Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki

Welcome to Meta-Wiki, the global community site for the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, and coordination and documentation of related projects. For further discussion of the cross-project policies and events, see the Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l) and IRC channels (particularly #wikimedia), and individual sites of local Wikimedia chapters.

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Requests for...

See Steward requests.

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

Utilities

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

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

November 2010

5-7: „Where? Whither? How?” – conference in Jabłonna (near Warsaw), Poland.

August 2010

28-29: Second annual Wiki-Conference New York at NYU

July 2010

29: An installation of IdeaTorrent was set up for testing.

22: Demo of Upload wizard extension is available on Commons prototype site

9-11: Sixth annual Wikimania Conference in Gdańsk, Poland.

1-7: WikiExpedition 2010 in Poland (before Wikimania)

June 2010

14: 2010 Wiki Academy Israel in Tel Aviv, at the Tel Aviv University

4: Backstage pass at the British Museum, London

May 2010

20: Wikimania 2010 call for participation closes on May 20.

15: 2010 Wikimedia Philippines Annual Convention in Manila, the Philippines

7: A Petition to Jimbo has started.

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 for your troubles
Mailing lists and IRC
Meetups (meetings between participants)
User groups (various types of groups, e.g., sysop, bureaucrat, etc.)

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.

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

[edit] Wikimedia Foundation, Meta-Wiki, and its sister projects

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching 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.

Content projects