Welkum in 'De pråthook' van de neadersassiske Wikipedia. Hyr kün jy geselligpråten,küren ofkweadelen en diskussys voren oaver alderhande saken dee mid Wikipedia van doon hebben, of jy künnen gewoan evven wat bykletsen.
The Editing team is beginninga project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Wysigingen uutgeaven". 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 3 March 2023 to learn more.
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat het schakelen tussen haar eerste en tweede datacenter testen. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia wiki's zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven. Om er zeker van te zijn dat alles goed werkt, zal de Wikimedia-afdeling Technologie gaan testen of er betrouwbaar tussen de datacentra gewisseld kan worden. Veel teams moeten voorbereid en beschikbaar zijn om enige onverwachte problemen op te lossen.
Al het internetverkeer zal anders verstuurd worden op1 maart. De test zal beginnen op14:00 UTC.
Vanwege beperkingen inMediaWiki is het echter wel nodig om de wiki's tijdelijk op alleen-lezen te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor deze maatregel, en we zullen proberen om de impact in de toekomst te verminderen.
U zult in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet te bewerken voor een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult maximaal een uur lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen te doen op woensdag 1 maart 2023.
Bij bewerken of opslaan zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar hier zijn wij niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding ziet, wacht u alstublieft tot alles weer normaal is. Dan kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u een kopie van uw bewerkingen maakt.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken kunnen ook worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen zullen niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waar ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals iedere week gebeurt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd kunnen worden als de operatie ze later nodig heeft.
Dit project wordt zo nodig uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen worden in de planning aangekondigd. Er zullen hierover nog meer notificaties worden verstuurd. Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel zal plaats vinden.Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine andUkrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. 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 receiveprizes.
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!
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.
Jouw wiki zal binnenkort in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te gebruiken zijn
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat het 'schakelen' tussen haar primaire en secondaire datacenter testen. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia wiki's, zelfs na een ramp. beschikbaar blijven. Om er zeker van te zijn dat alles goed werkt, zal de afdeling 'Technologie' van Wikimedia gaan testen of er op een betrouwbare manier tussen de verschillende datacentra gewisseld kan worden. Veel teams moeten voorbereid en beschikbaar zijn om eventuele onverwachte problemen op te kunnen lossen.
Al het internetverkeer zal verstuurd worden op basis van26 april. De test zal beginnen om14:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 26 april 2023.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd. Er zullen meer berichtgevingen volgen. Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt.Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
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.
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Dit jaar vindtWikimania van 16 - 19 augustus plaats in Singapore.
Wikimania is de jaarlijkse wereldwijde conferentie voor iedereen die betrokken is bij een van de Wikimediaprojecten. Wikimedia Nederland kan een beperkt aantal reisbeurzen beschikbaar stellen voor Wikimedianen die erbij willen zijn. Een volledige beurs is maximaal € 2.500. Het is ook mogelijk een beurs aan te vragen voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 25 mei door het invullen vandit formulier.
Om een beurs aan te vragen hoef je geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland. Het liefst geven we in ieder geval één beurs aan iemand die nog nooit eerder naar Wikimania is geweest.SRientjes (overleg)15:43, 2 mei 2023 (CEST)Reageren
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.
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Up de Nederlaandske Wikipedia heb ik de lätste tyd meyr informaty to evugd oaver desprekkersantallen/percentages van et Nedersassisk van de jöägd üüt de jåren 2015-2019 en sprekkersantallen/percentages van eyrdere tyden. Et lik dårup det toch nog sou en 5-20%, ofhankelik van et nivo, angev good streektaal to künnen pråten up de middelbare skule. Sölfs 28% van de eyrste en tweyde klasse vmbo basis lwoo, basis en kader van selecteyrde middelbare skulen in Dreanthe scoort in de kategorie 'good.' Jår is 2018, dee sült nu ungeveyr 17-19 wean. In Oaveryssel lik et percentage yts laeger te wean. Middelbare skulen in neet stedelike gebeden scoort natüürlik höyger. Wyder scoort VWO laeger maar lik toch nog 5% to wean. In Steenwyk sol nog meyr as de helfteelementen van de streektaal gebrüken (sölf anegeaven).
De percentages lykt wel oavereyne to kommen med de gegeavens van Driessen 2011. Olders dee nog plat pråten med de kinder sol in 2003 up 5-6% liggen. Belangryke: Håste 20% van de lüü in Dreanthe dee angeaven good plat to künnen bint neet tweyspråkig upevud. Van de 80% dee sölf anegeaven hebt det see neet plat pråt (48% klein bettyn, 32% neet) sol 18,5% Dreantsk wel leyren willen.
Oaveryssel e.d. müt ik nog tovogen.
My dücht det dår seker nog wel rüümte vöär üütbreiding en bereik isse. An de aandere kaante, as nog geyn 10%(?) de språke döärgev...
Aover zölfrapportage he'k wal ies elezen det lu heurzölf al rap aoverschat. Nederlaands mit Nedersaksische invloeden wördt dan al gauw Nedersaksisch enuumd (of Sallaands ezw). An de aandere kaante is zo'n hoog percentage det wal Drèents zol willen leren misschien wal 't beste neis. Organisch deurgeven huuj niks meer van te verwachten. Nedersaksisch van de toekomst zal op schoele as vrömde taal onderwezen mutten wörden.Ni'jluuseger (overleg)13:03, 27 jun 2023 (CEST)Reageren
Jep, oaverskatten begryp ik. Wat plat is ouk neet 'vast.' Dät in yder geval 10-20% toch nog årdige binding hev is ouk yts wåras y up künt bouwen. An de aandere kaante, dee bron üüt Dreanthe hev rapporteyrd wat de lüü sölf dachten (20,0%) en ho as see scoorden in kategoriën (28,0% in 'good'). Det löp neet alderbarstends wyd üüteyne. Ungeveyr 20% dee Dreantsk wilt leyren plus ungeveyr 20% dee al plat künt pråten, låte wy vöär vwo 10% totål seggen, is toch en best antal. As ik det sou lease dan see y ho völle tyd wy verlöären hebt sünds et ende van de jåren 90. Nedersassisk had allange ekünd up de skulen en wy hebt et nog neet... Organisk döärgeaven sal allenig maar onvolledig gån en y sült usölf et by mütten leyren, heb ik ouk mütten doon. Is ouk nog eyns knap lastig ümdedde wy geyn echten leyrboken hebt. Ouk weyr souvölle tyd verlöären...Grwen (overleg)21:34, 29 jun 2023 (CEST)Reageren
Met genoegen kondigen wijde nieuwe leden en adviseurs van de Verkiezingscommissie aan. DeVerkiezingscommissie helpt bij het ontwerp en de uitvoering van het proces waarlangs de Gemeenschap en aangeslotenen de leden van het Bestuur van de Wikimedia Foundation kiezen. Na een open kandidaatstellingsprocedure hebben de sterkste kandidaten met het bestuur gesproken en zijn vier van hen gevraagd om in de Verkiezingscommissie zitting te nemen. Vier andere kandidaten zijn gevraagd om als adviseur deel te nemen.
Hartelijk dank aan alle leden van de gemeenschap die hun namen ter overweging hebben voorgelegd. Wij zien er alvast naar uit om binnenkort met de verkiezingscommissie samen te werken.
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By et artikel oaver Thailand is wat uutwesseling untstån oaver et språkgebruuk. Med name oaverdisse verandering an den tekst. De veranderde versy is feitelik korrekter, mär mist et neadersassiske gevööl, sou as byvöärbeald ouk al upHulpe:Nedersaksies_schrieven#Nedersaksisch_'geveul' beskreaven. Neadersassisk is gin neaderlandsk, düs ouk de wyse van feitenweadergave is anders. Et origineel dücht my autentiker. Wat doot wy hyrmed?Woolters (overleg)14:25, 17 jul 2023 (CEST)Reageren
t Volk wont ongeliek verdeeld oawer t laand. In t noordn wont hoaste gin leu, terwiel at ze mekoar zudeliker völle körter op de hoed zitt.
t Thaise Volk wont ongeliek verdeeld oawer t laand. In t noordn is t' land dunbevolkt, terwiel at t' süüden van het land völle digter bevolkt is.
A'j hier naor kiekt is de ni'je versie neet feitelik better. "Dunbevolkt" is neet feitelik anders as "wont hoast gin leu" maor dat leste is völ meer hoo't Nedersaksiese leu proat.
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
04:26, 27 jul 2023 (CEST)
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.
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat het 'schakelen' tussen haar primaire en secondaire datacenter testen. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia wiki's, zelfs na een ramp. beschikbaar blijven. Om er zeker van te zijn dat alles goed werkt, zal de afdeling 'Technologie' van Wikimedia gaan testen of er op een betrouwbare manier tussen de verschillende datacentra gewisseld kan worden. Veel teams moeten voorbereid en beschikbaar zijn om eventuele onverwachte problemen op te kunnen lossen.
Al het internetverkeer zal verstuurd worden op basis van20 september. De test zal beginnen om14:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 20 september 2023.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd. Er zullen meer berichtgevingen volgen. Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt.Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
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Ajhier (Helmut Lensing zien artikel uut 2020 'Die Niederdeutsch-Bewegung nach 1945 in den Regionen Grafschaft Bentheim, Emsland und Ost-Niederlande') zuukt op beveurbield 'nds-nl', ziej krek waoraover as e hum informeerd hef op de Nedersaksische Wikipedia, en hoe of det zien beslag evunden hef in zien stok. Zoa'k al vanof 't begun esteld heb, is 't bieden van informatie die as ze nargens aanders biedt - juust umdet Nedersaksisch een raandverschiensel blif daor as de lu op driet - ien van de grote meerweerdes van de Nedersaksische Wikipedia.
Allewal ik derbij blieve det de Nedersaksische Wikipedia mislokt is in de zin det der nog niet iens een klein köppeltien mitwarkers te vienden is um aover de eigen regio te schrieven, um beveurbield ofbieldings bij te dragen en (cruciaal) um 't spul inholdelijk bij de tied te holden, bin'k hier nog altied te vienden umde'k der persoonlijk wille van heb én umdet, ondaanks al 't enuumde, bliekens onder meer Lensing dit toch een weerdevolle en unieke stee is um informatie in en aover 't Nedersaksisch an te bieden, die dan temiensen wal heur weg naor wat specialisten en liefhebbers viendt.Ni'jluuseger (overleg)01:37, 19 sep 2023 (CEST)Reageren
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Nog ies wat interessaants: van Wikipedia in 't algemien is bekend det 't aovergrote diel van de mitwarkers töt 't mannelijk geslacht beheurt. Mangs wördt det toe-eschreven an drokte en verschil onder mitwarkers, waor Wikipedia aordig bekend umme stiet en wat vrouwlu zol ofschrikken. Mar op de Nedersaksische Wikipedia is zo goed as gien drokte en verschil. Toch heug ik mij niet meer as iene mitwarkster, die in een tied de'k zölf niet actief was Twèentse artikels schreef of aoverzette.
De Nedersaksische Wikipedia is haoste volledig mannenwark. Veur mij nog extra bewies det der mar iene reden is det manlu meer töt Wikipedia anetrökken bint: die bint biologisch meer van de kolde ciefers en dreuge feiten; vrouwlu meer van de warme mèenselijke ummegaank en uterlijke smuk.Ni'jluuseger (overleg)03:24, 19 sep 2023 (CEST)Reageren
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.
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A new feature is coming to your wiki soon: Reference Previews are popups for references. Such popups have existed on wikis as local gadgets for many years. Now there is a central solution, available on all wikis, and consistent with thePagePreviews feature.
Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them,you can opt out. If you areusing the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews unless you disable the gadget.
Reference Previews have been a beta feature on many wikis since 2019, and a default feature on some since 2021. Deployment is planned for November 22.
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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.
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Help met het vertalen in uw taal
Dear Wiki Community,
You are humbly invited to organize theFeminism and Folklore 2024 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 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.
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Help met het vertalen in uw taal
Dear Wiki Community,You are humbly invited to participate in theWiki Loves Folklore 2024 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from 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.
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.
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De WikiconNL vindt plaats op zaterdag 18 mei bij Beeld & Geluid aan de Media Parkboulevard 1 in Hilversum. Schrijf je in viadeze link.
De WikiconNL is de jaarlijkse conferentie over Wikipedia, Wikimedia, digitaal erfgoed en onderwerpen zoals auteursrecht en (linked) open data. Het thema dit jaar is 'tussen strijd en samenwerking'. Binnen dit thema is er aandacht voor nieuwe technologische ontwikkelingen en hun impact op Wikipedia en vrije kennis, hoe conflicten in de wereld de Wikimedia projecten kunnen beïnvloeden en is er aandacht voor samenwerking achter de schermen om consensus te bereiken over de inhoud. Kijk opdeze pagina voor meer informatie en de oproep voor sprekers.ThamaraGroenleer (overleg)13:45, 28 feb 2024 (CET)Reageren
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!
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.
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.
Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op20 maart. De test zal beginnen om14:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 20 maart 2024.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd. Er zullen meer berichtgevingen volgen. Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt.Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
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Hallo Low Saxon Wikipedians!
Apologies as this message is not in your language, Help met het vertalen in uw taal.
The WMF Language team plans to enable the Section and Content translation tools to Low Saxon Wikipedia by default. Also, the team is considering addingmachine translation (MT) support withMinT to the tools. MinT may be providing limited support for your language, so we want to make sure it is useful for your translation work. For this, my team would like members of your community to:
Test the machine translation supportin a test instance. You can paste multiple pieces of content from different Wikipedia articles and check whether the provided result is a useful starting point for a translation.
Give us feedback if the machine translation quality is okay to be on your Wikipedia by default, as an optional service or if it is not useful at all.
Let us know if you have any objections to having the Section and Content translation enabled by default in this Wikipedia.
Below is background information about the tools and how you can test them.
Background information
Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. Since its release in 2015, the tool has aided the translation of more than one million articles across all languages. However, the tool is in beta in Low Saxon Wikipedia, limiting its discoverability and use. Being in beta also blocks enabling the Section translation in your Wikipedia.
Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:
Guide you to translate one section at a time to expand existing articles or create new ones
Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device
MinT (Machine in Translation) is a machine translation service hosted in the Wikimedia Infrastructure. It is designed to provide translations from many MT models. The model available for your Wikipedia is theMADLAD-400 open-source translation model.
Our request
The MADLAD-400 MT is available for your Wiki in our test instance. We want you to test it (translate sentences and paragraphs from articles) in our test instance:https://translate.wmcloud.org. Let us know in this thread if the quality of the automatic translation generated is okay to enable it in Low Saxon Wikipedia along with the Section and Content translation tool.
Our plans to enable the tools and the machine translation support
We plan to deploy the tools with the MT support by the 16th of April. If there are no objections from your community, we will deploy them. We want to provide the tools in the way they best serve the community, so we are open to make further adjustments after the deployment based on your experience.
We look forward to getting your feedback in this thread. Thank you!
Wikimania is de jaarlijkse wereldwijde conferentie voor iedereen die betrokken is bij een van de Wikimediaprojecten. Wikimedia Nederland stelt weer een aantal reisbeurzen beschikbaar voor Wikimedianen die erbij willen zijn. Een volledige beurs is maximaal €1.300. Het is ook mogelijk een beurs aan te vragen voor een deel van de kosten. Aanvragen van een beurs kan tot 3 mei door het invullen van[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeAbvxCtSSQYTyUSeUG0rDAkEvwdsMemwSR6qohpqW6hh9YQ/viewform dit formulier]
Om een beurs aan te vragen hoef je geen lid te zijn van Wikimedia Nederland. We willen in ieder geval één beurs geven aan iemand die nog nooit eerder naar Wikimania is geweest.JansenKirsten (overleg)10:44, 10 apr 2024 (CEST)Reageren
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.
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.
Hallo. Voor meerdere jaren is er ons door leden van de gemeenschap gevraagd om het makkelijker te maken om referenties te hergebruiken met verschillende details. Er komt nu binnenkort een MediaWiki-oplossing aan: de nieuwe subreferentie-functie in de wikitekst- en visuele tekstverwerker werkt bovenop het bestaande referentiesysteem. U kunt gewoon op dezelfde manier werken zoals voorheen, echter kunt u het gebruik van subreferenties tegenkomen in artikelen die door anderen bewerkt zijn. Voor meer informatie, ziede projectpagina.
Uw feedback wordt op prijs gesteld om ervoor te zorgen dat deze functie voor uw werkwijze geschikt is:
Meldt u aan om updates en/of uitnodigingen om deel te nemen in gebruiksonderzoeken te ontvangen.
HetTechnical Wishes-team vanWikimedia Duitsland is van plan om deze functie later dit jaar op meer Wikimedia-wiki's beschikbaar te maken. We nemen rond die tijd contact op met makers en beheerders van hulpmiddelen en sjablonen gerelateerd aan referenties.
Help ons met het verspreiden van deze boodschap. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
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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.
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Why GFDL is not a good license for media files
Greetings everyone! Sorry to write in English but hope everyone will understand anyway.
GFDL is not a very good license especially not for media files. That is why Wikipedia changed to cc-by-sa-3.0 in 2009 and why there were aen:Wikipedia:Image license migration.
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.
Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op25 september. De test zal beginnen om15:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deze banner blijft zichtbaar tot het einde van de operatie.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 25 september 2024.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd.
Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
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Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.Mal: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.
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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)13:29, 22 okt 2024 (CEST)Reageren
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.
Je bent van harte uitgenodigd voor onze Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst op zaterdag 18 januari 2025. Deze wordt gehouden in het Drents Museum te Assen - inloop vanaf 13:45. Alle Wikipedianen/Wikimedianen zijn welkom - lidmaatschap van Wikimedia Nederland is niet vereist.
Alle informatie en het inschrijfformulier vind je opdeze pagina. We hopen jullie in Assen te mogen begroeten!
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.Help met het vertalen in uw taal.
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.
Leve Navers!Ik mag hier geern maal een beten dat Tohoopwarken in Gang bringen.
Ik hebbe den ArtikelPlattdüütsch bi us in de Wikipedia nu vun ~40.000 bytes op boold 190.000 bytes uutbuut. De Artikels sall de Spraak van Urk bet Eestland beschrieven.
So as dat meist is, weren de grote Deel vun mienen Borns op düütsch, so dat ji op de nedderlandsche Siede meist vergeten wordt. Över de düütsche Sied steit nu al meist allens wichtige binnen.
Ik hebbe so good ik dat kann versöcht ook wat över de nedderlandsche Siede to schrieven. Wenn ji Tied hebbt den langen Artikel to lesen, weer mi dat ene grote Hölp, wenn Ji mi anraden könnt wat dat noch belangrieks uut de Nedderlannen givt, dat nu noch nich binnen steit. All anner Feedback höör ik natüürlik ook geern.
Ha Flaverius, mooi dat y uns vråget med to kyken. Doot wy gaerne, mär kearl wat ne lappe. Ik hoape dat y begrypet dat dat wat länger geyt duren.Woolters (overleg)16:20, 2 feb 2025 (CET)Reageren
My apologies for writing in English.Help met het vertalen in uw taal.
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.
We zijn blij om te kunnen aankondigen dat de volgendeLanguage Community Meeting binnenkort plaatsvindt, op28 februari, om 14:00 UTC! Als je wilt meedoen, schrijf je dan eenvoudig in op dewiki pagina.
Het is een bijeenkomst die wordt vormgegeven door de deelnemers. We delen updates over projecten die met taal samenhangen, bespreken technische problemen in de taalwiki's en werken samen aan oplossingen. In onze vorige bijeenkomst kwamen onderwerpen aan de orde zoals het ontwikkelen van taal-toetsenborden, het ontwikkelen van de More-talige Wikipedia en updates vanuit de taalondersteunings-track van Wiki Indaba.
Heb jij een onderwerp om te delen? Of het nu een technische update is vanuit jouw project, een probleem waarvoor je hulp nodig hebt, of een verzoek om ondersteuning voor een vertaling... we willen het graag van jou horen! Voel je daarom vrij om teantwoorden op dit bericht of om agendapunten toe te voegen aandit document.
We willen ook graag de aandacht vestigen op de zesde editie van de Language & Internationalization newsletter (januari 2025). Deze is hier beschikbaar:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. Deze nieuwsbrief geeft updates van het vierde kwartaal van 2024: de ontwikkeling van nieuwe functies, verbeteringen in verschillende taal-gerelateerde technische projecten en inspanningen voor ondersteuning, details over bijeenkomsten van de gemeenschappen en ideeën om aan projecten bij te dragen. Als je deze updates wilt ontvangen, dan kan je je inschrijven op de nieuwsbrief op deze wiki-pagina:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.
We kijken uit naar jouw ideeën en naar jouw deelname aan de language community meeting. Tot ziens op 28 februari!
What are the improvements? The improved translation dashboard allows all logged-in users of the tool to enjoy a consistent experience regardless of their type of device. With a harmonized experience, logged-in desktop users can now access the capabilities shown in the image below.
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.
Does this improvement change the current accessibility of this tool in this Wikipedia? The Content translation tool will still be in beta; therefore, only logged-in users who activated the tool from the will continue to have access to the content translation tool. Also, if the tool is only available to a specific , it will remain that way.
When do we plan to implement this improvement? We will implement it on your Wikipedia and others by 24th, March 2025.
What happens to the former dashboard after we implement the improvement? You can still access it in the tool for some time. We will remove it from all Wikipedias by May 2025, as maintaining it will no longer be productive.
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.
Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op19 maart. De test zal beginnen om14:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deze banner blijft zichtbaar tot het einde van de operatie.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 19 maart 2025.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd.
Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
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)
18:11, 16 apr 2025 (CEST)
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.
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!
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].
(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.
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!
DeWikimedia Foundation gaat overschakelen naar een ander datacenter. Dit zal er voor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimedia-wiki's, zelfs na een ramp beschikbaar blijven.
Al het internetverkeer zal omgeschakeld worden op24 september. De test zal beginnen om15:00 UTC.
Vanwege bepaalde beperkingen inMediaWiki is het helaas nodig om het bewerken van de wiki's tijdelijk in de 'alleen-lezen' modus te zetten. We verontschuldigen ons voor dit ongemak, en we doen onze uiterste best om de negatieve gevolgen, in de toekomst te minimaliseren.
Er zal een melding worden weergegeven op alle wiki's, 30 minuten voordat de wissel plaats vindt. Deze banner blijft zichtbaar tot het einde van de operatie. U kunt bijdragen aan devertaling of het proeflezen van de tekst van deze banner.
U zult wel in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet om deze te bewerken, gedurende een korte periode. Dit geldt voor alle wiki's.
U zult gedurende een uur of langer lang niet in staat zijn bewerkingen door te voeren op woensdag 24 september 2025.
Tijdens het bewerken of opslaan gedurende deze tijd zult u een foutmelding zien. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar zijn hier niet zeker van. Wanneer u deze foutmelding te zien krijgt, wacht dan alstublieft tot alles weer normaal functioneert. Hierna kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u eerst een kopie maakt van uw bewerkingen maakt, gewoon uit voorzorg.
Andere effecten:
Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken zouden mogelijk kunnen worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde koppelingen kunnen mogelijk niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waarin ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de koppeling langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige langlopende scripts zullen moeten worden onderbroken.
We verwachten dat de uitrol van nieuwe code gebeurt zoals dat iedere week plaatsvindt. Het kan echter voorkomen dat sommige codewijzigingen per geval geblokkeerd worden, als de operatie ze later weer nodig heeft.
Dit project zal indien noodzakelijk worden uitgesteld. U kunt deplanning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen zullen in de planning worden aangekondigd.
Deel deze informatie alstublieft met uw gemeenschap.
Laatste bericht:1 maand geleden1 bericht1 persoon in overleg
Hallo! Help ons alsjeblieft een naam te kiezen voor het nieuwe wikiproject Abstract Wikipedia. Dit project wordt een wiki waar gebruikers functies vanWikifuncties en gegevens van Wikidata kunnen combineren om zinnen te genereren in alle ondersteunde talen. Deze zinnen kunnen vervolgens worden gebruikt door elke Wikipedia (of elders).
Er zullen twee stemrondes zijn, elk gevolgd door een juridische beoordeling van de kandidaten. De stemmingen beginnen op 20 oktober en 17 november 2025. Ons doel is om medio december 2025 een definitieve projectnaam te kiezen. Als je wilt deelnemen,klik dan hier voor meer informatie en stem nu op meta-wiki.Bedankt!
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.
Laatste bericht:7 uur geleden1 bericht1 persoon in overleg
Hallo! Herinnering: help ons alsjeblieft bij het kiezen van een naam voor het nieuwe wikiproject Abstract Wikipedia. De stemming over de finalisten begint vandaag. De finalisten voor de naam zijn:Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. Als je wilt deelnemen,klik dan hier voor meer informatie en stem nu op meta-wiki.Bedankt!
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