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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, 2. juuli 2020, kell 22:44 (EEST)
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Seven years ago this month, the Editing team offered the visual editor to most Wikipedia editors.  Since then, editors have achieved many milestones:
* More than 50 million edits have been made using the visual editor on desktop.
* More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
* The visual editor is increasingly popular.  The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has increased every year since its introduction.
* In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers (logged-in editors with ≤99 edits) used the visual editor. This percentage has increased every year.
* Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor.  Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
* On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor. 🚀 👩‍🚀
* Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it.  The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 9. juuli 2020, kell 15:55 (EEST)
thread_title:  Editing news 2020 #3 

message: 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 Abstract Wikipedia 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 User:Denny. 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 Abstract Wikipedia 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) 9. juuli 2020, kell 23:06 (EEST) - :m:Special:MyLanguage/Abstract Wikipedia/July 2020 announcement
thread_title:  Announcing a new wiki project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia 

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At times, our contributor communities and projects have suffered from a lack of guidelines that can help us create an environment where free knowledge can be shared safely without fear. 
There has been talk about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time. 
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced a Community Culture Statement, asking for new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.
The universal code of conduct will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, and will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe. It is of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC and its values. We should think about what we want it to cover or include and what it shouldn’t include, and how it may create difficulties or help our groups. 
This is the time to talk about it. Before starting drafting the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you and to solicit the opinions and feedback of your colleagues. 
In order for your voice to be heard, we encourage and invite you to read more about the universal code of conduct (UCoC) and then write down your opinions or feedback on the discussion page.  
To reduce language barriers during the process, you are welcome to translate the universal code of conduct main page from English into your respective local language. You and your community may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local languages. 
Thanks in advance for your attention and contributions, The Trust and Safety team at Wikimedia Foundation 22. juuli 2020, kell 19:42 (EEST)
thread_title:  The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC): we want to hear from you. 

message: Dear community,
pursuant to the global ban policy, I would like to notify your community I have proposed that User:Eric abiog to be globally banned by the global Wikimedia Community.
You are invited to discuss the case in a request for comment that is running at the Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
Martin Urbanec (talk)
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thread_title:  Notification about a proposed global ban of [[User:Eric abiog]] 

message: The FileExporter and FileImporter will become a default features on all wikis until August 7, 2020. They are planned to help you to move files from your local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier while keeping all original file information (Description, Source, Date, Author, View History) intact. Additionally, the move is documented in the files view history. 
How does it work? 
Step 1: If you are an auto-confirmed user, you will see a link "Move file to Wikimedia Commons" on the local file page. 
Step 2: When you click on this link, the FileImporter checks if the file can in fact be moved to Wikimedia Commons. These checks are performed based on the wiki's configuration file which is created and maintained by each local wiki community. 
Step 3: If the file is compatible with Wikimedia Commons, you will be taken to an import page, at which you can update or add information regarding the file, such as the description. You can also add the 'Now Commons' template to the file on the local wiki by clicking the corresponding check box in the import form. Admins can delete the file from the local wiki by enabling the corresponding checkbox. By clicking on the 'Import' button at the end of the page, the file is imported to Wikimedia Commons. 
If you want to know more about the FileImporter extension or the Technical Wishes Project, follow the links. --For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm (WMDE) 6. august 2020, kell 12:13 (EEST)
thread_title:  Technical Wishes: FileExporter and FileImporter become default features on all Wikis 

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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).
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*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) 26. august 2020, kell 16:48 (EEST)
thread_title:  Important: maintenance operation on September 1st 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
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: 
* Al Manhal – Arabic journals and ebooks
* Ancestry.com – Genealogical and historical records
* RILM – Music encyclopedias
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 3. september 2020, kell 12:49 (EEST)
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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, 10. september 2020, kell 20:55 (EEST)
thread_title:  Invitation to participate in the conversation 

message: Hello and my apologies for writing in English: I am a checkuser on the English Wikipedia and I have determined that User:Amefuri2019, who has made edits on this wiki, is a sockpuppet of long-term-abuse user 依頼人; please see w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/依頼人 and more information about this user is available at w:ja:LTA:KANAKOBA. This user Amefuri2019 has now been globally locked, but I suggest that local action be taken to delete and rollback this user's contributions. Best, L235 (arutelu) 24. september 2020, kell 03:53 (EEST)
thread_title:  enwiki sockpuppet 

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. Please help pick a name for the new Wikimedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki where the community can work together on a library of functions. The community can create new functions, read about them, discuss them, and share them. Some of these functions will be used to help create language-independent Wikipedia articles that can be displayed in any language, as part of the Abstract Wikipedia project. But functions will also be usable in many other situations.
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with voting beginning on 29 September and 27 October. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on 8 December. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.  --Quiddity (WMF) 30. september 2020, kell 00:19 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wiki of functions naming contest 

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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.
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thread_title:  Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric 

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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. 
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, October 27 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, October 27. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (14:00 WET, 15:00 CET, 10:00 EDT, 19:30 IST, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 03:00 NZDT on Wednesday October 28).
*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:
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*There will be code freezes for the week of October 26, 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. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. -- Trizek (WMF) (talk)  21. oktoober 2020, kell 20:10 (EEST)
thread_title:  Important: maintenance operation on October 27 

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Reminder: Please help to choose the name for the new Wikimedia wiki project - the library of functions. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Wikicode, Wikicodex, Wikifunctions, Wikifusion, Wikilambda, Wikimedia Functions. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-wiki.
 --Quiddity (WMF)
 6. november 2020, kell 00:10 (EET)
thread_title:  Wiki of functions naming contest - Round 2 

message: User:บุญพฤทธิ์ ทวนทัย is a contributor based at the Thai Wikipedia who has created machine translations of articles and spamming them over a wide range of Wikipedia languages, including here. While the subjects of the articles he has created are (mostly) notable, the mistake of creating articles in languages he does not understand has led to extremely bad quality, probably at the level of unintelligibility. Unless local editors are willing to start a clean-up effort, I suggest that his contributions be deleted. Someone who knows the language can later write proper articles about the subjects. --Paul 012 (arutelu) 11. november 2020, kell 11:07 (EET)
replies: text: Only three articles about singers from Thailand

text: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eri:Kaastöö/บุญพฤทธิ์_ทวนทัย
*Chalermpol Malakham
*Jintara Poonlarp
*Pumpuang Duangjan

text: suwa 11. november 2020, kell 13:29 (EET)
thread_title:  Contributions by บุญพฤทธิ์ ทวนทัย 

message: Starting on November 16, we will migrate the servers running the MediaWiki application servers to a new release of the ICU Unicode library (w:International Components for Unicode) (from version 57 to 63).
This unblocks some future work on upgrading the servers to a new Operating System release and will also allow the use of improved internationalisation in the future (as wikis will then be able to use features introduced by the new ICU release such as new collation definitions, and allows us to use a more recent version of Unicode in MediaWiki).
This migration will cause some unavoidable temporary user-visible impact: The sorting of some category pages will be distorted – all pages which have been updated with the new software version will use the new sorting while untouched pages still use the old sorting.
As such, we need to run a maintenance script to update the sorting for old entries.
The distortions may last from a few hours (on medium-sized wikis), up to a day (on the largest wikis), and a few days on English Wikipedia. The start-time will depend upon when the migration script reaches each wiki.
This affects 149 wikis (including eight out of the ten biggest Wikipedias). The detailed list and the task for the technical implementation is at T264991.
Thank you.
 Trizek (WMF) 16. november 2020, kell 16:53 (EET)
thread_title:  Update to ICU Unicode library 

message: The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on , or comment on other proposals to help make them better.
The communities will vote on the proposals between  and .
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors.
You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
20. november 2020, kell 20:09 (EET)
thread_title:  [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Invitation|Community Wishlist Survey 2021]] 

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I apologize for sending a message in English. . According to the list, your wiki project currently is opted in to the global bot policy. Under this policy, bots that fix double redirects or maintain interwiki links are allowed to operate under a global bot flag that is assigned directly by the stewards.
As the Wikimedia projects developed, the need for the current global bot policy decreased, and in the past years, no bots were appointed via that policy. That is mainly given Wikidata were estabilished in 2013, and it is no longer necessary to have dozens of bots that maintain interwiki links.
A proposal was made at Meta-Wiki, which proposes that the stewards will be authorized to determine whether an uncontroversial task may be assigned a global bot flag. The stewards already assign permissions that are more impactful on many wikis, namely, global sysops and global renamers, and I do not think that trust should be an issue. The stewards will assign the permission only to time-proven bots that are already approved at a number of projects, like ListeriaBot.
By this message, I would like to invite you to comment in the global RFC, to voice your opinion about this matter.
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
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thread_title:  Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion 

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As you may know, you can include changes coming from Wikidata in your Watchlist and Recent Changes (in your preferences). Until now, this feature didn’t always include changes made on Wikidata descriptions due to the way Wikidata tracks the data used in a given article.
Starting on December 3rd, the Watchlist and Recent Changes will include changes on the descriptions of Wikidata Items that are used in the pages that you watch. This will only include descriptions in the language of your wiki to make sure that you’re only seeing changes that are relevant to your wiki.
This improvement was requested by many users from different projects. We hope that it can help you monitor the changes on Wikidata descriptions that affect your wiki and participate in the effort of improving the data quality on Wikidata for all Wikimedia wikis and beyond.
Note: if you didn’t use the Wikidata watchlist integration feature for a long time, feel free to give it another chance! The feature has been improved since the beginning and the content it displays is more precise and useful than at the beginning of the feature in 2015.
If you encounter any issue or want to provide feedback, feel free to use this Phabricator ticket. Thanks!
Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 30. november 2020, kell 16:39 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikidata descriptions changes to be included more often in Recent Changes and Watchlist 

message: Hello all,
The ceremony of the 2020 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday, December 11th, at 17:00 GMT. This award is highlighting tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects, and the ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to the tools developers and maybe discover new tools!
You will find more information here about the livestream and the discussions channels. Thanks for your attention, Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 7. detsember 2020, kell 12:55 (EET)
thread_title:  2020 Coolest Tool Award Ceremony on December 11th 

message: We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until  for as many different wishes as you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
You can view and vote all proposals here.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
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15. detsember 2020, kell 02:52 (EET)
thread_title:  Community Wishlist Survey 2021 

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Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning
process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l. 
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 27. jaanuar 2021, kell 17:15 (EET)
thread_title:  Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event 

message: This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021. This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.
For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building.  We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:
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Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantswikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 28. jaanuar 2021, kell 10:01 (EET)
thread_title:  Project Grant Open Call 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform: 
* Taxmann – Taxation and law database
* PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
* EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021) 

message: Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, etc.) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no logged actions for more than 2 years):
#Egon (administrator)
The user will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Einsbor (arutelu) 2. veebruar 2021, kell 13:00 (EET)
thread_title:  IMPORTANT: Admin activity review 

message: Greetings! 
You are invited to participate in Feminism and Folklore writing contest. This year Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's biographies and gender-focused topics for the project in league with Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus with folk culture theme on Wikipedia. folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, fairy tales, folk plays, folk arts, folk religion, mythology, etc.
You can help us in enriching the folklore documentation on Wikipedia from your region by creating or improving articles centered on folklore around the world, including, but not limited to folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch-hunting, fairy tales and more. You can contribute to new articles or translate from the list of suggested articles here. 
You can also support us in translating the project page and help us spread the word in your native language. 
Learn more about the contest and prizes from our project page. Thank you. 
Feminism and Folklore team,
Joy Agyepong (talk) 16. veebruar 2021, kell 04:40 (EET)
thread_title:  Feminism & Folklore 1 February - 31 March 

message: You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 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 the 1st till the 28th of February.
You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.
Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.
Kind regards,
Wiki loves Folklore International Team
MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 6. veebruar 2021, kell 15:25 (EET)
thread_title:  Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back! 

message: . Palun aidake valida uue Wikifunktsioonide wiki logo kujunduskontseptsioon. Hääletamine algab täna ja on avatud 2 nädalat. Kui soovite osaleda, siis palun lugege lisateavet ja hääletage kohe Meta-Wikis.  --Quiddity (WMF) 2. märts 2021, kell 03:47 (EET)
thread_title:  Wikifunctions logo contest 

message: Hello everyone,
I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: :m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.
This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like "WP:NPOV", as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.
As far as I can see,  currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.
I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see :m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.
Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.
Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) 18. veebruar 2021, kell 16:12 (EET)
thread_title:  Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally 

message: === Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 ===
The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.
==== Drafting Committee: Call for applications ====
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
==== 2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators ====
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
*Hello, I've re-written this post from the previous version (Ru). This posting is available in other languages at meta:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations/Announcement. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you in advance for your participation in these processes! Xeno (WMF) (arutelu) 6. aprill 2021, kell 16:59 (EEST)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations 

message: The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.
==== Drafting Committee: Call for applications ====
The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
==== 2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators ====
From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
*Hello, I've re-written this post from the previous version (Ru). This posting is available in other languages at meta:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations/Announcement. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you in advance for your participation in these processes! Xeno (WMF) (arutelu) 6. aprill 2021, kell 16:59 (EEST)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 

message: The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.
To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.
thread_title:  Drafting Committee: Call for applications 

message: From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.
To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.
-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
*Hello, I've re-written this post from the previous version (Ru). This posting is available in other languages at meta:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations/Announcement. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you in advance for your participation in these processes! Xeno (WMF) (arutelu) 6. aprill 2021, kell 16:59 (EEST)
thread_title:  2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators 

message: !
I apologize for sending a message in English. . According to the list, your wiki project is currently opted in to the global bot policy. As such, I want to let you know about some changes that were made after the global RfC was closed.
*Global bots are now subject to a 2 week discussion, and it'll be publicized via a MassMessage list, available at Bot policy/New global bot discussion on Meta. Please subscribe yourself or your wiki if you are interested in new global bots proposals.
*For a bot to be considered for approval, it must demonstrate it is welcomed in multiple projects, and a good way to do that is to have the bot flag on at least 5 wikis for a single task.
*The bot operator should make sure to adhere to the wiki's preference as related to the use of the bot flag (i.e., if a wiki doesn't want a bot to use the flag as it edits, that should be followed).
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
—Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 6. aprill 2021, kell 21:48 (EEST)
thread_title:  Global bot policy changes 

message: From April 15, you can enable line numbering in some wikitext editors - for now in the template namespace, coming to more namespaces soon. This will make it easier to detect line breaks and to refer to a particular line in discussions. These numbers will be shown if you enable the syntax highlighting feature (CodeMirror extension), which is supported in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors. 
More information can be found on this project page. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.
 -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12. aprill 2021, kell 18:08 (EEST)
thread_title:  Line numbering coming soon to all wikis 

message: [Sorry, for writing in English. It would be great if you could add a translation.]
In the near future, editors and readers can get pop-ups for references in the same style as Page Previews: The feature called Reference Previews will soon be deployed to a first group of wikis as a default feature.
Reference Previews show you a reference in a small pop-up when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. More than 2,000 people on et.wikipedia are currently testing Reference Previews as a beta feature. After many months of testing, bug fixing and other improvements, the feature will soon be enabled as a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia, probably on May 5. 
Would Estonian Wikipedia also want to get the feature early? We were thinking it would be a good candidate because on Estonian Wikipedia, there is no default gadget for previewing references yet. (Here’s a link to translatewiki, where the interface of the feature can be translated).
 
If you want to know more about the feature, please have a look at the project page or write me a message on my talk page. We would be very happy to have Estonian Wikipedia on board! -- For the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 21. aprill 2021, kell 12:09 (EEST)
replies: text: Kasutan seda funktsiooni inglise vikis, päris mõnus. Mina vist küll hääletaks poolt. Mida arvame? --Vihelik (arutelu) 22. aprill 2021, kell 12:41 (EEST)

text: Mulle meeldiks.--Sillerkiil (arutelu) 22. aprill 2021, kell 12:51 (EEST)

text: Tundub mugav, pooldan.--AamleppoK (arutelu) 22. aprill 2021, kell 21:35 (EEST)

text: Jah LB (arutelu) 22. aprill 2021, kell 21:42 (EEST)

text: Tundub mõistlik. Ivo (arutelu) 23. aprill 2021, kell 00:00 (EEST)

text: Poolt, beetana kasutan juba nagunii. - Neptuunium ❯❯❯ arutelu 23. aprill 2021, kell 13:35 (EEST)
replies: text: : so far 5/5 in favor (and that is pretty good considering that normally nobody in here hardly ever even looks into the embassy, as most of the messages are not that interesting). Ivo (arutelu) 23. aprill 2021, kell 00:19 (EEST)
replies: text: :: Wonderful! Thanks and welcome on board. A few days before the deployment, I'll post another info here, so it won't be a surprise. -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (arutelu) 26. aprill 2021, kell 15:23 (EEST) Sorry, I overlooked that the decision phase isn't over yet. I'll come back on April 28 to see what the decision is. -- Best, Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (arutelu) 26. aprill 2021, kell 18:40 (EEST)
Ootame veel nädala ja siis otsustame. --Vihelik (arutelu) 23. aprill 2021, kell 11:35 (EEST)

text: Tundub, et funktsioon leiab juba eestikeelses vikipeedias rakendust. LB (arutelu) 23. aprill 2021, kell 11:47 (EEST)
replies: text: :Beetafunktsioonide alt saab seda valida. Ma ise olin ka selle mingi aeg inglise vikis leidnud ja sisse lülitanud. Ma ei näe, et see kuidagi destruktiivne vms oleks. Pigem igati mugav ning seega võiks see vabalt kõikidele vaikimisi võimaldatud olla. Ivo (arutelu) 23. aprill 2021, kell 11:58 (EEST)
replies: text: ::Kui see vaikimisi sisse lülitatakse, kas siis saab valida, et oleks välja lülitatud? Mina isiklikult eelistan neid eelvaateid (nii viidetel kui ka linkidel) mitte kasutada, valikuvõimalus oleks tore. Adeliine 24. aprill 2021, kell 11:27 (EEST)
replies: text: ::: Peaks saama, vt m:WMDE Technical Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Opt-out feature. Pikne 24. aprill 2021, kell 15:37 (EEST)
replies: text: :::: Ma ise seda ei kasutaks, kuna eelvaade nõuab vahel liigselt ressursse ja muudab asja aeglasemaks, ent võimalusena on see kindlasti hea; võimaldab kergemini surnud linke märgata. - Melilac (arutelu) 25. aprill 2021, kell 09:05 (EEST)

text: : Ma arvan, et nädalat ei tarvitse oodata, kui praeguseks keegi otseselt vastu pole ja kui arendajad soovivad otsust varem. Erilist vahet vist niikuinii pole, kas need eelvaated lülitatakse vaikimisi sisse nüüd veidike varem või siis veidike hiljem, kui seda tehakse kõigis vikides. Pikne 24. aprill 2021, kell 15:37 (EEST)
Andsin teada, et soovime. --Vihelik (arutelu) 25. aprill 2021, kell 12:41 (EEST)
replies: text: :: Hello! The deployment of the Reference Preview feature on the first group of Wikis is now approaching. It is going to be on the 5th of May. Few interface text elements are still missing in the translation here. It would be wonderful to have them before the deployment. Thank you! -- For the Technical Wishes Team at Wikimedia Germany, Timur Vorkul (WMDE) (arutelu) 3. mai 2021, kell 20:09 (EEST)
*Would be nice. -Mardus /arutelu 8. mai 2021, kell 08:01 (EEST)
thread_title:  Viidete eelvaade: Does Estonian Wikipedia want to be among the first wikis to get previews for references? 

message: From April 29, it will be possible to suggest values for parameters in templates. Suggested values can be added to TemplateData and will then be shown as a drop-down list in VisualEditor. This allows template users to quickly select an appropriate value. This way, it prevents potential errors and reduces the effort needed to fill the template with values. It will still be possible to fill in values other than the suggested ones.
More information, including the supported parameter types and how to create suggested values: [1] [2]. Everyone is invited to test the feature, and to give feedback on this talk page.
 Timur Vorkul (WMDE) 22. aprill 2021, kell 17:08 (EEST)
thread_title:  Suggested Values 

message: Hello. I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language.
As you already know, this year (July-August) there will be an election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. In this regard, the Wikimedia Foundation is trying to improve some parameters, including the WMF wants to improve the voter turnout. To do this, we are looking for volunteers from local communities to help us in this matter, as volunteers from specific communities know their community better.
Volunteers during elections should perform the following functions:
*Promote the election in their communities’ channels
*Organize discussions about the election in their communities
*Translate messages for their communities
Do you want to be an Election Volunteer and connect your community with this movement effort? Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table or get in contact with a facilitator.
Kindly. --Mehman (WMF) (arutelu) 9. mai 2021, kell 19:45 (EEST)
thread_title:  Election Volunteers 

message: Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter
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Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.
Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.
You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.
* Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
* 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
* Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
* Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
* Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)
--MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 12. juuni 2021, kell 02:06 (EEST)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1 

message: Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.
Below are some links to guide you through;
* Program Submissions
* Session Submission Guidelines
* FAQ
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021. 
Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here. 
Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have.  Details can be found here.
Best regards,
MediaWiki message delivery (arutelu) 16. juuni 2021, kell 07:18 (EEST)
replies: text: Oleks tore kui keegi aitaks tõlkida Wikimaniat . Mina millegi pärast ei saa kuna mull pole luba. Muidu on kole vaadata inglise keeles Wikimedia reklaami Eesti Vikipeedias. August MF (arutelu) 9. august 2021, kell 11:08 (EEST)
On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
thread_title:  Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions 

message: Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool.  The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki.  The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
* Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
* The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months.  This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study.  After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "" in Beta Features now.  After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
 24. juuni 2021, kell 17:13 (EEST)
thread_title:  Editing news 2021 #2 

message: Read this message in another language  •  
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. 
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, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST,  23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
*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 June 28.  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. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. SGrabarczuk (WMF) 27. juuni 2021, kell 04:19 (EEST)
thread_title:  Server switch 

message: The 2021 Board of Trustees election opens 4 August 2021. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three week long call for candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election.
The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community-and-affiliate trustees. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 17 August 2021.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. The Board wants to improve their competences and diversity as a team. They have shared the areas of expertise that they are currently missing and hope to cover with new trustees.
How can you get involved?
* Learn more about candidates.
* Organize campaign activities.
* Vote.
Read the full announcement.
Best,
On behalf of the Elections Committee
MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (arutelu) 3. juuli 2021, kell 13:56 (EEST)
thread_title:  2021 Board of Trustees election 

message: Hello! Sorry to use English. .  
I'm Trizek (WMF). I work as a community relations specialist for the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm here to share a message from the Growth team.
As you may already know, the Growth team's goal is to create features that would help newcomers. Our goal is to help newcomers when they edit for the first time and also to increase the retention of new editors. Several wikis already have these features since a long time now. Working with these wikis, the Growth team found evidence of the efficiency of these new features.
These features will be available for all new accounts on your Wikipedia starting on the week of August 23, 2021. This way your Wikipedia will offer more options for newcomers to make good first edits and become community members.
=== Which features? ===
We have created several features to help them, and also to help community members who help them :
* Newcomer homepage: a new special page, the best place for a newcomer to get started. Please visit it at Special:Homepage It includes: 
** Newcomer tasks: a feed of task suggestions that help newcomers learn to edit. Newcomers have been making productive edits through this feed! Know more about this tool.
** Mentorship module [optional]: each newcomers has a direct link to an experienced user (see below). This way, they can ask questions about editing Wikipedia, less the need to find where to ask for assistance.
** Impact module: the user sees how many pages views articles they edit received. Have a look at Special:Impact for yours!
* Help panel: a platform to provide resources to newcomers while they are editing. If they do some suggested tasks, they are guided step-by-step on the process of editing.
* Welcome Survey: communities can know why newcomers create an account on Wikipedia. You can see it at Special:WelcomeSurvey.
The features available right now in your preferences (here and there) so that you can try them. They are not yet visible to newcomers.
=== How to help? ===
First, we need help to translate the features. At the moment, most of the messages newcomers will see on your Wikipedia are in English, some of them have been translated using machine translation. Please help translate the interface (done on translatewiki.net. It needs a specific account). 
Also, I need your help checking on the configuration the team setups as default. Please try the features and let us know if something questions you.
Newcomers tasks are based on templates to suggest edits to newcomers. You can check the templates used on MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json. You can also change the templates and the help links defined there. Several templates can be added for the same task.
It you are familiar with Phabricator, here is the ticket about this deployment. Please find your wiki in the list to access all the information we used for the deployment. Please have a look at it. You can suggest changes by replying to this message.
If you wish to, you can create a list of mentors. This will activate the optional Mentorship module. Please format the list following the guidance. You need at least one mentor for each 500 new accounts created monthly on your wiki (3 mentors minimum). Are you hesitant to become a mentor?  Please check the resources we have written based on other mentors' experiences. Please tell us if you are interested by creating a mentor list!
Let me know if you have any question about this deployment, please ping me! Of course, if this message is not at the right place, please move or share it (and let me know).
All the best, Trizek (WMF), 4. august 2021, kell 18:33 (EEST)
thread_title:  please test: Growth team features 

message: We have created several features to help them, and also to help community members who help them :
* Newcomer homepage: a new special page, the best place for a newcomer to get started. Please visit it at Special:Homepage It includes: 
** Newcomer tasks: a feed of task suggestions that help newcomers learn to edit. Newcomers have been making productive edits through this feed! Know more about this tool.
** Mentorship module [optional]: each newcomers has a direct link to an experienced user (see below). This way, they can ask questions about editing Wikipedia, less the need to find where to ask for assistance.
** Impact module: the user sees how many pages views articles they edit received. Have a look at Special:Impact for yours!
* Help panel: a platform to provide resources to newcomers while they are editing. If they do some suggested tasks, they are guided step-by-step on the process of editing.
* Welcome Survey: communities can know why newcomers create an account on Wikipedia. You can see it at Special:WelcomeSurvey.
The features available right now in your preferences (here and there) so that you can try them. They are not yet visible to newcomers.
thread_title:  Which features? 

message: First, we need help to translate the features. At the moment, most of the messages newcomers will see on your Wikipedia are in English, some of them have been translated using machine translation. Please help translate the interface (done on translatewiki.net. It needs a specific account). 
Also, I need your help checking on the configuration the team setups as default. Please try the features and let us know if something questions you.
Newcomers tasks are based on templates to suggest edits to newcomers. You can check the templates used on MediaWiki:NewcomerTasks.json. You can also change the templates and the help links defined there. Several templates can be added for the same task.
It you are familiar with Phabricator, here is the ticket about this deployment. Please find your wiki in the list to access all the information we used for the deployment. Please have a look at it. You can suggest changes by replying to this message.
If you wish to, you can create a list of mentors. This will activate the optional Mentorship module. Please format the list following the guidance. You need at least one mentor for each 500 new accounts created monthly on your wiki (3 mentors minimum). Are you hesitant to become a mentor?  Please check the resources we have written based on other mentors' experiences. Please tell us if you are interested by creating a mentor list!
Let me know if you have any question about this deployment, please ping me! Of course, if this message is not at the right place, please move or share it (and let me know).
All the best, Trizek (WMF), 4. august 2021, kell 18:33 (EEST)
</div>
thread_title:  How to help? 

message: Hello Wikimedians! 
The Wikipedia Library is pleased to announce the addition of new collections, alongside a new interface design. New collections include:
* Cabells – Scholarly and predatory journal database
* Taaghche -  Persian language e-books
* Merkur, Musik & Ästhetik, and Psychologie, Psychotherapie, Psychoanalyse - German language magazines and journals published by Klett-Cotta
* Art Archiv, Capital, Geo, Geo Epoche, and Stern - German language newspapers and magazines published by Gruner + Jahr
Additionally, De Gruyter and Nomos have been centralised from their previous on-wiki signup location on the German Wikipedia. Many other collections are freely available by simply logging in to The Wikipedia Library with your Wikimedia login!
We are also excited to announce that the first version of a new design for My Library was deployed this week. We will be iterating on this design with more features over the coming weeks. Read more on the project page on Meta.
Lastly, an Echo notification will begin rolling out soon to notify eligible editors about the library (T132084). If you can translate the notification please do so at TranslateWiki!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 11. august 2021, kell 16:23 (EEST)
replies: text: This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
thread_title:  New Wikipedia Library collections and design update (August 2021) 

message: Hello all,
The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned to begin 17 August 2021.
Community and staff members collaborated to develop these draft guidelines based on consultations, discussions, and research. These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. Provide comments about these guidelines by 17 October 2021. The committee will be revising the guidelines based upon community input.
Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the draft review talk page or by email. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during round-table discussions and conversation hours.
There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:
*Wikimania 2021 session - 16 August @ 11:00 UTC - 11:45 UTC (recording of the session)
*Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
*Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. Having a shared understanding is important. If you do not see a conversation happening in your community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in setting up the conversations.
Discussions will be summarized and presented to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published here.
Please let me know if you have any questions about the draft, the community consultation or the UCoC. 
Many thanks! --Mervat (WMF) (arutelu) 19. august 2021, kell 00:17 (EEST)
thread_title:  Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review 

message: Hello everyone,
We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.
Summary:
We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.
=== Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year ===
In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
=== Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities ===
We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
=== A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet ===
We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
=== Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase ===
If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
=== Feedback ===
* What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
* How would you like to use our new sandbox?
* What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
* What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 7. september 2021, kell 03:23 (EEST)
thread_title:  The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January 

message: In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.
However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.
We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.
thread_title:  Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year 

message: We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.
thread_title:  Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities 

message: We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.
We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!
thread_title:  A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet 

message: If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!
thread_title:  Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase 

message: * What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
* How would you like to use our new sandbox?
* What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
* What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?
Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.
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SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 7. september 2021, kell 03:23 (EEST)
thread_title:  Feedback 

message: Suur tänu kõigile, kes osalesid 2021. aasta juhatuse valimistel. Valimiskomitee on nelja uue juhatuse liikme määramiseks läbi viidud 2021. aasta Wikimedia Foundationi juhatuse valimiste hääled üle vaadanud. Valmistel andis hääle rekordarv 6 873 inimest 214 projektikogukonnast. Enim toetust kogusid alljärgnevad neli kandidaati:
# Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
# Victoria Doronina
# Dariusz Jemielniak
# Lorenzo Losa
Kuigi see on kandidaatide järjestus kogukonna hääletuse tulemusel, siis nad pole veel määratud juhatusse. Selleks tehakse taustauuring ning kandidaadit peavad vastama põhikirjas esildatud tingimustele. Juhatus on seadnud oletuslikuks uute liikmete kinnitamise tähtajaks käesoleva kuu lõpu.
Loe täispikka teadaannet siit.
Xeno (WMF) (arutelu) 8. september 2021, kell 04:01 (EEST)
thread_title:  Wikimedia Foundation'i suurima kandidaatide arvuga juhatuse valimiste tulemused. 

message: Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:
* Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus) 
* Are ready to find compromises. 
* Focus on inclusion and diversity. 
* Have knowledge of community consultations. 
* Have intercultural communication experience. 
* Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities. 
* Have experience negotiating with different parties. 
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030wikimedia.org with questions.
Xeno (WMF) 10. september 2021, kell 20:01 (EEST)
thread_title:  Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021 

message: Read this message in another language • 
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. 
They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.
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, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
*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.
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. SGrabarczuk (WMF) () 11. september 2021, kell 03:45 (EEST)
thread_title:  Server switch 

message: Read this message in another language • 
Hello!
As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.
Agenda
* How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
* Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
* Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
* Questions and answers
Format
The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.
Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.
Invitation link
* Join online
* Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
* One tap mobile
** +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
** +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
* Dial by your location
See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) () 11. september 2021, kell 06:03 (EEST)
thread_title:  Talk to the Community Tech