Wikiquote:Tinget

TINGET Lurer du på noe? Har du et forslag eller tanker om Wikiquote å komme med? Her kan du diskutere med andre Wikiquotere. Legg til et nytt emne nederst på siden (et tips er å bruke «+»-/«Nytt emne»-knappen i toppmenyen på siden; da skjer dette automatisk).

Arkiv

2005 Botmeldinger

Standardisering av artikler

Jeg har ikke vært lenge på Wikiquote, men har bemerket meg at artikler ikke er oppsatt likt. Hvordan ønsker vi at artiklene våre skal se ut?

Tar frem noen artikler som jeg har kommet over:

• Kjetil André Aamodt
• Odd Eidem
• Leonardo da Vinci

Personlig synes jeg sistnevnte ser best ut. Mvh Fredrifj 7. aug 2008 kl. 21:00 (CEST)

Personlig syns jeg at Wikiquote:Stilmanual er riktig sted å sjekke hvordan ting bør se ut ;) Laaknor 9. aug 2008 kl. 14:46 (CEST)

Hehe poeng, men siden er uoversatt og uferdig:) Mvh Fredrifj 9. aug 2008 kl. 15:40 (CEST)

Hva selve siteringen angår, kan det være greit å se på Wikipedias sider om sitering, Bruk av understreking, fet skrift, kursiv og anførselstegn, og jeg tenker at spesielt det med anførselstegn er viktig. Mange av sitatene her på WQ har bare kursiv tekst, når teksten egentlig bør være vanlig men inne i anførselstegnene « og ».

Syns forøvrig både Kjetil André Aamodt og Leonardo da Vinci er sånn det bør være, med ordentlige overskrifter. --Torstein 11. aug 2008 kl. 15:22 (CEST)

Siden vi først snakker om anførseltegn - la dem inn, jeg. De ligger nå som valg øverst slik at man lett får dem inn i teksten. Laaknor 13. aug 2008 kl. 19:50 (CEST)

Ny hovedside

Jeg prøvde for noen måneder siden å skifte forsiden vår slik at den lignet på den slovenske, som jeg syns var ganske flott. Forsøket mitt gikk ikke, mest fordi jeg ikke er kongen på css. Hvis dere har lyst og peiling kan dere ta en titt på Hovedside/Ny. --Torstein 13. aug 2008 kl. 22:29 (CEST)

For at det skal fungere, må du kopiere css-koden under «Main page design» fra sk:Redaktor:Kandy_Talbot/MainCommon.css over til MediaWiki:Common.css (husk å oppfriske siden). Dessuten må du kopiere bildene som er brukt (se filnavnene i koden) over til no.wikiquote.org, ettersom de bare ligger på sk.wikiquote.org, ikke på Commons. Kåre-Olav 31. jan 2009 kl. 14:22 (CET)

Takk for tipset. Det begynner å se ganske bra ut nå, syns jeg. ;) --Torstein 5. feb 2009 kl. 22:42 (CET)

Flytte til nb.wikiquote.org?

Hva er holdninga til å flytte til nb.wikiquote.org? ZorroIII 24. jan 2009 kl. 16:48 (CET)

Min holdning er å følge wikipedia på dette. Er ikke stort nok community til å ha noen egentlige meninger her. Laaknor 24. jan 2009 kl. 17:33 (CET)

Støtter Laaknor her. Vi bør følge wikipedia, pga vi er for små. Mvh Fredrifj 26. jan 2009 kl. 18:49 (CET)

Jeg er sterkt uenig. Det har ikke vært noen avstemninger på om no.wq er en spesifikk bokmålsside (jeg har hvertfall ikke fått det med meg). Det ligger en del sider her med nynorsk tekst (eks Are Kalvø og Ragnar Hovland). Og er det noe som er meningsløst så er det å «oversette» nynorsk til bokmål. Det bør heller opprettes en egen nb-wq, for spesielt interesserte, hvis det i det hele tatt skulle være nødvendig å ha det. --Torstein 26. jan 2009 kl. 22:39 (CET)

Da det finnes en egen nynorsk wikiquote, så er det å anta at denne er på bokmål. Interwiki-lenkene hit fører også til «Norsk (bokmål)». Laaknor 27. jan 2009 kl. 20:59 (CET)

Det er å anta, men da blir antagelsen feil. Som sagt så har det ikke vært noen egen avgjørelse for det, så man burde i grunn anta at dette ikke er noen norsk-spesifikk side. At det står på iw-lenkene betyr heller ikke at vi er nødt til å føye oss etter de. --Torstein 28. jan 2009 kl. 06:34 (CET)

En sletteside

Slik det er nå, har Wikiquote to slettesider. Dette må fikses, slik at det bare blir en.

• Wikiquote:Sletting
  

eller

• Wikiquote:Slett
  

Det er også to introduksjonsmaler. Man bør velge en av disse, noe som godt kan skje uavhengig av hvilken side vi velger. MVH 3s 24. apr 2009 kl. 12:31 (CEST)

For min del syns jeg det bare er å ta en av dem å gjøre til omdirigering til den andre. no.Wikiquote har ikke så stort miljø at det er mye som behøver å diskuteres (vi får heller endre på malene og flytte om litt i etterkant hvis det blir veldig feil). Har ingen preferanser for noen av navnene til slettesider. Laaknor 24. apr 2009 kl. 15:40 (CEST)

Da gjorde jeg «Slett» til omdirigeringsside til «Sletting» og utvidet den ene malen litt. 3s 24. apr 2009 kl. 15:54 (CEST)

Ser greit ut, det ja. De har ikke vært så mye brukt, slettesidene. --Torstein 24. apr 2009 kl. 16:03 (CEST)

Hurtigsletting

Kan en administrator ta en kikk på Kategori:Sider som er foreslått raskt slettet? Mvh. Marius2 11. feb 2010 kl. 18:42 (CET)

Mal:Reg-velkommen

Har nå endret Mal:Reg-velkommen. Har her rett og slett kopiert Wikipedias mal, og endret den slik at den passer til Wikiquote. Men er ikke sikker på om alt ble korrekt. Lurer derfor på om noen kan se over malen slik den er nå? Mvh. Marius2 9. mar 2010 kl. 17:51 (CET)

Nytt emne

Hvorfor er det ikke mulighet for å trykke på en «Nytt emne»-knapp («+»-knapp på den «gamle versjonen») for å lage nye emner her på Tinget, slik det er på Wikipedia:Tinget? Eller, det er en «SKRIV EN KOMMENTAR»-knapp på siden, men den er ikke inkludert i toppmenyen. Mvh. Marius2 9. mar 2010 kl. 17:51 (CET)

Har oppdatert MediaWiki:Monobook.js så den er helt lik WP sin nå. Håper det vil hjelpe, men jeg er ikke helt sikker. Vi får se. --Torstein 10. mar 2010 kl. 19:41 (CET)

Det hjalp, ser bra ut :) Er det mulig å flytte «rediger»-knappen inntil seksjonstittel, slik som på Wikipedia (se diskusjon på Wikipedia her)? Mvh. Marius2 15. mar 2010 kl. 16:30 (CET)

Jeg la inn __NEWSECTIONLINK__ øverst på siden. V85 16. mar 2010 kl. 17:57 (CET)

For å flytte seksjonsredigering: Det er bare å importere w:MediaWiki:Change-editlink.js. (Du må ha adminstatus for å gjøre det: Enten legg den inn som et eget javascript som hver enkelt kan importere, eventuelt legg det inn i commons.js for at alle skal kunne bruke det.) V85 16. mar 2010 kl. 17:56 (CET)

Opphavsrett

Dette er gjerne et tåpelig spørsmål, men jeg fant ikke en link til noe informasjon om dette her: Hvordan stiller Wikiquote seg med tanke på opphavsrett? De færreste som har sitater av seg her inne er døde, så sånn sett er det de har produsert fremdeles beskyttet av opphavsretten. Eller bruker vi et slags fair use argument? Det hadde jo vært passende om det var «sitatretten» som gav det opphavsrettslige til Wikisitat. ;-) V85 14. mar 2010 kl. 20:25 (CET)

Detta är ett mycket intressant spörsmål och något som jag, som är verksam på svenska Wikiquote, också har funderat på. Tydligt är att det skiljer sig ganska mycket mellan olika språkversioner. Svenska Wikiquote har inga regler alls medan tyska Wikiquote har mycket hårda regler angående källhänvisning och begränsande av "ofria citat". Se till exempel de:Wikiquote:Urheberrechte beachten. Diupwijk 17. mar 2010 kl. 17:11 (CET)

Beskytte siden Gjermund Kvamme

Kan en administrator vennligst beskytte siden med sitater fra Gjermund Kvamme? Han bruker siden nesten som en notatblokk hvor han argumenterer for sine meninger. Jeg har tilbakestilt mye sabotasje, men det resulterer bare i editeringskrig. Joreberg (diskusjon) 4. jun. 2022 kl. 19:14 (CEST)

Final proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter now posted

The proposed modifications to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and the U4C Charter are now on Meta-wiki for community notice in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on the wiki page for the election soon.

Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

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Wikidata and Sister Projects: An online community event

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Hello everyone, I am excited to share news of an upcoming online event called Wikidata and Sister Projects celebrating the different ways Wikidata can be used to support or enhance with another Wikimedia project. The event takes place over 4 days between May 29 - June 1st, 2025.

We would like to invite speakers to present at this community event, to hear success stories, challenges, showcase tools or projects you may be working on, where Wikidata has been involved in Wikipedia, Commons, WikiSource and all other WM projects.

If you are interested in attending, please register here. If you would like to speak at the event, please fill out this Session Proposal template on the event talk page, where you can also ask any questions you may have.

I hope to see you at the event, in the audience or as a speaker, - MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 11. apr. 2025 kl. 11:19 (CEST)

Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

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Keegan (WMF) (talk) 29. apr. 2025 kl. 05:41 (CEST)

We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

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Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 6. mai 2025 kl. 17:07 (CEST)

Invitasjon til kandidater til Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)

Resultatene etter avstemningen for Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines og Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee-charteret (U4C) er tilgjengelig på Meta-Wiki.

Du kan nå melde seg som kandidat til å være del av U4C til og med 29. mai 2025, kl. 12:00 UTC. Informasjon om kriterier, prosess og tidslinjen er tilgjengelig på Meta-Wiki. Avstemning åpnes 1. juni 2025 og varer to uker, fram til 15. juni 2025, kl. 12:00 UTC.

Har du spørsmål, kan disse stilles på diskusjonssiden til valget. – i samarbeid med U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (diskusjon) 16. mai 2025 kl. 00:07 (CEST)

RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)

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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.

We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! -- Sannita (WMF) (diskusjon) 22. mai 2025 kl. 17:27 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions

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Dear all,

This year, the term of 2 (two) 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 Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 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 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
• June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
• July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
• August 2025: Campaign period
• August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
• October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
• Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page [link].

Call for Questions

In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related. [link]

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2025 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 [link].

Thank you!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_Membership,_December_2024

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/FAQ

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Questions_for_candidates

Best regards,

Victoria Doronina

Board Liaison to the Elections Committee

Governance Committee

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 28. mai 2025 kl. 05:08 (CEST)

Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election

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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the 2025 Election information page. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 14. jun. 2025 kl. 01:01 (CEST)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates

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Hello all,

The call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.

This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]

Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on this Meta-wiki page or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.

Best regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee

On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Call_for_candidates

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Bylaws#(B)_Term.

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Resources_for_candidates

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 17. jun. 2025 kl. 19:44 (CEST)

Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews

Dear Wikimedia Community,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF) to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).

A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.

Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose. Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.

Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.

Lastly, failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.

Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.

Wikispore

The application to consider Wikispore was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.

After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided not to recommend Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows better flexibility and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.

We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.

As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.

Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.

Wikinews

We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.

Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.[1][2][3] Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.

While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action[4][5], see section 5 as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews[6].

Initial metrics compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.

Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.

SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.

Options mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:

• Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
• Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
• Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
• Archive Wikinews projects.

Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.

Feedback and next steps

We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages: Public consultation about Wikispore and Public consultation about Wikinews. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.

I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.

-- Victoria on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force, 27. jun. 2025 kl. 22:57 (CEST)

Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes

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Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.

The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC. The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:

These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.

Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.

Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.

Thank you, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team. MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 14. jul. 2025 kl. 14:45 (CEST)

Temporary accounts will be rolled out soon

Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation Product Safety and Integrity team. We would like to announce that we plan to enable temporary accounts for this wiki in the week of September 1.

Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.

Why we are building temporary accounts

Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.

Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.

How temporary accounts work

Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.

What does this mean for different groups of users?

For logged-out editors

• This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
• If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who meet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.

For community members interacting with logged-out editors

• A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
• Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.

For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki

• For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who meet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the IP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
• For admins blocking logged-out editors:
  • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
  • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.

Our requests for you, and next steps

• If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on testwiki or test2wiki. If you are a volunteer developer, read our documentation for developers, and in particular, the section on how your code might need to be updated.
• If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
• Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
• Look at our previous message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.

To learn more about the project, check out our FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may also look at the updates (we have just posted one) and subscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!

NKohli (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) 26. aug. 2025 kl. 23:36 (CEST)

Denne wikien vil snart være skrivebeskyttet

Les denne beskjeden på et annet språk • Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk

Wikimedia Foundation skal flytte trafikken mellom datasentrene sine. Dette skal sikre at Wikipedia og de andre Wikimedia-wikiene forblir online selv om en katastrofe skulle oppstå.

All trafikk flyttes til et annet datasenter 24 september. Testen starter 15:00 UTC (17:00 norsk tid).

På grunn av noen begrensninger i MediaWiki må all redigering stoppes mens vi bytter. Vi beklager forstyrrelsen, og jobber med å minimere den i framtida.

Et banner vil vises på alle wikier i 30 minutter før testen finner sted. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation. You can contribute to the translation or proofreading of this banner text.

Du vil kunne lese alle wikiene, men ikke redigere dem i et kort tidsrom.

• I opptil en time onsdag 24 september 2025 vil du ikke være i stand til å redigere.
• Hvis du prøver å redigere eller lagre i dette tidsrommet vil du se en feilmelding. Vi håper at ingen redigeringer vil gå tapt i disse minuttene, men kan ikke garantere noe. Hvis du ser feilmeldingen, vent til alt virker som normalt igjen. Deretter skal du kunne redigere som vanlig. For sikkerhets skyld anbefaler vi likevel at du lagrer en kopi av arbeidet ditt.

Andre ting verdt å nevne:

• Bakgrunnsjobber kan ta lengre tid og noen kan bli avbrutt eller terminert. Røde lenker vil ikke oppdateres like raskt som normalt. Hvis du oppretter en artikkel som er lenket til et annet sted, så vil lenken være rød lengre enn vanlig. Noen skript som tar lang tid vil stoppe.
• Vi forventer at utrulling av kode vil skje på samme måte som ellers. Enkelte kodeutrullinger kan imidlertid bli forsinket hvis de påvirkes av denne endringen.
• GitLab blir utilgjengelig i rundt halvannen time.

Dette prosjektet kan bli utsatt om nødvendig. Du kan lese tidsplanen på wikitech.wikimedia.org. Skulle noen endringer skje vil det komme på tidsplanen.

Vennligst del denne informasjonen med nettsamfunnet ditt.

Trizek (WMF) (Diskusjon) 18. sep. 2025 kl. 17:41 (CEST)

Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2025 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Learn more about them by reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.

The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.

Best regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee

MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 9. okt. 2025 kl. 06:48 (CEST)

Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

Hallo. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Takk!

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 20. okt. 2025 kl. 13:43 (CEST)

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 October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cstwikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

- MKaur (WMF) 30. okt. 2025 kl. 15:13 (CET)