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GFDL

Hi! Wiki no longer use or encourage the use of the GFDL so I have made a suggestion at MediaWiki talk:Licenses to remove GFDL. I know it is not used very often but I think it would send a nice signal to remove it. I have been trying to "kill" GFDL across all wikis for many months now and as a part of that I have suggested that the few existing (files could be moved to Commons per this proposal. MGA73 (talk) 13:48, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Done. Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a million! --MGA73 (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Chinese translations for sidebar interfaces

Please help create or update the following interfaces translation for the sidebar:

• MediaWiki:Officialwebsite-text/zh: 官方網站
• MediaWiki:Wikimedia-otherprojects-enterprise/zh: 維基媒體企業服務
• MediaWiki:Documentation-text/zh: 文件
• MediaWiki:Annualreport/zh: 年度報告
• MediaWiki:Security-text/zh: 安全
• MediaWiki:Transparencyreport-text/zh: 透明度報告
• MediaWiki:wikimedia-otherprojects-enterprise/zh: 維基媒體企業服務
• MediaWiki:wikimedia-babellink-label/zh: 巴別

Thanks in advance. Ericliu1912 (talk) 02:52, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

And if possible, please consider giving me translation administrator permission as well, to streamline the process for other Mandarin translations. Ericliu1912 (talk) 02:53, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

You can find the criteria for translation administrators at Wikimedia:Accounts policy#Translation administrator rights. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:43, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

We need thesaurus for Wikimedia jargons

I feel the need to link jargons inline for Transparency, while fully aware that is bad-manner or is crossing the line as a translator. Could we either:

• wikify and link jargons inline to the first place it appears within basic instructions;
• and ideally, make a single thesaurus pages, or
• even guide readers to Legal / accounting page or anywhere appropriate.

One example will be as follows, which involves monetary handling of expenses, that could influence Grants / Funds.

• Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Service Provider Travel Guidance see translation segment T:27.
  • Service Provider;
  • Master Services Agreement;
  • Scope of Work.

This flag is for the benefit of internationalization/translators in fact, and maybe rooted excessively in the daily life of a wiki editor (: -- Omotecho (talk) 03:17, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Just noting that I'm following the related thread at mw:Help talk:Extension:Translate#Where is our official thesaurus?, and that there's also a related older task at T150263 ("Create a searchable and shared glossary"). It's a big and complicated question, partially because we've already got so many scattered and incomplete glossaries! I will continue nudging other staff (and volunteers!) to think about this, too. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:17, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much keeping your eye on the translators' needs, @Quiddity (WMF):

Recent efforts to solve confusion among Japanese speaking en-ja-en translators includes what we apply for the term "Temporary Account": as the topic exists since 2023, or two/three years now, the inconsistency of a single WMF term should be clearerd ASAP as you see ppl coming or those getting inactive in shorter time span.

Kindly find how tedious the mending task would be on multiple wikis:

• mediawiki

pages applying the term temporary account at:

• meta.wiki, or;
• another work loop on metawiki.

I have to admit that this kind of Housekeeping affects both my being a contracted service provider to WMF as well as a lay editor at wikis, or not many editors are eager to clean up messes that somebody else/accumulated over the years. Omotecho (talk) 18:00, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Dark mode compatibility

Hello, could any admins please follow up on these dark mode error reports: Privacy policy & Term of Use, Visual identity guidelines? Thanks. SCP-2000 (talk) 16:17, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks again (per Meta-wiki). The first 2 are done now.

I've asked the Brand team how they want to handle the remaining images that have problems. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:15, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Clarification requested at Legal:Visual identity guidelines

Help from someone who can assist with my edit request for clarification on Wikimedia Foundation icon used for less than the minimum sizes on Legal talk:Visual identity guidelines Waddie96 (talk) 22:54, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Waddie96. I passed along your question to the Brand team, just after you posted it on Friday last week. They should see it during this week's work.

I suggest: It might also be helpful if you could add (in the original thread) some details about the use-case(s) you have in mind. (Especially if you're trying to use the guidelines for something specific, as well as suggesting a clarification just for the sake of more accurate/detailed documentation). I.e. That might help to avoid an extra-step of them having to ask you for more context, and wait for a reply. (Examples and context almost always help!). Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much. Thanks for the suggestion, will do. Waddie96 (talk) 01:09, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Wrong Wikipedia link under Chinese variants (and probably other languages) on Template:Foundation description

{{Foundation description}}, which is used on the home page, is showing a wrong Wikipedia link on my browser under Chinese (Hong Kong) locale. It links me to :w:zh-hant:, which doesn't exist and should be :w:zh: instead. Other users using a language with variants may face the same problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

A switch may help, but would not be able to cover all cases; I wonder if we can or should somehow query the site matrix for fixing language links. 1F616EMO (talk) 01:56, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks again for the bug-report.

I believe you're right that a #switch would help, but I can't quickly find an easy copy&paste example to use...

I've tried testing it with this (adapted from m:Terms of use) after setting my own preferences to use zh-hant, but it doesn't work as I'd hoped/expected it to...

{{#switch:{{PAGELANGUAGE}} |zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw = [[:w:zh:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] |#default = [[:w:{{int:lang}}:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] }}

I've asked the devs about the best way to set this up, so that it works for all variant languages.

And if there's nothing that works for all languages, then I could just set it to use www.wikipedia.org instead. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

I don't think checking against {{PAGELANGUAGE}} is the correct choice. On Home, it is always en, and on Home/zh, it is always zh. I think it would be correct to check against {{int:lang}}, where it emits variants such as zh-hant based on user preferences. That is, the code should be:

[[:w:{{#switch:{{int:lang}}|en=|zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw=zh:|#default={{int:lang}}:}}|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]]}}

And it renders as:

Wikipedia

Which fixes my problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done Aha! Thank you. Now updated.

I'll try to find the additional variant-languages that need to be added, later. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:55, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, some Wikipedias are on the Incubator and some do not exist at all. We may have to deal with that and guide them to the Incubator or the English Wikipedia. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:49, 27 August 2025 (UTC)