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Wiki Loves Folklore

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 06:14, 18 იანვარი 2020 (UTC)

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 იანვარი 2020 (UTC)

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:15, 26 თებერვალი 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new უპასუხე tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

19:24, 8 აპრილი 2020 (UTC)

Help with translation

(I apologize for posting in English ): Dear colleagues, We are organizing a project called WPWP that focus on the use of images collected as part of various contest and photowalks on Wikipedia articles across all languages and our team needs your help with translations into the language of this community. Here is the translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikipedia+Pages+Wanting+Photos&language=en&action=page&filter= I am sorry if I post in the won't venue. Thanks in anticipation. T Cells ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 17:36, 13 აპრილი 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This issue of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature is called "განხილვის ხელსაწყოები". The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

20:33, 17 ივნისი 2020 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 ივლისი 2020 (UTC)

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Feedback on movement names

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. გმადლობთ!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 19:44, 2 ივლისი 2020 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

Editing news 2020 #3

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More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors. Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:

• More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• The visual editor is increasingly popular. The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

12:55, 9 ივლისი 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:06, 9 ივლისი 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis

The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. How does it work?

Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page.

Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community.

Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons.

If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team:

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:13, 6 აგვისტო 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

წაიკითხეთ ეს შეტყობინება სხვა ენაზე

ფონდი ვიკიმედია აპირებს დატესტოს თავისი მეორადი მონაცემთა ცენტრი. ეს იმის გარანტიას მოგვცემს, რომ ვიკიპედია და ვიკიმედიის სხვა პროექტები კატასტროფის შემთხვევაშიც უწყვეტ რეჟიმში გააგრძელებს მუშაობას. იმაში დასარწმუნებლად, რომ ყველაფერი კარგად მუშაობს, ვიკიმედიის ტექნიკურ განყოფილებას გეგმური შემოწმების ჩატარება სჭირდება. ეს ტესტი აჩვენებს შესაძლებელია თუ არა მონაცემთა ცენტრებს შორის საიმედო გადართვა. ის მრავალი მუშა ჯგუფისგან ტესტირების მომზადებას და ნებისმიერი აღმოჩენილი ხარვეზის გასწორებას მოითხოვს.

მთელი ტრაფიკის მეორად მონაცემთა ცენტრზე გადართვა 2020 წლის 1 სექტემბერს, სამშაბათს განხორციელდება.

სამწუხაროდ, MediaWiki-ს ძრავის გარკვეული შეზღუდვების გამო, გადართვის პერიოდში რედაქტირების განხორციელება შეუძლებელი იქნება. ბოდიშს გიხდით შექმნილი უხერხულობისთვის და ჩვენ ვმუშაობთ იმაზე, რომ მომავალში მსგავსი სამუშაოების აუცილებლობა შევამციროთ.

მოკლე პერიოდის განმავლობაში თქვენ შეძლებთ წაიკითხოთ სტატიები ნებისმიერ ვიკიში, მაგრამ ვერ დაარედაქტირებთ მათ.

• რედაქტირების შეზღუდვა 1 სექტემბერს, სამშაბათს დაახლოებით ერთი საათის განმავლობაში გაგრძელდება. ტესტირება დაიწყება 14:00-ზე UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST და ახალ ზელანდიაში 2 სექტემბერს, ოთხშაბათს 02:00-ზე NZST).
• ამ პერიოდის განმავლობაში თუ თქვენ შეეცდებით რედაქტირებას ან შენახვას, მაშინ ეკრანზე შეცდომის შეტყობინება გამოვა. იმედი გვაქვს, რომ ამ დროის განმავლობაში განხორციელებული ცვლილებები არ დაიკარგება, მაგრამ ჩვენ ამის გარანტიას ვერ ვიძლევით. თუკი თქვენ შეცდომის შეტყობინებას დაინახავთ, მაშინ გთხოვთ, სიტუაციის გამოსწორებამდე მოიცადოთ. ამის შემდეგ თქვენ შეძლებთ რედაქტირების შენახვას. თუმცა, ჩვენ მაინც გირჩევთ შეინახოთ თქვენი ცვლილებების სარეზერვო ასლი.

სხვა ეფექტები:

• ფონური დავალებები შენელებულად შესრულდება და ზოგიერთი შესაძლოა გაუქმდეს. შესაძლოა წითელი ბმულები ისევე სწრაფად არ განახლდეს, როგორც ეს ჩვეულებრივ ხდება. თუკი თქვენ შექმნით სტატიას რომელზეც უკვე სადმე არსებობს ბმულები, ეს ბმულები წითლად უფრო დიდი ხნით დარჩება, ვიდრე ჩვეულებრივ. საჭირო იქნება ზოგიერთი ხანგრძლივად შესრულებადი სკრიპტების გაჩერება.
• 2020 წლის 1 სექტემბრიდან ერთი კვირის განმავლობაში კოდის გაყინვა მოხდება. კოდის არაკრიტიკული დამატებების მიღება არ განხორციელდება.

საჭიროების შემთხვევაში ეს პროექტი შეიძლება გადაიდოს. განრიგი თქვენ შეგიძლიათ იხილოთ wikitech.wikimedia.org-ზე. ნებისმიერი ცვლილება ასახული იქნება განრიგში. ასევე ამის შესახებ მეტი შეტყობინება იქნება. გთხოვთ, გაავრცელოთ ეს ინფორმაცია თქვენს საზოგადოებაში.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 აგვისტო 2020 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
• Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
• RILM – Music encyclopedias

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Opt-in to Global Sysop assistance

Hello users of the Georgian Wikipedia,

I would like to propose that this wiki (kawiki) opt-in to Global Sysop assistance which would allow global sysops to help this wiki with anti-vandalism actions, especially when crosswiki. This comes after a recent vandalism attack by an apparent LTA. This wiki only has 3 active sysops, but none were available. If this wiki had opted-in to GS assistance beforehand, this would not have happened. This wiki once had 11 sysops, so this wiki opted-out, but I think this wiki should now opt-in as there are few active sysops.

What do you think? If there is consensus, I will post a request at m:SRM.

Can I Log In ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 22:45, 4 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

@Can I Log In Hello. Due to the small number of sysops on our wiki, I agree with your suggestion. გიო ოქრო 08:52, 5 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Anyone else want to comment before I post at m:SRM? Can I Log In ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 15:00, 6 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Can I Log In, thanks for the offer, but I think it's not worth doing this. Yes, the number of administrators is small, but they are doing their job. Also, the number of crosswiki vandalism is small here, so this is not an argument in favor. Plus, local vandalisms are small and active users fully cope with it, also global functionaries, meaning not knowing the language, I don't think they can handle it. So, I'm against it. Sincerely, Mehman 97 16:28, 6 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Hello @Can I Log In:. There are several reasons why I don't like this idea. First, cross-wiki vandalism is pretty rare in kawiki and for a pretty long time here I can't think of any important incidents. Second, the mechanisms that we have here - specially article validation - give more than enough protection to valuable content of ka wiki. Second reason is rather ideological reason - I strongly believe in autonomy of wikiprojects. So far admins in ka-wiki are doing their job pretty well, and one fact of cross-wiki vandalism excluded from general picture is not a reason to undermine autonomy of the community of Georgian wikipedia. Third, the post in English is definitely not enough to adequately check position of ka-wiki on the subject.--Melberg ^{მიწერა} 19:33, 6 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

It looks like there is rough consensus to not opt-in at this time. As long there are multiple active admins you are fine to make your decision to opt-in or not. However, if the number of active admins drops to one sometime in the future, I strongly suggest to opt-in. If it somehow drops to zero, you are automatically opting-in. Happy editing! Can I Log In ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 20:22, 6 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest

Please help translate to your language.

Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. გმადლობთ! --Quiddity (WMF)

21:20, 29 სექტემბერი 2020 (UTC)

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

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language.

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

გმადლობთ! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:17, 7 ოქტომბერი 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

წაიკითხეთ ეს შეტყობინება სხვა ენაზე • Please help translate to your language

ფონდი ვიკიმედია თავის პირველ და მეორე მონაცემთა ცენტრებს შორის გადართვას ტესტავს. ეს იმის გარანტიას მოგვცემს, რომ ვიკიპედია და ვიკიმედიის სხვა პროექტები კატასტროფის შემთხვევაშიც უწყვეტ რეჟიმში გააგრძელებს მუშაობას. იმაში დასარწმუნებლად, რომ ყველაფერი კარგად მუშაობს, ვიკიმედიის ტექნიკურ განყოფილებას გეგმური შემოწმების ჩატარება სჭირდება. ეს ტესტი აჩვენებს შესაძლებელია თუ არა მონაცემთა ცენტრებს შორის საიმედო გადართვა. ის მრავალი მუშა ჯგუფისგან ტესტირების მომზადებას და ნებისმიერი აღმოჩენილი ხარვეზის გასწორებას მოითხოვს.

მთელი ტრაფიკის უკან ძირითად მონაცემთა ცენტრზე გადართვა 2020 წლის 27 ოქტომბერს, სამშაბათს განხორციელდება.

სამწუხაროდ, MediaWiki-ს ძრავის გარკვეული შეზღუდვების გამო, გადართვის პერიოდში რედაქტირების განხორციელება შეუძლებელი იქნება. ბოდიშს გიხდით შექმნილი უხერხულობისთვის და ჩვენ ვმუშაობთ იმაზე, რომ მომავალში მსგავსი სამუშაოების აუცილებლობა შევამციროთ.

მოკლე პერიოდის განმავლობაში თქვენ შეძლებთ წაიკითხოთ სტატიები ნებისმიერ ვიკიში, მაგრამ ვერ დაარედაქტირებთ მათ.

• რედაქტირების შეზღუდვა 27 ოქტომბერს, სამშაბათს დაახლოებით ერთი საათის განმავლობაში გაგრძელდება. ტესტირება დაიწყება 14:00-ზე UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST და ახალ ზელანდიაში 28 ოქტომბერს, ოთხშაბათს 03:00-ზე NZDT).
• ამ პერიოდის განმავლობაში თუ თქვენ შეეცდებით რედაქტირებას ან შენახვას, მაშინ ეკრანზე შეცდომის შეტყობინება გამოვა. იმედი გვაქვს, რომ ამ დროის განმავლობაში განხორციელებული ცვლილებები არ დაიკარგება, მაგრამ ჩვენ ამის გარანტიას ვერ ვიძლევით. თუკი თქვენ შეცდომის შეტყობინებას დაინახავთ, მაშინ გთხოვთ, სიტუაციის გამოსწორებამდე მოიცადოთ. ამის შემდეგ თქვენ შეძლებთ რედაქტირების შენახვას. თუმცა, ჩვენ მაინც გირჩევთ შეინახოთ თქვენი ცვლილებების სარეზერვო ასლი.

სხვა ეფექტები:

• ფონური დავალებები შენელებულად შესრულდება და ზოგიერთი შესაძლოა გაუქმდეს. შესაძლოა წითელი ბმულები ისევე სწრაფად არ განახლდეს, როგორც ეს ჩვეულებრივ ხდება. თუკი თქვენ შექმნით სტატიას რომელზეც უკვე სადმე არსებობს ბმულები, ეს ბმულები წითლად უფრო დიდი ხნით დარჩება, ვიდრე ჩვეულებრივ. საჭირო იქნება ზოგიერთი ხანგრძლივად შესრულებადი სკრიპტების გაჩერება.
• 2020 წლის 26 ოქტომბრიდან ერთი კვირის განმავლობაში კოდის გაყინვა მოხდება. კოდის არაკრიტიკული დამატებების მიღება არ განხორციელდება.

საჭიროების შემთხვევაში ეს პროექტი შეიძლება გადაიდოს. განრიგი თქვენ შეგიძლიათ იხილოთ wikitech.wikimedia.org-ზე. ნებისმიერი ცვლილება ასახული იქნება განრიგში. ასევე ამის შესახებ მეტი შეტყობინება იქნება. ბანერი ყველა ვიკიში ოპერაციის დაწყებამდე 30 წუთით ადრე განთავსდება. გთხოვთ, გაავრცელოთ ეს ინფორმაცია თქვენს საზოგადოებაში.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 21 ოქტომბერი 2020 (UTC)

Improving the translation support for the Georgian Wikipedia

• Sorry about not being able to write in Georgian. I hope someone can translate this!
• Простите, я не умею писать по-грузински, но я могу читать и писать по-русски. Надеюсь, что кто-нибудь сможет перевести всё, если надо.

Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities, and we want to help additional wikis with potential to grow using translation as part of a new initiative.

Content translation facilitates the creation of Wikipedia articles by translating content from other languages. It has been used already to create more than half a million articles. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translations. In general, our analysis shows that the translations produced are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.

Georgian Wikipedia editors have used Content translation to create more than a thousand articles. Given the size of the editing community, we think that there is potential to use translation to create more articles, expand existing ones, and attract new editors that learn how to make productive edits. Translation can help the community to reduce the language gap with other languages and grow the number of editors in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with you to make Content translation more visible in the Georgian Wikipedia and support new ways to translate.

As a first step, during the next weeks we plan to enable Content translation by default on the Georgian Wikipedia. That will make it easy for users to discover the tool through several entry points. However, users not interested in translation will still be able to disable it from their preferences.

Please feel free to share any comment in this conversation thread.

Thanks! --ამირ ე. აჰარონი (WMF) ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 13:15, 4 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2

Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki. გმადლობთ! --Quiddity (WMF)

22:10, 5 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

@Quiddity (WMF): Thanks for message----ჯეო4WIKI^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 11:16, 17 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 ნოემბრის, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 დეკემბრის and 21 დეკემბრის.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

Hello!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language. According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.

As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.

A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.

By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Martin Urbanec (განხილვა) 11:49, 24 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist

Sorry for sending this message in English. Translations are available on this page. Feel free to translate it in more languages!

As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.

Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.

This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.

Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.

If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 14:39, 30 ნოემბერი 2020 (UTC)

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th

Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!

You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:55, 7 დეკემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

You can view and vote all proposals here.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 დეკემბერი 2020 (UTC)

ამაზასპი_(მითრიდატე_III-ის_ძმა) and ამაზასპ_I

Hi. My apologies for writing in English, I'm coming from Wikidata. I noticed there that the two above-mentionned page are probably about the same person; may I request that someone check it and, if adequate, transform either into a redirection? I'll take care of the Wikidata items if needed. Thanks in advance! --Jahl de Vautban ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 20:04, 20 დეკემბერი 2020 (UTC)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language. გმადლობთ!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 15:15, 27 იანვარი 2021 (UTC)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsთარგი:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 08:01, 28 იანვარი 2021 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Taxmann – Taxation and law database
• PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
• EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added

We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

--12:57, 1 თებერვალი 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

Please help translate to your language

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 13:25, 6 თებერვალი 2021 (UTC)

Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March

Please help translate to your language

Greetings!

You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore writing contest. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.

You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here.

You can also support us in translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language.

Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Thank you.

Feminism and Folklore team,

Joy Agyepong (talk) 02:40, 16 თებერვალი 2021 (UTC)

Wikifunctions logo contest

Hello. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. გმადლობთ! --Quiddity (WMF)

01:47, 2 მარტი 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

Please help translate to your language

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 13:15, 9 იანვარი 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2022

Please help translate to your language

Greetings! You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore 2022 writing competion. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia.

You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles focused on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here.

You can also support us in organizing the contest on your local Wikipedia by signing up your community to participate in this project and also translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language.

Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Feel free to contact us on our talk page or via Email if you need any assistance...

Thank you.

Feminism and Folklore Team,

Tiven2240 --05:49, 11 იანვარი 2022 (UTC)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

მეტი ენა • Please help translate to your language

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 01:04, 15 იანვარი 2022 (UTC)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikwikimedia.org.

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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

მეტი ენა • Please help translate to your language

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

• Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
• The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Xeno (WMF) 03:27, 29 იანვარი 2022 (UTC)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review

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Hello everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations.

The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. There is a list of changes made to the guidelines after the enforcement draft guidelines review. Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page on Meta-wiki.

To help to understand the guidelines and process, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will be hosting Conversation Hours on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the conversation hours to speak with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members about the updated guidelines and voting process.

The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. All eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the Enforcement guidelines, and share why. See the voting information page for more details.

Many participants from across the movement have provided valuable input in these ongoing conversations. The UCoC and MSG teams want to thank the Drafting Committee and the community members for their contributions to this process.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 03:55, 4 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated

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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a Leadership Development Task Force and how you can help. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.

Xeno (WMF) 02:35, 9 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Sandbox link

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I'm holding a global RFC regarding Sandbox link (example) at Meta: m:Requests for comment/Enable sandbox for all Wikipedias. I was told by User:Lucas Werkmeister that Georgian Wikipedia as a large project does not have Sandbox link enabled.

• Does Georgian Wikipedia want the Sandbox link enabled?

If there is consensus for enabling that on Georgian Wikipedia, I will do that as part of the global settings. But if Georgian Wikipedia does not want that, I can simply omit the Georgian Wikipedia from my proposal. No hard feelings at all :) I have personally not found Sandbox links harmful in any way, shape, or form. Thanks 4nn1l2 ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 02:58, 19 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

მარტივად რომ აგიხსნათ, ზემოთ მოხსენებული მომხმარებელი მეტა-ვიკიზე შემოიტანა ინიციატივა, რომ ყველა ვიკიპედიაში გამოჩნდეს „სავარჯიშო“ გვერდის ლინკი „განხილვა“-სა და „კონფიგურაცია“ ღილაკს შორის. ჩვენთან ეს გააქტიურებული არ არის, თუმცა, კონსენსუსის არსებობის შემთხვევაში ჩამატებაც შეიძლება. ახლა კი გვეკითხება, თუ წინააღმდეგნი არ ხართ, თქვენთანაც ჩავრთავთ ამ ფუნქციას. პ.ს. მაგალითის სახით, თუ როგორ გამოიყურება ეს, შეგიძლიათ ინგლისურ ვიკიპედიაში შეხვიდეთ და იქ ნახეთ „Sandbox“. — Mehman 97 01:37, 20 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

ჩემი აზრით ძალიან მოსახერხებელია, განსაკუთრებით კი ახალბედა მომხმარებლებისთვის. მე პირადად მხარს ვუჭერ ჩართვას.--DavidAs 05:22, 20 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Hi @4nn1l2, we don't see an issue to activate this button for us, you can enable it for us too. Thanks, — Mehman 97 23:33, 23 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

(მომხრე) ვისაც სჭირდება, საჭიროებისამებრ გამოიყენებს, ვისაც არა — არც არაფერს შეუშლის. გიო ოქრო 15:18, 23 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 04:50, 22 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

• Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
• Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
• and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).

All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 თებერვალი 2022 (UTC)

Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote!

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Hello everyone,

A vote in SecurePoll from 7 to 21 March 2022 is scheduled as part of the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines. Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Read voter information and eligibility details. During the poll, voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the proposed guidelines.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. A Wikimedia Foundation Board statement calls for a ratification process where eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the UCoC Enforcement guidelines in a vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information. For more information about the UCoC, please see the project page and frequently asked questions on Meta-wiki.

There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:

• A community panel recorded on 18 February 2022 shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
• The Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please sign-up to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the Conversation Hour summaries for notes from 4 February 2022 and 25 February 2022.

You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msgwikimedia.org or ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 02:17, 2 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022

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Hello everyone,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.

You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 00:52, 8 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to Hubs event: Global Conversation on 2022-03-12 at 13:00 UTC

Hello!

The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (read the report), but we're not finished yet.

Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (see Hubs Dialogue). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.

The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us. More information on the event on Meta-wiki.

Best regards,

Kaarel Vaidla
Movement Strategy

01:31, 10 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 14:40, 14 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)

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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the Leadership Development Working Group initiative. A summary of the feedback can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.

Thank you,

From the Community Development team

Xeno (WMF) 02:20, 18 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2022 ends soon

Feminism and Folklore 2022 which is an international writing contest organized at Wikipedia ends soon that is on 31 March 2022 11:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to write about feminism, women biographies and gender-focused topics such as folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales and more

Keep an eye on the project page for declaration of Winners.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 14:28, 26 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

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Greetings,

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

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

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 01:53, 30 მარტი 2022 (UTC)

Kartographer coming soon to your wiki

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Screenshot of a Kartographer map with multiple markers

Hello, the Kartographer extension, a feature for making interactive maps, works on most wikis – but it doesn’t work on this Wikipedia and eight others. (T138057) The reason is that Kartographer has not been able to handle different page revisions so far, so it doesn’t work on wikis that are using the FlaggedRevision extension for page stabilization.

It looks very promising that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team can soon offer a solution for this problem and will be able to deploy Kartographer to your wiki within the next few weeks. You don’t need to take any action to get Kartographer, but you can prepare for the deployment by

• creating templates that use the mapframe or maplink tag, if this is something your wiki wants. They could be based on examples like Template:Maplink from English Wikipedia.
• translating the Kartographer documentation [1] [2] [3] to your language. We’re currently working on it. As soon as it's updated (within the next few days), you can start translating.
• telling others about the feature!

Here’s our project page with more information, and the talk page where we’d love to hear any feedback. – Johanna Strodt (WMDE) ^{განხილვა}_{წვლილი} 07:50, 13 აპრილი 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Johanna Strodt (WMDE) and thank you for this update, this is great news, and also, a special thanks to the WMDE Tech team. — Mehman 97 18:48, 13 აპრილი 2022 (UTC)

@Mehman97: Thanks a lot for your kind message. We noticed that Georgian Wikipedia is in fact already using Kartographer. But the good news is that the existing problem with pages pending review will be solved once we have deployed our solution. Wishing you all a good week! -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (განხილვა/წვლილი) 09:47, 2 მაისი 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! — Mehman 97 15:16, 2 მაისი 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

• Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
• Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
• Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Also, a draft of the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan has been published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during several conversations with Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander.

See full announcement on Meta-wiki. Xeno (WMF) 01:45, 22 აპრილი 2022 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/:

• Wiley – journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
• OECD – OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia​​ published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
• SPIE Digital Library – journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research

Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 13:16, 26 აპრილი 2022 (UTC)

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Coming soon: Improvements for templates

Fundamental changes in the template dialog.

Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.

• project page, talk page

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

• project page, talk page

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

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

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:13, 29 აპრილი 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) 18:55, 2 მაისი 2022 (UTC)

2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
10:39, 10 მაისი 2022 (UTC)

Revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all,

We'd like to provide an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. After the conclusion of the community vote on the guidelines in March, the Community Affairs committee (CAC) of the Board asked that several areas of the guidelines be reviewed for improvements before the Board does its final review. These areas were identified based on community discussions and comments provided during the vote. The CAC also requested review of the controversial Note in 3.1 of the UCoC itself.

Once more, a big thank you to all who voted, especially to all who left constructive feedback and comments! The project team is working with the Board to establish a timeline for this work, and will communicate this next month.

Members of the two prior UCoC Drafting Committees have generously offered their time to help shape improvements to the Guidelines. You can read more about them and their work here, as well as read summaries of their weekly meetings in 2022.

Wikimedians have provided many valuable comments together with the vote and in other conversations. Given the size and diversity of the Wikimedia community, there are even more voices out there who can give ideas on how to improve the enforcement guidelines and add even more valuable ideas to the process. To help the Revisions committee identify improvements, input on several questions for the committee’s review is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions, Policy text revision discussions) to get your ideas to the Committee - it is very important that viewpoints are heard from different communities before the Committee begins drafting revision proposals.

On behalf of the UCoC project team

Xeno (WMF) 22:56, 3 ივნისი 2022 (UTC)

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Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

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Hi all,

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

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

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass

• July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
• July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
• July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
• August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
• August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
• August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 11:34, 14 ივლისი 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter

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

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

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

Thank you for reading! RamzyM (WMF) 01:37, 18 ივლისი 2022 (UTC)

Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

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Hi everyone,

The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:

• Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
• Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
• Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
• Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
• Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
• Mike Peel (Mike Peel)

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

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

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

Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.

The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. You may view the Board election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:

• Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
• Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
• See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
• Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
• Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 14:03, 27 ივლისი 2022 (UTC)

Vote for Election Compass Statements

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Hi all,

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

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

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

• July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass
• July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
• July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
• August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
• August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
• August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 21:01, 27 ივლისი 2022 (UTC)

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

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Hi everyone,

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

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
• Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum

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Hello everyone,

The Movement Strategy Forum (MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation.

We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration, using an inclusive multilingual platform.

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

Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, engage in conversations, and ask questions in your language.

The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for the MS Forum in May 2022. There was a 2-month community review period, which ended on 24 July 2022. The community review process included several questions that resulted in interesting conversations. You can read the Community Review Report.

We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!

Best regards,

the Movement Strategy and Governance Team

User:MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 11:32, 29 აგვისტო 2022 (UTC)

Mkhedruli Mtavruli case mapping

Can someone please verify my comments at T292552#8310706 ? It would be harmful to rename most pages and users on this wiki so that the initial letter is Mkhedruli Mtavruli, e.g. მონდურაჰი → Მონდურაჰი, right? Tim Starling (WMF) (განხილვა/წვლილი) 10:54, 12 ოქტომბერი 2022 (UTC)

@Tim Starling (WMF) NO. In Georgian we don't use Mkhedruli Mtavruli as initial letter. We don't have lowercase and uppercase. გიო ოქრო 11:12, 12 ოქტომბერი 2022 (UTC)

@Tim Starling (WMF): Oh boy. Don't do this. There is no uppercase in Georgian. The stupid mistake that was made by Unicode team has already caused a lot of trouble in the past, so please don't repeat it.--DerFuchs ^{მიწერა} 16:33, 12 ოქტომბერი 2022 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. Tim Starling (WMF) (განხილვა/წვლილი) 23:05, 12 ოქტომბერი 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions

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Hello all,

During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page here on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it here.

With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter" sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.

The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events:

• Asia/Pacific: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
• Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
• North and South America/ Western Europe: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.

On the Meta page you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.

Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors

Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors (MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up here. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum.

We thank you for your time and participation.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 15:33, 7 ნოემბერი 2022 (UTC)

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Apply for Funding through the Movement Strategy Community Engagement Package to Support Your Community

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The Wikimedia Movement Strategy implementation is a collaborative effort for all Wikimedians. Movement Strategy Implementation Grants support projects that take the current state of a Movement Strategy Initiative and push it one step forward. If you are looking for an example or some guide on how to engage your community further on Movement Strategy and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants specifically, you may find this community engagement package helpful.

The goal of this community engagement package is to support more people to access the funding they might need for the implementation work. By becoming a recipient of this grant, you will be able to support other community members to develop further grant applications that fit with your local contexts to benefit your own communities. With this package, the hope is to break down language barriers and to ensure community members have needed information on Movement Strategy to connect with each other. Movement Strategy is a two-way exchange, we can always learn more from the experiences and knowledge of Wikimedians everywhere. We can train and support our peers by using this package, so more people can make use of this great funding opportunity.

If this information interests you or if you have any further thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us as your regional facilitators to discuss further. We will be more than happy to support you. When you are ready, follow the steps on this page to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.

Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
Wikimedia Foundation

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 16:26, 14 ნოემბერი 2022 (UTC)

Enabling Section Translation: a new mobile translation experience

Hello Georgian Wikipedians!

Apologies as this message is not in your 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 translation tool in Georgian Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test it so you can:

• Give us your feedback
• Ask us questions
• Tell us how to improve it.

Below is background information about Section translation, why we have chosen your community, and how to test it.

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. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has improved the translation experience further with the Section Translation. The WMF Language team enabled the early version of the tool in February 2021 in Bengali Wikipedia. Through their feedback, the tool was improved and ready for your community to test and provide feedback to make it better.

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.

Georgian Wikipedia seems an ideal candidate to enjoy this new tool since it has Content Translation tool enabled by default.

We plan to enable the tool in the coming weeks if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tool and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have in any of the following formats:

• As a reply to this message
• On the project talk page.

Try the tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Georgian Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://ka.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 in any of the formats you are most comfortable with. We want to hear about your impressions on:

• The tool
• What you think about our plans to enable it
• Your ideas for improving the tool.

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) (განხილვა/წვლილი) 00:22, 17 ნოემბერი 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team[reply]

Section Translation tool enabled in Georgian Wikipedia

Hello Friends!

The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that the Section Translation tool is now enabled in Georgian Wikipedia. It means you can translate content one section at a time using your mobile devices with ease.

Now you can also start translating an article on your mobile device right when you notice it is missing in Georgian. From a Wikipedia article in any language, switch languages and search for ქართული. If the article does not exist, an option to translate it will appear, as shown in the image below.

Image of the entry point

Content created with the tool will be marked with the “sectiontranslation” tag for the community to review. We’ll monitor the content created, but we are very interested in hearing about your experience using the tool and reviewing the content created with it.

So, enjoy the tool and provide feedback on improving it.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (განხილვა/წვლილი) 00:34, 13 დეკემბერი 2022 (UTC)

Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee

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Hi everyone! The Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for members. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to do so. There is more information below about the opportunity and the skills that are needed.

About the Ombuds commission

The Ombuds commission (OC) works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of CheckUser and Oversight (also known as Suppression) tools. The Commission mediates between the parties of the investigation and, when violations of the policies are identified, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on best handling. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in these investigations when legally necessary. For more on the OC's duties and roles, see Ombuds commission on Meta-Wiki.

Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser/Oversight tools OR who have the technical ability to understand these tools and the willingness to learn them. They must be able to communicate in English, the common language of the commission. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).

About the Case Review Committee

The Case Review Committee (CRC) reviews appeals of eligible Trust & Safety office actions. The CRC is a critical layer of oversight to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation office actions are fair and unbiased. They also make sure the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t overstep established practices or boundaries. For more about the role, see Case Review Committee on Meta-Wiki.

We are looking for current or former functionaries and experienced volunteers with an interest in joining this group. Applicants must be fluent in English (additional languages are a strong plus) and willing to abide by the terms of the Committee charter. If the work resonates and you qualify, please apply. Committee members will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).

Applying to join either of these groups

Members are required to sign the Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the access to non-public information policy and the Foundation privacy policy). These positions requires a high degree of discretion and trust. Members must also be over 18 years of age.

If you are interested in serving in either capacity listed above, please write in English to the Trust and Safety team at cawikimedia.org (to apply to the OC) or to the Legal Team at legalwikimedia.org (to apply to the CRC) with information about:

• Your primary projects
• Languages you speak/write
• Any experience you have serving on committees, whether movement or non-movement
• Your thoughts on what you could bring to the OC or CRC if appointed
• Any experience you have with the Checkuser or Oversight tools (OC only)
• Any other information you think is relevant

The deadline for applications is 31 December 2022 in any timezone.

Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you!

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!

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Hello

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

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

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

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

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

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

გმადლობთ! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 დეკემბერი 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 (განხილვა/წვლილი) 10:33, 17 დეკემბერი 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2023

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Dear Wiki Community,

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,

You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.

You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.

Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:

1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
2. Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
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 fountain/dashboard link on the meta project page.

This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.

Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team

Stay connected  

--MediaWiki message delivery (განხილვა/წვლილი) 10:23, 24 დეკემბერი 2022 (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)

Editing news 2023 #1

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

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

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for განხილვის ხელსაწყოები.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "თემის ჩამატება" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for განხილვის ხელსაწყოები on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with განხილვის ხელსაწყოები. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "ცვლილებების შენახვა". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (განხილვა) 23:24, 22 თებერვალი 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

წაიკითხეთ ეს შეტყობინება სხვა ენაზე • Please help translate to your language

ფონდი ვიკიმედია თავის პირველ და მეორე მონაცემთა ცენტრებს შორის გადართვას ტესტავს. ეს იმის გარანტიას მოგვცემს, რომ ვიკიპედია და ვიკიმედიის სხვა პროექტები კატასტროფის შემთხვევაშიც უწყვეტ რეჟიმში გააგრძელებს მუშაობას. იმაში დასარწმუნებლად, რომ ყველაფერი კარგად მუშაობს, ვიკიმედიის ტექნიკურ განყოფილებას გეგმური შემოწმების ჩატარება სჭირდება. ეს ტესტი აჩვენებს შესაძლებელია თუ არა მონაცემთა ცენტრებს შორის საიმედო გადართვა. ის მრავალი მუშა ჯგუფისგან ტესტირების მომზადებას და ნებისმიერი აღმოჩენილი ხარვეზის გასწორებას მოითხოვს.

მთელი ტრაფიკის გადართვა 1 მარტის განხორციელდება. ტესტირება დაიწყება 14:00 UTC.

სამწუხაროდ, MediaWiki-ს ძრავის გარკვეული შეზღუდვების გამო, გადართვის პერიოდში რედაქტირების განხორციელება შეუძლებელი იქნება. ბოდიშს გიხდით შექმნილი უხერხულობისთვის და ჩვენ ვმუშაობთ იმაზე, რომ მომავალში მსგავსი სამუშაოების აუცილებლობა შევამციროთ.

მოკლე პერიოდის განმავლობაში თქვენ შეძლებთ წაიკითხოთ სტატიები ნებისმიერ ვიკიში, მაგრამ ვერ დაარედაქტირებთ მათ.

• რედაქტირების შეზღუდვა ოთხშაბათი 1 მარტის 2023 დაახლოებით ერთი საათის განმავლობაში გაგრძელდება.
• ამ პერიოდის განმავლობაში თუ თქვენ შეეცდებით რედაქტირებას ან შენახვას, მაშინ ეკრანზე შეცდომის შეტყობინება გამოვა. იმედი გვაქვს, რომ ამ დროის განმავლობაში განხორციელებული ცვლილებები არ დაიკარგება, მაგრამ ჩვენ ამის გარანტიას ვერ ვიძლევით. თუკი თქვენ შეცდომის შეტყობინებას დაინახავთ, მაშინ გთხოვთ, სიტუაციის გამოსწორებამდე მოიცადოთ. ამის შემდეგ თქვენ შეძლებთ რედაქტირების შენახვას. თუმცა, ჩვენ მაინც გირჩევთ შეინახოთ თქვენი ცვლილებების სარეზერვო ასლი.

სხვა ეფექტები:

• ფონური დავალებები შენელებულად შესრულდება და ზოგიერთი შესაძლოა გაუქმდეს. შესაძლოა წითელი ბმულები ისევე სწრაფად არ განახლდეს, როგორც ეს ჩვეულებრივ ხდება. თუკი თქვენ შექმნით სტატიას რომელზეც უკვე სადმე არსებობს ბმულები, ეს ბმულები წითლად უფრო დიდი ხნით დარჩება, ვიდრე ჩვეულებრივ. საჭირო იქნება ზოგიერთი ხანგრძლივად შესრულებადი სკრიპტების გაჩერება.
• 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.

საჭიროების შემთხვევაში ეს პროექტი შეიძლება გადაიდოს. განრიგი თქვენ შეგიძლიათ იხილოთ wikitech.wikimedia.org-ზე. ნებისმიერი ცვლილება ასახული იქნება განრიგში. ასევე ამის შესახებ მეტი შეტყობინება იქნება. ბანერი ყველა ვიკიში ოპერაციის დაწყებამდე 30 წუთით ადრე განთავსდება. გთხოვთ, გაავრცელოთ ეს ინფორმაცია თქვენს საზოგადოებაში.

Trizek (WMF) (განხილვა) 21:20, 27 თებერვალი 2023 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!

Please help translate to your language

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)

Office Hour(s) - CEE Hub

Hello everyone,

We want to invite you to the first monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The first session will take place on Sunday, March 12^th at 17:00 CET time.

Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics.

Please respond to the email addresses toni.ristovski@wmceehub.org or barbara.klen@wmceehub.org, as you can get the invitation link on time.

We will be happy to see some of you. --TRistovski-CEEhub (განხილვა/წვლილი) 11:25, 10 მარტი 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Office hour of the CEE Hub (3 April 2023)

Hello everyone,

We want to invite you to the second monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The second session will take place on Monday, April 3^rd at 18:00 CET time.

Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics.

Please sign up for the upcoming session at following Meta page, as you can get the invitation link on time.

We will be happy to see some of you. --MediaWiki message delivery (განხილვა/წვლილი) 11:48, 28 მარტი 2023 (UTC)

Office hour of the CEE Hub (2 May 2023) and updates from the CEE Hub

Hello everyone,

We want to invite you to the third monthly office hour(s) that CEE Hub will organize, where you can learn more about newly formed regional hub, and what CEE Hub can help you and your communities. The third session will take place on Tuesday, May 2^nd at 18:00 CEST time.

Open office hours are meant as a virtual space where anyone can talk to CEE Hub staff, ask questions, or discuss relevant CEE and Hub related topics. You can find a link on the following Meta page.

If you don`t have a time to come on our Office hour, you can read more about development of the CEE Hub on our News page.

We will be happy to see some of you.

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

მეტი ენა • Please help translate to your language

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 ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 19:00, 26 აპრილი 2023 (UTC)

Global ban proposal for Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY

Apologies for writing in English. If this is not the proper place to post, please move it somewhere more appropriate. Please help translate to your language There is an on-going discussion about a proposal that Piermark/House of Yahweh/HoY be globally banned from editing all Wikimedia projects. You are invited to participate at Requests for comment/Global ban for Piermark on Meta-Wiki. გმადლობთ! U.T. (განხილვა) 12:36, 4 მაისი 2023 (UTC)

News about upcoming sessions and the CEE Newsletter

Hello everyone,

CEE Hub has two major announcement for the upcoming week:

• Next CEE Catch up – youth edition will take place on May 16th 2023, 18:00-19:00 CEST. Please register for the event using the following link. This meeting is a part of already established CEE Catch up concept. The goal of the meeting is to gather young CEE Wikimedians/Wikipedians (up to 26 years old) and people who are older than 26 and who are interested in learning about and from youth.

• Learning session dedicated to Movement Strategy Implementation Grants, where you can learn how is the process for applying this type of grants, and to learn from first hand about two such funded initiatives in the CEE Region. This session will take place on May 17th 2023, 18:00-19:20 CEST. Please register for the event using the following link.

CEE Newsletter is back! You can wrote first renewed edition of the CEE Newsletter here.

Important remark: The CEE Newsletter is open for new members in the editorial team, so please show your interest by writing an email to the CEE Hub staff.

Reminder about registration and submissions for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023

Dear all,

we would like to remind you about submission and registration deadlines for Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023, which are approaching. If you haven’t registered and/or sent your submissions, there is still time to do so.

CEE Meeting is a place where we get a chance to share our learning and experience with the region and we are all looking forward to seeing many of you in this September in Tbilisi (Georgia).

If you want some assistance or advice from us, especially related to preparing your presentations, please contact CEE Hub, we will be happy to support you. (barbara.klen@wmceehub.org and toni.ristovski@wmceehub.org)

Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff --MediaWiki message delivery (განხილვა/წვლილი) 10:02, 17 მაისი 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 მაისი 2023 (UTC)

General survey about grants, tools and support from the CEE Hub

CEE Hub created one general survey where we aim to collect information and opinions about several important topics that we believe all of you have experience in at some level.

The survey has three main topics: experience with grants and opinions, what kind of tools you used and want to use, and also what kind of support you want to have from the CEE Hub, which will help us in shaping the second year of the CEE Hub.

Please dedicate 15 minutes of your free time and submit your answers on this link.

--Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff MediaWiki message delivery (განხილვა/წვლილი) 09:31, 20 ივნისი 2023 (UTC)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

მეტი ენა • Please help translate to your language

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 ივნისი 2023 (UTC)

MinT Machine Translation added to your Wikipedia

Hello!

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 and Section 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, OpusMT, IndicTrans2 and Softcatalà. 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 its quality, and if you prefer the MinT machine translation as default in your Wikipedia.

We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translation tool.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (განხილვა) 22:02, 4 ივლისი 2023 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team.

Upcoming CEE Catch up – Supporting community health

Hello everyone,

CEE Hub invites community members to a next CEE Catch Up which will focus on community health. The meeting will take place on July 31st, 2023, 18:00-19:00 CEST. You can sign up for the event on our Meta page, where you simply just add your username and we will send you a link for the event.

The goal of the session is to gather everyone interested to hear more about practices WMF and different Wikimedia affiliates have established to protect (mental) health and wellbeing of volunteers. The session is interesting for everyone who wants to know about supporting community health or if you want to learn how to implement some new practices in your affiliate/community.

--Toni Ristovski, on behalf of the CEE Hub staff MediaWiki message delivery (განხილვა/წვლილი) 13:02, 18 ივლისი 2023 (UTC)