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Hello. This is to notify the community that there is an ongoing global ban proposal for [[User:Slowking4]] who has been active on this wiki. You are invited to participate at [[metawiki:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)|m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)]]<nowiki>. Thank you.[[ئىشلەتكۈچى:Seawolf35|Seawolf35]] ([[ئىشلەتكۈچى مۇنازىرىسى:Seawolf35|سۆزلىشىش]]) 04:44, 15 مارت 2024 (UTC) |
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04:44, 15 مارت 2024 تۈزەتكەن نەشرى
ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم، ئۇيغۇرچە ۋىكىپېدىيە تور جەمئىيىتىگە خۇش كېلىپسىز. بۇ يەردە ۋىكىپېدىيەگە نىسپەتەن ھەر قانداق تەكلىپ، پىكىر، سۇئاللىرىڭىز بولسا ئوتتۇرىغا قويسىڭىز بولىدۇ. نۆۋەتتە بار بولغان ئەزالارمۇ ئورتاق مۇنازىرىلەرنى بۇ يەردە ئېلىپ بارساق بولىدۇ. مەلۇم تېمىغا خاس مۇنازىرىنى شۇ تېمىنىڭ مۇنازىرە بېتىدە ياكى بۇ يەردە ئېلىپ بارساقمۇ بولىدۇ.
دىققەت قىلىدىغان ئۈچ نۇقتا بار:
- كۆپچىلىكنىڭ كۆرۈپ پايدىلىنىشى ئۈچۈن، سۇئال ياكى جاۋابىڭىزنىڭ ئاخىرىغا توت دانە دولقۇنسىمان بەلگە (~~~~) قويۇشنى ئۇنتىماڭ. بەت ساقلانغاندىن كېيىن بۇ بەلگە ئاپتوماتىك ھالدا سىزنىڭ ئىمزايىڭىز ۋە چىسلاغا ئۆزگىرىدۇ.
- ئەگەر سىز مەلۇم بىر سۇئالغا جاۋاپ بەرمەكچى بولسىڭىز شۇ سۇئال بار بولغان ئابزاسنىڭ ئاخىرىدىكى «تەھرىر» ئۇلىنىشىنى بېسىپ ئابزاس تەھرىرىگە كىرىڭ. تەھرىرلەش رامكىسىدا پەقەت شۇ سۇئالغا مۇناسىۋەتلىك مەزمۇنلا كۆرۈنىدۇ، تەھرىرلىشىڭىز ئاسان بولىدۇ. ئەگەر بەت ئۈستىدىكى «تەھرىر» ئۇلىنىشىدىن كىرسىڭىز، تەھرىرلەش رامكىسىدا بارلىق مەزمۇن كۆرۈنۈپ، تەھرىرلەش ئاۋارىچىلىق بولىدۇ.
- ئەگەر سىز باشقىلارنىڭ سۇئالىغا جاۋاپ بەرمەكچى بولسىڭىز قۇرنىڭ بېشىغا قوش چېكىت بەلگىسى (:) دىن بىرنى ئارتۇق قوشۇڭ، ئالدىدىكى سۇئال ياكى جاۋاپنىڭ قۇر بېشىدا (:) بەلگىسى بولمىسا بىرنى قويۇڭ؛ ئەسلىدە بىرسى بولسا ئىككىنى قويۇڭ؛ ئەسلىدە ئىككىسى بولسا ئۈچنى قويۇڭ. شۇ بويىچە كۆپەيتىپ ماڭسىڭىز بولىدۇ.
سۇئال ياكى تەكلىپ - پىكىرلىرىڭىز بولسا قېنى بۇ يەردىن باشلاڭ/ Add Topic
- كونا ئارخىپلار: < 2013- يىلىدىن بۇرۇنقى مەزمۇنلار > < 2014- يىلىدىن 2015- يىلغىچە بولغان مەزمۇنلار > <
2016- يىلىدىن 2022 ماي- يىلغىچە بولغان مەزمۇنلار >
Wordmark
Hello, we will change the wordmark with File:Wikipedia-wordmark-ug.svg. Please share your opinion with us. Thank you --TayfunEt. (سۆزلىشىش) 16:26, 28 ماي 2022 (UTC)
Support
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Conclusion
✓ Done; Mobile Wikipedia Wordmark
TayfunEt. (سۆزلىشىش) 20:42, 13 ئىيۇن 2022 (UTC)
Request for Temporary (3 month) Adminship
Hello. I apologize for writing in English; I am not fluent in Uyghur. I am a VRT Permissions Agent and I would like to perform copyright cleanup on the images hosted on Uyghur Wikipedia. To do this, I require the administrator rights to delete files that violate copyright law. Since there are about 240 images that need to be reviewed, I believe that temporary adminship will be sufficient to complete this task
Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:55, 25 سىنتەبىر 2022 (UTC)
Local Request for Administratorship extension/Red-tailed hawk
Hello. I apologize for writing in English; I am not fluent in Uyghur. I am a VRT Permissions Agent and I would like to continue to perform copyright cleanup on the images hosted on Uyghur Wikipedia. To do this, I require the administrator rights to delete files that violate copyright law. Since there are now still about 140 images that need to be reviewed, I believe that a temporary extension of adminship will be helpful in continuing to make progress on this task as well as to help the project smoothly function. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 05:46, 8 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Support
قوللايمەن Support as requester. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 05:46, 8 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Against
none
Conclusion
This request for adminiship was successful.
How can I read in Latin Uyghur?拉丁维文怎么调出来
Hello, do you have a latin version in uyghur wikipeida? How can I change the settings into latin？你们好，请问你们维文维基百科能调成拉丁维文吗 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 07:02, 28 ئۆكتەبىر 2022 (UTC)
- User:不慎言行非法师魔女: Hello. There is currently no feature installed on the Uyghur Wikipedia that allows for latin Uyghur to be read on all pages; pages are written in one script and there is no on-the-fly transliteration. However, there is a open request for the Wikimedia software developers to add this capability into the Uyghur Wikipedia. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 20:32, 30 ئۆكتەبىر 2022 (UTC)
- Got it,thank you 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 12:39, 2 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)
- you lied you do have one 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 15:22, 14 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)
- I know there are some pages where this is possible (we have a separately written latin version of an article), but I'm not aware of a way to do this for all pages. How did you get it to work for all pages? Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 16:35, 14 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)
Join the Movement Charter conversation hour for ESEAP region
Dear all,
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) is currently collecting community feedback about three draft sections of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent).
How can you participate and share your feedback?
The MCDC is looking forward to receiving all types of feedback in different languages from the community members across the Movement and Affiliates. You can participate in the following ways:
- Attend one of the scheduled community conversation hours with MCDC members; detail for the ESEAP session below;
- Fill out a survey (optional and anonymous);
- Share your thoughts and feedback on the Meta talk page;
- Share your thoughts and feedback on the Movement Strategy Forum:
- Preamble
- Values & Principles
- Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent); or
- Send an email to قېلىپ:Nospam if you have other feedback to the MCDC.
The community consultation session for the ESEAP region will take place on Friday, 9 December 2022 at 09:00-10:30 UTC. The session will be held on Zoom; the link will be shared at the page 48 hours before the session. Live interpretation in Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian will be available. The conversations will not be recorded, except for the section where participants are invited to share what they discussed in the breakout rooms. The facilitation team will take notes and produce a summary report afterwards.
If you want to learn more about the Movement Charter, its goals, why it matters and how it impacts your community, please watch the recording (in English) of the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions which took place earlier in November 2022. You can also watch the recording in Chinese and in Japanese.
Thank you for your participation.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF) and VChang (WMF) 01:01, 2 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Reminder to provide feedback on the Movement Charter content
Hi all,
We are in the middle of the community consultation period on the three draft sections of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent).
You are invited to attend the community consultation session for East Asia, South East Asia, and the Pacific region (ESEAP) which will take place on Friday, 9 December 2022 at 09:00-10:30 UTC. The session will be held on Zoom; please join the meeting via this link. Live interpretation will be available in Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.
This community consultation period will end on 18 December 2022. The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) encourages everyone who is interested in the governance of the Wikimedia movement to share their thoughts and opinions on the draft content of the Charter. Apart from joining the live conversation, you can also share your feedback via different channels provided below:
- Fill out an anonymous survey
- Share your thoughts and feedback on the Movement Strategy Forum
- Share your thoughts and feedback on the Meta Talk pages
- Send an email to: [email protected] if you have other feedback to the MCDC
You can also find the ESEAP facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the ESEAP 28th Community Meeting on Sunday, 11 December 2022 to share your thoughts. Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for your participation in this community consultation!
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 06:37, 9 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!
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Hello
The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.
We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!
The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:
- Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
- Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
- Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
- Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023
If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
Thank you! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Movement Charter: End of the community consultation round 1
Hi everyone,
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our first community wide consultation period on the Movement Charter.
People from across the Movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of the Movement Charter. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so still by giving the drafts a read and filling out the anonymous survey, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close on January 2, 2023. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: [email protected].
What’s next?
The Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish the final report with the summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.
After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.
We invite you to sign-up to the MCDC monthly newsletter, it will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice. Monthly updates are available on Meta to remain updated on the progress of the MCDC.
Interested people can still sign-up to become a Movement Charter Ambassador (MC Ambassador) to support their community. The MC Ambassadors Program grant program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.
We thank you for your participation, time and effort in helping to build the Charter for our Movement!
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:25, 16 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Vote for your favourite Wikimedia sound logo
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We are really sorry for posting in English
Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices. Learn more on Diff.
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners and the selection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.
Best wishes, Arupako-WMF (سۆزلىشىش) 16:32, 17 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2023
Dear Wiki Community,
Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
- Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
- Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
- Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
- Request local admins for site notice.
- Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on the meta project page.
This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to [email protected] with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team
- Stay connected
- Stay connected
--MediaWiki message delivery (سۆزلىشىش) 10:24, 24 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)
Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
Hello all,
In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.
The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.
The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.
How to vote?
Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.
Who can vote?
The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.
What happens after the vote?
Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:28, 11 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)
Voting now open on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct
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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 will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.
For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:50, 18 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)
Enabling Content and Section translation tool in Uyghur Wikipedia
Hello Friends!
Apologies as this message is not in your native language, Please help translate to your language.
The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we will like to enable the Section and Content translation tool in Uyghur Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test the new Section Translation tool so you can:
- Give us your feedback
- Ask us questions
- Tell us how to improve it
Below is background information about the tools and how you can test the Section translation tool.
Background information
Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. However, the tool is not out of beta in Uyghur Wikipedia, limiting the discoverability of the tool and its use and blocking the enablement of the Section translation in your Wikipedia
Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
- Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones
- Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device
We plan to enable the tools on Uyghur Wikipedia in the coming week if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tools and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have as a reply to this message or on the project talk page
Try the Section translation tool
Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Uyghur Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.
Provide feedback
Please provide feedback about Section translation on the project talk page. We want to hear about your impressions on
- The section translation tool
- What do you think about our plans to enable it
- Your ideas for improving the tool
Thanks and we look forward to your feedback and questions.
~~~~ On behalf of the WMF Language team UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 23:50, 31 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)
- To what extent have native speakers been able to test the automatic translations made by the tool? Machine translation of Uyghur is generally not all that great, and I'm a bit skeptical regarding how this will affect UgWiki Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:16, 4 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- Pinging User:UOzurumba (WMF) Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:38, 5 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you, Red-tailed hawk, for your question; the Machine translation support in the Content and Section translation tools is meant to be a starting point to aid them in translating articles efficiently; this is to say that a translator can not publish an initial machine translation without reviewing and editing it.
- So, there is a mechanism in content translation that measures the level of modification a user makes to the machine translation provided before it is published. In other words, the system notes how many words were added, removed and modified in percentage, which can be adjusted in your Wikipedia to improve the quality of translation if there is a need for that.
- With the mechanism in place, your community can monitor the quality of content created with the Machine translation and adjust the machine translation limit (make the machine translation limit more strict if necessary). The above measure ensures that translated articles meet the required quality and takes care of your worries. Also, translators can choose the "Start with an empty paragraph option" when translating.
- So far, UgWiki has translated 87 articles using Content translation. Bringing it out of beta and enabling the Section translation will make the tool more discoverable and increase content in Uyghur Wikipedia.
- I hope this helped answer your question
- UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 18:08, 6 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, Red-tailed hawk; the WMF Language team would like to enable the Content and Section translation tool this week for your Wikipedia since there are no objections.
- Thank you!
- UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 16:48, 14 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- I am generally very skeptical of the utility of these tools if the machine translations are not all that good and would likely serve (on this wiki) to create more damage to the project through improper machine translation than benefit by ease-of-use by native speakers. For that reason, I lean in opposition to the broader implementation of the tool. If you would like the broader community to weigh in, discussion in the Uyghur language is going to be necessary; much of the Uyghur world has limited or no understanding of English, and low-quality machine translations will lose the nuance of things like this. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 01:11, 15 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- @Red-tailed hawk About your scepticism of the misuse of machine translation, we can only know if we enable it in your Wiki and also have data showing that most of the translations done with the tool are substandard, which would out way the benefits of having the tools and improving the translation experience towards bridging the content gap, translating with ease and other advantages having the tool offers.
- If it helps, we can evaluate the tools' usefulness after it is enabled for some time. If there are challenges with it, your community can provide us with feedback, and we will work with your feedback to improve it or remove it, as the case may be. Please, let us know what you think.
- I am generally very skeptical of the utility of these tools if the machine translations are not all that good and would likely serve (on this wiki) to create more damage to the project through improper machine translation than benefit by ease-of-use by native speakers. For that reason, I lean in opposition to the broader implementation of the tool. If you would like the broader community to weigh in, discussion in the Uyghur language is going to be necessary; much of the Uyghur world has limited or no understanding of English, and low-quality machine translations will lose the nuance of things like this. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 01:11, 15 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- Pinging User:UOzurumba (WMF) Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:38, 5 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
- Also, I would appreciate it if you could help with the translation (if you can), with
the hope that other people from your community will read this announcement, test the tool and give us feedback on enabling it.
- Best regards,
- UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 20:14, 10 مارت 2023 (UTC)
- Alas, I cannot help well with the translation. However, if you would like to reach the community more broadly, cross-posting in Russian and Mandarin Chinese would probably help. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:32, 12 مارت 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you@Red-tailed hawk, for your reply and suggestion to cross-post in Russian and Mandarin. Do you mean that translating this message into Russian or Mandarin Chinese and then posting the translation here will help, or do you mean cross-posting this message in English in the Russian and Mandarin Chinese village pump? Sorry for the disturbance, I want to be sure I understand this.
- UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 18:00, 13 مارت 2023 (UTC)
- I mean translating this into Russian and Mandarin, and then posting it here. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 18:09, 13 مارت 2023 (UTC)
- Alas, I cannot help well with the translation. However, if you would like to reach the community more broadly, cross-posting in Russian and Mandarin Chinese would probably help. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:32, 12 مارت 2023 (UTC)
Voting on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct is closed
Hello all,
The vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now closed. The results will now be counted and scrutinized to ensure that only eligible votes are included. Results will be published on Meta and other movement forums as soon as they become available, as well as information on future steps. Thank you to all who participated in the voting process, and who have contributed to the drafting of Guidelines.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 11:34, 3 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results
The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. Statistics for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.
From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 16:06, 14 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.
The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.
This update comes in response to several things:
- Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
- Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
- Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
- Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act
As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.
For further information, please consult:
- The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
- The page for your feedback
- Information about the office hours
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 22:50, 21 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
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Trizek (WMF) (مۇنازىرە) 21:21, 27 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!
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Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!
ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Copyright issues on the Uyghur Wikipedia
The vast majority of images on the Uyghur Wikipedia are not provided with computer-readable license tags, which are required by WMF:Resolution:Licensing policy because we do not have an exemption doctrine policy. As an administrator, I have been working over the past several months to move public domain files from this Wiki to Commons, as well as to delete clear violations of copyrights. I will be attempting to complete this work this month; if any files are not tagged with a valid template or otherwise moved to Commons by the end of the month (UTC), then those files will be deleted as presumptive violations of copyright. I will do my utmost over the next month to try to figure out which files are in the public domain or can otherwise be kept under the WMF resolution, but, in the event that there is no evidence by the end of the month that a file is uploaded under a valid free license, then that file will be deleted. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:31, 2 مارت 2023 (UTC)
Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions
Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:
The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the vote statistics on Meta-wiki.
As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The resolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.
There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:55, 23 مارت 2023 (UTC)
Report on voter comments from the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines ratification vote
Hello all,
The Universal Code of Conduct project team has completed the analysis of the comments accompanying the ratification vote on the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines.
All respondents to the vote had the opportunity to provide comments regarding the contents of the revised Enforcement Guidelines draft document. A total of 369 participants left comments in 18 languages; compared to 657 commenters in 27 languages in 2022. The Trust and Safety Policy team completed an analysis of these results, categorizing comments to identify major themes and areas of focus within the comments. The report is available in translated versions on Meta-wiki here. Please help translate into your language.
Again, we are thankful to all who participated in the vote and discussions. More information about the Universal Code of Conduct and its Enforcement Guidelines can be found on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the Universal Code of Conduct project team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 14:40, 31 مارت 2023 (UTC)
Upcoming community review of the Movement Charter ratification methodology
Hello everyone,
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) will propose a ratification methodology for the future Movement Charter on April 10, 2023. The proposed ratification methodology is a result of learnings from previous ratification processes.
The MCDC will organize a consultation period with the Wikimedia Movement to hear feedback on the proposed ratification methodology from April 10 to 28, 2023. People will be invited to share their feedback on the questions mainly via the Meta Talk page discussion, on the Movement Strategy Forum, and during the community conversation hours. The MCDC welcomes your input on some open questions.
Join the community conversation hours
The MCDC invites everyone interested in sharing their feedback on the proposed methodology to join the community conversation hours:
- Community conversation hour #1: 18 April at 10:00 UTC (your local time)
- Community conversation hour #2: 24 April at 17:00 UTC (your local time)
When signing up, please leave a comment if you need language support. Please note that language interpretation will be provided if at least 3 people expressed interest to participate in the following languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.
Thank you,
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:38, 6 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
Elections Committee: Call for New Members
Hello everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation elections committee (Elections Committee) is, from today until April 24, seeking an additional 2–4 members to help facilitate the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee (Board) selection process.
The 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election is being planned. New members are invited to join the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee oversees the Board of Trustees community seat selection process. Join the committee and contribute your valuable skills and ideas to the Trustee selection process.
There are eight community- and affiliate-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board. The wider Wikimedia community votes for community members to occupy these seats. In 2024, the Elections Committee will oversee this selection process for the community- and affiliate-selected seats with expiring terms. This process will be supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Elections Committee members sign up for three-year terms and will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Members can expect to contribute 2–5 hours per week before the selection process and 5–8 hours per week during the selection process.
As an Elections Committee member, you will be responsible for:
- Attending online meetings between now and the next election (mid-2024)
- Attending onboarding and online training in May–June 2023
- Working with the Committee to fulfill its other responsibilities
New members should have the following qualities:
- Fluency in English
- Responsiveness to email collaboration
- Knowledge of the movement and movement governance
If you would like to volunteer for this role, please submit your candidacy by April 24, 2023 23:59 on this Meta-Wiki page.
You can read the full announcement here. Thank you in advance for your interest! If you are not interested but know someone who might be, share this message with them. Please let me know if you have questions.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:41, 12 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
Call for early input on the proposed Movement Charter ratification methodology
Hello all,
The [[<tvar name="mcdc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Drafting Committee</tvar>|Movement Charter Drafting Committee]] (MCDC) has started to collect input from the Wikimedia movement on the [[<tvar name="mcm">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Ratification</tvar>|proposed methodology for the ratification of the Movement Charter]] from April 10 to 28, 2023. Ratification of the [[<tvar name="mc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter</tvar>|Movement Charter]] is planned to take place in early 2024 according to the timeline.
There are [[<tvar name="mcm2">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Ratification</tvar>|six questions]] that the MCDC requests your input on. Please share your feedback by:
- Commenting on the [[<tvar name="tmc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Movement Charter</tvar>|Meta talk page]]
- Commenting on the [<tvar name="forum">https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/movement-charter-ratification-methodology-community-review-from-10-28-april-2023/2930</tvar> Movement Strategy forum]
- Joining the community conversation hours; the first conversation hour will take place on 18 April at 10:00 UTC ([<tvar name="1">https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1681812036</tvar> your local time]). [[<tvar name="mccc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Community Consultation</tvar>|When signing up]], please leave a comment if you need language support by April 16, 2023. We will try our best to provide language interpretation if at least three people expressed interest.
If you have any questions, kindly let us know.
On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 13:33, 14 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
Rename
Hi, in sitename is written Wikipedia, but it needs to be ۋىكىپېدىيە (in Uyghur language). Please share your opinion with us. Zolgoyo (سۆزلىشىش) 09:36, 17 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 26 April. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
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Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations
The main purpose of this message is to share with you the draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation for the coming fiscal year from July 2023 to June 2024. The summary of the annual plan is available in multiple languages.
Some Excerpts from the Annual Plan Draft
The Wikimedia Foundation has remained in a period of transition. It welcomed new leadership last year, including a new Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product and Technology Officer. Additionally, the Foundation has navigated conversations with global communities on a range of important issues, from a future charter defining roles and responsibilities, to how we raise shared resources through banner fundraising. This year's Annual Plan attempts to provide more clarity on multi-year strategic issues that do not have quick fixes, and more detailed information on how the Foundation operates.
For the second consecutive year, the Wikimedia Foundation is anchoring its annual plan in the movement's strategy to advance equity. The intention is to connect the Foundation's work even more deeply with the Movement Strategy Recommendations to make even deeper progress towards the 2030 Strategic Direction. This year, the Foundation is recentering its plan around Product and Technology, emphasizing our unique role as a platform for people and communities collaborating on a massive scale. If you are interested to learn more, you can find detailed information on this meta page.
Requesting Your Feedback
Your feedback is highly appreciated, whether being on Meta discussion page or sharing at your local discussion space. Your comments and reflections will help improve the proposal before the Foundation’s Board of Trustees considers the plan and budget in their June meeting.
Community Conversations
Everyone is also invited to participate in the virtual conversation on 30th April 2023 at 6am UTC (check your local time here), which is planned for participants from the Asia Pacific timezone. Kindly see the Diff calendar here. Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer will be joining the call to share more and learn about your thoughts. You can find the information relating to virtual conversations on the collaboration page. We look forward to seeing you in the upcoming conversation!
VChang (WMF) 13:31, 25 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process
Hello,
As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:
- Community members in good standing
- Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
- Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
- Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
- Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
- Confidently able to communicate in English
The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.
The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject
wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
Xeno (WMF) 19:01, 26 ئاپرېل 2023 (UTC)
Selection of the U4C Building Committee
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.
-- UCoC Project Team, 04:20, 27 ماي 2023 (UTC)
MinT Machine Translation added to Uyghur Wikipedia
Hello Uyghur Wikipedians!
Apologies as this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.
The WMF Language team has added another machine translation (MT) system for Content Translation in your Wikipedia called MinT; you can use MinT machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles using the Content Translation tool.
The WMF Language team provides the MinT service. It is hosted in the Wikimedia Foundation Infrastructure with neural machine translation models that other organizations have released with an open-source license. MinT integrates translation based on NLLB-200 and OpusMT and will replace those as separate options. This MT is set as optional in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.
Since MinT is hosted in the WMF Infrastructure and the models are open source, it adheres to Wikipedia's policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user and brand representation. You can find more information about the MinT Machine translation and the models on this page.
Please note that the use of the MinT MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:
- use it to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
- provide feedback about the service and its quality, and ask questions about this addition.
We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translation tool.
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 20:59, 13 ئىيۇن 2023 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team.
Announcing the new Elections Committee members
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) 18:00, 28 ئىيۇن 2023 (UTC)
Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
Hello!
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:
<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>
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:
<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>
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 ئىيۇل 2023 (UTC)
Preparatory Council Nomination and Voting Information
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Dear Communities and individual contributors in the ESEAP Regional Cooperation:
The ESEAP Interim Hub Committee's mandate shall conclude with Wikimania 2023; culminating with their handover to a new ESEAP Preparatory Council.
This Preparatory Council will continue to define, until its completion, ESEAP's Roles and Responsibilities document.
The Council shall also finalize ESEAP's pilot grant plan for the first year; concluding with the ESEAP Conference in 2024.
The Preparatory Council will consist of 9 seats;
- 4 of the 9 seats will be allocated for Affiliates and voted exclusively by Affiliates. Each affiliate will have a maximum of 4 votes.
- 3 seats will be allocated for Communities from ESEAP, duly verified, and voted exclusively by the Communities. Each community will have a maximum of 3 votes.
- 2 seats will be allocated for Individual contributors and will be voted by Popular Vote ‐ voted exclusively by individual contributors. Each individual voter has a maximum of 2 votes.
Should your community wish to nominate a candidate, please nominate your community with the name of the candidate by August 19th. The voting will be happening betwen August 20nd and September 2nd.
Should you (individual contributor) want to nominate an individual, please nominate the person by August 19th. The voting will be happening between August 20nd and September 2nd.
With the time being so short, we need your cooperation and participation as soon as possible.
The election for the seats will be held on the this Meta page.
Let's move forward together!
Sincerely,
VChang (WMF) 09:21, 17 ئاۋغۇست 2023 (UTC)
Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.
The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.
Best,
RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 ئاۋغۇست 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 20 September. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 20 September 2023.
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- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 09:24, 15 سىنتەبىر 2023 (UTC)
== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
More languages • Please help translate to your languageHi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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
01:13, 17 ئۆكتەبىر 2023 (UTC)
Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this Registration form.
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would compensate you for your time.
For more information, visit our project issue page where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you, Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Feminism and Folklore 2024
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
- Stay connected
- Stay connected
--MediaWiki message delivery (سۆزلىشىش) 07:26, 18 يانۋار 2024 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
Please help translate to your language
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
-- MediaWiki message delivery (سۆزلىشىش) 07:26, 18 يانۋار 2024 (UTC)
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) 18:08, 19 يانۋار 2024 (UTC)
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.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 17:00, 31 يانۋار 2024 (UTC)
Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 18:24, 12 فېۋرال 2024 (UTC)
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) (talk)
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,
RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 مارت 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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)
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 مارت 2024 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on 20 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 20 March 2024.
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
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.
Trizek (WMF), 00:01, 15 مارت 2024 (UTC)
Global ban proposal for Slowking4
Hello. This is to notify the community that there is an ongoing global ban proposal for User:Slowking4 who has been active on this wiki. You are invited to participate at m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Slowking4 (2)<nowiki>. Thank you.Seawolf35 (سۆزلىشىش) 04:44, 15 مارت 2024 (UTC)