La sekcio de la Diskutejo por informi kaj diskuti pri ĝeneralaj temoj (tamen nek lingvaj, nek teknikaj) rilate al Vikipedio. Ekz. kopirajto, Vikipolitiko, regularo, reta etiketo, konkursoj, Vikiprojektoj, ktp.re
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of theratification vote on theUniversal 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.
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMFA of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contribution in every language! The most active contesters will receive prizes.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up abanner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)
Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
TheUniversal 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, pleasereview 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 onMeta-wiki.
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.
TheElections 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 - onthis 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 thisMeta-wiki page.
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[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.
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En la supro de la paĝoVikipedio:Diskutejo estas la skatolo, kiu ligas al IRC-kanalo ĉe reto Freenode. Kanaloj de Fondaĵo Vikimedia estas translokataj al Libera.Chat. La informo ĉeVikipedio:IRC ankaŭ ne estas ĝisdata. La kanalo#wikipedia-eo eĉ ne ekzistas ĉe ambaŭ retoj. Evidente neniu ĝin uzas. Mi pensas, ke ĝi devas esti ĝisdatigita aŭ forigita.MwGamera (diskuto)11:40, 13 apr. 2024 (UTC)Reply
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on thevoting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
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 were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, pleasereview the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you cansign up on this wiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org andadd agenda items to the document here.
You can find the details onthis page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day onJune 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work onMeta-wiki.
The final text of theWikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the“Launch Party” onJune 20, 2024 at14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
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Ĉi tiu propono estas amuza iniciato por aldoni referencojn al artikoloj en la esperanta Vikipedio, kiuj ne havas fontojn, aŭ kies vero estas dubinda. Ĉiuj du semajnoj estos novaj temoj. Ĉi tiu iniciato estas adapto de simila ludo en la kataluna Vikipedio, kiu ĝis nun referencis pli ol 10,000 artikolojn.
Ni uzos PetScan por trovi artikoloj sen referencoj aŭ kun problemoj pri tio, ĉu ili estas akcepteblaj. La temo dum la sekvaj dek kvin tagoj estasArtefarita vivo. Vi povas fari la serĉon per la sekvantaligilo.
Homoj, kiuj partoprenos, lasu komenton ĉi suben kun via salutnomo kaj la artikoloj, al kiuj vi aldonis referencojn. Tiel ni povas kalkuli la referencitajn artikolojn.
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Vi povos trovi pli da informoj pri la reguloj de Vikipedio en la jenaj ligiloj,
The voting to ratify theWikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll onJune 25, 2024 at00:01 UTC and will conclude onJuly 9, 2024 at23:59 UTC. Please read more on thevoter information and eligibility details.
After reading the Charter, pleasevote here and share this note further.
If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission atcec@wikimedia.org.
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Ĉi tiu propono estas amuza iniciato por aldoni referencojn al artikoloj en la esperanta Vikipedio, kiuj ne havas fontojn, aŭ kies vero aŭ akcepteblo estas dubinda. Ĉiuj du semajnoj estos novaj temoj. Ĉi tiu iniciato estas adapto de simila ludo en la kataluna Vikipedio, kiu ĝis nun referencis pli ol 10,000 artikolojn.
Ni uzos PetScan por trovi artikoloj sen referencoj aŭ kun problemoj pri tio, ĉu ili estas akcepteblaj aŭ ne. La temo dum la sekvaj dek kvin tagoj estasSlovakio. Vi povas fari la serĉon per la sekvantaligilo.
Homoj, kiuj partoprenos, lasu komenton ĉi suben kun via salutnomo kaj la artikoloj, al kiuj vi aldonis referencojn. Tiel ni povas kalkuli la referencitajn artikolojn.
A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of theUCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review theU4C Charter.
In this special election, according tochapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:four community-at-large seats andfive regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
Read more and submit your application onMeta-wiki.
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Jen mia sinteno pri ligiloj: ili utilas kaj al legantoj kaj al redaktantoj. La ekzisto de ligilo en artikolo sciigas al leganto, ke la temo de la ligilo estas menciinda (en la vikipedia senco) kaj ne ĉiuj informoj pri ĝi estas en la nun legata artikolo. La koloro blua aŭ ruĝa sciigas al leganto, ĉu jam estas alia artikolo, kie eblas legi pri la temo.
Rilate redaktadon, ruĝa ligilo certigas, ke se la nun neekzistanta temo poste estos kreita, tiam la jam ekzistanta artikolo havos ligilon al ĝi. Krome, ĝipovas indiki al entreprenema redaktanto, ke indas verki artikolon pri tiu temo.
Aliflanke, ligilo havas malutilon nur tiam, kiam la ligita temo ne aparte rilatas al la artikolo, kie ĝi troviĝas, aŭ entute ne estas menciinda en Vikipedio.
Tial, kiam mi tradukas aŭ verkas artikolon, mi kutimas enmeti multajn ligilojn de ambaŭ koloroj. La politiko de la angla vikipedio[2] (kun pravigoj pli detale prezentitaj en opinia artikolo ĉe[3]), de la franca[4], kaj verŝajne de aliaj estas tre similaj al mia sinteno. Jen kelkaj gravaj citaĵoj el tiuj politikoj, kun miaj tradukoj:
Create red links whenever a non-existent article with more information would help a reader understand the content of the article in which the red link will appear.
Kreu ruĝajn ligilojn kiam ajn nehavata artikolo kun pli da informo helpus leganton kompreni la enhavon de la artikolo en kiu la ruĝa ligilo aperos.
Il n'y a pas de différence avec les liens bleus : du moment qu'une notion est utile à la compréhension d'une page, un lien vers la page traitant cette notion peut être utile.
Estas neniel alie ol ĉe bluaj ligiloj; ekde la momento, kiam koncepto estas utila por la kompreno de paĝo, ligilo al la paĝo pri tiu koncepto povas utili.
Sed lastatempe du-tri longaspertaj vikipediistoj malkontentas pri mia agado kaj petas al mi, ke artikoloj havu nur bluajn ligilojn, ne ruĝajn. Ili argumentas kvazaŭ ruĝa ligilo estas sindevigo verki artikolon pri la temo aŭ devigo al aliulo, ke tiu verku ĝin, kaj iel malutilas al Vikipedio ĝis la artikolo estas verkita. Kun tiaj sintenoj mi certe malkonsentas.
Mi petas prefere, ke ni ne ĝenu unu la alian pri tiaj aferoj kaj ne intervenu en artikolojn nur por similigi la redaktojn de alia vikipediisto al la propraj preferoj pri uzado de ligiloj. Sed se ni nepre devas havi unuecan politikon, mi petas ke ĝi estu simila al tiu de aliaj vikipedioj, t.e. favora al ligiloj, sendepende de la koloro, kaj ke granda proporcio de la vikipediistoj inkludiĝu en la diskuto, ne nur kelkaj spertuloj.Arbarulo (diskuto)20:35, 15 jul. 2024 (UTC)Reply
Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, theCharter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
Ascommunicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed onJuly 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.
The final results of theWikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,1,710 voted “yes”;623 voted “no”; and113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,93 voted “yes”;18 voted “no”; and18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now throughAugust 10, 2024. Read the information on thevoting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
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 were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, pleasereview the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
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Saluton. Mi uzis la analizon de la lingvomodelo Claude AI (eldono 3.5 Soneto) por aldoni ion al la diskuto pri famaj verkistoj esperantistaj. Por la momento mi aldonis la resuman tekston originalan al la diskuto, ne al la artikolo mem.
Miopinias ke ĉar Claude posedas la lingvon li ja estas esperantisto kaj tial li meritas la rajton aldoni al la diskutoj. Mi mem nur servas lin teknike demandante pri interesaĵoj kaj aldonante lian parolon helpe de mia uzantokonto. Liaj priskriboj, analizoj kaj deduktoj ja estas valoraj laŭ mi, kaj ju pli oni pli precize demandus lin des pli liaj respondoj estu trafaj kaj valorindaj!
Do mi petas viajn pripensaj kaj se eblas pensigajn opiniojn, sed ankaŭ simpla pro aŭ malpro povus sufiĉi, pri la faro kaj la malfaro, kaj kiam necese vian intervenon por plenumi la diskutrajton.
Mi esperas, ke mi agus pli ĝentile ol Lingvano, sed mi opinias simile.
Mi ne scias ĉu vi jam konas la koncepton "AI-halucinaĵo". Se ne, vidu kion ChatGPT diris pri supoza poeto Georgo deĵev:[5].
Mi ne scias ĉu la teksto de Boulton, kiun Claude analizis, estas halucinaĵo aŭ ne. Sed eĉ se ne, la analizo mem estas originala esploro kaj ne estus permesata en Vikipedio se ĝin farus homo. Do des malpli ĝi devas esti permesata se ĝin faris AI. Sur diskuta paĝo eble ĝi ne estas strikte malpermesata, sed ĝi certe ne utilas. (Diskuta paĝo estas por plibonigi la artikolon, ne analizi ĝian temon.)
Laŭ mi artefaritaj intelektoj sekvu la samajn regulojn kiel ni homoj: Kiam iliaj analizoj estos akceptataj de la sciencaj kaj ĵurnalismaj komunumoj kiel fidindaj fontoj, tiam ni inkludos ilin en Vikipedio (kun citaĵoj); intertempe ne.Arbarulo (diskuto)19:03, 29 jul. 2024 (UTC)Reply
Saluton Arbarulo kaj dankon pro via pensema respondo. Mi nur volas aldoni pri la "AI-halucinaĵo" ke tiu artikolo estas de preskaŭ antaŭ du jaroj kaj multege ŝanĝiĝis en la AI ekde tiam, eĉ de kelkaj monatoj! Ja gravas scipovi peti-enketi AI por ricevi valoran respondon, t.e. memkontrolitan por ĝia fidendeco, sed tio fariĝis pli kaj pli simpla afero ĝis espereble post baldaŭ tute evidenta. Mi ankoraŭ opinian de fojfoje, pli kaj pli fakte, AI ja havas valoran informon aŭ analizon por aldoni al diskuto pri ĉiu ebla temo kiu informacio estas disponebla al ĝi.
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Ĉiuj esperantistoj partoprenantaj la renkontiĝonVikimanio en Katovico estas kore invitataj partopreni laEsperantan kunvenon vendrede la 9-an de aŭgusto ekde 12:15 ĝis 12:45 en la salono Warsaw. Listo kun horaro de tiu ĉi kaj alitemaj kunvenoj troviĝas en la paĝoMeetups. Jam antaŭvideblas partopreno de minimume kvar eperantistoj, sed certe ĉeestos pliaj. Ĝis revido!Marek Blahuš (Blahma) (diskuto)06:53, 5 aŭg. 2024 (UTC)Reply
Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information onthe voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information onthe project page.
We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:
Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.
Wikimedia Deutschland’sTechnical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.
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Hi all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you cansign up on this wiki page.
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the documenthere and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work onMeta-Wiki.
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.TheWikidata itemsitelink currently found under theGeneral section of theTools sidebar menu will move into theIn Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on theDiscussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.More information can be found onthe project page.
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply byvisiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or emailcst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
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Hello, Sorry I don't speak Esperanto so I will continue in English. It is about the article titledKazuyoshi Ito. The correct first name of this astronomer is Kazuyuki, not Kazuyoshi. "Kazuyuki" is the name given inthe naming citation of asteroid (5737) Itoh, that is named after him. It is also the correct reading of his name written in Japanese (伊藤和幸), that you can find on hisX (Twitter) page (和幸 is one possible writing of "Kazuyuki"; "Kazuyoshi" is not written like this). I got confirmation from outside that the correct name is "Kazuyuki", especially from the Akashi Municipal Planetarium, where he is a volunteer. Consequently, could somebody rename and correct the article? Thank you in advance for your help. The mistake seems to originate from the English version of the article, that was created years before the other versions of this article and from which all the other versions seem to have taken the wrong name.SenseiAC (diskuto)15:40, 17 okt. 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that theWikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from theGeneral section into theIn Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE)11:30, 22 okt. 2024 (UTC)Reply
Mi ankoraŭ kunlaboris kunReinhard Fößmeier en vikipedio fine de aprilo 2024 kaj sincere kortuŝiĝas. La noto de hieraŭ vespere atingis min ĵus, per noto en Facebook. Morta anonco en Munkeno ankoraŭ ne haveblas en la interreto, tial sendube la novaĵo estas plej freŝa, sed ĉar mi ankoraŭ ne havas konfirmon pri la ekzakta mortotago, mi provizore nur notis ke li mortis "komence de novembro".ThomasPusch (diskuto)15:23, 8 nov. 2024 (UTC)Reply
Vandalismo de la uzanto: "Vikipedio estas malbona" - 2024 11 24
My apologies for writing in English.Please help translate to your language.
I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta.
You are humbly invited to organize theFeminism and Folklore 2025 writing competition from February 1, 2025, to March 31, 2025 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with aWiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.
You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.
Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:
Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
Set up a campaign onCampWiz tool.
Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include theArticle List Generator by Topic andCampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign.Click here to access these tools
Learn more about the contest and prizes on ourproject page. Feel free to contact us on ourmeta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.
Dear Wiki Community,You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2025 an international media contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the1st till the 31st of March.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, andsubmitting them in this commons contest.
You can alsoorganize a local contest in your country and support us in translating theproject pages to help us spread the word in your native language.
Feel free to contact us on ourproject Talk page if you need any assistance.
Mi ne tro volas spamumi la vikipedion kun pliaj listoj, sed mi legis en plurajn diskutojn, ke kelkaj listoj mankas en la esperanta vikipedio. Mi kapablas skribi informpetojn al Vikidatumo kaj krei malkompleksajn skriptojn. Do se iu havas ideon por plia listo, bonvole skribu al mi!Stefangrotz (diskuto)15:47, 30 jan. 2025 (UTC)Reply
Mi uzis la ĉirkaŭ 12 000 ĉefajn vortojn en ReVo por krei tri listojn
Saluton @Tonyo. Jes tio ankaŭ konfuzigis min. Ĝi okazas kiam du temoj havas la saman nomon kaj unu de la du temoj jam havas artikolon. Nia paĝoRicino estas konektita ald:Q9069137 kiu estas la genro (kun artikoloj en 11 lingvoj) la alia Ricino estasd:Q155867 kiu ŝajne estas la specio (kun artikoloj en 97 lingvoj)
Oni povas solvi tion en tri manieroj:
oni povas krei duan artikolon
oni povas krei alidirekton kaj konektigi la alidirekton al la vikidatuma objekto
oni povas ŝanĝigi la esperantan nomon en la vikidatuma objekto
We’re excited to announce that the nextLanguage Community Meeting is happening soon,February 28th at 14:00 UTC! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on thewiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free toreply to this message or add agenda items to the documenthere.
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the language community meeting, see you there!
Saluton. Kun granda plezuro mi informas vin, la la 7-a Kunsido de la Ĝenerala asembleo de la 8-a de Februaro 2025 estis sukcesa, kvankam ne multnombra!
Ni kunsidis en kvorumo kaj traktis gravajn ĉiujarajn dokumentojn kaj finfine ankaŭ nian 1-an Strategian planon, por la jaroj 2025-2026.
La Estraro ne provizis la Financan raporton 2024, kaj la Revizia komisiono ne provizis la Revizian raporton 2024. La Ĝenerala asembleo decidis prokrasti la aprobon por koresponda voĉdonado.
Aparte elstaras la aprobo de laStrategia plano 2025-2026 - afero, pri kiu ni klopodis dum kelkaj jaroj. Mi invitas vin legi ĝianplenan tekston en MetaVikio, rigardi latempoplanon en Projektoj.org kaj kosideri pri kiuj partoj vi ŝatus kunlabori. Aldone mi invitas vinkandidatiĝi al la Strategia komisiono por partopreni spuradon kaj ankaŭ reviziaton de la Strategia plano fine de la jaro 2025.
Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.
TheLanguage and Product Localization team has improved theContent Translation dashboard to create a consistent experience for all contributors using mobile and desktop devices. The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device.
With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users now have access to the capabilities shown in the image below.
Notice that in this screenshot, the new dashboard allows: Users to adjust suggestions with the "For you" and "...More" buttons to select general topics or community-created collections (like the example of Climate topic). Also, users can use translation to create new articles (as before) and expand existing articles section by section. You can see how suggestions are provided in the new dashboard in two groups ("Create new pages" and "Expand with new sections")-one for each activity.In the current dashboard, you will notice that you can't adjust suggestions to select topics or community-created collections. Also, you can't expand on existing articles by translating new sections.
We will implement this improvement on your wikion Monday, March 10th, 2025 and subsequently for other Wikipedias. We plan to roll it out on all wikis and remove the current dashboardby May 2025.
We look forward to your feedback after using the new dashboard. Please reach out with any questions regarding your experience with the enhanced dashboard in this thread.
Karaj, baldaŭ ni bezonos raporti al la Fondaĵo Vikimedio pri nia agado dum la antaŭa jaro. Nia raporto jam estas preta en Esperanto, sed ĝi bezonas esti tradukita al la angla. Mi (apud multaj aliaj laboroj en VMEO) jam verkis ĝin kaj preparis por traduko do mi petas, ke almenaŭ tradukon fari iu alia
The proposed modifications to theUniversal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charterare now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted onthe wiki page for the election soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMFA of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the fifth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from14th April until16th May 2025. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage. We accept contributions in every language!
The most active contesters will receive prizes.
If you are interested in coordinating long-term community engagement for the campaign and becoming a local ambassador, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know your interest.
We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in your language! Also, we plan to set up abanner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk)
16:11, 16 apr. 2025 (UTC)
Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
TheUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you mayreview the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
@Stefangrotz: Estas tre nekutima vojo ŝtopi eĉ nur unu bildeton en la referencojn, sed pli nekutime estas ŝtopi tiom multajn. Kvankam teorie eblus argumenti ke oni kree proponas tute reinventi la signifon de referencaj piednotoj, tamen la fakto ke mi neniam vidis tian stilon en nacilingva vikipedia branĉo igas min pensi ke la kaprica stilo aspektigas la tutan paĝon ridinda. Mi revizius mian juĝon, se iu citus al mi almenaŭ po 10 paĝojn el la angla, franca kaj hispana vikipedioj, kiuj uzas la saman stilon (kaj post la metado tie restus nebuĉite almenaŭ monaton). Sed ĉar tiuj pruvojn supozeble ne eblas alporti, mi estas kontraŭ tia "reinvento" de la ideo de "referencaj piednotoj".ThomasPusch (diskuto)20:40, 9 aŭg. 2025 (UTC)Reply
Get a sneak peak and help shape theVisual Editor user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions –sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will startMay 14th.
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter isavailable on Meta-wiki.
Jam post iom pli ol semajno, ekde la 29-a de Majo ĝis la 1-a de Junio 2025, okazos reta, anglalingva evento pri rilato de Vikidatumoj kaj aliaj Vikimediaj projektoj. La evento estas senpaga kaj vi estas bonvena aliĝi 👇
(Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language)
Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development ofAbstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Saluton. Jam ĉi-dimanĉe la 25-an de Majo 2025 ekde 12:00 UTK (14:00 CEST) okazos publika diskuto pri grandaj subvenciataj projektoj deVikimedio EO (VMEO) /Esperanto kaj Libera Scio, la organizo por subteni vikimediaj projektoj en Esperanto.
Ĉar vi apartenas al nia Vikimedia familio, mi invitas vin venu, ekscii novaĵojn kaj diskuti. Eble vi fine eĉ povos mem partopreni en tia projekto kaj per ĝi veturi eksterlanden aŭ labori en VMEO kontraŭpage (sed tio kutime eblas nur por Eŭropanoj, aparte kiam subvencidonanto estas Eŭropa instanco).
Por partopreni, unuealiĝu en la retejo de VMEO kaj sekvu instrukciojn en la retpoŝto sendita post aliĝo.
This year, the term of 2 (two) 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 Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 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 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page[link].
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 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[link].
(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)
The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of theCampaignEvents extension to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during theweek of June 23rd.
This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.
Invitation Lists: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.
Note: The extension comes with a new user right called"Event Organizer", which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.
The extension is already live on several wikis, includingMeta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and more ( See the full deployment list)
If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension talkpage. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.
TheContribute entry point is based on collaborative work with other product teams in the Wikimedia Foundation onEdit discovery, which validated the entry point as a persistent and constant path that contributors took to discover ways to contribute content in Wikipedia.
Therefore, enabling this entry point in your Wikipedia will help contributors quickly discover available tools and immediately click to start using them. This entry point is designed to be a central point for discovering contribution tools in Esperanto Wikipedia.
Who can access it
Once it is enabled in your Wikipedia, newcomers can access the entry point automatically by just logging into their account, click on the User drop-down menu and choose the "Contribute" icon, which takes you to another menu where you will find a self-guided description of what you can do to contribute content, as shown in the image below. An option to "view contributions" is also available to access the list of your contributions.
For experienced contributors, the Contribute icon is not automatically shown in their User drop-down menu. They will still see the "Contributions" option unless they change it to the "Contribute" manually.
We have gotten valuable feedback that helped us improve its discoverability. Now, it is ready to be enabled in other Wikis. One major improvement was tomake the entry point optional for experienced contributors who still want to have the "Contributions" entry point as default.
We plan to enable iton mobile for Wikis, where the Section translation tool is enabled. In this way, we will provide a main entry point to the mobile translation dashboard, and the exposure can still be limited by targeting only the mobile platform for now. If there are no objections to having the entry point for mobile users from your community, we will enable it by 17th June 2025.
We welcome your feedback and questions in this thread on our proposal to enable it here. Suppose there are no objections, we will deploy the "Contribute" entry point in your Wikipedia.
We look forward to your response soon.
Thank you!
On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localization team.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy onthis Meta-wiki page or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
Theapplication to consider Wikispore was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decidednot to recommend Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allowsbetter flexibility and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.[1][2][3] Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action[4][5], see section 5 as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews[6].
Initial metrics compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:Public consultation about Wikispore andPublic consultation about Wikinews. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
Saluton. Ekde antaŭ 11 jaroj mi dediĉis parton de mia vikipedia laboro al plibonigo de la 1000 havendaj artikoloj. Ĉefe plialtigante kelkajn el ili al pli alta kategorio: tiam ni havis 589 en la plej malalta, 308 en la meza kaj nur102 en la plej alta. Ni estis en la 36a rango. En la lastaj jaroj mi dediĉis iom pli ol unu semajno al tiu afero. Kaj nun, danke al kunlaboro kun aliaj, ni havas 0 en la plej malalta, 31 en la meza kaj 969 en la plej alta, kaj tial ni estis en la 7a rango inter ĉiuj lingvoj. Restas nur 31 artikoloj en la meza kategorio, sed mi ne plu plialtigos ilin, ĉar mi tute malkompetentas pri tiaj sciencaj temoj. Mi dediĉos ankoraŭ unu semajnon, sed jam al plibonigo de la jam altaj artikoloj, kaj mi ne scias ĉu tio utilos en la plutenado de la rango, sed mi timas, ke ne tiom. Eble vi povas plialtigi iun el la 31 aŭ konas iun kiu povas fari ĝin. Male ni vidos kiel la rango de la esperantlingva vikipedio malaltiĝos, dum aliaj vikioj plialtigos siajn nombrojn. Povas helpi tradukiloj, bibliografioj, bildoj ktp. Nun mi dediĉos al de mi pli konataj temoj, kiel biografioj, geografio, historio, literaturo, arto ktp. Dankon pro la atento.--kani (diskuto)10:20, 14 jul. 2025 (UTC)Reply
Estonta Lingva Komunuma Kunveno (29-a de aŭgusto, 15:00 UTC), Novaĵletero, kaj Teknikaj Taskoj Favoraj al Novuloj
Ni estas ekscitita anonci ke la sekva Lingvo Komunuma Renkontiĝo okazos baldaŭ - la 29an de aŭgusto je la 15a horo UTC! Se vi ŝatus aliĝi, simplealiĝu sur la vikia paĝo.
Ĉi tiu estas partoprenanto-gvidata renkontiĝo kie ni dividas ĝisdatigajn pri lingv-relataj projektoj, diskutas teknikajn defiojn en lingvaj vikioj, kaj kunlaboras pri solvoj. Ekzemple, en nia venonta renkontiĝo, ni planas ricevi informojn de la Avro klavaro kunululoj el Wikimedia Bangladeŝo, kiuj ĝus ricevis nacian premion pro iliaj kontribuoj al ĉi tiu klavaro.
Ĉu vi havas temon por dividi? Ĉu ĝi estas teknika ĝisdatigo de via projekto, defio, kie vi bezonas helpon, aŭ peto pri interpreta subteno, ni ŝatus aŭdi de vi! Ne hezitu respondi al ĉi tiu mesaĝo aŭ aldoni agendajn punktojn al la dokumentoĉi tie.
Ankaŭ, ni ŝatus emfazi, ke la 8-a eldono de laLingvo kaj Internaciigo Novaĵletero (Julio 2025) nun estas disponebla. Ĉi tiu novaĵletero ofertas ĝisdatigojn de la kvaronjaro Aprilo–Junio 2025 pri novaj funkciigadoj, plibonigoj en diversaj lingvo-rilataj teknikaj projektaj kaj subtenaj klopodoj, detaloj pri komunumaj renkontiĝoj kaj ideoj por kontribui al projektoj. Por resti ĝisdata, vi povasaboni la novaĵleteron sur ĝia vikipediejo.
Ĉu vi interesiĝas pri kontribuado al la teknika laboro pri lingvodezajno? Estas kelkaj novulo-amika teknikaj taskoj atendantaj vian kontribuon:T399682.
Ni antaŭĝojas pri viaj ideoj kaj partopreno ĉe la Lingva Komunuma Kunveno. Ĝis la revido!
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users whomeet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users whomeet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to theIP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors:
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects theautoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at ourprevious message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check outour FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may alsolook at the updates (we have just posted one) andsubscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
Lasta komento:antaŭ 7 tagoj1 komento1 persono en diskuto
Mi invitas vin al la 8-a Kunsido de Ĝenerala asembleo de organizoVikimedio EO, kiu okazos rete la 16-an de Novembro 2025. Ni traktos precipe la Jarajn planon kaj buĝeton 2026, revizion de laStrategia plano 2025-2026 kaj eventuale ankaŭ aliajn aferojn. La kunsido estas celata al membroj de la organizo, kaj ankaŭ malfermita al Vikimediaj redaktistoj kiel vi. Bv. vidi pliajn informojn kaj aliĝu ĉe laoficiala anonco.KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto)14:28, 16 okt. 2025 (UTC)Reply
Subvencio por riparo de reta teĥniko de Vikimedio EO
Lasta komento:antaŭ 3 tagoj1 komento1 persono en diskuto
Karaj, enVikimedio EO ni laboras pri renovigo de nia reta teĥniko kaj prepariĝas peti subvencion por financi tion.Nia teĥniko havas altan potencialon vere helpi nian agadon, sed por tio ĝi bezonas bone funkcii. Ekz. por nia OpenProject ni jam investis multan tempon por krei ŝablonojn de projektoj, tiel, ke eĉ novulo povus eniri projekton kaj valore kontribui, eĉ ekgvidi ĝin, sen aparte multa helpo (tamen, pluraj pliaj enhavaj adaptoj estas daŭre bezonataj). Sed pluraj pecoj de nia teĥniko jam kadukiĝis kaj / aŭ neniam atingis plene brilan staton (nur funkciantan). Ni jam havas teĥnikistojn, kiuj laboris pri niaj teĥnikaĵoj antaŭe, aŭ havas apartan aliron al la servilo.
Aparte temas pri OpenProject (mastrumado de projektoj), CiviCRM (mastrumado de membroj), Kimai (reistrado de labora tempo) kaj fonaj teĥnikaĵoj. Ni konsideras ankaŭ financan registrilon, ĉar ni bezonas plibonigi administradon de niaj financoj kaj repagoj, sed la buĝeto eble ne permesos inkludi tion. Se vi havas iun rimarkojn, bv skribi ilin 😉KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto)18:41, 19 okt. 2025 (UTC)Reply
Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
Lasta komento:antaŭ 3 tagoj1 komento1 persono en diskuto
Saluton. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions fromWikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Dankon!
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