Wiki Loves Folklore usba

 

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:14, 18 Enero 2020 (UTC)
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Movement Learning and Leadership Development Project usba

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.

To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!

-- LMiranda (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 22 Enero 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additional interface for edit conflicts on talk pages usba

Sorry, for writing this text in English. If you could help to translate it, it would be appreciated.

You might know the new interface for edit conflicts (currently a beta feature). Now, Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature. Let us know what you think on our central feedback page! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 14:14, 26 Pebrero 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools usba

19:24, 8 Abril 2020 (UTC)

Bot approval request usba

Hello everyone, mw:Multilingual Templates and Modules was started by Yurik to help in centralisation of templates and modules. There's a mw:Special:CentralAuth/DiBabelYurikBot for the same which was approved on mrwiki some time back. Is it possible to get the approval for same in this wiki as well? Capankajsmilyo (talk) 13:37, 19 Abril 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maintenance operation scheduled usba

Sorry to use English. Please help translate to your language!

A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday May 5 at 05:00 AM UTC.

It is supposed to take around 15 minutes.

During this time, you may not be able to edit the wikis. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.

A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.

Please help making your community aware of this maintenance operation.

Trizek (WMF) 13:34, 4 Mayo 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent Help usba

Please help us translate the text (in bold) to your language Join WPWP Campaign to improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win a prize. Thanks for your help. T Cells (talk) 09:49, 6 Hunyo 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ang paghisgot bahin sa metawiki bahin sa mga artikulo sa bot sa noindexing usba

Editing news 2020 #2 usba

20:32, 17 Hunyo 2020 (UTC)

Annual contest Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos usba

 
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP)

This is to invite you to join the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and win prizes. The campaign starts today 1st July 2020 and closes 31st August 2020.

The campaign primarily aims at using images from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles that are lacking images. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

Please visit the campaign page to learn more about the WPWP Campaign.

With kind regards,

Thank you,

Deborah Schwartz Jacobs, Communities Liaison, On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Organizing Team - 08:24, 1 Hulyo 2020 (UTC)

feel free to translate this message to your local language when this helps your community

Feedback on movement names usba

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, 19:44, 2 Hulyo 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.

Editing news 2020 #3 usba

12:55, 9 Hulyo 2020 (UTC)

Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia usba

Sent by m:User:Elitre (WMF) 20:06, 9 Hulyo 2020 (UTC) - m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement [reply]

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): we want to hear from you. usba

Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis usba

Max Klemm (WMDE) 09:13, 6 Agosto 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update of Lsjbot-created biology articles usba

The articles about plants and animals that Lsjbot created some years ago were based on the Catalogue of Life database from 2011 and 2013. I have used Lsjbot to compare the names of the old articles with the most recent (2019) edition of Catalogue of Life. Taxonomy has changed a fair bit in the intervening years, so there are quite a lot of articles that need updating in various ways.

Lsjbot has created lists of these articles, sorted by type of action needed. Index to these list: Gumagamit:Lsjbot/COL2019-check/Types of articles.

The types are:

  • Redirect: no longer valid taxon, now included in another taxon. Should be redirected to the other taxon.
  • Move to: name changed, move article to new name.
    • Move to (db): target for move found through CoL database.
    • Move to (iw): target for move found through interwiki.
    • Move to (trim): target for move found by removing superfluous periods and other improper characters.
  • Delete: no longer found in database. Lsjbot cannot find a move or redirect target, neither through database nor through interwiki. Interwiki only to other bot-dominated wikis.
  • Manual check: no longer found in CoL, but has interwiki to non-bot-dominated wikis (usually enwp).
  • Multiple: several taxa with the same name in database. Disambiguation needed.

I intend to use Lsjbot to perform the redirect, move, and delete actions in the near future, and then go through the new database in total and do whatever other updates are needed. Comments or objections?

Lsj (talk) 12:17, 22 Agosto 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Done the redirect, move, and delete as above. Other updates in the pipeline. Lsj (talk) 06:49, 18 Septiyembre 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Main update proceeding smoothly. Animals done, working on fungi. Lsj (talk) 12:59, 12 Oktubre 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Important: maintenance operation on September 1st usba

Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:48, 26 Agosto 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Wikipedia Library Collections Now Available (September 2020) usba


Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:

Many other partnerships are listed on our partners page, including Adam Matthew, EBSCO, Gale and JSTOR.

A significant portion of our collection now no longer requires individual applications to access! Read more in our recent blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 09:49, 3 Septiyembre 2020 (UTC)

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

Invitation to participate in the conversation usba

Lsjbot test run usba

As announced above (#Update_of_Lsjbot-created_biology_articles) I am updating the bot-created biology articles here. I am currently doing test runs with Lsjbot. Please look at Espesyal:Mga_Tampo/Lsjbot and let me know if you find anything wrong. Lsj (talk) 09:50, 22 Septiyembre 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki of functions naming contest usba

21:19, 29 Septiyembre 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric usba

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

Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

Thank you! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:17, 7 Oktubre 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Important: maintenance operation on October 27 usba

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 21 Oktubre 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2 usba

22:10, 5 Nobiyembre 2020 (UTC)

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:09, 20 Nobiyembre 2020 (UTC)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion usba

Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist usba

Merge articles usba

Can you please help me to merge these two articles, they are the same mountain:

@Lsjbot: Is there a good way to help you do this automatically? I have indicated on Wikidata that they are the same, but I am not sure if that was enough. --Hannes Röst (talk) 14:55, 2 Disyembre 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th usba

Community Wishlist Survey 2021 usba

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

00:52, 15 Disyembre 2020 (UTC)