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Social Media Plan

Hi Wub, As you might know that we are approaching the start of the fundraiser. I would like to ask for your participation in the finalization of the Social Media plan over the next week. We will be posting a final plan on the Social Media page formulated from the previous discussions and suggestions we received on that page. As an active member of the Fundraising committee your input and feedback would be highly appreciated. Regards. Theo (WMF) 23:51, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Individual Engagement Grant proposals due 15 February 2013

Hello The wub! Thank you for drafting an Individual Engagement Grant proposal.

The deadline to submit a completed proposal to be considered for funding in this round is 15 February 2013.

When you have completed all 3 parts of your proposal, please submit it for review by updating the wikimarkup in your page from status=DRAFT to status=PROPOSED. If you have questions or need more help submitting your proposal, you can ask for it at IdeaLab Help. Thanks!

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Happy editing,

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Help test better mass message delivery

Hi. You're being contacted as you've previously used global message delivery (or its English Wikipedia counterpart). It doesn't feel so great to be spammed, does it? ;-)

For the past few months, Legoktm has built a replacement to the current message delivery system called MassMessage. MassMessage uses a proper user interface form (no more editing a /Spam subpage), works faster (it can complete a large delivery in minutes), and no longer requires being on an access list (any local administrator can use it). In addition, many tiny annoyances with the old system have been addressed. It's a real improvement! :-)

You can test out MassMessage here: testwiki:Special:MassMessage. The biggest difference you'll likely notice is that any input list must use a new {{#target:}} parser function. For example, {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales}} or {{#target:User talk:Jimbo Wales|test2.wikipedia.org}}. For detailed instructions, check out mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage.

If you find any bugs, have suggestions for additional features, or have any other feedback, drop a note at m:Talk:MassMessage. Thanks for spamming! --MZMcBride (talk) 05:26, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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MassMessage has been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. For help using the new tool, please check out its help page or drop a note on Meta-Wiki.

With over 400,000 edits to Wikimedia wikis, EdwardsBot has served us well; however EdwardsBot will no longer perform local or global message delivery after December 31, 2013.

A huge thanks to Legoktm, Reedy, Aaron Schulz and everyone else who helped to get MassMessage deployed. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:36, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Upcoming IdeaLab Events: IEG Proposal Clinics

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Idea Lab

Hello, The wub! We've added Events to IdeaLab, and you're invited :)

Upcoming events focus on turning ideas into Individual Engagement Grant proposals before the March 31 deadline. Need help or have questions about IEG? Join us at a Hangout:

• Thursday, 13 March 2014, 1600 UTC
• Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 1700 UTC
• Saturday, 29 March 2014, 1700 UTC

Hope to see you there!

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Barnstar and a request for feedback

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Please fill out our Inspire campaign survey

Thank you for participating in the Wikimedia Inspire campaign during March 2015!

Please take our short survey and share your experience during the campaign.

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How can we improve Wikimedia grants to support you better?

Hi! The Wikimedia Foundation would like your input on how we can reimagine Wikimedia Foundation grants to better support people and ideas in your Wikimedia project.

After reading the Reimagining WMF grants idea, we ask you to complete this survey to help us improve the idea and learn more about your experience. When you complete the survey, you can enter to win one of five Wikimedia globe sweatshirts!

In addition to taking the the survey, you are welcome to participate in these ways:

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This survey is in English, but feedback on the discussion page is welcome in any language.

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Last call for WMF grants feedback!

Hi, this is a reminder that the consultation about Reimagining WMF grants is closing on 8 September (0:00 UTC). We encourage you to complete the survey now, if you haven't yet done so, so that we can include your ideas.

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What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?

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I’m Jethro, and I’m seeking your help in deciding topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns aim to bring in proposals and solutions from communities that address a need or problem in Wikimedia projects. I'm interested in hearing your preferences and ideas for campaign topics!

Here’s how to participate:

• Learn more about this consultation
• Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas Survey
• Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page

Take care,

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Future IdeaLab Campaigns results

Last December, I invited you to help determine future ideaLab campaigns by submitting and voting on different possible topics. I'm happy to announce the results of your participation, and encourage you to review them and our next steps for implementing those campaigns this year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered time to participate and submit ideas.

With great thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 23:56, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

I've recently launched an Inspire Campaign to encourage new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge, and we’re looking for your ideas about how to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible. We invite you to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is welcome - your skills and experience can help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign to improve review and curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and accessible! I JethroBT (WMF) 05:39, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Open Call for Individual Engagement Grants

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is accepting proposals until April 12th to fund new tools, research, outreach efforts, and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. Whether you need a small or large amount of funds (up to $30,000 USD), IEGs can support you and your team’s project development time in addition to project expenses such as materials, travel, and rental space.

• Submit a grant request or draft your proposal in IdeaLab
• Get help with your proposal in an upcoming Hangout session
• Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources 15:57, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Participate in the Inspire Campaign and help address harassment!

Through June, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas focusing on addressing harassment toward Wikimedia contributors. The 2015 Harassment Survey has shown evidence that harassment in various forms - name calling, threats, discrimination, stalking, and impersonation, among others - is pervasive. Available methods and systems to deal with harassment are also considered to be ineffective. These behaviors are clearly harmful, and in addition, many individuals who experience or witness harassment participate less in Wikimedia projects or stop contributing entirely.

Proposals in any language are welcome during the campaign - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign so that we can work together to develop ideas around this important and difficult issue. With thanks,

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2016 Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You’re getting this message because you participated in the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey and we want to make sure you don't miss it this year – or at least can make the conscious choice to ignore if it you want to. The 2015 survey decided what the Community Tech team should work on during 2016. It was also the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and work by other developers. You can see the status of wishes from the 2015 wishlist at 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results.

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is now open for wishes. You can create proposals until November 20. You will be able to vote on which wishes you think are best or most important between November 28 and December 12. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Commond deletion bot requirements

I'm contacting you because you supported the Commons Deletion Bot proposal in the 2017 Community Wishlist. The Wishlist team has finalized the draft specifications for how the bot will work, and are seeking review in confirming or discussing the plans for the bot. If you have some time, please take a look and leave a comment. Thanks, happy editing to you. - Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

New community space for IdeaLab on Connect

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Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health

Do you have an idea about how to measure the health of your community? Do you want to review ideas that others have submitted? Through August 10th, we are inviting ideas on how to capture the well-being of Wikimedia communities, in terms of matters like conflict resolution, effective content creation, and being able to contribute in a collaborative environment. Ideas can be focused on either quantitative techniques, such as gathering raw data, or qualitative techniques, like surveying contributors. If you are submitting an idea, guidance is available for how to move your idea into implementation, such as through a grant or starting a Phabricator task to engage with developers.

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Timeless Newsletter • Issue 1

Newsletter • July 2018

Welcome to the first issue of the Timeless newsletter! This issue is being sent or forwarded to everyone who has at some point expressed an interest in the project, give or take, as well as a couple of other potentially relevant pages, so if you would like to continue (or start) receiving this newsletter directly, please sign up for further updates on the meta page.

The news:

The Timeless grant has been selected for funding, and the project is now underway!

While I've had a somewhat slow start working on the project for health reasons, I'm pleased to announce that everything described in the proposal is now either happening, or on its way to happening.

Current progress:

• The project now has a hub on Meta to serve as a directory for the various related pages, workboards, and local discussions and help pages. It's probably incomplete, especially with regards to specific language projects that might have local pages for Timeless, so if you know of others, please add them!
• Outreach: I've been talking to various people and groups directly about skinning, desktop/mobile interfaces, project management, specific component support, and other things, and have begun to compile a very shoddy list of skinning problems and random issues on mw.org based on this. Some of this may inform the direction of this project, or possibly this project will result in building a more proper list that can then be used for other things. We shall see.
• Some development - task triage, code review, bug fixing, and various rabbit holes involving ...overflows.

General plan for the future:

• Triage the rest of the workboard.
• Catch up with all the talkpages and other bug reports that have been left various other places that are not the project workboard
• Do all the bug fixes/features/other things!
• Some proposals aimed at Commons and Wikisource in particular (maybe, we'll see)

Essentially, the grant as written shall be carried out. This was the plan, and remains the plan. Timelines remain fuzzy, but while there have been some initial delays, I don't particularly expect the timeline for project as a whole to change a whole lot.

Also, for anyone at Wikimania right now: I am also at Wikimania. Come talk to me in person!

Thank you all for your interest and support thus far!

-— Isarra ༆ 12:23, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

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The Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

"Who Wrote That" project update

Hello. I'm reaching out to you as you participated in the 2017 Community Wishlist proposal for "Who Wrote That" project (previously known as "Blame Tool"). The Community Tech team is kicking things off on the project and we have an early-stage mockup available for you to look at. I invite you to follow that project page, where I will be posting periodic status updates for the project. You are also welcome to provide your thoughts on the talk page. Thank you. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 22:57, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

UK Meetup

Forgot to sign up. Can I have an invitation please, ta Johnbod (talk) 15:53, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't know why

but it seems every time you email me the link to the London meetup zoom, I don't receive it. Serendipodous (talk) 13:42, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

@Serendipodous: That's strange. I have your email address so will try sending the next one directly instead of using the Wikipedia email function, maybe that will work better. the wub "?!" 20:48, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll sign up :-) Serendipodous (talk) 10:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

London Meet-ups

How do you do this for longer than 40 mins without it cutting out? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

@Quizzicalmind159: Because I have a Zoom Pro subscription. the wub "?!" 21:40, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

@The wub: Skype is free for indef and SO easy to use. Do you pay for Zoom? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 21:42, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

@Quizzicalmind159: Yes I pay for it, but I don't mind as I get a lot of use from it. Skype has never seemed to work as well for large groups, and I think it requires everyone to have accounts. the wub "?!" 21:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

No it doesn't, you can create a meeting and send everyone the link and just join, up to 100 people for up to 6 hours!Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 21:50, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Mistake

You have made a mistake, the next London should be on the 7th. We said every 2 weeks didn't we? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 17:12, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@Quizzicalmind159: No, it's the second Sunday of the month as normal. And then an additional meetup 2 weeks after that. the wub "?!" 17:14, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

So it's 14th then 28th? I personally feel every 2 weeks is a good compromise but it is up to you! Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 17:30, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

A question/favour

Given you pay for Zoom, can you get unlimited meetings? If so, would you be able to do me a favour? I need a meeting for something with more than 20 people would you be able to schedule one for me please and send me the link? If not don't worry. Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 17:41, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

No, sorry. I don't think it would work anyway, pretty sure the pro host actually needs to be present in the meeting to get the extended time limit. the wub "?!" 17:58, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

No worries. Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 19:44, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Oxford

How do i promote my Oxford meetup i am running on Sunday? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 21:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

March 28th

Shall we pencil in 28 March then cancel if we are out of lockdown? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 13:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Can't see us being out of lockdown by then. I'll create the meetup page soon. the wub "?!" 13:07, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I will copy and paste. If we are out of LD we can cancel. I am popping in around 4 i think is that OK? Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 13:18, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I think biweekly meet-ups should stay anyway even out of lockdown. Quizzicalmind159 (talk) 15:45, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Tried to rejoin London

Thank you for your support!

Hello, The wub: We wanted to THANK YOU for expressing your support in our grant application to develop Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators and for volunteering to take part in the project. We have great news to share: our proposal has been approved! In the following weeks, we will be processing some paperwork and refining our next steps for this project. We aim to give updates so you can follow the development of the project and you can understand when and how you can contribute! But for now, we wanted to thank you and invite you to celebrate with us! Both Diegodlh and myself are very thankful for your support. --Scann (talk) 12:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

@Scann @Diegodlh That's brilliant news, congratulations! I'm really excited for this project and happy to help out if I can! the wub "?!" 18:38, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Call for Advisory Board members for Web2Cit

Hello, The wub: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th! If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word! We sincerely appreciate it. --Scann (talk) 22:34, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

Adding an event to meetup template

Hi, how do I add an event to the meetup template? The event is Meetup/UK Teams/2. No idea how I managed it before, completely mystified. Cheers, Rubbish computer Ping me or leave a message on my talk page 17:37, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@Rubbish computer Think it was actually me who added it last time, but I see you figured it out :) the wub "?!" 20:51, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

UK Virtual meeting in 2022?

I was just look to if/when the next one was for forward planning, and couldn't see one. You've done a magnificent job hosting in the past but it obviously takes time. Djm-leighpark (talk) 13:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Djm-leighpark. I've just been a bit busy and hadn't found time to set it up. Next one will be on Thursday 20 January, hope to see you there! the wub "?!" 23:01, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Virtual meetups

Oops, just noticed that Meetup/UK virtual/9 was a couple of days ago! Would be nice to have one on a weekend again at some point, if that would be OK with others. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:38, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Waitroom

At yesterday's UK virtual meetup, I mentioned that Jimbo was hosting a session on a different platform too. FYI, here's some details and links. Andrew D. (talk) 09:45, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Andrew. I'm glad to see parts of it are still available to view, might check it out this weekend. the wub "?!" 11:31, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Meetup/Portsmouth/3

I think today has to be decision day if we go for this or reschedule.Geni (talk) 05:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Portsmouth 4?

I somehow didn't even notice there was a meet up in Portsmouth. I've been saying I'd make it to a meet up for a while and you did it on my doorstop. If there's a plan for a number 4, can you give me a ping? RhinosF1 (talk) 19:37, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

@RhinosF1: Oh no, sorry you missed it, would have been nice to meet you! There might well be another one in future, but probably not for a while. You could watchlist the page for 4, and I'll also try and remember to ping you if there is one. the wub "?!" 01:14, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

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London book event for "The Editors"

Hello - Reaching out because I saw that you previously attended a London Wikipedia meet-up.

I am a writer who has covered Wikipedia for Slate, The Washington Post, and other publications.

My novel The Editors is inspired by Wikipedia and was published earlier this month. As part of the book tour, I will be in London on Thursday 29 of August at 6:30 PM at Newspeak House.

Details about the event here: https://lu.ma/ubri3176

Sorry for the short notice, but if you are able to attend the event, it would be great to see you there! No RSVP required; just show up at Newspeak house on Thursday evening. Stephenbharrison (talk) 22:21, 27 August 2024 (UTC)