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Ανακοίνωση διαχειριστικής υποψηφιότητας

Ανακοινώνω από εδώ ότι θέτω υποψηφιότητα παραχώρησης δικαιωμάτων για τα Ελληνικά Βικιφθέγματα. Προτίθομαι να χρησιμοποιήσω την ιδιότητα για την συντήρηση, προστασία (όπου και όποτε χρειάζεται) και βελτίωση του εγχειρήματος. Εκτός αυτού, υπάρχει ελάχιστη δραστηριότητα. Nikosgranturismogt (συζήτηση) 18:02, 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

• Κατά προς το παρόν, Nikosgranturismogt θα πρότεινα να ασχοληθείς λιγάκι πρώτα να εξοικειωθείς με το εγχείρημα και μετά να ζητήσεις διακαιώματα διαχειριστή. Από την ανακοίνωση δεν βλέπω κάποιον συγκεκριμμένο λόγο να τα χρειάζεσαι, και από τις συνεισφορές σου δεν βλέπω να έχεις συμμετάσχει αρκετά. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 04:32, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ για την άποψη σου. Είχα κάνει την αίτηση με βάση την εμπειρία από την Βικιπαίδεια και την απουσία χρηστών-διαχειριστών στο εγχείρημα. Λίγο-πολύ γνωρίζω την δραστηριότητα (δεν έχει μεταβληθεί ιδιαίτερα τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια, σύμφωνα με τα στατιστικά), θα ξαναϋποβάλλω σε μερικούς μήνες μόλις μυηθώ και εδώ. Nikosgranturismogt (συζήτηση) 01:19, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Nikosgranturismogt: Δεν χρειάζονται μήνες (για μένα τουλάχιστον) απλά ασχολήσου λίγο καιρό (π.χ. 1-2 εβδομάδες) για να εξοικειωθείς με το εγχείρημα και εγώ θα σε στηρίξω (θα σε προτείνω κιόλας αν θες). Μέχρι την υποψηφιότητα ουσιαστικά ασχολήθηκες 1 μέρα. Μακάρι να σου αρέσει και να μείνεις. Θα σε βοηθήσω σε ότι χρειαστείς. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 02:59, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Nikosgranturismogt:ΥΓ. Από την άλλη, δεν πιστεύω ότι θα κάνεις κάποιο κακό, και αν είναι τα δικαιώματα να σου δώσουν κίνητρο να δουλέψεις λίγο παραπάνω εδώ το εγχείρημα θα βγει οφελημένο, οπότε το αλλάζω σε Υπέρ. —Ah3kal (συζήτηση) 07:50, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Υποψηφιότητα διαχειριστή

Αγαπητοί χρήστες των ελληνικών βικιφθεγμάτων,

Με το παρόν, θα ήθελα να καταθέσω υποψηφιότητα ως διαχειριστής του εγχειρήματος. Έχω υπάρξει στο παρελθόν 2 συνεχόμενες φορές, από 9 Ιουνίου 2017 έως 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018 (τις παλιές αιτήσεις μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ), οπότε και δεν ανανεώθηκε καθώς για προσωπικούς λόγους δεν μπορούσα να είμαι ενεργός (σε κανένα εγχείρημα). Παρόλα αυτά, στο διάστημα αυτό προσπάθησα καταρχάς να κάνω ένα "ξεκαθάρισμα" από σπαμ και βανδαλισμό (πληροφορίες και admin stats μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ ) αλλά παράλληλα να βελτιώσω όσο μπορώ την ποιότητα του περιεχομένου, κάτι που ελπίζω να κατάφερα σε κάποιον βαθμό. Πλέον είμαι και πάλι ενεργός στα εγχειρήματα, και θα ήθελα να συνεχίσω την δουλειά που είχα αφήσει στην μέση, καθώς και να συνεχίσω να συμβάλλω στην προστασία του εγχειρήματος από κακόβουλες επεξεργασίες ή σπαμ, βοηθώντας και τον νέο, ενεργό διαχειρηστή. --Kostas20142 (συζήτηση) 02:28, 30 Νοεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Συζήτηση

Υπέρ

Έστω και με καθυστέρηση, ψηφίζω υπέρ, διότι ο Kostas20142 είναι χρήστης με γνώση του εγχειρήματος, έχοντας συμβάλλει στην βελτίωση του εγχειρήματος των Βικιφθεγμάτων ως απλός χρήστης και ως διαχειριστής. Από εμένα ένα ισχυρό υπέρ. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 10:14, 20 Ιανουαρίου 2020 (UTC)

Γενικά σχόλια

• Για λόγους διαφάνειας, δηλώνω ότι κατέχω επίσης τους εξής λογαριασμούς στα εγχειρήματα Wikimedia: Kostantinos20142 (δεν προορίζεται για πραγματοποίηση επεξεργασιών αλλά για αποφυγή πιθανής πλαστοπροσωπίας), Kostas20142 (alt) (για επισφαλή δίκτυα), Kostas20142-Bot (για αυτοματοποιημένες ή ημι-αυτοματοποιημένες επεξεργασίες). --Kostas20142 (συζήτηση) 18:16, 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)
• Σε περίπτωση που δεν θέλει κάποιος να ψηφίσει η συζήτηση μπορεί να κλείσει τις επόμενες μέρες. --Kostas20142 (συζήτηση) 15:21, 16 Ιανουαρίου 2020 (UTC)

Αίτημα ρομπότ

Καλησπέρα σας,

Θα ήθελα να ζητήσω με το παρόν θέμα δικαιώματα ρομπότ για τον λογαριασμό μου, Kostas20142-Bot. Task του θα είναι η επιδιόρθωση νεκρών συνδέσμων σε σελίδες θεμάτων που υπάρχουν, λόγω ανομοιογένειας, καθώς και η επίλυση τέτοιων ανομοιογενειών. Το ρομπότ έτρεξε δοκιμαστηκά σήμερα, και για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τις επεξεργασίες του μπορείτε να ανατρέξετε εδώ. Περισσότερα tasks μπορούν να προστεθούν με νέο αίτημα. Στην παρούσα φάση και εφόσον δεν υπάρξει νέο αίτημα, θα λειτουργεί υπό επίβλεψη, και οι επιθυμητές αλλαγές θα καταχωρούνται χειροκίνητα. Για την λειτουργία του χρησιμοποιείται το Pywikibot. --Kostas20142 (συζήτηση) 18:51, 30 Νοεμβρίου 2019 (UTC)

Διαγραφή ανεπιβεβαίωτων αποφθεγμάτων προσώπου χωρίς ταυτοποίηση

Με αφορμή ένα "απόφθεγμα" στη Θάλασσα ενός άγνωστου "Μάμτσιτς Μ.", ανακάλυψα ότι τα ΒΦ έχουν πλήθος από αποφάνσεις του [1]. Έψαξα στο net (με ελληνικά, αλλά και με λατινικά και με κυριλικά γράμματα) να βρω κάτι γι' αυτόν, αλλά δεν βρήκα τίποτα, εκτός από διάφορα ανακυκλούμενα αποφθέγματά του (στα ελληνικά) σε μπλογκ, φέισμπουκ κλπ. Πουθενά καμιά πηγή για αυτά, ούτε για το πρόσωπο. Θεωρώ, λοιπόν, ότι θα πρέπει να διαγραφούν, αφού δεν επιβεβαιώνεται το παραμικρό για οτιδήποτε έχει πει ή γράψει -ούτε αν όντως τα έχει πει ή γράψει, καθώς ούτε ποιός είναι. Το επίθετο, πάντως, είναι εσθονικής προέλευσης από όσο είδα. ——Chalk19 (συζήτηση) 06:29, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2020 (UTC)

• υπέρ --Kostas20142 (συζήτηση) 15:16, 30 Ιανουαρίου 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December 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.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

15:58, 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2020 (UTC)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

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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, 15:16, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2021 (UTC)

Project Grant Open Call

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:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

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 projectgrantsΠρότυπο:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 08:01, 28 Ιανουαρίου 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

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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 (συζήτηση) 13:25, 6 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 (UTC)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

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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, Βικιφθέγματα 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) 14:12, 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 (UTC)

Wikifunctions logo contest

Hello. Παρακαλούμε βοηθήστε να επιλεχθεί μια ιδέα σχεδιασμού για το λογότυπο του νέου wiki Wikifunctions. Η ψηφοφορία ξεκινά σήμερα και θα είναι ανοιχτή για 2 εβδομάδες. Αν θέλετε να συμμετάσχετε, μάθετε περισσότερα και ψηφίστε τώρα στο Meta-Wiki. Ευχαριστώ! Σας ευχαριστούμε! --Quiddity (WMF)

01:47, 2 Μαρτίου 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

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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) 22:10, 5 Απριλίου 2021 (UTC)

Global bot policy changes

Hello!

I apologize for sending a message in English. Please help translate to your language. 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} 18:48, 6 Απριλίου 2021 (UTC)

Line numbering coming soon to all wikis

Παράδειγμα

Από τις 15 Απριλίου, μπορείτε να ενεργοποιήσετε την αρίθμηση γραμμής σε ορισμένους συντάκτες wikitext - προς το παρόν στο χώρο ονομάτων προτύπων, σύντομα θα έρθουμε σε περισσότερους χώρους ονομάτων. Αυτό θα διευκολύνει τον εντοπισμό αλλαγών γραμμής και την αναφορά σε μια συγκεκριμένη γραμμή στις συζητήσεις. Αυτοί οι αριθμοί θα εμφανιστούν εάν ενεργοποιήσετε τη δυνατότητα επισήμανσης σύνταξης (επέκταση CodeMirror), η οποία υποστηρίζεται στους συντάκτες wikitext 2010 και 2017.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να βρείτε σε αυτή τη σελίδα του έργου. Ο καθένας καλείται να δοκιμάσει τη λειτουργία και να δώσει σχόλια σε αυτήν τη σελίδα.

-- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 15:08, 12 Απριλίου 2021 (UTC)

Suggested Values

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) 14:08, 22 Απριλίου 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

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 (συζήτηση) 23:06, 11 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

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 (συζήτηση) 04:18, 16 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

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 "Εργαλεία συζήτησης" 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)

14:14, 24 Ιούνιος 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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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.

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) 01:19, 27 Ιουνίου 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

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 for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)

Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC

Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Xeno (WMF) 22:36, 17 Αυγούστου 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.

6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.

Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.

20:55, 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.

6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.

Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.

20:55, 1 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

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) 00:23, 7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021

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) 17:06, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

Server switch

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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, 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) (συζήτηση) 00:46, 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

Talk to the Community Tech

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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) (συζήτηση) 03:04, 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 (UTC)

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open

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Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

Xeno (WMF) 00:42, 14 Οκτωβρίου 2021 (UTC)