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I've just re-donated to support Wikipedia for another year. But, I think I only scratch the surface of using it and the other related Wiki offerings. How can I get training (e.g. videos) on how to use all of the offerings? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.132.217.186 (talk) 14:38, 22 September 2022‎

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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,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 05:13, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/108805l/sent_ceaseanddesist_letter_from_american_law_firm/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1087x7z/new_brunswick_njsouth_dakota_legal_threats_made/

These may be of interest to WMF users. Osken2028w (talk) 13:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 00:16, 18 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is still open. If you would like to learn more about them, there is a Diff blog post you can read.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 20:49, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi! I have been working a research project that involves me downloading the latest dump every month from several projects — enwiktionary, eswiktionary, frwiktionary, dewiktionary, enwikiquote, eswikiquote, frwikiquote, dewikiquote, enwikibooks, eswikibooks, frwikibooks, and dewikibooks. I have been working on this for about two years, but I have been busy for a few months and didn’t have the time to download them immediately, but I thought that I could just download them later.

Today, I was finally ready to download them, when I noticed that the dumps from June and July are missing. I have looked all around the internet, but I have not found a solution.

Can any of you help? The last available username (talk) 19:42, 20 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The last available username try archive.org? For example https://web.archive.org/web/20220801023527/https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/20220720/ ? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:16, 21 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Xaosflux Thanks very much! This helps me a lot and is even on the day I was looking for, but this unfortunately doesn't work for the other projects. The last available username (talk) 15:52, 21 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The last available username try the mirror at your.org, just change the name in the url, example: https://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/frwikibooks — xaosflux ^Talk 16:11, 21 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Xaosflux Thanks so much!!! You saved me! How do you find that and what is your.org? The last available username (talk) 16:15, 21 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The last available username there is a list of some known mirrors at Mirroring Wikimedia project XML dumps. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:58, 21 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Most of the discussion on these talk pages seem to just be FORUMy comments and complaints and nothing about improving the page (besides people who think they're on Wikipedia). Virtually nothing productive has happened on these talk pages, and I don't see much maintenance or moderation on these pages. Should we do something about the junk on these talk pages? 137a (talk) 15:23, 24 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello all,

Voting closes on the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines in three days 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. More information on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process is available in this previous message.

Vote here

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:34, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

春去無蹤 ( local | logs | global )

this user contributed large volumes of texts to a large number of pages in Zhuang languages, Uyghur language, Tibetic language, Hakka language, Eastern Min, Gan language...

frankly, i dont think a person fluent in all these distant languages exist, so this looks like Scots_Wikipedia#Controversy.

also, i cant find a page for reporting this kind of suspicious activity. RZuo (talk) 09:59, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No longer just for conversation...

Chatbots can now write content amazingly well, in a striking variety of formats and styles, following even complex instructions from users...

...but who owns the copyrights to what they write?

And can the generated content legally be placed under open license by users?

ChatGPT has gone viral, is taking the Web by storm, and is dominating tech news. What ChatGPT can do is mind blowing. The output from chatbots like ChatGPT have already started showing up on English Wikipedia. See w:Talk:Artwork title#Use of ChatGPT and w:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#More detected AI-generated papers.

The English Wikipedia is currently in a vigorous debate on what to do about chatbots (also known as large language models, or LLMs) including a lengthy debate about copyrights at w:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Copyright status. There is also a policy draft being developed called w:Wikipedia:Large language models, with copyrights being discussed on its talk page.

As chatbot use is spreading like wildfire, and their output will be showing up on a wide range of Wikimedia projects, this is something you should become familiar with. The Transhumanist (talk) 12:21, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

P.S.: Chatbots can also be used for vandalism, hoaxes, pushing POVs, and generating misinformation on a scale hitherto undreamt of. And they have the bizarre tendency to make things up, including source references. We are going to need automated identification tools, and fast. The Transhumanist (talk) 12:32, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi all,

A friendly and final reminder that the voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines closes tomorrow, Tuesday, 31 January at 23:59:59 UTC.

The UCoC supports Wikimedia’s equity objectives and commitment to ensuring a welcoming, diverse movement, and it applies to all members of our communities. Voting is an opportunity for you to be a part of deciding how we uphold this commitment to our community and each other!

To vote, visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki, which outlines how to participate using SecurePoll.

Many thanks for your interest and participation in the UCoC!

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:22, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:46, 1 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JPBeland-WMF: Please, You archive the old votes on the actual page Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voting/Results. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 12:16, 4 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the help on this! Are there any way(s) I can help this wiki? The last available username (talk) 14:50, 3 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In relation to this, I would like to know if it is possible to put, on the front pages of the various wikipedias, some message of support for our Saudi comrades, which could be something like this:

Freedom for User:OsamaK (left) y User:Ziad (right)

It is an issue that has already been discussed here. I think it is a debt we owe them and we should do something for them. Thank you for your attention and best regards. J. Manolo G. P. (talk) 10:07, 4 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was blocked at sr.wiki. Where can I explain my case, I have no trust in local admins KrleNS (talk) 23:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@KrleNS: we here at the Meta-Wiki can't do anything directly about your block on srwiki. Please review their blocking information here: w:sr:Википедија:Правила блокирања. After that it appears you may place this template:w:sr:Шаблон:Деблокирање on your user talk page there to request an unblock review. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I would gladly do that, but it won't help. --KrleNS (talk) 23:51, 6 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@KrleNS I'm sorry for your frustration, however the meta-wiki functionaries can't step in and do things about decisions like this made on local projects that have functioning communities. That project appear to be active, with active editors/admins/bureaucrats. As such, decisions about who may be blocked is up to them. Block appeal is some local information that may also help you. In checking, it appears that your block expires in 3 days there - I suggest just taking a break and returning after. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:20, 7 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sr.wiki has serious flaws. I don't mean it is biased (more than any other), I would like to addressed overall quality, e.g. bad translations, double standards... So bad that would embarrass whole idea. I and get blocked for raising that issue, and those who make 'are trustworthy, e.g. An admin (!) translated (via Google translate or he simply lacks proficiency in English). An example. He translated and artilce on w:Jaipur#Demographics. Sentence in question is the child sex ratio was recorded 854. He translated it as "дечији w:sr:полни однос је 854."[1] (Child sex intercourse is 854). An editor that has checkuser rights (!) regularly writes articles with machine translated text to win in contests organized by sr.wiki community. --KrleNS (talk) 00:43, 7 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Dear all,
Following the initial announcement and project launch in 2021, and press release about first customers in 2022, the Wikimedia Enterprise team has today published the first financial report and a summary of a forthcoming product update.

This has been published today on the Diff blog, here:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/07/wikimedia-enterprise-financial-report-product-update/
[also available in German]

One of the principles of the Wikimedia Enterprise project has been “the publication of overall revenue and expenses, differentiated from those of the Wikimedia Foundation in general, at least annually”. We are therefore proud to present the inaugural edition of the Wikimedia Enterprise financial report – covering the calendar-year 2022, its first year of operations.

The update also includes a description of some of the API features that have been under development. While the primary use-case is companies which consistently require very high-speed updates of very large amounts of Wikimedia content, it is important to note that there are several free-access methods.

If you have written questions or comments about the update, please share them on the project’s talkpage on Meta. As described in the blogpost, we consider this report covering the 2022 calendar year to be a “beta” version. We are actively seeking feedback about how its structure, content, and explanations can be improved for the next edition in late 2023, which will cover the 2022-23 fiscal year.

If you prefer real-time conversation: A public meeting will be hosted by the Enterprise team this Friday, February 10 @1900 UTC to discuss this announcement - details on the project homepage.

If you have any other questions please consult the FAQ.

Sincerely, LWyatt (WMF) (talk) 14:29, 7 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]