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Utilities

Requests for...

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

Other tools

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

Form and content

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

• Image
• Maps
• Copyright
• Statistics

Notifications

August 2008

	27:	A proposal has been made to have an Image use policy regarding which images may be hosted locally at meta.wikimedia.org.
	15:	Wikiversity celebrates two years of existence.
	9:	A proposal has been made for a new sysop function called the "flood flag", that would allow users to hide batches of repetitive edits from recent changes, as a bot flag does.

July 2008

	31:	End of the poll regarding the arrangement of the Wikipedia.org portal. The criterion is now "most visited Wikipedias".
	21:	Michael Snow is appointed as the new chair of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees
	17:	Wikimania, the annual Wikimedia conference, is held in Alexandria, Egypt.
	8:	Three new staff members were hired; Rebecca Handler as the Foundation's Major Gifts Officer, Rand Montoya as Head of Community Giving and Frank Schulenburg as the public outreach coordinator.
	6:	A poll regarding the arrangement of the Wikipedia.org portal has been started and is due to end on 23:59 31 July 2008.
	2:	Contribute to discussion about the new community draft of the language policy. The policy deals with opening wikis for our current projects in new languages.

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.

Community and communication

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

• The Wikipedia Community
• Wikimedian
• Meta:Babel (central discussion place here)
• Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
• Requests for help to your trouble
• Mailing Lists and IRC channels
• Wikipedia meetup (meetings between participants)
• Status (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

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.

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