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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin June Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of June 2024. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations

Talking: 2024 continues

Register now for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024).
Editing team community conversation - CopyVio Check and Real-time Checks (03 July 2024, in English)
Growth team community conversation - New tasks for newcomers and patrollers' burden (16 July 2024, in Spanish)

Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Good projects and good people!
MediaWiki 1.42 general release.
The Community Configuration extension is released to more Wikipedias.
The Trust & Safety Product team published the Incident Reporting System MVP User Testing Summary and a project update on temporary accounts.
Recent changes from the latest Tech News.
Reference Check to be rolled out on all Wikipedias. Read the initial results from the Edit Check project.
Concluded voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming; new name now Community Wishlist.
“Add an image” suggested edit was released to Wikipedia iOS app & Donation through native GPay is now available on the Wikipedia Android app.
Talk pages permalinks are now available at all wikis.
A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graphs with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Charts.
Wikimedia Enterprise Quarterly technical update focusing on machine readability, content integrity, and API usability.
Proposal for a Product & Tech Advisory Council.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

Highlights and achievements & future plans from Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project.
Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine.
Watch the recording of the 11th edition of Wiki Workshop where research sessions on topics like Disinformation, Reliability, Representation and Gender, Governance and Policy, were held.
First edition of WikiLearn News released, highlighting opportunities and progress in the area of skills development.
The WikiData tools everyone is talking about during the 2023 LD4 Conference on Linked Data.
The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Unicode Consortium.

Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

Thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan from the Japanese Wikipedia community.
Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? – a recap of sustainability work across the movement and at the Foundation for 2023. Foundation Sustainability metrics for 2023 also available on Meta.
The Wikimedia Foundation's revamped social media strategy is available on Meta.

Wikimedia Foundation Board liaisons published reflections on final Movement Charter draft.
June 27 Conversation with Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2024-06-27 Conversation with Trustees: notes & recording including outcomes of the 20 June Board meeting and a discussion of the movement charter.
Ratification vote on Movement Charter until July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC
2024 Board Selection: Candidates have answered community questions selected by the Elections Committee.
Affiliates strategy: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (feedback page)
Feedback on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle finished on June 23. The revised version was published. Updates in July

Foundation statements

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library

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