ৱিকিউৎস:কেন্দ্ৰীয় আলোচনা/সংৰক্ষণ/২০২১

Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it

Hello,

We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.

You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
Click here to Submit Your session proposals

A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.

We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for your submissions!

Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3

Hello,
Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ১৪:২৬, ১ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

মন্তব্যৰ বাবে অনুৰোধ-মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা

প্ৰিয় বন্ধু, মই ইয়াত আলোচনা আৰু মতামত আৰম্ভ কৰিছোঁ। যোৱা বছৰ আমি দুটা মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা পৰিচালনা কৰিছিলোঁ। ভাৰতীয় ভাষাৰ ৱিকিউৎসসমূহৰ ভৱিষ্যতৰ কাৰ্যকলাপ আৰু আমাৰ সম্প্ৰদায় কেনেদৰে চলাব লাগে সেই সম্পৰ্কে আপোনাৰ মতামতৰ অতি প্ৰয়োজন। মই আশা কৰোঁ আপুনি আপোনাৰ মাতৃভাষাত আপোনাৰ মন্তব্য দিব।

ভাৰতীয় ৱিকিউৎস সম্প্ৰদায়ৰ হৈ -- Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (talk) ২৩:২১, ১৪ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4

Hello,
Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ২১:৪২, ১৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Understanding the technical challenges

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. In India, a series of workshops were conducted last year, and they received good response. They are being continued this year, and the first session is: Understanding the technical challenges of wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors contributing to language projects related to South Asia. The session is on 24 January 2021, at 18:00 to 19:30 (India time), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal time), and 18:30 to 20:00 pm (Bangladesh time).

You can register yourself by visiting this page! This discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at https://w.wiki/t8Q. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ২২:০৯, ১৯ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

নমস্কাৰ. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক. ধন্যবাদ!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, ২০:৪৬, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsসাঁচ:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ১৩:৩১, ২৮ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs

Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of

• a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
• b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.

Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga ১৯:১৫, ২৮ জানুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow

(sorry for posting in English)

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.

Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!

Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.

To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.

Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:

• Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
• Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
• Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
• Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
• Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
• Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
• Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
• Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.

Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.

You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.

An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.

Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ২২:০০, ১ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Research Needs Assessment for Indian Language Wikimedia (ILW) Projects

Dear All,

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since 2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge gaps and priority areas of focus, and the role of research in addressing the same.

We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the needs assessment questionnaire here:
Click here to respond

Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the CIS-A2K research talk page here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ২২:৩৮, ৩ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

• Hello, thanks to those who have submitted responses to this needs assessment. We want to inform you that the deadline to share your response has been extended till 5 March 2021. Click here to respond.Thanks. BhuvanaMeenakshi(CIS-A2K) (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৩০, ২৪ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ২৩:১৯, ৩ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ২৩:২৩, ৩ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

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) ১৮:৫৫, ৬ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 February
• Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ১৫:৪১, ১৮ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

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, ৱিকিউৎস 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) ১৯:৪১, ১৮ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২১ (IST)

Wikifunctions logo contest

নমস্কাৰ. Please help to choose a design concept for the logo of the new Wikifunctions wiki. Voting starts today and will be open for 2 weeks. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at Meta-Wiki. ধন্যবাদ! --Quiddity (WMF)

০৭:১৯, ২ মাৰ্চ ২০২১ (IST)

Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats: Call for feedback meeting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes[1] between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. As a matter of fact, there had only been one member who served on the Board, from South Asia, in more than fifteen years of history.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees? In this regard, it would be good to have a community discussion to discuss the proposed ideas and share our thoughts, give feedback and contribute to the process. To discuss this, you are invited to a community meeting that is being organized on March 12 from 8 pm to 10 pm, and the meeting link to join is https://meet.google.com/umc-attq-kdt. You can add this meeting to your Google Calendar by clicking here[2]. Please ping me if you have any questions. Thank you, --KCVelaga (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:২৬, ৮ মাৰ্চ ২০২১ (IST)

WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions

As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.

• Skills for Board work - Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC
• Support for candidates - Saturday, March 13, 13:30 UTC
• Board - Global Council - Hubs - Saturday, March 13, 16:00 UTC
• Regional diversity - Sunday, March 14, 13:00 UTC

To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.

Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), ১৪:০৬, ১০ মাৰ্চ ২০২১ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 March
• Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Jay Prakash

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.

prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ১২:৩১, ১৬ মাৰ্চ ২০২১ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct – 2021 consultations

Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a universal baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement and all its projects. The project is currently in Phase 2, outlining clear enforcement pathways. You can read more about the whole project on its project page.

Drafting Committee: Call for applications

The Wikimedia Foundation is recruiting volunteers to join a committee to draft how to make the code enforceable. Volunteers on the committee will commit between 2 and 6 hours per week from late April through July and again in October and November. It is important that the committee be diverse and inclusive, and have a range of experiences, including both experienced users and newcomers, and those who have received or responded to, as well as those who have been falsely accused of harassment.

To apply and learn more about the process, see Universal Code of Conduct/Drafting committee.

2021 community consultations: Notice and call for volunteers / translators

From 5 April – 5 May 2021 there will be conversations on many Wikimedia projects about how to enforce the UCoC. We are looking for volunteers to translate key material, as well as to help host consultations on their own languages or projects using suggested key questions. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these roles, please contact us in whatever language you are most comfortable.

To learn more about this work and other conversations taking place, see Universal Code of Conduct/2021 consultations.

-- Xeno (WMF) (talk) ০৩:৪৫, ৬ এপ্ৰিল ২০২১ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Designing responsive main pages" - 30 April (Friday)

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive. This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and the height according to various screen sizes. Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup and optionally basic CSS.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 30 April (Friday)
• Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (India / Sri Lanka), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal), 18:30 to 20:00 (Bangladesh)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts | to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here.

If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/3CGv.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ২১:২১, ১৯ এপ্ৰিল ২০২১ (IST)

Call for Election Volunteers: 2021 WMF Board elections

Hello all,

Based on an extensive call for feedback earlier this year, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021 Board elections. Apart from improving the technicalities of the process, the Board is also keen on improving active participation from communities in the election process. During the last elections, Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

• Promote the election and related calls to action in community channels.
• With the support from facilitators, organize discussions about the election in their communities.
• Translate “a few” messages for their communities

Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer, even better if there are two or more sharing the work. If you have any queries, please ping me under this message or email me. Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ১০:৫১, ১২ মে' ২০২১ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1

Universal Code of Conduct News
Issue 1, June 2021Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.

You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated.

• Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
• 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
• Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
• Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
• Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)

--MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৪:৩৬, ১২ জুন ২০২১ (IST)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:৪৯, ১৬ জুন ২০২১ (IST)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Candidates from South Asia for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has started elections for community seats on the Board of Trustees. While previously there were three community seats on the Board, with the expansion of the Board to sixteen seats last year, community seats have been increased to eight, four of which are up for election this year.

In the last fifteen years of the Board's history, there were only a few candidates from the South Asian region who participated in the elections, and hardly anyone from the community had a chance to serve on the Board. While there are several reasons for this, this time, the Board and WMF are very keen on encouraging and providing support to potential candidates from historically underrepresented regions. This is a good chance to change the historical problem of representation from the South Asian region in high-level governance structures.

Ten days after the call for candidates began, there aren't any candidates from South Asia yet, there are still 10 days left! I would like to ask community members to encourage other community members, whom you think would be potential candidates for the Board. While the final decision is completely up to the person, it can be helpful to make sure that they are aware of the election and the call for candidates.

Let me know if you need any information or support.

Thank you, KCVelaga (WMF) ১৫:৩৩, ১৯ জুন ২০২১ (IST)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "আলোচনা সঁজুলি" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

১৯:৪৫, ২৪ জুন ২০২১ (IST)

Server switch

Read this message in another language • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) ০৬:৪৯, ২৭ জুন ২০২১ (IST)

Wikisource Satisfaction Survey 2021

নমস্কাৰ!

Apologies for writing in English. অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

In the past year, there has been a lot of changes to Wikisource features and tools. This was done by the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation, grantees funded by the Foundation or through projects like Google Summer of Code. We would like to understand what you feel about the changes. Tell us what you think about such tools as the Wikisource Pagelist Widget or the new Ebook Export tool.

Take the survey in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hindi or Punjabi. The deadline is 25th July 2021.

This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement (English, Spanish, French, Polish, Hindi and Punjabi).

If you prefer to send your answers via email, copy the text of the survey and send to sgill@wikimedia.org.

If you have any questions or feedback about the survey, write to me at sgill@wikimedia.org.

ধন্যবাদ! SGill (WMF) ০৪:০০, ১৭ জুলাই ২০২১ (IST)

[Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021] Candidates meet with South Asia + ESEAP communities

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the 2021 Board of Trustees elections are from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election. This event is for community members of South Asian and ESEAP communities to know the candidates and interact with them.

• The event will be on 31 July 2021 (Saturday), and the timings are:

• Bangladesh: 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
• India & Sri Lanka: 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
• Nepal: 4:15 pm to 6:45 pm
• Pakistan & Maldives: 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

• For registration and other details, please visit the event page at m: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Meetings/South Asia + ESEAP

KCVelaga (WMF), ১৫:৩০, ১৯ জুলাই ২০২১ (IST)

ৱিকিউৎস মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা আগষ্ট ২০২১

প্রিয় ৱিকিমিডিয়ান,

সৰ্বপ্ৰথমে আপোনাক বিগত বৰ্ষত আগবঢ়োৱা প্ৰতিনিধিত্ব আৰু অৱদানৰ বাবে ধন্যবাদ তথা অভিনন্দন জনালোঁ৷ যোৱাটো বৰ্ষৰ দৰে এইবাৰো CIS-A2K -য়ে ৱিকিউৎস অনলাইন মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা আগষ্ট ২০২১ আয়োজন কৰিছে৷ প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ উদ্দেশ্য হৈছে স্বাধীনতা দিৱসৰ মুহূৰ্তত ভাৰতীয় ধ্ৰুপদী সাহিত্যৰে ডিজিটেল মঞ্চখন সমৃদ্ধ কৰা৷

আপোনাক কি লাগিব

গ্ৰন্থৰ তালিকা: মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধনৰ বাবে কিছুমান গ্ৰন্থৰ সংগ্ৰহ৷ আপোনাৰ মাতৃভাষাত লিখিত কেইখনমান গ্ৰন্থৰ তালিকা যুগুত কৰাত আপুনি আমাক সহায় কৰিব পাৰে৷ লক্ষ্য কৰিব যাতে উল্লিখিত গ্ৰন্থখন তৃতীয় পক্ষৰ ৱেবছাইটত ইউনিক'ড মাধ্যমত উপলব্ধ নহয়৷ অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি গ্ৰন্থ সংগ্ৰহ কৰি আমাৰ প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ পৃষ্ঠাত তালিকাভুক্ত কৰক৷ কপিৰাইটৰ নিৰ্দেশনাসমূহ আপুনি ইয়াতেই বিচাৰি পাব৷ গ্ৰন্থখন আহৰণ কৰি আপুনি পৃষ্ঠাবোৰত চকু ফুৰাব আৰু এখন পৃষ্ঠা-তালিকা <pagelist/> সাজি উলিয়াব৷

অংশগ্ৰহণকাৰী: প্ৰতিযোগিতাত যদি আপুনি অংশ ল'ব বিচাৰিছে, তেন্তে অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি অংশগ্ৰহণকাৰীৰ অনুচ্ছেদত স্বাক্ষৰ কৰক৷

পৰ্যবেক্ষক: মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধনৰ প্ৰশাসক/পৰ্যবেক্ষক হিচাপে আপুনি নিজকে ইয়াত মনোনীত কৰিব পাৰে৷ প্ৰশাসক/পৰ্যবেক্ষকেও প্ৰতিযোগিতাত অংশ ল'ব পাৰিব৷

সামাজিক মাধ্যমত সামান্য প্ৰচাৰ: প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ খবৰটো আপোনালোকে সামাজিক মাধ্যমৰ জৰিয়তে প্ৰচাৰ কৰিবলৈ যথোপযুক্ত পদক্ষেপ লওক৷ ভাৰতীয় ৱিকিউৎস সমাজৰ সদস্যসকললৈ এয়া মোৰ বিনম্ৰ অনুৰোধ ৷ ৱিকিপিডিয়া/ৱিকিউৎসৰ ছাইট ন'টিচ (Sitenotice) ব্যৱহাৰ কৰিবলৈ আমি সদায়েই উদ্গনি জনাওঁ৷ আপোনালোকে অৱশ্যেই ৱিকিউৎসৰ নিজা জাননী ব্যৱহাৰ কৰিব লাগে৷

পুৰস্কাৰ: প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ অন্তত CIS-A2K -ৰ তৰফৰপৰা দুই-এটা পুৰস্কাৰ ঘোষণা হ'ব পাৰে৷

বৈধ আৰু সংশোধিত পৃষ্ঠাৰ হিচাপ ৰখাৰ এটা ব্যৱস্থা: https://indic-wscontest.toolforge.org/

সময়সূচী: ১৫ আগষ্ট ২০২১, ০০.০১ৰ পৰা ৩১ আগষ্ট ২০২১, ২৩.৫৯লৈকে (ভাৰতীয় মান সময়)

নীতি-নিৰ্দেশনা: প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ সাধাৰণ নীতি-নিৰ্দেশনাৰ বিষয়ে ইয়াত ব্যাখ্যা কৰা হৈছে৷

মূল্যাংকন: প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ মূল্যাংকন ব্যৱস্থাৰ বিষয়ে ইয়াত উল্লেখ কৰা হৈছে৷

মই আশা কৰিছোঁ যে, লকডাউনৰ সময়ছোৱাত অনুষ্ঠিত হ'বলগীয়া উক্ত প্ৰতিযোগিতাত ভাগ ল'বলৈ বহুকেইটা ভাৰতীয় ভাষা আগুৱাই আহিব৷

আপোনাৰ বহুমূলীয়া সময়ৰ বাবে ধন্যবাদ৷

Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
ৱিকিউৎস কৰ্মসূচী বিষয়া, CIS-A2K

2021 WMF Board election postponed until August 18th

Hello all,

We are reaching out to you today regarding the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes. For information on the technical issues, you can see the Phabricator ticket.

We are truly sorry for this delay and hope that we will get back on schedule on August 18th. We are in touch with the Elections Committee and the candidates to coordinate the next steps. We will update the Board election Talk page and Telegram channel as we know more.

Thanks for your patience, KCVelaga (WMF), ০৯:১৯, ৩ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

ৱিকিউৎস মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা আগষ্ট ২০২১ -ৰ বাবে গ্ৰন্থ

১৫ আগষ্টৰ পৰা হ’বলগীয়া মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতাখনৰ বাবে কেইখনমান গ্ৰন্থৰ নাম তলত বিবেচনা কৰি চাবলৈ মোৰ ফালৰ পৰা প্ৰস্তাৱ আগবঢ়ালোঁ৷

1. অশৌচ-তত্ব সংগ্ৰহ
2. আৰ্হি-চৰিত
3. কদম-কলি বেজবৰুৱা
4. কাশ্মীৰ কুমাৰী
5. কীৰ্তন ঘোষা
6. গদাধৰ
7. চুপহি
8. কালিকা পুৰাণ
9. কুলাচল বধ
10. চৰিত- দৈত্যাৰি ঠাকুৰ
11. দামোদৰ দেৱ চমু জীৱনী
12. নতুন ধাৰাপাত
13. নামতি
14. বনৰ বন্ধুৰ মনৰ খবৰ
15. ৰহঘৰা-দণ্ডিনাথ কলিতা
16. ৰূদ্ৰ যামল
17. শিয়ালা বৈষ্ণৱৰ চৰিত্ৰ
18. স্যমন্ত হৰণ

ধন্যবাদ৷ 𝓚𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓱𝓪𝓻 𝓡𝓪𝓫𝓱𝓪 (বাৰ্তা) ১২:২০, ৫ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

Joli:, দিব্য দত্ত:, ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা: উপৰোক্ত কিতাপসমূহ প্ৰতিযোগিতাত সন্নিৱিষ্ট কৰিব পাৰি নে নোৱাৰি বিবেচনা কৰি চাবলৈ অনুৰোধ জনালোঁ৷ ধন্যবাদ৷ 𝓚𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓱𝓪𝓻 𝓡𝓪𝓫𝓱𝓪 (বাৰ্তা) ০৩:১৩, ১৯ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)

Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC

Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Xeno (WMF) ০৪:১৬, ১৮ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open: 18 - 31 August 2021

Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election.

The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community and affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 August 2021.

• Learn more about candidates.
• Learn about the Board of Trustees.
• Vote

Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ১১:৪১, ১৮ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

• Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)
• Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
• Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ১১:৫৪, ১৮ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

Update on the OCR Improvements

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক.

The OCR Improvements are complete. We, the Community Tech team, are grateful for your feedback from the beginning to the last stage when we were finalizing the interface.

Engine improvements

OCR menu in toolbar

Reliability

Prior to our work, the OCR tools were separate gadgets. We have added "Wikimedia OCR." It is available under one icon inside the toolbar on all Wikisource wikis. This tool supports two other OCR tools, Tesseract and Google OCR. We expect these tools to be more stable. We will maintain Wikimedia OCR.

The gadgets will remain available. The communities will have sovereignty over when to enable or disable these.

Speed

Prior to this work, transcription would take upwards of 40 seconds. Our improvements average a transcription time under 4 seconds.

Advanced Tools improvements

Multiple-language support

Documents with multiple languages can be transcribed in a new way.

1. Open the উচ্চতৰ বিকল্পসমূহ
2. Select the Languages (optional) field
3. Search for and enter the languages in order of prevalence in the document.

Cropping tool / Multi-column support

We have included a Cropper tool. It allows to select regions to transcribe on pages with complicated layouts.

Discoverability and accessibility of OCR

We have added an interface for new users. It is pulsating blue dots over the new icon in the toolbar. The new interface explains what OCR means and what transcription means in Wikisource.

We believe that you will do even more great things because of these changes. We also hope to see you at the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. Thanks you again for all your opinions and support.

Please share your opinions on the project talk page!

NRodriguez (WMF) and SGrabarczuk (WMF) ০৭:২৭, ১৯ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

[Reminder] Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021: 3 days left to vote

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, Wikimedia Foundation elections started on 18 August and will continue until 31 August, 23:59 UTC i.e. ~ 3 days left.

Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

Here are the links that might be useful for voting.

• Elections main page
• Candidates for the election
• Q&A from candidates
• 👉 Voting 👈

We have also published stats regarding voter turnout so far, you can check how many eligible voters from your wiki has voted on this page.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ১১:১০, ২৯ আগষ্ট ২০২১ (IST)

অজ্ঞাত মৃত্যুবৰ্ষৰ লেখকৰ গ্ৰন্থ সংৰক্ষণ

বন্ধুসকল, বহুসময়ত আমি কোনো পুৰণি কোনো কিতাপ ৱিকিউৎসত অন্তৰ্ভুক্ত কৰিব খুজিলেও লেখকজনৰ মৃত্যুবৰ্ষ নজনাৰ বাবে (গতিকে কপিৰাইট স্থিতি নজনাৰ বাবে) থমকি ৰওঁ। বিচাৰ-খোঁচাৰ কৰিও এইসকল লেখকৰ বিষয়ে একো তথ্য উলিয়াব নোৱাৰোঁ। বাংলা ৱিকিউৎসৰ সদস্যসকলে এটা স্থানীয় নীতিৰ জৰিয়তে এনে কিছুমান কিতাপ ৱিকিউৎসত থোৱাৰ ব্যৱস্থা কৰিছে। কোৱা বাহুল্য যে এনে কিতাপ ৱিকিমিডিয়া কমন্সত আপল'ড কৰিব নোৱাৰি, প্ৰশাসকে স্থানীয়ভাৱে ৱিকিউৎসতহে আপল'ড কৰিব পাৰে। লগতে কপিৰাইট আপত্তি আহিলে সেইবোৰ আঁতৰাই দিব লাগিব। এনে কিতাপৰ বাবে "সাঁচ:PD-India-Author?" নামেৰে এটা পৰীক্ষামূলক সাঁচ সাজি উলিওৱা হৈছে। সকলোৱে হয়ভৰ দিলে আমি এই কামত আগবাঢ়িব পাৰোঁ। Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:০৩, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

হয়

1. ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:১২, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
2. Pallabi Dutta.Baruah (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:১৫, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
3. Jonali Baruah (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৪৮, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (CST)
4. 𝓚𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓱𝓪𝓻 𝓡𝓪𝓫𝓱𝓪 (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:২৩, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
5. দিব্য দত্ত (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:৫০, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
6. Joli (বাৰ্তা) ০০:০০, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
7. -chanakyakdas (বাৰ্তা) ০০:৪৩, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
8. ৰাজদ্বীপ ৰাজবংশী (বাৰ্তা) ০৫:৫৫, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
9. Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:৪২, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)
10. Scatter2021 (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:৫৫, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)Scatter2021

মন্তব্য

আগবাঢ়ক। Scatter2021 (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:৫৬, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)Scatter2021

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election has come to an end

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed August 31 at 23:59. The official data, including the four most voted candidates, will be announced as soon as the Elections Committee completes their review of the ballots. The official announcement of the new trustees appointed will happen later, once the selected candidates have been confirmed by the Board.

6,946 community members from 216 wiki projects have voted. This makes 10.2% global participation, 1.1% higher than in the last Board elections. In 2017, 5167 people from 202 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published in a few days when the confirmed results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.

Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees election will be even better.

০২:২০, ২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey will happen in January

Hello everyone,

We hope all of you are as well and safe as possible during these trying times! We wanted to share some news about a change to the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. We would like to hear your opinions as well.

Summary:

We will be running the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 in January 2022. We need more time to work on the 2021 wishes. We also need time to prepare some changes to the Wishlist 2022. In the meantime, you can use a dedicated sandbox to leave early ideas for the 2022 wishes.

Proposing and wish-fulfillment will happen during the same year

In the past, the Community Tech team has run the Community Wishlist Survey for the following year in November of the prior year. For example, we ran the Wishlist for 2021 in November 2020. That worked well a few years ago. At that time, we used to start working on the Wishlist soon after the results of the voting were published.

However, in 2021, there was a delay between the voting and the time when we could start working on the new wishes. Until July 2021, we were working on wishes from the Wishlist for 2020.

We hope having the Wishlist 2022 in January 2022 will be more intuitive. This will also give us time to fulfill more wishes from the 2021 Wishlist.

Encouraging wider participation from historically excluded communities

We are thinking how to make the Wishlist easier to participate in. We want to support more translations, and encourage under-resourced communities to be more active. We would like to have some time to make these changes.

A new space to talk to us about priorities and wishes not granted yet

We will have gone 365 days without a Wishlist. We encourage you to approach us. We hope to hear from you in the talk page, but we also hope to see you at our bi-monthly Talk to Us meetings! These will be hosted at two different times friendly to time zones around the globe.

We will begin our first meeting September 15th at 23:00 UTC. More details about the agenda and format coming soon!

Brainstorm and draft proposals before the proposal phase

If you have early ideas for wishes, you can use the new Community Wishlist Survey sandbox. This way, you will not forget about these before January 2022. You will be able to come back and refine your ideas. Remember, edits in the sandbox don't count as wishes!

Feedback

• What should we do to improve the Wishlist pages?
• How would you like to use our new sandbox?
• What, if any, risks do you foresee in our decision to change the date of the Wishlist 2022?
• What will help more people participate in the Wishlist 2022?

Answer on the talk page (in any language you prefer) or at our Talk to Us meetings.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) ০৫:৫৩, ৭ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Results of 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following four candidates received the most support:

• Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
• Victoria Doronina
• Dariusz Jemielniak
• Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at the end of this month.

Read the full announcement here. MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৮:২৬, ৮ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct EDGR conversation hour for South Asia

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboration on Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum standard. The Wikimedia Foundation Board has ratified the policy in December 2020.

The current round of conversations is around how the Universal Code of Conduct should be enforced across different Wikimedia platforms and spaces. This will include training of community members to address harassment, development of technical tools to report harassment, and different levels of handling UCoC violations, among other key areas.

The conversation hour is an opportunity for community members from South Asia to discuss and provide their feedback, which will be passed on to the drafting committee. The details of the conversation hour are as follows:

• Date: 16 September
• Time: Bangladesh: 5:30 pm to 7 pm, India & Sri Lanka: 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Nepal: 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/dnd-qyuq-vnd | add to your calendar

You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page. MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:১৭, ১০ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee ending 14 September 2021

Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 14, 2021.

The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.

We are looking for people who have some of the following skills:

• Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
• Are ready to find compromises.
• Focus on inclusion and diversity.
• Have knowledge of community consultations.
• Have intercultural communication experience.
• Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or communities.
• Have experience negotiating with different parties.

The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election takes place.

Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? Submit your candidacy here. Please contact strategy2030wikimedia.org with questions.

Xeno (WMF) ২২:২০, ১০ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Server switch

Read this message in another language • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic back to the primary data center on Tuesday, 14 September 2021.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday, 15 September).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

SGrabarczuk (WMF) (আলোচনা) ০৬:১৬, ১১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Talk to the Community Tech

Read this message in another language • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hello!

As we have recently announced, we, the team working on the Community Wishlist Survey, would like to invite you to an online meeting with us. It will take place on September 15th, 23:00 UTC on Zoom, and will last an hour. Click here to join.

Agenda

• How we prioritize the wishes to be granted
• Why we decided to change the date from November 2021 to January 2022
• Update on the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes
• Questions and answers

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes without attribution will be taken and published on Meta-Wiki. The presentation (first three points in the agenda) will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Polish, and Spanish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the Community Wishlist Survey talk page or send to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

Natalia Rodriguez (the Community Tech manager) will be hosting this meeting.

Invitation link

• Join online
• Meeting ID: 898 2861 5390
• One tap mobile
  • +16465588656,,89828615390# US (New York)
  • +16699006833,,89828615390# US (San Jose)
• Dial by your location

See you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (আলোচনা) ০৮:৩৪, ১১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

• Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
• Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
• Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best, RamzyM (WMF) ০৮:১৬, ২২ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Voting period to elect members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is now open

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

১১:২০, ১৩ অক্টোবৰ ২০২১ (IST)

গতি ৰণকৌশল ৰূপায়ণ অনুদানে আপোনাৰ গতি ৰণকৌশল পৰিকল্পনাক কেনেদৰে সহায় কৰিব পাৰে, সেই বিষয়ে জানক।

গতি ৰণকৌশল পৰিকল্পনা কাৰ্যকৰী কৰাৰ বাবে গতি ৰণনীতি ৰূপায়ণ অনুদানে (MSIG) $২,০০০ আমেৰিকান ডলাৰৰো অধিক অনুদান প্ৰদান কৰিব। ইয়াতে আপুনি গতি ৰণকৌশল ৰূপায়ণ অনুদান, ইয়াৰ চৰ্তাৱলী আৰু কেনেকৈ আবেদন কৰিব লাগে, সেই বিষয়ে অধিক জানিব পাৰিব।

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:২৪, ২৪ অক্টোবৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

• The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
• The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
• The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team,
RamzyM (WMF) ০৭:৫৭, ২ নৱেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Celebrating 18 years of Wikisource

Hello Wikisource enthusiasts and friends of Wikisource,

I hope you are doing alright! I would like to invite you to celebrate 18 years of Wikisource.

The first birthday party is being organized on 24 November 2021 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM UTC (check your local time) where the incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskendar, will be joining us. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page, telegram (@satdeep) or via email (sgillwikimedia.org) to add your email address to the calendar invite.

Maryana is hoping to learn more about the Wikisource community and the project at this event and it would be really nice if you can share your answers to the following questions:

• What motivates you to contribute to Wikisource?
• What makes the Wikisource community special?
• What are the major challenges facing the movement going forward?
• What are your questions to Maryana?

You can share your responses during the live event but in case the date and the time doesn't work for you, you can share your responses on the event page on Wikisource or in case you would like to remain anonymous, you can share your responses directly with me.

Also, feel free to reach out to me in case you would like to give a short presentation about your and your community's work at the beginning of the session.

We are running a poll to find the best date and time to organize the second birthday party on the weekend right after 24th November. Please share your availability on the following link by next Friday:

https://framadate.org/zHOi5pZvhgDy6SXn

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:৪০, ১২ নৱেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

on behalf of User:SGill (WMF)

Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K started a series of mini edit-a-thons in 2020. This year, we had conducted Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon so far. Now, we are going to be conducting a Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon which will be its second iteration. During this event, we encourage you to create, develop, update or edit data, upload files on Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia articles etc. This event will take place on 11 and 12 December 2021. Be ready to participate and develop content on your local Wikimedia projects. Thank you.

on behalf of the organising committee

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৩০, ১০ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)