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Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!
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We’re happy to announce the launch of Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
- Topic: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
- When: Jan 19, 2025
- Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
- Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88420056597?pwd=NdrpqIhrwAVPeWB8FNb258n7qngqqo.1
- Zoom meeting hosted by Wikimedia Bangladesh
To get started, visit the campaign page for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Add your community here, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!
For the International Team 13:08, 16 stë 2025 (CET)
Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review. Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:11, 24 stë 2025 (CET)
Feminism and Folklore 2025 starts soon
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Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2025 writing competition from February 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
- Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
- Set up a campaign on CampWiz tool.
- Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
- Request local admins for site notice.
- Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the meta project page.
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the Article List Generator by Topic and CampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
We look forward to your immense coordination.
Thank you and Best wishes,
Feminism and Folklore 2025 International Team
- Stay connected
- Stay connected
--MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 03:35, 29 stë 2025 (CET)
Wiki Loves Folklore is back!
[editëjë zdrój]Pomóż przetłumaczyć na Twój język
Dear Wiki Community, You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2025 an international media contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 31st of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team --MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 03:35, 29 stë 2025 (CET)
Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
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This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through the end of day, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review. Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:48, 3 gro 2025 (CET)
Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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Hello everyone!
We’re excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Masz temat, którym chcesz się podzielić? Niezależnie od tego, czy to aktualizacja techniczna z twojego projektu, wyzwanie, w którym potrzebujesz pomocy, czy prośba o wsparcie w interpretacji, chętnie usłyszymy od ciebie! Nie krępuj się odpowiedzieć na tę wiadomość lub dodać punktów do agendy w dokumencie tutaj.
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.
Czekamy na wasze pomysły i udział, do zobaczenia!
Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
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I am writing to you to let you know that proposed changes to the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter are open for review. You can provide feedback on suggested changes through the end of day on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes. Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) 19:51, 7 str 2025 (CET)
An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool
[editëjë zdrój]Cześć Wikipedians,
Apologies as this message is not in your language, Pomóż przetłumaczyć na Twój język.
The Language and Product Localization team has improved the Content Translation dashboard to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. Below is a breakdown of important information about the improvement.
What are the improvements?
The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.
With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users can now access the capabilities shown in the image below.
Does this improvement change the current accessibility of this tool in this Wikipedia?
The Content translation tool will still be in beta; therefore, only logged-in users who activated the tool from the will continue to have access to the content translation tool. Also, if the tool is only available to a specific , it will remain that way.
When do we plan to implement this improvement?
We will implement it on your Wikipedia and others by 24th, March 2025.
What happens to the former dashboard after we implement the improvement?
You can still access it in the tool for some time. We will remove it from all Wikipedias by May 2025, as maintaining it will no longer be productive.
Where can I test this improvement and report any issues before it is implemented in this Wiki?
You can try the improved capabilities in the test wiki using this link: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=es&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits&active-list=suggestions&from=en#/ .
If you notice an issue related to the improved dashboard in the test wiki, please let us know in this thread and ping me, or report it in Phabricator, adding these tags: BUG REPORT and ContentTranslation.
Please ask us any questions regarding this improvement in this thread. Thank you!
On behalf of the Language and Product Localization team.
Wasza wiki będzie niedługo w trybie tylko do odczytu
[editëjë zdrój]Przeczytaj w innym języku • Pomóż przetłumaczyć na Twój język
Wikimedia Foundation przełączy ruch na inną swoją serwerownię. Upewni to nas, że Wikipedia i inne strony Wikimedia będą zawsze online, nawet w przypadku kataklizmu.
Cały ruch zostanie przełączony 19 marca. Przełączanie rozpocznie się o 14:00 UTC.
Niestety, z powodu niektórych ograniczeń w MediaWiki, wszystkie operacje edycyjne muszą zostać przerwane podczas przełączenia. Przepraszamy za te utrudnienia. Będziemy pracować nad tym, aby je zminimalizować w przyszłości.
Na wszystkich wiki na 30 minut przed zostanie wyświetlony banner, zanim ta operacja się zacznie. Będzie on widoczny aż do końca operacji przełączenia serwerowni.
Każdą wiki przez krótki czas będzie można tylko czytać, ale nie edytować.
- Edytowanie nie będzie możliwe 19 marca 2025 (środa) przez maksymalnie godzinę.
- Jeżeli spróbujesz edytować lub zapisywać zmiany w tym czasie, zobaczysz komunikat o błędzie. Mamy nadzieję, że żadne edycje nie zostaną utracone podczas tego czasu, ale nie możemy tego zagwarantować. Jeżeli zauważysz komunikat o błędzie, poczekaj aż wszystko wróci do normy. Będzie wtedy możliwe zapisanie zmian. Zalecamy jednak zrobienie kopii swoich zmian, na wszelki wypadek.
Inne skutki:
- Zadania w tle będą wolniejsze, a niektóre mogą być przerywane. Czerwone linki mogą nie być aktualizowane tak szybko, jak zwykle. Jeżeli utworzysz artykuł, do którego prowadzi jakiś link, to ten link będzie dłużej czerwony niż zwykle. Część skryptów, uruchamiających się na dłużej, zostanie zatrzymanych.
- Oczekujemy, że wdrożenia kodu będą miały miejsce jak w każdym innym tygodniu. Jednakże poszczególne fragmenty kodu mogą się zawiesić, jeżeli dana operacja będzie ich później potrzebować.
- GitLab będzie niedostępny przez około 90 minut.
W razie konieczności terminy testu mogą się przesunąć. Możesz zapoznać się z harmonogramem na wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wszelkie zmiany będą ogłoszone w tymże harmonogramie.
Prosimy, podziel się tą informacją ze swoją społecznością.Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted
[editëjë zdrój]The proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charter are now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on the wiki page for the election soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:04, 4 łżë 2025 (CEST)
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation
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Pomóż przetłumaczyć na Twój język
Hello, dear Wikipedians!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the fifth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 14th April until 16th May 2025. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contributions in every language!
The most active contesters will receive prizes.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge! OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk)
18:11, 16 łżë 2025 (CEST)
Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
[editëjë zdrój]The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
In cooperation with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 02:34, 17 łżë 2025 (CEST)
Sub-referencing: User testing
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Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below
Hi I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:
- Try it out and share your feedback
- Please try the updated wikitext feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.
- Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs
- Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
[editëjë zdrój]The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
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Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.
Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:08, 6 môj 2025 (CEST)
Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
[editëjë zdrój]The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is available on Meta-wiki.
You may now submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on the discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! -- Sannita (WMF) (diskùsëjô) 17:26, 22 môj 2025 (CEST)
Ogłoszenie wyborów do Rady Powierniczej Wikimedia Foundation, wezwanie do zadawania pytań
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Drogie i drodzy,,
W tym roku dobiegnie końca kadencja 2 (dwóch) członków Rady Powierniczej Wikimedia Foundation wybranych przez społeczność i afiliantów [1]. Rada zaprasza cały ruch do udziału w tegorocznym procesie selekcji i głosowania w celu obsadzenia tych miejsc.
Ten proces będzie nadzorować Komitet wyborczy, przy wsparciu pracowników Fundacji [2]. Komitet Zarządzający Rady, składający się z powierników, którzy nie są kandydatami w tegorocznym procesie wyborczym (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina i Esra'a Al Shafei) [3], ma za zadanie zapewnienie nadzoru nad procesem wyboru powierników w 2025 oraz informowanie Rady o kolejnych etapach. Więcej szczegółów na temat ról Komitetu wyborczego, Rady i wspierającego personelu można znaleźć tutaj [4].
Oto najważniejsze planowane daty:
- 22 maja - 5 czerwca 2025: Ogłoszenie (niniejszy komunikat) i wezwanie do zadawania pytań [6]
- 17 czerwca - 1 lipca: Zaproszenie do zgłaszania kandydatur
- Lipiec: W razie potrzeby, afilianci głosują nad skróceniem listy kandydatów, jeśli zgłosi się ich więcej niż 10 [5].
- Sierpień: Okres kampanii
- Sierpień - wrzesień: Dwutygodniowy okres głosowania dla członków społeczności
- Październik – listopad: Weryfikacja wybranych kandydatów
- Spotkanie Rady w grudniu: Zatwierdzenie nowowybranych członków Rady
Dowiedz się więcej o procesie selekcji w 2025 - w tym o szczegółowym harmonogramie, procesie kandydowania, zasadach kampanii i kryteriach kwalifikowalności wyborców - na tej stronie Meta-wiki: [link].
Zaproszenie do zadawania pytań
W każdym procesie selekcji społeczność ma możliwość zadawania pytań kandydatom do Rady Powierniczej. Komisja Wyborcza wybiera pytania z listy opracowanej przez społeczność, na które kandydaci muszą odpowiedzieć, aby się zakwalifikować; w przeciwnym razie ich zgłoszenie zostanie zdyskwalifikowane. W tym roku Komisja Wyborcza wybierze 5 pytań, na które kandydaci będą musieli odpowiedzieć. Wybrane pytania mogą być kombinacją pytań przesłanych przez społeczność, jeśli są one podobne lub powiązane. [link]
Wolontariusze wyborczy
Innym sposobem na zaangażowanie się w proces wyborczy 2025 jest bycie wolontariuszem wyborczym. Wolontariusze wyborczy są pomostem między Komitetem wyborczym a społecznością. Pomagają upewnić się, że ich własna społeczność jest reprezentowana i mobilizują ją do głosowania. Dowiedz się więcej o programie i o tym, jak do niego dołączyć na tej stronie Meta-wiki [link].
Dziękujemy!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_Membership,_December_2024
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/FAQ
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Questions_for_candidates
Z wyrazami szacunku,
Victoria Doronina
Łącznik Rady z komisją wyborczą
Komitet Zarządzający
MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 05:07, 28 môj 2025 (CEST)
Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension
[editëjë zdrój]Hello everyone,
(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)
The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of the CampaignEvents extension to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during the week of June 23rd.
This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.
The three main features of this extension are:
- Event Registration: A simple way to sign up for events on the wiki.
- Collaboration List: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at Special:AllEvents.
- Invitation Lists: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.
Note: The extension comes with a new user right called "Event Organizer", which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.
The extension is already live on several wikis, including Meta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and more ( See the full deployment list)
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension talkpage. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.
Thank you!
Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the 2025 Election information page. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 01:00, 14 cze 2025 (CEST)Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
The call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on this Meta-wiki page or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Bylaws#(B)_Term.
MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 19:43, 17 cze 2025 (CEST)
Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
[editëjë zdrój]Dear Wikimedia Community,
The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF) to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose. Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly, failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Wikispore
[editëjë zdrój]The application to consider Wikispore was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided not to recommend Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows better flexibility and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
Wikinews
[editëjë zdrój]We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.[1][2][3] Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action[4][5], see section 5 as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews[6].
Initial metrics compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
- Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
- Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
- Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
- Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
[editëjë zdrój]We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages: Public consultation about Wikispore and Public consultation about Wikinews. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
-- Victoria on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force, 22:56, 27 cze 2025 (CEST)
Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
[editëjë zdrój](Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC.
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.
Thank you, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team. MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 14:45, 14 lëp 2025 (CEST)
Migration to Parsoid
[editëjë zdrój]Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the Parser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation.
There is more information about our roll-out strategy available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our known issues documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon
[editëjë zdrój]Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation Product Safety and Integrity team. We would like to announce that we plan to enable temporary accounts for this wiki in the week of September 1.
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
- This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
- If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who meet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
- A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
- Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
- For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who meet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the IP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
- For admins blocking logged-out editors:
- It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
- It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
- Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
- If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on testwiki or test2wiki. If you are a volunteer developer, read our documentation for developers, and in particular, the section on how your code might need to be updated.
- If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
- Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
- Look at our previous message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out our FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may also look at the updates (we have just posted one) and subscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
Przełączenie serwerowni – Wasza wiki będzie niedługo w trybie tylko do odczytu
[editëjë zdrój]Przeczytaj w innym języku • Pomóż przetłumaczyć na Twój język
Wikimedia Foundation przełączy ruch na inną swoją serwerownię. Upewni to nas, że Wikipedia i inne strony Wikimedia będą zawsze online, nawet w przypadku kataklizmu.
Cały ruch zostanie przełączony 24 września. Przełączanie rozpocznie się o 15:00 UTC (17:00 CEST).
Niestety, z powodu niektórych ograniczeń w MediaWiki, wszystkie operacje edycyjne muszą zostać przerwane podczas przełączenia. Przepraszamy za te utrudnienia. Będziemy pracować nad tym, aby je zminimalizować w przyszłości.
Na wszystkich wiki na 30 minut przed zostanie wyświetlony banner, zanim ta operacja się zacznie. Będzie on widoczny aż do końca operacji przełączenia serwerowni. You can contribute to the translation or proofreading of this banner text.
Każdą wiki przez krótki czas będzie można tylko czytać, ale nie edytować.
- Edytowanie nie będzie możliwe 24 września 2025 (środa) przez maksymalnie godzinę.
- Jeżeli spróbujesz edytować lub zapisywać zmiany w tym czasie, zobaczysz komunikat o błędzie. Mamy nadzieję, że żadne edycje nie zostaną utracone podczas tego czasu, ale nie możemy tego zagwarantować. Jeżeli zauważysz komunikat o błędzie, poczekaj aż wszystko wróci do normy. Będzie wtedy możliwe zapisanie zmian. Zalecamy jednak zrobienie kopii swoich zmian, na wszelki wypadek.
Inne skutki:
- Zadania w tle będą wolniejsze, a niektóre mogą być przerywane. Czerwone linki mogą nie być aktualizowane tak szybko, jak zwykle. Jeżeli utworzysz artykuł, do którego prowadzi jakiś link, to ten link będzie dłużej czerwony niż zwykle. Część skryptów, uruchamiających się na dłużej, zostanie zatrzymanych.
- Oczekujemy, że wdrożenia kodu będą miały miejsce jak w każdym innym tygodniu. Jednakże poszczególne fragmenty kodu mogą się zawiesić, jeżeli dana operacja będzie ich później potrzebować.
- GitLab będzie niedostępny przez około 90 minut.
W razie konieczności terminy testu mogą się przesunąć. Możesz zapoznać się z harmonogramem na wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wszelkie zmiany będą ogłoszone w tymże harmonogramie.
Prosimy, podziel się tą informacją ze swoją społecznością.Pokaż, kogo popierasz: zagłosuj w wyborach do Rady Powierniczej 2025
[editëjë zdrój]Drogie i drodzy,
Rozpoczął się okres głosowania w wyborach do Rady Powierniczej na rok 2025. Kandydaci ubiegają się o dwa (2) miejsca w Radzie.
Aby sprawdzić, czy przysługuje Ci prawo do głosowania, odwiedź stronę poświęconą uprawnieniom wyborczym.
Więcej informacji na temat kandydatów można znaleźć w ich oświadczeniach aplikacyjnych; można też obejrzeć filmy przedstawiające ich kandydatury.
Jeśłi jesteś gotowy/-a, możesz przejść do strony głosowania SecurePoll, aby oddać głos.
Głosowanie trwa od 8 października od godziny 00:00 UTC do 22 października do godziny 23:59 UTC.
Z wyrazami szacunku,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Przewodniczący Komitetu Wyborczego
MediaWiki message delivery (diskùsëjô) 06:48, 9 ruj 2025 (CEST)
Pomóż nam wybrać nazwę nowego projektu – Abstract Wikipedii
[editëjë zdrój]Cześć. Prosimy o pomoc w wyborze nazwy dla nowego projektu wiki – Abstract Wikipedii. Będzie to wiki, która pomoże użytkownikom łączyć funkcje z Wikifunkcji oraz dane z Wikidanych w celu generowania zdań w językach naturalnych. Będą one mogły być potem używane na dowolnej Wikipedii (lub gdziekolwiek indziej).
Odbędą się dwie rundy głosowania, a po każdej z nich nastąpi przegląd prawny zgłoszeń. Kolejne etapy głosowania rozpoczną się 20 października i 17 listopada. Naszym celem jest wybór ostatecznej nazwy w połowie grudnia 2025. Jeśli chcesz uczestniczyć, dowiedz się więcej i zagłosuj na Meta wiki. Dziękujemy!
Poszukujemy wolontariuszy, którzy dołączą do kilku komitetów ruchu.
[editëjë zdrój]Każdego roku, zazwyczaj od października do grudnia, kilka komitetów ruchu poszukuje nowych wolontariuszy.
Więcej informacji na temat komitetów można znaleźć na ich stronach w serwisie Meta-wiki:
Nabór do komisji rozpocznie się 30 października 2025 roku. Zgłoszenia do Komitetu Afiliacyjnego, Komisji rzeczników i Komitetu Odwoławczego przyjmowane będą do 11 grudnia 2025 roku. Informacje na temat sposobu składania wniosków znajdują się na stronie poświęconej nominacjom na Meta-wiki. Wszelkie pytania można zadawać na stronie dyskusji lub wysyłając wiadomość e-mail na adres cst@wikimedia.org.
W imieniu zespołu wsparcia komitetów,