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Reminder: Office hours about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use

Hello everyone,

This a reminder that the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is hosting office hours with community members about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The office hours will be held on March 2, at 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC. See for more details here on Meta.

Another office hours will be held on April 4.

We hereby kindly invite you to participate in the discussion. Please note that this meeting will be held in English language and led by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, who will take and answer your questions. Facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance Team will provide the necessary assistance and other meeting-related services.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 16:09, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Johannnes89 (talk) 06:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

i would like to get notifications on replies

i would like to get notifications on replies, without mentions, to my posts in talk pages. QDinar (talk) 23:19, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

@Qdinar go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures - make sure Discussion Tools is opted-in to. Then on the sections you want to get notified on click on the "[ subscribe ]" link in their headers. — xaosflux ^Talk 23:30, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

ok. thank you. QDinar (talk) 23:37, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Johannnes89 (talk) 06:51, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

নাহিদ ফার্নিচার ব্যবসা

অনুবাদ Mehedi hasan kushila (talk) 14:22, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —MdsShakil (talk) 13:23, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

The Japanese translation of the e-mail asking for donation

The Japanese version of the e-mail asking for donation was sent to Japanese Wikipedia users, but I have received multiple complaints about the content of the e-mail: the title of the e-mail completely looks like a spam, and the wording is quite rude. Where do I discuss the translation problem of the donation e-mail?--さえぼー (talk) 10:58, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Would you care to come over to MSIG Forum please? -- Omotecho (talk) 15:48, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

One request - two stewards

i have the impression that something is going on here. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Checkuser/2023-03#ΔώραΣτρουμπούκη@el.wikipedia_2

The first steward starts the checkuse, and the second steward finishes it without taking into account what the first steward writes.

where to file a complaint to get an explanation? ΔώραΣτρουμπούκη (talk) 19:12, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

@ΔώραΣτρουμπούκη: This is quite normal, and certainly not against policy. Although a single steward would normally do the entire request, in this case it looks like AmandaNP started the request, declined it due to lack of evidence and then once further evidence was supplied (in that request, by Ιπποκράτης2020 it seems) Sotiale re-evaluated the request, made a check and completed it. I see you've already left AmandaNP a message (though not Sotiale, at least about this complaint), so I'd recommend either awaiting their explanations or, as you've had pointed out to you, contact the Ombuds commission if you think relevant policy has been broken. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 19:37, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Amanda not declined. The label was "hold", "...For now I have removed the evidence you have linked as it potentially falls under the Oversight policy. I will do the same on elwiki. Please do not repost until I get a response from meta oversighters and my fellow stewards. I'll review your checkuser case in due course - this is not an endorsement at this time." ΔώραΣτρουμπούκη (talk) 19:47, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

Hello all, an important update on the Universal Code of Conduct (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, JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Osama Khalid and Ziyad al-Sofiani

Where can I find information on how the Wikimedia Foundation has addressed the arrests of Osama Khalid and Ziyad al-Sofiani? I know that the WMF is active in advocacy for free speech and legal rights in that area; what part of the WMF is responsible for that? I'm curious if this advocacy involves any attempt to work with national or international organizations that are equipped to address the arrests of these two administrators. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:19, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

You may read Signpost special report, which mentioned response by WMF. Also Article19 's statement include WMF statement. Thanks. SCP-2000 08:49, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Condensed Wikipedia

Some of our articles are very long. Would it be a good idea to have a new Wikipedia which would be a condensed Wikipedia? In it we could put the articles we have but only with the most important information about the subjects. That way, it would be easier for children, for example, and people who do not enjoy reading that much, to learn about the subjects we talk about. Whatcha ya all think? Thanks again, and God bless you! Antonio Incredibly silly Martin (yo!) 14:45, March 28, 2023 (UTC)

Hi @AntonioMartin:. This broad idea has been proposed and discussed a few times before. See Concise Wikipedia for an overview, and the last section there for a listing of the many existing "summary" types (as of 2014) which we should avoid re-re-reinventing! In a nutshell, the "introduction" section of an article is meant to serve as a summary. I hope that helps. Quiddity (talk) 23:02, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia TV

Hi! I was wondering if we could maybe in the future have a television channel? The thing is even nowadays not everyone in the world has access to a computer but mostly everyone in urban areas at least has access to television sets, and so that would be a great idea as far as educating the world, which is what the wikipedia project basically is about. What do you think? Thanks and God bless! Antonio Now I'm Jeanette Martin (yo!) 14:41, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

• AntonioMartin, I suggest starting with a YouTube channel. If it's good stuff and freely licensed, local stations could choose to re-broadcast that.
  Actually having your own dedicated channel costs a fair bit of money. According to [1] some 12K/month for one TV channel on one satellite which could cover most of a continent. That's just the transponder, actually broadcasting and content production will cost more.
  Radio would be much cheaper, and easier to create content for. But distributing print copies of articles in the affected areas is, I suspect, more cost effective. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:10, 22 August 2023 (UTC)