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• This is where general outreach-related discussions can be held. Click here to open up a new topic.
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I moved the contents of this page to Wikimedia:Village pump/Archive 6. ↠Pine (✉) 19:58, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Possible use of JavaScript in NavWiki project space

I am considering an idea that would involve using JavaScript in the NavWiki project space.

@Koavf: do you know if it is possible to implement JavaScript in NavWiki project space without the interface administrator permission? ↠Pine (✉) 20:11, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pine: I do not know for sure but I would be very surprised if you could use scripts without that permission. Koavf (talk) 21:07, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf: OK. I have not made up my mind about this, and even if I decide that I want to use JavaScript, I probably would have the time to work on this in July at the earliest. In the meantime I will ask for advice on Meta. ↠Pine (✉) 22:09, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pine: Sure. If you want the user rights, I would support that. I also have them here. I'm a very novice JavaScript guy. Koavf (talk) 23:26, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf: thanks. On Meta, I was told that the interface administrator permission is required for using JavaScript on a subset of pages. I'll probably wait until July or later before further work on this. ↠Pine (✉) 04:18, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Thumbs up emoji. As always, ping me if you need me. Koavf (talk) 04:20, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Request for removal of administrator permissions

Hi @Koavf: I am thinking about leaving the Wikiverse. I have not made up my mind, but please remove my administrator permissions for the Outreach wiki. This will reduce the harm that someone can do if they manage to take over my account. If I decide to stay then I can request that you return the the administrator permissions. Thanks, ↠Pine (✉) 18:55, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pine: While it's logistically easy to do, it's a little emotional. I hope you make the best decision, whatever that is and I'm grateful for all the good work you've done here. Koavf (talk) 19:00, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Koavf: thank you for the supportive comments. Unless I think of something that I hadn't considered, or someone offers serious money to support my work on Wikimedia projects such as NavWiki, then I think that I should leave. I will be available by email if you want to contact me. Best wishes, ↠Pine (✉) 19:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

I'd like to help out where I can on this, and other smaller wikis, particularly in the way of categorization improvements, general maintenance, and filing in content pages, so I'm new here. Nevertheless, I've seen @Pine: active here, from my perusing the arrangement and scope of the content here, but one option you might want to consider before giving up your administrator permissions (not sure if they can be re-added without going through another RfA on this wiki) might be to enable two-factor authentication on your account, which would have the practical effect of requiring a second level of authorization from logins on unfamiliar devices. I think it would just mean a quick request over on Meta to add the two-factor authentication testers global group to your account. Dmehus (talk) 22:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Feedback on movement names

Hello. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Please help translate to your language if necessary. Thank you!

There are a lot of conversations happening about the future of our movement names. We hope that you are part of these discussions and that your community is represented.

Since 16 June, the Foundation Brand Team has been running a survey in 7 languages about 3 naming options. There are also community members sharing concerns about renaming in a Community Open Letter.

Our goal in this call for feedback is to hear from across the community, so we encourage you to participate in the survey, the open letter, or both. The survey will go through 7 July in all timezones. Input from the survey and discussions will be analyzed and published on Meta-Wiki.

Thanks for thinking about the future of the movement, --The Brand Project team, 20:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Note: The survey is conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement.

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bug: that IP address is still blocked after the block expired 95.49.81.129 22:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I reported it on phabricator phab:T257393 --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 00:53, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia

Hi all,

It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia, a new project that has been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to create something new.

This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May 2020 after years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and lively discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy and the creativity of the community often runs up against language barriers, and information that is available in one language may not make it to other language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.

The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.

As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software development, and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians. In order to make this effort possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July and lead this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a long-time community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland, and a former Trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation . We are very excited that Denny will bring his skills and expertise to work on this project alongside the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.

It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project, and that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project may offer some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage less. Every language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate whether or how they would use content from this project.

We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to advance knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also invites us to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by whom knowledge is constructed. We look forward to working in cooperation with the communities to think through these important questions.

There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract Wikipedia in close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get involved by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list . We recognize that Abstract Wikipedia is ambitious, but we also recognize its potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.

Yours,

Katherine Maher (Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation)

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 19:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st

Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. 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.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data centre on Tuesday, September 1st 2020.

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 Tuesday, September 1st. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday September 2).
• 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.
• There will be code freezes for the week of September 1st, 2020. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

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. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the conversation

Hello. Apologies for cross-posting, and that you may not be reading this message in your native language: translations of the following announcement may be available on Meta. Please help translate to your language. Thank you!

We are excited to share a draft of the Universal Code of Conduct, which the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees called for earlier this year, for your review and feedback. The discussion will be open until October 6, 2020.

The UCoC Drafting Committee wants to learn which parts of the draft would present challenges for you or your work. What is missing from this draft? What do you like, and what could be improved?

Please join the conversation and share this invitation with others who may be interested to join, too.

To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcomed to translate this message and the Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages.

To learn more about the UCoC project, see the Universal Code of Conduct page, and the FAQ, on Meta.

Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation, 17:55, 10 September 2020 (UTC)