User talk:ShahenWasHere

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Thank you for your translation support

Dear Շահէն,

I am User:Ptinphusmia from the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos International Team. I want to thank you for your translation support and we are happy to inform you that this year, the campaign will be organized locally by at least 45 Wikimedia affiliates in 40 countries. We have a few days to the start of the campaign (1st of July 2021) and we need your help and support to complete the campaign page. As always, thanks for your help and support. Ptinphusmia (talk) 00:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

#WPWPCampaign 2021: Request for help with cleanup

Dear Շահէն,

Thanks for organizing the #WPWPCampaign 2021 in your community. We are proud of your work and the campaign outcome this year. We are in the process of cleaning up the articles with errors resulting from the campaign and we kindly request your help with this. Please help with cleanup and consider engaging experienced members of your community in the cleanup. The English Wikipedia has created a filter to track all articles edited as part of the campaign: See the tracked articles on the English Wikipedia. Please review these contributions and fix any errors you could find. See #WPWPWAM for all contributions made as part of the campaign in your community. T Cells^Talk 13:05, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

#WPWPCampaign2021: Learning and evaluation

Hello ShahenWasHere,

Many thanks for participating in the WPWP campaign.

We are glad about the level of participation, this year and we are excited to inform you that over 900 volunteers around the world added photos to more than 250,000 articles in 298 languages Wikipedia. This year, we surpassed the 2020 edition's milestone by over 170%.

We are in the process of evaluating the WPWP campaign this year and we need your help. We'd love to get your feedback. Your feedback will allow us to better meet your expectations for the campaign in the next editions.

Please complete a brief survey so that we may learn about your participation in the campaign, strengths, challenges and your expectations. This information will enable us to improve the next editions of the Campaign.

Follow this link to the Survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL9BORQ94GtN6mjS4-U77N7-BIuxDGl1cmhwKzKSijc9lrcA/viewform

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeL9BORQ94GtN6mjS4-U77N7-BIuxDGl1cmhwKzKSijc9lrcA/viewform

Thank you in advance for taking this survey.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat ^{[ contribs | talk ]}
Communication Manager, WPWP Campaign
-- Message sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:06, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Join Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022

Hello ShahenWasHere,

Thank you for participating in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign last year.

We are glad to inform you that this year's edition started on 1 July, 2022. You are invited to participate in the campaign again to help improve the quality of Wikipedia articles with photos and contextual images. For more information about the campaign and how to participate, please visit the campaign page here.

If you have any questions or query please feel free to contact the organizing team, leave a message at the campaign's talkpage or send an email to wpwpcampaigngmail.com.

Kind regards, --Ammarpad (talk) 21:28, 5 July 2022 (UTC) (On behalf of the Organizing Team, WPWP Campaign 2022).

We need your feedback on a tool from the Wikimedia Summit

Reminder: the guide to using Baserow, presented during the Wikimedia Summit.

Hi! I'm contacting you as one of the participants in the Wikimedia Summit 2022, to kindly ask for your feedback through a 5-10 minute survey to evaluate 'Baserow' (note: the survey is on a Google form).

Baserow was a tool through which participants in the Summit co-created a database of Movement Strategy activities. We hope to learn from you how useful it may be to keep using it in the future to help document and connect on Movement Strategy work.

You are welcome and encouraged to fill out the survey in any language. Your feedback would be very appreciated --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 14:52, 16 February 2023 (UTC).

Open Innovation Café of Wikimedia Deutschland & Survey

Hello @ShahenWasHere: It was lovely seeing you at our Open Innovation Café! As promised we are following up with our brief survey that will help us in together defining the needs and challenges of our Movement in innovating in Free Knowledge: Many thanks for being a part of this journey and giving us a few minutes of your time. We’d be grateful for your response until March 25th. As a reminder, please also feel free to share the survey with any other Movement members you believe should be a part of this process.

Also, we have set up a page on Meta-Wiki documenting our Re-Imagining journey. Be sure to follow along and join any future discussion!

Best wishes,--Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 08:28, 16 March 2023 (UTC)--Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 08:25, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Personal Invitation to the Open Innovation Café volume 2 of Wikimedia Deutschland

Hello @ShahenWasHere:

We asked – you delivered: After asking all our stakeholders for input through our Open Innovation Café volume 1, a survey and interviews, we have collected the research data and compiled some insightful problem statements. These cover the needs and challenges our Movement faces in innovating in Free Knowledge – quite eye-opening!

Join us at our Open Innovation Café volume 2 to hear about what we have found and how we will use these insights in building a new innovation format for the Wikimedia Movement. Maybe some insights will also be helpful in your community work as well?

When and where will the Open Innovation Café take place? We will be running two identical open cafés, so choose the slot and time zone that suits you best:

• Open Innovation Café option 1 on Tuesday, May 23rd, 5:00-5:30 pm CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86297641111?pwd=OEQwQXVBV21mWlZJTWxld21HeGFHdz09 Meeting ID: 862 9764 1111 Passcode: 021114
• Open Innovation Café option 2 on Thursday, May 25th, 9:30-10:00am CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83425967908?pwd=TTJyS29JRWNxT3dXektCVkMwdU1LQT09 Meeting ID: 834 2596 7908 Passcode: 088627

This will be done in English and is hosted by the Innovation team at Wikimedia Deutschland. There is no requirement for joining, simply drop in as you are. Looking forward to seeing you there! --Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 09:36, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to Serve as a Judge for the Wikimania Poster Session

My name is Victoria Doronina, and I am a part of the organising team for the Wikimania 2025 Poster Session. I'm inviting you to serve as a judge for the Poster Session at Wikimania 2025. As someone deeply engaged in the Wikimedia movement and currently a candidate for the Board of Trustees, your insights and experience would bring tremendous value to the evaluation of this year’s posters.

The judging process would involve reviewing posters online and providing a score. You can score as many posters as you have time for.

We would be honoured if you could join us in recognising and encouraging the innovative work of Wikimedians from around the world. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are available to participate so that I can share the scoring sheet with you - just write me an email: vdoroninaATwikimedia.org

I must say that this is not a part of the election process, please feel free to decline.

Thank you for considering this invitation. Victoria (talk) 09:46, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey there, @Victoria!

Thank you for the invitation, I truly appreciate the opportunity! :)

I'm writing to confirm my acceptance of your invitation to serve as a judge for the Wikimania 2025 Poster session.

All the best,

ShahenWasHere (talk) ShahenWasHere (talk) 08:54, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Get started with the Lua interface to simplify the preparation of modules for translation in MetaWiki

Greetings!

The Language and Product Localization team has developed a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation in the MetaWiki platform. This means that module developers can now use the new Lua interface to load translatable strings, and the translators can translate them in the same translation interface that is used for templates and wiki pages.

This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation.

We invite you to watch our demo video and read more about translatable modules to understand how it works. Please give us your feedback on this talk page on how well the Lua interface addresses the challenges in your workflow and how useful it is in module localization tasks. You can also refer to Module:User Wikimedia project, which was recently converted to utilize these messages, for example usage.

Your feedback is important as it will help us evaluate and decide how to continue developing and improving this interface, extend it to other wikis, or change our approach.

Thank you, and we anticipate your honest feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) 06:40, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! And update on 2025 Board of Trustees selection process

Dear ShahenWasHere,

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation Board announced the final ballot of four candidates for the 2025 Board of Trustees selection process. This year, the candidate selection process included both periods of candidate review before community voting: an affiliate shortlisting process, and a process of Board review. While you are not one of the candidates on the final ballot, I want to thank you on behalf of the Board for putting yourself forward and dedicating so much of your volunteer time to the Board selection process.

As the outgoing Board Chair, I also want to encourage you to continue to explore leadership and governance positions in the movement, and to consider participating in future Board elections and other movement positions. Developing leaders for our movement, including growing future Trustees, is very important for me and for the Board, and we want to support you in future leadership opportunities. If you have any feedback on your experience as a candidate, I invite you to share it with me or with other members of the Board.

Thank you again, and I hope to see you around the wikis!

Best regards,

Nataliia Tymkiv

Chair, Wikimedia Foundation

-- NTymkiv (WMF) (talk) 18:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!

Hello ShahenWasHere,

My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) — a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.

If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.

CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).

Explore CapX's new features

→ Access: capx.toolforge.org
→ Watch the launch video:Meet the Capacity Exchange
→ Navigate CapX's User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions
→ Share your profile on Meta by adding the predefinition {{CapacityExchange}} to your userpage.
→ Visit our Meta Page for all documentation on the project

Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.

Best regards,

Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2025 (UTC)