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WMF board reform
[edit]People active on this project may be interested in the 2025 WMF Board reform petition. Clovermoss (talk) 02:49, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
Ongoing low participation in image-related discussions
[edit]I'd like to discuss this matter at Wikimedia Commons or English Wikipedia. However, after re-reading the discussion made a few/several years ago, as I learned, this issue has been persistent in not only English Wikipedia but also Wikimedia Commons. Is the Wikimedia Foundation responsible for these projects? How can this participation matter be resolved or something? George Ho (talk) 06:38, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
[edit]Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you!
-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:42, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
- An employee has hidden all oppose votes. This is an unwarranted unilateral action with no prior discussion and will reduce the quality of community decision-making and deliberation as people anymore won't see why a name may not fit the project well. Please undo this change and include the Oppose votes in the Voting section or unhide the Discussion section where these now all have been placed into. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:18, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
Global bot approval request for SchlurcherBot
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What copyright legislation applies to Crimea? I need an official conclusion of Wikimedia's lawyer
[edit]@Josve05a said that the Russian copyright legislation applies to Crimea: For copyright and Freedom of Panorama questions, Commons applies the law that is enforced de facto in the relevant territory.
Now I want the official confirmation that the Wikimedia Foundation really disrespects Ukrainian law in favor of occupational "law".
Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 13:30, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Daniel Broomfield Ua: I think it's safe to say that WMF's legal team don't monitor this page. See Legal for how to contact them. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 15:43, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, I have contacted @Slaporte (WMF). Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:49, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Note that while this discussion takes place on a different wiki, continuing the same dispute that led to a topic ban on Commons may still be viewed as disruptive. The Wikimedia Foundation does not determine or confirm how individual projects apply copyright law; those are community decisions made by volunteers. The Foundation only intervenes when legally required to do so, not in response to on-wiki disputes or interpretations. Josve05a (talk) 16:42, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- I don't discuss it on Wikimedia Commons. This is Wikimedia Forum. And I am not asking about "community decision". I am asking about the official conclusion of Wikimedia's lawyer. Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:12, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- BTW, Ukrainian Wikipedia said that your, @Josve05a, "community decision" violates the Ukrainian law and all the files uploaded according to the Russian law have to be removed from Wikipedia Commons: stricter legislation applies, i.e. Ukrainian. Accordingly, all architectural structures that were left on Wikimedia Commons, citing Russian laws, must be removed (діє більш строге законодавство, тобто українське. Відповідно всі архітектруні споруди, які були залишені на Вікісховищі, посилаючись на російські закони, мають бути вилучені) Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:17, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Josve05a, Everybody sees that you support Russian policy because you think that Russians are "also right," while a neutral point of view is the UN point of view. There are no "education values" of maps with "Russian" Crimea, as you claim. But you blocked the discussion about changing the Wikimedia Commons policies when you saw that people started to support me. You directly lied, saying, "No actionable proposal to change Commons policy has emerged from this thread, and there is clear consensus among participants to maintain existing practice."[1] Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- It would be good to have a professional paper on this topic created on behalf of the WMF. The way you are acting here is not how to archive this. GPSLeo (talk) 17:35, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- You had 11 years to act "properly". But why then have you not had this paper yet? My actions are neutral according to the consensus of the world community and the facts. Obviously @Josve05a is not neutral. I think he has a point of view. Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:43, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure if you've seen my user page on Commons, but I support Ukraine fully. That’s not the issue here. The question is simply which copyright framework Wikimedia projects operate under. Trying to turn this into a political loyalty test doesn’t help anyone and won’t change how Commons applies its licensing policies. Josve05a (talk) 18:33, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Is Ukrainian copyright legislation for works created on the territory of the Crimean peninsula recognized in the world, and accordingly in Wikipedia? Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 19:09, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure if you've seen my user page on Commons, but I support Ukraine fully. That’s not the issue here. The question is simply which copyright framework Wikimedia projects operate under. Trying to turn this into a political loyalty test doesn’t help anyone and won’t change how Commons applies its licensing policies. Josve05a (talk) 18:33, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- You had 11 years to act "properly". But why then have you not had this paper yet? My actions are neutral according to the consensus of the world community and the facts. Obviously @Josve05a is not neutral. I think he has a point of view. Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 17:43, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- It would be good to have a professional paper on this topic created on behalf of the WMF. The way you are acting here is not how to archive this. GPSLeo (talk) 17:35, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
- Here is the conclusion of Ukrainian lawyer Igor Rozkladaj: "Crimea is a part of Ukraine occupied by Russian federation. There are no international document, which states that Crimea is a part of Russia. Thus, russian legislation is not applicable for Crimea." Daniel Broomfield Ua (talk) 19:29, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
[edit]Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst
wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
- MKaur (WMF) 14:12, 30 October 2025 (UTC)
Help locating June 2023 English Wikipedia pages-articles dump ('enwiki-20230601-pages-articles.xml.bz2')
[edit]Hello, I am seeking help locating or accessing the June 2023 English Wikipedia pages-articles dump ('enwiki-20230601-pages-articles.xml.bz2'). The official dumps.wikimedia.org site does not appear to have the directory for this specific dump, and I have not found alternative mirrors hosting this file. Could anyone provide guidance, a direct link to the file, or advice on how to obtain historical Wikipedia dumps for research purposes? Thank you! ~2025-31863-54 (talk) 11:27, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- The best place to ask about data dumps is this mailing list. — xaosflux Talk 13:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)