Wikipedia:Community portal (comunicaçioìn in ingléize)/Archìvio 2023

Interfaccia desktop: ultime novità

Ciao, vi segnalo che le ultime novità del progetto delle Migliorie all'interfaccia desktop sono on line. Buona lettura! --Patafisik (WMF) (discuscioìn) 19:38, 4 zen 2023 (CET)

Voting now open on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will be open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 01:21, 18 zen 2023 (CET)

Last call to vote on revised UCoC enforcement guidelines!

Hi all,

A friendly and final reminder that the voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines closes tomorrow, Tuesday, 31 January at 23:59:59 UTC.

The UCoC supports Wikimedia’s equity objectives and commitment to ensuring a welcoming, diverse movement, and it applies to all members of our communities. Voting is an opportunity for you to be a part of deciding how we uphold this commitment to our community and each other!

To vote, visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki, which outlines how to participate using SecurePoll.

Many thanks for your interest and participation in the UCoC!

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team, JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 22:31, 30 zen 2023 (CET)

Hello all,

The vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now closed. The results will now be counted and scrutinized to ensure that only eligible votes are included. Results will be published on Meta and other movement forums as soon as they become available, as well as information on future steps. Thank you to all who participated in the voting process, and who have contributed to the drafting of Guidelines.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 22:47, 1 fre 2023 (CET)

Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results

The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.

After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. Statistics for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.

From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team, JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 20:30, 13 fre 2023 (CET)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

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Hello everyone, Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language. This update comes in response to several things:

• Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
• Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
• Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
• Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.For further information, please consult:

• The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
• The page for your feedback
• Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 16:38, 21 fre 2023 (CET)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (Discusción) 22:20, 27 fre 2023 (CET), translated to English on 15:37, 28 fre 2023 (CET)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!

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Hello, dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian 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 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 a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge!

ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Reminder: Office hours about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use

Hello everyone,

This a reminder that the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is hosting office hours with community members about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The office hours will be held on March 2, at 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC. See for more details here on Meta.

Another office hours will be held on April 4.

We hereby kindly invite you to participate in the discussion. Please note that this meeting will be held in English language and led by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, who will take and answer your questions. Facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance Team will provide the necessary assistance and other meeting-related services.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 17:09, 1 màr 2023 (CET)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

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.

Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

Hello all, an important update on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines:

The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the vote statistics on Meta-wiki.

As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The resolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.

There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team, JPBeland-WMF (discuscioìn) 22:11, 24 màr 2023 (CET)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 26 April. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

MediaWiki message delivery 02:41, 21 arv 2023 (CEST)

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

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Hello,

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

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

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

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

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) 21:00, 26 arv 2023 (CEST)

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, 06:20, 27 màz 2023 (CEST)

MinT Machine Translation enabled and plans to deploy Content and Section Translation to Ligurian Wikipedia

Salûi Ligurian Wikipedians!

Apologies as this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.

The WMF Language team has added a machine translation (MT) system supporting Content Translation for the first time in your Wikipedia called MinT; you can use MinT machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles using the Content Translation tool.

The WMF Language team provides the MinT service. It is hosted in the Wikimedia Foundation Infrastructure with neural machine translation models that other organizations have released with an open-source license. MinT integrates translation based on NLLB-200 and OpusMT and will replace those as separate options. This MT will be set as default in your Wikipedia. Still, you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.

Since MinT is hosted in the WMF Infrastructure and the models are open source, it adheres to Wikipedia's policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user and brand representation. You can find more information about the MinT Machine translation and the models on this page.

Please note that the use of the MinT MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:

• use it to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
• please provide feedback about the service and its quality, and ask questions about this addition.

Plans to deploy the Content and Section translation tool

Now that you have Machine Translation support in your Wikipedia, We will enable the Content and Section translation by default to your Wikipedia if there are no objections from your community.

The 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 in order to expand existing articles or create new ones
• Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device

After enabling it, we’ll monitor the content created with the tools and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to try the current implementation of the Section Translation tool in our testing instance and raise any concerns or questions you may already have as a reply to this message or on the project talk page

We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content and Section Translation tool once it is enabled.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 21:44, 5 zùg 2023 (CEST) On behalf of the WMF Language team.

Hi UOzurumba, and thanks for your invaluable communication. It could be groundbreaking, and it sure is for most of those who use/speak/write national languages. For those who run regional Wikipedias (regional languages) things are different. The Genoese (Ligurian) language has built so far no basis for automated translations, and as a matter of fact Chat GPT does not react to Genoese sentences. I would be very grateful for any hints you might give us over this important topic. All the best, Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 12:53, 6 zùg 2023 (CEST)

[@ JeanM] Câo Jean, a che pónto semmo co-o progetto da traduçion automatica? --Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 13:50, 6 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hello @Luensu1959

Thank you for your feedback. You mentioned: "I would be very grateful for any hints you might give us over this important topic", I am not sure I understand what you mean. However, If you are asking if enabling Section and Content translation in your Wiki will be good for your Wikipedia. Then, one of the advantages of having these tools by default for small wikis is that it will be exposed to more contributors in your Wikipedia. Currently, only 65 articles have been translated into your Wikipedia using the CX tool; with the exposure of this tool, more multilingual contributors in Ligurian Wikipedia can discover the tool and use it to add more content which will help to bridge the knowledge gap in your Wikipedia and give people who would prefer to translate an option to do so with ease rather than starting an article from scratch.  

With the MinT machine translation support now in your Wikipedia, the translation of articles will be more efficient for contributors. Furthermore,  it has been proven that translation is an excellent way to introduce newcomers to contributing content in the small Wikis.

In conclusion, deciding if the tool is right for your Wikipedia is still a choice your community has to make. In my opinion, I don't see any issue with having the tool for your community. If there are concerns with the tool after it is enabled, you can contact us on the content or section translation talk page. I hope the above helps. UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 07:28, 12 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hi UOzurumba, and thanks for replying in detail. I actually tried to use that tool but it didn't work (or I was unable to make it work). So, first, where can I find detailed instructions to proceed with a translation of a text from another Wiki? And secondly, where can I find a list ( or few examples) of pages translated with that tool? All the best, Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 10:58, 13 zùg 2023 (CEST)

We haven't deployed the Section Translation tool yet, but you can test it using this link directly on testwiki. The tool will suggest you expand or create new articles automatically, but you can translate/expand any article from any Wikipedia. -- KartikMistry (discuscioìn) 07:30, 14 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hello Luensu1959, have you tried using the Section Translation test instance? As KartikMistry said, we are yet to enable it; we would like to deploy it this week if there are no objections about having it in your Wiki.

Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 13:58, 19 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hi UOzurumba (WMF) and thanks for asking. I tried a couple of times but I did not succeed. I am not among the youngest anymore, however, I have to say that the whole system does not appear to be user-friendly! Maybe I expect something like Google Translator or Deepl, but anyway: I cannot understand how to use it! --Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 17:36, 19 zùg 2023 (CEST)

@Luensu1959 I can see that the test instance is not working well when you use it on a desktop. But it works well on mobile devices. I have created a bug report; please look at the bug report to see if it captures the problem you are experiencing with the tool. If it does not, can you explain what you mean by the translation is not user-friendly? Thank you.

UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 22:17, 19 zùg 2023 (CEST)

I tried translating from a mobile device, although I never do that as I prefer to have a big screen while creating/changing pages (I call it professionalism): no way! I was offered to translate a page (South Australia) which already exists, although in the form of s stub. Again, on a small screen it's not easy to see where you are going. I had a look at the bug report and it seems you still have to work a lot to fix everything. Anyway, thanks for caring. Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 15:39, 21 zùg 2023 (CEST)

@Luensu1959, Content Translation tool is already available for Desktop in Wikipedia at: Speçiale:TraduzioneContenuti and Section Translation aimed for Mobile devices. Test Wiki has its own limitations (and probably bugs!) -- KartikMistry (discuscioìn) 15:53, 21 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Now it's working alright! It's a good basis as a start to work on. Of course, you need to check everything before publishing. Thanks for your support! Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 10:59, 22 zùg 2023 (CEST)

One major thing I need to ask: will the system of automatic translation improve while we use it and correct the wrong sentences offered by the machine? Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 13:31, 22 zùg 2023 (CEST)

@Luensu1959 Yes, it will improve the initial translation because the translation service learns from the changes you make to the initial translations. You can find out more through this link: Help:Content translation/Translating/Initial machine translation#Improving existing translation services.

We will go ahead and enable the tools, thank you so much for your feedback. UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 13:17, 27 zùg 2023 (CEST)

[@ UOzurumba (WMF)] I'm Fortemente contrâio to add section translation N.Longo (discuscioìn) 13:20, 27 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hi, I think it could be an interesting project, and with some improvements also very useful! Aereus646 (discuscioìn) 17:11, 28 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Hi, I think we should continue and work to improve this translator. It should be important for the future of our language Zane (discuscioìn) 11:34, 29 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Good evening everyone and @UOzurumba (WMF), I'm here to say that I agree to the translating tool but also, in order to suport it, I recommend a collaboration with someone who has got knowledge in machine translation and linguistics. These people are to be found in the Conseggio pe-o patrimònio linguistico ligure, which is the association for the promotion of the ligurian language. Rezzoc91 (discuscioìn) 23:47, 29 zùg 2023 (CEST)

@Rezzoc91 Thank you for your feedback; the different initial machine translations are support services for the Content and Section translation tool. The services run on different translation models; some are open source (like MinT), and others are not.

So, the people you recommended can collaborate with the people working on the models as they provide specific ways you can contribute to their projects. You can also encourage them to use the service to improve it.

From this conversation, I can see that only @N.Longo objected to having the tool, while others did not. @Luensu1959, @Aereus646, @Giodiassi5 and @Rezzoc91 is it okay for us to enable the tool in Ligurian Wiki? Please let me know if we can go ahead. Thank you! UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 17:53, 18 agó 2023 (CEST)

[@ UOzurumba (WMF)] I think it is plain to see. Please go ahead as we will monitor any abuse or misuse. Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 19:22, 18 agó 2023 (CEST)

Thank you, @Luensu1959, we will proceed with the enablement. UOzurumba (WMF) (discuscioìn) 10:40, 28 agó 2023 (CEST)

Announcing the new Elections Committee members

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Hello there,

We are glad to announce the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.

Thank you to all the community members who submitted their names for consideration. We look forward to working with the Elections Committee in the near future.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,

RamzyM (WMF) 20:00, 28 zùg 2023 (CEST)

Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki

Salûi!

Apologies if this message is not in your language, ⧼Please help translate⧽ to your language.

This wiki will soon be able to use the inline audio player implemented by the Phonos extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing audio links that play on click.

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 the English Wiktionary below.

{{audio|en|En-uk-English.oga|Audio (UK)}}

Could become:

<phonos file="En-uk-English.oga" label="Audio (UK)"/>

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to read about the features and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this talk page.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Language team

04:26, 27 lùg 2023 (CEST) [@ UOzurumba (WMF)] Perfect! We've been waiting a long time for this innovation, which clearly makes it easier and more practical when you want to hear the pronunciation of a name or place. All the best, --Luensu1959 (discuscioìn) 13:31, 27 lùg 2023 (CEST)

itWikiCon 2023 - borse di partecipazione

Ciao a tutte e tutti, vi ricordiamo che dal 17 al 19 novembre 2023 ci sarà a Bari la quinta edizione di itWikiCon, la conferenza che riunisce la comunità italofona di Wikipedia e dei progetti Wikimedia (e anche di OSM). Abbiamo avviato la possibilità di richiedere una borsa di partecipazione, che rimarrà aperta fino al 15 settembre. Le borse di partecipazione sono messe a disposizione da Wikimedia Italia e da Wikimedia Svizzera per sostenere la comunità. Il regolamento e i criteri per ottenere la borsa si trovano su questa pagina di Meta, mentre il form per la richiesta è qui. Vi aspettiamo quindi a Bari! --~~~ Mickey83 (discuscioìn) 10:45, 23 agó 2023 (CEST)

Promemoria + proposte per il programma

Salve a tutte e tutti, vi ricordiamo che il termine per presentare la richiesta di una borsa di partecipazione all'itWikiCon è il 15 settembre.
Inoltre, preferibilmente entro il 30 settembre, stiamo raccogliendo proposte per il programma in questa pagina. Vi aspettiamo! --Mickey83 (discuscioìn) 14:29, 13 set 2023 (CEST)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 17:35, 28 agó 2023 (CEST)

Your wiki will be in read-only soon

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The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 2023-09-20. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on 2023-09-20.
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 11:23, 15 set 2023 (CEST)

Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee

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Hi everyone! The Affiliations Committee (AffCom), the Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the Meta-wiki page.

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

~ Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:41, 9 òtô 2023 (CEST)

Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Dear all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

Best,

Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee

03:12, 17 òtô 2023 (CEST)

Coming soon: Reference Previews

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 the PagePreviews feature.

Reference Previews will be visible to everyone, including readers. If you don’t want to see them, you can opt out. If you are using 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.

• Help page
• Project page with more information (in English).
• Feedback is welcome on this talk page.

-- For Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team,

Johanna Strodt (WMDE), 14:11, 15 nov 2023 (CET)

(New) Feature on Kartographer: Adding geopoints via QID

Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the project page. If you have any comments, please let us know on the talk page. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland

Thereza Mengs (WMDE) 13:31, 13 dex 2023 (CET)