topics or community-created collections. Also, you can't expand on existing articles by translating new sections.
We will implement
this improvement
on your wiki
on Monday, March 17th, 2025
and remove the current dashboard
by May 2025
Please reach out with any questions concerning the dashboard in this thread.
Thank you!
On behalf of the Language and Product Localization team.
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Vua Wiki balde divenos nur lektebla
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La
fonduro Wikimedia
modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos su
online
mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che
19 ma di marto
The switch will start at
14:00 UTC
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi che
MediaWiki
, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on
Wednesday 19 March 2025
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
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Quale facesas la fonti?
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Ha, okey. Saluto ad omni hike, yen via maxim prizata vexero, le Ursidino. Volesas savar, nu, quale la fonti facesas. Kad es aceptebla di citar fonti en altra lingui (kom exempli, l'angliana, la hispana, etp)?
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Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted
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The proposed modifications to the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
and the U4C Charter
are now on Meta-wiki for community notice
in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on
the wiki page for the election
soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the fifth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from
14th April
until
16th May 2025
. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contributions in every language!
The most active contesters will receive prizes.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA)
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Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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Sub-referencing: User testing
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Hi I’m Johannes from
Wikimedia Deutschland
's
Technical Wishes team
. We are making great strides with the new
sub-referencing feature
and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:
Try it out and share your feedback
Please try
the updated
wikitext
feature
on the beta wiki
and let us know what you think, either
on our talk page
or by
booking a call
with our UX researcher.
Get a sneak peak and help shape the
Visual Editor
user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions –
sign up here to receive an invite
. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start
May 14th
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
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Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the
old Graph extension
was disabled in 2023
due to security reasons
. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the
Charts extension
, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the
EasyTimeline extension
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from
May 6
. Please, consult
our page on MediaWiki.org
to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also
consult the documentation
about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the
project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org
, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the
talk page
or at
Phabricator
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Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
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The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is
available on Meta-wiki
You may now
submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C
through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about
eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki
. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on
the discussion page for the election
. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
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RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page
[link]
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.
[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page
[link].
Thank you!
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
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Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension
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Hello everyone,
(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)
The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of the
CampaignEvents extension
to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during the
week of June 23rd
This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.
The three main features of this extension are:
Event Registration
: A simple way to sign up for events on the wiki.
Collaboration List
: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at
Special:AllEvents
Invitation Lists
: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.
Note
: The extension comes with a new user right called
"Event Organizer"
, which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.
The extension is already live on several wikis, including
Meta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia
, and more (
See the full deployment list
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the
extension talkpage
. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.
Thank you!
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Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the
2025 Election information page
. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at
12:00 UTC
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
The
call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open
from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on
this Meta-wiki page
or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
[1]
[2]
[3]
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Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
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Dear Wikimedia Community,
The
Community Affairs Committee (CAC)
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned
the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF)
to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki
projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.
Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources
. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,
failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones
. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Wikispore
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The
application to consider Wikispore
was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided
not to recommend
Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows
better flexibility
and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
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We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action
[4]
[5]
, see section 5
as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews
[6]
Initial metrics
compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options
mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
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We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:
Public consultation about Wikispore
and
Public consultation about Wikinews
. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
--
Victoria
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
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Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
project task page
. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated
Talk page
Thank you, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.
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Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
NKohli (WMF)
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Vua Wiki balde divenos nur lektebla
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Lektez ca mesajo en altra idiomo
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La
fonduro Wikimedia
modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos su
online
mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che
24 ma di septembro
The switch will start at
15:00 UTC
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi che
MediaWiki
, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
You can contribute to the
translation or proofreading
of this banner text.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on
Wednesday 24 September 2025
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.
However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
GitLab
will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
This project may be postponed if necessary.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Any changes will be announced in the schedule.
Please share this information with your community.
Trizek (WMF)
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Migration to Parsoid
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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the
Parser Unification
project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation.
There is
more information about our roll-out strategy
available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our
known issues
documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
Content Transform Team
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll voting page to vote
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Saluto
. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
Wikifunctions
and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Danko!
--
User:Sannita (WMF)
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. 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,
MKaur (WMF)
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Danko!
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Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
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Dear Wikimedia communities,
We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.
Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.
In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026,
Wiki Loves Ramadan
is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.
We invite you to explore the
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Meta page
to learn how you can participate and
your community.
Photo campaign on
Wikimedia Commons
If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons
Early registration for updates is now open via the
Event page
Stay connected and receive updates:
Telegram channel
Mailing list
We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team
19:45, 16 jan. 2026 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2026 starts soon
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Invitation to Organize Feminism and Folklore 2026
Dear Wiki Community,
We are pleased to invite Wikimedia communities, affiliates, and independent contributors to organize the
Feminism and Folklore 2026
writing competition on your local Wikipedia.
The international campaign will run from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and aims to improve coverage of feminism, women’s histories, gender-related topics, and folk culture across Wikipedia projects.
About the Campaign
Feminism and Folklore
is a global writing initiative that complements the
Wiki Loves Folklore
photography competition. While Wiki Loves Folklore focuses on visual documentation, this writing campaign addresses the
gender gap on Wikipedia
by improving encyclopedic content related to folk culture and marginalized voices.
What Can Participants Write About?
Communities can contribute by creating, expanding, or translating articles related to:
Folk festivals, rituals, and celebrations
Folk dances, music, and traditional performances
Women and queer figures in folklore
Women in mythology and oral traditions
Women warriors, witches, and witch-hunting narratives
Fairy tales, folk stories, and legends
Folk games, sports, and cultural practices
Participants may work from curated article lists or generate new article suggestions using campaign tools.
How to Sign Up as an Organizer
Organizers are requested to complete the following steps to register their community:
Create a local project page on your wiki
(see sample)
Set up the campaign using the
CampWiz
tool
Prepare a local article list and clearly mention:
Campaign timeline
Local and international prizes
Request a site notice from local administrators
(see sample)
Add your local project page and CampWiz link to the
Meta project page
Campaign Tools
The Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced tools to support organizers and participants:
Article List Generator by Topic
– Helps identify articles available on English Wikipedia but missing in your local language Wikipedia. The tool allows customized filters and provides downloadable article lists in CSV and wikitable formats.
CampWiz
– Enables communities to manage writing campaigns effectively, including jury-based evaluation. This will be the third year CampWiz is officially used for Feminism and Folklore.
Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.
Click here to access the tools
Learn More & Get Support
For detailed information about rules, timelines, and prizes, please visit the
Feminism and Folklore 2026 project page
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out via:
Meta talk page
Email us using details on the contact page.
Join Us
We look forward to your collaboration and coordination in making Feminism and Folklore 2026 a meaningful and impactful campaign for closing gender gaps and enriching folk culture content on Wikipedia.
Thank you and best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2026 International Team
Stay connected:
Invitation to Host Wiki Loves Folklore 2026 in Your Country
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Hello everyone,
We are delighted to invite Wikimedia affiliates, user groups, and community organizations worldwide to participate in
Wiki Loves Folklore 2026
, an international initiative dedicated to documenting and celebrating folk culture across the globe.
About Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Folklore
is an annual international photography competition hosted on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs from
1 February to 31 March 2026
and encourages photographers, cultural enthusiasts, and community members to contribute photographs that highlight:
Folk traditions and rituals
Cultural festivals and celebrations
Traditional attire and crafts
Performing arts, music, and dance
Everyday practices rooted in folk heritage
Through this campaign, we aim to preserve and promote diverse folk cultures and make them freely accessible to the world.
Project page on Wikimedia Commons
Host a Local Edition
As we celebrate the
eight edition
of Wiki Loves Folklore, we warmly invite communities to organize a local edition in their country or region. Hosting a local campaign is a great opportunity to:
Increase visibility of your region’s folk culture
Engage new contributors in your community
Enrich Wikimedia Commons with high-quality cultural content
Sign up to organize
If your team prefers to organize the competition in
either February or March only
, please feel free to let us know.
If you are unable to organize, we encourage you to share this opportunity with other interested groups or organizations in your region.
Get in Touch
If you have any questions, need support, or would like to explore collaboration opportunities, please feel free to contact us via:
The project Talk pages
Email:
support@wikilovesfolklore.org
We are also happy to connect via an online meeting if your team would like to discuss planning or coordination in more detail.
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF)
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Request for Comment: VisualEditor automatic reference names
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Hi, I’m Johannes from
Wikimedia Deutschland
’s
Technical Wishes team
. Apologies for writing in English.
Please help translate to your language
! We are considering to work on
Community Wishlist/W17: Improve VE references' automatic names and reuse
. This has been a long-term issue for wikitext editors (see e.g.
en:WP:VisualEditor/Named references
) which has been among the top-voted wishes in several
Community Wishlist Surveys
, e.g.
2017
2019
2022
or
2023
We would like your input on the
solutions
proposed on our project page:
m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names
. We are considering several options, which can be combined if desired by the community.
Changing the default pattern for automatically generated reference names (currently
":n"
, e.g.
":0"
":1"
...) to use the
reference type
instead (e.g.
"book_reference-1"
).
Providing a simple mechanism for communities to configure a different default name.
Generating automatic reference names based on the
domain name
(if it’s a web citation).
Generating automatic reference names based on template parameters (e.g. "title" or "last"+"first") – defined by the community.
Feedback
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Visit our project page
to read about our proposal in detail and share your thoughts
on metawiki
Please note
: We will only implement a solution if there’s clear consensus among the global community. Our intention is not to build the perfect solution, but to find a simple and lean one that alleviates the pain caused by auto generated names. We are aware that some experienced VisualEditor users might prefer an option to manually change reference names in VisualEditor, but such a UX intervention is difficult to achieve across reference types and thus out of scope for our team, we can only improve the auto-naming mechanism.
We are happy about suggestions for improving certain details of the proposed solutions. Any other feedback and alternative proposals are also welcome – even though it’s out of scope for us, it might still be relevant for future work on this topic.
Please support us interpreting consensus by clearly indicating your opinion (e.g. by using support/neutral/oppose templates). We are aware of
en:WP:NOTVOTE
, but given that we are facilitating this discussion with users from different wikis, potentially commenting in their native language, clearly indicating your position helps us avoid misunderstandings.
Thank you for participating!
Johannes Richter (WMDE)
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AI-generated pages
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Hi, apologies for this message being in English. I am messaging the community to notify you that
Jon Gua
and
Caro de Segeda
have been creating AI-generated pages on your Wikipedia. These two accounts are both operated by the same person. One example of this features on this Wikipedia on
Juan Luis de Nadal y de Quadras
, as the source features ?utm_source=chatgpt.com. I would have messaged this on an admins noticeboard but there isn't one on this wiki, but these pages should at least be considered for deletion, as these could be poorly translated, poorly sourced, have wrong information or a mix of these. If you have any questions, please ask. You can also refer to
m:User:Ferien/Chabi
and
m:Steward requests/Miscellaneous/2026-03#Mass machine translations/AI-generated pages
for more evidence and history. Pinging
Artomo
Fafnir
and
Joao Xavier
as this wiki's administrators. Thank you,
Ferien
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Join the sixth Ukraine’s Cultural Diplomacy Month on Wikipedia!
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Join our campaign!
Please help translate to your language
Dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine
, in cooperation with the
MFA of Ukraine
and
Ukrainian Institute
, has launched the sixth edition of writing challenge "
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month
", which lasts from
1st April
until
30th April 2026
The initiative aims to promote knowledge about Ukrainian culture abroad by creating and improving Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. This year marks the sixth edition of the campaign, which will focus on contemporary culture, making today’s artistic voices and practices more visible to international audiences.
How to participate?
Choose an article from the suggested list → Write an article in your language, or improve an existing one according to the rules → Add your contribution to the contest page and calculate your points → Win prizes and receive a certificate of participation → Become a promoter of truthful knowledge about Ukraine.
Check our main page for more information
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
If not, then we encourage you to translate the
landing page of the contest
and
banner
into your own language.
Also, we set up a
banner
to notify users of the possibility to participate in this challenge!
OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA)
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) 04:35, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
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Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
P14226
What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
P14226
instead of the old
P1846
P180
structure. A
list of pages
was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.
Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
P1846
to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
statements will be removed after
May 1, 2026
. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.
Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
ZI Jony
using
MediaWiki message delivery
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