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<big><i>[[Bezoekers via artikel de Standaard|Welkom lezer van de Standaard. Als u hier klik dan zal U wat aanwijzingen vinden speciaal voor u.]]</i></big>
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'''Welcome to [[<tvar name="m-about">Special:MyLanguage/Meta:About</tvar>|Meta-Wiki]]''', the global community site for the [[<tvar name="wmf">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation</tvar>|Wikimedia Foundation's]] [[<tvar name="wm-projects">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects</tvar>|projects]] and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.


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Other meta-focused wikis such as [[<tvar name=outreach-wiki>outreach:</tvar>|Wikimedia Outreach]] are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia [[<tvar name="maillists">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists/Overview</tvar>|mailing lists]] (particularly '''[[<tvar name="wikimedia-l">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia mailing list</tvar>|wikimedia-l]]''', with its low-traffic equivalent [[<tvar name="WikimediaAnnounce">Special:MyLanguage/Mailing lists#Wikimedia Announcements mailing list</tvar>|WikimediaAnnounce]]), [[<tvar name="irc">Special:MyLanguage/IRC</tvar>|IRC channels]] on Libera, individual wikis of [[<tvar name="affiliates">Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia movement affiliates</tvar>|Wikimedia affiliates]], and other places.
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<table><tr><td>'''Welcome''' to [[Meta:About|Meta-Wiki]], the support website for [[Wikimedia|Wikimedia Foundation's]] projects which include the free online [[Wikipedia]] Encyclopedia and the [[MediaWiki]] software that powers it. You can use the [http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l foundation-l mailing list] for discussions regarding the Foundation or issues or concerns which affect more than one of its projects. See http://mail.wikimedia.org for a complete index of mailing lists. There are also several [[IRC channels]].</td><td width="20%" align="right">
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<li>[[Special:MyLanguage/Meta:Babylon|<translate><!--T:5--> Translation</translate>]]<br> ([[Translation requests|<translate><!--T:6--> requests</translate>]])</li>
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<h3>Meta in many languages ([[Multilingualism]])</h3>
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==Meta utilities==
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* [[Locales for the Wikimedia projects|Locales for the MediaWiki Software]] (language files)
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* [[Requests for logos|Logos]]
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* [[Changing username]]
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===Other tools===
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* [[Meta:Sandbox|Sandbox]]
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* [[Meta:Babel templates]](language skill)
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* [[Meta:Categories|Browse Meta-Wiki by category]]
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===Form & Content===
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Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues<br/>
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* [[Maps]]
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* [[Statistics]]
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==Last minute!==
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{{Fil de l'information}}
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==Code & technical issues==
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Coordination of the development process, maintenance of servers, and user guide for MediaWiki.<br />
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{{MediaWiki links}}
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==Community & Communication==
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About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.
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* [[Meta:Babel]] (central discussion place here)
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* [[Wikimedia Embassy]] (local contacts)
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* [[Wikipedia meetup]] (meetings between participants)
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* [[Status]] (various types of status, sysop, developer...)
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==Core issues & collaboration==

Helping contributing and collaborating (i.e., what makes it easy, what makes it hard, how to do it well, why you have to, what conflicts typically arise, fixing them). Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.

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* [[Wikimedia principles]] (wikiquette, consensus, NPOV, copyrights)
* [[Growing Wikimedia]] (building the project and the [[community]])
* [[Power structure|Wikimedia power structure]]
* [[Interlingual coordination]] (various international issues)
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{{Wikimedia Foundation}}

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<div align="center">'''[[Complete list of Wikimedia projects]]''' - '''[[Wikimedia projects|Overview of Wikimedia projects]]''' - '''[[Proposals for new projects]]'''</div>
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<div align="center">'''[[Complete list of Wikimedia projects]]''' - '''[[Wikimedia projects|Overview of Wikimedia projects]]''' - '''[[Proposals for new projects]]'''</div>
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Latest revision as of 15:28, 27 December 2023

Meta-Wiki

Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and related projects, from coordination and documentation to planning and analysis.

Other meta-focused wikis such as Wikimedia Outreach are specialized projects that have their roots in Meta-Wiki. Related discussions also take place on Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly wikimedia-l, with its low-traffic equivalent WikimediaAnnounce), IRC channels on Libera, individual wikis of Wikimedia affiliates, and other places.

Current events

May 2024

May 30: Community Affairs Committee: Live call #2 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 16:00 UTC
May 23: Community Affairs Committee: Live call #1 on the Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle at 02:00 UTC
May 13–June 23: Community Affairs Committee: Call for feedback on the proposed Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
May 10–May 12: ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
May 8–May 29: 2024 Board election: Call for candidates
May 8–June 12: 2024 Board election: Call for questions for candidates
May 8–June 3: Call for new members of the Conference Fund Committee
May 3–May 5: Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 in Tallinn, Estonia
May 2–May 5: WikiNusantara in Bogor, Indonesia
May 2–May 4: Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up in Santiago, Chile
April 25–May 9: UCoC Coordinating Committee election: Voting period (information for voters / list of all candidates)

April 2024

April 30: Community Resilience and Sustainability conversation hour with Maggie Dennis at 18:00 UTC
April 19–April 21: Wikimedia Summit 2024 in Berlin, Germany
April 2–April 30: Movement Charter: Wikimedia communities review of the Movement Charter full draft (talk page discussions / regional conversations)


Community and communication
Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects
The Wikimedia Foundation is the overarching non-profit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki. Meta-Wiki is the coordination wiki for the various Wikimedia wikis.