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Meta-Wiki

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 meta-focused wikis such as Wikimedia Outreach are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly wikimedia-l, with its low-traffic equivalent WikimediaAnnounce), IRC channels on Libera, individual wikis of Wikimedia affiliates, and other places.

• Mission
• Projects
  (complete list)
• Research
• Translation
  (requests)
• Vision

Current events

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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

Requests

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Cross-wiki issues

• Bot status
• CheckUser
• Blocks/locks
• Username changes
• Permissions
• Spam blacklist
• Title blacklist
• Miscellaneous requests

Other

• Translations
• Wikimedia Grants (funding)
• New sister projects
• New languages
• Project closures
• Deletions (Deleteme category) / Undeletions
• More (overview)

Community and communication

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• Babel, a discussion place for Meta-Wiki matters
• Mailing lists and IRC
• Newsletters
• Meetups, a list of offline events
• Wikimedia Embassy, a list of local contacts by language
• Wikimedia Forum, a multilingual forum for Wikimedia projects
• Wikimedians
• Wikimedia Resource Center, a hub for Wikimedia Foundation resources

Core issues and collaboration

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• 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.

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Content projects specialized by linguistic edition

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia

Wiktionary
Free dictionary and thesaurus

Wikinews
Free-content news

Wikivoyage
Free travel guide

Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

Wikiversity
Free learning resources

Wikisource
Free-content library

Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Multilingual content projects

Wikimedia Commons
Free media repository

Wikidata
Free knowledge base

Wikispecies
Free directory of species

Wikimedia Incubator
For language versions in development

Wikifunctions
Free code repository

Outreach and administration projects

Wikimedia Foundation
Foundation public relations

Wikimedia Outreach
Wikimedia outreach wiki

Wikimania
The International Conference

Wikimedia Mailservices
Wikimedia mailing lists

Wikistats
Wikimedia statistics

Technical and development projects

MediaWiki
MediaWiki software documentation

Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs for high volume use

Wikitech
Wikimedia technical documentation

Phabricator
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects

Test Wikipedia
For testing software changes

Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis