Wikipedia:Village pump

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Welcome to the Village Pump. This set of pages is used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia, and is divided into five village pump sections.

This page is not for discussions. Please use the table below to find the most appropriate section to post in, or post in the miscellaneous section.

Village pump sections


Policy
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To discuss existing and proposed policies


Technical
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To discuss technical issues. For wiki software bug reports, use Bugzilla


Proposals
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To discuss new proposals that are not policy-related. See also: perennial proposals and persistent proposals.


Idea lab
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To discuss ideas before proposing them to the community and attempt to find solutions to issues


Miscellaneous
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To post messages that do not fit into any other category

View all village pump sections at once

It can only be speculated that, like the modern office water cooler, the village pump must have been a gathering place where dwellers discussed ideas for the improvement of their locale.
Other help and discussion locations
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...constructive criticism from others for a specific article Peer review
...help resolving a specific article edit dispute or making a user conduct dispute complaint  Requests for comment
...to comment on a specific article Article's talk page
...to view other Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Meta-wiki
...to learn about citing Wikipedia in a bibliography Citing Wikipedia
...to report sites that copy Wikipedia content Mirrors and forks
...to ask questions or make comments Questions

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New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Hello all,

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The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

Thank you! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) ༡༨:༠༣, ༡༨ ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། ༢༠༡༧ (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

Thank you! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) ༠༨:༣༣, ༢༩ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༧ (UTC)[reply]

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

Improved search in deleted pages archive[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Thank you! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ༡༨:༣༩, ༢༥ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༡༧ (UTC)[reply]

ESEAP Conference 2018[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Hello all,

Scholarship applications for ESEAP Conference 2018 is now open!

ESEAP Conference 2018 is a regional conference for Wikimedia communities around the ESEAP regions. ESEAP stands for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific. Taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 5-6 May 2018, this is the first regional conference for the Wikimedia communities around the regions.

Full scholarships are subject to quotas, maximum two people per country and your country is eligible to apply, visit this page.

We also accept submissions of several formats, including:

  • Workshop & Tutorial: these are presentations with a focus on practical work directed either to acquiring a specific skill or doing a specific task. Sessions are 55 minutes led by the presenters in a classroom space suitable for laptops and work.
  • Posters: A2-size format to give news, share your community event/program, set out an idea, propose a concept, or explain a problem. The poster itself must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with a suitable license.
  • Short Presentation/Sharing talks: 10-15 minutes presentation on certain topic.

Deadline for submissions and scholarship applications is on 15 March 2018. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me or send your e-mail to eseapTemplate:@wikimedia.or.id.

Best regards, --Beeyan (talk) ༠༦:༣༠, ༨ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༡༨ (UTC)[reply]

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (talk) ༡༣:༤༥, ༡༢ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༡༨ (UTC)[reply]

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ༢༡:༣༨, ༢༤ ཟླ་བཞི་བ། ༢༠༡༨ (UTC)[reply]

Update on page issues on mobile web[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ༢༠:༥༨, ༡༢ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༨ (UTC)[reply]

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ༢༡:༢༨, ༦ ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ༢༠༡༨ (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

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Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ༡༦:༥༧, ༣༡ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༡༩ (UTC)[reply]

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ༡༤:༡༦, ༢༧ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༡༩ (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Folklore[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ༠༦:༡༤, ༡༨ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༢༠ (UTC)
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Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back![རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

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You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 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 28th of February.

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.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ༡༣:༢༥, ༦ ཟླ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༢༡ (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

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Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, Wikipedia currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) ༡༤:༡༢, ༡༨ ཟླ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༢༡ (UTC)[reply]

Global bot policy changes[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Wiki Loves Folklore is back![རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Please help translate to your language

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 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 28th of February.

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

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ༡༣:༡༤, ༩ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༢༢ (UTC)[reply]

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikTemplate:@wikimedia.org.


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We are really sorry for posting in English

Voting in the Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, please play a part and help chose the sound that will identify Wikimedia content on audio devices. Learn more on Diff.

The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135 countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners and the selection committee who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to Wikimedia to choose the Sound Of All Human Knowledge.

Best wishes, Arupako-WMF (talk) ༠༨:༢༣, ༡༥ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༢༢ (UTC)[reply]

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE[རྩོམ་སྒྲིག]

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)