Meta-Wiki

Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects. Meta-Wiki's discussions range from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis of future Wikimedia activities.

Other meta-focused wikis such as Wikimedia Outreach and Wikimedia Strategy are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussion also takes place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l, with its low-traffic equivalent WikimediaAnnounce), IRC channels on freenode, individual wikis of local Wikimedia chapters, and other places.

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Goings-on

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Requests

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February 2012

8–27:

The vote on the Stewards elections 2012.

January 2012

	15–28:	Candidate submissions for Stewards elections 2012.
	18:	The English Wikipedia was blacked out for 24 hours in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Several other projects ran banners in support.
	28:	Translation tools workshop: Siebrand will train Meta Wiki users in using the translation tools recently installed here.
	15:	Wikipedia Day is celebrated at select events around the world this month.
	12:	Members of the Wikimania 2013 jury announced.

December 2011

1:

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants. Proposals must be submitted by January 15, 2012.

November 2011

23:

Wikimania jury nominations opened, see announcement. Decision by December 1.

October 2011

	25:	Women & Wikimedia Survey 2011 is released.
	8:	Rewrite of Wikimedia's Terms of use; expected to conclude in late December.
	6:	Voting for the 2nd 2011 Stewards elections ends.
	4:	The Italian Wikipedia goes on strike in protest against a bill under consideration by the Parliament of Italy (see Wikimedia Forum).

For more news and information see Wikimedia News and Goings-on.

Cross-wiki issues: » Bot status; » CheckUser; » Speedy deletions; » Username changes; » Permissions; » Spam blacklist
Other: » Translations; » Logos; » Wikimedia Grants (funding); » New languages; » Project closures; » Deletions (Deleteme category) / Undeletions; » More

Community and communication

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Core issues and collaboration

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» Babel, a discussion place for Meta matters

» Mailing lists and IRC

» Meetups

» Wikimedia Embassy, a list of local contacts by language

» Wikimedia Forum, a multilingual forum for Wikimedia projects

» Wikimedians

» Community

» Dispute resolution

» Growing Wikimedia

» Interlingual coordination

» Requests for comment

» Wikimedia principles

Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects

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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
	Wikimedia Commons Shared media repository	Incubator For language versions in development	Wikispecies The free species directory
	Wikibooks Open-content textbooks	Wikinews Free content news source	Wikipedia The free encyclopedia
	Wikiquote Collection of quotations	Wikisource The free library	Wikiversity Open learning community
		Wiktionary The free dictionary
"Backstage" projects
		Wikimedia Foundation Foundation public relations
	Strategy wiki Wikimedia Strategic planning	Wikimedia Outreach Wikimedia outreach wiki	Wikipedia ten Wikipedia 10 celebration
	Wikimania The International Conference	Wikimedia Mailservices Wikimedia Mailing Lists	Toolserver Wikimedia Toolserver
	Bugzilla A bug tracker for MediaWiki	MediaWiki MediaWiki software documentation	Wikitech Wikimedia technical documentation
	Test Wikipedia For testing software changes	Wikimedia Laboratories Developing new extensions and features	Wikistats Wikimedia statistics