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Reminder: Office hours about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use

Hello everyone,

This a reminder that the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is hosting office hours with community members about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The office hours will be held on March 2, at 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC. See for more details here on Meta.

Another office hours will be held on April 4.

We hereby kindly invite you to participate in the discussion. Please note that this meeting will be held in English language and led by the members of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, who will take and answer your questions. Facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance Team will provide the necessary assistance and other meeting-related services.

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

JPBeland-WMF (talk) 16:10, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

userify article please

In 2020 I wrote an article for wikinews titled Privacy: Google reports more government data requests. The file was in my userspace at User:Ottawahitech/Privacy: Google reports more government data requests until it was deleted by admin User:Acagastya.

Since this topic is back in the news I would like to request this article be re-instated to my user page. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 01:49, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Done But please use the content in a new article soon. We really don't want to be hosting too much un-reviewed content. Cheers, SVTCobra 02:46, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Board of Trustees have ratified the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

Hello all, an important update on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines:

The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement Guidelines. You can view the vote statistics on Meta-wiki.

As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines. The resolution can be found on Foundation wiki and you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines review on Diff.

There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team, JPBeland-WMF (talk) 21:12, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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