Goings-on/2014

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This is the archive of Goings-on in 2014. See also read older news and archived Goings-on.

December 2014

19-21:

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2014 took place in Kyiv.

November 2014

	21-23:	Iberoconf 2014 took place in Buenos Aires.
	8:	Request for comment: Global AbuseFilter
	6:	Three Questions and Three Answers as Food for Thought About the Future of Wikipedia.

October 2014

	24:	Request for comment: on making a new global group that can view deleted images on all projects.
	19:	Request for comment: Wikimedia genealogy project.
	13:	Request for comment: Inactive Global bot accounts.

August 2014

	20:	Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer.
	20:	Request for comment: On a scale of billions.
	19:	Executive Director's "Working together" statement.
	19:	Brainstorming: Community Engagement (Product)/Process ideas.
	10:	Request for comment: Superprotect rights.
	8-10:	Wikimania 2014 took place in London.
	7:	Request for comments: Mission(s) policy.

June 2014

19:

Proposal to include help pages again in default results on Special:Search.

May 2014

	15:	Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets.
	1:	The Wikimedia Foundation announces its new executive director Lila Tretikov.

April 2014

	5:	A new proposal is started to launch NonFreeWiki as a Wikimedia project.
	5:	Novi prijedlog je podnešen za pokretanje UserWiki kao novi Wikimedia projekat.

March 2014

	12:	Request for comments: Wikimedia genealogy project.
	9:	Request for comments: Standardize ProofreadPage namespaces across Wikisources.
	3:	Request for comments: Creation of a Global Wikimedia Commons.

February 2014

	28:	Invitation to submit Individual Engagement Grant proposals for individuals and small teams.
	28:	Legal and Community Advocacy reply on Wikimedia server location and free knowledge.
	24:	Wikimedia Venezuela open letter regarding the deletion of images from Commons under Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA).
	22:	Wikimedia Argentina open letter regarding the deletion of images from Commons under Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA).
	21:	Round 2 of the Eighth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Competition (to select the best featured picture of 2013) starts.
	19:	Wikimedia España letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees regarding the deletion of images from Commons under Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA).

18:

A request for comments has been opened on whether a c: interwiki prefix should be added for Wikimedia Commons. The RfC follows a 2011 RfC on the same topic which, while positive, did not see wide participation.

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2014

January 2014

	28:	Wikimedia Israel letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees regarding the deletion of images from Commons under Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA).
	23:	A new proposal is started to launch WikiGames as a Wikimedia project.
	17:	Round 1 of the Eighth Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Competition (to select the best featured picture of 2013) starts. Round 2 will start immediately after Round 1 has finished and votes are counted.
	15:	The candidate submission phase of the 2014 Steward elections has started.
	8:	Wikimania 2014 is now accepting travel scholarship applications. Apply by February 17.
	5:	A new proposal is started to launch WikiRefdesk as a Wikimedia project.
	1:	Proposals submissions for Wikimania 2014 are now being accepted. The deadline is 31 March.
	1:	A new proposal is started to launch Structured Wikiquote as a Wikimedia project.