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This is aglobal notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!
If it is necessary to inform many/all wikis about something important, aglobal notification can be requested atmeta:Global notifications/requests. It is possible to have wiki and/or language dependent text within every message.
All Meta notifications are synchronized automatically, either on all wikis or just on specific, selected ones.
To have a common access point, the messages are updated atGebruiker:WikimediaNotifier/notifications(mirrored, any changes to this page will be overwritten;use a separate page for translation); you can include this page(s) like a template wherever you want, let's say your village pump, with a description in your language!
Have a look on theFrequently Asked Questions to see how it can fit your needs!
… it's for spreading information; and for a better cross-wiki communication & collaboration!
2009-04-19
The third annualPicture of the Year Award onWikimedia Commons goes into its second (final) round!
The final voting round is running from April 19th toApril 30th (23:59 UTC). Have a look on thefinalists and select your favourite featured picture of 2008. |
2009-04-12
TheGNU Free Documentation License has been released inversion 1.3 by its responsibleFree Software Foundation.
This is not least a result of a request by ourBoard of Trustees in December 2007, trying to offer us a possibility toalso license and share our wiki contents under the easier to useCreative Commons CC-BY-SA (Attribution + ShareAlike) license.
TheWikimedia Foundation will soon organize a community wide referendum to decide whether ourGNU FDL licensed wikis should be made availabe under the terms of this free and commonCC-BY-SA license too, seedual-licensing.
See also adetailed summary for further reading.(source)
OnMeta you can findfurther information (FAQ) and candiscuss the licensing update process of our wikis.
| A vote onMeta is taking place fromApril 12, 2009 toMay 3, 2009. |
2009-03-26
The Wiktionary community(actually the whole Wikimedia community) voted for anew Wiktionary logo, back in2006.
As some major local communities refused to adapt the new logo for different reasons, Wiktionary now has two different logos, both widely used!
Because Wiktionary should have one common logo andfavicon, meaning a unique visual identity, there is anattempt to refresh the Wiktionary logo update/change process.
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2009-02-24
Wikimania 2009, this year's global event devoted toWikimedia projects around the globe, is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops,panels, posters,open spacediscussions, and even artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects or free content topics in general. The conference will be held fromAugust 26 to28 inBuenos Aires,Argentina!
For more information, check the officialCall for Participation.
2009-01-26
Beside anelder project for the creation and improvement of illustrations, there is anew project to grow our encyclopedic imagerestoration community. It's to provide media restorers with the technical resources they need, and to reach out to all the archives in the world.
2009-01-01
The localization of Wikiquote's software(MediaWiki) and its extensions is an ongoing task, and you can help!
There arestatistics about how much of thecore messages andsystem messages in total have been translated so far.
Apply, andhelp translating our software externally atTranslateWiki.net(=Betawiki, no Wikimedia project so far); have a look on therecent localization activity foryour language [Afrikaans].
2008-12-24
There is a proposal to shareWikimedia's help pages by centralizing and localizing them onMeta or a dedicated wiki.
2008-11-28
Beside the elderPatroller extension for patrolling recent changes and new pages, there is a highly configurableMediaWiki extension, calledFlaggedRevs.
FlaggedRevs – being already enabled onseveral Wikimedia wikis – is a toolset for transparent and ensured articlepatrolling and/or for reliablequality assurance by specifying certain accurate article revisions that are shown to the public by default. Those stable article versions are identified in a release process by a trustable editorial staff and/or get approved by a reviewing expert staff. It is even possible to mark (tag) revisions of selected articles for different purposes, let's say for an article validation aiming on a print edition. Furthermore, there is the possibility to let your readers give you evaluative feedbacks.
FlaggedRevs will make your wiki more reliable and thus more reputable over the time!
Have a look onMeta's description, thetechnical description and theguidance for requesting FlaggedRevs!
2008-11-02
Beside the ongoing discussion about introducing aninterlanguage extension on Wikimedia projects to improve and centralize interwiki linking, an attempt to centralize the discussion aboutinterlanguage link conflicts has been set up.
2008-11-01
OnMeta, a bot account now can get a bot flag for all wikis that allowglobal bots!
To be able to run also on your Wikiquote, the community has toexplicitly permit global bots by local policy,see list.
To qualify for global bot access, the following requirements must be met by a bot: