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Wikiwebsites
[edit]Hi, we did add a proposition for a new project. We would be glad to have your feedbacks. Here it is : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiwebsites
It's about a "Library of free projects" (excluding software). Art, science, architecture, comics, movies, pictures,... which can be found under Creative commons licences, but also Open hardware, GFDL, public domain, Art Libre, FOIA… Graineahumus (talk)
Vote now to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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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 August 10, 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.
In cooperation with the U4C,
RamzyM (WMF) 02:46, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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Dear all,
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
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-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]I have some questions 1how come Wikipedia is single page? is the money from Google and Wikipedia enterprize and others not enough for 2 page entries 2why isn't Wikipedia decentralised yet 3why isnt trust and safety intervening there are exterimist admins and stewards , people in janny roles for example the farsi wikipedia telegram is literally not allowing any kind of speech around iranian regime Baratiiman (talk) 15:11, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Baratiiman:
- What do you mean by "single page"? Could you please explain in detail?
- I think one of the major reasons is the technical challenge, as we would have to change our infrastructure significantly.
- You can read this page to know more about Office Actions performed by Trust and Safety. If you have any concerns, you may contact them. However, I suggest following local processes to raise your concerns before reaching out to T&S.
- SCP-2000 08:35, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Illogical , it wouldn't be a fraction cost of the current centralized wiki Baratiiman (talk) 18:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedians don't trust the interwiki community anymore?
[edit]I hope I found an appropriate page to discuss a growing issue I noticed quite a lot, especially in German Wikipedia. German Wikipedia acts as being totally isolated from the international community and other language versions of Wikipedia and assumes all except themselves are totally unreliable. Even the sources have to be from scholars born in their country, otherwise they cannot be trusted. This is knowledge nationalism! Which is insane because knowledge is universal.
Here is an example:
There was an attempt to create a similar article to en:gaza genocide in german wikipedia: de:Völkermord-Vorwürfe gegen Israel (Gazakrieg 2023-2024). It was just a word by word translation by user User:Babel fish.
And here is what happened: The article is nominated for deletion and almost all editors currently vote for deletion. The justification reads like this: the article uses mainly Anglo-American sources. They are not reliable and tendentious, if not antisemitic. The article will only be reliable, German wikipedians claim, if it is sourced on German scholars. Can you believe this?
There is no trust in the groundwork done by English Wikipedia, the hard work done by their English Wikipedia fellows is worth nothing to them.
Why can't wikipedians from different language version work together as one team, and appreciate each others hard work?
How can we foster knowledge exchange across borders and teach respect for knowledge written by scholars of a different country? Laitonix (talk) 20:51, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Individual Wikipedias are editorially independent. If the German Wikipedia wants not to trust certain sources, then it's their loss and there's nothing anyone outside the German Wikipedia can do about it. Meta only intervenes in exceptional circumstances which this isn't. * Pppery * it has begun 02:50, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- I think in general, Wikimedia Foundation could try to foster the exchange between wikipedians e.g. with international meetups (and funding travel costs), try to build connections across language borders. At the moment, there are none. At least I can tell you this from German Wikipedia. They don't learn from each other. If Wikimedia Foundation with all its funding should have one job, then to unite different fragmented, local groups to leverage the combined "wisdom of the crowd".
- In this specific case, you could even raise the question at which point German Wikipedia becomes complicit in a genocide. Not by purpose but by ignorance of any other opinion from the outside world. German Wikipedia sees only one side. They try everything to make the Palestinian death toll appear less server, pretend anti-palestinianism does not exist and the Gaza genocide accusations are just disinformation and should have no place to even mention in Wikipedia. Instead, the Israelian war against the Palestinian people is presented as the only logical consequence and no further questions asked. In return, this sways public opinion in Germany to e.g. increase support for exporting more and more weapons to Israel. So yes, the German knowledge isolation can have drastic real life consequences! Laitonix (talk) 07:05, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Outcome: The article has now indeed been deleted. German Wikipedia indeed ignored the international scientific debate about the gaza genocide and just followed the narrative of the Israelien goverment. That's the state of German Wikipedia in 2024: their biased opinion is worth more than scientific sources. Keep an eye on what's happening in German Wikipedia, and always remember: Germany was on the wrong side of the history two times, and there is little evidence that it will be on the right side of history this time: Again Germans are indirectly involved in a genocide. English Wikipedia already has a chapter about it: German complicity in the gaza genocide. It's time for the international community to protect the integrity of Wikipedia, especially in Germany. --Laitonix (talk) 23:12, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
Georgian Wikiquote
[edit]According to this link, Georgian Wikiquote has 192 articles, but this link tells us it has 602 articles, also number is not updated after creating new articles MikheilBeruashvili (talk) 03:47, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- The second link is to the old stats site that doesn't work any more. The current data is available at https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/ka.wikiquote.org – if you look at this view, it reports 776 content pages at the end of July 2024, which is a lot more than the statistics page reports (192). Possibly they use the two different methods to determine what counts as a page. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- How could we fix it? Same happens with Moksha Wikipedia (mdf.wikipedia) now, everything with normal with the last one, and the problem suddenly started yesterday, if u know solution, could you look at this project?--MikheilBeruashvili (talk) 05:46, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
Template:Webarchive
[edit]can any admin to help import https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Webarchive to meta? Manojk (talk) 04:34, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
[edit]Hi all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:18, 22 August 2024 (UTC)