Wikimedia Forum
| ← Discussion pages | Wikimedia Forums | Archives → |
 The Wikimedia Forum is a central place for questions, announcements and other discussions about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. (For discussion about the Meta wiki, see Meta:Babel.) You can reply to a topic by clicking the "[edit]" link beside that section, or you can start a new discussion. |
 |
SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} and sections whose most recent comment is older than 30 days.
|
New project proposal - WikiYouth: Building Open Data Together[edit]
Hi, everyone!
I am one of the organizers of the IGF Youth Summit, a Day 0 project of the IGF 2021. As a member of the board of the Youth SIG from the Internet Society, we are trying to engage young people that are part of the internet governance ecosystem in Wikimedia projects. We delivered our first project a few months ago, but now we are trying to do something more focused and easier to learn, while trying to get more fruitful results to the Wiki community.
That is why we are proposing a Rapid Grant Contest centered in Wikidata called WikiYouth: Building Open Data Together, aiming to add relevant data to Internet Governance and youth pages. I would really appreciate it if you guys could review it and give us a few tips on how to improve the idea, and if anyone wants to help in this project, we would love an extra hand or two!
Coolest Tool Award 2021: Call for nominations[edit]
The third edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations!
Tools play an essential role for the Wikimedia projects, and so do the many volunteer developers who experiment with new ideas and develop and maintain local and global solutions to support the Wikimedia communities. The Coolest Tool Award aims to recognize and celebrate the coolest tools in a variety of categories.
The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December. Deadline to submit nominations is October 27. More information: m:Coolest Tool Award. Thanks for your recommendations! -- 2021 Coolest Tool Academy team
Grants:Project/Rapid/LUCG Wikimedia Community/LUCG First Edit-a-thon[edit]
Dear Community Members,
I am announcing a rapid grant we submitted about recruiting editors and improving content on Wikipedia and Wikidata.
We would be very grateful to have your feedback and endorsements about this project. Please see the proposal here:
Grants:Project/Rapid/LUCG Wikimedia Community/LUCG First Edit-a-thon
Sunkanmi12 (talk) 21:51, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Suggestion[edit]
There should be an option to simply ban IP addresses from account creation, rather than affecting the people with that IP address. 71.172.112.82 13:02, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm quite sure that will require an update to the GlobalBlocking tool; you may submit a feature request here. Inlcude tag "GlobalBlocking". — xaosflux Talk 16:54, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Update of "m:Persistent words added by unregistered" chart[edit]
Is it possible to get an updated version of m:Persistent words added by unregistered editors to English Wikipedia per month is plotted over time? mentioned in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Measuring_edit_productivity by User:Halfak_(WMF) who has left. Wakelamp (talk) 08:59, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Talk to the Community Tech: The future of the Community Wishlist Survey[edit]
Hello!
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 30 November (Tuesday), 17:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.
Agenda
- Changes to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. Help us decide.
- Become a Community Wishlist Survey Ambassador. Help us spread the word about the CWS in your community.
- 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 (all points in the agenda except for the questions and answers) will be given in English.
We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, Spanish, German, and Italian. 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: 82035401393
- Dial by your location
We hope to see you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
Proxies[edit]
Should they really be hardblocked? Soft blocks would be better. Even better, instead of immediately blocking proxies just wait until one abuse and then block them. We should always assume good faith. 74.105.247.66 19:11, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- If I use my VPN's "keep moving" protocol, every edit I made would be from a different IP, every minute, a significantly different one. If we had to wait for one to abuse then we'd never be able to block anyone using proxies properly.
- Now the softblock/hardblock one is interesting, but would still come with real issues for the checkusers - someone actively generating a swarm of sockpuppet accounts would always outpace our trying to stomp on them Nosebagbear (talk) 19:32, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
Test Wikivoyage Incubation rules[edit]
I want to start a Wikivoyage incubation project in the Wikimedia incubator, for Meitei language (Manipuri language) (mni.wikivoyage.org)! Could the community explain me what minimum duration, minimum active members, minimum contents of articles, and other essential rules for its approval as an independent wikivoyage project, are needed? Haoreima (talk) 08:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- Language proposal policy — billinghurst sDrewth 10:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
Licensing discussion for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions[edit]
We are looking for input on the question: what licensing structure we should apply to Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. After some initial discussion, the two following questions in particular remain open and would benefit from your input:
- Should Abstract Content for Abstract Wikipedia be published under CC 0 or CC BY-SA (or is either fine)?
- Should code in Wikifunctions be published under Apache or the GPL (or is either fine)?
Please see Abstract Wikipedia/Licensing discussion for details and an overview, and respond within the "Open Questions" discussion threads below that linked-summary. Much thanks. --Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:37, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Quiddity (WMF): When is a end time? ✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 14:27, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Dušan Kreheľ: Our plan is to summarise the discussion and opinions towards the end of the next week, that is, probably on December 16, to leave the draft summary and draft decision up until December 20, and finalise the decision just after or during the office hour, assuming the feedback is positive. (The discussion started on November 22, with steadily expanding announcements as the questions get clearer.). Thanks for asking, I'll add a clear note to the page itself. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Requests for comment/Outreach migration[edit]
A RFC about closing Outreach Wiki. --Rschen7754 02:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
The discussion vote about the licenses for Abstract content and Function Implementations[edit]
.svg){kind=icon}
| „Event“: | The discussion vote about the licences for Abstract content and Function Implementations |
|---|---|
| When: | Until 2021-12-15 09:59:59 UTC guaranteed. |
| Links: | Discussion vote • Concept • Concept as the practical example |
| What | Licence |
|---|---|
| Abstract content | CC-BY-SA vs CC0? Or anothers? |
| Function Implementations | Apache vs GPL? Or anothers? |
✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 17:10, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Notice - hrwiki - delete template change[edit]
Croatian Wikipedia (hrwiki) has made changes to it's deletion template (hr:Template:Delete). It now requires substitution in order to work properly. This was done as part of an overhaul in the deletion procedures, in order to achieve more transparency and enable automated opposition discussion handling.
Since this template used by foreign editors for tagging spam pages, I thought a highly visible notice like this may be beneficial. —Ivi104 12:35, 14 December 2021 (UTC)