Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2024/May


On the Campaign Trail ...

Would there be any interest if I resumed the On the Campaign Trail series as I've done since the 2008 US presidential election? Pizero usually reviewed those and they were quite daunting to review. So what I'm asking is, without Pizero around, is there anyone here who would be willing to take on such a project? Thanks. William S. Saturn (talk) 07:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

William S. Saturn: That would be excellent. I can't promise the level of quality in a review that he could, but I'd be happy to take this on. Thanks for your great work over the years. Heavy Water (talk) 19:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-19

MediaWiki message delivery 16:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-20

MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC

Hello all,

The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page.

This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.

Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and add agenda items to the document here.

We look forward to your participation!


MediaWiki message delivery 21:22, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-21

MediaWiki message delivery 23:04, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle

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Dear community members,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees invites you to give feedback on a draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the Language Committee or closing projects policy.

You can find the details on this page, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on June 23, 2024, anywhere on Earth.

You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.

On behalf of the CAC,

RamzyM (WMF) 02:25, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly recommend the Wikinews community pay attention to this. When people talk about closing projects, the only two that ever seem to come up are Wikinews and Wikispecies. Bawolff 13:23, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-22

MediaWiki message delivery 00:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Reviewer!

We have ourselves a new Reviewer around these parts!! User:Asheiou Give them a hearty congratulations, please!Bddpaux (talk) 17:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Has it been that long?!

This is English Wikinews' 20-year Anniversary! Holy cow!!--Bddpaux (talk) 19:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice!!! BigKrow (talk) 20:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]