Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/June 2022

Let's talk about the Desktop Improvements

Hello!

Have you noticed that some wikis have a different desktop interface? Are you curious about the next steps? Maybe you have questions or ideas regarding the design or technical matters?

Join an online meeting with the team working on the Desktop Improvements! It will take place on 29 April 2022 at 13:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC on Zoom. Click here to join. Meeting ID: 88045453898. Dial by your location.

Agenda

Update on the recent developments
Questions and answers, discussion

Format

The meeting will not be recorded or streamed. Notes will be taken in a Google Docs file. Olga Vasileva (the Product Manager) will be hosting this meeting. The presentation part will be given in English.

We can answer questions asked in English, French, Italian, and Polish. If you would like to ask questions in advance, add them on the talk page or send them to sgrabarczuk@wikimedia.org.

At this meeting, both Friendly space policy and the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces apply. Zoom is not subject to the WMF Privacy Policy.

We hope to see you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 Call for Candidates

section In a nutshell: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees. The Wikimedia community will vote to fill two seats on the Board in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board as a team. Please consider submitting your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees.
–Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees (full announcement)

Hello everyone! There is an open Call for Candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election. Find out more on the Apply to be a Candidate page. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The seats to be filled this year were previously selected by affiliates in the m:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2019 process. This year, a different method will be used:

Candidates submit their applications (by May 9; this deadline may be slightly extended);
Any community member can become a candidate if they meet the general and special conditions outlined here.
Affiliates vote to shortlist six (6) names from the candidates' pool.
Each affiliate carries one vote. The affiliate vote is scheduled to take place in early July.
The Community votes to elect two of the six shortlisted candidates.
Community Voting is scheduled to begin on August 15 and end on August 29.
The Board will appoint the two newly-elected candidates as the new Trustees.
This final step, which will conclude the election process, is expected to take place in early October 2022.

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is inviting local users to help publicize the different stages of the election . Feel free to add your name here. Thanks in advance, and to those who have already registered.

If you have any questions, please post them here, on Meta-wiki, or reach out to me directly.

Kindly cross-post and advertise widely.

Best regards,
Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

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The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.

Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:12, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Xeno (WMF), Are you saying that more wmf-members should participate in Board elections? If so, I support this aim. What can someone like me do to help? Ottawahitech (discuss • contribs) 13:38, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ottawahitech: Thanks for your support - election volunteers help to publicize the vote on their local projects. For example, there may be places on Wikiversity that can be notified of the upcoming election that I'm not aware of. A local election volunteer could place a posting there about the announcements that come out during the ongoing election (like the one below!). Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Board of Trustees election 2022 Candidates

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The 2022 Board of Trustees election Call for Candidates has now closed. This Call led 12 candidates from the community to submit their applications. Learn more about the 2022 Board of Trustees candidates.

The Analysis Committee will now consider the candidates’ applications with the skills and criteria provided by the Board. The trustees seek certain skills and competencies to improve the capacity of the Board. After the Analysis Committee completes their review, the ratings of each candidate will be published. These ratings are for informational purposes only.

For more information about the 2022 Board election, you may find the timeline, voting information and other ways to get involved on Meta-wiki.

Thank you for your support,

Movement Strategy and Governance on behalf of the Elections Committee and the Board of Trustees

Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Warning templates

We do not have any warning templates here at Wikiversity yet. Why not import them? Lightbluerain (discuss • contribs) 17:40, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Lightbluerain: I'm not sure which warnings you are looking for, but see Wikiversity:Import to add you request(s). Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 23:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We do have a couple of templates in Category:User warning templates. --mikeu ^talk 21:40, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Next steps on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines

Hey all - I have an update on the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) project.

A report is available on Meta-Wiki. about the 2022 March ratification vote on the UCoC Enforcement guidelines. Voters cast votes from at least 137 communities. At least 650 participants added comments with their vote. (See full announcement)

Following the vote, the Community Affairs committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees asked that several areas be reviewed for improvements. A Revision Drafting Committee will refine the enforcement guidelines based on community feedback.

To help the Revisions committee, input from the community is requested. Visit the Meta-wiki pages (Enforcement Guidelines revision discussions, Policy text revision discussions) to provide thoughts for the new drafting committee. (See full announcement)

Let me know if you have any questions about these next steps. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Tolworthy

A blogger by the name of Chris Tolworthy has written a lot of essays about the Bible and other subjects. Personally, I think that while some of these essays are pretty much just drivel, others might be worth including on Wikiversity. However, I don't know what kind of license Tolworthy uses on his work- the main page just says, "If you find these pages useful please share and copy them." How that would be expressed in the form of a Creative Commons license, I'm not entirely sure. Also, if we did include Tolworthy's works, he has a Facebook account, which would satisfy criteria no. 3 on the Help:Essay page. What do you think?

--Lizardcreator (discuss • contribs) 23:34, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Lizardcreator You are welcome to link to these resources and create learning projects around them. You cannot copy them and host them at Wikiversity. Only Chris Tolworthy can do that. Any resource that doesn't explicitly include a Creative Commons or other open license isn't licensed for sharing on Wikiversity. Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:57, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Desktop Improvements update

Making this the new default

Hello. I wanted to give you an update about the Desktop Improvements project, which the Wikimedia Foundation Web team has been working on for the past few years. Our work is almost finished! 🎉

We would love to see these improvements become the default for readers and editors across all wikis. In the coming weeks, we will begin conversations on more wikis, including yours. 🗓️ We will gladly read your suggestions!

The goals of the project are to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. The project consists of a series of feature improvements which make it easier to read and learn, navigate within the page, search, switch between languages, use article tabs and the user menu, and more. The improvements are already visible by default for readers and editors on more than 30 wikis, including Wikipedias in French, Portuguese, and Persian.

The changes apply to the Vector skin only, although it will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Monobook or Timeless users will not notice any changes.

The newest features

Table of contents - our version is easier to reach, gain context of the page, and navigate throughout the page without needing to scroll. It is currently tested across our pilot wikis. It is also available for editors who have opted into the Vector 2022 skin.
Page tools - now, there are two types of links in the sidebar. There are actions and tools for individual pages (like Related changes) and links of the wiki-wide nature (like Recent changes). We are going to separate these into two intuitive menus.

How to enable/disable the improvements

Global preferences

It is possible to opt-in individually in the appearance tab within the preferences by selecting "Vector (2022)". Also, it is possible to opt-in on all wikis using the global preferences.
On wikis where the changes are visible by default for all, logged-in users can always opt-out to the Legacy Vector. There is an easily accessible link in the sidebar of the new Vector.

Learn more and join our events

If you would like to follow the progress of our project, you can subscribe to our newsletter. You can read the pages of the project, check our FAQ, write on the project talk page, and join an online meeting with us.

Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 16:59, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]