Wikipedia:تور جەمئىيىتى

ئەسسالامۇ ئەلەيكۇم، ئۇيغۇرچە ۋىكىپېدىيە تور جەمئىيىتىگە خۇش كېلىپسىز. بۇ يەردە ۋىكىپېدىيەگە نىسپەتەن ھەر قانداق تەكلىپ، پىكىر، سۇئاللىرىڭىز بولسا ئوتتۇرىغا قويسىڭىز بولىدۇ. نۆۋەتتە بار بولغان ئەزالارمۇ ئورتاق مۇنازىرىلەرنى بۇ يەردە ئېلىپ بارساق بولىدۇ. مەلۇم تېمىغا خاس مۇنازىرىنى شۇ تېمىنىڭ مۇنازىرە بېتىدە ياكى بۇ يەردە ئېلىپ بارساقمۇ بولىدۇ.

دىققەت قىلىدىغان ئۈچ نۇقتا بار:

1. كۆپچىلىكنىڭ كۆرۈپ پايدىلىنىشى ئۈچۈن، سۇئال ياكى جاۋابىڭىزنىڭ ئاخىرىغا توت دانە دولقۇنسىمان بەلگە (~~~~) قويۇشنى ئۇنتىماڭ. بەت ساقلانغاندىن كېيىن بۇ بەلگە ئاپتوماتىك ھالدا سىزنىڭ ئىمزايىڭىز ۋە چىسلاغا ئۆزگىرىدۇ.
2. ئەگەر سىز مەلۇم بىر سۇئالغا جاۋاپ بەرمەكچى بولسىڭىز شۇ سۇئال بار بولغان ئابزاسنىڭ ئاخىرىدىكى «تەھرىر» ئۇلىنىشىنى بېسىپ ئابزاس تەھرىرىگە كىرىڭ. تەھرىرلەش رامكىسىدا پەقەت شۇ سۇئالغا مۇناسىۋەتلىك مەزمۇنلا كۆرۈنىدۇ، تەھرىرلىشىڭىز ئاسان بولىدۇ. ئەگەر بەت ئۈستىدىكى «تەھرىر» ئۇلىنىشىدىن كىرسىڭىز، تەھرىرلەش رامكىسىدا بارلىق مەزمۇن كۆرۈنۈپ، تەھرىرلەش ئاۋارىچىلىق بولىدۇ.
3. ئەگەر سىز باشقىلارنىڭ سۇئالىغا جاۋاپ بەرمەكچى بولسىڭىز قۇرنىڭ بېشىغا قوش چېكىت بەلگىسى (:) دىن بىرنى ئارتۇق قوشۇڭ، ئالدىدىكى سۇئال ياكى جاۋاپنىڭ قۇر بېشىدا (:) بەلگىسى بولمىسا بىرنى قويۇڭ؛ ئەسلىدە بىرسى بولسا ئىككىنى قويۇڭ؛ ئەسلىدە ئىككىسى بولسا ئۈچنى قويۇڭ. شۇ بويىچە كۆپەيتىپ ماڭسىڭىز بولىدۇ.

سۇئال ياكى تەكلىپ - پىكىرلىرىڭىز بولسا قېنى بۇ يەردىن باشلاڭ/ Add Topic

كونا ئارخىپلار: < 2013- يىلىدىن بۇرۇنقى مەزمۇنلار > < 2014- يىلىدىن 2015- يىلغىچە بولغان مەزمۇنلار > <

2016- يىلىدىن 2022 ماي- يىلغىچە بولغان مەزمۇنلار >

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Wordmark

Hello, we will change the wordmark with File:Wikipedia-wordmark-ug.svg. Please share your opinion with us. Thank you --TayfunEt. (سۆزلىشىش) 16:26, 28 ماي 2022 (UTC)

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✓ Done; Mobile Wikipedia Wordmark

TayfunEt. (سۆزلىشىش) 20:42, 13 ئىيۇن 2022 (UTC)

Request for Temporary (3 month) Adminship

Hello. I apologize for writing in English; I am not fluent in Uyghur. I am a VRT Permissions Agent and I would like to perform copyright cleanup on the images hosted on Uyghur Wikipedia. To do this, I require the administrator rights to delete files that violate copyright law. Since there are about 240 images that need to be reviewed, I believe that temporary adminship will be sufficient to complete this task

Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:55, 25 سىنتەبىر 2022 (UTC)

Local Request for Administratorship extension/Red-tailed hawk

Hello. I apologize for writing in English; I am not fluent in Uyghur. I am a VRT Permissions Agent and I would like to continue to perform copyright cleanup on the images hosted on Uyghur Wikipedia. To do this, I require the administrator rights to delete files that violate copyright law. Since there are now still about 140 images that need to be reviewed, I believe that a temporary extension of adminship will be helpful in continuing to make progress on this task as well as to help the project smoothly function. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 05:46, 8 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Support

1. قوللايمەن Support as requester. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 05:46, 8 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

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Conclusion

This request for adminiship was successful.

How can I read in Latin Uyghur?拉丁维文怎么调出来

Hello, do you have a latin version in uyghur wikipeida? How can I change the settings into latin？你们好，请问你们维文维基百科能调成拉丁维文吗 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 07:02, 28 ئۆكتەبىر 2022 (UTC)

User:不慎言行非法师魔女: Hello. There is currently no feature installed on the Uyghur Wikipedia that allows for latin Uyghur to be read on all pages; pages are written in one script and there is no on-the-fly transliteration. However, there is a open request for the Wikimedia software developers to add this capability into the Uyghur Wikipedia. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 20:32, 30 ئۆكتەبىر 2022 (UTC)

Got it,thank you 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 12:39, 2 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)

you lied you do have one 不慎言行非法师魔女 (سۆزلىشىش) 15:22, 14 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)

I know there are some pages where this is possible (we have a separately written latin version of an article), but I'm not aware of a way to do this for all pages. How did you get it to work for all pages? Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 16:35, 14 نويابىر 2022 (UTC)

Join the Movement Charter conversation hour for ESEAP region

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Dear all,

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) is currently collecting community feedback about three draft sections of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent).

How can you participate and share your feedback?

The MCDC is looking forward to receiving all types of feedback in different languages from the community members across the Movement and Affiliates. You can participate in the following ways:

• Attend one of the scheduled community conversation hours with MCDC members; detail for the ESEAP session below;
• Fill out a survey (optional and anonymous);
• Share your thoughts and feedback on the Meta talk page;
• Share your thoughts and feedback on the Movement Strategy Forum:
  • Preamble
  • Values & Principles
  • Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent); or
• Send an email to قېلىپ:Nospam if you have other feedback to the MCDC.

The community consultation session for the ESEAP region will take place on Friday, 9 December 2022 at 09:00-10:30 UTC. The session will be held on Zoom; the link will be shared at the page 48 hours before the session. Live interpretation in Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian will be available. The conversations will not be recorded, except for the section where participants are invited to share what they discussed in the breakout rooms. The facilitation team will take notes and produce a summary report afterwards.

If you want to learn more about the Movement Charter, its goals, why it matters and how it impacts your community, please watch the recording (in English) of the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions which took place earlier in November 2022. You can also watch the recording in Chinese and in Japanese.

Thank you for your participation.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) and VChang (WMF) 01:01, 2 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Reminder to provide feedback on the Movement Charter content

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Hi all, 

We are in the middle of the community consultation period on the three draft sections of the Movement Charter: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (statement of intent).

You are invited to attend the community consultation session for East Asia, South East Asia, and the Pacific region (ESEAP) which will take place on Friday, 9 December 2022 at 09:00-10:30 UTC. The session will be held on Zoom; please join the meeting via this link. Live interpretation will be available in Indonesian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.

This community consultation period will end on 18 December 2022. The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) encourages everyone who is interested in the governance of the Wikimedia movement to share their thoughts and opinions on the draft content of the Charter. Apart from joining the live conversation, you can also share your feedback via different channels provided below:

• Fill out an anonymous survey
• Share your thoughts and feedback on the Movement Strategy Forum 
• Share your thoughts and feedback on the Meta Talk pages
• Send an email to: movementcharter@wikimedia.org if you have other feedback to the MCDC  

You can also find the ESEAP facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the ESEAP 28th Community Meeting on Sunday, 11 December 2022 to share your thoughts. Let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for your participation in this community consultation! 

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation 

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 06:37, 9 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January!

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Hello

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

Thank you! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Movement Charter: End of the community consultation round 1

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Hi everyone,

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC), we would like to thank everyone who has participated in our first community wide consultation period on the Movement Charter.

People from across the Movement shared their feedback and thoughts on the content of the Movement Charter. If you have not had the chance to share your opinion yet, you are welcome to do so still by giving the drafts a read and filling out the anonymous survey, which is accessible in 12+ languages. The survey will close on January 2, 2023. You are invited to continue to share your thoughts with the MCDC via email too: movementcharter@wikimedia.org.

What’s next?

The Movement Strategy and Governance team will publish the final report with the summary of the feedback received in January 2023. It will be shared with the MCDC and the communities via different distribution channels.

After receiving the final report, the MCDC will review the suggestions and communicate the changes by providing an explanation on how and why suggestions were or were not adopted in the next versions of the drafts. There will be additional ways to engage with the Movement Charter content in 2023, including early feedback on a proposed ratification process and new drafts of different chapters in the second quarter of 2023.

We invite you to sign-up to the MCDC monthly newsletter, it will be delivered to the Talk page of your choice. Monthly updates are available on Meta to remain updated on the progress of the MCDC.

Interested people can still sign-up to become a Movement Charter Ambassador (MC Ambassador) to support their community. The MC Ambassadors Program grant program will restart accepting applications from both individuals and groups ahead of the next round of consultations in the second quarter of 2023.

We thank you for your participation, time and effort in helping to build the Charter for our Movement!

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:25, 16 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Vote for your favourite Wikimedia sound logo

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We are really sorry for posting in English

Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices. Learn more on Diff.

The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners and the selection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.

Best wishes, Arupako-WMF (سۆزلىشىش) 16:32, 17 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Feminism and Folklore 2023

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Dear Wiki Community,

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year 2023,

You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2023 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wikipedia. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wikipedia.

You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a list of suggested articles.

Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:

1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
2. Set up a fountain tool or dashboard.
3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
4. Request local admins for site notice.
5. Link the local page and the fountain/dashboard link on the meta project page.

This year we would be supporting the community's financial aid for Internet and childcare support. This would be provided for the local team including their jury and coordinator team. This support is opt-in and non mandatory. Kindly fill in this Google form and mark a mail to support@wikilovesfolklore.org with the subject line starting as [Stipend] Name or Username/Language. The last date to sign up for internet and childcare aid from our team is 20th of January 2023, We encourage the language coordinators to sign up their community on this link by the 25th of January 2023.

Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2023 International Team

Stay connected  

--MediaWiki message delivery (سۆزلىشىش) 10:24, 24 دېكابىر 2022 (UTC)

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.

How to vote?

Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:28, 11 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)

Voting now open on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will be open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 12:50, 18 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)

Enabling Content and Section translation tool in Uyghur Wikipedia

Hello Friends!

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The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we will like to enable the Section and Content translation tool in Uyghur Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test the new Section Translation tool so you can:

• Give us your feedback

• Ask us questions

• Tell us how to improve it

Below is background information about the tools and how you can test the Section translation tool.

Background information

Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. However, the tool is not out of beta in Uyghur Wikipedia, limiting the discoverability of the tool and its use and blocking the enablement of the Section translation in your Wikipedia

Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:

• Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones

• Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device

We plan to enable the tools on Uyghur Wikipedia in the coming week if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tools and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have as a reply to this message or on the project talk page

Try the Section translation tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Uyghur Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.

Provide feedback

Please provide feedback about Section translation on the project talk page. We want to  hear about your impressions on

• The section translation tool

• What do you think about our plans to enable it

• Your ideas for improving the tool

Thanks and we look forward to your feedback and questions.

~~~~ On behalf of the WMF Language team UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 23:50, 31 يانۋار 2023 (UTC)

To what extent have native speakers been able to test the automatic translations made by the tool? Machine translation of Uyghur is generally not all that great, and I'm a bit skeptical regarding how this will affect UgWiki Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:16, 4 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Pinging User:UOzurumba (WMF) Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:38, 5 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Red-tailed hawk, for your question; the Machine translation support in the Content and Section translation tools is meant to be a starting point to aid them in translating articles efficiently; this is to say that a translator can not publish an initial machine translation without reviewing and editing it.

So, there is a mechanism in content translation that measures the level of modification a user makes to the machine translation provided before it is published. In other words, the system notes how many words were added, removed and modified in percentage, which can be adjusted in your Wikipedia to improve the quality of translation if there is a need for that.

With the mechanism in place, your community can monitor the quality of content created with the Machine translation and adjust the machine translation limit (make the machine translation limit more strict if necessary). The above measure ensures that translated articles meet the required quality and takes care of your worries. Also, translators can choose the "Start with an empty paragraph option" when translating.

So far, UgWiki has translated 87 articles using Content translation. Bringing it out of beta and enabling the Section translation will make the tool more discoverable and increase content in Uyghur Wikipedia.

I hope this helped answer your question

UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 18:08, 6 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Red-tailed hawk; the WMF Language team would like to enable the Content and Section translation tool this week for your Wikipedia since there are no objections.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 16:48, 14 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

I am generally very skeptical of the utility of these tools if the machine translations are not all that good and would likely serve (on this wiki) to create more damage to the project through improper machine translation than benefit by ease-of-use by native speakers. For that reason, I lean in opposition to the broader implementation of the tool. If you would like the broader community to weigh in, discussion in the Uyghur language is going to be necessary; much of the Uyghur world has limited or no understanding of English, and low-quality machine translations will lose the nuance of things like this. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 01:11, 15 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

@Red-tailed hawk About your scepticism of the misuse of machine translation, we can only know if we enable it in your Wiki and also have data showing that most of the translations done with the tool are substandard, which would out way the benefits of having the tools and improving the translation experience towards bridging the content gap, translating with ease and other advantages having the tool offers.

If it helps, we can evaluate the tools' usefulness after it is enabled for some time. If there are challenges with it, your community can provide us with feedback, and we will work with your feedback to improve it or remove it, as the case may be. Please, let us know what you think.

Also, I would appreciate it if you could help with the translation (if you can), with

the hope that other people from your community will read this announcement, test the tool and give us feedback on enabling it.

Best regards,

UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 20:14, 10 مارت 2023 (UTC)

Alas, I cannot help well with the translation. However, if you would like to reach the community more broadly, cross-posting in Russian and Mandarin Chinese would probably help. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 07:32, 12 مارت 2023 (UTC)

Thank you@Red-tailed hawk, for your reply and suggestion to cross-post in Russian and Mandarin. Do you mean that translating this message into Russian or Mandarin Chinese and then posting the translation here will help, or do you mean cross-posting this message in English in the Russian and Mandarin Chinese village pump? Sorry for the disturbance, I want to be sure I understand this.

UOzurumba (WMF) (سۆزلىشىش) 18:00, 13 مارت 2023 (UTC)

I mean translating this into Russian and Mandarin, and then posting it here. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 18:09, 13 مارت 2023 (UTC)

Voting on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct is closed

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Hello all,

The vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now closed. The results will now be counted and scrutinized to ensure that only eligible votes are included. Results will be published on Meta and other movement forums as soon as they become available, as well as information on future steps. Thank you to all who participated in the voting process, and who have contributed to the drafting of Guidelines.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 11:34, 3 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results

The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.

After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. Statistics for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.

From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 16:06, 14 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

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Hello everyone,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

• Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
• Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
• Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
• Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.

For further information, please consult:

• The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
• The page for your feedback
• Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 22:50, 21 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

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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.

All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.

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 Wednesday 1 March 2023.
• 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.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

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) (مۇنازىرە) 21:21, 27 فېۋرال 2023 (UTC)

Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2023: We are back!

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Hello, dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the third edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2023. 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) 07:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Copyright issues on the Uyghur Wikipedia

The vast majority of images on the Uyghur Wikipedia are not provided with computer-readable license tags, which are required by WMF:Resolution:Licensing policy because we do not have an exemption doctrine policy. As an administrator, I have been working over the past several months to move public domain files from this Wiki to Commons, as well as to delete clear violations of copyrights. I will be attempting to complete this work this month; if any files are not tagged with a valid template or otherwise moved to Commons by the end of the month (UTC), then those files will be deleted as presumptive violations of copyright. I will do my utmost over the next month to try to figure out which files are in the public domain or can otherwise be kept under the WMF resolution, but, in the event that there is no evidence by the end of the month that a file is uploaded under a valid free license, then that file will be deleted. Red-tailed hawk (سۆزلىشىش) 03:31, 2 مارت 2023 (UTC)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:

The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the vote statistics on Meta-wiki.

As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The resolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.

There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:55, 23 مارت 2023 (UTC)