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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) (talk) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

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:

1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
2. Set up a campaign on CampWiz tool.
3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
4. Request local admins for site notice.
5. 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  

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:26, 18 januare 2024 (UTC)

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

-- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:26, 18 januare 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 januare 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 januare 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) 18:23, 12 februare 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 marte 2024 (UTC)

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

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

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

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

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 marte 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.

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.

Trizek (WMF), 00:01, 15 marte 2024 (UTC)

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) 20:21, 25 aprile 2024 (UTC)

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

Hello all,

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

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

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

MediaWiki message delivery 21:23, 14 maye 2024 (UTC)

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) 02:25, 22 maye 2024 (UTC)

Interwikis

Wikipedie e kompleti horore de fika interwikis. Me ne pove chanjo lus en Tomsk e Kishinau. Grigoriy Korotkih (talk) 20:40, 26 maye 2024 (UTC)

Done! IJzeren Jan⇒✉ 13:38, 2 june 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Grigoriy Korotkih (talk) 17:33, 4 june 2024 (UTC)

Wild idea

Ten years ago, when I was an admin here, the thought occurred to me that we might as well open up the Novial Wikipedia for similar language projects. At present, there are requests to create Wikipedias in Interglossa and Neo. A similar request for Glosa was rejected. In addition, there are wikis for languages like Idiom Neutral, Intal, Glosa, Uropi, Latino Sine Flexione and Novlingue at Fandom (former Wikicities and Wikia). Every now and then, someone decides to revive some forgotten or near-dead auxlang, creates some content in it, then loses interest, and ultimately the project dies. Sooner or later, the work done by these people is going to disappear. Minor auxlangs like these are simply too small to successfully develop a separate Wikipedia project. And as we all know, feelings about constructed languages are not always favourable, to put it mildly. Besides, since all these auxlangs are essentially based on the same linguistic material and mutually intelligible, one might easily consider them dialects of the same language.

Hence my question: would it be an idea to allow users of other Euroclones (excluding those that already have their own Wikipedia, of course) to create articles here? Every page could carry a template that says which language it is and places it in a special category. Some Wikipedias already work like that, for example the Ligurian and Alemannic editions. It's even possible to have the same article in multiple languages. In my opinion, this solution would have several advantages: it could generate some extra activity over here, and in addition, it will put an end to fruitless deletion discussions and hopeless requests for new projects. It can easily be done, too: it's simply something the local community can decide, so no discussions and decisions from outside are needed. What do you think? Cheers, IJzeren Jan⇒✉ 13:42, 2 june 2024 (UTC)

This would be against the rules and makes no sense if these languages have no relation to Novial. The dialects of Novial itself like Novilingue can be present, but not other ones like Glossa or LsF. Wikipedia would not allow new small constructed languages. The Novial Wikipedia has more articles than many other Wikipedias and it has stabilized recently and Novial still has follower in contrast to the languages you mentioned. KardonaBoske (talk) 21:52, 2 june 2024 (UTC)

Well, it's not necessarily against the rules. When people ask for a Wikipedia in some dialect, they often the answer: go to language X and ask if it's okay to write in that dialect too. It's up to the local community, basically. And you probably know that Novial was partly based on (or at least inspired by) Idiom Neutral, and that Intal is partly based on Novial. It's one big family of interrelated language projects, really, although you are right that Glosa and LSF are more remote. But don't worry, it was just a suggestion and I'm certainly not going to push it. Cheers, IJzeren Jan⇒✉ 22:46, 2 june 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't go against the rules, but I don't know what to say. Nobody is going to write articles in Novlingue because the author has abandoned the project. I would keep the wiki in Glosa aside, as it is alive given the fact that Gary Miller (Tweety^0809) is editing it every single week. I don't think the author of Uropi would agree with this, he himself is quite busy, just translating the grammar of Elefen sentence by sentence and it is taking him a long time (I don't know who else speaks the language). The wiki of LsF was created to keep all articles found on the internet on one place but after gathering them, nobody has done anything. I cannot speak for Idiom Neutral and Intal, but the wiki in IN was edited by the same person that is now busy with the project in Neo, so I wouldn't give him more jobs now. I don't now of anybody that speaks Intal, nor the wiki has been edited for a while.

Those are my thoughts, but maybe others disagree. IMHO, I would suggest to focus on the wikis in Interslavic, Novial and Neo, and if anybody want to write in any of the abovementioned languages, he can go to those fandom wikis. Only the one in Glosa is active so I wouldn't really bother even moving that one. Jon Gua (talk) 07:35, 3 june 2024 (UTC)

After reading this, I would suggest a new wikipedia, like euroclone.wikipedia.org, for articles in languages other than IE, IA and NOV, like IN and Neo, maybe LsF and other Pan-Romance languages. I believe that, by gathering all those languages together on one project, it would have people working every day. Something like this wiki. Jon Gua (talk) 11:23, 3 june 2024 (UTC)

I doubt you can do it as official Wikipedia, but as fandom Wiki. Uropi is not really a euroclon and not understandable for speakers of Novial. KardonaBoske (talk) 21:37, 3 june 2024 (UTC)

Problem with Fandom is that it is stuffed with advertizing and it doesn't even remotely remind of what it used to be in the past. For me, that was a reason to leave it. Miraheze is a good alternative, though. Orain was very nice as well, but then... *pufff* it was suddenly gone, including all the work that had been done since the last dump. That's why I am always a bit sceptical about commercial wiki farms. IJzeren Jan⇒✉ 22:20, 3 june 2024 (UTC)

Can you help me translating the rest of the rest of Wikipedia menu in Novial? How can I do this? KardonaBoske (talk) 21:28, 4 june 2024 (UTC)

I'm the person editing the Neo (in part) and IN wikis, although I don't use Fandom for IN anymore, I recreated it on Miraheze (Ensiklopedi in Idiom Neutral), because I cannot cope with the adverts. I didn't set up the IN-Fandom page (so can't delete it), but I'm not going to be editing it anymore. I understand that Miraheze requires constant editing lest deletion should fall upon you, so I've been trying to edit at least once a day.

While a euroclone wikipedia would be nice, I think for languages like Idiom Neutral, which have not been used in earnest for over 100 years, there would need to be a community of speakers (not just me) that could come to agreement on new vocabulary, finer points of grammar etc. I'm happy keeping it on Miraheze to build up the articles, and if anything should come of this, I'll be ready to go! If not, I'll enjoy it for enjoyment's sake. Omnihom (talk) 21:31, 4 june 2024 (UTC)

I did with some other people around 10 years ago a bit Idiom Neutral. There was even a short lived magazine in the internet. Its still a great language. Valodnieks (talk) 22:33, 4 june 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, yes, I remember Vok Neutral and the work of Washirei – I didn't mean to suggest no one is earnestly using it, it was more a reflection on the paucity of speakers now for these much older auxlangs. A euroclone wikipedia would be nice, but there are very few people speaking these languages (IN, LsF, etc) in the same space, so building any sort of community that could have the discussions required to make it a viable, sustained project seems difficult. However, I suppose a centralised location could be better for building up those communities. Omnihom (talk) 01:17, 5 june 2024 (UTC)

As far as I can see, it would be better to leave the Novial Wikipedia just for Novial, and try to get a Neo Wikipedia. For other languages like Glosa, and LsF, let's leave them on their fandom wikis, because only one person dits the Glosa wiki and he is happy with that one, and nobody edits the LsF wiki. Could you please vote here, @IJzeren Jan? Jon Gua (talk) 06:43, 5 june 2024 (UTC)

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)
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• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
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• Central and East Europe (CEE)
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• Sub-Saharan Africa
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• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
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The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
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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) 08:15, 3 june 2024 (UTC)

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.

On behalf of the MCDC,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:44, 11 june 2024 (UTC)