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 inthe CWS sandbox.
We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!
The Editing team is beginninga project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publikigar chanji". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Pleasewatch that page for more information. You canjoin a conference call on 3March2023 to learn more.
LaWikimedia Fundamento elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la1 marto. La provo komenciĝos je14:00 UTC.
Bedaŭrinde pro iuj limoj enMediaWiki la tuta redaktado devas esti interrompita dum la ŝaltado. Ni pardonpetas pro ĉi tiu interrompo, kaj ni laboras por mallongigi ĝin kiom plej eble en la estonteco.
Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je lamerkredo 1 marto 2023.
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj:
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
Antaŭvideble, disdono de kodo okazos same kiel en la ceteraj semajnoj. Tamen, eblas haltoj en la kodo en kelkaj unuopaj okazoj.
Ĉi tiu projekto povas esti prokrastita se necese. Vi povaslegi la horaron ĉe wikitech.wikimedia.org. Ajnaj ŝanĝoj estos anoncitaj en la horaro. Estos pli da informoj pri tio. Rubando estos montrata en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 30 minutoj antaŭ la operacio.Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
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.
LaWikimedia Fundamento elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la26 aprilo. La provo komenciĝos je14:00 UTC.
Bedaŭrinde pro iuj limoj enMediaWiki la tuta redaktado devas esti interrompita dum la ŝaltado. Ni pardonpetas pro ĉi tiu interrompo, kaj ni laboras por mallongigi ĝin kiom plej eble en la estonteco.
Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je lamerkredo 26 aprilo 2023.
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj:
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
Antaŭvideble, disdono de kodo okazos same kiel en la ceteraj semajnoj. Tamen, eblas haltoj en la kodo en kelkaj unuopaj okazoj.
Ĉi tiu projekto povas esti prokrastita se necese. Vi povaslegi la horaron ĉe wikitech.wikimedia.org. Ajnaj ŝanĝoj estos anoncitaj en la horaro. Estos pli da informoj pri tio. Rubando estos montrata en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 30 minutoj antaŭ la operacio.Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
As follow-up tothe 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 eithersign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023.Read more on Meta-Wiki.
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.
We are glad to announcethe new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. TheElections 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,
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:
<phonos file="audio file" label="Listen"/>
The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on theEnglish Wiktionary below.
The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you toread about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in thistalk page.
Thank you!
UOzurumba (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Language team
02:26, 27 jul. 2023 (UTC)
Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
TheEnforcement Guidelines require aBuilding Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called theUniversal 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.
LaWikimedia Fundamento elprovas la ŝaltilon inter ties unua kaj duaranga datumcentroj. Tio certigos, ke Vikipedio kaj la ceteraj Vikimediaj vikioj povas resti enrete eĉ post katastrofo. Por certigi, ke ĉio funkcias, vikimedia teknologia sekcio bezonas okazigi planitan provon. Tiu provo montros, ĉu eblas fidinde transiri de unu datumcentro al la alia. Multaj teamoj devas prepari sin por la provo kaj esti pretaj por solvi iajn ajn neatenditajn problemojn.
Oni ŝaltos la tutan datumtrafikon je la20 septembro. La provo komenciĝos je14:00 UTC.
Bedaŭrinde pro iuj limoj enMediaWiki la tuta redaktado devas esti interrompita dum la ŝaltado. Ni pardonpetas pro ĉi tiu interrompo, kaj ni laboras por mallongigi ĝin kiom plej eble en la estonteco.
Vi povos legi, sed ne redakti, ĉiujn vikiojn dum mallonga tempo.
Vi ne povos redakti dum ĝis unu horo je lamerkredo 20 septembro 2023.
Se vi provos redakti aŭ konservi dum tiu tempo, vi vidos erarmesaĝon. Ni esperas, ke neniuj redaktoj perdiĝos dum tiuj minutoj, sed ni ne povas garantii tion. Se vi vidos erarmesaĝon, bonvolu atendi ĝis kiam ĉio estos denove en ordo. Tiam vi povos konservi vian redakton. Sed ni rekomendas ke vi faru kopion de viaj ŝanĝoj antaŭe, ĉiaokaze.
Aliaj efikoj:
Fonaj taskoj estos malpli rapidaj, kaj eblas ke kelkaj estos rifuzitaj. Eblas ke ruĝaj ligiloj ne estos ĝisdatigataj kun kutima rapideco. Se vi kreas artikolon al kiu jam estas ligilo, tiu ligilo restos ruĝa pli longe ol kutime. Kelkaj longdaŭraj funkcisinsekvoj devos esti haltigitaj.
Antaŭvideble, disdono de kodo okazos same kiel en la ceteraj semajnoj. Tamen, eblas haltoj en la kodo en kelkaj unuopaj okazoj.
Ĉi tiu projekto povas esti prokrastita se necese. Vi povaslegi la horaron ĉe wikitech.wikimedia.org. Ajnaj ŝanĝoj estos anoncitaj en la horaro. Estos pli da informoj pri tio. Rubando estos montrata en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 30 minutoj antaŭ la operacio.Bonvolu disvastigi ĉi tiun informon en via komunumo.
Hi everyone! TheAffiliations Committee (AffCom),Ombuds commission (OC), and theCase 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 theMeta-wiki page.
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.More on the Meta-wiki page.
Best,
Katie Chan Chair of the Elections Committee
01:13, 17 okt. 2023 (UTC)
The Vector 2022 skin as the default in three weeks?
If you prefer keeping the current skin select "Vector legacy (2010)" onthe 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 alocal (but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.
[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, theCommunity 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 outthe repository for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 14 November. 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 outour FAQ. Thank you!SGrabarczuk (WMF) (diskutez)01:09, 26 okt. 2023 (UTC)[respondez]
(New) Feature onKartographer: Adding geopoints via QID
Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on theproject page. If you have any comments, please let us know on thetalk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, theWikidata 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 thisRegistration 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 wouldcompensate you for your time.
For more information, visit ourproject 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?
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning tomake 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lafonduro Wikimedia modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos suonline mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che20 ma di marto.The test will start at14:00 UTC.
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi cheMediaWiki, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour onWednesday 20 March 2024.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.Then you should be able to save your edit.But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
This project may be postponed if necessary.You canread the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org.Any changes will be announced in the schedule.There will be more notifications about this.A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.Please share this information with your community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lafonduro Wikimedia modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos suonline mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che25 ma di septembro.The switch will start at15:00 UTC.
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi cheMediaWiki, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour onWednesday 25 September 2024.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.Then you should be able to save your edit.But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Shablono:tracked
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.
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.We are excited to announce the upcomingWiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
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.
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)11:29, 22 okt. 2024 (UTC)[respondez]
Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
We’re happy to announce the launch ofWiki Loves Ramadan 2025, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
To get started, visit thecampaign page for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Addyour community here, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
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.
My apologies for writing in English.Please help translate to your language.
This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes throughthe end of day, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in theParser Unification project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your Wiktionary. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this transition disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in theExtension:ParserMigration documentation.
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!
Lafonduro Wikimedia modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos suonline mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che19 ma di marto.The switch will start at14:00 UTC.
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi cheMediaWiki, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour onWednesday 19 March 2025.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.Then you should be able to save your edit.But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
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.
Hello everyone, I am excited to share news of an upcoming online event calledWikidata and Sister Projects celebrating the different ways Wikidata can be used to support or enhance with another Wikimedia project. The event takes place over 4 days betweenMay 29 - June 1st, 2025.
We would like to invite speakers to present at this community event, to hear success stories, challenges, showcase tools or projects you may be working on, where Wikidata has been involved in Wikipedia, Commons, WikiSource and all other WM projects.
If you are interested in attending, pleaseregister here.If you would like to speak at the event, please fill out this Session Proposal template on theevent talk page, where you can also ask any questions you may have.
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.
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, theold Graph extension was disabled in 2023due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed theCharts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also theEasyTimeline extension.
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start fromMay 6. Please, consultour page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can alsoconsult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to theproject’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on thetalk page or atPhabricator.
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.
(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.
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].
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.
(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, theWikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in yourWatchlists andRecent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See theWikidata:Glossary for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for17.07.2025, between1300 - 1500 UTC.The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on thisproject task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicatedTalk page.
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!
Hi all, we want to let you know thatWikifunctions is coming to your project soon! When enabled, you will be able to call functions from your project, and integrate them in your articles.
A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output. Think of adding up two numbers, or converting miles into metres, or calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. This is usually done with templates that are complicated to create or to import. With Wikifunctions, you will be able to do this with just a couple of clicks!
We would like to invite you to contribute to Wikifunctions, by translating the existing functions labels into your language, so that more users in your community can more easily reuse them on the project. You can also translate the messages for the Wikifunctions interface on TranslateWiki (here for VisualEditor messages, andhere for the Wikifunctions interface proper).
Lafonduro Wikimedia modifikos la trafiko inter lia komputerala centri. To posibligos ke Wikipedia ed altra wiki de Wikimedia mantenos suonline mem pos dizastro.
Toda trafiko modifikesos che24 ma di septembro.The switch will start at15:00 UTC.
Nefortunoze, pro kelka limitizi cheMediaWiki, omna redakturi mustos haltesar dum la modifikado. Ni pregas vua pardomo pro ca rupto, e ni laboras pro ke future simila problemi esos minima.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens.This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.You can contribute to thetranslation or proofreading of this banner text.
Vu povos lektor, ma ne redaktor omna Wiki dum kurta periodo di tempo.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour onWednesday 24 September 2025.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.Then you should be able to save your edit.But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week.However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
Saluto. 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.Danko!
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply byvisiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cstwikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
Saluto. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Danko!
