Wikireporter:WikimediaNotifier/notifications

Wikimedia notification system

This is a first global notification system, for all Wikimedia wikis!

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If it should be necessary to inform many wikis about something important, a global notification can be requested at meta:Global notifications/requests from now on. It is possible to have wiki/language dependent text within every message. All Meta notifications are synchronized automatically, either on all wikis or just on specific, selected ones.

Now it is possible to reach all wiki communities easily and entirely, not just those active users that regularly visit our Meta wiki or read the Wikizine for example.

To have a common access point, the messages are updated at User:WikimediaNotifier/notifications; you can include this page as a template wherever you want! Consider creating a dedicated page for this, like e.g. Wikinews:Global announcements, where you could provide a description in your language, or just include it into your village pump page.

• At User:WikimediaNotifier/template you can change the appearance of the message boxes!
  • With config.js you can regulate what additional messages for other wikis are to be included, see the how-to for that.
  • Note: You should not give User:WikimediaNotifier a bot flag, as the community wouldn't notice updates anymore then!
  • With SynchCrosswiki now there furthermore is an easy way to create or synchronize pages like user scripts on all wikis!

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… it's for spreading information; and for a better cross-wiki communication & collaboration!

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… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Fundraising 2008

Wikimedia is preparing for the 2008 Fundraiser. It is intended to take place from early November until about January 10th, 2009.

Help translate for the 2008 Fundraiser!

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… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

External Wikipedia Survey

There is a Wikipedia survey, developed by UNU-MERIT (United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Center) together with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia. It already has been translated into different languages by Wikimedia volunteers.

The Collaborative Creativity Group investigates the socio-economics of collaboration across all domains such as free content and innovation in collaborative communities. UNU-Merit's research interests are purely scientific in nature.

The survey will allow the Wikimedia community to understand who our readers and contributors are, why they come to Wikipedia, what they think about it, and how they use it. The survey will help WMF to find the best ways to engage new and existing contributors.

Just take part in the survey: survey.wikipediastudy.org/intro.php?lang=pl

See Wikipedia:Survey 2008 for more information.

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… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Global bots

On Meta, a bot account now can get a bot flag for all wikis that allow global bots!
To be able to run also on your Wikinews, the community has to explicitly permit global bots by local policy, see list.

To qualify for global bot access, the following requirements must be met by a bot:

1. it must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects
2. it must already be active on several wikis, with long-term contributions to back up its trustworthiness

[local translation]

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!

Earlier goings-on

Most earlier global goings-on are listed at meta:Goings-on.

[local translation]

… do not reply to this automatically delivered notification here; answer/discuss together on Meta, centrally!