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Hi everyone,

The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.

What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?

The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”

Join the “Launch Party” on June 20, 2024 at 14.00-15.00 UTC (your local time). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.

Movement Charter ratification vote

Voting will commence on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. You can read more about the voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details on Meta.

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RamzyM (WMF) 08:45, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I noticed that the category Wikipedia people only has only four people in it: Sue Gardner, Andrew Lih, Steven Pruitt and Jimmy Wales. Is that it, or are there other Wikipedia people that would meet the standards of notability and quotability for inclusion on Wikiquote? I very rarely see Wikipedia editors give interviews and when they do it seems to be more often than not to be attributed to their username, with the editor citing concerns for their safety should they lose their anonymity. I was hoping one of the Wikipedia editors who has done interviews might have gone into detail about why they have those safety concerns, because if Wikipedia is truly as dangerous as some of the editors make it sound, than it's bizarre that that it's accessed by so many school age children and no one seems to care they could be in danger were they to become editors. The Surgeon General didn't specifically mention Wikipedia when discussing the health effects of childhood social media usage, but it is still a form of social media, so I'm wondering what research is there concerning Wikipedia in particular in connection to issues like cyberbullying or addictive behavior. My hypothesis is that the well-known Wikipedia gender gap might have something to do with a casual acceptance of cyberbullying, or alternatively that there is for some reason a pervasive false impression of dangerousness that scares away many potential new editors, seeing as there is much less of a gender difference in either academia or in publishing. Other more popular social media websites do not seem to have this problem, Youtube doesn't have a noticeable gender difference and you have much less privacy being on camera than writing, and people post photos of themselves and discuss politically sensitive topics on Facebook but they don't have a noticeable gender difference. CensoredScribe (talk) 15:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Responding to your first sentence, there are lots of notable people who have no WQ article. I created the WQ article for Steven Pruitt after I stumbled on some interesting quotes by him. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:22, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

It seems all of the Wikipedia people with pages go by their real names; introductory text is hard to write for anonymous pseudonyms, take the page for Banksy for example. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

How can languages be added to the language list? The French page of Albert Camus can be found by clicking 45 more at the end of the languages list and then Français but logically it should be in the default list. Mcljlm (talk) 14:39, 28 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure how it was done, but checking our Albert Camus today, I see Français on the default language list. HouseOfChange (talk) 13:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I was wondering if anyone here has ever mentioned their editing of Wikis when using dating websites and their reasoning as to why or why not. If no one here uses dating websites that would also be an interesting fact to know about our community as to how we feel about other online communities. It may seem like it's a question that has nothing to do with improving the Wiki, but considering the low number of active users and the importance of membership drives I think it's a valid maintenance question, and not just one of research and criticism. CensoredScribe (talk) 03:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I understand that most people here do not edit under their real names and that doxing is taken very seriously, which is one of the things that differentiates Wikis from other forms of social media where it is often an expectation that people post pictures of themselves. Bragging about how good you are at your job or your hobby isn't particularly attractive behavior on a first date, however secrecy and a refusal to answer any questions someone might have about how you spend your time is also very disconcerting. Not everyone uses dating websites, however enough people do that even in a fairly small group of people you would expect at least a quarter of the population to have some experience using them, so if nobody who edits Wikis uses dating websites than that suggests a unique trend which may be connected to Wikipedia's noticeable gender gap. Not a lot of people use social media in the hopes of obtaining greater levels of social isolation, it's one thing not to make any new friends on a website but it's another when it actively interferes with making them anywhere else as well. In my case I don't think many people are interested in talking about abortion activism on a first date, but if they ask what you do as a job or hobby they are not going to like being told that they ask too many questions or being answered with riddles. What we all do here may feel inconsequential at times and like it's not worth mentioning, but I think most people would have a hard time arguing it doesn't make at least a small difference in someone's life being able to more readily access information on topics that they feel are important, whatever those topics may be. Just thought I would mention this in case anyone else has had experiences that sound similar, or has any interest in the gender gap Wikipedia points out in advertisements and tries to address with campaigns like #SheSaid. CensoredScribe (talk) 14:48, 29 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

How CensoredScribe is your question connected to Wikiquote which is what this page is intended for? Mcljlm (talk) 14:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I don't know what all of the objectives of #SheSaid are, but considering #SheSaid's advertisements are displayed at the top of all of the pages for three months out of the year, I would say that the answer to your question is all of them. What pages, do you think, aren't edited by women? CensoredScribe (talk) 02:26, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Quoting the intro to this page: "This is the place if you (a) have a question about Wikiquote and how it works or (b) a suggestion for improving Wikiquote." HouseOfChange (talk) 15:56, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikiedu.org mentions improving Wiki Data in addition to Wikipedia, so how about one of the administrators here asks that they mention Wikiquote? We could use their help just as much as Wikipedia, and unlike Wikipedia's summaries, the direct quotations we've collected can be used as references, which is of more help to students. Seeing real people's faces and not just their screen names helps to improve Wikipedia's public image, making it look safer for new people to use. CensoredScribe (talk) 21:04, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

This page is not intended for efforts to start a chat about random topics with little relation to improving Wikiquote. HouseOfChange (talk) 13:09, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I wouldn't consider a gender gap or a race gap to be random topics with no relation to improving Wikiquote HoC, if no X gender or Y ethnicity are editing Wikiquote that looks bad to the press. You have made less than two thousand edits, you may well be the administrator with the quickest rise to power, and it shows. CensoredScribe (talk) 02:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello everyone,

This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

In cooperation with the U4C,

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 10 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'd like to create a category for people who have been awarded of the w:Compasso d'Oro (presumably "Category:Compasso d'Oro winners", by the logic of established practice here on Wikiquote). As I'm still not fully familiar with the ins and out of this wiki, I thought it best to ask for guidence. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 13:57, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply