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Welcome to Meta-Wiki, a website devoted to the coordination and documentation of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and their related affairs. Other venues for discussing the Foundation and these projects include the Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l), the Wikimedia chapters, and the various IRC channels.

Projects (complete list) • Mission • Vision • Translation (requests)

[view] [edit] Meta in many languages

In other languages: Afrikaans Alemannisch asturianu azərbaycanca Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Melayu Jawa Boarisch bosanski català čeština corsu dansk Deutsch eesti English español Esperanto français galego hrvatski isiZulu íslenska italiano la .lojban. kurdî Latina latviešu lietuvių magyar Malti Mirandés Napulitano Nederlands Nordfriisk norsk bokmål norsk nynorsk polski português português do Brasil română Runa Simi shqip sicilianu slovenčina slovenščina Soomaaliga suomi svenska Kiswahili tarandíne Tagalog Türkçe Tiếng Việt võro Zazaki Ελληνικάавар башҡортса беларуская беларуская (тарашкевіца) български нохчийн словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ қазақша кыргызча македонски русский русиньскый саха тыла српски / srpski татарча / tatarça тыва дыл удмурт українська հայերեն ქართული বাংলা हिन्दी ಕನ್ನಡ മലയാളം ਪੰਜਾਬੀ සිංහල தமிழ் తెలుగు ไทย ລາວ ភាសាខ្មែរ မြန်မာဘာသာ 한국어 조선말 日本語客家語/Hak-kâ-ngî 粵語中文（简体）中文（繁體）贛語吴语文言 עברית العربية جازايرية فارسی ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche مازِرونی کوردی
Old style: Ænglisc Afrikaans 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú Sunda brezhoneg Cymraeg euskara estremeñu føroyskt Gaeilge Ido Igbo interlingua occitan Runa Simi vèneto Yorùbá тоҷикӣ ಕನ್ನಡ ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ मराठी नेपाली తెలుగు ភាសាខ្មែរ sou ไทย tgl བོད་ཡིག မြန်မာဘာသာ 吴语文言 جهلسری بلوچی روچ کپتین بلوچی پښتو سنڌي اردو Skandinavisk (Skanwiki) Slovio (Slavopedia) +/-

Utilities

Meta:Index

Requests for...

Permissions (to request sysop, bureaucrat, oversight and checkuser status on any Wikimedia wiki)
CheckUser queries (not CheckUser access)
Deletion / Undeletion / Speedy deletion / Multilingual speedy deletions
Bot status
SQL queries
Translation
Logos
Spam blacklisting
Requests for new languages / Proposals for closing projects
more

Other tools

Sandbox
Babel templates (language skill)
Transbabel templates (translators by language combo)
Browse Meta-Wiki by category

Form and content

Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues
See Wikimedia content

[watch] [edit] [read older news] Notifications

+/−

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)

[edit] Wikimedia Foundation

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.

Community and communication

About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.

Wikimedia Forum (multi-lingual forum for Wikimedia projects)
Meta:Babel (discussion on Meta matters)
Wikimedian
Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
Requests for help to your trouble
Mailing Lists and IRC channels
Wikipedia meetup (meetings between participants)
User classes (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

Core issues and collaboration

Helping contribute and collaborate (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.

Transfer of authority
Wikimedia principles (wikiquette, consensus, NPOV, copyrights)
Growing Wikimedia (building the project and the community)
Wikimedia power structure
Interlingual coordination (various international issues)
Wikipedia policies
Conflict resolution
Privacy policy

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki and its sister projects

Content projects specialized by linguistic edition

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia

Wiktionary
Free dictionary and thesaurus

Wikinews
Free-content news

Wikivoyage
Free travel guide

Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

Wikiversity
Free learning resources

Wikisource
Free-content library

Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Multilingual content projects

Wikimedia Commons
Free media repository

Wikidata
Free knowledge base

Wikispecies
Free directory of species

Wikimedia Incubator
For language versions in development

Wikifunctions
Free code repository

Outreach and administration projects

Wikimedia Foundation
Foundation public relations

Wikimedia Outreach
Wikimedia outreach wiki

Wikimania
The International Conference

Wikimedia Mailservices
Wikimedia mailing lists

Wikistats
Wikimedia statistics

Technical and development projects

MediaWiki
MediaWiki software documentation

Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs for high volume use

Wikitech
Wikimedia technical documentation

Phabricator
Issue tracker and planning tool for software projects

Test Wikipedia
For testing software changes

Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hosting environment for community managed software projects, tools, and data analysis

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