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Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian 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 a banner to notify users of the possibility to participate in such a challenge! ValentynNefedov (WMUA) (talk)
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
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 are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review 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 on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 5. märts 2024, kell 18:25 (EET)
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Dear all,
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.
The Elections 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 - on this 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 this Meta-wiki page.
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[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.
MPossoupe_(WMF)12. märts 2024, kell 21:57 (EET)
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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. 
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Trizek (WMF), 15. märts 2024, kell 02:00 (EET)
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message: Hi everyone,
We want to inform you about the upcoming calls/sessions that CEE Hub will organise, along with some small announcements of the other sessions that may be interesting for some of you.
First of all, we are inviting you to the next CEE Hub Office Hour dedicated this time to the Microgrants, which will be held on Monday (22 April) at 18:00 CEST (register here).
Also, we are making early announcement of the next Catch Up dedicated to the Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation for the period 2024/25, where you will have a chance to hear introduction about this plan directly from the CEO of the WMF, along with CEE Hub updates and later during the call Q&A session of 20 minutes. This session will be held on Wednesday (8 May) at 19:00 CEST (register here).
Additionally, during this Friday (19 April) at 19:30 CEST at Wikimedia Summit in Berlin will be organised a regional CEE meet-up with hybrid option, so you can join remotely as well (Google Meeting ID).
Please use the registration pages on Meta for the CEE Hub Office Hour and CEE Catch Up session, so you will get a link directly.
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* Time zone 1 Registration link here (April 23rd,  18:00 CEST)
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If you need more information about these sessions, you can contact Gorana Gomirac (gorana.gomirac@vikimedija.org).
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Application is now officially OPEN for the unforgettable adventure with WikiOutdoor Training 2024! Whether you're a seasoned explorer or a newcomer to the world of outdoor documentation, this is your chance to join us in the mesmerizing Prespa Region of Macedonia from September 7th to 9th, 2024.
Fill the application form and share with us why you're excited to be part of this incredible journey.  Let's come together to explore, learn, and capture the beauty of our world!
Please share this survey also with other community members. If you have any other questions or concerns, please let us know.
Register here. Deadline for applying is 20th of May, 2024 Деан Лазаревски (arutelu) 22. aprill 2024, kell 15:59 (EEST)
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Dear all,
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 the voting 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, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 25. aprill 2024, kell 23:20 (EEST)
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message: Tere! We were wondering on Wikidata what is the difference between the articles Arboreetum, Dendraarium and Dendropark. In all other languages these three terms are synonyms and thus they have only a single article about it (wikidata:Q272231). Should the three articles on etwiki be merged? Kind regards, Samoasambia (arutelu) 7. mai 2024, kell 14:26 (EEST)
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The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign 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 and add agenda items to the document here.
We look forward to your participation!
MediaWiki message delivery 15. mai 2024, kell 00:22 (EEST)
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Dear community members,
The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy. 
You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 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.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF) 22. mai 2024, kell 05:25 (EEST)
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Hi everyone! We are the Wikimedia Foundation Web team.
	
We work on making it easier to read Wikimedia projects as part of the objective "Reading and media experience" of the current year’s annual plan. To achieve this goal, we have introduced the "Accessibility for Reading" beta feature. It adds a menu which works on the Vector 2022 skin and allows logged-in users to choose different font sizes and color schemes based on individual needs.
	
	
The menu introduces a new Standard font setting. It slightly increases the size and height of the font. It was selected based on multiple sources. You will find more information on this in the section "About the new Standard font setting".
	
	
What will change
	
	
* We are now ready to make the new Appearance menu available for logged-out and logged-in users.
	
* At the same time, we will also make the Standard option the new default for logged-out users only.
	
* If no breaking technical issues are found, we plan on making this change within the next two weeks.
	
* Later, this menu will also include the option to select dark mode, which for the time being will remain a beta feature. For more information, check out our project page.
	
	
	
	
Our works so far and next steps
	
	
Logged-in users will remain with the "small" setting for the time being as their default, but can change to any other setting at any time. In a few months, we will study how many logged-in users switch to standard and start a conversation on whether it makes sense for logged-in users to make the switch as well. From the early data from the beta feature, 55% of sessions who interacted with the feature chose to use a setting that was standard or larger.
	
	
If you'd like to help, we have a few simple requests for you:
	
	
# Please, turn on the beta feature ("Accessibility for Reading (Vector 2022)")
	
# Try out the new menu. Is anything confusing? Do you understand all the labels and how the menu works?
	
# Try out the small, standard, and large sizes, the color schemes, and the width toggle. Reach out to us if you notice any bugs, or have questions or concerns.
	
	
If you'd like to learn more about the project, see our FAQ. Comments and questions are most welcome. Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (arutelu) 29. mai 2024, kell 03:32 (EEST)
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Hello,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election. 
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
* North America (USA and Canada)
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* Northern and Western Europe
** Ghilt
* Latin America and Caribbean
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* Central and East Europe (CEE)
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* Sub-Saharan Africa
** –
* Middle East and North Africa
** Ibrahim.ID
* East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
** 0xDeadbeef
* South Asia
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The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
* Barkeep49
* Superpes15
* Civvì
* Luke081515
* –
* –
* –
* –
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 on Meta-wiki.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 3. juuni 2024, kell 11:14 (EEST)
thread_title:  <span lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee</span>