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Board of Trustees election

The Q&A phase is underway, closing on June 12. Here's the candidate list. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:11, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WMF Transparency Report Accounting

During our discussion on Katherine Maher, the comms team shared resources on cases where WMF intervenes on content and policy decisions and I had some follow up questions. For example it's showing 89 requests on English Wikipedia, 33 by USA in H1 2021 . How do we see which content was affected? cc @LDickinson (WMF) Tonymetz 💬 22:07, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No content was affected. All of the requests were denied. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:16, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't believe that's true, because @WMFOffice has contributions that are a subset of the above report, so there are some changes that are recorded and some that are not yet accounted for. Tonymetz 💬 23:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What are you talking about? Most of WMFOffice's edits are marking users as globally banned (a process that has nothing to do with anything in the transparency report). None of it's extremely few other edits have anything to do with third-party requests for removal or alteration of content. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:36, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
can you share more context on that? The transparency report doesn't seem to show that Tonymetz 💬 23:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Scroll up to the very top of your link:
Content alteration and takedown
0 Requests granted
276 Total requests
* Pppery * it has begun... 23:36, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
thanks i use a screen reader and the section i was using seemed to show alterations vs deletions. I'll see about the section you were talking about. Tonymetz 💬 20:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin: an experiment

Hi all. We invite your feedback on a proposed way to improve communication from and about the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is an experiment to establish a more standardised format and cadence. It would include headlines and links from the Wikimedia Foundation's technical work; Foundation activities with communities and affiliates; as well as with other stakeholders like readers, donors, regulators, the media, and the general public.

A short overview of the concept itself is on Meta at m:Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin, with the first “trial” issue at m:Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin/2024/06-01 - also copied below. You can subscribe to the bulletin via talk page delivery on any Wikimedia wiki. Depending on the feedback received, we might start this as a regular Bulletin for the coming fiscal year (which starts July 1).

This is an experiment: we want to know what you think, what is missing, what is too much, and whether this is something that we should consider investing more time and effort into. Please post your feedback on the Bulletin talk page - on the concept itself, and suggestions on anything from the design to specific words used would also be helpful. You can also provide feedback in this thread; by email to askcac@wikimedia.org; or at the next Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees on 27 June at 18:00 UTC.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee, MPeel-WMF (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bulletin June 2024

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of June 2024. Please help Translate.
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MPeel-WMF (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

what is status of movement charter drafting commission (mcdc)?

what is the current status of the movement charter drafting commission (mcdc)? can someone please post an update here, on the status of this process? I'm somewhat surprised that an update has not been posted here, for the current stage of the process. Sm8900 (talk) 19:37, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In § Bulletin June 2024, see the item starting with "Final draft of the Movement Charter published on June 10." isaacl (talk) 00:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Researcher right

A permission that hasn't been granted in awhile (and has historically been assigned by the WMF) is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Temperature check: Applying for the Researcher right. I figured this probably has wider interest than just the RfA crowd and that it may be worth posting about it here, as it gives people the ability to see deleted material. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WMF has our back

There's been some news coverage and controversy over the recent RfC on the reliability of the Anti-Defamation League. Regardless of how any editor feels about that consensus, it's always nice that the WMF consistently sticks up for editors and for our editorial process - see their statement here. Their press releases on controversies like this are always accurate, informative to those who are unclear about the WMF:Wikipedia relationship, and unhesitant in their defense of what we do. Never any mealymouthing or backtracking. So as an editor, I wanted to say that I appreciate it, WMF! —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:21, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that's a great statement and applaud the WMF for it. What I do find interesting is they talk about "Wikipedia", not "English language wikipedia". We're always being told (correctly) that enwiki is just one project out of many. It seems odd that this statement blurs the distinction. RoySmith (talk) 15:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
+1 –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:44, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Saw the coverage in the Washington Post, and thought it was a clear and accurate account of how decisions are made on Wikipedia. I'm happy that the Foundation issued their statement, and that WaPo presented it so clearly. Donald Albury 18:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For those without subscriptions (you'll still need to give them an email address): Wikipedia defends editors deeming Anti-Defamation League ‘unreliable’ on Gaza RoySmith (talk) 18:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What I also liked with the WaPo article was the "ADL is on the WP:RSP-page, like these sources:..." comparison, I've seen other coverage on this making comparisons to Newsmax, Russian state media, amazon.com user reviews etc. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
However, "Wikipedia’s volunteers also added the ADL to a public list of sources to be avoided on certain topics" isn't quite right, but I don't know if any source who mentioned it noticed that ADL was there already:[1] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Appreciate the nuance regarding reliability for certain topics too, although I was previously surprised to see a number of external publications had briefly mentioned this (obviously not the ones the WMF is correcting), and hopefully it helps all external sources that the WMF included a slightly longer explanation of the distinction. CMD (talk) 01:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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