Olay sa Wikipedia:Portal kan Komunidad

Dagos sa pahina kan Orolay-olay. Ini an lugar tangarig pag-olayan an gabos dapit sa Bikol Wikipedia. Ini an dahon kun saen pwedeng ihapot an mga isyung teknikal, ley asin operasyon kan Wikipediang ini.

Pwedeng kan magsimbag sa arin man na parte kan orolay sa pagpindot kan "liwaton" o pwede man na magdugang nin bagong pag-oolayan digdi.

Pabiristohan

kumusta man saindo, c pmcalara ini, tga naga, kaibanews ed. may naikuntribwir naman. e.g. an litrato kan bukid isarog sa atubangang dahon hali sa archive kan kaibanews.

so claim sa atubangan na dahon na duwa lng an nag kontribwir igdi garo bakong accurate.

gudlak sa satuyang wiki. pmcalara

Mga kapwa parataram nin Bikol asin mga Bikolano, kumusta kamo? --Filipinayzd 04:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Marhay na aldaw Filipinayzd asin sa mga kapwang Bikolano! Pira na kita digding nagtatabang sa Bikol Wikipedia? --Steven*fung 10:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Binabasa ko pa an site. Kaipohan ko pang mapamilyat ini. Pero sagkod ngunayn dae ko pa man aram kun saen ako malaog para magsurat bilang parte kan komunidad na ini. Paano daw? Geopoet 05:56, 23 Pebrero 2012 (UTC)

Marhay na banggi saindo gabos. Dakul na akong ginibong artikulo sa Bikol Wikipedia. Nagin madali an sakuyang pagtradusir nin huli ta igwang robot na siya na an nagsa-suggest kan traduksyon hali sa Ingles pasiring sa Bikol. Alagad kun minsan sarala kaya ako sana an mina-adjust. Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 11:31, 19 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Mga websityo na Bikol

puwede kayang ilaag o i-link an kaibanews egroup na may mga 2000 na miyembrong bicolano digdi sa wikibicol. piguurulayan duman an pagbugtak nin wikibicol. an adress: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KAIBAnews/ --Pmcalara 05:49, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Kun may aram kamong mga website na pwede tang magin giya sa pagsurat nin Bikol paki paskil man tabi. --Filipinayzd 04:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Pighahanap ko an diksyonaryong Bikol-Ingles kung igwa na online pakiaaram man tabi ta haloyon na akong dae nagsusurat sa Bikol. --Steven*fung 10:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

An Oragonrepublic.com igwa, http://oragonrepublic.com/modules/wordbook/ --Filipinayzd 13:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Mabalos Filipinayzd sa link mo. Nagsurat ako nin bagong mga bagong artikulo para sa Hapones, Byetnamita, Telegu, Kantones, Marati, Tamil asin Dyabanes. Pakidagdag man tabi ini sa lista kan mga tataramon sa kinaban na nasa enot na pahina kan Bikol Wiki. --Steven*fung 12:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Bikol-Legazpi an gamit mo ano? Bikol-Naga ako. --Filipinayzd 06:11, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Iyo Bikol-Legazpi an pigagamit ko. Maray an ta may variety kita, strength in diversity, nantig. Oragon an blog mo! --Steven*fung 02:37, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Pasaliot lang. An Oragonrepublic bago na an address: Pakidoon na lang kan takod na ini: [1] Ringer 24 Abril 2008

I've written new articles for these languages: Japanese, Vietnamese, Telugu, Cantonese, Marathi, Tamil and Javanese. How do I add these to the front page index for world languages? Thanks! --Steven*fung 12:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll do it for you. (Edit, copy the syntax/code and post, replace] --Filipinayzd 06:11, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Mabalos Filipinayzd! May sinurat akong bagong artikulo para sa mga ciudad nin Bikol: Legazpi, Naga, Tabaco, Sorsogon, Iriga, Ligao asin sarong artikulo sa ciudad nin Cebu. Pakidagdag man tabi ini sa enot na dahon. Thanks Filipinayzd! I wrote new articles for Bicol cities such as Legazpi, Naga, Tabaco, Sorsogon, Iriga, Ligao as well as the city of Cebu. Kindly add these to the main front page index, thanks!--Steven*fung 09:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Update: I already moved the Bicol cities to the front page, but not yet Cebu city. --Steven*fung 10:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation

• Tataramon, nacionalidad, ethnicity
• Isla, nacion, provincia, syudad

Masbate (klaripikasyon) - for disambiguation pages

Masbate - for provinces

Masbate (isla) - for islands

Masbate (ciudad) - for cities

Albay (klaripikasyon)

Albay

Albay (golpo) - for gulfs

Sulu (klaripikasyon)

Sulu

Sulu (dagat) - for seas

Sulu (arkipelago) - for archipelagoes

Quezon (klaripikasyon)

Quezon - of CALABARZON

Quezon (ciudad) - of Metro Manila

Quezon (isla) - of the Hundred Islands

Manuel L. Quezon - former Philippine President

Bikol (klaripikasyon)

Rehiyon Bikol - for regions

Bikolano - for people

Bikol (tataramon) - for languages

Bikol (mga tataramon) - for group of languages/dialects

Tagalog (klaripikasyon)

Tagalog - people

Tagalog (tataramon) - language

or

Tagalog - language

Tagalog (tawo) - people

Which is better?

Standardization

Paggamit nin asin, buda, saka, sagkod

• Preference - nasa parasurat kun arin an gagamiton
• Variety - bako sanang saro an gamiton:

Ini an ikatolo sa pinaka dakulang kontinente sunod sa Asya asin Aprika, asin ika-apat sa pinaka matawo sunod sa Asya, Aprika asin Europa.

I agree. In fact, this is what I've been trying to do with my articles to avoid excessive repetition. It can also help enrich our language's vocabulary if we use words from other varieties of Standard Bikol as synonyms. Besides Naga, Standard Bikol also includes the varieties of Daet, Tabaco, Legazpi and northern Sorsogon. Since I come from Legazpi I often use "buda" in alternation with "asin".--Steven*fung 22:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Marhay ngani ta bako kitang parehong taga-Naga o taga-Legazpi ta malilikayan an pagigin pabor sa sarong dialect. Pag magdakol na contributors, mangyayari iyan kaya ngonyan pa sana gibohan ta nang solusyon.

I think, only asin is standard Bikol.

Betawiki

• Translate - sanglîan/idakit-taramon
• Edit - hirahón/liwaton
• Delete - parâon/puraon
• Find - hanápon/hanapa/
• Search - hanápon/saligsigon
• Go - dumanán/dumani
• Change - ribayan/liwata/baluwan
• Remove - halîon/tangkason
• Error - salâ/kasalaan
• Page - pahina/dahon
• Discuss - pag-olayan/diskusyonan/pag-usipan
• Discussion - orólay/orolayan/usipan
• Talk - magtaram/magsabi/
• View - hilingón/tanawon/baydon
• Views - mga hiling/mga tanawon
• View discussion - hilingón an orólay/tanawon an diskusyon
• Show - hilingón/ipahiling/ipabayad
• Hide - tagôon/itago/
• Source - ginikanan/galin
• View source - hilingón an ginikanan/baydon kin sari galin
• Log in - maglaog
• Log out - magluwas
• Not logged in - dai nakalaog
• Login error - salâ an paglaog
• Summary - kagabsan/sumaryo
• Preview - tânawon/palantaw
• Show preview - hilingon an patânaw/ipahiling an palantaw
• User - parágamit
• Previous - nakaagi/dati
• Next - sunod

Ano an riparo mo? --Filipinayzd 07:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Dapit sa tataramon na "translate" mas angay an taramon na palis na iyo an ginagamit ko igdi. An mga parasurat tang huben sa Bikol arog ka Kristian Cordero asin maski ngani si Frank Peñones ginagamit an dakitaramon na boot sabihon translation. Ringer 24 Abril 2008

Para sakuya mas maray kun "pagsalin" o "idakit-taramon" an gamiton sa "translate" kesa "sanglian o palis". An taramon na "sanglian" may angay sa "change" asin "palis" sa "pour". Kadakolon pang Bikol na taramon na dae pang gayo nadidiskubre kan mga parasurat asin namamangnohan na sana ining minaabot sa isip kun yaon na sa kombersasyon o pagsurat. Kaya an mas magayon, kaipuhan na segurong magkaigwa nin Bikol Language Congress tanganing magkaigwa na kita nin estandarteng pagtugmadan kan gabos na mga parasurat sa Bikol. Ini seguro an kinakaipuhanan tang gibohon tanganing mas malinaw. Kaidto kaya na yaon pa ako sa trabaho bilang researcher-analyst, nakatao sakuya nin pansin an kagayunan kan Bikol na tataramon. Kaya lang sa obserbasyon ko, garo baga mayong estandarteng estruktura o gramatika na puwedeng iyo an basehan sa kaisipang Bikol na pagsusurat. Tarabangan ta daw tabi ini. --Geopoet 08:50, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Magayon ining pag-orolayan. Kadakol naman nin mga ginibong pag-adal sa pagkaigwa nin standard alagad abot sana man dyan. Dai man giraray pigsusunod kan mga parataram kaini. An sarong rason dyan, mayo man nin pigbibistong ahensya na mapangataman, mapaorog kan mga tataramon ta. --Filipinayzd 07:47, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Kaipuhan kaya, tiyaga na pag-adal kan porma o estruktura. Pero mas madali na lang kuta na ta may pattern na kita sa Tagalog/Filipino gramatika. Pero bako ini boot sabihon na arogon ta naman na gayo idto, kundi uniko kaya an Bikol na lengguwahe. Minaiba ini sa paros nin panahon saka modernong porma nin pagtataram. Yaon na kita sa modernong porma nin Bikol sa ngonyan, ta si suanoy na Bikol na an espiling sa éspanyol pa. Siring baga kan "Bikol" ko, kumbinasyon na gayo kan mga simpleng pinagtataram nin tawo sa aro-aldaw na kombersasyon. Kun Ingles na estruktura an gagamiton, minauyon an Bikol sa tono kan dalagan sa panahon kan pagtataram. Minasayaw ini sa hiprayan nin kadahoman nin pagtaram....Geopoet 08:50, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Direksyon

Ano daw an mas maraháy: norte o amihanan, sur o habagatan, este/easte(?) o subangan, weste o sulnopan? Ano an ginagamit kan media? An TV Patrol Bicol, amihanan, habagatan, este sagkod weste an piggagamit. Filipinayzd 14:36, 29 Abril 2008 (UTC)

Magayon naman baga an Amihanan (Amnayan, sayod kan iba), Habagatan, Solnopan asin Subangan. Totoo, bako man problema kun usaron an sur-solnopan, asbp. ta halipot sana. Ringer 4 Mayo 2008

Norte-sulnopan palan an amihanan sagkod sur-subangan man an habagatan. Alagad tama pa man daw na gamiton an amihanan (para sa norte-sulnopan) asin habagatan (para sa sur-sulnopan) kun gagamiton halimbawa sa Europa? Bakong sa sulnopan sana kan Pacifico igwang mga duros na arog kaini? Kun siring dai angay kun gagamiton an termino sa mga lugar na dai man naeekperyensyahan an penominon. --Filipinayzd 15:34, 25 Hunyo 2008 (UTC)

An habagatan tabi Southwest po iyan; an Sur, Timog. Pakihiling na lang sa may parteng ibaba, ta base sa sakuyang aktuwal na pagsaliksik kan mga direksyon sa pabiyahe-biyahe ko asin paghaharapot, an mga minasunod iyo an mga direksyon kan paros:

• North – Norte/Hiraga/Hiragaan(paros)
• Northeast – Norteng Sirangan/Amihan/Amihanan(paros)
• South – Sur/Timog/Katimogan(Paros)
• Southeast –Timog Sirangan/Salatan/Salatanan(paros)
• Northwest-Norteng Sulnupan/Dumagsa/Dumagsaan(paros)
• Southwest-Timog Sulnupan/Habagat/Habagatan(paros)
• East – Este/Sirangan/Siranganan(paros)
• West – Weste/Sulnupan/Sulnupanan(paros)

Hanapon ko pa si notebook kong sadit na sinuratan ko kan manlaenlaen na direksyon kan paros. Sana dae pa narunot kan bagyo...hehehehe Geopoet 08:43, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Duman sa libro ni O'brien garo igwang artikulo duman manongod sa "tamang" translations. Manoy, kun pag makaag ka nin sign an ikaag mo --~~~~ --Filipinayzd 07:47, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Salamat. Dae ko pang gayo sayod an pasistema kaya...Geopoet 08:45, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC

Nakua ko man giraray si luma kong notebook na sinuratan ko kan mga direksiyon base sa paghapot-hapot ko sa mga lugar na nadumanan ko; kaya, may mga binag-o ako sa itaas. Geopoet 23:02, 12 Oktobre 2009 (UTC)

New Articles

Kindly list new articles here.

I added new articles on London (Londres), Paris, Moscow (Mosku), New York (Ciudad nin Nueva York), Rome (Roma) and one article on Henry James (please put in the literature section). Mabalos po!--Steven*fung 13:18, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Sige! Pwede ko man palan hilingon sa contribution link mo kun ano an mga piggiribo mong bagong artikulo. --Filipinayzd 16:05, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Marhay na Aldaw Irvin! Lima an bago kung mga artikulo ngunyan. Pakikaag tabi sa mga parasurat ini: Cervantes, Flaubert, Dostoevsky. Sarong scientifico (Galileo) asin sarong artista (as in artist, baku actor hehe): Leonardo Da Vinci...kun sabagay puede man ikaag si Leonardo sa mga scientifico ta inventor man baga siya. O, sige, mag-email na sana kita. --Steven*fung 03:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Dakul na akong nagibong bagong artikulo Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 03:18, 3 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia Philippines

(I'm very sorry, but I am not a Bikol speaker. I do ask for translation of this message into the Bikol language.)

My fellow Bicolano Wikipedians, I am requesting from your community today to join in helping towards the establishment and development of Wikimedia Philippines, the Philippine chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. You may join the Association by signing our participants' list. You may also view our Association Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, give comments and/or suggestions or translate WMPH content into Bikol, and vote for the approval of the Articles of Incorporation so that it may be forwarded to the Wikimedia Foundation chapters committee.

Bikol Translation:

Sa kapwa ko Bicolano Wikipedians, Ako naghahagad sa saindong komunidad ngonyan na makibale sa pagtabang para sa pag-establisa asin asenso kan Wikimedia Philippines, an tsapter sa Pilipinas kan Wikimedia Foundation. Kamo puwedeng makibale sa Asosasyon sa paagi nin pagpirma sa samuyang participants' list. Saindo man na mahiling an samuyang Asosasyon Articles of Incorporation asin Bylaws, magtao nin komentaryo asin/o suhestiyon o pagsalin WMPH na magin Bikol, asin magboto para sa pag-apruba kan Mga Artikulo nin Inkorporasyon tanganing ini puwede nang maipasa pasiring sa Wikimedia Foundation chapters committee. Geopoet 09:59, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

I hope this becomes a successful process, and we appreciate the help. Thank you very much. --Sky Harbor 08:14, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Sky Harbor, I've joined the participants' list. --Steven*fung 13:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Announcement

Congratulations to the Bikol Wikipedia community for their continued support of their Incubator project. The Bikol Wikipedia (in its final form) has been APPROVED by the Wikimedia Foundation , and as such, expect the new home of the Bikol Wikipedia to be http://bcl.wikipedia.org anytime soon.

Please continue fostering a vibrant and healthy community. Good luck and Godspeed to the Bikol Wikipedia, not only from me, but from the entire Philippine Wikimedia community and to the soon-to-be-formed Wikimedia Philippines. --Sky Harbor 16:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Bikol Wiktionary

Solsogon an takod na ini --Filipinayzd 16:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Boot ko palan na ipaabot na maugma ako na igwa nang Bikol Wiktionary. Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 11:34, 19 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Bikol Wiki is now live

Mga kapwang Bikolano, bukas na an bagong sitio nin Bikol Wiki. Tabangan ta an pagasenso kaini. Hilingon tabi sa : [[2]] --Steven*fung 00:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Virtual meeting

My fellow Bikol Wikipedians,

You are all cordially invited to the First Philippine Wikipedia Virtual Meetup to be held on May 3, 2008 at 8:00 PM Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8). We all hope that you can make it. For more information, please see the English Wikipedia. Likewise, please indicate your willingness to attend so you may be sent an invitation to the conference.

Thanks and we hope to see you there! --Sky Harbor 14:31 2 Mayo 2008 (UTC)

When will be the next Virtual Meeting. Please try to schedule it to be held in Naga City. I believe many will be interested to get acquainted with. Geopoet 23:20, 12 Oktobre 2009 (UTC)

Meeting po iyan kan magniriba-ibang Filipino Wikipedians. Kita po digdi sa Bikol nuarin daw. --Filipinayzd 07:44, 13 Oktobre 2009 (UTC)

Tamboan na mga artikulo

Paki kaagan tabi nin duwang "{" sagkod "stub" sagkod duwang "}" an mga artikulong tamboan. --Filipinayzd 17:20, 6 Mayo 2008 (UTC)

Riparo ko lang tabi, an "Mormonismo" naitipa na "Mornomismo". Pakihira man tabi sa main. Salamat. Geopoet 09:57, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Opisyal na Sensus kan Pilipinas 2007

An sensus kan populasyon nin Pilipinas na ginibo kan taon 2007 pinaluwas na, susog sa Proklamasyon Nu. 1489 na pirmado ni Pres. Arroyo kan Abril 16, 2008. Dapat gayod ini na an pasisikaran na estadistika kan gabos na parasurat sa Bikol Wikipedia. Kun boot mahiling an site sa sensus, dooni tabi an takod na ini: [3]

Ringer 14:55, 9 Mayo 2008 (UTC)

Friendster group

• www.friendster.com/pinoywikipedia
• Pinoy Wikipedia Friendster Group
• Facebook group keyword: "Pinoy Wikipedia"
• pinoywikipedia.multiply.com
• www.come.to/wikipedia
• PhilWiki Yahoo Group

--Exec8 07:23, 14 Hunyo 2008 (UTC)

Bandalismo

May naglalaog nang vandalismo sa wikipidia. Pano mapondo ini? Ringer 18:40, 14 Hunyo 2008 (UTC)

Kaipuhan maghagad permiso na magin tagamato sa Wikimedia. Nagpaso na si permisong itinao sako kadto. --Filipinayzd 15:37, 25 Hunyo 2008 (UTC)

Dai ako nagbabandal. Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 08:56, 2 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Pagkarga nin Sagunson

Napasaen si menu pagkarga nin file? -- Ringer 14:24, 29 Oktubre 2008 (UTC)

Anibersaryo kan Wikipidya

Magayon an kaisipan mong ini, Filipinayzd. Pagulayan ta. Saen palan an pigplano mong Book Sale? Pwede tang alokon naman an mga book writers na ipatinda idtong libro ninda. Sige, pagibo kitang t-shirt na may nakataplak kan logo nin Bikol wikipidya.Ringer 20:30, 18 Nobyembgre 2008 (UTC)

Filipinayzd, hilingan kita sa aga, sa Trevi, sa Nagaland Hotel. Kahampang ini kan E-mall, mga alas 6 na hapon. Ulayan ta an an proyektong iniisip mo para sa anibersaryo kan Wikipidya. Dai ko nakua su cp number mo. Napara na tolos. Ringer 20:35 19 Nobyembre 2008 (UTC)

Noarin tabi an anibersaryo kan Wikipidya? Saka saen na puwede kitang maghirilingan sa Naga? Text man nindo ako: 09262674118. Makibali man daw ako sa parang-osan!Geopoet 08:54, 27 Agosto 2009 (UTC)

Nobyembre 24 tabi, kan 2007. --Filipinayzd 07:47, 13 Oktobre 2009 (UTC)

Estadistika manonongod sa Bikol WIkipedia

• Uya an Pinakahinihilíng na mga pahina sa Bikol Wikipedia (mga paghilíng lambang aldaw):
  • 36 [1.44 %]: Pangenot na Pahina
  • 82 [0.87 %]: Corazon Aquino
  • 44 [0.47 %]: Magayon Festival
  • 39 [0.41 %]: Espesyal:RecentChanges
  • 39 [0.41 %]: Taoismo
  • 29 [0.31 %]: Estados Unidos
  • 24 [0.25 %]: YouTube
  • 20 [0.21 %]: Golpo
  • 20 [0.21 %]: Bulkan Mayon
  • 19 [0.20 %]: Ingles

-Filipinayzd 07:24, 26 Oktobre 2009 (UTC)

Aro-aldaw na patama sa Bikol Wikipidya

Igwa man baga daa nin 9,443 aro-aldaw an natangka' sa satong Wikipidya. Hehe. Ringer 27 Okt 2009

Manila 8/First Wikimedia Philippines Annual Convention

Hello everyone,

All editors of the Bikol Wikipedia are cordially invited to attend the First Wikimedia Philippines Annual Convention on Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The convention will run concurrent with the Eighth Manila Wikipedians' Meetup. This will also serve as the soft-launch of WMPH.

Editors from this Wikipedia who have signed up to join WMPH are expected to attend, so please be there. Likewise, we are inviting non-members of WMPH to attend as observers; you are welcome to sign up as a member of WMPH during the convention if you so wish. To help us estimate the number of attendees, may we please ask you to list your name on this page, under "Participants".

Thank you, and we hope to see you at the WMPH Annual Convention. :)

For the WMPH Board of Trustees
--Sky Harbor ^(talk) 04:19, 12 Mayo 2010 (UTC)

Pagpaorog kan Bikol Wikipedia Grant

Uya an takod panlaog sa urulay dapit sa proposal: Pagpaorog kan Bikol Wikipedia --Filipinayzd 03:43, 15 Pebrero 2012 (UTC)

Balanghayan sa Bikol

Boot ko lang ipasabot sa gabos na gusto kong magpublisa sa paagi kan Bikol Wikipedia nin Balanghayan sa Bikol (Grammar in Bicol) kaya lang, dae ko pang gayo sabot kung paano mapunan ini. Ano daw kun may mga suhestiyon kamo. Ang Balanghayan sa Bikol pighango ko sa desinyo sa English Grammar, sa pagsabot na ang tataramong Ingles unibersong tataramon asin igwa nin kumpletong estruktura nin pagtaram. Siring sa Balarila (Grammar) nin Tagalog, nakadesinyo man ini sa English Grammar. Kaya, pinagmawot kong maipaaram ang plano kong ini sa gabos sa pagmawot na magtarabang kita para marealisa ang bagay na ini. Ano daw ang yaon sa boot nindo? Geopoet 06:15, 23 Pebrero 2012 (UTC)

Sa pagmati ko, ortograpiya muna kita, dangan bokabularyo. Hararom na urulay an kaipohan sa gramatika. Sa ngunyan, dawa mayo kitang nababasang Balanghayan, igwa kitang dai nakasurat na sinusunod. Kun an pagsurat kaining mga unwritten rules an isusurat. Kaipohan nin tawan halawig na panahon ini. Sa ngunyan, an marhay, sa ortograpiya asin bokaluaryo na muna kita gayod magtutok. --Filipinayzd 08:44, 23 Pebrero 2012 (UTC)

Kun sabagay nagpopoon pa sana ako sa bagay na ini. Mas maray na idtong may pinunan na bago tapuson. Uyon ako na maenot ang ortograpiya, pero habang ginigibo ta ini, punan ko naman nganing pag-abot nin tamang pagtugdas, yaon na asin repasohon na sana. Ano tabi an maiambag ko sa ortograpiya? Pakitao na an takod tanganing makaambag na man ako.Salamat.Geopoet 11:22, 23 Pebrero 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata is now open

Greetings!

First I apologize for not posting this with your language. Just a reminder that Wikidata is now open. Check it out and see how you can contribute, set up pages for your language, and join the discussions that could eventually affect this wiki. Regards--Lam-ang (olay) 20:20, 6 Desyembre 2012 (UTC)

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki. Thanks! Xaris333 (olay) 00:58, 12 Agosto 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:36, 14 Nobyembre 2014 (UTC)

>>

mayo digding rehistrohan o guestbook sa english o talaan ng panauhin sa tagalog.. hmm..

Running as an admin

Hi everyone, Even I'm newbie here (joined february 8 2018), I want to run a position as a temporary admin, because I have noticed here that since 1 year ago, vadalism makes our wiki untrusted so I want to prevent or lessen the vandalism and also improve our bclwiki. Bikol Wikipedia is in need of an admin that understands the language, so I am applying for temp. adminship. I have do many things here in this wiki since I joined, like about the languages of Austronesian and Formosan, and now I make articles connected to the language of Austroasyatiko.

If you agree, just comment "I", if you dont agree, just comment "I dont", and why? Thanks. Regard ShiminUfesoj (olay) 19:39, 11 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Support temporary admin access. 2.000 editions, very enthusiastic about the project. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 21:02, 11 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you

• Full Support -Filipinayzd (olay) 14:32, 12 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks to you

Note: Below, Ringer is giving his full support to ShiminUfesoj. He wrote "Of course, I also give my positive endorsement of ShiminUfesoj application for co-adminship seeing his enthusiasm and sincerity to build up bclwiki to optimum growth and vitality." ... DARIO SEVERI (olay) 06:06, 22 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

On 23 may 2018 administrator access was granted for 3 months - expire on 23 August 2018. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 19:05, 23 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

I know. . thanks you very much for your help.

ShiminUfesoj (olay) 02:36, 24 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

Full support Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 11:36, 19 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Admin in BclWiki

An editor since 2008, I guess it is high time to focus my attention on administrative matters, and not merely in writing articles and editing parts now and then, in this local and/or other language projects. Admin rights would certainly enhance my skills to effectively guard this project not only from facetious vandalism but from serious attacks on its integrity. Here's hoping this request would merit the assent of our co-workers in our project. Of course, I also give my positive endorsement of ShiminUfesoj application for co-adminship seeing his enthusiasm and sincerity to build up bclwiki to optimum growth and vitality. Ringer (olay) 20:24, 11 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Support temporary admin access. Ringer and an editor on this project since 2008 with thousands of editions, and do not worry about "serious attacks on its integrity" ... This not exist here in this Wikipedia it is only a fallacy. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 21:02, 11 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you DARIO SEVERI, for your endorsement. Ringer (olay) 12:40, 12 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Support temporary admin access. As a newbie, Ringer have a patriotism and he promote the bicol language.. Since 2008, there are lots of projects and editor with a thousand of editions. Its better in this wiki to have a person like him. ShiminUfesoj (olay) 03:48, 12 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you ShiminUfesoj for your endorsement. Ringer (olay) 12:52, 12 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

• Full Support -Filipinayzd (olay) 14:36, 12 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

Application for admin access

A volunteer since 2008, and having experienced all kinds of problems in editing and writing articles in Wikipedia, may I ask for your support in applying for administratorship in Bikol Wikipedia. I have met various forms of editorial problems in Wikipedia but since they require higher level of authority, I just ignore them. Hopefully, I can assist right on in improving the quality of our Wikipedia if vested with the proper tools. Thanks. Ringer (kaulayon) 04:12, 9 Disyembre 2023 (UTC)

Is it OK?

I think it is not OK because I think it was infringed upon copyright. Japanese Copyright term is for 50 years, but Yutaka Ozaki died 1992, so we cannot discribe the words of the song. So I suggest that it should be Revision deletion or Oversight.--Napoleon VIII (olay) 13:17, 18 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

Hi. It should be revision, just remove the violation.

Help me to translate in bicol

Hi guys, can you help me to translate those "land forms and water forms" in our language.

• anyong lupa

1. Kapatagan - kapatagan
2. kabundukan- kabukiran
3. bundok- bukid, bulod
4. bulkan- bulkan
5. Talampas- ampas
6. Lambak-
7. Pulo- puro, isla
8. islands (en), isla
9. Tangway- rawis
10. Kapuluan- kapuroan
11. Kanyon-
12. ravine, gorge, gully- ranggas)
13. plain- tanayad) (e.g. plain country)

. atbp

• Anyong Tubig

1. dagat- dagat
2. karagatan- dagat
3. lawa- danaw
4. look- sola', suba'
5. golpo- golpo
6. Talon- busay
7. ilog- salog
8. batis- sipi', sulong
9. sapa- sapa'
10. lagoon-
11. strait- itiot, as in Strait of Gibaltrar
12. spring- burabod
13. tornado- alyosos (usually referring to strong twisters), buhawi
14. whirlwind- aliporos

Atbp.

I hope... Because, to make my knowledge more and to make my article about land and water forms make correct to equivalent to bcl.

ShiminUfesoj (olay) 15:43, 19 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

I forgot the bikol word for "valley" but i saw it in the bikol bible. I may be mistaken but it seems it's "wadi". Ringer (olay) 20:01, 21 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

Thanks.. Its is a big help.. So I can translate the :

1. Bicol peninsula to rawis kan bicol o rawis nin bicol
2. Look nin San miguel will change to Suba'/Sola' nin San Miguel
3. and so on

But i was confuse in the translation of sea and ocean, why it is the same? So the translation of yellow sea is "dagat na dilaw" and the translation of artic ocean is "dagat artiko", I dont know if "kadagatan" is more appropriate for the translation of "ocean".

ShiminUfesoj (olay) 02:19, 22 Mayo 2018 (UTC)

Ribayan ta na an Napiling Artikulo nin bag-o

Hi Filipinayzd , Hi Ringer . Suggest kamo kun ano an pwedeng iribay sa satóng pan'atubangan na artikulo. -- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 07:23, 24 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Iyo mananggad. Bulan-bulan nagsasangling tampok na artikulo. -Filipinayzd (olay) 09:17, 24 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Giboho ta dugod tong arog sa tagalog wikipedia.. ? pwede man gayod siguro - Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 04:46, 25 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Pakarhaya na tabi tanganing bàgo na man an hitsura. -Filipinayzd (olay) 19:06, 26 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Iyo po, alagad ano an pwedeng iribay sa satóng pan'atubangan na artikulo. ?

-- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 23:28, 26 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Awarding of Wiki Loves Earth Philippines

You are invited to the awarding event of Wiki Takes Earth tomorrow 2:30 in the afternoon at Biggs Magsaysay in Naga City. See you! -Filipinayzd (olay) 11:40, 27 Hulyo 2018 (UTC)

Ano an salin sa bikol kan Railways?

Hi Paragamit: Ringer asin Paragamit: Filipinayzd ano daw tabi an salin kan Railways sa bikol?

-- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 16:29, 14 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Riles. --Filipinayzd (olay) 09:33, 15 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

thanks so the translation of Naga railway station is estasyon nin riles kan Naga? -- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 10:04, 15 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Extension of Admin Right

Hi Paragamit: Filipinayzd and Paragamit: Ringer, Can you comment here if you like to extend my admin rights here in BCL wiki. My admin rights will ended on August 24, 2018, Thanks... Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 13:00, 15 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Yah I hope so, Hi Paragamit: DARIO SEVERI , you may also vote here. Thanks😎 Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 16:02, 16 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Agree

• You are awesome! Hopefully your admin rights become permanent. -Filipinayzd (olay) 12:12, 16 Agosto 2018 (UTC)
• I agree to the renewal of rights of admin. to ShiminUfesoj. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 16:27, 16 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

--Thank you for the support guys 😂 -- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 03:39, 19 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Disagree

Paburunyugon an artikulong balanghayan sa Bikol

Paburunyugon nyatoining artikulong ini tanganing makatabang kun may mawot o muya magtabang ss bcl. Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 16:30, 9 Setyembre 2018 (UTC)

Hilingnon mo sii sako

HI Irvin Hilingon mo si sako digdi -- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 02:44, 8 Marso 2019 (UTC)

Pagpapalawig pa utro

Hi Paragamit: Filipinayzd and Paragamit: Ringer, Can you comment here if you like to extend my admin rights here in BCL wiki. My admin rights will ended on August 24, 2019, Thanks... Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 13:00, 15 Agosto 2018 (UTC)

Agree:

• Support admin access. Already sysop since May 2018 +thousands of editions, very enthusiastic about the project. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 04:04, 24 Agosto 2019 (UTC)

Disagree:

I running to become an admin here in BCL wiki

Tommorow, my adminship here will be expired, I willing to run again for being admin here so please support me:

Just say if you agree or disagree and why? Thank you. -- Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? 14:29, 23 Agosto 2019 (UTC)

• Support admin access. Already sysop since May 2018 +thousands of editions, very enthusiastic about the project. DARIO SEVERI (olay) 04:04, 24 Agosto 2019 (UTC)
• Support admin access, he do many as he was a sysop here. --Yutaka Ozaki Sempai (olay) 08:48, 24 Agosto 2019 (UTC)
• Support BTW, who is that other admin of BCL. If you checked the Stats, we have 2. -Filipinayzd (olay) 14:52, 27 Agosto 2019 (UTC)

Done - Granted for 2 years to expire on 2021-08-30. Congratulation Shimin_Ufesoj! DARIO SEVERI (olay) 06:15, 31 Agosto 2019 (UTC)

Pagpakarhay kan tabang pagpalis para sa Wikipedyang Bikol

Nagin matriumpo an tool para sa Pampalis Laog sa pagtabang sa proseso kan pagpalis para sa dakol na mga komunidad nin Wikipedya, asin boot ming makipagtabangan sa mga paraambag kan Wikipedyang Bikol sa sarong inisyatibo tanganing mapakarhay an tool na ini base sa saimong partikular na mga kaipohan.

Pinapadali kan Pampalis Laog an paggibo kan mga artikulo sa Wikipedya sa paagi kan pagpalis kan laog kaini sa iba pang mga tataramon. Nagamit na ini tanganing makamukna nin labi sa kabangang milyon na artikulo. Dugang pa, minatao an tool na ini nin mekanismo tanganing makaagda sa pagmukna nin marahay na kalidad nin laog, pinupugolan kaini an pagpublikar kan saradit na pagliwat nin mga programang pagpalis. Sa pangkagabsan, ipinapahiling sa samong analisis na an mga nahimong pagpalis daing gayo napupura kompara sa mga pinonan kaidto sa poon na mga artikulo.

Naggamit na an mga paraambag kan Wikipedyang Bikol nin Pampalis Laog tanganing makagibo nin haros 500 na artikulo. Huli kan pagkadakula kan komunidad nin mga paraambag, nagtutubod kami na igwa nin potensyal na magamit an pagpalis tanganing makagibo pa nin dakol na mga artikulo, makapahiwas kan mga eksistido na, asin makaagda nin mga bagong paraambag na makakanood na maghaman nin igwang pakinabang na mga pagliwat. Makakatabang sa komunidad an pagpalis tanganing mapadikit kaini an agwat nin tataramon o language gap sa ibang mga tataramon asin mapatalubo an bilang kan mga paraambag nin padagos-dagos. Tanganing mautob an kamawotan na ini, boot ming makipagtabangan saimo na:

• Gibohon na nahihiling an Pampalis Laog sa Wikipedyang Bikol. Siring kan pagkaag sa default kan tool na ini, pagpahiling kan tool sa angay na lugar, ipahiling an mga importanteng agwat nin laog, asin iangay an proseso tanganing makua an mga kaipuhan kan komunidad. Sa paaging ini, dakol na mga paraambag an makakanumpong kan importanteng laog na ipapalis.
• Palangkawon an sakop kan laog para sa mga eksistidong artikulo. Aramon an mga ideya tanganing mapahiwas an mga eksistidong artikulo sa paagi kan pagpalis kan mga bagong seksyon kaini. Mapapahiwas ini kan mga paraambag huli kan mga bagong aspeto tanganing matukar an ulayon nin detalyado.
• Suportaran an pagpalis sa dakol pang mga device. Tabangan an pagpalis gamit an mobile devices tanganing makatao nin dakol na oportunidad para sa pag-ambag gamit an ano man na device, na makakapabali sa mga bagong paraambag.

Boot ming ihiras sa komunidad an samong kamawotan sa poon pa sana. An mga detalye para sa sunod na mga lakdang bibilogon bilang parte kaining kolaborasyon sa komunidad, asin mawot mi man na poonan an sarong proseso nin pagsaligsig tanganing urog pang maintindihan an mga pangangaipo kan komunidad.

Bilang inot na lakdang, interesado kami na madangog an saimong nasasaboot dapit sa minasunod:

• Positibo daw an ideya kan pagpakarhay kan tabang pagpalis sa mga paaging iniladawan sa itaas bilang paagi nin padagos na pagpatalubo kan Wikipedyang Bikol?
• Igwa ka nin nilalaoman na mga problema na kaipohan simbagon?

Pakiulay na ipaisi sana tabi kami kan saimong nasasaboot dapit sa propwestong inisyatibo asin ihiras an saimong komento digdi sa urulay. --Elitre (WMF) (olay) 19:12, 27 Setyembre 2019 (UTC)

Hello everyone. Apologies if this message isn't in your language; please feel free to translate it. Last month we announced the Boost initiative to help wikis grow with translation. Although Central Bikol is not among the wikis we are focusing initially, there was interest from community members in how the initiative could help Central Bikol Wikipedia too. As an initial step, we have enabled Content translation by default on Central Bikol Wikipedia.

Now it is easy for users to discover the tool through several entry points. However, users not interested in translation can disable it from their preferences. We expect this will help translators to create more content of good quality in Central Bikol. We’ll be monitoring the statistics for Central Bikol as well as the list of articles created with the tool. Content translation provides quality control mechanisms to prevent the abuse of machine translation and the limits can be adjusted based on the needs of each community. Please, feel free to share your impressions about the content created and how the tool works for the community. This feedback is essential to improve the tool to better support your needs. Thanks!--Pginer-WMF (olay) 12:19, 30 Setyembre 2019 (UTC)

Application as BCL Wiki Administrator

I am Kunokuno (olay) 05:22, 17 Mayo 2020 (UTC). I have participated in several activities of BCL Wiki since 2012. Most of them were offline/outreach activities. It was only a year since I've been actively editing and creating new articles for BCL Wiki. I do minor edits mostly on random pages and that's where I noticed that some of the pages are candidate for deletion, or most of the time in need of additional information and citations. There were also citations connected to a broken link. I would like to apply as a temporary administrator for three months and help Shimin_Ufesoj Ulay_kita? and Paragamit: Ringer fix these issues. Thanks!

Strong support, - I'm glad that theirs a one that may help me, and its a big help to improve Bcl wiki if theirs have two administrator. -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_gᜃᜒᜆ? 12:18, 17 Mayo 2020 (UTC)

Strong support, the skills and experience of Kunokuno as a Bicolano writer is a great help to Bikol Sentral Wikipedia! Dang Brazal (olay) 15:13, 17 Mayo 2020 (UTC)

Application of Kunokuno

The active participation of Kunokuno in Bikol wikipedia makes him worthy and qualified to be designated as one of its administrators. I endorse his application favorably. Ringer (olay) 07:36, 17 Mayo 2020 (UTC)

Re- Application as BCL Wiki Administrator

I am Kunokuno. I would like to extend my administrator status in our local Wikipedia to continue the things I've started fixing since I was given the access as temporary administrator this past few months. There's still a lot to be improved especially on templates and I've come to discover some articles are for deletion since it was only a test article that was made during the previous years' edit-a-thons. However, there are also articles that are not candidate for deletion if only it could be modified into a more concise and informative article. I hope I will still be given the chance to do this tasks as local administrator.

i agree for his/her extension, im sorry if sometimes i cannot do my obligation as an admin here but of there is a time.. — by the way he/she good at all and i support because since im to very busy on my Real life, he/she will.. i mean he/she do a lot here. -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 18:31, 20 Agosto 2020 (UTC)

Yes, we fully endorse Kunokuno to continue his role as administrator at Bikol Wikipedia. We believe he is doing well in this task and has shown energy and enthusiasm to clean up Bikol Wiki. Ringer (olay) 16:15, 25 Agosto 2020 (UTC)

Mabalos Shimin_Ufesoj asin Ringer sa padagos na pagsuporta. Pagturuwangan tang pakarhayon ining satuyang proyekto asin patalubuon pa an satong sadiring lenggwahe.

Kunokuno (olay) 13:32, 27 Agosto 2020 (UTC)

Proposal to enable an experimental open source machine translation system for Central Bikol

Content translation has been used already by many communities to translate more than 700,000 Wikipedia articles. We want to help communities with potential to grow by using translation more. We propose to enable experimental support for a basic machine translation system for Central Bikol within Content Translation. Over time, it can improve with the help of the community.

Background

For some languages, Content translation offers Machine Translation as a starting point for users to edit and improve. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, which prevent the publication of only lightly edited machine translations. As a result, the translations produced with the tool are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.

Unfortunately, Central Bikol is not supported by any of the translation services currently integrated in the tool such as Apertium, Google or Yandex. This requires editors to write their translations from scratch.

Proposal

We want to propose the integration of OpusMT, an Open source Neural Machine Translation system that supports the English-Central Bikol language pair. You can try the translation engine on this example website (select "bcl" in the dropdown menu on the right side). Although the translation service is based on MarianMT, a powerful neural network system, the quality of the final translations heavily depends on the availability of translation data which is limited for Central Bikol at the moment. This means that:

• The translation quality will be very low initially. When using the translation service you should still expect that you'll have to rewrite most of the content. This may not be an extra effort compared to the current situation, given that users have to write their translations from scratch since there is no alternative machine translation system available.
• Quality will improve over time as more articles are translated. Each translation created with Content Translation (using machine translation or from scratch) will contribute to the global corpus of translation examples used by the system. Thus, the more translations are created with the tool, the better the machine translation service will become.

We believe that this approach will help the less-supported languages over time. We want to check if this plan sounds good to the Central Bikol community, and encourage Central Bikol editors to translate Wikipedia articles with the tool. In this way, your translations not only help expand the knowledge available in your language, but also become a way to improve the free machine translation service that can be used inside and outside Wikipedia.

Note that the usage of OpusMT machine translation is optional and editors are free to translate without using such services.

Impact

On Central Bikol Wikipedia, more than 350 articles have been created with Content Translation since 2015 (compared to more than 6,000 articles created from scratch in the same period). So we don’t expect a high volume of new content as an immediate result of this experiment. In any case, we want to encourage editors to report any issues they find with the tool while creating or reviewing translations.

In order to make sure that the content created using the new machine translation system results in a productive contribution, we’ll keep track of the translations created with the tool and their deletion ratios. In addition, we’ll set stricter limits on machine translation to enforce more intensive editing of the initial low quality machine translation.

We want to make sure the expectations are clear before enabling the new system. Please share your questions and your thoughts on the idea. We’ll proceed only if there are no major concerns from the community.

Thanks! --Amir E. Aharoni (WMF) (olay) 12:12, 4 Nobyembre 2020 (UTC)

Hi Amir E. Aharoni (WMF)! We badly need this for Bikol Wikipedia. We have been using Content Translation but since there is no Central Bikol in Google Translate we translate manually. Having an open source machine translation system is better than translating manually. I personally welcome this development not just for Bikol Wikipedia but for smaller Wikipedias as well. --Filipinayzd (olay) 07:03, 5 Nobyembre 2020 (UTC)

Hello Amir E. Aharoni (WMF), I support this innovation. This will be helpful for our local wiki. Some of our articles are created through the translation tool. It would ease the burden of manual translation. Minor revisions are much tolerable. Thank you. Kunokuno (olay) 07:11, 12 Nobyembre 2020 (UTC)

Leni Robredo article was deleted

What happened to the article of Leni Robredo? --Filipinayzd (olay) 03:30, 13 Nobyembre 2020 (UTC)

The article was created through a content translation. However, the editor Jheckpesino is still a newbie and was not able to create an article worthy of publishing so it was opted to be deleted. See here:https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:DeletedContributions/Jheckpesino and here:https://bcl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Espesyal:Undelete&action=submit. Upon checking, it was already created but it appears on suggestions for translation. The previous revisions were restored today to correct this. See here: https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:Undelete/Leni_Robredo. I hope this clear things. Thank you. Kunokuno (olay) 09:46, 20 Desyembre 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia PH Month Project

Major Philippine ethnolinguistic groups

Hello Everyone,

Wikipedia Philippine Month or simply Wikipedia PH Month is a monthly editing activity inspired by Wikipedia Asian Month. It aims to bridge knowledge gaps on Philippine content in Philippine language editions of Wikipedia and beyond. The participating community is not limited to the Philippines and is open to all Wikipedia editions! This activity also aims to encourage collaboration among Filipino contributors within the archipelago and in the diaspora, and create linkages among Filipino and non-Filipino contributors who support the main objective.

How to Participate in the Activity

As an Editor

• Find the language edition of Wikipedia you would like to build on.
• Register an account if you have not done so.
• Choose articles about the Topic of the Month, but NOT from YOUR NATIVE LOCALITY, and start creating or improving articles.
• Write in the summary box the hashtag #WikiPHmonth before saving your work.

As an Organizer

• Set up and run the contest on a local level within your language community. (e.g. bcl:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Philippine Month 2021)
• If your local Wikipedia is already participating, ask if you can help judge articles if you are interested.
• Engage local editors and aim for maximum participation.
• Organize online and offline events for contest promotion and increase in participation.
• If you have expertise or skills in public relations, then you can help us get media coverage.

Topics

Traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines

Each participating local Wikipedia community runs a monthly online edit-a-thon, which promotes the creation or improvement of the Wikipedia content about a particular group or groups of people in the Philippines and the region they represent.

• JANUARY - The Visayans (Region VI, Region VII, Region VIII, Romblon) are a metaethnicity race native to the whole Visayas, to the southernmost islands of Luzon (MIMAROPA Region and Masbate) and the northern and eastern coastal parts of Mindanao. They are speakers of one or more Visayan languages, the most widely spoken being Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Waray-Waray. They comprise the largest ethnic group in the nation.
• February - Wiki Loves Love; Chinese New Year - Filipino-Chinese heritage
• March - WikiGap; Women's Month - Filipina
• APRIL - The Tagalogs (NCR, Region IV-A, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Marinduque) are the most widespread ethnic group in the Philippines. They predominate the entirety of the Manila and mainland southern Luzon regions, with a plurality in Central Luzon (mainly in its southeastern portion, as well as parts of Zambales and Bataan provinces except for Pampanga and Tarlac) and coastal parts of Mindoro. The Tagalog language was chosen as an official language of the Philippines in 1935. Today, Filipino, a de facto version of Tagalog, is taught throughout the archipelago.
• MAY - Heritage Month - Highland Ethnolinguistic Nations (Cordilleras), Mangyan (in central Mindoro island), Suludnon (in central Panay island, and Negritos (in remote areas throughout Luzon, Panay, Negros islands, and Mindanao). The Igorots/Cordillerans live in the highlands of Luzon. They are primarily located in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Caraballo Mountains, and Sierra Madre. Mangyan is the generic name for the eight indigenous groups found on the island of Mindoro, southwest of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, each with its own tribal name, language, and customs. They occupy nearly the whole of the interior of the island of Mindoro. The Negrito are several Australo-Melanesian groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia. They all live in remote areas throughout the islands in the Philippines. The Suludnon, also known as the Tumandok, Sulod, Panay-Bukidnon, or Panayanon Sulud, are an indigenous Visayan group of people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area and the Antique-Iloilo mountain area of central Panay in the Visayan islands of the Philippines.
• June - Filipino-Spanish Friendship Day - Filipino-Spanish heritage
• JULY - The Ilocanos and minorities in Lowland Ethnolinguistic Nations in Cagayan Valley Region (Region I, Region II) are predominantly Christian group who reside within the lowlands and coastal areas of northwestern Luzon. Other Ilocanos are also found in Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley. The Ivatan (also spelled as Ibatan) are the predominant ethnolinguistic group in the Batanes islands of the Philippines. They have close cultural links with the Taiwanese aborigines, especially the Yami/Tao people of Orchid Island under jurisdiction of Taiwan. The Ibanags are a predominantly Christian lowland ethnic group numbering around half a million people and who primarily inhabit the provinces of Cagayan and Isabela in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon. The Itawes/Itawis/Itawit are among the earliest inhabitants of the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon. The Gaddang number about 25,000. They are known to have inhabited the upper Cagayan Valley and the Magat valley below Aritao in Nueva Vizcaya and in Isabela since before the Spanish arrived.
• AUGUST - Indigenous Month - Highland Ethnolinguistic Nations (Tribal Palaweño, and Lumad) and Lowland Ethnolinguistic Nations (Bangsamoro). The peoples and tribes of Palawan are a diverse group of both indigenous tribes and lowland groups that historically migrated to the island of Palawan and its outlying islands. The Lumad are the un-Islamized and un-Christianized indigenous Austronesian peoples of Mindanao. They include several ethnolinguistic nations such as the Manobo, the Tasaday, the Mamanwa, the Mandaya, the B'laan, the T'boli, and the Kalagan. They primarily inhabit the eastern parts of Mindanao such as the Caraga, and Davao Regions. The collective term Moro or Bangsamoro people refers to the, at least 13, islamicized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan. The Muslim Moros originally had a few independent states such as the Maguindanao Sultanate, the Lanao Sultanates, and the Sulu Sultanate. The Sultanate of Sulu once exercised sovereignty over the present day provinces of Basilan, Palawan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, the eastern part of the Malaysian state of Sabah (formerly North Borneo) and North Kalimantan in Indonesia.
• SEPTEMBER - The Bikolanos and Masbateños (Region V) are a predominantly Roman Catholic ethnic group that originates from the Bicol Region in Southern Luzon. They are the fifth-largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. Masbateños live in Masbate province of the Philippines. Masbateños may be considered Visayans by language but are Bicolanos by region.
• OCTOBER - The Pangasinan and Bolinaos (Pangasinan) are the eighth-largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. They predominate in the northwestern portion of Central Luzon (entire Pangasinan, northern Tarlac, northwestern Nueva Ecija and northern Zambales), as well as southwestern parts of La Union and Benguet. The Bolinao people live in Bolinao and Anda, Pangasinan. They speak the Bolinao language or Binubolinao, which is the second most widely spoken Sambalic language in Pangasinan (after Sambal).
• November - Wikipedia Asian Month - Asian Heritage
• DECEMBER - The Kapampangans and Sambals (Pampanga, Zambales, Tarlac) are the seventh-largest ethnic group in the Philippines. They primarily use the Kapampangan language, which is spoken by more than 1.4 million individuals. The Sambals are the inhabitants of the province of Zambales, including the independent city of Olongapo. They are also found in the municipalities of Bolinao and Anda in northwestern Pangasinan. Sambals currently make up a large proportion of the population in the Zambales municipalities of north of Iba, the provincial capital. Their language, Sambal, is related to Kapampangan.

Thank you! --Filipinayzd (olay) 12:43, 7 Enero 2021 (UTC)

Propwesto: Bulan-bulan na pagtampok nin Artikulo

Tanganing magin updated an panginot na pahina sa mga bisita. Marhay gayod na igwang bagong Tampok na artikulo lambang Bulan.

Agihon sa nominasyon an tampok na artikulo na igwa nang halangkaw na kalidad. Dangan, an komunidad maboto sa mga nominado para sa tampok na artikulo sa sunod na bulan. --Filipinayzd (olay) 13:22, 25 Enero 2021 (UTC)

Uyon ako diyan -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 15:11, 25 Enero 2021 (UTC)

Art + Feminism in the Philippines Campaign 2021

There will be a series of edit-a-thons during the month of March and April. This project aims to continue the objectives of the previous year's Art & Feminism in the Philippines by adding and improving contents in Wikipedia, Wiki Commons, and other Wiki projects with regards the Art and Feminism, not only limited in the Philippines but throughout the world. Here is the link for this year's activity. This event was requested through the individual rapid grants of the WMF. We hope you can join us!Here is the link for this year's activity.https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%2B_Feminism_in_the_Philippines_Campaign_2021

Is this event open to the community of contributors? Any details about the venue and date of the edi-a-thon? So we can attend. -15:02, 3 Pebrero 2021 (UTC)

Updates will be posted on the page. There will be in-person and online events depending on the participants' availability. Please keep in touch. For now, please review the details on the page I've mentioned above. Thank you. Kunokuno (olay) 15:24, 3 Pebrero 2021 (UTC)

Pwede daw kaya ini?

Pwede daw na ipalis sa bikol na igwa nin Sub- hal. Subpage magigin pang-irarom na pahina? Subdivision = Pang-irarom na pagkakabanga, ta an hinuha ko an Sub garo siya nakapairarom sa ugat basta.. -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 07:55, 6 Pebrero 2021 (UTC)

Pwede man. Basta yaun pa an konteksto. Basta baga maintindihan pa man. Ta minsan naipapalis ta sa Bikol alagad dai naman maintindihan ta nagiging bagong tataramon. Kunokuno (olay) 08:22, 6 Pebrero 2021 (UTC)

Local file Ladawan:Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral 005.jpg with duplicate at Commons

Hello po. I'm requesting for the deletion of the local Bicol Wiki file Ladawan:Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral 005.jpg as an exact duplicate of the Commons file File:Cathedral of our Lady of Atonement.jpg, if this request complies or agrees with your guidelines and/or policies. The enwiki template relevant to duplicate files, en:Template:Now Commons, is absent here, so I put forward my request here. Mentioning also the uploader of the file, Ringer , regarding this. Salamat po! JWilz12345 (olay) 11:35, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

Hi JWilz12345 (olay), thank you for noticing the duplication. Let's wait for the response of Ringer

,with regards this. Salamat po. :) Kunokuno (olay) 11:45, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

Another duplicate image found: Ladawan:An Metropolitan Katedral kan Nagal.jpg (Commons: File:Katedral nin Naga.jpg). However, the Commons file is of lower resolution and the user may need to overwrite it with highest resolution. Though I did that for the image of Baguio Cathedral mentioned above. JWilz12345 (olay) 12:07, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

• User:Kunokuno another one: Ladawan:Katolikong simbahan sa Daet014.jpg which is a duplicate of File:Daet Church.jpg (like the first mentioned image, I uploaded the original version on Commons, with edit summary attributing to its uploader). Btw, I hope your wiki has an equivalent to en:Template:NowCommons, as {{Delete}} does not have a parameter where a reason can be added. JWilz12345 (olay) 07:54, 7 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

  Hi JWilz12345, this was uploaded way back 2009 when the BCL wiki was just starting I think. The editor may have forgotten that there's already an uploaded file on Wiki Commons. Do we request for it to be deleted or do just leave it as it is? I am not really particular as to how duplicate images on Commons are managed. Kunokuno (olay) 11:08, 7 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

  User:Kunokuno (I hope your wiki also has local version of en:Template:Ping), using enwiki policy (en:WP:F8), files that are identical copies on Commons are eligible for speedy deletion, as long as the file details and licensing are still intact on Commons, and the Commons file is of superior quality (e.g. higher resolution) than the local one. I don't know if your wiki has the same policy. One benefit of hosting files at Commons is that these can be used at different wikis too (unlike local files here which can only be used here locally).

  One condition is that files must be 100% freely-licensed. Also, there may be no freedom of panorama issue as we currently do not have this privilege in our copyright law that permits free culture and commercial uses, distributions, and publications of images of recent public works (e.g. monuments and architecture) without the need of licensing permissions from the people who designed those public works (architects, sculptors, muralists, etc.).

  What is only allowed on Commons as of today are buildings completed before December 15, 1972 (subject to an old law that didn't protect finished architecture, as Presidential Decree 49/Republic Act 8293 are not retroactive), and other buildings and monuments (statues, sculptures etc.) whose designers have been dead for more than 50 years. JWilz12345 (olay) 12:17, 7 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Extension as BCL Wikipedia Administrator

I would like to request for another term of adminship. I was able to delete some vandalisms within the last few months and block abusive IPs. Also, I am attending the Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online course which will be helpful to me and the rest of the local community when addressing disputes within this local wiki. I hope this request be granted. Kunokuno (olay) 12:04, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

I support also, since I'm so busy on this day so... He is a big help to maintain what the wiki is.. - Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 12:10, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

My full support for Kunokuno, for another term of adminship. Keep on mate! Ringer (olay) 18:31, 6 Marso 2021 (UTC)

Wiki para sa Karapatan Pantawo

As one of the administrators here in BCL Wikipedia, I would like to extend my support for Daramlagon's first project in connection with the international campaign for the # WikiForHumanRights 2021. His request can be viewed here . This event is tentatively scheduled on April 15, 2021 until May 15, 2021. A local page was already created here for updates. In person events and virtual meetings will always follow the Friendly Space Policy. Kunokuno (olay) 10:02, 2 Abril 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in the Philippines

Please support Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in the Philippines by endorsing my proposal. Thank you! -Maffeth.opiana (olay) 16:37, 16 Abril 2021 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Being an active contributor for Bikol Wikipedia, I would like to apply as an administrator for this project. I am planning to create more WikiProjects in Bikol Wikipedia to increase and improve its contents, and also to help the current administrators on maintaining the website. Thank you! - Ralffralff (olay) 05:46, 18 Abril 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support- Ralff is an active contributor in Bikol Wikipedia. He initiated projects such Wikipedia:WikiProyekto_Siyensya, Wikipedia:WikiProyekto_Historya,Wikipedia:WikiProyekto_Gastronomiya and even completed Wikipedia:100wikidays Challenge creating quality articles. He is also an active contributor in Bikol Wiktionary. His expertise, passion and dedication is very much needed in Bikol Wikipedia. He is such an inspiration. Cheers! Maffeth.opiana (olay) 08:28, 18 Abril 2021 (UTC)

• suportado - siya an bahala sa mga manungod sa siyensya arog kan sa adal_buhay asin ano pa man... Mantang sibot pa ako sa buhay na realidad, manunmungan na siya na muna mamahala -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 08:14, 19 Abril 2021 (UTC)
• Strong Support - He is a dedicated and compassionate volunteer. He is genuinely interested in his initiatives and participation in WikiProjects. --Filipinayzd (olay) 01:05, 20 Abril 2021 (UTC)

Invitation for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

Hello there,

We are inviting you to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2021.

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to this message, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

Please feel free to contact Organizing Team if you have any query.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat
Communication Manager
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 06:24, 2 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Module translation and Campaign

Hello Central Bikol Wikipedia Community. I am planning to produce a Central Bikol translation of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom module to promote the usage of Wikipedia and to increase the users of our local wiki. Sherlock808 (olay) 12:07, 4 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Translated from English to Central Bikol based from the works of WMF Education Team

I am done translating in Central Bikol the Module 1. I have asked Vansanthi of an editable version of Module 2 and 3 so we can start the translation. -Filipinayzd (olay) 13:14, 7 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Hello Sherlock808! I am extending my support to this initiative! Also, I am happy to inform you that there are already schools that showed their interest and enthusiasm in being part of this project! I'd be glad to connect you with them. See you soon! :)

Dang Brazal Olay 13:46, 7 Mayo 2021 (UTC) The more the merrier! -Filipinayzd (olay) 14:00, 7 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to join the UCoC Roundtable Discussions

You are invited to participate in the Roundtable Discussions about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct within the Wikimedia movement. There are two Zoom calls scheduled at 15 May and 29 May, both at 15:00-16.30 UTC. Please sign your name here if you are interested. Should you have any questions, please contact RamzyM (WMF). Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 21:48, 5 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth PH 2021 Edit-a-thon‎

Maugmang aldaw! Inaagda kamo na magbali sa kasibotan na Wiki_Loves_Earth_PH_2021_Edit-a-thon poon Mayo 10 hasta Hulyo 31, 2021. Mawot kaini na maitampok an mga ladawan gikan sa Wiki Loves Earth sa mga dati asin bagong artikulo. Maffeth.opiana (olay) 13:55, 9 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

WikiProyekto in Bikol Wikipedia

Good Day, Bikol Wikipedia Community!

The fifth WikiProyekto in Bikol Wikipedia, WikiProyekto Matematika, is now running. The main objective is to create and improve Mathematics-related articles here in Bikol Wikipedia. Also, it is the first child project of WikiProyekto Siyensya which was started a few months ago.

This initiative is a part of the main goal of WikiProyekto ― to make Bikol Wikipedia more diverse in terms of scope and application. In each project, articles can be a basic concept or an advanced one in its respective field of study. As of today, the topics with their own project are science, history, language, food and beverage, and mathematics.

Everyone is invited to contribute or create a WikiProyekto in your own topic of interest.

Mabalos!

Ralffralff (olay) 16:34, 10 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to join the 12 June UCoC Roundtable discussion

Dear Wikimedians: you are invited to participate in the next Roundtable discussion on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). The next iteration would be held on Saturday, 12 June 2021, on 05.00-06.30 UTC (see your local time here). The forum would discuss how to enforce the Code of Conduct across Wikimedia projects and communities. Should you have any question, please direct it to Ramzy Muliawan. See you there! MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 09:44, 3 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Request for extension of Adminship

Hi everyone, I would like to inform that I have request for extension of adminship. This few months, there were IPs that I have blocked due to severe vandalisms and for repeatedly creating not notable articles, by which some are even written in English. I would like to be of help to the current administrators of this Wikipedia. Admin rights has also helped me during tutorials of new users. I hope I can get the same support. Thanks. Kunokuno (olay) 10:52, 14 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support. This user knows the language very well and how to manage this Wikiproject to make it more useful to its users. Neutral and prioritizes relevant articles for the end users. Dang Brazal Olay 10:27, 17 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Weak Support: The user is more active on Tagalog Wikipedia. Limited topics are contributed to Bikol Wikipedia. I always hang out at Tagalog Wikipedia and look at the histories. He is a bit focused on Tagalog, and I don't support him because the person who supported him also said that "This user knows the language very well and how to manage this Wikiproject to make it more useful. to its users. Neutral and prioritizes relevant articles for the end users. " Contrary to what was said, because I don't see much making articles. just blocking the vandals --Yutaka Ozaki Sempai (olay) 11:07, 17 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Support More admins, the merrier, I'm also an admin of this page but sometimes I'm so busy in real life, maybe 3 admin (alongside of raff) much better. -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ?

Thank you for your comments Yutaka Ozaki Sempai. For your reference, you may check my global contributions. It has 3,856 edits on BCL Wikipedia and 772 edits on TL Wikipedia. I have checked your contributions thinking that I may have missed something on what you stated but it was a bit awkward seeing that your last edit on BCL Wikipedia was way back 2019, and your next edit will be your comment on my statement. Maybe, that's the reason you never see any activity of me here. There is also 30 edits from you here in BCL Wikipedia but I would be willing to assist you if you'd want to learn more the language. Yes, I admit that I often edit and even created articles on TL Wikipedia but I don't notice you hanging out very often on Tagalog Wikipedia. My last edit on Tagalog Wikipedia was last May 26, 2021. Anyway, everyone is welcome to give their comments and I respect what you have said. I have provided the links just to give a clearer picture. Kunokuno (olay) 11:42, 17 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Done for one year (expire: June 21, 2022). Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:41, 21 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for approving my request MarcoAurelio. Kunokuno (olay) 13:16, 21 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Invitation for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

Hello there,

We are inviting you to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2021.

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to this message, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

Please feel free to contact Organizing Team if you have any query.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat
Communication Manager
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
Message delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 10:10, 2 Mayo 2021 (UTC)

Establishing a PhilWiki Community Branch

PhilWiki Community recognizes the active role of local Wikimedia communities in developing programs and projects, and in expanding the reach of the organization. On 25 June 2021, it passed its policy on establishing branches within the country. A branch is an integral arm of the PhilWiki Community that shall advance the organization's objectives within a specific locality. It shall also support a specific Wikimedia project and/or program. We would like to invite you to be part of our growing Community. Dios Mabalos! -Ralffralff (olay) 13:08, 26 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

• Strong support - As a contributor, former sysop, and as member of Bikol Wikipedia community, I strongly support. -Filipinayzd (olay) 13:14, 26 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)
• Strong support Maffeth.opiana (olay) 14:41, 26 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)
• Strong support -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 05:04, 28 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)
• Strong support Ringer Ringer (olay) 06:23, 28 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)
• Strong support MarvinBikolano (olay) 10:44, 1 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Bikol o Bicol branch

• Ano an mas marhay para sa branch digdi sato, Central Bikol language o Bicol (Region) branch? -Filipinayzd (olay) 11:45, 28 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

• BICOL — Kun si balyo po kayang grupo an apud "Manila", mas marhay na po kun aapudon na "Bicol" diyan sa Naga. Kun "Central Bikol" po kaya an gagamiton, dapat apudon na nin "Tagalog" an magigin grupo digdi sa Manila. Ralffralff (olay) 14:44, 28 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Pwedeng ethnolinguistic or geographic branch with or without thematic focus. It is up with them to decide. Digdi sato, as proponents, we should decide only for this branch. -Filipinayzd (olay) 22:24, 28 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Kami po digdi sa Metro Manila, base sa heograpiya an susundon mi. "Manila", "Metro Manila", "Mega Manila", o iba pa po an mga kandidato kan magigin ngaran. An Metro Manila po kaya ngunyan, maski ngani Tagalog an tataramon, dakol man giraray an naka-istar asin nagtatrabaho na hale sa mga probinsya digdi. Ralffralff (olay) 12:58, 29 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Uyon ako sa sinabi mo. Maliwanag na sako. -Filipinayzd (olay) 16:12, 29 Hunyo 2021 (UTC)

Imbitasyon sa pag partisipar sa Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in the Philippines 2021

Marhay na aldaw sa kapwa ko Wikimedians digdi sa Bikol. Mawot ko kamong imbitaran na mag partisipar sa "Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in the Philippines 2021" (WPWP2021) na madalagan puon ngunyan na primerong aldaw kan Hulyo hasta ika-31 kan Agosto 2021. Obheto kan proyekto na mag ambag nin mga ladawan sa mga artikulo kan Wikipedia sa manlaen-laen na lenguahe sa nasyon (Bikol Sentral, Cebuano, Ilokano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Waray, Zamboagueño, asin Chavakano).

Sundan sana an minasunod na mga paagi:

1. Sign in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin) or Create a New Account on Wikipedia (You can create an account on any language Wikipedia including your own language). The list of all languages Wikipedia can be found here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias).
2. Find an article that needs a photo. There are many ways to do this. Here are some tips.
3. Select the appropriate image on Commons. Click here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search) to search for the image using the correct title or category. There are several ways to do this. See this simple media reuse guide (https://commons.wikimedia.org/.../Commons:Simple_media...). Here are additional tips (https://meta.wikimedia.org/.../Wikipedia_Pages.../Resources).
4. On the article page, click Edit and insert the image selected in Step 3, including a brief caption in the WP's language. Check the display position in "Preview" and make any necessary changes. Then click on "Publish changes".
5. Include the hashtag #WPWP #WPWPPH on the edit summary of all articles improved with images.
6. You may also participate by creating new articles for quality photos.

Dakulang pasasalamat. --MarvinBikolano (talk) 10:40, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

• Strong Support - More powers MarvinBikolano!- Maffeth.opiana (olay) 15:05, 1 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)
• Strong support - Dakulang tabang ini sa pagpapaurog nin mga artikulo digdi sa Bikol Wikipedia. Salamat na maray sa proyekto mong ini! -Ralffralff (olay) 15:30, 1 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Deletions

Hello all. I've deleted close (GS action) to 300 pages as they were created by a cross-wiki long-term abuser. The IP(s) created pages that are essentially empty. After deleting, I came across more pages that were created by User:Filipinayzd. I suggest deleting them if there is no substantial content other then headers and "An XXXX sarong taon sa Gregoryanong kalendaryo." Minorax (olay) 12:37, 6 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Sure. Have fun. --Filipinayzd (olay) 12:49, 6 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I'm not saying that you're the IP. Sorry, if you misunderstood. --Minorax (olay) 13:48, 6 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 2

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 2, July 2021Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the second 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.

If you haven’t already, please remember to subscribe here if you would like to be notified about future editions of the newsletter, and also leave your username here if you’d like to be contacted to help with translations in the future.

• Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review - Initial meetings of the drafting committee have helped to connect and align key topics on enforcement, while highlighting prior research around existing processes and gaps within our movement. (continue reading)
• Targets of Harassment Research - To support the drafting committee, the Wikimedia Foundation has conducted a research project focused on experiences of harassment on Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
• Functionaries’ Consultation - Since June, Functionaries from across the various wikis have been meeting to discuss what the future will look like in a global context with the UCoC. (continue reading)
• Roundtable Discussions - The UCoC facilitation team once again, hosted another roundtable discussion, this time for Korean-speaking community members and participants of other ESEAP projects to discuss the enforcement of the UCoC. (continue reading)
• Early Adoption of UCoC by Communities - Since its ratification by the Board in February 2021, situations whereby UCoC is being adopted and applied within the Wikimedia community has grown. (continue reading)
• New Timeline for the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee - The CRC was originally expected to conclude by July 1. However, with the UCoC now expected to be in development until December, the timeline for the CRC has also changed. (continue reading)
• Wikimania - The UCoC team is planning to hold a moderated discussion featuring representatives across the movement during Wikimania 2021. It also plans to have a presence at the conference’s Community Village. (continue reading)
• Diff blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff blog. (continue reading)

Should you have any question regarding the UCoC, please direct it to the Movement Strategy & Governance facilitator for the ESEAP region, RamzyM (WMF).

-- MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 14:12, 14 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Please see a localized version below; with thanks from the newsletter team for the translation assistance. RamzyM (WMF) (olay) 09:39, 24 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Bareta sa Universal Code of Conduct - Panduwang Isyu

Bareta sa Universal Code of Conduct
Panduwang Isyu, Hulyo 2021Basahon an intirong bareta

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Maugmang pag-abot sa panduwang isyu kan bareta kan Universal Code of Conduct! An bareta na ini matabang sa mga Wikimedian na padagos na magin kabali sa pagkarhay kan bagong panundon asin ihiras man an mga importanteng bareta, saliksik, asin paabot na tiripon manungod sa UCoC. Rumdumon na magsubscribe igdi kun muya nindong mapagirumdon kan mga paabot na edisyon kan bareta, asin ikaag man an saindong mga username igdi kun muya nindong i-kontak para sa pagpatabang sa mga pagpalis sa ibang lenggwahe ngapit.

• Ribyu sa hinaman na draft sa Panundon kan Pag-implementar - An mga nainot na hururon kan drafting committee nakatabang sa pagkonektar asin paglinya kan mga importanteng dapat ulayan manungod sa pag-impursar, mantang tinatawan man importansya an nainot nang pagsaliksik manungod sa mga eksistidong proseso asin mga ultanan sa laog kan satuyang grupo. (ipadagos an pagbasa igdi)
• An mga Target kan Saliksik sa Harrasment - Tangani na masuportaran an drafting committee, an Wikimedia Foundation nagkonduktar in proyekto na nakatutok sa mga eksperyensya nin harassment sa mga proyektong Wikimedia.(ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Konsultasyon sa mga Functionary - Puon kan Hunyo, an mga Functionary sa kabilogan kan manlain-lain na wiki naghururon tangani na urulayan kun ano an puturo sa global na konteksyo kan UCoC.(ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Harampangan na Pag-urulay - An facilitation team kan UCoC giraray nag gibo nin harampangan na urulay, sa seryeng ini yaraon an mga myembro kan komunidad na nagtataram sa lenggwaheng Koreano asin iba pang partisipantes sa mga proyekto sa ESEAP tangani na urulayan an pag-impursar kan UCoC.(ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Amay na pag-adaptar kan mga Komunidad sa UCoC - Puon kan ratipikasyon kan Board kaidtong Pebrero 2021, an mga sitwasyon kun sain pig-aadaptar an UCoC kan mga komunidad kan Wikimedia,padagos na nagdadakula. (ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Bagong Talaan kan Panahon para sa Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee - An CRC orihinal na pighahalat na mag-antos sana hasta Hulyo 1. Alagad, ngunyan na UCoC pig-aandam na pakarhayon pa hasta sa Disyembre, an talaan para sa CRC naghira man.(ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Wikimania - An UCoC team nagpaplano na maghaman nin mga urulay kun sain yaun an mga representante para sa gigibuhon na Wikimania 2021. Nagpaplano man ini na magin presente sa mga komperensya sa Community Village.(ipadagos an pagbasa)
• Mga Blog sa Diff - Hilingon an mga pinakabagong publikasyon manungod sa UCoC sa Wikimedia Diff blog.(ipadagos an pagbasa)

Interface administrator access

Hi, I am ShiminUfesoj, one of the administrators of the Bcl wiki, please support me in Interface administrator access. Thank you very much, May the Lord bless you -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 17:39, 25 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Hi Joseph. Iba man ini sa admin? -Filipinayzd (olay) 06:15, 26 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Garo iyo ta siya an nag-eedit sa mga MediaWiki: na files like MediaWiki:Guidedtour-tour-twa4.js -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 08:46, 27 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support - An experienced administrator in Bikol Wikipedia, advanced knowledge in Wikimedia editing, and with expertise in the Bikol Sentral language, I strongly support to elevate his access to that of an Interface administrator. Good luck! -Ralffralff (olay) 14:21, 26 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support - All the best! Maffeth.opiana (olay) 16:15, 26 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Salamat sa support -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 08:48, 27 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee

Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 1, 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 starting from next week here. Please contact strategy2030Plantilya:Atwikimedia.org or Ramzy Muliawan, Movement Strategy and Governance facilitator for the ESEAP region, with questions.

-- MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 10:40, 30 Hulyo 2021 (UTC)

Delay of the 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election

Dear Wikimedians,

We are reaching out to you today regarding the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes.

For information on the technical issues, you can see the Phabricator ticket.

We are truly sorry for this delay and hope that we will get back on schedule on August 18th. We are in touch with the Elections Committee and the candidates to coordinate next steps. We will update the Board election Talk page and Telegram channel as we know more.

-- MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 16:07, 3 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Launching of Portal for Science in Bikol Wikipedia

Marhay na Aldaw, Bikol Wikipedia Community!

The Portal:Siyensya page is now up here in Bikol Wikipedia. Thanks to WikiProyekto Siyensya which paves way for the mass creations of scientific articles here in Bikol Wikipedia for the past few months.

The portal is open for suggestions and comments, especially that the page is identified as an "article" instead of a "portal" unlike the other Wikipedia language editions. It seems that the "portal" feature is still not available here in Bikol Wikipedia. If it is available, please inform me ASAP so that I can move the given page.

Mabalos!

Ralffralff (olay) 16:10, 6 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Great initiative, @Ralffralff! Surely, this project will have an huge impact. Kudos! -Filipinayzd (olay) 23:26, 6 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Sir @Filipinayzd! Portal for History (Uusipon), Mathematics (Matematika), Bicolandia (Kabikolan), Philippines (Filipinas), Siyensya Sosyal (Social Science), Literature (Literatura), etc. were being planned, and will depend on the success of their respective WikiProjects. Also, the Portal:Siyensya is now connected to the Main Page of Bikol Wikipedia, and hopefully, the proposed portals will follow... -Ralffralff (olay) 02:25, 7 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Magayon na plano ini, pwede ko makopya an nilalaog kaiyan, mamukna man ako nin Portal:Tataramon? -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 03:06, 7 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Go lang tabi @ShiminUfesoj. Para dagos ta naman maitakod sa Panginot na Pahina... -Ralffralff (olay) 03:10, 7 Agosto 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 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

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.

If you have any questions, please contact Ramzy Muliawan, the facilitator for ESEAP region.

-- MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 14:51, 17 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Voting for the 2021 WMF Board of Trustees election is now open

Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three week long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election.

The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community-and-affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 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.

Learn more about candidates. Learn about the Board of Trustees. Vote.

Read the full announcement.

Best,

The Elections Committee

-- MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 01:12, 18 Agosto 2021 (UTC)

Riribayan ko an mga kastilaloy na kataga pa bikol sa lado kan direksyon..

Pwede ako maghagad opinyon, mawot ko isabikol an mga kataga na manongod sa direksyon hali sa kastila paduman sa bikol

Norte magigin Amihanan Sur magigin Habagatan Asbp.

Tapos patabang kun ano talaga an pagbaybay kan West sa bikol; Sulnupan o Solnopan?

-- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 12:23, 16 Setyembre 2021 (UTC)

Sulnopan (sulnop + an) an tahaw. :D --Filipinayzd (olay) 18:24, 2 Nobyembre 2021 (UTC)

Mayo sato inaapod na kun siring sa tagalog itong o magigin u like, walo nagin walu+han? Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 05:03, 3 Nobyembre 2021 (UTC)

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

• Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
• Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
• Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best regards, RamzyM (WMF) 08:55, 21 Setyembre 2021 (UTC)

A elongation: The questions for the candidates into Drafting Committee Movement_Charter

Into 2021-09-29 11:59:59 UTC You can suggest the questions for the candidates into Drafting Committee Movement Charter. ✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (olay) 17:56, 27 Setyembre 2021 (UTC)

Running as an admin again

good day, I would like to run again as administrator in BCL because my two -year extension in BCL as admin is over, I hope you will support me again. -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 14:37, 1 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support - Has the experience, editing skills, and mastery of the Bikol language. Actively participating to different projects and is leading the community on enriching the language-related articles here in Bikol Wikipedia through WikiProyekto Tataramon. Good luck! - Ralffralff (olay) 16:23, 1 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

• Strong support - Dedicated and prolific! -Filipinayzd (olay) 17:30, 1 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support - Genuine and has a heart of a true volunteer, more powers! - Maffeth.opiana (olay) 05:13, 2 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Draft Enforcement Guidelines review still needs your ideas and opinions

Hello, this is just a reminder that the Universal Code of Conduct Draft Enforcement Guidelines are open for review and comment. The Drafting Committee will start working on revisions and improvement in less than two weeks (October 17), so it is important that you give them your ideas and opinions soon!

There is now a short, simple version of the Draft Guidelines here to make your review easier. If possible, also help translate the short version into more languages!

We will also hold one last conversation hour on October 15, 2021 03:00 and 14:00 UTC.

On behalf of the Drafting Committee, much thanks to everyone who has given ideas so far. We hope to hear from more of you - the Guidelines will be much stronger if more opinions are included.

Best regards, RamzyM (WMF) 07:27, 6 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Voting period to elect members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is now open

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 the Drafting Committee
• Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer
• 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
• Vote here!

Best,

Kaarel Vaidla
Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation
10:35, 12 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 4

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 4, October 2021Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fourth 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.

If you haven’t already, please remember to subscribe here if you would like to be notified about future editions of the newsletter, and also leave your username here if you’d like to be contacted to help with translations in the future.

• Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review Wrap-up - The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Draft Guidelines Review will come to a close on 17 October 2021, after more than two months of extensive consultations. (continue reading)
• Roundtable Discussions and Conversation Hours - Another successful roundtable session happened on September 18, 2021 to discuss the EDGR. One last conversation hour will be happening on October 15th, 2021. (continue reading)
• Movement Charter Drafting Committee Elections - The Movement Charter Drafting Committee selection process has kicked off and will be open until October 25, 2021. Contributors to Wikimedia projects can elect their favorite candidates on to the committee. (continue reading)
• New Direction for the Newsletter - As we round-up the consultation processes for the Universal Code of Conduct, the facilitation team is currently envisioning new directions for the newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

RamzyM (WMF) 18:25, 14 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Learn how the Implementation Grants can support your Movement Strategy plans

We are excited to announce the reopening of the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants. This program fund projects that advance a specific Movement Strategy initiative. The projects can be big or small, but they must all make a case for advancing one initiative.

Read all about it, what to apply for, and how to apply. Please do encourage others to apply as well.

Best regards, RamzyM (WMF) 10:22, 21 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Request for Renewal of Administrator Access

Good Day!

I would like to apply for the renewal of my administrator access in Bikol Wikipedia. As an administrator, I formalized my vision for Bikol Wikipedia through the WikiProyekto project which I believe had contributed significant impact to the local community. As a result, diversity on the featured topics is now more evident from the field of science to the arts.

As an editor, I am active in the creation of new Articles especially these past few months. Aside from the Articles, I am also active creating Non-articles like Redirects, Templates, and Talk pages. I also initiated the publishing and design of Portal pages in Bikol Wikipedia which were connected to the Main Page. I also actively participated to various projects and edit-a-thons organized by other editors from the Bikol community.

With regards to special administrator actions, I have done multiple blocking of user accounts or IP addresses which tries to contribute unwanted information to the local wikipedia. Deletion of articles through spam were also done whenever opportunity comes.

If ever granted the administrator access again: (1) I will ensure the balance which were currently observed in the continuous increase of the Number of articles and Depth of Bikol Wikipedia (2) I can help the current administrators again in monitoring of edits (3) I will create more WikiProjects to promote diversity of featured topics in Bikol Wikipedia.

Thank you!

--Ralffralff (olay) 14:52, 26 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Strong Support - Dedicated, trustworthy and known for raising the bar in contributing quality articles. A lot of improvement in Bikol Wikipedia since he became an administrator. Mabalos! Maffeth.opiana (olay) 13:23, 27 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Strong support- He is passionate and all-out for the growth of Bikol wikipedia. Ringer (olay) 16:37, 27 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Strong support - Diligent admin and contributor! -Filipinayzd (olay) 19:51, 27 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Accept The Barnstar of Diligence in recognition of your extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service --Filipinayzd (olay) 19:51, 27 Oktobre 2021 (UTC)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

• The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ciell (Ciell), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan).
• The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
• The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee, Jorge Vargas.

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team

Best, RamzyM (WMF) 13:39, 1 Nobyembre 2021 (UTC)

ESEAP Regional Education Meeting

Join us for the 1st ESEAP Regional Education Meeting on 27th November 2021 at 7:00 UTC.

We are using this as an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges that are faced by our community members in different regions of the world. Learn and share your projects, tools, or ideas with the education community in the ESEAP region.

We are excited to hear from these wonderful speakers:

Education activities in Indonesia - Dimas Hardijanto, Deputy Coordinator of Education Program of Wikimedia Indonesia

Education activities in Australia - Alex Lum, President of Wikimedia Australia

Education activities in Malaysia - Dody Ismoyo, Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia

Education activities in the Philippines - Imelda Brazal, EWOC Community Specialist - ESEAP Region

Read more about this event here: ESEAP Regional Meeting You may join as a sharer by adding your own agenda or send an email to dangbrazal@gmail.com to be included in the participants list.

Thank you.

Best,

EduWiki Outreach Collaborators Community Specialists Team

MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 07:54, 23 Nobyembre 2021 (UTC)

Closing the comment period for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Draft Guidelines

Thank you for your continued comments and ideas on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines. Your responses have helped to build a stronger Universal Code of Conduct.

If you have not already provided your comments, now is the time as the drafting committee has been meeting to update the enforcement guidelines. The drafting committee wants to consider all comments as they make their updates. Please submit any comments by the end of November. The Committee hopes to finish its revisions before the end of the year, and the revised guidelines will be published as soon as they have been completed.

The next steps for the Universal Code of Conduct include conversations about ratification of the enforcement guidelines. There will be a conversation about ratification on November 29.

The Wikimedia Foundation will make recommendations to the Board of Trustees about the ratification of the guidelines in December. The recommendations will inform the next steps in the Universal Code of Conduct process.

Best, RamzyM (WMF) 08:57, 26 Nobyembre 2021 (UTC)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

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The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

• What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?

• What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 04:48, 27 Desyembre 2021 (UTC)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:

1. What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
2. What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?

There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.

Join the conversation.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

RamzyM (WMF) 03:12, 11 Enero 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News #5

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

• Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 7th February 2022. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
• The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

RamzyM (WMF) 07:14, 14 Enero 2022 (UTC)

Additional question to the Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

Dear ESEAP project communities,

I am reaching out to you today about an additional question to the Call for Feedback about Board of Trustees elections that I posted above. The Board has approved an additional question which we seek feedback to:

How should affiliates participate in the elections? Affiliates are an important part of the Wikimedia movement. Two seats of the Board of Trustees due to be filled this year were filled in 2019 through the Affiliate-selected Board seats process. A change in the Bylaws removed the distinction between community and affiliate seats. This leaves the important question: How should affiliates be involved in the selection of new seats?

The Board of Trustees is seeking feedback about this last question especially, although not solely, from the affiliate community. Everyone is invited to share proposals and join the conversation in the Call for Feedback channels. In addition to collecting online feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team will organize several video calls with affiliate members to collect feedback. These calls will be at different times and include Trustees.

On behalf of the Movement Strategy and Governance team,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:08, 22 Enero 2022 (UTC)

#WikiForHumanRights Conversation Hour - ESEAP Communities

#WikiForHumanRights is back!

We are calling all organizers, Wikimedia affiliates, and individuals to help us organize the WikiForHumanRights 2022 campaign this year, which focuses once again on the Right to a Healthy Environment, the newest human right to be recognized by the UN.

Interested but not sure how or what to do? Need help in getting started? Join our regional support hour for Asian communities and learn everything you need to know to begin taking action. We will have representatives from the community resource team talk about what you need to know about the funding opportunities for your campaign. You can read our new post on diff.

Date: January 29, 2022, Saturday

Time: 15:00 UTC+8:00

Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/86011791455

You may also write to campaigns@wikimedia.org or join the Telegram channel.

Best,

Foundation Programs Team

MediaWiki message delivery (olay) 11:18, 28 Enero 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated

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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a Leadership Development Task Force and how you can help. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.

Best, RamzyM (WMF) 11:56, 9 Pebrero 2022 (UTC)

Commons category of your home province needs major cleanup

Hello. As much as possible, please recategorize the files at Commons category of your home province, c:Category:Camarines Sur. It has become a mess. As per c:COM:OVERCAT, files mus always be in their specific categories as much as possible, and avoid needless overcategorizations. Salamat po. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 03:03, 12 Pebrero 2022 (UTC)

Some, like the flag, do not need recategorization. Just majority of the images. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 03:05, 12 Pebrero 2022 (UTC)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review

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Hello everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations.

The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. There is a list of changes made to the guidelines after the enforcement draft guidelines review. Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page on Meta-wiki.

To help to understand the guidelines and process, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will be hosting Conversation Hours on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the conversation hours to speak with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members about the updated guidelines and voting process.

The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. All eligible voters will have an opportunity to support or oppose the adoption of the Enforcement guidelines, and share why. See the voting information page for more details.

Many participants from across the movement have provided valuable input in these ongoing conversations. The UCoC and MSG teams want to thank the Drafting Committee and the community members for their contributions to this process.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

RamzyM (WMF) 16:37, 12 Pebrero 2022 (UTC)

Upcoming Conversation Hours on 25 February and 4 March

The Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team is hosting Conversation Hours on Universal Code of Conduct enforcement ratification on 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC.

Please sign-up for these conversation hours to interact with the project team and the drafting committee about the updated enforcement guidelines and the ratification process. See the Conversation Hour summaries for notes from 4 February 2022. For more information, contact either team by email: msgwikimedia.org or ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best, RamzyM (WMF) (olay) 03:35, 22 Pebrero 2022 (UTC)

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

RamzyM (WMF) 08:39, 3 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to Hubs event: Global Conversation on 2022-03-12 at 13:00 UTC

Hello!

The Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation would like to invite you to the next event about "Regional and Thematic Hubs". The Wikimedia Movement is in the process of understanding what Regional and Thematic Hubs should be. Our workshop in November was a good start (read the report), but we're not finished yet.

Over the last weeks we conducted about 16 interviews with groups working on establishing a Hub in their context (see Hubs Dialogue). These interviews informed a report that will serve as a foundation for discussion on March 12. The report is planned to be published on March 9.

The event will take place on March 12, 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Zoom. Interpretation will be provided in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Portuguese. Registration is open, and will close on March 10. Anyone interested in the topic is invited to join us. More information on the event on Meta-wiki.

Best regards,

Kaarel Vaidla
Movement Strategy

09:56, 7 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022

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Hello everyone,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.

You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Wikimedia Foundation

RamzyM (WMF) 00:41, 11 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)

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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the feedback period for the Leadership Development Working Group initiative. A summary of the feedback can be found on Meta-wiki. This feedback will be shared with the working group to inform their work. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and will close on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.

Thank you,

From the Community Development team

RamzyM (WMF) 16:12, 14 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Join the Community Resilience and Sustainability Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis

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The Community Resilience and Sustainability team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a conversation hour led by its Vice President Maggie Dennis.

Topics within scope for this call include Movement Strategy, Board Governance, Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Community Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions and feedback, and let's talk! You can also send us your questions in advance.

The meeting will be on 24 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC (check your local time).

You can read details on Meta-wiki.

Looking forward to seeing you on the call,

RamzyM (WMF) 13:18, 21 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

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Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

RamzyM (WMF) 01:25, 25 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Leadership Development Working Group: Reminder to apply by 10 April 2022

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Hello everyone,

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Working Group. The purpose of the working group is to advise leadership development work. Feedback was collected in February 2022 and a summary of the feedback is on Meta-wiki. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and is closing soon on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.

Thank you,

From the Community Development team

RamzyM (WMF) 13:54, 31 Marso 2022 (UTC)

Enabling Section Translation: a new mobile translation experience

Hello Central Bikol Wikipedians!

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

• Give us your feedback
• Ask us questions
• Tell us how to improve it.

Below is background information about Section translation, why we have chosen your community, and how to test it.

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. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has improved the translation experience further with the Section Translation. The WMF Language team enabled the early version of the tool in February in Bengali Wikipedia. Through their feedback, the tool was improved and ready for your community to test and help us with feedback to make it better.

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.

Central Bikol Wikipedia seems an ideal candidate to enjoy this new tool since data shows significant mobile editing activity.

We plan to enable the tool on Central Bikol Wikipedia in the coming weeks if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tool and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have in any of the following formats:

• As a reply to this message
• On the project talk page.

Try the tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Central Bikol Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://bcl.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 in any of the formats you are most comfortable with. We want to hear about your impressions on:

• The tool
• What you think about our plans to enable it
• Your ideas for improving the tool.

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback and questions.

UOzurumba (WMF) (kaulayon) 15:35, 14 Abril 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team

PS: Sending your feedback or questions in English is particularly appreciated. But, you can still send them in the language of your choice.

Join the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan conversations with Maryana Iskander

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Hello,

The Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan, a plan of record for the Wikimedia Foundation's work.

These conversations continue Maryana Iskander's Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer listening tour.

The conversations are about these questions:

• The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
• The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. What is working well? How can we improve?
• Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. Let's collect your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

You can find the schedule of calls on Meta-wiki.

The information will be available in multiple languages. Each call will be open to anyone to attend. Live interpretation will be available in some calls.

Best regards,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:54, 14 Abril 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 6, April 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

• Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
• Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
• Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about Movement Strategy on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

RamzyM (WMF) 06:43, 16 Abril 2022 (UTC)

Ika-12,000 na artikulo!

Naabot na an ika-12,000ng artikulo sa pagkakamukna kan Madre de kakaw! Mabalos @Ringer! -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 09:50, 22 Abril 2022 (UTC)

15,000 naman an satong aboton

Hi Filipinayzd, Halawig pa an satong biyahe. Sikwiton ta naman an 15,000. Dobleng pagdarudal! Ringer Ringer (kaulayon) 05:19, 26 Abril 2022 (UTC)

Tama @Ringer! 15 mil sa ika-15ng taon kan Bikol Wikipedia. --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 06:37, 7 Hulyo 2022 (UTC)

@User:Ralffralff, @User:Ringer, @User:ShiminUfesoj, @User:Jay Bolero, @User:Maffeth.opiana, @User:Derk29, @User:MarvinBikolano, @User:Zyrahila @FrincesEzra

The 15th Bikol Wikipedia is happening on November 24, 2022! Is anyone of you interested for collaboration to hold a celebration? What ideas do you have in mind? --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 09:56, 17 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Filipinayzd! Count me in for this. Hopefully, the incoming celebration will bring more awareness to Bikol Wikipedia among the Bicolanos e.g. the role of Bikol Wikipedia as a representation of the Bicol language and culture in the World Wide Web.

With regards to the activities, Seminars, Talks, and Edit-a-thons are some of the possible events. The biggest event which could possibly be the flagship event of the annual Bikol Wikipedia Day is an Editing Competition. Division of the competition could be between the Regular Editors, Rookie Editors, Academe (Tertiary and Secondary), etc.

Thank you! Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:15, 17 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Great! We have possible partners like the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Ateneo de Naga University or University of Nueva Caceres. We can also pursue the Bikol Wikipedia Quiz! -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 13:29, 17 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Maaboot daw an ika-15,000 na artikulo sa Ika-15ng Anibersaryo kan Bikol Wikipedia?Pwede! Kun pagsururogan ta gabos!Ringer (kaulayon) 11:44, 18 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Hello everyone! We can have edit-a-thons for Wiki Loves Philippines (Wiki Loves Fashion, Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Food. :) Maffeth.opiana (kaulayon) 13:14, 23 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

100wikidays is the key :D --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 09:56, 30 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Update @Ringer and I just met days ago and discussed about the anniversary celebration. Aside from aiming to reach 15,000 articles by November 24, there will be an in-person conference, and advocacy activities in November. Details to be posted soon. --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 14:53, 8 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I also received an email about a Google Meeting for the celebration of the anniversary. Also, at this rate, my estimate on the target 15,000 articles is that it will be reached 2-4 years from now. We are only averaging about 100 new articles per month, but still the only thing we can do is to have the best effort in attaining the goal... Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:37, 9 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

See you @Ringer, @Ralffralff on October 13 Thursday (8-9pm). -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 23:16, 9 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Next steps: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

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The Community Affairs Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees would like to thank everyone who participated in the recently concluded community vote on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC).

The volunteer scrutinizing group has completed the review of the accuracy of the vote and has reported the total number of votes received as 2,283. Out of the 2,283 votes received, a total of 1,338 (58.6%) community members voted for the enforcement guidelines, and a total of 945 (41.4%) community members voted against it. In addition, 658 participants left comments with 77% of the comments written in English.

We recognize and appreciate the passion and commitment that community members have demonstrated in creating a safe and welcoming culture that stops hostile and toxic behavior, supports people targeted by such behavior, and encourages good faith people to be productive on the Wikimedia projects.

Even at this incomplete stage, this is evident in the comments received. While the Enforcement Guidelines did reach a threshold of support necessary for the Board to review, we encouraged voters, regardless of which way they were voting, to provide feedback on the elements of the enforcement guidelines that they felt needed to be changed or fixed, as well as why, in case it seemed advisable to launch a further round of edits that would address community concerns.

Foundation staff who have been reviewing comments have advised us of some of the emerging themes, and as a result we have decided as Community Affairs Committee to ask the Foundation to reconvene the drafting committee and to undertake another community engagement to refine the enforcement guidelines based on the community feedback received from the recently concluded vote.

For clarity, this feedback has been clustered into 4 sections as follows:

1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the training;
2. To simplify the language for easier translation and comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the conflicting roles of privacy/victim protection and right to be heard.

Other issues may emerge during conversations, and particularly as the draft Enforcement Guidelines evolve, but we see these as the primary areas of concern for voters and are asking staff to facilitate review of these issues. After further engagement, the Foundation should re-run the community vote to evaluate the revamped Enforcement Outline to see if the new document is then ready for its official ratification.

Further, we are aware of the concerns with the note 3.1 in the Universal Code of Conduct Policy. We are directing the Foundation to facilitate a review of this language to ensure that the Policy meets its intended purposes of supporting a safe and inclusive community, without waiting for the planned review of the entire Policy at the end of year.

Again, we thank all who participated, thinking about these critical and difficult challenges and contributing to better approaches across the movement to working together well.

Best,

Rosie

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)
Acting Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

RamzyM (WMF) 02:39, 25 Abril 2022 (UTC)

2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates

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The Board of Trustees seeks candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election. Read more on Meta-wiki.

The 2022 Board of Trustees election is here! Please consider submitting your candidacy to serve on the Board of Trustees.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team.

Who are potential candidates? Are you a potential candidate? Find out more on the Apply to be a Candidate page.

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees

RamzyM (WMF) 15:47, 25 Abril 2022 (UTC)

Call for volunteers: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

<languages/> The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

But a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help change the participation?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

• Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
• Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

• Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
• Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.

Best regards,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:15, 5 Mayo 2022 (UTC)

Announcing the members of the Leadership Development Working Group

Hello all,

Following up my previous message about the Leadership Development Working Group: the Community Development Team has completed the candidate selection process and is happy to announce fifteen volunteers that are beginning work on this project.

Thank you for your support and participation throughout the process!

For the Community Development team,

RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 12 Mayo 2022 (UTC)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines

Hello all,

I’d like to share an update on the work on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC):

• (see full announcement) In May 2022, the UCoC project team completed a report on the 2022 March ratification vote about the Guidelines. Voters cast votes from at least 137 communities, and at least 650 voters added comments with their vote. The report is available on Meta-Wiki.
• Following the vote, the Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees asked that several areas of the Guidelines be reviewed for improvements. A Revisions Committee will refine it based on community feedback.
• (see full announcement) In order to help the Revisions Committee, input from the community is requested. You can visit the discussions below:
  • Discussions related to revisions of the Enforcement Guidelines
  • Discussions related to revision of the UCoC policy text

Please let me know if you have any questions about these next steps.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF) 12:46, 30 Mayo 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the 2022 edition of Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign is coming up in July.

This is a formal invitation to invite individuals and communities to join the campaign to help improve Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual images.

The campaign will run from July 1 to August 31, 2022 and several communities and Wikimedia Affiliates have already indicated interest to organize the campaign in their localities. Please find your community or community closer to you to participate: WPWP2022 Campaign: Participating Communities.

The campaign primarily aims to promote using images from Wikimedia Commons to enrich Wikipedia articles that are lacking them. Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years. In this third edition of the campaign, eligibility criteria have been revised based on feedback and campaign Evaluation Reports of the previous editions. Please find more details about these changes and our FAQ here on Meta-Wiki

For more information, please visit the campaign page on Meta-Wiki.

Best,
Ammar A.
Global Coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign 2022.
17:39, 31 Mayo 2022 (UTC)

2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates

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The 2022 Board of Trustees election Call for Candidates has now closed. This Call led 12 candidates from the community to submit their applications. Learn more about the 2022 Board of Trustees candidates.

The Analysis Committee will now consider the candidates’ applications with the skills and criteria provided by the Board. The trustees seek certain skills and competencies to improve the capacity of the Board. After the Analysis Committee completes their review, the ratings of each candidate will be published. These ratings are for informational purposes only.

For more information about the 2022 Board election, you may find the timeline, voting information and other ways to get involved on Meta-wiki.

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees

RamzyM (WMF) 03:56, 1 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Delete local files

Magandang gabi po. I'm requesting some admins here to delete two local files here as I have transferred the files to their equivalents at Commons:

• Ladawan:IrosinChurch2.jpg — c:File:IrosinChurch 20140602.jpg
• Ladawan:Irosin mun. hall.jpg – c:File:Irosin mun hall 20140602.jpg

There is no local equivalent of w:en:Template:NowCommons here. Note that I have raised this matter for a different file at [4]. Regards, JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:31, 10 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Plus also:

• Ladawan:Casiguran Church.jpg – File:Casiguran simbahan.jpg
• Ladawan:Casiguran mun. hall.jpg – File:Casiguran munisipyo.jpg

_ JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:40, 10 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Hi JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) ,
I have already deleted the local files. I have also created the Template:NowCommons for BCL Wikipedia, I will just translate some of the texts later. Thanks for taking time to review these images. Kunokuno (kaulayon) 06:20, 13 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

@Kunokuno you're welcome po. Btw, I just linked the Bclwiki template to Wikidata. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 08:21, 13 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Infobox yaon na baga sa wala?

Hi ‎Ralffralff, Kunokuno, Ano ta an infobox nakabugtak na sa bandang wala? Pwede tang ibalik sa too, na iyo an dati?

Ringer (kaulayon) 13:12, 30 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Marhay na Aldaw po Sir @Ringer, Base po sa mga nahihiling ko, nasa too man giraray an mga infobox. Pwede po pakisambit kun anong ngaran kan infobox o plantilya na an infobox yaon sa wala. O, pakisambit na lang po kan artikulo kun sain mo po nahiling na sa bandang wala an infobox. Salamat po!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:21, 30 Hunyo 2022 (UTC)

Upcoming activities for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

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Hi all,

This message covers two upcoming activities for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

The Board of Trustees election will have an Election Compass to support voters in their decision-making process. Eligible voters can propose statements in July and vote on which statements are used in the Election Compass in late July. Please visit the Election Compass page for more information.

Join conversations with the 2022 Board of Trustees candidates July 27 to August 7. Each candidate will have a one hour conversation with the community. Each conversation will be recorded and made available for future viewing. Live interpretation will be available. Languages available will be announced when the dates are set. These conversations will be scheduled with the candidates once the results of the Affiliate Selection are available. That information will be shared on the 2022 Board of Trustees election campaign events page.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

RamzyM (WMF) 01:16, 11 Hulyo 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

• Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
• Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
• Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
• Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
• Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
• Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
• Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
• Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
• Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
• Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)

RamzyM (WMF) 04:32, 18 Hulyo 2022 (UTC)

Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

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Hi everyone,

The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:

• Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
• Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
• Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
• Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
• Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
• Mike Peel (Mike Peel)

You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.

Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.

Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.

Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.

The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. You may view the Board election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:

• Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
• Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
• See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
• Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
• Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

RamzyM (WMF) 01:29, 20 Hulyo 2022 (UTC)

Vote for Election Compass Statements

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Hi all,

Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/disagree/neutral). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

• July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass
• July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
• July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
• August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
• August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
• August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

RamzyM (WMF) 08:37, 26 Hulyo 2022 (UTC)

Bikol Wikipedia surpassed Depth of 20.0

Marhay na Aldaw, Bikol Wikipedia Community!

I just want to inform you that Bikol Wikipedia finally surpassed Depth of 20.0.

As of posting,

Articles = 12,258; Non-articles = 20,600; Total Edits = 233,228;

which translates into a Depth of 20.05

This is mainly with Bikol Wikipedia as the main recipient of the pilot project of WikiDepth Project. This project was organized by members of the Philippine Wikimedia Community (PH-WC).

Let's keep on editing and aside from creating articles, we can also create supplementary non-articles related to it.

Dios Mabalos!

Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:45, 7 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

Hi Raff,

I noticed presently, 15 articles were deleted from our BikolWiki. What gives? As of August 3, 2022 our Wikipedia already had 12,273. Today, it stands at 12,258. Who is mopping up in our Wiki? Ringer (kaulayon) 22:38, 8 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

Hello Sir @Ringer,

A fellow Filipino Wikipedian and an administrator at Tagalog Wikipedia identified articles in Bikol Wikipedia which were believed to be hoax. And as a current administrator, I chose to delete those articles. These articles were about the unverified radio stations which were created by an unidentified I.P. user. Based on my count, about 25 articles were recently deleted. The deletion of those articles contributed to the jump in the Depth of Bikol Wikipedia which is reflective on the quality rather than quantity of the project...

Thank you! Ralffralff (kaulayon) 12:30, 9 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

Delay of the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

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Hi all,

I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting for the Board of Trustees election.

As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an Election Compass to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election process.

To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election.

Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.

The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 23:59 UTC.

Best regards,

Matanya, on behalf of the Elections Committee

RamzyM (WMF) 12:22, 15 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open

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Hi everyone,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
• Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

RamzyM (WMF) and VChang (WMF) 17:09, 23 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum

Hello everyone,

The Movement Strategy Forum (MS Forum) is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation.

We are inviting all Movement participants to collaborate on the MS Forum. The goal of the forum is to build community collaboration, using an inclusive multilingual platform.

The Movement Strategy is a collaborative effort to imagine and build the future of the Wikimedia Movement. Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy, from a comment to a full-time project.

Join this forum with your Wikimedia account, engage in conversations, and ask questions in your language.

The Movement Strategy and Governance team (MSG) launched the proposal for the MS Forum in May 2022. There was a 2-month community review period, which ended on 24 July 2022. The community review process included several questions that resulted in interesting conversations. You can read the Community Review Report.

We look forward to seeing you at the MS Forum!

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance Team

RamzyM (WMF) and VChang (WMF) 15:58, 30 Agosto 2022 (UTC)

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

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Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions.
• Learn more about the skills the Board seek and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community. For translated versions, please see here.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

VChang (WMF) & RamzyM (WMF) 13:08, 2 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee is requesting comments regarding the Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period will be open from 8 September 2022 until 8 October 2022.

The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on the following four areas:

1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused

The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by 8 October 2022. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further revising the guidelines based on community input.

Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta, and a comparison page in some languages.

Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the Revised Enforcement Guidelines talk page. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are a series of conversation hours planned about the Revised Enforcement Guidelines; please see Meta for the times and details.

The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. 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.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 16:27, 9 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Announcing the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election community voting period

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Hi everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Board of Trustees election process. Your participation helps seat the trustees the community seeks on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

These are the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election:

• Shani Evenstein Sigalov
• Mike Peel

You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.

The Board will complete their review of the most voted candidates, including conducting background checks. The Board plans to appoint new trustees at their meeting in December.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

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VChang (WMF) and RamzyM (WMF) 15:09, 22 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Sound Logo

Hi all,

The Wikimedia sound logo contest has officially launched, welcoming scores of submissions from around the world. From 13 September to 10 October 2022, everyone, everywhere is invited to play a part in The Sound of All Human Knowledge.

If you want to learn more about sound logos, need help with your submission, or if you have a great idea for one, but don't know how to capture it, join this conversation with our technical partner MassiveMusic on 29 September 2022, 15:00-16:00 UTC. Sign up directly on Zoom.

Sound Logo Team, Arupako-WMF (kaulayon) 08:11, 26 Setyembre 2022 (UTC)

Mansanas

Dai pa tabi nakasugpon sa English Wikipedia na 'apple' an Bikol article na 'mansanas'. Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 08:59, 2 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Nasugpon ko na an artikulo na Mansanas sa Apple kan English Wikipedia. Salamat! Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:45, 2 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Salamat ralfralf Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 03:19, 3 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Anong fb mo? Ako an mahanap saimo nganing madali takang makontak Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 03:36, 3 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Hello! Search mo na lang "Ralff Nestor Nacor", yan tabi an account ko sa FB. Salamat! Ralffralff (kaulayon) 11:29, 3 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Tangga nin klasipikasyon kan mga artikulo

Dai nakasugpon sa ibang mga siring na tema. Isolado an gabos na ' ' tangga nin klasipikasyon kan mga artikulo' '.

Leadership Development Working Group Community Calls

An draft sa pagpakahulugan kun ano an magin pamayo (leader), na pighaman kan Leadership Development Working Group, pigpublikar para sa pagrerekisa kan komunidad asin sa pagtau nin komento kan Setyembre 15. Ini imbitasyon na magpartisipar sa pankomunidad na pangapudan na mangyayari online sa mga masunod na Sabado sa Oktubre 22 asin 29, 2022.

Magpalista igdi tangani na makabali sa gigibuhon na urulay:

Leadership Development Working Group/Community Call Invitation

An Leadership Development Working Group [LDWG] nagpublikar nin pighahaman na depenisyon para sa pankomunidad na pagkokomento asin pag-adal kan ika-15 kan Setyembre 2022. Nagtipon kami nin mga suhestyon asin komento na nagtapos kan Oktubre 6, 2022.

Makukua nindo an laog kan pighahaman na depenisyon igdi. Pwede nindo magamit an ano man na paagi na yaun nakalista sa ibaba tangani na makapagtau nin komento samuya!

Meta-Talk page

MS Forum Poll page

Feedback form

email

An mga apod madurar nin 60 hasta 90 minutos, kaiba an 20 minutos para sa introduksyon sa katuyuhan kan apod asin man mga bagong bareta sa pighahaman na depenisyon, kasunod kan bukas na pagdidiskurso. Mag sign-up kamo nin mas amay tangani na makaayon. Lugod magkahirilingan kita sa aldaw na iyan.

Anthony Diaz, LDWG Member (kaulayon) 14:24, 12 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Review period on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct closed

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Dear Wikimedians,

Thank you for participating in the review of the Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). The UCoC project team and the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Revisions Committee appreciate you all taking the time to discuss the guidelines, suggest changes, and ask questions.

This community review period lasted from 8 September 2022 to 8 October 2022.

Over the past four weeks, the UCoC project team has collected valuable community input from various channels, including three conversation hours sessions, where Wikimedians could get together to discuss the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines.

The Revisions Committee will review community input when they reconvene in the second week of October 2022. The UCoC project team will support them in providing updates as they continue their work and will continue to inform the community about all important developments and milestones as the Committee prepares the final version of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines that is currently scheduled for a community-wide vote in mid-January of 2023.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

VChang (WMF) & RamzyM (WMF) 10:46, 20 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Bagong skin/interface kan Bikol Wikipedia

Marhay na Aldaw, Bikol Wikipedia Community!

Baad narisa nindo an pagbago kan skin o interface sa pagbisita sa Bikol Wikipedia. Igwa na palan nin bagong skin na inaapod na Vector (2022) asin ini an default na skin ngunyan kan Bikol Wikipedia. Huli ta an lambang paragamit igwa nin manlainlain na preperensya sa skin/interface sa pagbasa o pagliwat sa sityo na ini, pwede tabi na maibalik nindo an skin/interface sa dati. An pagbalik sa hiling ko iyo nakadepende sa kada paragamit.

Magbisita tabi sa takod na ini: Mga kabòtan - Wikipedia. Kun mawot nindo na maibalik sa dati an skin/interface, pilion an Vector legacy (2010) asin itagama dagos. Kun mawot nindo makibali sa mga diskusyon manungod sa skin/interface sa internasyunal na komunidad, ini tabi an takod: Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements - MediaWiki.

Dios Mabalos!

Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:19, 27 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Dyos mabalos, Ralffralff ! Kun ibalik ko, an mahihiling ko an dating interface sa sakuyang laptop sana? Sa ibang paragamit, kun mayo sindang gibohon, an mahihiling an bagong Vector (2022)? Ringer (kaulayon) 02:39, 28 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Ibinalik ko baga. hehe --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 11:25, 28 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Sir @Filipinayzd, maski ako po, natuod na kaya sa dating skin. Haha -- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:04, 28 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Iyo po Sir @Ringer, default skin na po talaga an Vector (2022) kan Bikol Wikipedia. Nagtesting man po ako sa laptop kan tugang ko para maikompara. An pagbalik po sa dati na Vector legacy (2010) nakadepende po sa paragamit asin si saiyang tanawon sana po an maaapektuhan... -- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:01, 28 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Request for Renewal of Administrator Access 2022

Good Day!

I want to inform you that my administrator access will expire this coming November 5, 2022. With this, I would like to reapply as an Administrator of Bikol Wikipedia especially that currently I am the only one who administer this Wikipedia edition.

If given the chance to prolong my administrator access; (1) I will ensure to balance the increase between the No. of Articles and Depth, (2) random editing of articles will be performed and promoted, (3) and will continuously monitor the edits and perform administrator duties like deleting pages, blocking users, etc. whenever necessary.

Thank you!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:53, 31 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Sinusuportaran ko si Ralffralff na magin admin giraray kan Bikol Wikipedia Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 15:30, 31 Oktubre 2022 (UTC)

Support -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 02:56, 1 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support -Buszmail (kaulayon) 03:11, 1 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support - Ralff is credible and trusted admin of Bikol Wikipedia. - Maffeth.opiana (kaulayon) 03:44, 1 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support Jay Bolero (kaulayon) 05:10, 1 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support, trusted and friendly. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 11:19, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support - Ralff is reliable, dedicated and zealous in his work. Ringer (kaulayon) 15:08, 2 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support - Since I'm so busy in my personal life, I meant for my work, Ralff was suitable to became an Admin of this wiki.. --175.176.21.194 13:31, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Ako kaini Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 13:35, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Pwede pa daw kaya ako mag-admin digdi hahaha Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 13:35, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Magsabi ka lang. Suportahan mi ika giraray. Hehe :) -- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:27, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Support Inarawan1979 (kaulayon) 23:19, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Magbali!

Wikipedia Asian Month 2022

An Bulan kan Asya nin Wikipedia sarong online editing contest tanganing maparahay an pagkakasinabotan kan mga komunidad nin Wikipedia sa Asya, ngunyan na bulan nin Nobyembre 2022. An katuyohan kan Bulan kan Asya sa tataramon na Bikol Sentral iyo na madugangan asin mapakarhay an mga artikulo dapit sa mga Asyanong nasyon kabali an Filipinas.

Bilang kasumarò sa pagkakaaramigo kan Komunidad nin Wikipedia kan Asya, an lambang partisipante na nakagibo nin dai mababa sa apat (4) na artikulo na nakakasunod sa susundon makakaresibe nin sertipiko asin espesyal na postcard nin Wikipedia gikan sa mga kabaling nasyon.

An paraambag na makakagibo nin pinakadakol na mga artikulo mimidbidon na "Wikipedia Asian Ambassador".

Magbali na Report contributions

Susundon

• An artikulo bàgong gibo nindo (i.e. bakong tamboan na artikulo na pinakarhay) poon Nobyembre 1, 2022 0:00 sagkod Nobyembre 30, 2022 05:00 (UTC).
• An artikulo kaipohan yaon sa klasipikasyon na poon na artikulo o halangkaw pa.
• Kaipohan midbid o bantog an isusurat na artikulo.
• Kaipohan igwa nin mga toltolan an artikulo; an mga kaduda-dudang pahayag igwang hihilngan sa artikulo.
• Pwedeng magpalis sa tataramon na Bikol gikan sa ibang tataramon.
• Mayo nin kakundian (mayong tags) sa laog kan artikulo
• An artikulo bakong sarong lista.
• An artikulo nagtatao nin impormasyon.
• An artikulo dapit sa sarong Asyanong nasyon o rehiyon.
• Importante: An hurado an makakapagsabi kun an sarong artikulo aakoon o dai.

Mag-ayon

Tanganing makabali, maggibo nin sadiring account asin iusip an mga ambag digdi. Pindoton an buton sa ibaba dangan idugang an simbolong ~~~~ tanganing maidugang an saimong paragamit-na-ngaran o username. Mamarkahan nin tsek kan mga hurado kun an artikulo nasunod an criteria.

Magbali na

--Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 03:15, 1 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Dai baga naggagagana an fountain? -- Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 15:57, 3 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions

Hello all,

During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page here on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it here.

With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter" sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.

The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events:

• Asia/Pacific: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
• Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
• Latin America/North America/ Western Europe: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.

On the Meta page you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.

Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors

Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors (MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up here. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum.

We thank you for your time and participation.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 13:52, 2 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Apply for Funding through the Movement Strategy Community Engagement Package to Support Your Community

The Wikimedia Movement Strategy implementation is a collaborative effort for all Wikimedians. Movement Strategy Implementation Grants support projects that take the current state of a Movement Strategy Initiative and push it one step forward. If you are looking for an example or some guide on how to engage your community further on Movement Strategy and the Movement Strategy Implementation Grants specifically, you may find this community engagement package helpful.

The goal of this community engagement package is to support more people to access the funding they might need for the implementation work. By becoming a recipient of this grant, you will be able to support other community members to develop further grant applications that fit with your local contexts to benefit your own communities. With this package, the hope is to break down language barriers and to ensure community members have needed information on Movement Strategy to connect with each other. Movement Strategy is a two-way exchange, we can always learn more from the experiences and knowledge of Wikimedians everywhere. We can train and support our peers by using this package, so more people can make use of this great funding opportunity.

If this information interests you or if you have any further thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us as your regional facilitators to discuss further. We will be more than happy to support you. When you are ready, follow the steps on this page to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.

Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance Team
Wikimedia Foundation

VChang (WMF) and RamzyM (WMF) 16:53, 9 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Global bot approval request for JhsBot

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In accordance to the policy, this message is to notify you that there is a new approval request for a global bot.

The discussion is available at Steward requests/Bot status#Global bot status for JhsBot on Meta-Wiki. All Wikimedia community members are invited to participate.

Thank you for your time.

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Maugmang ika-15ng kaaldawan Bikol Wikipedia!

Kaglimang taon na an nakalihis kan tugotan an pagkakamukna kan Bikol Wikipedia. Sagkod ngunyan an satong komunidad padagos na nagdadakol asin nagkakaburugkos.

Maghirilingan kita tanganing ipagrukyaw an satong mga nakamtan asin giromdomon an mga agi-agi.

Sa maabot na Disyembre 2, magkakaigwa kita nin webinar sa pakikipagtabangan kan James O'Brien SJ Library, Ateneo de Naga University kaiba bilang bisitang tagapagtaram gikan sa Indya asin Estados Unidos.

Antabayan an mga detalye! --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 00:16, 24 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Maogmang ika-kaglimang anibersaryo (Nov 2007 - Nov 2022) kan Bikol Wikipedia! Nagburublay na an mga ibang Wikipedia, alagad an Bikol Sentral iyo na an pinakadinamiko asin pinakamabagsik igdi sa Filipinas! Orog tang parambongon ini, patabaon asin papusogon!!! Ringer (kaulayon) 01:30, 24 Nobyembre 2022 (UTC)

Maogmang ika-15ng Kaaldawan sa Bikol Wikipedia!

Harayo na an naabot kan Bikol Wikipedia asin dikit na lang mahihiling ta na an bunga kan satuyang paghigos. Para sa representasyon kan Tataramon asin Kultura kan Kabikolan sa World Wide Web sa paagi kan Bikol Wikipedia, dagos-dagos sana an satuyang pagtrabaho sa pagpaparambong kan proyekto na ini!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 01:59, 24 Nobyembre 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 Plantilya: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 Disyembre 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 Disyembre 2022 (UTC)

13,000 lagpas na an artikulo sa Bikol Wikipedia

Ngunyan na aldaw naabot kan Bikol Wikipedia an ika-13,000 na artikulo kaini. Ini an pinakamarikas na paglangkaw kan bilang nin artikulo sa haraning panahon, huli ta kan Abril man kan taong ini naabot kan Bikol Wikipedia an ika-12,000 na artikulo kaini. Dios Mabalos sa duwa sa pinakamahigos na paraambag nin artikulo na iyo sinda @Jay Bolero asin @Ringer!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 12:11, 12 Disyembre 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!

Mabalos! Community Tech, STei (WMF) 12:59, 13 Disyembre 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 Disyembre 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  

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Online Town Hall Meeting for Wikimedia Movement Strategy (December 2022)

An implementasyon kan Wikimedia Movement Strategy iyo sarong kolaboratibong higos kan gabos na mga Wikimedian. Ini nakatakod sa Karta nin Kahiroang Wikimedia (epektibo an konstitusyon kaini). An presenteng kamugtakan kan inisyatibo na Movement Strategy iyo dagos nangangaipo nin sarong lakdang na busol paabante sa paagi kan Pag-enganyo sa Komunidad. Kaipohan niyato na maaraman an pagmati asin sentimiyento kan satuyang Wiki na komunidad sa bilog na kinaban!

Mawot niyamo na magkaigwa nin Onlne Town hall meeting. Magtao tabi kan saimong sadiring opinyon. Kun kinakaipo, pakisurat an saimong naiisip sa paagi kan samuyang online na pag-urulay na ika sana an nakakaaram. Mayo nin tama o sala na simbag; an kaipohan niyato maiheras dapat madangog (o mabasa) kan Kahiroang Wikimedia. Urog na sa Filipinas na dae pa nadadagos. Nguyan na an panahon!

Pwede tabi magbali sa online na miting na samuyang ioorganisa sa oras na 9PM sa Desyembre 28, 2022 (Miyerkules).

Dios Mabalos!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:09, 27 Disyembre 2022 (UTC)

To join the meeting on Google Meet, click this link: https://meet.google.com/wyk-bhma-eum

Or open Meet and enter this code: wyk-bhma-eum Ralffralff (kaulayon) 04:19, 28 Disyembre 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 Enero 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2023

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• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion

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• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

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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 Enero 2023 (UTC)

Bikol Wikipedia Community in Meta-Wiki

To highlight the efforts done by the community of Bicolano Wikipedians and its focus, a separate page of the Bikol Wikipedia Community was published in Meta-Wiki. You can visit it here.

The Bikol Wikipedia Community is a community of Wikimedians supporting the Bikol Wikipedia project in the Philippines, the activities of PhilWiki Community on Bikol Wikipedia, and the mission and vision of Wikimedia Foundation in general.

To signify your interest in joining the community, please add your username in the list of Interested Members.

Dios Mabalos!

-- Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:00, 21 Enero 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 Pebrero 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 February 2023

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• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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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 Pebrero 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

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• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

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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 Pebrero 2023 (UTC)

Magbali!

	Magin parte kan Feminism and Folklore in the Philippines 2023, an internasyunal na kampanya sa pagdugang nin laog o kontent sa Wikipedia tanganing idokumento an mga katutubong kultura sa manlainlain na rehiyon sa kinaban.
	Nagpoon an Wiki Loves Folklore taon 2018 bilang Wiki Loves Love para sa mga temang seremonya asin festival nin pagkamoot. Sa Bikol Wikipedia, ini an WikiProyekto na dapit sa katutubong kultura nagpoon kan Pebrero 2022. Ngunyan na taon, an aktibidad poon Pebrero 1 sagkod Marso 31. Siring man, tinatawan kahalagahan sa proyektong ini an papel kan kababaihan sa kultura.

Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 05:40, 24 Pebrero 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.
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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) (Urulay) 21:20, 27 Pebrero 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)

The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?

• Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy

• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propoganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?

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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.

The Signpost: 20 March 2023

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

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• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

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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 Marso 2023 (UTC)

Report on voter comments from the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines ratification vote

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Hello all,

The Universal Code of Conduct project team has completed the analysis of the comments accompanying the ratification vote on the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines.

All respondents to the vote had the opportunity to provide comments regarding the contents of the revised Enforcement Guidelines draft document. A total of 369 participants left comments in 18 languages; compared to 657 commenters in 27 languages in 2022. The Trust and Safety Policy team completed an analysis of these results, categorizing comments to identify major themes and areas of focus within the comments. The report is available in translated versions on Meta-wiki here. Please help translate into your language.

Again, we are thankful to all who participated in the vote and discussions. More information about the Universal Code of Conduct and its Enforcement Guidelines can be found on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the Universal Code of Conduct project team,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 14:40, 31 Marso 2023 (UTC)

Upcoming community review of the Movement Charter ratification methodology

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Hello everyone,

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) will propose a ratification methodology for the future Movement Charter on April 10, 2023. The proposed ratification methodology is a result of learnings from previous ratification processes.

The MCDC will organize a consultation period with the Wikimedia Movement to hear feedback on the proposed ratification methodology from April 10 to 28, 2023. People will be invited to share their feedback on the questions mainly via the Meta Talk page discussion, on the Movement Strategy Forum, and during the community conversation hours. The MCDC welcomes your input on some open questions.

Join the community conversation hours

The MCDC invites everyone interested in sharing their feedback on the proposed methodology to join the community conversation hours:

• Community conversation hour #1: 18 April at 10:00 UTC (your local time)
• Community conversation hour #2: 24 April at 17:00 UTC (your local time)

When signing up, please leave a comment if you need language support. Please note that language interpretation will be provided if at least 3 people expressed interest to participate in the following languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.

Thank you,

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:38, 6 Abril 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
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Elections Committee: Call for New Members

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Hello everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation elections committee (Elections Committee) is, from today until April 24, seeking an additional 2–4 members to help facilitate the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee (Board) selection process.

The 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election is being planned. New members are invited to join the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee oversees the Board of Trustees community seat selection process. Join the committee and contribute your valuable skills and ideas to the Trustee selection process.

There are eight community- and affiliate-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board. The wider Wikimedia community votes for community members to occupy these seats. In 2024, the Elections Committee will oversee this selection process for the community- and affiliate-selected seats with expiring terms. This process will be supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Elections Committee members sign up for three-year terms and will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement. Members can expect to contribute 2–5 hours per week before the selection process and 5–8 hours per week during the selection process.

As an Elections Committee member, you will be responsible for:

• Attending online meetings between now and the next election (mid-2024)
• Attending onboarding and online training in May–June 2023
• Working with the Committee to fulfill its other responsibilities

New members should have the following qualities:

• Fluency in English
• Responsiveness to email collaboration
• Knowledge of the movement and movement governance

If you would like to volunteer for this role, please submit your candidacy by April 24, 2023 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) on this Meta-Wiki page.

You can read the full announcement here. Thank you in advance for your interest! If you are not interested but know someone who might be, share this message with them. Please let me know if you have questions.

On behalf of the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 15:41, 12 Abril 2023 (UTC)

Call for early input on the proposed Movement Charter ratification methodology

Hello all,

The [[<tvar name="mcdc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Drafting Committee</tvar>|Movement Charter Drafting Committee]] (MCDC) has started to collect input from the Wikimedia movement on the [[<tvar name="mcm">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Ratification</tvar>|proposed methodology for the ratification of the Movement Charter]] from April 10 to 28, 2023. Ratification of the [[<tvar name="mc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter</tvar>|Movement Charter]] is planned to take place in early 2024 according to the timeline.

There are [[<tvar name="mcm2">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Ratification</tvar>|six questions]] that the MCDC requests your input on. Please share your feedback by:

• Commenting on the [[<tvar name="tmc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Movement Charter</tvar>|Meta talk page]]
• Commenting on the [<tvar name="forum">https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/movement-charter-ratification-methodology-community-review-from-10-28-april-2023/2930</tvar> Movement Strategy forum]
• Joining the community conversation hours; the first conversation hour will take place on 18 April at 10:00 UTC ([<tvar name="1">https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1681812036</tvar> your local time]). [[<tvar name="mccc">m:Special:MyLanguage/Movement Charter/Community Consultation</tvar>|When signing up]], please leave a comment if you need language support by April 16, 2023. We will try our best to provide language interpretation if at least three people expressed interest.

If you have any questions, kindly let us know.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) & VChang (WMF) 13:33, 14 Abril 2023 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations

The main purpose of this message is to share with you the draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation for the coming fiscal year from July 2023 to June 2024. The summary of the annual plan is available in multiple languages.

Some Excerpts from the Annual Plan Draft

The Wikimedia Foundation has remained in a period of transition. It welcomed new leadership last year, including a new Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product and Technology Officer. Additionally, the Foundation has navigated conversations with global communities on a range of important issues, from a future charter defining roles and responsibilities, to how we raise shared resources through banner fundraising. This year's Annual Plan attempts to provide more clarity on multi-year strategic issues that do not have quick fixes, and more detailed information on how the Foundation operates.

For the second consecutive year, the Wikimedia Foundation is anchoring its annual plan in the movement's strategy to advance equity. The intention is to connect the Foundation's work even more deeply with the Movement Strategy Recommendations to make even deeper progress towards the 2030 Strategic Direction. This year, the Foundation is recentering its plan around Product and Technology, emphasizing our unique role as a platform for people and communities collaborating on a massive scale. If you are interested to learn more, you can find detailed information on this meta page.

Requesting Your Feedback

Your feedback is highly appreciated, whether being on Meta discussion page or sharing at your local discussion space. Your comments and reflections will help improve the proposal before the Foundation’s Board of Trustees considers the plan and budget in their June meeting.

Community Conversations

Everyone is also invited to participate in the virtual conversation on 30th April 2023 at 6am UTC (check your local time here), which is planned for participants from the Asia Pacific timezone. Kindly see the Diff calendar here. Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer will be joining the call to share more and learn about your thoughts. You can find the information relating to virtual conversations on the collaboration page. We look forward to seeing you in the upcoming conversation!

VChang (WMF) 13:31, 25 Abril 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

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As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
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• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

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14,000 lagpas na an artikulo kan Bikol Wikipedia

Kan Hulyo 18, 2023, luminagpas 14,000 na an mga artikulo digdi sa Bikol Wikipedia. Sarong dakulang pasasalamat sa mga mahihigos na paraambag urog na ki Jay Bolero asin Ringer, sagkod sa mga inisyatibo kan Bikol Wikipedia Community asin PhilWiki Community na nakatabang nin marhay sa marikas na pagsangat nin mga artikulo asin bilang nin pagliwat sa Bikol Wikipedia.

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Nomination to the ESEAP Preparatory Council 2023-2024

Backgrounder

Basaha sa ESEAP Preparatory Council process.

Para sa Community process for Community Seats.

Ilista an saimong inonomina. Magbali sa nominasyon sagkod sa 19 Agosto, 2023.

• (nominasyon) -kagnominar
• magdugang nin pangaran
• self-nomination -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 11:14, 18 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

I highly recommend Filipinayzd. He's more than qualified for the position. Mataba padaba (kaulayon) 05:00, 20 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Mataba padaba. Allow me to vote on behalf of the Bikol Wikipedia Community. -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:47, 26 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

TIMELINE for 3 Communities seats

• NOMINATION starts and ends: 16 to 19 August 2023
• VOTING starts: 21 August 2023
• VOTING concludes: 2 September 2023 (anywhere on Earth)

Preparatory Council Nomination and Voting Information

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Dear Communities and individual contributors in the ESEAP Regional Cooperation:

The ESEAP Interim Hub Committee's mandate shall conclude with Wikimania 2023; culminating with their handover to a new ESEAP Preparatory Council.

This Preparatory Council will continue to define, until its completion, ESEAP's Roles and Responsibilities document.

The Council shall also finalize ESEAP's pilot grant plan for the first year; concluding with the ESEAP Conference in 2024.

The Preparatory Council will consist of 9 seats;

• 4 of the 9 seats will be allocated for Affiliates and voted exclusively by Affiliates. Each affiliate will have a maximum of 4 votes.
• 3 seats will be allocated for Communities from ESEAP, duly verified, and voted exclusively by the Communities. Each community will have a maximum of 3 votes.
• 2 seats will be allocated for Individual contributors and will be voted by Popular Vote ‐ voted exclusively by individual contributors. Each individual voter has a maximum of 2 votes.

Should your community wish to nominate a candidate, please nominate your community with the name of the candidate by August 19th. The voting will be happening betwen August 20nd and September 2nd.

Should you (individual contributor) want to nominate an individual, please nominate the person by August 19th. The voting will be happening between August 20nd and September 2nd.

With the time being so short, we need your cooperation and participation as soon as possible.

The election for the seats will be held on the this Meta page.

Let's move forward together!

Sincerely,

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VChang (WMF) 09:21, 17 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @VChang (WMF) Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 09:31, 18 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

ESEAP PREPARATORY COUNCIL

This is to support Filipinayzd to his seat in ESEAP PREPARATORY COUNCIL.

He has the skills and talent for the said position. ArvyJames (kaulayon) 07:22, 19 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

I endorse Filipinayzd for the position -Ralffralff (kaulayon) 13:27, 19 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Endorsing Filipinayzd for this position. He is more capable for this -MarvinBikolano (kaulayon) 14:27, 19 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

This is to support Filipinayzd to his seat in ESEAP PREPARATORY COUNCIL. Derk29 (kaulayon) 11:11, 20 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @ArvyJames, @Derk29, @MarvinBikolano, @Mataba padaba, @Ralffralff, @LeahLhey. Allow me to vote on behalf of the Bikol Wikipedia Community. -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:51, 26 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Endorsing Filipinayzd for this position. He is more capable for this

Endorsing Filipinayzd for this position. He is more capable for this. LeahLhey (kaulayon) 13:01, 20 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

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ESEAP Preparatory Council Election for Community Seats

There will be 3 (three) community seats available to fill up, and here are the candidates:

Name	Username	Name of Community	Meta Page / Community wiki page	Description of the Community	Nominated by	Meta-Wiki documentation regarding your nomination
Johnny Alegre	Buszmail	Pilipinas Panorama Community	Pilipinas Panorama Community	Thematic community	Pilipinas Panorama Community	Nominations to the ESEAP Preparatory Council 2023–2024
Irvin Sto. Tomas	Filipinayzd	Bikol Wikipedia	Bikol Central Wikipedia	Wikipedia	Self-nominated with endorsements from community members and admin.	Discussion in the community portal talk page
Youngjin Ko	*Youngjin	Korean Wikipedia	Korean Wikipedia	Wikipedia	Self-nominated with endorsement from community and Wikimedia Korea's Board.	Nominations to the ESEAP Preparatory Council 2023-2024(Korean Wikipedia)
Robert Sim	Robertsky	Wikimedians of Singapore User Group	Wikimedians of Singapore User Group	Wikipedia	Self-nominated with endorsement from Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia	Meta:Talk:Wikimedians of Singapore User Group#ESEAP Preparatory Council nomination

Community process for Community Seats

• The votes for Community seats will be exclusive to the ESEAP-verifed Communities themselves.
• Communities must have a Wikimedia Meta presence or Wikimedia Project Page (not proposal, but active) older than 12 months in order to qualify in the voting and nominating process for the 3 available seats in the Prepatory Council.
• Otherwise, the Community that intends to participate must be endorsed by an ESEAP Affiliate. Note: an Affiliate can endorse only one (1) Community from their country/region.
• A Community intending to nominate a candidate to the Council must be their member in good standing.
• Each Community that has successfully registered as a voter may vote for a maximum of 3 candidates; one of these candidates may include their own.
• A Community voting twice for the same candidate will nullify their entire cast of votes.
• Affiliates shall not participate in the community-voting process.

Timeline for 3 Community seats

• Nomination 16-19 August 2023
• Nomination will be confirmed by process oversight sub-committee by 23:59 UTC, 24 August 2023
• Voting starts: 00:00 UTC, 26 August 2023
• Voting concludes: 23:59 UTC, 3 September 2023

Voting methods for Community Seats

• Voting

Filipinayzd

Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:20, 22 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

@ArvyJames, @Mataba padaba, @MarvinBikolano, @Derk29, @Ralffralff, @LeahLhey:

Here are the 4 candidates running for the 3 Community Seats. -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:55, 26 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

@ShiminUfesoj mabalos sa suporta. --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 14:42, 26 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

no problem, My support is for the future. Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 00:31, 30 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

Support - Ralffralff (kaulayon) 14:50, 1 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Support - Jp2593 (kaulayon) 14:59, 1 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Support Maffeth.opiana (kaulayon) 11:30, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Kabu Sawsaw (kaulayon) 12:10, 5 Setyembre 2023 (UTC) I believe in the leadership of Irvin. His dedication to the preservation of our heritage is unfathomable. Charles Brioso (kaulayon) 04:09, 5 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Ringer (kaulayon) Ringer (kaulayon) 12:18, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

SupportFirth m (kaulayon) 12:29, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC) I support Irvin...he is very active and a pillar of Bikol Wikipedia...I believe Wikipedia/media leadership needs to have more representation from lesser known Wikipedia projects and minority languages like Bikol.

Mabalos Firth on your genuine support. -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:33, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Daragang Nagueña (kaulayon) 12: 35, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC) I support Irvin. He has a vision and has dedication and commitment to the organization.

Support Marife.altabano (kaulayon) 03:52, 5 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Buszmail

Buszmail (kaulayon)

• 
  Photo by Jason Krüger for Wikimedia, at the Wikimedia Summit 2022
• 
  Photo of Johnny Alegre at the Sorsogon Provincial Capitol honoring his grandfather, Senator Juan B. Alegre of the Bicol Region
• 
  street honoring Senator Juan B. Alegre of the Bicol Region, extending towards Maharlika Highway
• 
  Photo of J. ALEGRE ST. behind Sorsogon Provincial Capitol, in Brgy. Burabod
• 
  Saint Gregory the Great Cathedral, Old Albay District, Legaspi City, Albay, bounded by JB Alegre Street (Bicol 640)

Support - Ralffralff (kaulayon) 10:51, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)
Support - Ezra Carullo (kaulayon) FrincesEzra (kaulayon)
Support - Zirconaut (kaulayon) 12:10, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)
Support - Ringer (kaulayon) Ringer (kaulayon) 12:22, 2 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)
Support - JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 02:00, 3 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

I am pleased to share the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct work. The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter is now ready for your review.

The Enforcement Guidelines require a Building Committee form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.

Join the conversation during the conversation hours or on Meta-wiki.

Best,

RamzyM (WMF), on behalf of the U4C Building Committee, 15:35, 28 Agosto 2023 (UTC)

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I running to become an admin here in BCL wiki

I am willing to run again for being admin here so please support me: Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 01:40, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Tugot man ako kon sisay saindo an magigin tagamato kaining Wikipedia. Para man ini sa gabos. Gudlak na sana! ChisoyWasabe (kaulayon) 02:04, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Support With the rapid surge of the number of articles, Bikol Wikipedia needs more administrator. Goodluck! - Ralffralff (kaulayon) 02:46, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Strong support -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 12:58, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Strong support -Maffeth.opiana (kaulayon) 08:31, 18 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Marhay na aldaw! Tugoti nindo akong magin tagamato kaining Wikipedia para sa pagpakarhay kan nagpapadagos na proyektong Wikipedia:1,000 core topics asin mga katakod na proyekto. Dakula an magigin tabang kan pagigin tagamato na mapangatamanan an mga artikulo para sa urog pang pagpatalubo kan mga ini. Mabalos sa suporta. -Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 01:41, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Tugot man ako kon sisay saindo an magigin tagamato kaining Wikipedia. Para man ini sa gabos. Gudlak na sana! ChisoyWasabe (kaulayon) 01:53, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Support - With the rapid surge of the number of articles, Bikol Wikipedia needs more administrator. Goodluck! - Ralffralff (kaulayon) 02:39, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Strong support - Indeed, additional administrators are needed by the Bikol Wikipedia, and I am happy to support. Jp2593 (kaulayon) 08:25, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Support - more admin, easier to manage the Bicol Wiki against spammers and also for the Editing and development of this page Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 14:49, 17 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

Strong support -Maffeth.opiana (kaulayon) 08:32, 18 Setyembre 2023 (UTC)

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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package

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Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process. More on the Meta-wiki page.

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01:12, 17 Oktubre 2023 (UTC)

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Movement Charter Drafts 2024

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Wikimedia Movement Charter Languages Document English Tagalog Bikol Central : Movement Charter Movement Charter Tipang Kasulatan ng Kilusan Tipang Kasuratan : Content Content Mga Nilalaman : One-Page One-page draft Isang-pahinang draft Sarong-pahinang draft : Introduction Introduction Panimula : Volunteers Volunteers Mga Nagkukusang-loob : Wikimedia Movement Bodies Wikimedia Movement Bodies Mga Katawan ng Kilusang Wikimedia : Amendment Amendment Pagbabago (Susog) : Ratification Ratification Pagpapatibay : Glossary Glossary Talasalitaan : Supplementary Documents Supplementary Documents : Conversations Conversations Mga Talakayan : Community Consultation Community Consultation Konsultasyon sa Pamayanan : Drafting Committee Drafting Committee Drafting Committee : MCDC Open Community Call April 4 2024 (Recording) :

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A volunteer since 2008, and having experienced all kinds of problems in editing and writing articles in Wikipedia, may I ask for your support in applying for administratorship in Bikol Wikipedia. I have met various forms of editorial problems in Wikipedia but since they require higher level of authority, I just ignore them. Hopefully, I can assist right on in improving the quality of our Wikipedia if vested with the proper tools. Thanks. Ringer (kaulayon) 04:12, 9 Disyembre 2023 (UTC)

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Feminism and Folklore 2024

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Dear Wiki Community,

You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2024 writing competition from February 1, 2024, to March 31, 2024 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 generated 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 campaign on CampWiz tool.
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 CampWiz link on the meta project page.

This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the Article List Generator by Topic and CampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wikipedia. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access these tools

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 2024 International Team

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Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

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Dear Wiki Community, You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 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 31st of March.

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.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll now through 2 February 2024. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C Charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) charter will close on 2 February 2024. Community members may cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines will find this process familiar.

The current version of the U4C charter is on Meta-wiki with translations available.

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Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote

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Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the ratification vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.

A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.

Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.

On behalf of the UCoC Project team,

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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2024: We are back!

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Hello, dear Wikipedians!

Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has launched the forth edition of writing challenge "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month", which lasts from 1st until 31st March 2024. 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)

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Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available

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Hello all,

I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.

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 are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.

The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

• May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
• June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
• June-August 2024: Campaign period
• End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
• October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
• Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page, and make your plan.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.

Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak (Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.

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Vote now to select members of the first U4C

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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 May 9, 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.

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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!

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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:25, 22 Mayo 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:

• North America (USA and Canada)
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• Northern and Western Europe
  • Ghilt
• Latin America and Caribbean
  • –
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
  • —
• Sub-Saharan Africa
  • –
• Middle East and North Africa
  • Ibrahim.ID
• East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
  • 0xDeadbeef
• South Asia
  • –

The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:

• Barkeep49
• Superpes15
• Civvì
• Luke081515
• –
• –
• –
• –

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on Meta-wiki.

On behalf of the UCoC project team,

RamzyM (WMF) 08:14, 3 Hunyo 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in the #WPWPCampaign 2024

Dear community members,

We are inviting you to participate in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024 campaign, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2024:

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation your language Wikipedia. We’d be glad for you to sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities page on Meta-Wiki.

Thank you,

Reading Beans / readthebeansPlantilya:@gmail.com)
Project manager and coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024

Done. Check out Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos PH 2024. --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 14:23, 5 Hunyo 2024 (UTC)

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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta

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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the Meta talk page or email the MCDC at mcdc@wikimedia.org.

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Plans to enable MinT for Wiki readers in Central Bikol Wikipedia

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Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team has been working on MinT for Wiki Readers. This feature will allow communities to access more content that is only available in other languages with machine translation in Wikipedia. We will be enabling the initial version of this feature first in Igbo Wikipedia, and your Wikipedia is the next to test and have this feature since it will be beneficial for reading content in other languages. For this, our team would like you to read about the feature and test it so you can:

• Ask us questions
• Tell us how to improve the feature
• Give us your feedback on enabling it in your Wikipedia

About the feature

The MinT for Wiki Readers is a feature that will allow readers of Central Bikol Wikipedia to expand their reading options and knowledge beyond the language they are familiar with in Wikipedia. For instance, if someone is interested in a topic or content that only exists in the Japanese language and the person is not familiar with the language. While using the mobile web version of Wikipedia, the reader can access the machine translation version of that content in the Central Bikol language from the language selector or the article's footer (as shown in the media files below).

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These machine-generated translations of content are clearly identified as such, and the human-created content is surfaced and recommended if available.

This feature is in its initial development. It is an early and functional version, and many aspects will be improved based on your community member's feedback on what works and what can be improved to better support your needs as readers.

How to try the tool

Before we enable this feature in your Wikipedia by the 26th June 2024, we invite members of your community to try MinT for Wiki Readers in your Wikipedia at Special:AutomaticTranslation and give us early feedback in this thread or on this talk page. Our team would like to know your impression on:

• How do you use the feature
• Anything we should consider for our plans to enable it?
• Your ideas for improving it.

We greatly appreciate your time and effort in testing this tool. We eagerly look forward to your valuable feedback and questions, which will be instrumental in the further development of this feature. Thank you.

On behalf of the WMF Language team UOzurumba (WMF) (kaulayon) 22:04, 13 Hunyo 2024 (UTC)

Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:51, 25 Hunyo 2024 (UTC)

Cleaning up files

Hello!

All files must have a valid license. Any file without a license should be deleted.

The official policy is wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy and according to this files should either have a free license like c:Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0 or meet the requirements of fair use. If bcl.wiki would like to use fair use you need an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP). See lists at m:Non-free content and an example see en:Wikipedia:Non-free content.

Many of the files are uploaded by Paragamit:Ringer and Paragamit:Filipinayzd that are still active. So if any of the files are own work it is easy to fix. All that needs to be done is that there is a statement like "I'm the photographer/creator of the file(s)" and a statement of a free license like Cc-by-sa-4.0.

The statement should be added to all the files. It is easy to do with a bot.

If the files are non-free you need an EDP and a license template like en:Template:Non-free logo. That can also be added with a bot.

A good place to start could be at Espesyal:UnusedFiles. Unused files can probably just be deleted. But if they are good and uploader is still active they can be moved to Commons if a valid license is added.

Please ping me if you have questions. --MGA73 (kaulayon) 10:25, 4 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

• In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administatrors

• Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

• In the media: War and information in war and politics

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov and Hyacinth

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

• Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

• Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

• Humour: A joke

• Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

• Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:45, 8 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

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 are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:02, 10 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results

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Hello everyone,

After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.  

As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.

The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:

Individual vote:

Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).

Affiliates vote:

Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).

Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.  

With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.

We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.

The Charter Electoral Commission,

Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing

MediaWiki message delivery (kaulayon) 17:52, 18 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

• Obituary: JamesR

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

• Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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Request for feedback on machine translation support variable provided by Google Translate for your Wikipedia

Hello Central Bikol Wikipedians!

Apologies, as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

Google Translate just introduced machine translation support in Bikol language. However, Google uses codebikfor Bikol while Wikipedia usesbclfor Central Bikol, so it is unclear if the variant supported by Google could be useful for your community. Therefore, the WMF Language and Product Localisation team wants to know from members of the Central Bikol Wikipedia community if this variant is helpful for your translation work. For this, my team would like you to:

• Try the machine translation support at  https://translate.google.com/. You can paste multiple pieces of content from different Wikipedia articles and check whether the provided result is the correct variant for your language.
• Provide us with specific feedback on the machine translation quality. Let us know if the translations are accurate, maintain the original meaning, are grammatically correct, and if they are suitable for your Wikipedia.

Our plans to enable the machine translation support

If the machine translation is the correct variant, and there are no objections to having translation support. We will deploy it once the support is available in the external APIs.

We look forward to your feedback in this thread, as we need to be sure we will be providing a helpful support service for your translation work. Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (kaulayon) 04:02, 25 Hulyo 2024 (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language and Product Localisation team.

Hello @UOzurumba (WMF)!

The machine translation can translate into English and other Philippine languages the following Bikol variants/languages with varying accuracy in each variant/language: Central Bikol [bcl], Rinconada Bikol [bto], Miraya Bikol [rbl], Buhi'non Bikol [ubl], Pandan Bikol [cts]. There are more Bikol variants/languages.

Having only one language [bik] for all Bikol variants would be problematic when a user wants to translate from English or other languages to a particular Bikol variant. The translations he will get is a actually the Central Bikol [bcl] which is different from the rest of the other Bikol variants/languages.

The translations (which is in Central Bikol [bcl], the language used in this local project: Bikol Sentral Wikipedia / Bikol Wikipedia) are not entirely correct. The meaning and grammar of the translation does not change and correct same as the original text in most cases therefore the tool would be very helpful!

Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 05:03, 25 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @Filipinayzd, for your feedback. Since Google Translate is helpful, the WMF Language Localisation team will enable Google translation support (with code bik) for your Wikipedia once the support is available in external APIs.

UOzurumba (WMF) (kaulayon) 15:20, 26 Hulyo 2024 (UTC)

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 Hulyo 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.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 6 Agosto 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2024

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Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC

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 (kaulayon) 23:19, 22 Agosto 2024 (UTC)

Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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Hello all,

The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the Elections Committee have certified the results for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election.

I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:

• North America (USA and Canada)
  • Ajraddatz

The following seats were not filled during this special election:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia
• The four remaining Community-At-Large seats

Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.

Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.

On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,

RamzyM (WMF) 14:05, 2 Setyembre 2024 (UTC)

Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.

Learn more about the candidates by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote. The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MediaWiki message delivery (kaulayon) 12:13, 3 Setyembre 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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• In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

• Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

• News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

• Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

• Traffic report: After the gold rush

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

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• Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

• Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing

• News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?

• Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

• Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors

• Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time

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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

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Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (kaulayon) 18:58, 27 Setyembre 2024 (UTC)

Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

1. Christel Steigenberger
2. Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
3. Victoria Doronina
4. Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group

MPossoupe_(WMF) 08:25, 14 Oktubre 2024 (UTC)

Global bot approval request for Leaderbot

Hello!

I apologize for sending this message in English. Please help translate to your language.

In accordance to the policy, this message is to notify you that there is a new approval request for a global bot.

The discussion is available at Steward requests/Bot status#Global bot status for Leaderbot on Meta.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards, EPIC (talk) 09:36, 15 Oktubre 2024 (UTC)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23:07, 16 Oktubre 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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• In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!

• Contest: A WikiCup for the underdeveloped world

• Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night

• Book review: The Editors

• Humour: The Newspaper Editors

• Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:30, 22 Oktubre 2024 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Giraray, naghahagad ako kan saindong suporta na magin tagamato kaining Wikipedia, para sa pagmantenir kan mga pahina nin proyekto, plantilya saka kan MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Dakula an magigin tabang kan pagigin tagamato na mapangatamanan an mga kontribusyon digdi. Mabalos sa suporta. --Filipinayzd (kaulayon) 09:55, 3 Nobyembre 2024 (UTC)

Support Shimin_Ufesoj ᜂᜎᜌ᜔_ᜃᜒᜆ? 12:15, 5 Nobyembre 2024 (UTC)

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Support

Dakulang suporta saimo na iyo ang tagamato asin iyo an magmantenir para sa ikakamaray kang kan proyekto MarvinBikolano (kaulayon) 13:45, 24 Nobyembre 2024 (UTC)

Support Derk29(kaulayon)02:28, 24 Nobyembre 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

• In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

• Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

• In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

• Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

• Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK

• Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases

• In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names

• Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"

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• Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college

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Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC

Hello everyone,

The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1732896000>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_November_2024>.

This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.

Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers, Srishti 19:54, 21 Nobyembre 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

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• Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything

• Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject

• In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case

• From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?

• Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality

• Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Traffic report: Was a long and dark December

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