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Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings SWMT member,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 10 July, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 03:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, EggRoll97. Check your email—you've got mail! You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

Sent you an email containing various explanations I'd rather not discuss here. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 05:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Refering to me

You can use he/him form, when you are talking about me or when you are refering to me, instead of they/their ;-). XaxeLoled ⸤ AmA ⸣ 14:19, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

I will make every effort to do so, thank you. EggRoll97 (talk) 22:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations, dear administrator!

Congratulations, EggRoll97! You now have administrator rights on Meta-Wiki. Please take a moment to read the adminstrators' policy again and to add to your watchlist several related pages (in particular: Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat and Meta:Requests for deletion) before launching yourself into administrator duties. Please keep an eye on the index of policies and guidelines and the local discussion forum too. Please note that while most actions done with administrator tools can be reversed by other administrators, some such as history merges or imports are not, or can only be undone in full or in part after a great amount of work, therefore you shall be extra careful when performing these type of actions. If you use IRC feel free to join the #wikimedia-metaconnect channel. You may also find our administrators' handbook useful for your day to day. Please check or add your entry to the list of administrators as well. Administrators are also allowed to subscribe to the metawiki-admins private mailing list. Subscription instructions can be found in the mailing list main page. Feel free to ask me any other administrator if you ever have any doubts or questions about the tools. Sincerely, M/ (talk) 05:52, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance

Dear @EggRoll97,

I sincerely appreciate your assistance in lifting the block on my account and taking the time to update my userpage. Your support means a great deal, and I’m grateful for your thoughtful attention to the matter. AmirHosein (talk) 07:26, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for deleting my user page

I would like to say I am very thankful for you deleting my Meta-Wiki user page. PepperMarioYT (talk) 20:03, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

File deletion per notification on Jimbo's talk page

Regarding this delete, the name of the file is Wikimedia Endowment 2023-24 Plan.... Are you sure that file needs a license and if so that Wikimedia wouldn't provide one? ~2025-32356-27 (talk) 02:10, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Technically yes, it does still need to have a valid license, and while WMF might provide one, it's still required to be noted on the file page by the uploader what license they're uploading it under. I might suggest you contact someone at WMF to see about a license. EggRoll97 (talk) 03:17, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello EggRoll97,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

Strengthen your collaboration through CapX

We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

Sign up to CapX

Your change on MediaWiki:Ipboptions

You removed infinite from the page, but was your change even necessary? Basically, the block options for local abuse filters (that were previously set to block indefinitely) would no longer block indefinitely and were reset to 2 hours. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 00:31, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Restored for now (and it appears the abuse filters have gone right back to normal). I'll see if there's a better way to make the form not load "indefinite" since it's redundant to the radio option for indefinite. EggRoll97 (talk) 02:15, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

A solution would be to keep infinite at the very end of the Ipboptions, for now. Codename Noreste (talk • contribs) 02:26, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election

Section 1.4 of the U4C Charter

We have realized that Section 1.4 of the U4C Charter is not explicitly mentioned in the requirements for candidates. We therefore kindly ask all candidates to read and sign the statement provided on this page. Thank you.
On behalf of the U4C Electcom, Civvì (talk) 13:11, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Done Thanks. EggRoll97 (talk) 17:21, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Please sign these documents

Dear U4C Candidate,
To streamline the onboarding process and ensure all formalities are completed promptly once the results are announced, we kindly ask you to sign the following two documents required of all committee members:

• (L37) General Confidentiality Agreement – Nonpublic Information
• (L45) VRTS Users Confidentiality Agreement – Nonpublic Information

To sign these documents, please log in to Phabricator using your Wikimedia account, then visit the following pages: (L37) and (L45). Review the documents and sign them. (Note: All documents are available in multiple languages.)

If you have already signed these agreements, no further action is needed.

We kindly request that the documents be signed by June 14, 2026, the expected date for the announcement of results.

On behalf of U4C Election Committee, Civvì (talk) 12:59, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Done a few years ago at Special:Diff/20180422. EggRoll97 (talk) 21:17, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
• Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
• Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
• Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
• Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
• Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
• Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
• Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

• Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
• Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
• What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
• New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
• Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
• Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
• Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Sharing the 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 the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
• Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

Subscribe or unsubscribe · Help translate

For information about the Bulletin and to read previous editions, see the project page on Meta-Wiki. If you have feedback or suggestions about the bulletin, let us know at foundationbulletinwikimedia.org. For questions about the Wikimedia Foundation's work, contact us!

MediaWiki message delivery 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello

Hello @EggRoll97 I'm Dafootballguy it's nice to meet you. How do I help out on this Wiki? I am very active on English Wikipedia but I don't know how this Wiki works. Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 01:46, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dafootballguy: Hello! Welcome to Meta-Wiki, first off. If you're looking for things to do, there's always translation of existing pages, which you can find more information about at Meta:Babylon. If you're not necessarily looking to translate things, there's plenty of behind-the-scenes maintenance to be done in Category:Meta-Wiki maintenance. We also welcome the usual anti-vandalism patrolling at Special:RecentChanges just like in any other wiki, though we don't have nearly as frequent vandalism as the English Wikipedia. EggRoll97 (talk) 02:06, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@EggRoll97 thank you for the advice. If you want to see a little of what I do, my English Wikipedia userpage is informative. Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 02:47, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, what are the requirements to be an admin on Meta-Wiki? I noticed you have only around 800 edits (as opposed to the around 10k for English Wikipedia). Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 01:02, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dafootballguy: Adminship on Meta is far less about your overall edit count, and far more about what you can bring to the team, and your overall level of trust in the global community. I would not take my edit count as a measure of acceptable editcount for adminship. At the time, I had around 10,000-11,000 global edits, and held edit filter manager and transwiki importer permissions on enwiki, which are fairly high-trust in nature already, in addition to Abuse filter maintainer permissions globally. Generally, those without significant trust built up globally should expect to at least need to make a decent case for adminship, and should have a fair amount of experience in their intended use-case on Meta before requesting. I notice on your English Wikipedia userpage that you're involved in anti-vandalism on enwiki. If you pursue that on Meta, those with an established history of good reverts for vandalism can acquire Patroller rights (essentially the equivalent of rollbacker, sort of, on Meta) fairly easily. Those who have a lengthy history of good use of the patroller tool can usually make a fairly good case for adminship as well.

We also have limited adminship, which allows you to have admin rights for a specific purpose, and this generally is also good for those who have a limited scope in mind for their adminship usage. I would say in your case (which I presume is likely why you're asking) you would need at least a thousand or so edits in the area that you are interested in pursuing adminship for, but again, the numerical values aren't necessarily as important here as they might be on enwiki. EggRoll97 (talk) 01:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Would you mind mentoring me on Meta-Wiki? I would like to help with the counter-vandalism, how do I do that? Is there an AfC type idea on Meta-Wiki? Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 01:29, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dafootballguy: There generally is not an AfC for Meta, as it does not hold any encyclopedic content. The main namespace generally holds things of interest to the global community, like the annual plan. Think of Meta as sort of a coordination venue for the rest of the wikis. As for counter-vandalism, same way as enwiki, really. Just patrol through Special:RecentChanges. The volume is nowhere near the same, but do feel free to just jump on any blatant vandalism and undo it. Reports of vandalism can go in at Meta:RFH, and we don't necessarily require 4 warnings before a block like enwiki does, though if you happen to give them a warning before reporting them for vandalizing further after that, it's much appreciated. EggRoll97 (talk) 01:38, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@EggRoll97 what constitutes vandalism? If I want to eventually become an admin, what steps should I follow? Thank you for your time. Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 23:50, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dafootballguy: See Meta:Vandalism. And you shouldn't necessarily be aiming to be an admin. You should only run for adminship if you actually have a need for the tools, which you may find you don't even have. EggRoll97 (talk) 05:59, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I'm going to stop by on your Wikipedia user talk later. Happy editing. Dafootballguy My recent work Want to talk? 02:02, 15 June 2026 (UTC)