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Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis. Other focused meta-wikis such as the community grants and strategy wikis fall within the scope of Meta but were at times broken out into a new wiki for various reasons. Other related discussions take place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l), IRC channels on freenode, individual sites of local Wikimedia chapters.

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Requests for...

See Steward requests.

Permissions (to request sysop, bureaucrat, oversight and checkuser status on any Wikimedia wiki)
CheckUser queries (not CheckUser access)
Deletion / Undeletion / Speedy deletion / Multilingual speedy deletions
Bot status
SQL queries
Translation
Logos
Spam blacklisting
Requests for new languages / Proposals for closing projects
More

Utilities

Sandbox
Babel templates (language skill)
Transbabel templates (translators by language combo)
Browse Meta-Wiki by category
Index

Form and content

Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues
See Wikimedia content

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November 2024

November 22:

Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Gender Sensitivity Training in Wikimedia Community at 3:00 - 5:00 p.m UTC Registration form

November 20:

Commons community discussion #2 at 16:00 – 17:00 UTC

November 20:

Commons community discussion #1 at 08:00 – 09:00 UTC

November 13:

2024 committee appointments round: Conversation hour #4 at 16:00 – 17:00 UTC

November 13:

2024 committee appointments round: Conversation hour #3 at 03:00 – 04:00 UTC

October 31 - November 3:

WikiConvention francophone 2024 is taking place in Québec, Canada.

October 2024

October 23:

2024 committee appointments round: Conversation hour #2 at 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

October 23:

2024 committee appointments round: Conversation hour #1 at 03:00 – 04:00 UTC

October 16–December 2:

2024 committee appointments round: Application period opens for the Ombuds Commission and Case Review Committee

October 16–November 18:

2024 committee appointments round: Application period opens for the Affiliations Committee

October 3 - 6:

WikiConference North America 2024 is taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

September 2024

September 25:

Wikis in read-only mode @ 15:00 UTC.

September 20 – 22:

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 is taking place in Istanbul, Türkiye

September 3 – 17:

Voting period for the Wikimedia Foundation Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees

September 1 – 30:

Wiki Loves Onam 2024, a campaign that aims to capture and celebrate the essence of the vibrant and festive spirit of Onam

September 1 – October 31:

Wiki Loves Monuments, the worldwide photo competition for built heritage

September 1 – December 31:

SheSaid, an initiative by Wiki Loves Women to add more quotes by notable women to Wikiquote projects in all languages

Community and communication

About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.

Wikimedia Forum (multi-lingual forum for Wikimedia projects)
Meta:Babel (discussion on Meta matters)
Wikimedian
Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
Requests for help for your troubles
Mailing lists and IRC
Meetups (meetings between participants)
User groups (various types of groups, e.g., sysop, bureaucrat, etc.)

Core issues and collaboration

Helping contribute and collaborate (i.e., what makes it easy, what makes it hard, how to do it well, why you have to, what conflicts typically arise, fixing them). Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.

Wikimedia principles (wikiquette, consensus, NPOV, copyrights)
Growing Wikimedia (building the project and the community)
Wikipedia power structure
Interlingual coordination (various international issues)
Conflict resolution
Privacy policy

[edit] Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects

The Wikimedia Foundation is the overarching non-profit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Meta-Wiki is the coordination wiki for the various Wikimedia wikis.

Content projects specialized by linguistic edition