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Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 02:51, 27 באוקטובר 2011 (IST)

Accreditation and Google News listings

First-off, please forgive my posting in English. I am, as is all-too-common for people from the UK, linguistically challenged.

I want to raise two issues, as-noted in the subject title of this thread: Reporter Accreditation and listing in Google News.

First up, accreditation has worked rather well for Wikinewsies on the English-language version of the project. Personally, I've been given press access to a number of events, other examples may well be reporters getting behind police lines or landing interviews with major political figures.

I have on the English-language version of the project with a view to looking into more than just one project being listed by Google, and other language versions capitalising on accreditation. Please take the time to register any interest in this, the drawbacks from local legal situations, and how we all might better promote Wikinews as a project. --Brian McNeil/^talk 14:43, 20 בדצמבר 2011 (IST)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 15:02, 21 בדצמבר 2011 (IST)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 02:11, 15 בינואר 2012 (IST)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 17:02, 12 בפברואר 2012 (IST)

Survey invitation

First, I apologize that part of this message is in English. If you can assist by translating it for your local community, I would greatly appreciate it.

The Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to take part in a brief survey.

תודה על נכונותך להקדיש זמן לסקר של 2012 בנושא סדרי העדיפויות בהקצאת הכספים. בעזרת סקר זה מקווה הקרן לגלות מהם המשאבים שפעילי ויקימדיה רוצים וצריכים (חלקם דורשים מימון), ובאיזו עדיפות. לא נציין כאן את כל התוכניות של הקרן (ובפרט לא את פעילויות הליבה), אלא רק את המשאבים שפעילים עצמאיים או ארגונים הקשורים לוויקימדיה, כגון סניפים מקומיים, עשויים לבקש. המטרה כאן היא לזהות את הדברים שייתכן ויש לך (או לקבוצות, כגון עמותות מקומיות או מועדונים) עניין בהם, ואת מידת החשיבות שלהם. לא צייַנּוּ ברשימה דברים כמו "תפקוד רציף של שרתים", כי נושא זה אינו באחריותם של פעילים עצמאיים או של ארגוני מתנדבים. מטרת הסקר היא לומר לנו מהן עדיפויות המימון שיש עליהן הסכמה בין הפעילים ואילו מהן שנויות במחלוקת.

To read more about the survey, and to take part, please visit the survey page. You may select the language in which to take the survey with the pull-down menu at the top.

This invitation is being sent only to those projects where the survey has been translated in full or in majority into your language. It is, however, open to any contributor from any project. Please feel free to share the link with other Wikimedians and to invite their participation.

If you have any questions for me, please address them to my talk page, since I won’t be able to keep an eye at every point where I place the notice.

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF) (שיחה) 23:58, 5 במרץ 2012 (IST)

Update on IPv6

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the full version of this announcement on Meta)

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to do limited testing of IPv6 on June 2-3. If there are not too many problems, we may fully enable IPv6 on World IPv6 day (June 6), and keep it enabled.

What this means for your project:

• At least on June 2-3, 2012, you may see a small number of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)

• In the mid term, some user scripts and tools will need to be adapted for IPv6.

• We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we will assist in the monitoring of the situation.

Read the full version of this announcement on how to test the behavior of IPv6 with various tools and how to leave bug reports, and to find a fuller analysis of the implications of the IPv6 migration.

--Erik Möller, VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation 04:00, 2 ביוני 2012 (IDT)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition

македонски • norsk • polski

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2011 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We are interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year 2011. Any user registered at Commons or a Wikimedia wiki SUL-related to Commons with more than 75 edits before 1 April 2012 (UTC) is welcome to vote and, of course everyone is welcome to view!

Detailed information about the contest can be found at the introductory page.

About 600 of the best of Wikimedia Common's photos, animations, movies and graphics were chosen –by the international Wikimedia Commons community– out of 12 million files during 2011 and are now called Featured Pictures.

From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons Features Pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.

We regret that you receive this message in English; we intended to use banners to notify you in your native language but there was both, human and technical resistance.

See you on Commons! --Picture of the Year 2011 Committee 21:19, 5 ביוני 2012 (IDT)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it, as well as the instructions on Meta)

The mobile view of this project and others will soon become the default view on mobile devices (except tablets). Some language versions of these projects currently show no content on the mobile home page, and it is a good time to do a little formatting so users get a mobile-friendly view, or to add to existing mobile content if some already exists.

If you are an administrator, please consider helping with this change. There are instructions which are being translated. The proposed date of switching the default view is June 21.

To contact the mobile team, email mobile-feedback-llists.wikimedia.org.

--Phil Inje Chang, Product Manager, Mobile, Wikimedia Foundation 11:30, 16 ביוני 2012 (IDT)

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Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year

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Hi,

As many of you are aware, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees recently initiated important changes in the way that money is being distributed within the Wikimedia movement. As part of this, a new community-led "Funds Dissemination Committee" (FDC) is currently being set up. Already in 2012-13, its recommendations will guide the decisions about the distribution of over 10 million US dollars among the Foundation, chapters and other eligible entities.

Now, seven capable, knowledgeable and trustworthy community members are sought to volunteer on the initial Funds Dissemination Committee. It is expected to take up its work in September. In addition, a community member is sought to be the Ombudsperson for the FDC process. If you are interested in joining the committee, read the call for volunteers. Nominations are planned to close on August 15.

--Anasuya Sengupta, Director of Global Learning and Grantmaking, Wikimedia Foundation 23:06, 19 ביולי 2012 (IDT)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program

I apologize for addressing you in English. I would be grateful if you could translate this message into your language.

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a request for comment on a proposed program that could provide legal assistance to users in specific support roles who are named in a legal complaint as a defendant because of those roles. We wanted to be sure that your community was aware of this discussion and would have a chance to participate in that discussion.

If this page is not the best place to publicize this request for comment, please help spread the word to those who may be interested in participating. (If you'd like to help translating the "request for comment", program policy or other pages into your language and don't know how the translation system works, please come by my user talk page at m:User talk:Mdennis (WMF). I'll be happy to assist or to connect you with a volunteer who can assist.)

Thank you! --Mdennis (WMF)04:57, 6 בספטמבר 2012 (IDT)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.)

As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.

The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:

1. language links in the Wikipedias (making it possible to store the links between the language editions of an article just once in Wikidata instead of in each linked article)
2. infoboxes (making it possible to store the data that is currently in infoboxes in one central place and share the data)
3. lists (making it possible to create lists and similar things based on queries to Wikidata so they update automatically when new data is added or modified)

It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.

For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.

--Lydia Pintscher 16:20, 10 בספטמבר 2012 (IDT)

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Bot flag for AvocatoBot

• Operator: Avocato
• Programming Language(s): Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary: Interwiki & Fixing double redirects
• Contributions: see here
• Already has bot flag on: +230 wikis

Thank you.--Avocato (שיחה) 13:27, 12 בספטמבר 2012 (IDT)

There are no bureaucrats in this wiki. Please request in meta. ‏– rotemliss – שיחה 22:23, 12 בספטמבר 2012 (IDT)

Upcoming software changes - please report any problems

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language. Please consider translating it)

All Wikimedia wikis - including this one - will soon be upgraded with new and possibly disruptive code. This process starts today and finishes on October 24 (see the upgrade schedule & code details).

Please watch for problems with:

• revision diffs
• templates
• CSS and JavaScript pages (like user scripts)
• bots
• PDF export
• images, video, and sound, especially scaling sizes
• the CologneBlue skin

If you notice any problems, please report problems at our defect tracker site. You can test for possible problems at test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org, which have already been updated.

Thanks! With your help we can find problems fast and get them fixed faster.

Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Manager (talk) 04:55, 16 באוקטובר 2012 (IST)

P.S.: For the regular, smaller MediaWiki updates every two weeks, please watch this schedule.

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Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed

Please translate for your local community

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :) If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!

Thanks!
Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Be a Wikimedia fundraising "User Experience" volunteer!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered last year on the Wikimedia fundraising 'User Experience' project. We have talked to many different people in different countries and their feedback has helped us immensely in restructuring our pages. If you haven't heard of it yet, the 'User Experience' project has the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries (outside the USA) and enhancing the localization of our donation pages.

I am (still) searching for volunteers to spend some time on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.

The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. **All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be very low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)**

By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!!

Thanks!

Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including this wiki. There will be some times when the site will be in read-only mode, and there may be full outages; the current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones on timeanddate.com). More information is available in the full announcement.

If you would like to stay informed of future technical upgrades, consider becoming a Tech ambassador and joining the ambassadors mailing list. You will be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Thank you for your help and your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 17:19, 19 בינואר 2013 (IST)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab

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

• Do you have an idea for a project to improve this community or website?
• Do you think you could complete your idea if only you had some funding?
• Do you want to help other people turn their ideas into project plans or grant proposals?

Please join us in the IdeaLab, an incubator for project ideas and Individual Engagement Grant proposals.

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking new ideas and proposals for Individual Engagement Grants. These grants fund individuals or small groups to complete projects that help improve this community. If interested, please submit a completed proposal by February 15, 2013. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG for more information.

Thanks! --Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 22:27, 30 בינואר 2013 (IST)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful

(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians)

Greetings. As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog or the tech ambassadors list, a new functionality called "Lua" is being enabled on all Wikimedia sites today. Lua is a scripting language that enables you to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates.

If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday (for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours for the details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting.

If you'd like to learn about this kind of events earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador by subscribing to the mailing list. You will also be able to help your fellow Wikimedians have a voice in technical discussions and be notified of important decisions.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system. 21:48, 13 במרץ 2013 (IST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

The Wikinewsie Group

Hi. After consulting with a number of community members, we have started the first step in creating a potential Wikimedia Affiliate group. The details can be found at The Wikinewsie Group. The purpose of the group is to:

1. support open license, independent journalistic efforts that provide neutral and verifiable reporting of news stories,
2. support the education of future journalists in trying to insure they maintain historical journalistic ideals regarding reporting standards,
3. support efforts to increase journalist freedom to report around the globe,
4. encourage participation of and facilitate non-professional journalists practicing their craft on Wikinews, and
5. support the mission statement and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation.

This aims to compliment and support existing efforts, and there is zero intention of imposing one language's policies on another language. The project should assist in increasing original reporting, improving original reporting according to local project standards, better supporting our small community and increasing participation.

Please sign up here by listing your name to indicate you support our group. If you have any questions, please do not hestitate to ask as we will be more than happy to answer them. Thanks. --LauraHale (שיחה) 12:37, 6 באפריל 2013 (IDT)

The Wikinewsie Group bylaws draft

First, let me apologize for writing in English. A copy of the draft bylaws for the The Wikinewsie Group have been posted at The Wikinewsie Group/Bylaws. Alongside these, a Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Journalists have also been posted, which detail our understanding of concepts found in the draft bylaws. Feedback would be appreciated on these. If you agree with them and have no suggestions for modification on one or both documents, please comment on Bylaws talk page or Declaration talk page to say so. Conversely, if you are interested in joining The Wikinewsie Group, please feel free to comment on the relevant talk page with feedback on what changes you might like to see. Thank you.--LauraHale (שיחה) 07:32, 11 באפריל 2013 (IDT)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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Read this message in English / Lleer esti mensaxe n'asturianu / বাংলায় এই বার্তাটি পড়ুন / Llegiu aquest missatge en català / Læs denne besked på dansk / Lies diese Nachricht auf Deutsch / Leś cal mesag' chè in Emiliàn / Leer este mensaje en español / Lue tämä viesti suomeksi / Lire ce message en français / Ler esta mensaxe en galego / हिन्दी / Pročitajte ovu poruku na hrvatskom / Baca pesan ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia / Leggi questo messaggio in italiano / ಈ ಸಂದೇಶವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ / Aqra dan il-messaġġ bil-Malti / norsk (bokmål) / Lees dit bericht in het Nederlands / Przeczytaj tę wiadomość po polsku / Citiți acest mesaj în română / Прочитать это сообщение на русском / Farriintaan ku aqri Af-Soomaali / Pročitaj ovu poruku na srpskom (Прочитај ову поруку на српском) / อ่านข้อความนี้ในภาษาไทย / Прочитати це повідомлення українською мовою / Đọc thông báo bằng tiếng Việt / 使用中文阅读本信息。

Hello!

There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.

We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.

All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.

Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 07:44, 24 באפריל 2013 (IDT)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming

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

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[en] Change to section edit links

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

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

Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.

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

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Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions

Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

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Important note: This is the first edition of the Tech News weekly summaries, which help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians.

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Trademark discussion

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

X!'s Edit Counter

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

Should X!'s edit counter retain the opt-in requirement? Your input is strongly encouraged. Voice your input here.——cyberpower ^Chat_Automation 07:31, 23 ביוני 2013 (IDT)

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

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

Please read the announcement on Meta-Wiki for more information. Siebrand 15:30, 4 ביולי 2013 (IDT) (via Global message delivery).

Pywikipedia is migrating to git

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

HTTPS for users with an account

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

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

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Request for consultation on community logo

Request for consultation on this community logo

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

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

Thank you! --Mdennis (talk) (via the Global message delivery system). 05:31, 24 בספטמבר 2013 (IDT) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Original reporting output

First, I apologize for not writing in the project's own language.

Since May 1, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter first began tracking original reporting taking place across all projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan, Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with 44, September with 43 and July with 39.

In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English Wikinews publishing 60 stories.

LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each. If you are on this list, please seriously consider applying for accredited reporter status on English Wikinews. This will make it easier to identify contributors from around the globe to do original reporting on any special reporting projects done by The Wikinewsie Group.

For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020. Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should be playing to. Please consider translating your work into another language, or finding a local reporter to assist you with translation work and publishing policy. This will benefit all languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more opportunities for reporters.

The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to facilitate more cross-language work. The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies is a list of local policies. If some one from each project could complete the row for their language, it would be incredibly useful. Thank you.

Every month, The Wikinewsie Group puts out a newsletter. Please consider putting any local project news on the newsletter. This could include discussions on reporter accreditation, installation of new extensions, translation policies, WMF related discussions of interest to the project. We want to know what Wikinews projects are up to. We need your assistance with that. Please share what is happening. --LauraHale (שיחה) 19:09, 1 באוקטובר 2013 (IDT)

Notifications

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

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

Greetings!

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

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

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

• Echo on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Thanks on translatewiki for user interface - you must have an account on translatewiki to translate
• Notifications help on mediawiki.org. This page can be hosted after translation on mediawiki.org or we can localize it to this Wikipedia. You do not have to have an account to translate on mediawiki, but single-user login will create it for you there if you follow the link.

• Checklist

Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments about this new tool. For more information, visit this project hub and this help page. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 4 באוקטובר 2013 (IDT)

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.

Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Thanks, Geoff & Yana 23:11, 8 באוקטובר 2013 (IDT)

Introducting Beta Features

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

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

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

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

Here are the first features you can test this week:

• Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen
• VisualEditor Formulæ (for wikis with VisualEditor) — edit algebra or equations on your pages
• Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday)

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

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

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

Enjoy, and don't forget to let developers know what you think! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:59, 5 בנובמבר 2013 (IST)

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Call for comments on draft trademark policy

Hi all,

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

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

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

Thanks,
Yana & Geoff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

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

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

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 08:47, 16 בינואר 2014 (IST)

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

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

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

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

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

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

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

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

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

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

• Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
• Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
• Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
• Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

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

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 21:44, 28 בפברואר 2014 (IST)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 23:56, 13 במרץ 2014 (IST)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

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

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

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

For more information:

• Summary of changes and FAQ
• Discussion page for feedback or questions
• Post on blog.wikimedia.org

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

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. John F. Lewis (שיחה) 21:41, 12 באפריל 2014 (IDT)

Restarting discussion regarding Wikinewsie.org

Following the board's rejecting AffComm's recommendation to recognise The Wikinewsie Group, and some confusing communication regarding incorporation, I'm trying to re-open discussion on the matter. If it is more-convenient to copy and translate my post on English Wikinews to enable local discussion, please do.

Restarting the process needs broader support than previously received. That means whatever we end up with has to meet the needs of more contributors and readers. --Brian McNeil/^talk 17:16, 16 באפריל 2014 (IDT)

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

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

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 00:29, 24 במאי 2014 (IDT)

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Using only UploadWizard for uploads

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki upload is not fully functional for users, who will experience a very difficult and/or illegal uploading. In fact, the licenses/copyright tags dropdown is empty, making it hard or impossible to comply with copyright requirements during upload itself.

Presumably, you don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. I propose to have

• local "העלאת קובץ" restricted to the "מפעילי מערכת" group (for emergency uploads) and
• the sidebar point to commons:Special:UploadWizard,

so that you can avoid local maintenance and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons and existing files will not be affected.

All this will get done around 2014-07-03.

1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list. Remember also to create MediaWiki:Licenses locally with any content (see a simple example), or uploads will be soon disabled anyway by MediaWiki itself (starting in version 1.24wmf11).
2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 16:09, 19 ביוני 2014 (IDT)

Guycn2 objects. Nemo bis (שיחה) 23:50, 15 באוקטובר 2014 (IDT)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 00:54, 20 ביוני 2014 (IDT)

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Wikidata language links are coming!

Hell everyone,

Sorry for writing in English - I hope someone from the community could translate this if necessary :)

We have just announced that Wikinews will start having it's inter-language links (sitelinks) served by Wikidata on August 19th if nothing changes before then. This will mean sitelinks will no longer be managed through wikitext locally but instead through Wikidata's interface. This brings the chance of having up-to-date language links for all Wikinews communities and the possibility to have links to other projects also served by Wikidata.

You can read more about this and contribute to proposals and Wikidata policies regarding Wikinews at Wikidata:Wikinews over on Wikidata.

On behalf of the development team, John F. Lewis (talk) 22:08, 22 ביולי 2014 (IDT)

Wikidata is here

Hey everyone :)

(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this where necessary.)

As announced earlier we just enabled the first part of Wikidata support for you. In this first part you are able to maintain interwiki links centrally on Wikidata and no longer need to keep them in the wikitext. Interwiki links in the wikitext will continue to work though and you can overwrite what is coming from Wikidata if you want to. If you have more questions there is a page on Wikidata with the most important information and where you can also ask your questions: d:Wikidata:Wikinews.

In a later step you'll also get access to the actual data in Wikidata. This includes things like the geocoordinate of a city or the date of birth of a person. I'll keep you informed when that will be as soon as I know.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:15, 20 באוגוסט 2014 (IDT)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

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

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

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

-- JurgenNL (talk) 20:35, 21 באוגוסט 2014 (IDT)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

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

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

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 01:15, 22 באוגוסט 2014 (IDT)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

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

• Submit your proposal
• Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 19:52, 2 בספטמבר 2014 (IDT)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

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

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

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

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 20:04, 26 באוקטובר 2014 (IST)

מסנני השחתות גלובליים

Hello,

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

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 19:34, 14 בנובמבר 2014 (IST)

תרגום:
מסנן ההשחתות הוא הרחבה בתוכנת מדיה־ויקי המשמשת לזיהוי אוטומטי של עריכות פוגעניות, כמו ונדליזם ודואר זבל. בשנת 2013, מסנני ההשחתות הגלובליים הופעלו במספר קטן של אתרי ויקי ביניהם מטא־ויקי, MediaWiki.org, ויקימינים וכמו־כן בתחילת שנת 2014 גם כל "אתרי הוויקי הקטנים". לאחרונה, מסנני השחתות גלובליים הופעלו גם ב"אתרי ויקי בינוניים". מסננים אלה מנוהלים כרגע על־ידי דיילים במטא־ויקי וצפויים להיות מאוד מועילים לצורך מניעת מתקפות ספאם בכל מיזמי ויקימדיה. יחד עם זאת, כרגע אין מדיניות לדרך הניהול של מסנני ההשחתות הגלובליים אם כי ישנן הצעות. ישנה בקשה מתמשכת לדעות על מדיניות שמסדירה את השימוש במסנני ההשחתות הגלובליים. בינתיים, אתרי ויקי מקומיים יכולים לבטל את השימוש במסנני ההשחתות הגלובליים. אתרי הוויקי שמעוניינים בכך יכולים פשוט להוסיף בקשה לרשימה זו באתר מטא־ויקי. ניתן למצוא פרטים נוספים בדף זה באתר מטא־ויקי. אם יש לכם שאלות כלשהן, הרגישו חופשיים לשאול בדף m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

העורך החזותי יגיע בקרוב לוויקיחדשות כאפשרות בטא

Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you translated this message!

VisualEditor, a rich-text editor for MediaWiki, will soon be available on this wiki as a Beta Feature. The estimated date of activation is Wednesday, 26 November.

To access it, you will need to visit the אפשרויות בטא page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "הפעלה אוטומטית של רוב אפשרויות הבטא" option, VisualEditor will be automatically available for you.) There will also be a "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" that you can enable if you need it.

Then, you just have to click on "עריכה" to start VisualEditor, or on "עריכת קוד מקור" to edit using wikitext markup. You can even begin to edit pages with VisualEditor and then switch to the wikitext editor simply by clicking on its tab at any point, and you can keep your changes when doing so.

A guide was just published at mediawiki.org so that you can learn how to support your community with this transition: please read and translate it if you can! You will find all the information about the next steps there. Please report any suggestions or issues at the main feedback page. You will also receive the next issues of the multilingual monthly newsletter here on this page: if you want it delivered elsewhere, for example at your personal talk page, please add the relevant page here.

Thanks for your attention and happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 20:12, 21 בנובמבר 2014 (IST)

תרגום:

העורך החזותי, עורך טקסט עשיר בתוכנת מדיה־ויקי, בקרוב יהיה זמין בוויקיחדשות העברית כאפשרות בטא. התאריך המוערך להפעלתו הוא יום רביעי, ד' בכסליו, 26 בנובמבר.

מי שיהיה מעוניין להפעיל את העורך החזותי, יצטרך לבקר בדף אפשרויות בטא אחרי הפעלת העורך באתר זה ולסמן את התיבה שליד האפשרות "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (משתמשים שהפעילו את האפשרות "הפעלה אוטומטית של רוב אפשרויות הבטא" יקבלו את העורך החזותי באופן אוטומטי.) תהיה גם אפשרות "⧼Visualeditor-preference-language-label⧽" שניתן יהיה להפעיל למקרה הצורך.

לאחר מכן, כל מה שתצטרכו לעשות זה ללחוץ על הלשונית "עריכה" כדי להתחיל לערוך באמצעות העורך החזותי, או על "עריכת קוד מקור" כדי לערוך באמצעות עורך הקוד. תוכלו גם להתחיל לערוך דפים באמצעות העורך החזותי ובמהלך העריכה לעבור בקלות למצב עריכת קוד מקור על־ידי לחיצה על הלשונית המתאימה, תוך שמירה על השינויים שכבר בוצעו באמצעות העורך החזותי.

פורסם מדריך באתר mediawiki.org המסביר כיצד לסייע לקהילה עם המעבר הזה: אנא קִראו ותרגמו אותו אם אתם יכולים! תוכלו למצוא שם את כל המידע על השלבים הבאים. אנא דווחו על כל הצעות או בעיות בדף המשובים הראשי. בנוסף, תקבלו את הגיליונות העתידיים של העלון החודשי העוסקים בעורך החזותי בדף זה: אם אתם רוצים לקבל את הגיליונות במקום נוסף/אחר, למשל בדף השיחה האישי שלכם, אנא הוסיפו את שם הדף הרלוונטי לכאן.

תודה על תשומת הלב והמשך עריכה מהנה.

התכונה "רשימת שפות מקוצרת" הופעלה בוויקיחדשות

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

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

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

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

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 10:04, 24 ביוני 2016 (IDT)

תרגום

צילום מסך של רשימת קישורי הבינוויקי עם התכונה "רשימת שפות מקוצרת" (רשימת השפות מסומנת בצהוב)

התכונה "רשימת שפות מקוצרת" זמינה בכל אתרי ויקימדיה כאפשרות בטא משנת 2014. כאשר התכונה הזאת מופעלת, רשימת השפות שמוצגת בצדו הימני של הדף הרבה יותר קצרה (ראו את התמונה). בהתבסס על מספר גורמים, רשימת השפות המקוצרת אמורה להיות יותר רלוונטית למשתמש שקורא את הדף, ואמור להיות לו קל יותר למצוא ברשימה שפות שהוא מכיר. ניתן למצוא מידע נוסף על רשימת השפות המקוצרת בדף הזה (באנגלית).

החל מהיום, רשימת השפות המקוצרת הופעלה כברירת מחדל בוויקיחדשות. אפשר ללחוץ על הכפתור שמתחת לרשימת השפות המקוצרת כדי לראות את כל השפות שבהן הדף זמין לקריאה. ניתן לבטל את התכונה הזאת באמצעות שינוי ההגדרה בדף העדפות -> מראה -> שפות.

רשימת השפות המקוצרת נבדקה ביסודיות על־ידי צוות השפה של ויקימדיה שפיתח אותה. יחד עם זאת, במקרה שיש בעיות או הצעות לשיפור, אנא דווחו עליהן בדף השיחה של התכונה באנגלית. (אם אינכם יכולים לכתוב באנגלית, אפשר גם לדווח על בעיות ולבקש הצעות כאן.) שימו לב שבאתרי ויקי מסוימים עשויים להיות גאדג'טים או סקריפטים ישנים שמבצעים פעולה דומה לתכונת רשימת השפות המקוצרת, מה שעלול לגרום להפרעה בתפקוד התקין של התכונה. אנחנו מבקשים ממפעילי המערכת שבאתר הוויקי הזה לבדוק שאין גאדג'טים או סקריפטים כאלה. ראו פרטים נוספים בפבריקטור (באנגלית).

הודעה זו נשלחה באופן אוטומטי ממפתחי ויקימדיה. אתם מוזמנים לערוך ולשפר את התרגום. ‏Guycn2 · ☎‏ 11:27, 24 ביוני 2016 (IDT)

Button change

אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

In August 2016, I informed this Wikinews that either the MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning notice needed to be changed locally, or the button that currently says "שמירת הדף" would be changed to say "פרסום הדף" instead. There is more information about this at m:Editing/Publish. Since this wiki has not changed its copyright notice, I have scheduled the change to the button for Tuesday, 9 January 2018. This change has generally been simple and easy at other the wikis. You do not need to take any further action, although some help pages may need to be updated.

If you have questions, or if you want to change your notice now (you can see translated changes on Meta and how the English Wikinews changed theirs), then please leave a message for me on my user talk page as soon as possible.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (שיחה) 00:47, 4 בינואר 2018 (IST)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc. ) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

1. User:עידן ד (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --Melos (שיחה) 22:11, 12 באפריל 2017 (IDT)

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

שלום. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף.

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.

תודה! Qgil-WMF (talk) 20:09, 7 באוקטובר 2020 (IDT)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

לקרוא את ההודעה הזאת בשפה אחרת • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

קרן ויקימדיה בודקת את המעבר בין מרכזי הנתונים הראשי והמשני שלה. כך ניתן יהיה לוודא שוויקיפדיה ואתרי הוויקי הנוספים של ויקימדיה יוכלו להישאר מקוונים גם לאחר אסון. כדי לוודא שהכול עובד כשורה, מחלקת הטכנולוגיה של ויקימדיה צריכה לקיים בדיקה מתוכננת. הבדיקה תַראה האם ניתן לעבור ממרכז נתונים אחד למרכז נתונים אחר בצורה אמינה. זה דורש מצוותים רבים להתכונן לקראת הבדיקה ולהיות זמינים לתיקון בעיות בלתי צפויות.

הם יכוונו את כל התעבורה למרכז הנתונים המשני ביום שלישי, 27 באוקטובר 2020.

לרוע המזל, עקב מגבלות מסוימות במדיה־ויקי, כל העריכות חייבות להיפסק במהלך המעבר. אנו מצטערים על ההפרעה, ופועלים לצמצמם אותה בעתיד.

יהיה ניתן לקרוא, אך לא לערוך, את כל אתרי הוויקי למשך זמן קצר.

• לא ניתן יהיה לערוך למשך שעה לכל היותר ביום ביום שלישי, 27 באוקטובר. הבדיקה תתחיל ב־14:00 לפי UTC (16:00 שעון ישראל).
• במקרה של ניסיון לערוך או לשמור במהלך זמן זה, ,תראו הודעת שגיאה. אנו מקווים שלא יאבדו עריכות במהלך דקות אלו, אך אנו לא יכולים להבטיח זאת. אם אתם רואים את הודעת השגיאה, יש להמתין עד שהכול חוזר לשגרה. אז ניתן יהיה לשמור את העריכה שלך. אבל אנו ממליצים להכין העתק של השינויים שלך לפני כן, ליתר ביטחון.

השפעות אחרות:

• עבודות רקע יואטו וחלקן עלולות להיפסק. קישורים אדומים עשויים להתעדכן לאט מהרגיל. במקרה של יצירת ערך שכבר מקושר במקום אחר, הקישור יישאר אדום לזמן ארוך מהרגיל. כמה סקריפטים בעלי זמן־ריצה ארוך ייאלצו להיפסק.
• יהיו הקפאות קוד בשבוע של 26 באוקטובר 2020. פריסות קוד לא חיוניות לא יתרחשו.

פרויקט זה יכול להידחות אם זה יידרש. ניתן לעיין בלוח הזמנים ב־wikitech.wikimedia.org. במקרה של שינוי תהיה הודעה על כך בלוח הזמנים. יהיו התראות נוספות בנידון. תוצג גרזה בכל אתרי הוויקי 30 דקות לפני שהפעולה הזאת מתבצעת. נא לשתף את המידע הזה עם הקהילה שלכם.

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 20:10, 21 באוקטובר 2020 (IDT)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2021 פתוח עכשיו! הסקר הזה הוא חלק מתהליך ההחלטה על מה יעבוד הצוות הטכני הקהילתי בשנה הבאה. אנחנו מעודדים את כולם להציע הצעות עד ל־30 בנובמבר או להגיב על הצעות אחרות על מנת לשפר אותן. הקהילות יצביעו על ההצעות בין 8 בדצמבר ל21 בדצמבר.

צוות הטכנולוגיה מתמקד בכלים לעורכי ויקימדיה מנוסים. אתם יכולים לכתוב הצעות בכל שפה ואנחנו נתרגם אותן עבורך. תודה, ואנחנו מצפים לראות את ההצעות שלך!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

20:15, 20 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

שלום!

I apologize for sending a message in English. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף. 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 (שיחה) 13:49, 24 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

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) 16:39, 30 בנובמבר 2020 (IST)

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) 12:55, 7 בדצמבר 2020 (IST)

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2021

אנחנו מזמינים את כל המשתמשים הרשומים להצביע בסקר משאלות הקהילה 2021. אתם יכולים להציע מעכשיו ועד 21 בדצמבר לכמה משאלות שרק תרצו.

בסקר זה, אנו אוספים את הבקשות שלכם לכלים חדשים ומשופרים לעורכים מנוסים. לאחר ההצבעה על הבקשות, אנו נעשה כמיטב יכולתנו להיענות לבקשותיך. נתחיל קודם כל עם הבקשות שקיבלו את התמיכה הגבוהה ביותר.

אנו, המפתחים, נמנים עם צוותי קרן ויקימדיה. אנו יוצרים ומשפרים כלי עריכה וניהול וויקי. אנו עובדים על סמך תוצאות סקר המשאלות של הקהילה. אחת לשנה אפשר להגיש בקשות/משאלות. לאחר שבועיים, ניתן להצביע על אלו שהכי חשובים לך. לאחר מכן, אנו בוחרים משאלות מתוך הסקר בשביל לעבוד עליו. חלק מהמשאלות עשויות להיפתר על ידי מפתחים מתנדבים או צוותים אחרים.

אנו מחכים להצעותכם. תודה!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

17:55, 11 בדצמבר 2020 (IST)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

שלום. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף. תודה!

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, 17:15, 27 בינואר 2021 (IST)

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 projectgrantsתבנית:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 10:00, 28 בינואר 2021 (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

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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 (שיחה) 15:25, 6 בפברואר 2021 (IST)

דיון על סגירת המיזם

שימו לב שבW:ויקיפדיה:כיכר העיר#ויקיחדשות מתקיים דיון על סגירת ויקיחדשות. שמוליק (שיחה) 20:56, 11 בפברואר 2021 (IST)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, ויקיחדשות currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) 16:12, 18 בפברואר 2021 (IST)

Wikifunctions logo contest

שלום. אנא עזור בבחירת קונספט עיצוב ללוגו של הוויקי הפונקציונלי החדש. ההצבעה מתחילה היום והיא תהיה פתוחה למשך שבועיים. אם תרצה להשתתף, אז נא ללמוד עוד ולהצביע עכשיו ב- Meta-Wiki. תודה! --Quiddity (WMF)

03:46, 2 במרץ 2021 (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

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The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.

Drafting Committee: Call for applications

The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.

To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.

2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators

From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.

To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.

-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:53, 6 באפריל 2021 (IDT)

Global bot policy changes

שלום!

I apologize for sending a message in English. אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף. According to the list, your wiki project is currently opted in to the global bot policy. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after the global RfC was closed.

• Global bots are now subject to a 2 week discussion, and it'll be publicized via a MassMessage list, available at Bot policy/New global bot discussion on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals.
• For a bot to be considered for approval, it must demonstrate it is welcomed in multiple projects, and a good way to do that is to have the bot flag on at least 5 wikis for a single task.
• The bot operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag (i.e., if a wiki doesn't want a bot to use the flag as it edits, that should be followed).

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
—Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 21:48, 6 באפריל 2021 (IDT)

Suggested Values

החל מ-29 באפריל ניתן יהיה להציע ערכים לפרמטרים בתבניות. את הערכים הללו ניתן יהיה להוסיף ל- TemplateData ולאחר מכן הם יוצגו כרשימה נפתחת בעורך החזותי. תכונה זו תאפשר למשתמשי תבניות לבחור במהירות ערך מתאים על מנת למנוע שגיאות פוטנציאליות ולהפחית את המאמץ הדרוש למילוי ערכים בתבנית. לאחר השינוי עדיין ניתן יהיה למלא ערכים שאינם הערכים המוצעים.

מידע נוסף, כולל סוגי הפרמטרים הנתמכים וכיצד ליצור ערכים: מוצעים[1] [2]. כולם מוזמנים לבדוק את התכונה החדשה ולתת משוב בדף שיחה זה.

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 17:08, 22 באפריל 2021 (IDT)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.

You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.

• Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
• 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
• Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
• Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
• Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)

--MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 02:05, 12 ביוני 2021 (IDT)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 07:18, 16 ביוני 2021 (IDT)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

לקרוא בשפה אחרת • הרשמה לרשימת התפוצה של הידיעון

כשכלי התגובה היה מופעל למשתמשים חדשים בדף שיחה, הם הצליחו יותר בשליחת התגובה (מקור)

מוקדם יותר השנה, צוות העריכה (Editing) ערך מחקר גדול על כלי התגובה. המטרה העיקרית הייתה למצוא אם כלי התגובה עוזר לעורכים חדשים לתקשר בוויקי. המטרה השנייה הייתה לראות אם היה צריך לשחזר תגובות שעורכים חדשים עשו באמצעות הכלי הזה לעיתים קרובות יותר מתגובות שנעשו באמצעות עורך דפי קוד הוויקי הקיים.

התוצאות העיקריות היו:

• אצל עורכים חדשים שהייתה להם גישה אוטומטית ("מופעלת בברירת מחדל") לכלי התגובה הייתה הסתברות גבוהה יותר לשלוח תגובה בדף שיחה.
• היה גם פחות סביר שתגובות שעורכים חדשים שלחו באמצעות כלי התגובה תשוחזרנה, בהשוואה לתגובות שעורכים חדשים עשו באמצעות עריכת דף רגילה.

התוצאות האלו נותנות לצוות העריכה תחושת ביטחון בכך שהכלי עוזר למשתמשים.

תוכניות לעתיד

הצוות מתכנן לעשות את כלי התגובה זמין לכולם בתור אפשרות שניתן לכבות בחודשים הקרובים. זה כבר קרה בוויקיפדיות בערבית, בצ'כית, ובהונגרית.

הצעד הבא הוא לפתור אתגר טכני אחד. בשלב הזה הם יתקינו את הכלי תחילה בוויקיפדיות שהשתתפו במחקר. לאחר מכן הם יתקינו אותו בהדרגה לוויקיפדיות אחרות ולכל אתרי הוויקי שקרן ויקימדיה מארחת.

באפשרותך להפעיל את "כלי שיחה" עכשיו באפשרויות בטא. אחרי שכלי התגובה יתחיל לעבוד אצלך, באפשרותך לשנות את ההעדפות שלך בכל זמן בלשונית העריכה בהעדפות.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (שיחה)

17:14, 24 ביוני 2021 (IDT)

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לקרוא את ההודעה הזאת בשפה אחרת • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

קרן ויקימדיה בודקת את המעבר בין מרכזי הנתונים הראשי והמשני שלה. כך ניתן יהיה לוודא שוויקיפדיה ואתרי הוויקי הנוספים של ויקימדיה יוכלו להישאר מקוונים גם לאחר אסון. כדי לוודא שהכול עובד כשורה, מחלקת הטכנולוגיה של ויקימדיה צריכה לקיים בדיקה מתוכננת. הבדיקה תַראה האם ניתן לעבור ממרכז נתונים אחד למרכז נתונים אחר בצורה אמינה. זה דורש מצוותים רבים להתכונן לקראת הבדיקה ולהיות זמינים לתיקון בעיות בלתי צפויות.

לרוע המזל, עקב מגבלות מסוימות במדיה־ויקי, כל העריכות חייבות להיפסק במהלך המעבר. אנו מצטערים על ההפרעה, ופועלים לצמצמם אותה בעתיד.

יהיה ניתן לקרוא, אך לא לערוך, את כל אתרי הוויקי למשך זמן קצר.

• לא ניתן יהיה לערוך למשך שעה לכל היותר ביום שלישי, 29 ביוני 2021. הבדיקה תתחיל ב־14:00 לפי UTC (17:00 שעון ישראל).
• במקרה של ניסיון לערוך או לשמור במהלך זמן זה, תראו הודעת שגיאה. אנו מקווים שלא יאבדו עריכות במהלך דקות אלו, אך אנו לא יכולים להבטיח זאת. אם אתם רואים את הודעת השגיאה, יש להמתין עד שהכול חוזר לשגרה. אז ניתן יהיה לשמור את העריכה שלך. אבל אנו ממליצים להכין העתק של השינויים שלך לפני כן, ליתר ביטחון.

השפעות אחרות:

• עבודות רקע יואטו וחלקן עלולות להיפסק. קישורים אדומים עשויים להתעדכן לאט מהרגיל. במקרה של יצירת ערך שכבר מקושר במקום אחר, הקישור יישאר אדום לזמן ארוך מהרגיל. כמה סקריפטים בעלי זמן־ריצה ארוך ייאלצו להיפסק.
• יהיו הקפאות קוד בשבוע של 28 ביוני. פריסות קוד לא חיוניות לא יתרחשו.

פרויקט זה יכול להידחות אם זה יידרש. ניתן לעיין בלוח הזמנים ב־wikitech.wikimedia.org. במקרה של שינוי תהיה הודעה על כך בלוח הזמנים. יהיו התראות נוספות בנידון. תוצג גרזה בכל אתרי הוויקי 30 דקות לפני שהפעולה הזאת מתבצעת. נא לשתף את המידע הזה עם הקהילה שלכם.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 04:19, 27 ביוני 2021 (IDT)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)

Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC

Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Xeno (WMF) 01:30, 18 באוגוסט 2021 (IDT)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.

6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.

Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.

00:00, 2 בספטמבר 2021 (IDT)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.

However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.

We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.

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

We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.

We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!

Feedback

• What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
• How would you like to use our new sandbox?
• What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
• What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:23, 7 בספטמבר 2021 (IDT)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021

Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.

The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.

We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:

• Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
• Are ready to find compromises.
• Focus on inclusion and diversity.
• Have knowledge of community consultations.
• Have intercultural communication experience.
• Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
• Have experience negotiating with different parties.

The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.

Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) 20:03, 10 בספטמבר 2021 (IDT)

Server switch

Read this message in another language • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

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

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

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

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (שיחה) 03:45, 11 בספטמבר 2021 (IDT)

Talk to the Community Tech

Read this message in another language • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

Hello!

As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
• Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
• Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
• Questions and answers

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
• One tap mobile
  • +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
  • +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
• Dial by your location

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (שיחה) 06:03, 11 בספטמבר 2021 (IDT)

בואו נדבר על שיפורי תצוגת מחשב

שלום!

שמתם לב שבחלק מאתרי ויקי הופיע ממשק חדש בתצוגת מחשב? מסוקרנים לגבי הצעדים הבאים? יש לכם אולי שאלות או רעיונות על העיצוב או הנושאים הטכניים?

הצטרפו לפגישת אונליין עם הצוות העובד על שיפורי תצוגת מחשב! היא תתקיים ב-12 באוקטובר, 16:00 UTC‏ (19:00 שעון ישראל) בזום. הפגישה תמשך כשעה. לחצו להצטרף.

סדר יום

• עדכון על פיתוח בזמן האחרון
• כותרת דביקה - הצגה של גרסת דמו
• שאלות ותשובות, דיון

פורמט

הפגישה לא תוקלט ולא תשודר. רשומות ייעשו ב-קובץ גוגל דוקס. חלק המצגת (שני הסעיפים הראשינים בסדר היום) ייעשה באנגלית.

אנחנו נענה על השאלות שיישאלו באנגלית, צרפתית, פולנית וספרדית. אם אתם מעוניינים לשאול מראש, תוסיפו את שאלותיכם בדף השיחה או שלחו אותן לכתובת sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

אולגה וסילבה (ראש הצוות) תנחה את הפגישה.

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SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:18, 5 באוקטובר 2021 (IDT)

אמנת התנועה/ועדת ניסוח

ההצבעה לבחירות לחברים לוועדה לניסוח אמנת התנועה נפתחת כעת. בסך הכל, 70 עורכי ויקים מתמודדים על 7 מנדטים בבחירות אלה.

ההצבעה פתוחה מה12 באוקטובר עד ה-24 באוקטובר 2021 (בכול מקום).

הוועדה תכלול 15 חברים בסך הכל: הקהילות המקוונות מצביעות על 7 חברים, 6 חברים ייבחרו על ידי שותפי ויקימדיה בתהליך מקביל, ו-2 חברים ימונו על ידי קרן ויקימדיה. התוכנית היא להרכיב את הוועדה עד ה-1 בנובמבר 2021.

למד על כל מועמד כדי להודיע ​​על ההצבעה שלך בשפה שאתה מעדיף: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

למד על ועדת הניסוח: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

אנו מנסים יישום ייעוץ הצבעה לבחירות אלה. לחץ על עצמך דרך הכלי ותראה איזה מועמד הכי קרוב אליך! בדוק ב-<https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

קרא את ההודעה המלאה: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

כנס להצבעה ב-SecurePoll כאן: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

בברכה,

צוות אסטרטגיית תנועה וממשל, קרן ויקימדיה

Mervat (WMF)

הכירו את חברי הוועדה החדשה לניסוח אמנת התנועה

שפות נוספות • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

תהליכי הבחירה והבחירה של ועדת ניסוח אמנת התנועה הסתיימו.

• תוצאות הבחירות פורסמו. 1018 משתתפים הצביעו בעד בחירת שבעה חברים לוועדה:

Richard Knipel (Pharos) Anne Clin (Risker) Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy) Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom) Richard (Nosebagbear) Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan) Ciell (Ciell)

• בתהליך השותפים בחרו שישה חברים:

Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati) Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini) Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin) Georges Fodouop (Geugeor) Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur) Pepe Flores (Padaguan)

• קרן ויקימדיה מינתה שני חברים: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF) Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))

הוועדה תתכנס בקרוב כדי להתחיל בעבודתה. הוועדה יכולה למנות עד שלושה חברים נוספים כדי לגשר על פערי גיוון ומומחיות.

אם אתה מעוניין לעסוק בתהליך הניסוח של אמנת תנועה, עקוב אחר העדכונים ב-Meta והצטרף לקבוצת Telegram group.

תודה, צוות אסטרטגיה וממשל התנועה

12:19, 3 בנובמבר 2021 (IST)

Closing the comment period for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Draft Guidelines

Thank you for your continued comments and ideas on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines. Your responses have helped to build a stronger Universal Code of Conduct.

If you have not already provided your comments, now is the time as the drafting committee has been meeting to update the enforcement guidelines. The drafting committee wants to consider all comments as they make their updates. Please submit any comments by the end of November. The Committee hopes to finish its revisions before the end of the year, and the revised guidelines will be published as soon as they have been completed.

The next steps for the Universal Code of Conduct include conversations about ratification of the enforcement guidelines. There will be a conversation about ratification on Nov 29.

The Wikimedia Foundation will make recommendations to the Board of Trustees about the ratification of the guidelines in December. The recommendations will inform the next steps in the Universal Code of Conduct process.

Regards --Mervat (WMF) (שיחה) 16:07, 25 בנובמבר 2021 (IST)

הודעה על בקשת משוב על הבחירות לחבר הנאמנים

חבר הנאמנים נערך לבקשת משוב בין ה־7 בינואר ל־10 בפברואר 2022 לגבי הבחירות הקרובות לחבר הנאמנים.

שאר הפרטים יוודעו בשבוע שלפני תחילת תקופת המשוב, אבל בינתיים ידועות שתי שאלות שתישאלנה במהלך בקשת המשוב:

• מהי הדרך המיטבית להבטיח ייצוג הוגן של קהילות מתפתחות בקרב חבר הנאמנים?
• איזו מידת מעורבות צריכים מועמדים לחבר הנאמנים לקיים במהלך הבחירות?

על אף שייתכן שתישאלנה שאלות נוספות, צוות האסטרטגיה מבקש לתת די זמן לקהילות ולארגונים לחשוב על השאלות שכבר ידועות ולהעלות רעיונות, עוד לפני שבקשת המשוב נפתחת. אנו מתנצלים על שלא כל השאלות מוכנות כבר בשלב זה. רשימת השאלות עשוייה לגדול בלא יותר מעוד שאלה או שתיים. השאיפה היא להימנע מלהכביד על הקהילה בבקשות רבות, וליידע מראש ולעודד משוב על השאלות החשובות הללו.

האם ברצונכם לארגן שיחה מקומית בקהילה שלכם במהלך תקופת המשוב הזו?

אם כן, צרו קשר עם צוות האסטרטגיה במטא־ויקי, או בערוץ הטלגרם הזה, או בדואל בכתובת msg(_AT_)wikimedia.org.

פנו אלינו בכל שאלה או בעיה. רוב צוות האסטרטגיה בחופשה עד ה־3 בינואר. אנא קבלו בהבנה עיכובים אפשריים במענה בתקופה הזו. אנו אף מבינים שגם מתנדבים רבים לא יהיו זמינים במהלך חגי דצמבר. אנו מתנצלים אם ההודעה מגיעה אליכם במהלך חופשתכם.

בברכה,

צוות האסטרטגיה --Mervat (WMF) - שיחה 16:41, 23 בדצמבר 2021 (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

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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 (שיחה) 15:15, 9 בינואר 2022 (IST)

סקר המשאלות של הקהילה 2022

סקר משאלות הקהילה 2022 פתוח עכשיו!

סקר זה הוא התהליך שבו הקהילה מחליטה על מה צוות פיתוח המשאלות צריך לעבוד ולהתמקד עליו במהלך השנה הבאה. אנו מעודדים את כולם להגיש הצעות עד המועד האחרון ב-23 ינואר, או להגיב על הצעות אחרות כדי לעזור לשפר אותן.

ההצבעה תתקיים ב-28 ינואר–11 פברואר.

צוות פיתוח המשאלות מתמקד בכלים לעורכי ויקימדיה מנוסים. אתם יכולים לכתוב כל הצעה בכל שפה ואנחנו נתרגם אותן עבורכם לאנגלית. תודה, ואנחנו מצפים לראות את ההצעות שלכם!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 21:59, 10 בינואר 2022 (IST)

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

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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.

There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:

1. What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
2. What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?

There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

--Mervat (WMF) - שיחה 16:16, 11 בינואר 2022 (IST)

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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Question about the Affiliates' role for the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections

Hi All,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections so far. The Movement Strategy and Governance team suggested another question was still under discussion. As of today, we announce the last key question:

How should affiliates participate in elections?

Affiliates are an important part of the Wikimedia movement. Two seats of the Board of Trustees due to be filled this year were filled in 2019 through the Affiliate-selected Board seats process. A change in the Bylaws removed the distinction between community and affiliate seats. This leaves the important question: How should affiliates be involved in the selection of new seats?

The question is broad in the sense that the answers may refer not just to the two seats mentioned, but also to other, Community- and Affiliate-selected seats. The Board is hoping to find an approach that will both engage the affiliates and give them actual agency, and also optimize the outcomes in terms of selecting people with top skills, experience, diversity, and wide community’s support.

The Board of Trustees is seeking feedback about this question especially, although not solely, from the affiliate community. Everyone is invited to share proposals and join the conversation in the Call for Feedback channels. In addition to collecting online feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team will organize several video calls with affiliate members to collect feedback. These calls will be at different times and include Trustees.

Due to the late addition of this third question, the Call will be extended until 16 February.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance --Mervat (WMF) (שיחה) 17:17, 22 בינואר 2022 (IST)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

Hey all,

As you may know, I'm a facilitator with a team called Movement Strategy and Governance. We've recently re-designed the Universal Code of Conduct News, and it will now appear as the Movement Strategy and Governance News.

I've added some direct links in the shortened version below, if you want to skip right to the subjects for this issue. Please let me know if you have any questions. The Movement Strategy and Governance team is inviting input about the newsletter (past, present, future) at m:Talk:Movement Strategy and Governance/Newsletter. --Mervat (WMF) (שיחה) 21:12, 31 בינואר 2022 (IST)

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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 Movement Strategy and Governance 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)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review /community calls

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שפות נוספות • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

Hello everyone,

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

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

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

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation --Mervat (WMF) (talk) 09:35, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated!

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Hello,

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.

Thank you, --Mervat (WMF) (שיחה) 12:17, 8 February 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 (שיחה) 06:50, 22 בפברואר 2022 (IST)

Coming soon

בקרוב: כמה שיפורים בנושא תבניות

שלום, מ־9 במרץ כמה שיפורים בתבניות יהיו זמינים בוויקי שלכם:

• שיפורים יסודיים בתיבת הדו־שיח של תבניות העורך החזותי (1, 2),
• שיפורים שיקלו על הוספת תבנית לדף (3) (לתיבות הדו־שיח של תבניות בעורך החזותי, עורך קוד הוויקי ומצב קוד המקור החדש)
• ושיפורי צביעת והדגשת קוד (4, 5) בהרחבת CodeMirror (זמין כעת רק באתרי ויקי בשפות הנכתבות משמאל לימין).

כל השינויים הללו הם חלק ממיזם התבניות של צוות המשאלות הטכניות של ויקימדיה גרמניה. אנחנו מקווים שהם יעזרו לכם בעבודתכם, ואנחנו נשמח לשמוע את המשוב שלכם בדפי השיחה של המיזמים האלה.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14:38, 28 בפברואר 2022 (IST)

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 on 18 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC shares perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants.
• The Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Please sign-up for these conversation hours 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.

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

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 21:54, 28 בפברואר 2022 (IST)

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

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

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

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Mervat Salman (WMF) MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 22:38, 2 במרץ 2022 (IST)

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

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 17:51, 4 במרץ 2022 (IST)

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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 --Mervat (WMF) (שיחה) 12:26, 8 במרץ 2022 (IST)

Hubs Dialogue Findings Summary

Hello; After conducting conversations with many Wikimedians from around the world, who are planning or working on possible future hubs, we are happy to share the findings summary from the series of the Hubs Dialogue, which you can find here.
The results focus on the aspect of the existing problems in the Wikimedia movement that the hubs may be needed to solve, including both: 1. globally shared needs among all Wikimedia communities, and 2. needs specific to the context of a particular community or a group of communities.

Movement Strategy and Governance Team Wikimedia Foundation --Mervat (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 11:58, 12 March 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 (שיחה) 16:40, 14 במרץ 2022 (IST)

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

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 11:25, 17 במרץ 2022 (IST)

Join the Community Resilience and Sustainability Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis

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The Community Resilience and Sustainability team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a conversation hour led by its Vice President Maggie Dennis.

Topics within scope for this call include Movement Strategy, Board Governance, Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Community Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions and feedback, and let's talk! You can also send us your questions in advance.

The meeting will be on 24 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC (check your local time).

You can read details on Meta-wiki.

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 17:58, 21 במרץ 2022 (IST)

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

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 22:11, 24 במרץ 2022 (IST)

Leadership Development Working Group: Reminder to apply by 10 April 2022

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Hello everyone,

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Working Group. The purpose of the working group is to advise leadership development work. Feedback was collected in February 2022 and a summary of the feedback is on Meta-wiki. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and is closing soon 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

MediaWiki message delivery (שיחה) 15:51, 28 במרץ 2022 (IDT)

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

On behalf of the Universal Code of Conduct project team --Mervat (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 21:39, 23 May 2022 (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, 07:20, 27 במאי 2023 (IDT)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:59, 28 ביוני 2023 (IDT)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 18:35, 28 באוגוסט 2023 (IDT)

הוויקיפדיה בשפה שלכם תהיה זמינה לקריאה בלבד בקרוב

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קרן ויקימדיה בודקת את המעבר בין מרכזי הנתונים הראשי והמשני שלה. זה יוודא שוויקיפדיה ואתרי הוויקי הנוספים של ויקימדיה יוכלו להישאר זמינים גם לאחר אסון. כדי לוודא שהכול עובד כשורה, מחלקת הטכנולוגיה של ויקימדיה צריכה לערוך בדיקה מתוכננת. הבדיקה תַראה האם ניתן לעבור ממרכז נתונים אחד למרכז נתונים אחר בצורה אמינה. זה דורש מצוותים רבים להתכונן לקראת הבדיקה ולהיות זמינים לתיקון בעיות בלתי־צפויות.

כל התעבורה תועבר ב20 בספטמבר. הבדיקה תתחיל ב־ 14:00 UTC (16:00 שעון ישראל).

לרוע המזל, עקב מגבלות מסוימות במדיה־ויקי, כל העריכות חייבות להיפסק במהלך המעבר. אנו מצטערים על ההפרעה, ופועלים לצמצמם אותה בעתיד.

יהיה ניתן לקרוא, אך לא לערוך, את כל אתרי הוויקי למשך זמן קצר.

• לא יהיה אפשר לערוך למשך שעה לכל היותר ביום רביעי 20 בספטמבר 2023.
• במקרה של ניסיון לערוך או לשמור במהלך זמן זה, תראו הודעת שגיאה. אנו מקווים שלא יאבדו עריכות במהלך דקות אלו, אך אנו לא יכולים להבטיח זאת. אם מוצגת לך הודעת השגיאה, יש להמתין עד שהכול חוזר לשגרה. אז יהיה אפשר לשמור את העריכה שלך. אבל אנו ממליצים להכין העתק של השינויים שלך לפני כן, ליתר ביטחון.

השפעות אחרות:

• משימות רקע יואטו וחלקן עלולות להיפסק. קישורים אדומים עשויים להתעדכן לאט מהרגיל. במקרה של יצירת ערך שכבר מקושר במקום אחר, הקישור יישאר אדום לזמן ארוך מהרגיל. כמה סקריפטים בעלי זמן־ריצה ארוך ייאלצו להיפסק.
• אנו מצפים שהתקנות קוד יתנהלו כמו בכל שבוע אחר. עם זאת, הקפאות קוד מסוימות יכולות לקרות באופן נקודתי אם התפעול דורש אותן אחרי־כן.
• אתר ה־גיטלאב לא יהיה זמין לכ־90 שניות.

הפרויקט הזה יכול להידחות אם זה יידרש. ניתן לעיין בלוח הזמנים ב־wikitech.wikimedia.org. במקרה של שינוי תהיה הודעה על כך בלוח הזמנים. יהיו התראות נוספות על זה. תוצג כרזה בכל אתרי הוויקי 30 דקות לפני שהפעולה הזאת מתבצעת. נא לשתף את המידע הזה עם הקהילה שלך.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 12:23, 15 בספטמבר 2023 (IDT)

== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==

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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), Ombuds commission (OC), and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:41, 9 באוקטובר 2023 (IDT)

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

04:12, 17 באוקטובר 2023 (IDT)

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 14:31, 13 בדצמבר 2023 (IST)

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

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

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

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

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

Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:07, 19 בינואר 2024 (IST)

Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 19:00, 31 בינואר 2024 (IST)

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Dear all,

Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:23, 12 בפברואר 2024 (IST)

Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 18:25, 5 במרץ 2024 (IST)

בחירת חברי חבר הנאמנים של קרן ויקימדיה לשנת 2024

אפשר לקרוא תרגומים של המסר הזה לשפות נוספות במטא־ויקי.

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שלום לכולם,

בשנה זו תסתיים כהונתם של ארבעה חברים בחבר הנאמנים, שנבחרו על־ידי הקהילה וארגונים שותפים [1]. חבר הנאמנים מזמין את התנועה כולה להשתתף בתהליך הבחירות של שנה זו, ולהצביע כדי למלא את מקומם של הפורשים.

ועדת הבחירות תפקח על התהליך בעזרתם של עובדי הקרן [2]. ועדת הניהול (Governance Committee) של חבר הנאמנים הקימה קבוצת עבודה לבחירות, הכוללת נאמנים שאינם יכולים להציג מועמדות בבחירות 2024 לנציגי הקהילה והארגונים השותפים. בקבוצת העבודה חברים דריוש ימלניאק, נטליה טימקיב, אסרא א־שאפעי, קתי קולינס ושני אבנשטיין סיגלוב [3]. משימתה של הקבוצה לפקח מטעם חבר הנאמנים על תהליך הבחירות ולהעביר מידע לחבר הנאמנים. פרטים נוספים על תפקידיהם של ועדת הבחירות, חבר הנאמנים וסגל העובדים אפשר לקרוא כאן [4].

להלן המועדים החשובים המתוכננים:

• מאי 2024: קול קורא להצגת מועמדות ולשאלות
• יוני 2024: הארגונים השותפים יצביעו לבחירת 12 מועמדים לרשימה המצומצמת (שלב הרשימה המצומצמת לא יתקיים אם רק 15 מועמדים או פחות יציגו את מועמדותם) [5]
• יוני-אוגוסט 2024: תקופת מסע הבחירות
• סוף אוגוסט/תחילת ספטמבר 2024: תקופת ההצבעה של הקהילה שתימשך שבועיים
• אוקטובר-נובמבר 2024: בדיקת רקע למועמדים שנבחרו
• ישיבת חבר הנאמנים בדצמבר 2024: קבלת הנאמנים החדשים

פרטים נוספים על תהליך הבחירות של 2024, כדי לתכנן את צעדיכם, אפשר לקרוא בדף הזה במטא־ויקי, בכלל זה לוח־זמנים מפורט, תהליך הצגת מועמדות, כללי מסע הבחירות והקריטריונים לזכאות להצבעה.

מתנדבי הבחירות

דרך נוספת למעורבות בתהליך הבחירות של 2024 היא להיות מתנדב/ת בחירות. מתנדבי הבחירות הם גשר בין ועדת הבחירות לבין הקהילות שלהם. הם עוזרים להבטיח שהקהילה שלהם מיוצגת ומגייסים את אנשיה להצבעה. פרטים נוספים על התוכנית ועל אופן ההצטרפות אליה בדף מטא־ויקי הזה.

בברכה חמה,

דריוש ימלניאק (Dariusz Jemielniak), יו"ר ועדת הניהול, קבוצת העבודה של הבחירות לחבר הנאמנים

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

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

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

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

[5] אף על־פי שמספר המועמדים האידיאלי לבחירת 4 נאמנים הוא 12, תהליך הרשימה המצומצמת יתקיים רק אם יהיו יותר מ־15 מועמדים. זאת משום שהסרת מועמדותם של 1–3 מועמדים עלולה ליצור את הרושם כאילו הם מנודים. כמו כן, הארגונים השותפים יצטרכו להשקיע עבודה רבה בתהליך הרשימה המצומצמת רק כדי להסיר 1–3 מועמדים מהרשימה.

MPossoupe_(WMF)21:56, 12 במרץ 2024 (IST)

הוויקיפדיה בשפה שלכם תהיה זמינה לקריאה בלבד בקרוב

לקרוא את ההודעה הזאת בשפה אחרת • אנא סייעו בתרגום הדף

קרן ויקימדיה תבצע מעבר בין מרכזי הנתונים שלה. זה יוודא שוויקיפדיה ואתרי הוויקי הנוספים של ויקימדיה יוכלו להישאר זמינים גם לאחר אסון.

כל התעבורה תועבר ב־20 במרץ. הבדיקה תתחיל ב־14:00 UTC (16:00 שעון ישראל).

לרוע המזל, עקב מגבלות מסוימות במדיה־ויקי, כל העריכות חייבות להיפסק במהלך המעבר. אנו מצטערים על ההפרעה, ופועלים לצמצמם אותה בעתיד.

יהיה ניתן לקרוא, אך לא לערוך, את כל אתרי הוויקי למשך זמן קצר.

• לא יהיה אפשר לערוך למשך שעה לכל היותר ביום רביעי 20 במרץ 2024.
• במקרה של ניסיון לערוך או לשמור במהלך זמן זה, תראו הודעת שגיאה. אנו מקווים שלא יאבדו עריכות במהלך דקות אלו, אך אנו לא יכולים להבטיח זאת. אם מוצגת לך הודעת השגיאה, יש להמתין עד שהכול חוזר לשגרה. אז יהיה אפשר לשמור את העריכה שלך. אבל אנו ממליצים להכין העתק של השינויים שלך לפני כן, ליתר ביטחון.

השפעות אחרות:

• משימות רקע יואטו וחלקן עלולות להיפסק. קישורים אדומים עשויים להתעדכן לאט מהרגיל. במקרה של יצירת ערך שכבר מקושר במקום אחר, הקישור יישאר אדום לזמן ארוך מהרגיל. כמה סקריפטים בעלי זמן־ריצה ארוך ייאלצו להיפסק.
• אנו מצפים שהתקנות קוד יתנהלו כמו בכל שבוע אחר. עם זאת, הקפאות קוד מסוימות יכולות לקרות באופן נקודתי אם התפעול דורש אותן אחרי־כן.
• אתר הגיטלאב לא יהיה זמין לכ־90 שניות.

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Trizek (WMF), 02:00, 15 במרץ 2024 (IST)