Sharing WMF and Endowment Form 990s

The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read highlights on Diff and get answers to frequently asked questions about Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki. Eureka-WMF (talk) 16:41, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikicurious: Black Broward on Wikipedia

I got led to here when clicking a banner. Could someone fix that? Nighfidelity (talk) 17:45, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Nighfidelity: thanks for the report. Which banner? What was the URL of the source page? ↠Pine (✉) 01:28, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Appears to be an issue with Special:CentralNoticeBanners/edit/wikicuriousbroward per . Johannnes89 (talk) 13:05, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion in the Arabic Wikipedia

Hello everyone,

I have been contributing to the Arabic Wikipedia for a while. I keep facing the same administrative problems, so I am asking here for advice.

The main issues I see are:

Articles that clearly meet notability rules are deleted without discussion. The admin does not say which part of the speedy deletion policy was used. When I ask, the admin either ignores me or sends me to a "deletion request page" that stays unanswered for months.

Other admins usually defend the deleting admin personally. They do not look at the problem itself.

The Arabic Wikipedia has no working independent body to review admin actions or handle complaints.

I think these problems may also exist in other small Wikipedias. I would be grateful for any advice on how to deal with this or suggestions for a neutral mechanism to handle such behavior.

Thank you. Mutasim Elmahadi (talk) 06:55, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

• Hi @Mutasim Elmahadi: as a starting point, I suggest reaching out to one of the global sysops and asking them to comment here with their advice, preferably to one of them whose user page indicates that they can understand the Arabic language. They may have suggestions for how to proceed. While I doubt that they will have an easy solution, their cross-wiki experience may be helpful for providing advice. ↠Pine (✉) 14:35, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan

Hello! There will be two Wikimedia Café discussion opportunities during the last weekend of May. Both sessions will focus on the the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. Participants may attend either or both sessions.

1. Saturday, 30 May 2026 at 15:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe
2. Sunday, 31 May 2026 at 05:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific

Café participants are highly encouraged to read in advance at least this summary of the plan. Optionally, Café participants are encouraged to read portions of the plan that interest them and ask questions or provide feedback on the Annual Plan talk page.

Please see the Café page for more information, including tables of timestamp conversions for both sessions, the agenda, and how to register!

↠Pine (✉) 15:32, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Follow-up to my previous message

To: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) and the global Wikimedia community

Subject: Drawing on experience to help reform administrative practices

I have been an active Wikimedian for four years, contributing to 21 projects with over 30,000 global edits. My academic background is in Library and Information Science (PhD), specializing in digital content and open access.

Through my modest but sufficient experience, I have observed how recurring administrative patterns – such as arbitrary speedy deletions, the failure of local appeals, and a culture of solidarity among some admins – can discourage contributors and create barriers to free knowledge.

To clarify what is meant by "solidarity among admins" in this context: - The required positive solidarity: standing with the new or inexperienced user, explaining policies kindly, and helping them understand and correct their mistakes, based on the principle of "assume good faith". This type benefits the encyclopedia and encourages participation. - The negative, biased solidarity (which I have documented in my experience): where solidarity becomes a "defensive wall" around a fellow admin who made an incorrect decision (such as deleting a clearly notable article), solely because it came from a colleague, instead of correcting or guiding them. This type makes it harder to correct administrative errors and hinders effective review mechanisms.

My goal is not to highlight my own case, but to offer my experience and insights to help improve the administrative environment, especially for new and less experienced users. I believe that fair, transparent, and humane interactions are essential for knowledge equity.

I am ready to assist, as a volunteer, in developing practical solutions: whether through monitoring, mentoring, or simply contributing to a constructive dialogue on how to apply policies with empathy. I hope my record and qualifications speak for themselves.

I am open to any discussion on how I could best serve this goal. Mutasim Elmahadi Mutasim Elmahadi (talk) 05:12, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Vote now in the 2026 U4C election

Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the 2026 Election information page. The vote closes on 2 June 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 14 June 2026. -- In cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Is there data available for CentralNotice recruitment?

When we run a campaign that involves a CentralNotice banner, do we have data available about click-throughs? Like the number of people who sign up after clicking the banner, or number of logged-in users who click it, and so on? Seems there's sometimes a decision of whether to show a banner to all users to logged in users, and the extent to which similar banners have been effective with either group could inform future decisions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 12:18, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Rhododendrites: Professional campaigns have tracking enabled that is logged in the data lake, including displays, clicks and closes when they are logged through schemas. This can only be accessed by NDA-ed users, particularly WMF and WMDE staff.
However, CentralNotice admins who are also Wikimedia Stewards can also access Turnilo where there is limited data, see Help:CentralNotice/Metrics, but this is also NDA-ed and not everything can be shared publicly. Alongside, Pageviews can be tracked anyway and often equal "clicks".
Am I right in assuming that you are interested in data about one specific campaign? Maybe I can help with the Turnilo data. Best, —DerHexer (Talk) 18:31, 2 June 2026 (UTC) PS: Talk:CentralNotice would have been a better place to ask, just saying. :)

Community consensus for Health Challenge 2026 CentralNotice

Hi. As part of propagation of the Health Challenge 2026 I ask for the community consensus for publishing CentralNotice. The CentralNotice campaign should be vastly multilingual and oriented to logged-in users. I will mark the page for translation in next hours. If you have objections, please, state them now. Thanks for your support for global health. KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 20:03, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@KuboF Hromoslav you'll need to coordinate with communities on those wikis where you want the banner to be shown – that's probably not Metawiki. Johannnes89 (talk) 14:24, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Произвол в Украинской Википедии

Я хочу спросить на форуме языковой консультации, как правильно на их языке попросить денег, и какое настоящее слово для "вертолёта", но администратор @Andriy.v меня постоянно банит без объяснения причин (якобы вандализм, а в чём?). Мало того, он огородил свою страницу обсуждения; как только я пишу туда, срабатывает какой-то фильтр, и меня банит на 6 часов. Это какой-то беспредел. Прошу применить санкции. 1йцу (talk) 02:02, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Вот сейчас очередной бан пришёл, я уведомил на своей странице обсуждения, он удалил без объяснения. Отвратительно 1йцу (talk) 18:21, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Global userpage being denied creation for an emoji limit despite no emojis

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Jabba550 (talk) 13:48, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jabba550: There's one in Volten001's signature. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 13:53, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

is that it? thats all it takes for it to be limited? Jabba550 (talk) 14:03, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jabba550: Yes, unfortunately. This limit only applies to non-autoconfirmed users, however. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 14:06, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

thats daft, Jabba550 (talk) 14:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki

Hello community,

The Wikimedia Foundation has provided a single legal and safety contact page, to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement.

We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish Wikipedias and other wikis. We will deploy to your wiki soon.

Please read more on the project page and leave any comments in this thread or on the talk page. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 17:46, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

June 2026 Wikimedia Café meetups regarding the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project

Hello! There will be two Wikimedia Café discussion opportunities during the last weekend of June. Both sessions will focus on the English Wikipedia Editor Reflections project. The featured guest in the Café will be User:Clovermoss. Participants may attend either or both sessions.

1. 27 June 2026 15:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to the Americas, Africa, and Europe
2. 28 June 2026 03:00 UTC (timestamp converter), at a time friendly to Asia and the Pacific

Please see the Café page for more information, including how to register!

↠Pine (✉) 01:02, 15 June 2026 (UTC)