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Kan noen vise meg hvordan {{Ticker}} skal brukes? Kan noen få {{nyhetsticker}} til å fungere? Jeg er absolutt ikke inne på dette med det tekniske... Mvh. Marius2 15. des 2008 kl. 16:33 (CET)

Utvidelsen DynamicPageList som brukes her er utgammel, og egentlig er det snakk om mw:Extension:Intersection. Det er foreslått noen oppdateringer, men disse er ikke satt i produksjon. Det gjør at det er vanskelig å få slike løsninger til å fungere. Eksempelet viser til en utgave av Dynamic Page List som er langt mer avansert enn den som faktisk brukes. Jeblad 8. feb 2009 kl. 00:22 (CET)
Ok. Er det neon mulighet for å få satt opp en form for nyhetsticker for Wikinytt (ala den de har på engelsk Wikinews)? Mvh. Marius2 8. feb 2009 kl. 00:50 (CET)
Vil tro det, men jeg har ikke sjekket. Jeblad 12. feb 2009 kl. 12:51 (CET)

Er det noen flere som kan bidra til Wikinytts årskavalkade for 2008? Mvh. Marius2 29. des 2008 kl. 15:01 (CET)

Beklager, har vært litt opptatt... Hva er det som skjer med fontene, forresten? Har du noen ide? Djevelunge 1. jan 2009 kl. 22:42 (CET)
Fontene? Mvh. Marius2 1. jan 2009 kl. 23:42 (CET)
Hadde det ikke vært for at jeg har uavhengige bekreftelser på at fontene var helt ualminnelig store så hadde jeg kanskje lurt på om det var noen som (endelig) hadde puttet noe i drinken min ... de var det ... veldig store, altså...
Godt nytt år, forresten :) Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 02:31 (CET)
Mente du alle nyhetene, eller at utvalg? Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 03:59 (CET)
Fontene er store før jeg logger meg inn... Men ingenting er endret, bortsett fra «Godt nytt år» på forsiden (den er ny da). De viktigste kanskje? Eller alle, vi har ikke mange saker. Mvh. Marius2 2. jan 2009 kl. 11:51 (CET)
Hva om vi bruker {{ingress|''Tittelen på saken''}}? Mvh. Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 14:24 (CET)
Ja, det stemmer. Fontene er store frem til jeg har logget inn. Det går jo ikke ... Har du en ide om noe har blitt endret på de siste dagene som kan forutsake dette? Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 14:24 (CET)
Jeg tror kanskje feilen kan ligge i MediaWiki:Sitenotice ved den feilaktige endtaggen for <big> ... den burde vel avsluttes med </big>?. Vet dog ikke hvorfor dette kun virker inn når bruker er utlogget. Uansett, fiks det og sjekk om det hjelper :) --EivindJ 2. jan 2009 kl. 14:58 (CET)
Jeg kan ikke fikse det, fordi jeg ikke har tilgang. Kan jeg få tilgang? Det ser ellers ut som om du har rett i at det kan være dette som er grunnen. Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 16:36 (CET)
Marius fikset det nå, og du vil først få tilgang til å redigere MediaWiki-navnerommet når du blir administrator. Dette er selvfølgelig noe du kan nominere deg selv som. --EivindJ 3. jan 2009 kl. 02:35 (CET)
Jeg forsøkte å legge inn {{ingress|''Tittelen på saken''}} i årskavalkaden men resultatet ble underlig... (diff her.) Djevelunge 2. jan 2009 kl. 17:36 (CET)
Grunnen til det er at disse artiklene har det «gamle oppsettet»; de har ikke med <onlyinclude>/</onlyinclude> i ingressen slik som vi bruker i dag. En annen grunn kan være at det er noe annet feil med dette i artikkelen. Mvh. Marius2 2. jan 2009 kl. 18:58 (CET)
Fin innsats du la ned i denne siden forresten. Takk! Mvh. 22. feb 2009 kl. 15:15 (CET)

Cross-Wikinews interview collaboration[rediger]

Hello! My name is Mike Halterman, and I've been doing interviews on the English Wikinews for over a year now. I got a good idea to do some cross-wiki collaboration on an event that I have always liked, and I first shared my thoughts over on the German Wikinews, so I figured I would let you all know about it as well.

Whether it's your cup of tea or not, this is the time of year that most of the countries in Europe are choosing songs for the Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held this May in Moscow. I would love to work with some of you and get some exclusive interviews with past performers and ask about their experiences, their music careers, and also what they think about the Contest today, as it has changed significantly in the past decades.

The cross-wiki idea comes in with translations. Many Wikinews projects have translated some interviews from the English Wikinews on a couple of occasions, and one of the last interviews that I was involved in got translated to Spanish due to there being a common interest there. With something like this, I would like for these exclusives to be on many Wikinews language editions, and not just with people interviewing in English, but also in Italian, or German, or in Norwegian, or in Spanish, and sharing each interview with one another.

So, my question to you all is, do you like such an idea? Would anyone be interested in talking to people to interview? Who would like to translate interviews from English should those occur? Who would be a good interview find who has participated in Eurovision from Norway? I'm very excited about this opportunity, so please let me know what you think. Thank you! :) Mike Halterman 4. jan 2009 kl. 00:52 (CET)

Hvordan skal saker legges inn i portaler?[rediger]

Jeg la inn Kolerautbrudd i Zimbabwe både i Mal:Forside/Verden, Portal:Afrika og Portal:Zimbabwe. Blir det riktig – selv om Portal:Afrika er litt overordnet Portal:Zimbabwe? Mewasul 8. jan 2009 kl. 17:46 (CET)

... og hvordan har dette kommet under Distrikt på forsiden? Mewasul 8. jan 2009 kl. 17:48 (CET)
Du må legge inn {{publisert|utenriks}} i artikkelen. Hvis du legger artikkelen i Kategori:Afrika, blir det rett (foreløpig er det ingen som har svart meg på hvordan alle Afrika-kategoriene kan legge artikler i Portal:Afrika). Se ellers hvordan jeg endret artikkelen. Kan du bruke Mal:Kilde-nb? Mvh. Marius2 8. jan 2009 kl. 18:23 (CET) PS: oppdatert 22. februar 15.12: Ikke {{portal|utenriks}}, men {{publisert|utenriks}}! Mvh. Marius2 22. feb 2009 kl. 15:12 (CET)
Jeg tror ikke det er mulig å lage en slik samleløsning for Afrika utfra utvidelsen som er i bruk på dette prosjektet. Det som kan gjøres er å bruke en systemkategori for Afrika og organisere samlingen utfra denne. Jeblad 22. jan 2009 kl. 00:56 (CET)

Værmelding på Wikinytt[rediger]

Det er mulig å få inn værmeldinger fra Meteorologisk institutt på Wikinytt via tjenesten Yr.no som instituttet har sammen med NRK. Det vil da være aktuelt å bruke værdata i forbindelse med distriktsportaler i Norge, slik som Portal:Oslo, og på portaler for viktige byer andre steder i verden. Skal en få til noe slikt så kreves det en ikke ubetydelig programmeringsjobb, og med tanke på hvor vanskelig det er å få fremdrift i slikt så er det et spørsmål om det er gjennomførbart.

Gitt at prosjektet gjennomføres så vil det være noen form for markup på sidene som utløser en henting av data fra Yr.no, dataene mellomlagres i Memcached på serverene og blir levert integrert med annen tekst. Mellomlagring er nødvendig for å sikre brukernes anonymitet.

Wikimedia Norge har vært i kontakt med instituttet og avklart slik bruk. Se også siden om å lage egne tenester. [1]

Bergstølen hytteutleie har et eksempel på hvordan noe slikt kan se ut. [2] Jeblad 21. jan 2009 kl. 07:00 (CET)

Det går ikke an å automatisere dette (en mal?)? Uansett høres det ut som et godt forslag. Værmelding kan legges på f. eks forsiden (Norge og Europa/Verden). Hvis automatisering ikke går an, kan man legge inn dette på viktige byer og lignende manuelt (og på sikt mange (om noen gang alle). Mvh. Marius2 21. jan 2009 kl. 16:07 (CET)
En ferdig løsning vil nok kunne legges inn som en mal, men det er en betydelig programmeringsjobb som må gjøres før det er mulig a lage en enkel mal. Jeblad 21. jan 2009 kl. 19:47 (CET)
Oppdateringsraten til varslene er ganske aggresiv, slik at det vil påvirke caching av sider betydelig. Antakelig vil dette være av mindre betydning på portalsider på grunn av liten trafikk. Det er mulig å bruke Javascript for å unngå cachingproblematikken, men dette utløser et problem med identifisering av brukere. Jeblad 22. jan 2009 kl. 08:41 (CET)
Dette vil ikke bli fulgt opp i relasjon til WikiNytt. Jeblad 19. sep 2009 kl. 01:28 (CEST)

Kan noen sette opp en bot som kan lage en liste som denne de har på engelsk Wikinews? :) (Den viser hvor mange som har åpnet hver artikkel (på forsiden), noe som er ganske interressant :)). Jeg kan ikke så mye om slike bot-greier. Mvh. Marius2 26. jan 2009 kl. 17:40 (CET)

Distriktene?[rediger]

Skal vi fortsette å bruke «distriktene» på forsiden? Det er vel den som det ligger færrest artikler i. Vet ikke hva vi skal erstatte den med, men det kan vi vel evt. finnet ut. Er det da evt. mulig å sette opp en bot til å endre alle {{publisert|Distriktene}} og {{publisert|distriktene}} til {{publisert|innenriks}}? Mvh. Marius2 3. feb 2009 kl. 16:38 (CET)

Samarbeid mellom norsk og svensk Wikinytt/Wikinews?[rediger]

Både svensk og norsk Wikinews/Wikinytt har ikke så veldig mye aktivitet for tiden. Hva om vi får i gang et samarbeid mellom disse to? Om vi ikke går så langt til å ha en felles, skandinavisk Wikinews (som har blitt foreslått flere ganger tidligere), kan vi vel ha et samarbeid ala at vi kan ha noen små bokser på hver våre forsider med "Siste fra svensk/norsk Wikinews/Wikinytt"? Mvh. Marius2 7. feb 2009 kl. 15:01 (CET)

Automatisk publisering?[rediger]

Hei, jeg prøvde meg her på Wikinytt med 200 år siden Abraham Lincoln ble født. Er det teknisk mulig å få artikkelen automatisk publisert 12. februar, eller må jeg logge meg inn å endre til {{publisert}} selv? Mvh Mollerup 8. feb 2009 kl. 14:17 (CET)

Jeg vet ikke, ikke så vidt jeg vet. Mvh. Marius2 9. feb 2009 kl. 08:10 (CET)

Foredragsholdere[rediger]

Wikimedia Norge har begynt å sette sammen en liste over personer som kan holde foredrag.[3] De som vil stå på en slik liste må kontakte styret (e-postliste) for å bli lagt til da det er en forutsetning at de som står på lista har noe erfaring og at noen fra styret mener personen fungerer i en slik rolle. De er fint om vi klarer å få til spredning på flere fagfelt, ikke minst noen som kan snakke om hvordan det er å skrive på Wikipedia når en er opptatt av kunst, musikk, drama, militæret, tinnsoldater, hunder, hatter, frimerker eller bananfluenes parringsdans – eller noget helt andet. — Jeblad 12. feb 2009 kl. 12:10 (CET)

Importeringsrobot[rediger]

Er det noen mulighet for å sette opp en robot på norsk Wikinytt ala engelsk sin User:Wikinews Importer Bot? Mvh. Marius2 22. feb 2009 kl. 15:08 (CET)

Notisen øverst på siden[rediger]

Nå står det: «Flere nyheter på forsiden». Burde det ikke stått: «Flere nyheter på forsiden»? Mvh Mollerup 23. feb 2009 kl. 09:24 (CET)

Det gjør det, men på enkelte sider (jeg tror det er alle Wikinytt:-sidene og lignende sider) blir det slik av ukjetn årsak. Kanskje noen andre kan forklare? Mvh. Marius2 23. feb 2009 kl. 18:09 (CET)

Konsert i Tønsberg[rediger]

Domkirken i Tønsberg har sendt henvendelse gjennom OTRS; de innvier nytt orgel søndag 1. mars, og lurer på om noen vil skrive en reportasje. Hvis noen er interessert, send meg en mail så skal jeg oversende navn og epostadresse til kontaktperson der. Cnyborg 26. feb 2009 kl. 18:47 (CET)

Vote for a Multilingual Wikinews[rediger]

English: Vote here in the request of a Multilingual Wikinews! It will be a new proposal that can to change all the project. Tosão

norsk bokmål:Please translate this message for your language.Tosão

Bakgrunnen på Mal:Slett-nb og lignende[rediger]

Kan noen forklare meg hvorfor det ikke blir noen bakgrunn på malen Mal:Slett-nb, slik som på Wikipedia? Mvh. Marius2 21. mar 2009 kl. 16:09 (CET)

Jeg regner med at du har kopiert koden fra Wikipedia? I så fall finner du muligligvis en forklaring her: MediaWiki:Help:Template#Copying_from_one_wiki_to_another Djevelunge 26. sep 2009 kl. 01:48 (CEST)

Request bot flag for User:GrondinBot[rediger]

  • Operator : Grondin (Grondin, sysop and bureaucrat in french wikinews)
  • Bot name: GrondinBot (Python; Pywikipedia SVN)
  • Tasks: Interwiki linking
  • Bot has requested a bot bit in all wikinews projects.

I didn't fing the right page to post bot flag request. Sorry for all. Thanks.--Grondin 10. apr 2009 kl. 01:45 (CEST)


Korleis følgjer vi opp saker?[rediger]

I nokre tilfelle så er det saker som er kjent før dei går av stabelen (landsmøte for politiske parti, festivalar, osv), og ofte er det i disse tilfella anledning til å ta bilete, skrive artiklar for Wikinews, og komplettere artiklar i Wikipedia. Korleis skal vi handtere slikt, skal vi ha ein eigen side? Skal denne eventuelt vera på nettstaden til Wikimedia Norge? Eller skal vi ha ein eigen epostliste? Tidligare har ein del slike varslar gått på bokmålutgåva si administratorliste, men denne er helt klart ikkje riktig stad. — Jeblad 23. mai 2009 kl. 20:10 (CEST)[svar]

Nei, det er slettes ikke riktig sted, spesielt siden jeg (som tidligere var den som kanskje skrev mest på Wikinytt) ikke har tilgang til dette, siden jeg ikke får bli administrator på Wikipedia. Vet ikke hvordan dette skal løses. Mvh. Marius2 24. mai 2009 kl. 00:55 (CEST)[svar]
Mye av dette går nå på nyhetsvarslene til Wikimedia Norge. Jeblad 14. jun 2009 kl. 18:24 (CEST)

Mal for å inkludere Twitter i artikler?[rediger]

En del aviser har begynt å inkludere Twitter i artikler, er dette noe som kan skape en del ekstra oppmerksomhet om artiklene? Det jeg ser for meg er en Twitter-boks som kjører et søk på en hashtag. Typisk vil boksen fremstå som en nokså enkel boks inntil den påvises av et Javascript, deretter vil den omformes og det vil lages et boks med en liste av oppføringer. Antakelig må disse Twitter-boksene fjernes etter en tid fordi trafikken dør ut. Mens den er som størst kan det imidlertid bli en del interessante innspill for videre arbeid med artiklene. Jeblad 14. jun 2009 kl. 18:23 (CEST)

Det er jeg helt for. Men jeg kan ikke lage noe slikt, men det vil antagelig være positivt. Mvh. Marius2 14. jun 2009 kl. 19:44 (CEST)
Skal tenke litt på det. Jeblad 17. jun 2009 kl. 14:44 (CEST)
En avgjørelse som ble tatt på Foundation-l vil gjøre at dette ikke lar seg gjennomføre. Jeblad 19. sep 2009 kl. 01:24 (CEST)

Enklere å lage artikkel[rediger]

Hei igjen!

Nå er det lenge siden jeg har vært aktiv her på Wikinytt, jeg føler jeg rett og slett ikke har tid. Jeg tror ikkejeg kommer til å bli like aktiv som før, men skal prøve å bli noe mer aktiv fremover (i alle fall i sommerferien :) ). Men en ting som gjør at jeg ikke føler jeg har tid, er det at jeg føler det er veldig tungvint å publisere en artikkel. Jeg vet at jeg kanskje har bidratt til dette, i og med at jeg har lagt inn flere maler osv. Men er det noen som har noen ideer om hvordan vi kan gjøre det enklere å lage en artikkel? Det tror jeg kanskje det kan komme flere skribenter hit av. Mvh. Marius2 14. jun 2009 kl. 19:48 (CEST)

Det ligger et forslag ute til en enklere løsning på forsiden nå. Djevelunge 25. sep 2009 kl. 00:08 (CEST)
Det du har fått til med WikiNytt er nokså utrolig, du har vært nokså alene om arbeidet. Vi trenger flere skribenter, men problemet er nok litt mer sammensatt enn malbruk alene.
Mulig noe kan gjøres for å få artiklene enklere. Malene for lenking til Wikipedia og andre prosjekter tror jeg kan droppes, sett opp lenker i teksten der det er aktuelt, slik det er nå blir det litt mye lappeteppe. Det er også blitt litt mye avrundede hjørner, kanskje det bør tenkes gjennom hva slags bokser som skal brukes og hvordan disse virker i fellesskap. Antakelig kan også lengden på listene på forsiden justeres ned, slik de er nå så forsvinner oversikter over seksjoner for langt ned.
Det viktigste er nok å få oppmerksomhet om nettstedet. Det er også viktig å gi inntrykk av å være mer dagsaktuell. Det gir feil signal når listene på forsiden går flere uker og måneder tilbake i tid, dette har mer med hva inntrykk som skapes og det støtter ikke opp under «dagsaktuell». Kanskje bør det også gjøres noe for å få til feeds for RSS, Twitter og andre slik at det skapes en større bevissthet om nettstedet. Ikke minst en RSS-feed vil gjøre det enklere for nyhetsindekser å hente inn artiklene. Jeblad 17. jun 2009 kl. 15:19 (CEST)
I dag opprettet jeg faktisk en Twitter-profil for Wikinytt (se [4]), uten at jeg husket at du hadde nevnt det. Skal prøve å huske å oppdatere den fremover, med våre (forhåpentligvis) nye artikler :) Mvh. Marius2 22. aug 2009 kl. 17:29 (CEST)

Feil på Mal:Ny side[rediger]

Ett litt relatert problem er at Mal:Ny side, som er den som lastes inn i redigeringsvinduet når man klikker på ny artikkel–knappen på fremsiden, ikke laster helt inn. I malen ligger det et <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> rundt 100px|right rett etter filnavnet for bildet i ingressen. Dette lastes ikke når malen kalles til redigeringsvinduet, så malen er kanskje litt for avansert til å virke skikkelig?
Resultatet er at billedteksten forsvinner i artikkelen. Djevelunge 24. sep 2009 kl. 03:11 (CEST)

Fikset. Det var på grunn av egne regler for preloaderen (forklaring her.) De samme reglene ser ikke ut til å gjelde for maler som ligger i siden man preloader, så jeg står fremdeles litt fast med en forenkling av malen. Djevelunge 28. sep 2009 kl. 06:57 (CEST)

"Feil" i Mal:Enkel portal[rediger]

Det er ikke direkte en feil, men jeg mener det er unødvendig at alle portalene våre blir kategorisert under Kategori:Maler. Kan noen se på det? (jeg finner ikke hvor i kildekoden det står). Mvh. Marius2 14. jun 2009 kl. 20:12 (CEST)

Fikset. Det manglet en noinclude i Mal:Purge. Dette fjernet ikke Portal:Norge, Portal:Sport eller Portal:Kultur, som er påbegynte utvidetet portaler. De ser veldig lovende ut, men det må litt mer arbeid til for å debugge dem. Vær så snill å slette Kategori:Portalene, som jeg kom til å opprette i prosessen. Djevelunge 25. sep 2009 kl. 00:22 (CEST)
Kjempefint :) Mvh. Marius2 25. sep 2009 kl. 15:47 (CEST)

Distriktene igjen[rediger]

Skal vi fortsette å ha spalten "Distriktene" på forsiden eller skal vi erstatte den med noe annet? Jeg foreslår at vi kan erstatte den med en liste som viser den siste saken fra hver region/landsdel. Evt., hvis det er mulig, at brukeren selv velger fra hvilken landsdel den ønsker siste nytt fra (ala det nrk.no har på sin forside). Mvh. Marius2 15. jun 2009 kl. 00:05 (CEST)

Å velge riktig landsdel er ikke helt trivielt, men vi kan få det til med Javascript. Informasjonen som finnes i spalta må da finnes noe annet sted, og såvidt jeg kan forstå så må lista lages manuelt. Jeg har prøvd å få interesse for å gjøre noen endringer slik at dette kan automatiseres, men uten å lykkes. Uansett om spalten lages manuelt eller automatisk så vil det hele fungere slik at det vil være et felles «Distriktene» hvis brukeren ikke har valgt et spesifikt distrikt. Hvis han velger et spesifikt distrikt så hentes dette inn, hvis det ikke allerede ligger på siden. Nødvendige data for riktig distrikt kan ligge klart på siden, men vil være usynlig. Det må lages noe som gjør det mulig å velge riktig distrikt, antakelig som en dropdown-liste eller lignende. Kanske et klikkbart kart er en grei løsning. Mellom hver gang en henter inn forsiden vil valget beholdes i en cookie. Tja, tjo, … det kan fungere. Jeblad 17. jun 2009 kl. 14:41 (CEST)

Domenet wikinytt.no dirigerer "feil"[rediger]

Hvem er det som har registrert domenet wikinytt.no? Dette viser nå til no.wikinews.org/wiki/Forside isteden for no.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinytt:Forside. Det er bare en liten feil, men kan noen ta en titt på det? Mvh. Marius2 29. jun 2009 kl. 15:00 (CEST)

NTB sin nyhetskalender[rediger]

Diskusjonen går på Wikimedia Norges forslagsside

Wikimedia Norge har vært i møte med NTB (Norsk Telegrambyrå) og fått presentert det dei kallar «Nyhetskalender». Dette er ein oversikt over nyheiter som strekk seg fleire år framover i tid. Ein kalender er viktig for å kunne vera på steden når noko skjer, spesielt om ein vil ta bilete tå hendinga. Tilgang vil komme på rundt 200/mnd for kvar bruker vi gjev tilgang, og dette må enten dekkjast tå oss eller av brukarane. Det er ikkje aktuelt å gjera ein republisering av kalenderen i dette prosjektet, det er ein teneste som de aktive skribentane kan bruke for å få oversikt over framtidige hendingar. Er det tilstrekkelig interesse for noe slikt? Finn vi sponsorar så kan det bli aktuelt å gje enkelte brukarar fri tilgang, for eksempel aktive skribentar på WikiNytt. — Jeblad 15. aug 2009 kl. 12:26 (CEST)

Dette vil ikke bli fulgt opp i relasjon til WikiNytt. Jeblad 19. sep 2009 kl. 01:29 (CEST)

Revitalisering[rediger]

Jeg ønsker adminrettigheter for å støtte opp om daglig drift og produksjon på prosjektet. Jeblad 16. aug 2009 kl. 23:45 (CEST)

Jeg ønsker også dette. Prosjektet hangler, på tiden å få det igang igjen! --Flums 16. aug 2009 kl. 23:47 (CEST)
Ja, det er vel bare å prøve. Jeg har prøvd å få prosjektet igang noen ganger, men det har "dødd" når jeg ikke har orket å holde på alene lengre. Mvh. Marius2 17. aug 2009 kl. 08:40 (CEST)
Utrolig at du har klart å holde det igang! Jeblad 17. aug 2009 kl. 09:57 (CEST)
Takk :) Mvh. Marius2 22. aug 2009 kl. 17:30 (CEST)
Før man får administratorstatus bør man vel skrive noen nyhetsartikler?
Jeblad har forøvrig utvist svært dårlig dømmekraft på Wikinytt tidligere, så der stemmer jeg mot. Djevelunge 2. sep 2009 kl. 00:24 (CEST)

Selvoppdaterende portaler[rediger]

(Denne diskusjonstråden er flyttet hit fra Brukerdiskusjon:Marius2 Djevelunge 24. sep 2009 kl. 02:33 (CEST)) Jeg lurer på om jeg har spurt om dette før, men hvorfor er ikke portalene selvoppdaterende? Jeg har laget en test her som er selvoppdaterende. Koden er mest kopiert fra forsiden, og trenger sikkert å renses litt, men kunne dette vært bakt inn i portalene så vi slapp å oppdatere dem manuelt? Djevelunge 19. sep 2009 kl. 03:18 (CEST)

En del malverk ble skrevet for mw:Extension:Intersection, og denne er siden oppdatert. [5] [6] Jeblad 19. sep 2009 kl. 03:55 (CEST)
Ok. Hvilken versjon er vi oppdatert til? Djevelunge 19. sep 2009 kl. 17:03 (CEST)
MediaWiki versjon: 1.42.0-wmf.22 (bd76262) Djevelunge 23. sep 2009 kl. 12:30 (CEST)
Om jeg forstår rett virker mw:Extension:Intersection fra versjon 1.5 og oppover. Det reiser igjen spørsmålet om hvilken versjon vi bruker, og (eller?) hva Extension:Intersection er oppdatert med.
Det hadde samtidig vært greit å få vite hvor mange kategorier DPL kan ta. Dette bestemmes så langt jeg forstår under installeringen. Djevelunge 24. sep 2009 kl. 02:33 (CEST)
Spesial:Versjon hjalp et stykke på vei. Djevelunge 26. sep 2009 kl. 00:11 (CEST)

wikipedia gir formidingspoeng[rediger]

Kom akkurat over denne her. Noen som vil skrive artikkel om det her på wikinytt? http://www.uib.no/form/nyheter/2009/09/wikipedia-gir-formidlingspoeng

Artikkelopppsett[rediger]

Er det noen som vil gjøre noen endringer på hvordan artiklene våre skal se ut? Se Mal:Ny side. Og, skal vi endre oppsettet på tidligere artikler slik at det blir som det vi har nå? Siden vi nå har et portalsystem, er det praktisk om alle artiklene følger det samme oppsettet, pga. ingress og (forside/portal)bilde (vi brukte en periode malen {{thumb}}, en mal som fungerer dårlig nå, ifm portaler), etter min mening. Og skal vi legge inn {{Portal:Et land}} øverst inn i kategorien Kategori:Et land ? Slik som i Kategori:USA? Hvis vi gjøre det, er det kanskje like greit at vi lenker til kategoriene våre fra Wikipedia, isteden for til portalene, som de fleste lenker går til (det er litt forskjellig praksis på dette per i dag)? Mvh. Marius2 26. sep 2009 kl. 12:39 (CEST)

Jeg er ikke helt sikker på om jeg forstår deg helt, men jeg tror jeg er i gang med noe av det du spør om:
  • Jeg er i gang med en mal som forenkler headeren her (Se eksempel på bruk her.) Jeg har tenkt at denne bør være bakoverkompatibel, slik at den også fungerer med de gamle ariklene, men det er ikke noe i veien for også å lage en til mal som gir et annet oppsett.
  • det der med "thumb" forstår jeg ikke helt. Det er både en mal, og det er en kode som legges etter "Fil:bildenavn.xxx|", og dette er to forskjellige ting? Det systemet vi bruker i dag fungerer i hvert fall ikke, jeg strever fremdeles med å få til <includeonly>100px|right</includeonly> i mal:ny side (Se: Feil på Mal:Ny side.) Irriterende nok så har jeg lest ett eller annet sted noe om konflikter med å neste onlyinclude og includeonly - kanskje når man legger det inn i andre funksjoner. Klarer ikke finne dette igjen...
  • Når det gjelder portaler så la jeg inn noen portaler på toppen av noen kategorier, så det er bra du påpeker det. Ideelt sett hadde det etter min mening vært fint om de ble brukt der, som en siste nytt–introduksjon til hele kategorien, og at vi da lenket til kategorien (også fra Wikipedia) istedet for portalen i de tilfellene der det kun er snakk om en enkelt kategori. Man kan da kikke nedover på siden og finne alt som er skrevet i kategorien - noe jeg ofte savner når jeg leser andre nettaviser. Jeg liker også de utvidete portalene, som er påbegynt og som forsøker å gi en oversikt der man vil favne mange kategorier. Men ut over dette forstår jeg ikke helt vitsen med å ha "enkel portal" i tillegg til infobokser og kategorier. Og så lenge de ikke er selvoppdaterende er de mest til plage... (jeg er forøvrig overbevist at det er relativt enkelt for en kyndig å sette koden opp så de blir selvoppdaterende - jeg har en plan om å se på det etterhvert som jeg forstår mer kode.)
  • Når det gjelder layout på forsiden så liker jeg den engelske bedre enn vår.
Generelt har tro på å gjøre det enklest mulig for brukerne, og samtidig gi dem størst mulig frihet til å leke med layouten i artiklene selv. Det vil si at jeg også mener Wikinytt burde være lagt opp slik at det er fullt ut mulig å skrive en artikkel uten å ha snøring på kode (og uten at folk får opp et redigeringsvindu som gir dem angst...) Helst burde det være mulig å skrive en artikkel som ikke inneholder kode i det hele tatt, og uten at det da ser "rart" ut på forsiden. Men at det da også burde være mulig å skrive en artikkel som er full av kode for layout, uten at dette heller får artikkelen til å se rar ut på forsiden. Slik sett ser det engelske systemet bra ut: når man klikker på "lag artikkel" får man opp et redigeringsvindu som er enklere enn den forenklede versjonen vi har på forsiden. (Jeg tror de henter ingressen fra det første avsnittet istedet for å lage en egen ingress som oss. Jeg har ikke sjekket hvordan de gjør det, og hvordan eventuelt bildene kommer inn på forsiden - men det kan tenkes at de har automatisert at det første bildet som står i artikkelen er det som følger den som hovedbilde. - Det burde være mulig for oss å bruke begge løsningene, både den vi bruker i dag og den de bruker, på en gang.)
Dette var vel like mange spørsmål som svar... Håper i hvert fall jeg forstod spørsmålene dine rett... :) Djevelunge 26. sep 2009 kl. 17:52 (CEST)
Ja, thumb er to forskjellige ting her på Wikinytt, kan man vel si. For det første (og mest brukte) er det vel den "teksten" som gjør at bildene får en bestemt størrelse (bestemt av bruker selv), men vi har også en Mal:Thumb som vi brukte på bilder i artikler en periode, men da ser bildet helt forferdelig ut ved bruk av {{ingress}}. Den nye malen du utvikler ser ganske bra ut, den kan nok forenkle ganske mye. Når det gjelder portaler, kan vi, som du sier, sikkert kutte ut Portal:Et land, og isteden bruke Mal:Enkel portal direkte på kategoriene. Skal vi "oppdatere" de gamle artiklene (skrevet før i år) slik at de får samme layout som de vi skriver nå? Mvh. Marius2 27. sep 2009 kl. 09:53 (CEST)
Mener du artiklene som ble skrevet for mer enn et år siden? (Jeg har rotet litt runt i artiklene som ble skrevet tidligere (før) i år, men de ser lik ut til i dag...) Dersom de er gamle og ikke står øverst i en portal og får den til å se stygg ut føler jeg meg egentlig ikke særlig fristet til å ta jobben... Djevelunge 29. sep 2009 kl. 02:17 (CEST)
Noen artikler har det gamle oppsettet, noen har jeg "oppdatert", og jeg har tenkt å fortsette med det arbeidet, hvis ingen protesterer. Mvh. Marius2 29. sep 2009 kl. 18:33 (CEST)
Ingen protester herifra i hvert fall :) Djevelunge 29. sep 2009 kl. 20:42 (CEST)

Translation request[rediger]

(Apologies for English, you know us monolingual Brits) I've put a lot of work into an article and would really like to see it translated into as many Wikinews languages as possible. Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones. Please take a look, if you need help going through my chaoitic notes, let me know! --Brian McNeil/talk 19. okt 2009 kl. 19:11 (CEST)

Frist for betaling tå medlemsavgift i Wikimedia Norge[rediger]

Årsmøtet i Wikimedia Noreg er planlagd i midten tå april, noko som gjer at frist for betaling tå medlemsavgifta for dei som ynskjer stemmerett er 15. januar. — Jeblad 1. jan 2010 kl. 16:59 (CET)

Portal:Vinter-OL 2010[rediger]

Er det noen som ser hva som er galt med Portal:Vinter-OL 2010? Mvh. Marius2 27. feb 2010 kl. 14:20 (CET)

Wikimania Scholarships[rediger]

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Inaktivitet[rediger]

Siden jeg først ble interessert i Wikinytt har jeg kun sett to bidragsytere, som er meg selv og Marius2. Jeg kan forstå at Wikinytt ikke er et så aktivt prosjekt, med tanke på at det ikke er så utrolig mye aktivitet blant faste brukere på no.wikipedia.org heller, men slik jeg ser det fortjener ikke de inaktive administratorene den tittelen på Wikinytt.

Eksempelvis så har Kjetil r ikke redigert noe siden 17. mars 2009. Det er over ett år siden. Lipothymia har ikke redigert noe siden 8. september 2008.

Kort oppsummert, den eneste administratoren som er aktiv er Marius2, som er veldig hjelpsom når det kommer til å fikse på de nyhetsartiklene jeg lager. Jeg er ganske ny her, og er veldig usikker på hva jeg skal gjøre fra tid til annen. Ville bare dele mine $0.02 KristofferAG 7. apr 2010 kl. 16:52 (CEST)

Flytte seksjonsredigering[rediger]

Jeg foreslåt at vi flytter «Rediger»-knappene ved hver seksjon inntil seksjonstittelen, slik som på Wikipeda. Er det noen som har noen meninger rundt dette? Mvh. Marius2 7. apr 2010 kl. 22:27 (CEST)

Hadde vært greit for meg. Så slipper jeg å bruke de to-tre sekundene på å lete etter den når jeg bytter fra et prosjekt til et annet. KristofferAG 7. apr 2010 kl. 22:40 (CEST)
Lar denne stå til diskusjon et par dager til, for jeg forsøker å få gjennomført dette. Mvh. Marius2 11. apr 2010 kl. 20:37 (CEST)
Merkelig, glemte dette helt. Men har nå gjennomført dette :) Tror det ble korrekt, si fra om det dukker opp problemer :) Mvh. Marius2 1. jun 2010 kl. 15:51 (CEST)


2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here[rediger]

Hello Wikimedians, my name is Sam and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between the Norwegian community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into Norwegian and suggesting messages that would appeal to Norwegian readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Sam Chapman 21. okt 2010 kl. 19:59 (CEST)

Hi. You are welcome to nominate the best photos in pl and other Wikinews used in articles in 2010. Przykuta 29. jan 2011 kl. 12:20 (CET)

We have the final round. Let's choose the best photo: pl:Wikinews:Wikinews Press Photo 2011/Finał. Best regards. Przykuta 12. feb 2011 kl. 00:17 (CET)

Call for image filter referendum[rediger]

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

Remove the "Portal:Kultur" template from the Kategori:Kultur page.[rediger]

Please, remove the "Portal:Kultur" template from the Kategori:Kultur page. The "Kultur" category now has got the itself. --Averaver 9. aug 2011 kl. 19:08 (CEST)

I blocked the template. --Averaver 21. aug 2011 kl. 16:12 (CEST)

Please, create wikiquote and wikisource templates.[rediger]

Please, create wikiquote and wikisource templates with links to NO Wiki projects. Examples see on my page - Bruker:Averaver. --Averaver 9. aug 2011 kl. 19:11 (CEST)

Terms of Use update[rediger]

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 27. okt 2011 kl. 03:08 (CEST)

Accreditation and Google News listings[rediger]

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 20. des 2011 kl. 13:47 (CET)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants[rediger]

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 22. des 2011 kl. 03:59 (CET)

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta[rediger]

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 15. jan 2012 kl. 17:26 (CET)

MediaWiki 1.19[rediger]

(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.). 12. feb 2012 kl. 16:12 (CET)

Survey invitation[rediger]

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.

Med denne rundspørringen håper Wikimedia-stiftelsen å kunne finne ut av hvilke ressurser wikimedianerne ønsker og behøver (noe kan kreve finansielle midler) og hvordan de skal prioriteres. Ikke alle programmer fra stiftelsen er med her (kjerneoppgaverne er særlig unntatt) – det behandles kun ressurser som individuelle bidragsytere eller organisasjoner som er tilknyttet Wikimedia, som lokalavdelinger, kan søke om.

Målet er her å identifisere, hva DU (eller grupper som lokalavdelinger eller klubber) kunne være interessert i og å oppstille muligheterne etter forkjærlighet. Vi har på denne listen ikke inkludert ting som "holde serverne kjørende", fordi de ikke er individuelle bidragsyteres eller frivillige organisasjoners ansvar. Denne rundspørringen har til hensikt å fortelle oss, hvilke prioriteringer av midlerne bidragsyterne stemmer overens med eller ikke.

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) (diskusjon) 6. mar 2012 kl. 19:49 (CET)

Update on IPv6[rediger]

(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 2. jun 2012 kl. 03:15 (CEST)

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2011 Picture of the Year competition[rediger]

македонскиnorskpolski

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 5. jun 2012 kl. 20:32 (CEST)

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Mobile view as default view coming soon[rediger]

(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 16. jun 2012 kl. 10:33 (CEST)

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

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

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 19. jul 2012 kl. 22:18 (CEST)

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Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program[rediger]

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)6. sep 2012 kl. 04:07 (CEST)

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Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out[rediger]

(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 10. sep 2012 kl. 15:32 (CEST)

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Bot flag for AvocatoBot[rediger]

  • 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 (diskusjon) 12. sep 2012 kl. 12:44 (CEST)

Upcoming software changes - please report any problems[rediger]

(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) 16. okt 2012 kl. 05:07 (CEST)

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[rediger]

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![rediger]

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.[rediger]

(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.). 19. jan 2013 kl. 16:33 (CET)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open[rediger]

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

  1. Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
  2. This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
  3. Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. 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. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

This message was delivered based on m:Distribution list/Global message delivery. Translation fetched from: commons:Commons:Picture of the Year/2012/Translations/Village Pump/en -- Rillke (diskusjon) 23. jan 2013 kl. 00:56 (CET)

Help turn ideas into grants in the new IdeaLab[rediger]

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 30. jan 2013 kl. 21:44 (CET)

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Convert complex templates to Lua to make them faster and more powerful[rediger]

(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. 13. mar 2013 kl. 21:13 (CET) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

The Wikinewsie Group[rediger]

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 (diskusjon) 6. apr 2013 kl. 11:38 (CEST)

The Wikinewsie Group bylaws draft[rediger]

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 (diskusjon) 11. apr 2013 kl. 06:33 (CEST)

Request for comment on inactive administrators

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

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。

Hei!

Der er innkommet et nytt ønske om kommentarer på Meta-Wiki vedrørende fjerning av rettigheter for langtidspassive Wikimedianere. Forslaget fra stewardene dreier seg generelt mest om wikier uten prosesser med periodisk administrator-gjennomgang.

Vi kompilerer også en liste over prosjekter med prosedyrer for fjerning av passive administratorer på diskusjonssiden til siden med kommentarønsker. Legg gjerne til ditt/dine prosjekter på listen dersom der er en policy for fjerning av inaktive administratorer.

Alle innspill vil bli satt pris på. En sikter mot avsluttet diskusjon 23. mai 2013, men denne tiden kan forlenges dersom det trengs.

På forhånd takk! Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 24. apr 2013 kl. 07:08 (CEST)

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[en] Change to wiki account system and account renaming[rediger]

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[rediger]

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.

(Distributed via global message delivery 30. apr 2013 kl. 20:49 (CEST). Wrong page? Correct it here.)

Arkivfunksjon[rediger]

Det burde vært en arkivfunksjon for Desken. Å bla seg gjennom over 60 titler for å komme til bunnen, er ikke særlig inspirerende, spesielt ikke når det aller meste er engelske meldinger som vel er blitt sendt til alle Wikier. --Harald Haugland (diskusjon) 13. mai 2013 kl. 13:33 (CEST)[svar]

Kultur[rediger]

Mitt siste bidrag kunne vel like gjerne blitt plassert i seksjon Kultur, så kunne artikkelen om Whitney Huston fra 2012 fått avløsning. Men jeg vet ikke hvordan man gjør slikt her. --Harald Haugland (diskusjon) 13. mai 2013 kl. 13:35 (CEST)[svar]

Tech newsletter: Subscribe to receive the next editions[rediger]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by Global message deliveryContributeTranslateGet helpGive feedbackUnsubscribe • 20. mai 2013 kl. 23:01 (CEST)
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.

If you want to continue to receive the next issues every week, please subscribe to the newsletter. You can subscribe your personal talk page and a community page like this one. The newsletter can be translated into your language.

You can also become a tech ambassador, help us write the next newsletter and tell us what to improve. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. guillom 20. mai 2013 kl. 23:01 (CEST)[svar]

Trademark discussion[rediger]

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)

Toppnyheter fra Wikimedia, mai 2013[rediger]

Highlights fra Wikimedia Foundation Report og Wikimedia engineering report for mai 2013, samt utvalgte andre nyheter fra Wikimedia-verdenen
About · Subscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 18. jun 2013 kl. 00:45 (CEST)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled on 2013-07-09[rediger]

Pywikipedia is migrating to git[rediger]

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). 23. jul 2013 kl. 15:36 (CEST)

HTTPS for users with an account[rediger]

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.

Greg Grossmeier (via the Global message delivery system). 20. aug 2013 kl. 21:30 (CEST) (wrong page? You can fix it.)

Toppnyheter fra Wikimedia, juli 2013[rediger]

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Original reporting output[rediger]

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 (diskusjon) 1. okt 2013 kl. 18:09 (CEST)

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:

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) 4. okt. 2013 kl. 21:02 (CEST)[svar]

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Speak up about the trademark registration of the Community logo.[rediger]

Introducting Beta Features[rediger]

(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:

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) 5. nov. 2013 kl. 21:25 (CET)[svar]

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Wikimedia-nytt, august 2013[rediger]

[[m:Wikimedia Highlights|Sentrale punkter fra Wikimedia Foundation Report og Wikimedia engineering report for August 2013, samt andre WM-relaterte hendinger.
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Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, september 2013[rediger]

Sentrale punkter fra: Wikimedia Foundation Report, sept. 2013 og Wikimedia engineering report sept. 2013 samt andre WM-relaterte hendinger.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via Global message delivery (wrong page? Correct it here), 7. nov. 2013 kl. 07:45 (CET)

Call for comments on draft trademark policy[rediger]

Hi,

I invite you to participate in the development of the draft about how Wikidata could support Wikinews.

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

Thank you!
--sasha (krassotkin) 11. des. 2013 kl. 19:47 (CET)[svar]

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

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) 16. jan. 2014 kl. 07:47 (CET)[svar]

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

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[rediger]

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments[rediger]

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 Wikinytt better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

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 28. feb. 2014 kl. 20:44 (CET)[svar]

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment[rediger]

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) 13. mar. 2014 kl. 22:56 (CET)[svar]

Changes to the default site typography coming soon[rediger]

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:

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

Bot policy[rediger]

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 (diskusjon) 12. apr. 2014 kl. 20:53 (CEST)[svar]

Restarting discussion regarding Wikinewsie.org[rediger]

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 16. apr. 2014 kl. 16:18 (CEST)[svar]

Wikimedia-nytt, mars 2014[rediger]

Highlights fra Wikimedia Foundation Report og Wikimedia engineering report for mars 2014 samt annet fra Wikimediabevegelsen
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Using only UploadWizard for uploads[rediger]

Wikimedia Commons logo

Hello! It was noted that on this wiki you have less than 10 local files. Presumably, you therefore don't have interest nor energies to have hundreds templates with the now required HTML, even less a local EDP. However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or illegal uploading. I propose to

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.

I'll get this done in one week from now.

  1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove your wiki from the list.
  2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.

Nemo 19. mai 2014 kl. 22:38 (CEST)[svar]

Media Viewer[rediger]


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) 23. mai 2014 kl. 23:29 (CEST)[svar]

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Wikidata language links are coming![rediger]

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. jul. 2014 kl. 21:08 (CEST)[svar]

Wikidata is here[rediger]

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) 20. aug. 2014 kl. 08:15 (CEST)[svar]

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions[rediger]

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.

-- JurgenNL (talk) 21. aug. 2014 kl. 19:35 (CEST)[svar]

Process ideas for software development[rediger]

’’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 22. aug. 2014 kl. 00:15 (CEST)[svar]

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Grants to improve your project[rediger]

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.

Meta RfCs on two new global groups[rediger]

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) 26. okt. 2014 kl. 19:05 (CET)[svar]

Global AbuseFilter[rediger]

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

— 14. nov. 2014 kl. 18:34 (CET)

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature[rediger]

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 Betafunksjoner page after the deployment and tick the box next to "⧼Visualeditor-preference-core-label⧽". (If you have enabled the "Automatisk aktiver de fleste nye betafunksjoner" 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 "Rediger" to start VisualEditor, or on "Rediger kilde" 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) 21. nov. 2014 kl. 19:12 (CET)[svar]

VisualEditor coming to this wiki as a Beta Feature (errata)[rediger]

VisualEditor News #10—2014[rediger]

26. des. 2014 kl. 19:59 (CET)

VisualEditor News #1—2015[rediger]

5. feb. 2015 kl. 19:30 (CET)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review[rediger]

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. Lipothymia (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, Openbk (talk) 5. feb. 2015 kl. 20:58 (CET)[svar]

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, desember 2014[rediger]

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia blog for desember 2014, om et utvalg av activities of the Wikimedia Foundation og andre viktige hendelser fra Wikimediabevegelsen.

Help is welcome for translating the January 2015 Wikimedia Highlights, too.

About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 28. feb. 2015 kl. 22:17 (CET)

[Global proposal] m.Wikinytt.org: (alle) Redigere sider[rediger]

MediaWiki mobile

Hi, this message is to let you know that, on domains like nb.m.wikipedia.org, unregistered users cannot edit. At the Wikimedia Forum, where global configuration changes are normally discussed, a few dozens users propose to restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites. Please read and comment!

Thanks and sorry for writing in English, Nemo 1. mar. 2015 kl. 23:32 (CET)[svar]

Inspire-kampanjen for å forbedre mangfold og innhold[rediger]

I mars organiserer vi Inspire-kampanjen som søker å fremme og støtte nye ideer for å forbedre kjønnsubalansen på Wikimedia-prosjektene. Mindre enn 20 % av Wikimedias bidragsytere er kvinner, og mange viktige emner mangler fortsatt dekning på prosjektene våre. Vi inviterer alle wikimedianere til å delta. Om du har en idé som kan hjelpe til å fikse dette problemet er du velkommen til å involvere deg i dag! Kampanjen varer til 31. mars.

Alle forslag er velkomne – forskningsprosjekter, tekniske løsninger, samfunnsorganiserings- og utrekningsinitiativer, eller noe helt nytt! Finansiering fra Wikimedia Foundation er tilgjengelig for prosjekter som trenger det. Konstruktive og positive tilbakemeldinger til ideer settes pris på, og samarbeid oppmuntres – din erfaring kan hjelpe andres prosjekter til live. Bli med i Inspire-kampanjen og hjelp til å forbedre Wikimedia-prosjektenes dekning av verdens kunnskap. MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 5. mar. 2015 kl. 00:34 (CET)[svar]

SUL finalization update[rediger]

Hi all,apologies for writing in English, please read this page for important information and an update involving SUL finalization, scheduled to take place in one month. Thanks. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 13. mar. 2015 kl. 20:45 (CET)[svar]

Stewards confirmation rules[rediger]

Hello, I made a proposal on Meta to change the rules for the steward confirmations. Currently consensus to remove is required for a steward to lose his status, however I think it's fairer to the community if every steward needed the consensus to keep. As this is an issue that affects all WMF wikis, I'm sending this notification to let people know & be able to participate. Best regards, --MF-W 10. apr. 2015 kl. 18:13 (CEST)[svar]

VisualEditor News #2—2015[rediger]

10. apr. 2015 kl. 21:49 (CEST)

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process.

This year, elections are being held for the following roles:

Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the board elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.

The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found on the 2015 Wikimedia elections page on Meta-Wiki.

Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections -at- wikimedia.org

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 05:03, 21 April 2015 (UTC) • TranslateGet help

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, februar 2015[rediger]

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia bloggen i februar 2015. De dekker utvalgte aktiviteter og hendelser hos WMF og andre av WMs undergrupper.
Help is welcome for translating the March 2015 Wikimedia Highlights, too.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 4. mai 2015 kl. 03:50 (CEST)

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) and FDC Ombudsperson will continue during the voting. Nominations for the Board of Trustees will be accepted until 23:59 UTC May 5.

The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions on the committee being filled.

The FDC Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 3 to 23:59 UTC May 10. Click here to vote. Questions and discussion with the candidates will continue during that time. Click here to ask the FDC candidates a question. Click here to ask the FDC Ombudsperson candidates a question. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 FDC election page, the 2015 FDC Ombudsperson election page, and the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 03:45, 4 May 2015 (UTC) • TranslateGet help

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • TranslateGet help

This is a message from the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee. Translations are available.

Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Questions and discussion with the candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.

The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 17 to 23:59 UTC May 31. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2015 Board election page on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 17:20, 17 May 2015 (UTC) • TranslateGet help

Wikimedia-nytt, april 2015[rediger]

Her er de viktigste postene fra highlights fra Wikimedia bloggen fra april 2015.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 25. mai 2015 kl. 07:19 (CEST)

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core[rediger]

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Pywikibot compat will no longer be supported - Please migrate to pywikibot core[rediger]

Sorry for English, I hope someone translates this.
Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2007 a new branch (formerly known as "rewrite", now called "core") was started from scratch using the MediaWiki API. The developers of Pywikibot have decided to stop supporting the compat version of Pywikibot due to bad performance and architectural errors that make it hard to update, compared to core. If you are using pywikibot compat it is likely your code will break due to upcoming MediaWiki API changes (e.g. T101524). It is highly recommended you migrate to the core framework. There is a migration guide, and please contact us if you have any problem.

There is an upcoming MediaWiki API breaking change that compat will not be updated for. If your bot's name is in this list, your bot will most likely break.

Thank you,
The Pywikibot development team, 19:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #3—2015[rediger]

13. jun. 2015 kl. 12:44 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #3—2015[rediger]

13. jun. 2015 kl. 14:42 (CEST)

HTTPS[rediger]

20. jun. 2015 kl. 00:00 (CEST)

HTTPS[rediger]

20. jun. 2015 kl. 01:43 (CEST)

Wikimedia-nytt, mai 2015[rediger]

Her er de viktigste toppnotisene fra Wikimedia bloggen for mai 2015
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 23. jun. 2015 kl. 20:45 (CEST)

Proposal to create PNG thumbnails of static GIF images[rediger]

The thumbnail of this gif is of really bad quality.
How a PNG thumb of this GIF would look like

There is a proposal at the Commons Village Pump requesting feedback about the thumbnails of static GIF images: It states that static GIF files should have their thumbnails created in PNG. The advantages of PNG over GIF would be visible especially with GIF images using an alpha channel. (compare the thumbnails on the side)

This change would affect all wikis, so if you support/oppose or want to give general feedback/concerns, please post them to the proposal page. Thank you. --McZusatz (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 24. jul. 2015 kl. 07:07 (CEST)[svar]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?[rediger]

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?[rediger]

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information[rediger]


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. aug. 2015 kl. 01:42 (CEST)[svar]

What does a Healthy Community look like to you?[rediger]

Hi,
The Community Engagement department at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new learning campaign. The WMF wants to record community impressions about what makes a healthy online community. Share your views and/or create a drawing and take a chance to win a Wikimania 2016 scholarship! Join the WMF as we begin a conversation about Community Health. Contribute a drawing or answer the questions on the campaign's page.

Why get involved?[rediger]

The world is changing. The way we relate to knowledge is transforming. As the next billion people come online, the Wikimedia movement is working to bring more users on the wiki projects. The way we interact and collaborate online are key to building sustainable projects. How accessible are Wikimedia projects to newcomers today? Are we helping each other learn?
Share your views on this matter that affects us all!
We invite everyone to take part in this learning campaign. Wikimedia Foundation will distribute one Wikimania Scholarship 2016 among those participants who are eligible.

More information[rediger]


Happy editing!

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. aug. 2015 kl. 03:15 (CEST)[svar]

VisualEditor News #4—2015[rediger]

Elitre (WMF), 15. aug. 2015 kl. 00:28 (CEST)[svar]

VisualEditor News #4—2015[rediger]

Elitre (WMF), 15. aug. 2015 kl. 04:40 (CEST)[svar]

How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?[rediger]

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants, to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project. Ways to participate:

Feedback is welcome in any language.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation.

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) through MediaWiki message delivery. 19. aug. 2015 kl. 01:09 (CEST)[svar]

Introducing the Wikimedia public policy site[rediger]

Hi all,

We are excited to introduce a new Wikimedia Public Policy site. The site includes resources and position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. The site explains how good public policy supports the Wikimedia projects, editors, and mission.

Visit the public policy portal: https://policy.wikimedia.org/

Please help translate the statements on Meta Wiki. You can read more on the Wikimedia blog.

Thanks,

Yana and Stephen (Talk) 2. sep. 2015 kl. 20:13 (CEST)[svar]

(Sent with the Global message delivery system)

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants[rediger]

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4. sep. 2015 kl. 22:52 (CEST)[svar]

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) through MediaWiki message delivery.

Open call for Individual Engagement Grants[rediger]

My apologies for posting this message in English. Please help translate it if you can.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals until September 29th to fund new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental ideas that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), Individual Engagement Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

Thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 4. sep. 2015 kl. 23:54 (CEST)[svar]

(Opt-out Instructions) This message was sent by I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) through MediaWiki message delivery.

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals![rediger]

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 22. sep. 2015 kl. 23:01 (CEST)[svar]

Only one week left for Individual Engagement Grant proposals![rediger]

(Apologies for using English below, please help translate if you are able.)

There is still one week left to submit Individual Engagement Grant (IEG) proposals before the September 29th deadline. If you have ideas for new tools, community-building processes, and other experimental projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 23. sep. 2015 kl. 01:44 (CEST)[svar]

Reimagining WMF grants report[rediger]

(My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.)

Last month, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the structure of WMF grant programs. Thanks to the 200+ people who participated! A report on what we learned and changed based on this consultation is now available.

Come read about the findings and next steps as WMF’s Community Resources team begins to implement changes based on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the outcomes discussion page.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 28. sep. 2015 kl. 18:56 (CEST)[svar]

Wikimedia Highlights, August 2015[rediger]

Her er de viktigste høydepunktene fra Wikimedia blog fra august 2015.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 16. okt. 2015 kl. 21:27 (CEST)

VisualEditor News #5—2015[rediger]

Elitre (WMF), 30. okt. 2015 kl. 19:17 (CET)[svar]

Community Wishlist Survey[rediger]

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed[rediger]

Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10. nov. 2015 kl. 11:48 (CET)

Wikimediahøydepunkter i oktober 2015[rediger]

Her følger høydepunktene fra Wikimedia blog i oktober 2015.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 17. nov. 2015 kl. 21:01 (CET)

Wikidata data access is coming[rediger]

Hi everyone :)

A while ago you received access to the interwiki links from Wikidata. Everything seems to be going well so I'd like to move on to the second stage. You will get access to the actual data in Wikidata like the date of birth of a person. You'll be able to make use of them in your templates via Lua or a new parser function (#property). We'll be enabling this on December 2nd. This will be the day for Wikinews, Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki. I hope this will open up great new possibilities for you and make your work easier. If you have questions please come to d:Wikidata:Sister projects. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (diskusjon) 18. nov. 2015 kl. 17:40 (CET)[svar]

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • TranslateGet help

Community Wishlist Survey[rediger]

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 1. des. 2015 kl. 15:38 (CET)[svar]

Access to data on Wikidata is here[rediger]

Hi everyone :)

For a while now you already have access to the sitelinks from Wikidata. We just enabled access to the data on Wikidata for you as well. This means you can now access data like the number of inhabitants of a city or get a link to a picture for a famous person and much more to use it in your articles. You can access the data in two ways - via a parser function and via Lua. How to use it:

I hope this will help you do great things here. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Good places to start are the relevant pages on d:Wikidata:Wikinews and d:Wikidata:Project chat.


Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 2. des. 2015 kl. 15:19 (CET)[svar]

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18. des. 2015 kl. 21:58 (CET)Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språkHjelp[svar]

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 18. des. 2015 kl. 22:58 (CET)Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språkHjelp[svar]

Password Strength RFC[rediger]

Hei

Vi har stertet en RFC på Meta for å øke kravene til brukerpassord for brukere med adgang til å redigere MediaWiki:Common.js, ha adgang til Checkuser og/ eller til Oversight.

Denne typen konti får tilgang til følsomme områder av våre nettsteder, og kan gjøre stor skade i feil hender. Kravet er for øyeblikket at passordet er minimum en bokstav langt. vi vil foretrekke å gjøre om dette til at passordet må være minimum 8 bokstaver/tegn og i tillegg ikke være et av de mest vanlig brukte.

By increasing requirements on passwords for accounts with high levels of access, we hope to make Wikimedia wikis more secure for everyone. Please read the full text of the proposal here, and make your voice heard at the RFC.

Takk

(på vegne av WMFs sikkerhetsteam) BWolff (WMF) (diskusjon) 21. des. 2015 kl. 09:11 (CET)[svar]

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VisualEditor News #6—2015[rediger]

Elitre (WMF), 25. des. 2015 kl. 01:06 (CET)[svar]

2016 WMF Strategy consultation[rediger]

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Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 18. jan. 2016 kl. 20:06 (CET)[svar]

Wikimedias høydepunkter, desember 2015[rediger]

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i desember 2015.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 26. jan. 2016 kl. 21:21 (CET)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, januar 2016[rediger]

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i januar 2016.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 29. feb. 2016 kl. 21:45 (CET)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, februar 2016[rediger]

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen i februar 2016.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 22. mar. 2016 kl. 20:10 (CET)

Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants[rediger]

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Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 31. mar. 2016 kl. 17:47 (CEST)[svar]

Server switch 2016[rediger]

Wikimedia Foundation kommer til å teste sitt nyeste datasenter i Dallas. Dette vil sikre at Wikipedia og andre Wikimedia-wikier vil fortsette å fungere selv etter en katastrofe. For å passe på at alt fungerer som det skal, kommer Wikimedias teknologiavdeling til å utføre en planlagt test. Denne testen vil teste om det er mulig å bytte fra et datasenter til et annet uten store problemer. Det vil kreve mye arbeid for å forberede testen og fikse eventuelle problemer.

De vil flytte all trafikk over til det nye datasenteret tirsdag 19. april.
torsdag 21. april kommer de til å flytte trafikken tilbake til det primære datasenteret.

Dessverre, grunnet noen begrensninger i MediaWiki, må alle redigering i løpet av disse to byttene måtte stoppe. Vi beklager eventuelle forstyrrelser og problemer dette vil skape, og skal prøve å forhindre dette så mye som mulig i fremtiden.

Du vil kunne lese, men ikke redigere, alle wikiene i et kort tidsrom.

  • Du vil ikke kunne redigere artikler i et tidrom på cirka 15 til 30 minutter tirsdag 19. april og torsdag 21. april, fra klokken 14:00 UTC/GMT (16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
  • Hvis du prøver å redigere eller lagre sider i dette tidsrommet, så vil en feilmelding dukke opp. Vi håper og tror at ingen redigeringer vil gå tapt i disse minuttene, men vi kan ikke garantere noe. Hvis du ser feilmeldingen, vent inntil alt er tilbake som normalt. Deretter skal du kunne redigere som vanlig igjen. Men vi anbefaler at du lagrer en kopi av arbeidet ditt, for sikkerhets skyld.

Andre ting verdt å nevne:

  • Bakgrunnsjobber kan ta lengre tid og noen kan bli avbrutt eller terminert. Røde lenker vil ikke bli oppdatert like fort som normalt. Hvis du lager en artikkel som er lenket til et annet sted, så vil lenken være rød lengre enn vanlig. Noen script som tar lang tid på kjøre vil bli stoppet.
  • Det vil være en kodefrys i uken som inneholder 18. april. Ingen ikke-essensielle kodeutrullinger vil finne sted.

Denne testen var opprinnelig planlangt utført den 22. mars. 19. april og 21. april er de nye datoene. Du kan lese planen på wikitech.wikimedia.org. De vil poste eventuelle endringer i den planen. Det vil komme flere varsler angående dette. Vennligst del denne informasjonen med samfunnet ditt. /Johan (WMF) (diskusjon) 18. apr. 2016 kl. 00:28 (CEST)[svar]

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, mars 2016[rediger]

Her er høydepunktene fra Wikimedia-bloggen fra mars 2016.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 22. apr. 2016 kl. 21:18 (CEST)

Høydepunkter fra Wikimedia, april 2016[rediger]

Her er de viktigste postene fra highlights fra Wikimedia bloggen fra april 2016.
About · Subscribe · Distributed via MassMessage (wrong page? Correct it here), 27. mai 2016 kl. 00:21 (CEST)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today[rediger]

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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) 24. jun. 2016 kl. 09:04 (CEST)[svar]

Open call for Project Grants[rediger]

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from July 1st to August 2nd to fund new tools, research, offline outreach (including editathon series, workshops, etc), online organizing (including contests), and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
Whether you need a small or large amount of funds, Project Grants can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.
Also accepting candidates to join the Project Grants Committee through July 15.
With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 5. jul. 2016 kl. 17:25 (CEST)[svar]

VIKTIG: Gjennomgang av administrative aktiviteter[rediger]

Hallo. En ny policy vedrørende fjerning av rettigheter for administratorer, byråkrater o.a. er nettopp trådt i kraft global community consensus (Deres nettsamfunn har fått melding om den pågående diskusjonen).

I tråd med denne policyen følger stewardene med på administrative aktiviteter på mindre wikier. Så vidt vi er kjent med, har deres wiki ingen formell prosess for å fjerne "avanserte rettigheter" ved langvarig inaktivitet. Dette innebærer at stewardene vil ordne dette i tråd med de nye admin activity review oversikter over administratoraktiviteter.

Vi har funnet at følgende brukere kan ansees inaktive (ingen redigeringer og ingen logget aktivitet i mere enn 2 år)

  1. Kjetil r (administrator)

Disse brukerne vil motta melding snart, om at de må ta det opp med wikisamfunnet om de ønsker å beholde rettighetene. Hvis henvendelsen ikke blir besvart, vil stewardene fjerne rettighetene.

Men nettsamfunnet står fritt til å skape egne prosedyrer. Det kan også ha skjedd at vi ikke har fått med oss allerede eksisterende prosedyrer. I så fall: Meld fra til stewards on Meta-Wiki slik at vi ikke kjører prosedyren på deres Wiki. Takk! Rschen7754 14. jul. 2016 kl. 08:46 (CEST)[svar]

Save/Publish[rediger]

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 9. aug. 2016 kl. 20:03 (CEST)[svar]

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Hello, Wikinews contributors.
A sysop at the English Wikinews and I have been talking about this change, and we'd like to try something different. It might be confusing to start with a "Publish page" button, since the first edit to an article is not the end of the full Wikinews publishing process. So we are going to try this instead: The "Save page" button will stay the same, but MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning will have a statement added to tell inexperienced people that their contributions will immediately be shared with the general public.
We are assuming that every Wikinews is using a similar structure for reviewing, and therefore we are going to try this at all Wikinewses. To do this, I need the statement translated for the copyright warning file right away! If you speak a Wikinews language, please check m:User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/Wikinews. It's just two sentences and should (I hope) be easy for anyone who is bilingual or multilingual. I need these translations this week, if at all possible.
If you have any questions or if your Wikinews would prefer the "Publish page" and "Publish changes" button, then please contact me at m:User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF). Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskusjon) 24. aug. 2016 kl. 21:24 (CEST)[svar]

Changing soon[rediger]

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Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskusjon) 3. jan. 2018 kl. 23:32 (CET)[svar]

Er prosjektet dødt?[rediger]

Et retorisk spørsmål. Prosjektet har alle kjennetegn på at det er dødt. Skal prosessen med å stenge prosjektet startes? Jeblad (diskusjon) 3. sep. 2016 kl. 07:19 (CEST)[svar]

Ja, det er dødt. Ja det bør stenges. Kimsaka (diskusjon) 3. sep. 2016 kl. 10:22 (CEST)[svar]
Starte prosessen med å stenge prosjektet? Nei. Om ikke annet så vil det komme en dag hvor aktivister skriver nyheter som ikke får plass i aviser eller nyhetsfeeden til facebook. 46.212.153.140 3. sep. 2016 kl. 14:05 (CEST)[svar]
I og med at aller nyeste artikkel ser ut til å være 3 år gammel og mange av de andre "toppsakene" på forsida er 6 og 8 år gamle, så ser det ikke ut til å være noe realistisk håp om å redde dette prosjektet. Jeg støttet stenging i 2013, og gjør det denne gangen også. Kommentaren om aktivister og nyheter som ikke får plass i aviser eller nyhetsfeeden til Facebook, skjønner jeg ikke mye av. "Nyhetene" på Wikinytt er jo hentet fra aviser og andre nyhetsmedier. Blue Elf (diskusjon) 4. sep. 2016 kl. 11:20 (CEST)[svar]

RevisionSlider[rediger]

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 12. sep. 2016 kl. 17:08 (CEST)[svar]

Grants to improve your project[rediger]

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Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. There is just over a week left to submit before the October 11 deadline. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 30. sep. 2016 kl. 22:11 (CEST)[svar]

Prosjektet er dødt[rediger]

Som en oppfølging av spørsmålet jeg stilte for en måned siden, #Er prosjektet dødt? så har jeg nå bedt om stenging. For flere detaljer se siden m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Norwegian Wikinews 3. Jeblad (diskusjon) 3. okt. 2016 kl. 14:52 (CEST)[svar]

Creative Commons 4.0[rediger]

Hei! Jeg skriver på vegne av Wikimedia Foundation for å be om feedback vedrørende et forslag om å flytte alle lisensierte CC BY-SA 3.0 filer til enCC BY-SA 4.0 lisens over alle Wikimedia prosjekter. Konsultasjonen er berammet til å vare fra 5. oktober og til 8. november. Vi håper å få en bred samling av synspunkter og meninger. Hvis du er interessert, ber jeg deg vennligst om å delta i diskusjonen på Meta-Wiki. Joe Sutherland (talk) 6. okt. 2016 kl. 03:08 (CEST)[svar]

Editing News #3—2016[rediger]

15. okt. 2016 kl. 19:50 (CEST)

Password reset[rediger]

I apologise that this message is in English. ⧼Centralnotice-shared-help-translate⧽

We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.

Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.

In the meantime, we ask that everyone takes a look at the passwords they have chosen for their wiki accounts. If you know that you've chosen a weak password, or if you've chosen a password that you are using somewhere else, please change those passwords.

Select strong passwords – eight or more characters long, and containing letters, numbers, and punctuation. Joe Sutherland (diskusjon) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 14. nov. 2016 kl. 00:59 (CET)[svar]

Adding to the above section (Password reset)[rediger]

Please accept my apologies - that first line should read "Help with translations!". Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) / MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 14. nov. 2016 kl. 01:11 (CET)[svar]

New way to edit wikitext[rediger]

James Forrester (Product Manager, Editing department, Wikimedia Foundation) --14. des. 2016 kl. 20:31 (CET)[svar]

Bruk av språkkoder[rediger]

Hvis det skal ristes liv i dette prosjektet så bør antakelig mekanismene for flerspråklighet brukes, det vil si at en kan sendes til sider som bruker de respektive utgavene av malene på hvert språk. Formen Wikinytt:Skriv en artikkel-nb vil da bli feil, den bør være Wikinytt:Skriv en artikkel/nb og lenken bør være Special:MyLanguage/Wikinytt:Skriv en artikkel fordi denne da vil sende videre til nynorsk og bokmål etter hva brukeren selv har satt. Rotsiden, eller «/no» kan da brukes for fellesformene, slik som på forsiden. Det vil antakelig bli en del opprydding, men dette kan vel tas etter som det er (blir) nødvendig. Jeblad (diskusjon) 29. des. 2016 kl. 17:49 (CET)[svar]

Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[rediger]

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.

This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.

The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 15. feb. 2017 kl. 21:30 (CET) • Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språkGet help

Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[rediger]

Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.

Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.

Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:

More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, 9. mar. 2017 kl. 20:43 (CET) • Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språkGet help

We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)[rediger]

18. mar. 2017 kl. 06:10 (CET)

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.

The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.

The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).

We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.

Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.

The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.

The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.

  • April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
  • April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
  • April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
  • May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
  • May 15–19 – Board vote checking
  • May 20 – Board result announcement goal

In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:

  • Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
    • There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
  • Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
    • One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.

Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.

More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections(at)wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, 7. apr. 2017 kl. 05:36 (CEST) • Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språkGet help

Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May[rediger]

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 11. apr. 2017 kl. 19:33 (CEST)[svar]

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review[rediger]

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:Marius2 (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 (diskusjon) 11. apr. 2017 kl. 22:02 (CEST)[svar]

3. mai 2017 kl. 21:14 (CEST)

Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View[rediger]

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 8. mai 2017 kl. 16:41 (CEST)[svar]

Editing News #1—2017[rediger]

12. mai 2017 kl. 20:05 (CEST)

RevisionSlider[rediger]

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 16. mai 2017 kl. 16:44 (CEST)[svar]

16. mai 2017 kl. 23:09 (CEST)

Prosjektet er helt dødt?[rediger]

Som en ytterligere oppfølging av spørsmålet jeg nå har stilt to ganger tidligere; #Er prosjektet dødt? og #Prosjektet er dødt så har jeg nå iferd med å be om at stenging blir iverksatt 30. sept 2017. For flere detaljer se siden m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Norwegian Wikinews 3. Jeblad (diskusjon) 1. jul. 2017 kl. 22:48 (CEST)[svar]

Improved search in deleted pages archive[rediger]

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Takk! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 25. jul. 2017 kl. 20:40 (CEST)[svar]

Accessible editing buttons[rediger]

--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 27. jul. 2017 kl. 18:56 (CEST)[svar]

Changes to the global ban policy[rediger]

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 12. nov. 2017 kl. 01:34 (CET)[svar]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers[rediger]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20. nov. 2017 kl. 23:07 (CET)[svar]

Soft-closing this project[rediger]

Hello. For notification, the Language Committee made the decision at Meta-wiki discussion to keep the project open but to soft close the whole project. Feel free to discuss either here or there. --George Ho (diskusjon) 29. nov. 2017 kl. 08:55 (CET)[svar]

Editing News #1—2018[rediger]

2. mar. 2018 kl. 21:56 (CET)

AdvancedSearch[rediger]

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7. mai 2018 kl. 16:53 (CEST)[svar]

Update on page issues on mobile web[rediger]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12. jun. 2018 kl. 22:58 (CEST)[svar]

Global preferences are available[rediger]

10. jul. 2018 kl. 21:19 (CEST)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS[rediger]

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now[rediger]

(Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Grensesnittadministratorer) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27. aug. 2018 kl. 14:40 (CEST) (via global message delivery)[svar]

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October[rediger]

6. sep. 2018 kl. 15:33 (CEST)

The Community Wishlist Survey[rediger]

30. okt. 2018 kl. 12:06 (CET)

Editing News #2—2018[rediger]

2. nov. 2018 kl. 15:17 (CET)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web[rediger]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 13. nov. 2018 kl. 20:35 (CET)[svar]

Community Wishlist Survey vote[rediger]

22. nov. 2018 kl. 19:13 (CET)

Advanced Search[rediger]

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 26. nov. 2018 kl. 12:03 (CET)[svar]

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements[rediger]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6. des. 2018 kl. 21:03 (CET)[svar]

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019[rediger]

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Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 27. des. 2018 kl. 11:13 (CET)[svar]

FileExporter beta feature[rediger]

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 14. jan. 2019 kl. 10:41 (CET)[svar]

No editing for 30 minutes on 17 January[rediger]

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

16. jan. 2019 kl. 19:52 (CET)

Talk to us about talking[rediger]

Trizek (WMF) 21. feb. 2019 kl. 16:01 (CET)[svar]

Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April[rediger]

8. apr. 2019 kl. 12:56 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request[rediger]

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The Wikimedia Foundation has published a Medium-Term Plan proposal covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on the talk page, by April 20. Takk! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 12. apr. 2019 kl. 19:35 (CEST)[svar]

Editing News #1—July 2019[rediger]

23. jul. 2019 kl. 20:32 (CEST)

Update on the consultation about office actions[rediger]

Hello all,

Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team announced a future consultation about partial and/or temporary office actions. We want to let you know that the draft version of this consultation has now been posted on Meta.

This is a draft. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.

For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted. Please post it on the draft talk page. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.

Please visit the consultation draft on Meta-wiki and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.

Thank you for your input! -- The Trust & Safety team 16. aug. 2019 kl. 10:03 (CEST)

New tools and IP masking[rediger]

21. aug. 2019 kl. 16:18 (CEST)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started[rediger]

-- Kbrown (WMF) 30. sep. 2019 kl. 19:14 (CEST)[svar]

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project[rediger]

16. okt. 2019 kl. 09:14 (CEST)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages[rediger]

29. okt. 2019 kl. 12:13 (CET)

Community Wishlist 2020[rediger]

IFried (WMF) 4. nov. 2019 kl. 20:30 (CET)[svar]

Wiki Loves Folklore[rediger]

Hello Folks,

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

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 18. jan. 2020 kl. 07:15 (CET)
[svar]

Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project[rediger]

Hello

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

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

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 22. jan. 2020 kl. 20:01 (CET)[svar]

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages[rediger]

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

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

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools[rediger]

8. apr. 2020 kl. 21:28 (CEST)

Editing news 2020 #2[rediger]

17. jun. 2020 kl. 22:36 (CEST)

Feedback on movement names[rediger]

Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk if necessary. Takk!

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

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

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

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 2. jul. 2020 kl. 21:52 (CEST)

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

Editing news 2020 #3[rediger]

9. jul. 2020 kl. 14:56 (CEST)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia[rediger]

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 9. jul. 2020 kl. 21:56 (CEST) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement [svar]

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

Max Klemm (WMDE) 6. aug. 2020 kl. 11:14 (CEST)[svar]

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st[rediger]

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 26. aug. 2020 kl. 15:48 (CEST)[svar]

Invitation to participate in the conversation[rediger]

Wiki of functions naming contest[rediger]

29. sep. 2020 kl. 23:26 (CEST)

Wiki of functions naming contest[rediger]

30. sep. 2020 kl. 00:49 (CEST)

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

Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk.

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.

Takk! Qgil-WMF (talk) 7. okt. 2020 kl. 19:09 (CEST)[svar]

Important: maintenance operation on October 27[rediger]

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 21. okt. 2020 kl. 19:10 (CEST)[svar]

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2[rediger]

5. nov. 2020 kl. 23:10 (CET)

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

20. nov. 2020 kl. 19:11 (CET)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion[rediger]

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

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th[rediger]

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

11. des. 2020 kl. 16:58 (CET)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event[rediger]

Wikimania's logo.

Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk. Takk!

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, 27. jan. 2021 kl. 16:15 (CET)

Project Grant Open Call[rediger]

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:

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 projectgrantsMal:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 28. jan. 2021 kl. 09:00 (CET)[svar]

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back![rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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 (diskusjon) 6. feb. 2021 kl. 14:25 (CET)[svar]

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

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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, Wikinytt 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) 18. feb. 2021 kl. 15:12 (CET)[svar]

Wikifunctions logo contest[rediger]

2. mar. 2021 kl. 02:46 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations[rediger]

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2[rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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[rediger]

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[rediger]

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) 5. apr. 2021 kl. 23:53 (CEST)[svar]

Global bot policy changes[rediger]

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis[rediger]

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12. apr. 2021 kl. 17:09 (CEST)[svar]

Suggested Values[rediger]

Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 22. apr. 2021 kl. 16:08 (CEST)[svar]

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1[rediger]

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


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 (diskusjon) 12. jun. 2021 kl. 01:05 (CEST)[svar]

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions[rediger]

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;

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 (diskusjon) 16. jun. 2021 kl. 06:18 (CEST)[svar]

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2[rediger]

24. jun. 2021 kl. 16:14 (CEST)

Server switch[rediger]

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 27. jun. 2021 kl. 03:19 (CEST)[svar]

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review[rediger]

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) 18. aug. 2021 kl. 00:30 (CEST)[svar]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end[rediger]

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.

1. sep. 2021 kl. 23:00 (CEST)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January[rediger]

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 7. sep. 2021 kl. 02:23 (CEST)[svar]

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

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 strategy2030(_AT_)wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) 10. sep. 2021 kl. 19:03 (CEST)[svar]

Server switch[rediger]

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskusjon) 11. sep. 2021 kl. 02:45 (CEST)[svar]

Talk to the Community Tech[rediger]

Mal:Dir

Read this message in another languageHjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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

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

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskusjon) 11. sep. 2021 kl. 05:03 (CEST)[svar]

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open[rediger]

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 13. okt. 2021 kl. 18:25 (CEST)[svar]

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members[rediger]

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team

5. nov. 2021 kl. 16:53 (CET)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections[rediger]

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

The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

  • What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?
  • What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msg(_AT_)wikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Takk. Xeno (WMF) 27. des. 2021 kl. 18:28 (CET)[svar]

Wiki Loves Folklore is back![rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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 (diskusjon) 9. jan. 2022 kl. 14:15 (CET)[svar]

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

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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.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 15. jan. 2022 kl. 01:19 (CET)[svar]

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

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 spatnaikMal:@wikimedia.org.


About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony (Talk), mandag 17:46, 18 mars 2024 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5[rediger]

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


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

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

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

Xeno (WMF) 29. jan. 2022 kl. 04:10 (CET)[svar]


Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review[rediger]

Hello, I have an update on the vote on the enforcement guidelines that was mentioned above. Xeno (WMF) (diskusjon) 4. feb. 2022 kl. 02:59 (CET)[svar]


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

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 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 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

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated[rediger]

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

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

Xeno (WMF) 9. feb. 2022 kl. 02:15 (CET)[svar]

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March[rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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 (diskusjon) 22. feb. 2022 kl. 05:50 (CET)[svar]

Coming soon[rediger]

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 28. feb. 2022 kl. 13:38 (CET)[svar]

Remember to Participate in the UCoC Conversations and Ratification Vote![rediger]

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Hello everyone,

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

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

There are events scheduled to learn more and discuss:

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

You can comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact either team by email: msg(_AT_)wikimedia.org or ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 2. mar. 2022 kl. 03:17 (CET)[svar]

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

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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: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 8. mar. 2022 kl. 01:52 (CET)[svar]

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

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

10. mar. 2022 kl. 02:31 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow[rediger]

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 (diskusjon) 14. mar. 2022 kl. 15:40 (CET)[svar]

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

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

Hello everyone,

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

Thank you,

From the Community Development team

Xeno (WMF) 18. mar. 2022 kl. 03:20 (CET)[svar]

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed[rediger]

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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: ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Xeno (WMF) 30. mar. 2022 kl. 03:53 (CEST)[svar]

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6[rediger]

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


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

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

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

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

See full announcement on Meta-wiki. Xeno (WMF) 22. apr. 2022 kl. 03:45 (CEST)[svar]

Coming soon: Improvements for templates[rediger]

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 29. apr. 2022 kl. 13:14 (CEST)[svar]

Editing news 2022 #1[rediger]

Read this in another languageSubscription list for this multilingual newsletter

New editors were more successful with this new tool.

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) 2. mai 2022 kl. 20:55 (CEST)[svar]

2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates[rediger]

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees
10. mai 2022 kl. 12:39 (CEST)

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

On behalf of the UCoC project team

Xeno (WMF) 4. jun. 2022 kl. 00:56 (CEST)[svar]

Desktop Improvements update[rediger]

Making this the new default

Hello. I wanted to give you an update about the Desktop Improvements project, which the Wikimedia Foundation Web team has been working on for the past few years. Our work is almost finished! 🎉

We would love to see these improvements become the default for readers and editors across all wikis. In the coming weeks, we will begin conversations on more wikis, including yours. 🗓️ We will gladly read your suggestions!

The goals of the project are to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. The project consists of a series of feature improvements which make it easier to read and learn, navigate within the page, search, switch between languages, use article tabs and the user menu, and more. The improvements are already visible by default for readers and editors on more than 30 wikis, including Wikipedias in French, Portuguese, and Persian.

The changes apply to the Vector skin only, although it will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Monobook or Timeless users will not notice any changes.

The newest features
  • Table of contents - our version is easier to reach, gain context of the page, and navigate throughout the page without needing to scroll. It is currently tested across our pilot wikis. It is also available for editors who have opted into the Vector 2022 skin.
  • Page tools - now, there are two types of links in the sidebar. There are actions and tools for individual pages (like Related changes) and links of the wiki-wide nature (like Recent changes). We are going to separate these into two intuitive menus.
How to enable/disable the improvements
Globale innstillinger
  • It is possible to opt-in individually in the appearance tab within the preferences by selecting "Vector (2022)". Also, it is possible to opt-in on all wikis using the global preferences.
  • On wikis where the changes are visible by default for all, logged-in users can always opt-out to the Legacy Vector. There is an easily accessible link in the sidebar of the new Vector.
Learn more and join our events

If you would like to follow the progress of our project, you can subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the pages of the project, check our FAQ, write on the project talk page, and join an online meeting with us.

Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskusjon) 24. jun. 2022 kl. 03:36 (CEST)[svar]

Results of Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is out![rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

Hi, Greetings

The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!

We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries. Kindly see images here

Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized local contests and photo walks for this project.

We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.

Thank you,

Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 4. jul. 2022 kl. 18:12 (CEST)[svar]

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass[rediger]

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Hi all,

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

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

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

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 14. jul. 2022 kl. 13:34 (CEST)[svar]

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7[rediger]

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


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

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

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

Thank you for reading! RamzyM (WMF) 18. jul. 2022 kl. 03:37 (CEST)[svar]

Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election[rediger]

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

Hi everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 27. jul. 2022 kl. 16:03 (CEST)[svar]

Vote for Election Compass Statements[rediger]

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Hi all,

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

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

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

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

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 27. jul. 2022 kl. 23:01 (CEST)[svar]

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

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Hi everyone,

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

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

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MNadzikiewicz (WMF)

Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum[rediger]

Mal:More languages

Hello everyone,

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

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

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

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

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

We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!

Best regards,

the Movement Strategy and Governance Team

User:MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 29. aug. 2022 kl. 13:32 (CEST)[svar]

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?[rediger]

The slides for our presentation at Wikimania 2022

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

We have been working on it for the past three years. So far, it has been the default on more than 30 wikis, including sister projects, all accounting for more than 1 billion pageviews per month. On average 87% of active logged-in users of those wikis use Vector 2022.

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skins. No changes are expected for users of these skins.

About the skin[rediger]

[Why is a change necessary] The current default skin meets the needs of the readers and editors as these were 13 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using Wikimedia projects. The old Vector doesn't meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the new skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It draws inspiration from previous requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. We reduced PHP code in Wikimedia deployed skins by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes and test results] The skin introduces a series of changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

  • The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
  • The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
  • The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on.
  • The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Try it out] Try out the new skin by going to the appearance tab in your preferences and selecting Vector 2022 from the list of skins.

How can editors change and customize this skin?[rediger]

It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out our repository for a list of currently available customizations, or add your own.

Our plan[rediger]

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying in the week of October 3, 2022. If your community would like to request more time to discuss the changes, hit the button and write to us. We can adjust the calendar.

If you'd like ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please ping me here or write on the talk page of the project. We will gladly answer! Also, see our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 22. sep. 2022 kl. 06:14 (CEST)[svar]

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

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

Hello all,

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

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

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

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

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

Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors

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

We thank you for your time and participation.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 7. nov. 2022 kl. 16:33 (CET)[svar]

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

Mal:More languages

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

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

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

Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
Wikimedia Foundation

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) 14. nov. 2022 kl. 17:25 (CET)[svar]

Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee[rediger]

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

About the Ombuds commission

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

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

About the Case Review Committee

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

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

Applying to join either of these groups

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

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

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

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

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

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January[rediger]

Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

Hallo

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

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

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

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

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

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

Takk! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 15. des. 2022 kl. 17:44 (CET)[svar]

Wikinews Interlingual Association idea Contact[rediger]

Hello. I am a senior user from Chinese Wikinews. I want to strengthen the links between the Wikinews language communities and develop an excellent citizen news platform. Does it include the possibility of setting up a Telegram group to communicate with each other? Original reports or news about different languages, and news reports of news value are published in the group, so that everyone can know and translate each other. I also hope to strengthen contacts with projects in various Wikinews languages for a long time, and even establish a Wikinews Association to help our journalists facilitate the development of our projects, which may include applying for funding from the foundation, writing reports better, including original reporting projects, for public welfare, and better. Let our news agency reporters go to other places to interview, including bonuses, travel expenses, transportation expenses, and meals? In fact, I hope that if these reporting expenses can receive a foundation subsidy, in fact, journalists may focus more on original reporting, and they should do so! I thought it might be better to open a Wikinews Association across languages. I use Chinese as my mother tongue, so there may be some mistakes in English. If you don't understand, you are welcome to communicate, especially in simple English. Thank you very much!

Original reporting is in fact what media organizations should do more, because now many journalists' associations and experts criticize everyone for doing real-time news, and I do real-time news, which results in the lack of room for public attention or news stories that should be reported in depth, so this mentality is unfavorable to the media environment and the public.

Establishing an association to help Wikinews can provide more room for the platform to be upgraded and make it more convenient for our journalists to move. The establishment of associations can further unite the community, hold activities, vigorously develop Wikinews projects, and even launch a series of reports, so that we can no longer have a single report, enhance the credibility of our media from the public, and be more popular.

Wikinews is a very suitable project for cross-language associations, because we are all doing the same thing and reporting around the world. It is one of the purposes of public broadcasting organizations to focus on diversified reports and public interest reports.

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE[rediger]

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1[rediger]

Read this in another languageSubscription list for this multilingual newsletter

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

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

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

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

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

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

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

New Project: Edit Check

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

Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskusjon) 23. feb. 2023 kl. 00:24 (CET)[svar]

Your wiki will be in read only soon[rediger]

Trizek (WMF) (Samarbeid) 27. feb. 2023 kl. 22:20 (CET)[svar]

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions[rediger]

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

Your wiki will be in read-only soon[rediger]

MediaWiki message delivery 21. apr. 2023 kl. 02:41 (CEST)[svar]

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

Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

  • Community members in good standing
  • Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
  • Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
  • Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
  • Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
  • Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocproject(_AT_)wikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 26. apr. 2023 kl. 21:00 (CEST)[svar]

Selection of the U4C Building Committee[rediger]

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, 27. mai 2023 kl. 06:20 (CEST)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members[rediger]

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

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) 28. jun. 2023 kl. 19:59 (CEST)[svar]

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee[rediger]

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, 28. aug. 2023 kl. 17:35 (CEST)[svar]

Your wiki will be in read-only soon[rediger]

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 15. sep. 2023 kl. 11:23 (CEST)[svar]

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

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,

Gjennomgå og gi tilbakemeldinger på valgsregelpakken til Wikimedia Foundations styringsutvalg[rediger]

Denne beskjeden er oversatt til flere språk på Meta-wiki.

Kjære alle,

Gjennomgå og gi tilbakemeldinger på valgsregelpakken til Wikimedia Foundations styringsutvalg fra nå til 29. oktober 2023. Valgsregelpakken er basert på eldre utgaver fra valgskomitéen og komemr til å anvendes i utvalget til styret i 2024. Ved å gi tilbakemeldinger, hjelper du å gi en glattere og bedre styringsutvalgsprosess. Mer på Meta-wiki-siden.

Med vennlig hilsen,

Katie Chan
Valgkomitéens styreleder

17. okt. 2023 kl. 03:12 (CEST)

The Vector 2022 skin as the default in two weeks?[rediger]

Read this in your languageHjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk • Please tell other users about these changes

Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Web team. In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.

Globale innstillinger

If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" on the appearance tab of the global preferences and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.

Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.

If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":

It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a local (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.

About the skin[rediger]

Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation. You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English).

[Why is a change necessary] When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways. The old Vector does not meet their needs.

[Objective] The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the Community Wishlist Surveys, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins. The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.

[Changes in a nutshell] The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.

  • The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
  • The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
  • The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
  • The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
  • The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.

[Customize this skin] It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out the repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.

Our plan[rediger]

If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 31 October. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out our FAQ. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskusjon) 19. okt. 2023 kl. 01:52 (CEST)[svar]

Update of license[rediger]

Some time ago there was a discussion on meta about how to implement the license update to CC BY-SA 4.0 on all wikis. See m:Meta:Babel/Archives/2023-06#Aftermath_of_ToU_updates.

Wikinews use the license CC BY 2.5. So it does not have the SA part and it is an older version.

I would like to ask why Wikinews does not follow WMF and most other wiki projects. Is there a good reason or is it simply because noone thought about updating the license?

Unless there is a good reason I suggest to update the license to follow WMF.

Perhaps someone can help find a better place for this message? --MGA73 (diskusjon) 10. des. 2023 kl. 14:03 (CET)[svar]

There is a formal vote on English WN to change to the new license at en:Wikinews:Water_cooler/policy#Update_of_license.
I hope you would use that opportunity to update license here too. --MGA73 (diskusjon) 15. des. 2023 kl. 14:17 (CET)[svar]

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID[rediger]

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) 13. des. 2023 kl. 13:31 (CET)[svar]

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

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?[rediger]

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[rediger]

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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) 19. jan. 2024 kl. 19:07 (CET)[svar]

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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) 31. jan. 2024 kl. 18:00 (CET)[svar]

Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote[rediger]

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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) 12. feb. 2024 kl. 19:23 (CET)[svar]

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

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

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) 5. mar. 2024 kl. 17:25 (CET)[svar]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection[rediger]

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

Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

  • May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
  • June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
  • June-August 2024: Campaign period
  • End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
  • October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
  • Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

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

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

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

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

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

MPossoupe_(WMF)12. mar. 2024 kl. 20:56 (CET)[svar]

Denne wikien vil snart være skrivebeskyttet[rediger]

Trizek (WMF), 15. mar. 2024 kl. 01:01 (CET)[svar]