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Requests for...

• Permissions (to request sysop, bureaucrat and checkuser status)
• Request bot status
• SQL queries
• Request for CheckUser information (not status)
• Deletion / Undeletion / Multilingual speedy deletions
• Translation
• LangXX.php update
• Locales for the MediaWiki Software (language files)
• Logos
• Proposed projects and ideas

Other tools

• Sandbox
• Meta:Babel templates (language skill)
• Browse Meta-Wiki by category

Form & Content

Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues
See Wikimedia content

• Image
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• Copyright
• Statistics

Last minute!

Intemporal: this column is intended for news about generalities, and in particular activities on Meta. Please, keep milestones out of this area and put them on Wikimedia News. Thanks.

March 2006

	30 :	A proposal to close the September 11 Wiki has been made.
	24 :	MetaProject to Overhaul Meta initiated.
	24 :	Fourteen new Wikipedias have been created.
	18 :	New proposal: Wikikernel, a new project incubator for new Wikimedia project proposals.
	14 :	New proposal: One encyclopedia per child.
	7 :	New proposal page posted for Wikiepic.

February 2006

	26 :	have a look at Google Grants.
	-	A first draft sorts out which features a future Multilingual MediaWiki should have.
	22 :	A new project proposal for a genealogy wiki currently at Rodovid.org
	11 :	at 21.00 UTC, a follow-up meeting will continue the discussions begun on February 5
	5 :	An Open meeting is to be undergoing Sunday February 5, 21.00 UTC If you are free to attend.
	3 :	Wikimedia Canada is well on its way to becoming a local chapter.
	1 :	A new Wikisource logo discussion and vote has started.

January 2006

	20 :	Spam Filter Project startup. Addresses deficiences in existing SpamBlacklist extension and $wgSpamRegex
	20 :	Arabic Wikipedia doing an IRC meet on Friday Jan 20, 14:00 EST / 19:00 UTC. irc.freenode.net, #wikipeda and #ar.wikipedia
	13 :	French language Wikipedia has begun using a new namespace for references cited within articles (see fr:Aide:Espace référence).
	10 :	End of the 2006 Stewards elections.
	5 :	German DVD/Book release - December 2005 was published on the Foundation website. Please help translate it on meta if you feel it is worth being understandable by editors of your language.
	1 :	A new system message : MediaWiki:Istemplate appears in the "what links here" lists of templates [1]
	1 :	A new system message : MediaWiki:Imagelistforuser has been created (purpose ?)

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.

• Wikimedia: Overview of the Foundation (history, organisation, finances, activities)
• Board of Trustees
• Wikimedia Foundation bylaws
• Wikimedia mission statement (our future charter)
• Wikimedia Quarto (a quarterly publication of the Foundation)

• Wikimedia Foundation organigram
• Budget
• How to make a donation
• What we use the money for (a first rated question...)
• Wikipedia releases (paper and CD version)
• Promotion (press releases, alexa ranks, tee-shirts, etc.)
• Legal

• Wikimedia Deutschland (German local chapter)
• Wikimedia France (French local chapter)
• Wikimedia Italia (Italian local chapter)
• Wikimedia Polska (Polish local chapter)
• Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro (Serbia and Montenegro local chapter)

Code & technical issues

Coordination of the development process, maintenance of servers, and user guide for MediaWiki.

Community & Communication

About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.

• The Wikipedia Community
• Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
• Meta:Babel (central discussion place here)
• Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts)
• Requests for help to your trouble
• Mailing Lists & IRC Channels
• Wikipedia meetup (meetings between participants)
• Status (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

Core issues & 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.

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