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Way to create U.S. Presidential Election Maps
[edit]Hello. I've noticed that there is no page for the 2000 Delaware Caucuses and decided to make one. I would like to know if there is a resource to make the maps used in Wikipedia Election pages. I would greatly appreciate it. Iidrlais (talk) 22:37, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- I see you're from English Wikipedia and that you're new. I'll post some helpful info at your EnWiki talk page. Alsee (talk) 08:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Language
[edit]Generally, Wikipedia pages with multiple language versions are displayed as "114 languages", but some pages with multiple language versions are displayed as "Add languages". Why is that? This post was machine translated.--Kikikiki.aka (talk) 08:51, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
- Certain newly created or translated articles have not been linked to the corresponding group of the same subject through the multi-lingual platform of Wikidata yet, sometimes even displayed as an orphan article with no link for cross reference, therefore the option is always present on both sides, open to add or to be added with other new language versions.
- Since this is a Wikimedia forum for its related administrative or technical reports across platforms, if having a question or inquiry for the local Wikipedia language branch next time, please feel free to apply to the specified project discussion pages (such as Wikipedia talk:Village pump in Englsih for example)... or the referred article's Talk page to receive more appropriate assistance. Have a great day. Mickie-Mickie (talk) 12:53, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Buttons at Main page of srwiki, mobile
[edit]Could you make, as assist for other language project, buttons that leads to full articles and other pages from Main page at srwiki appear fully or actually not appear at all in mobile view? I would like to see properly displayed page as an ordinary reader.
Currently, I see lower part and two upward-curved small parts of it at mobile view (at desktop mobile view, I see misplaced buttons, such as 'Остали догађаји'). Editors there have been informed at help page that there is wrong output in mobile view for more than seven days and there was no response (maybe tech knowledge is the issue). The button is leading where supposed but mw-ui-button does not work properly i.e. fully at mobile view — as I see what the issue is (also, there are some classes or styles such Mediawiki quiet or nomobile that are not working properly) after other meanwhile improvements they made. I see a clearly visible button near bottom of that Main page that is imported by Mediawiki from recent time ('Језик'), so it would probably be desirable that added nomobile class after six mw-ui-buttons would be a solution, preventing completely output of the button to evade confusion and repeating similar visual elements (I think of 'Језик' button).
@Dungodung, نوفاك اتشمان, Kizule, MareBG, Sadko, Ранко Николић, Aca, Milicevic01...:
Thank you.
--5.43.66.110 (talk); 22:22, 2025-05-07 (UTC) [e]
- Technical reply: I would kindly ask you to refrain from pinging users on multiple projects for the same topic (since you already did that here). It can be considered as spam. Thank you. – Aca (talk) 22:35, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- OK. And it would be nice if buttons at desktop view float somehow near bottom of a topic container, not sticked below container content. --5.43.66.110 (talk); 22:42, 2025-05-07 (UTC)
- srwiki has many interface admins - so ask them on that project. Also, please stop using odd signature markup, it is disruptive to the reply layout. — xaosflux Talk 23:09, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
@Vipz: You might be interested, I did not ping you among others upthere. @Xaosflux: I've already seen that and chose those who might be interested. Sorry but no. Autogenerated signature is of loose incorrect format: username (talk) time, date /very non-validly simplified/; instead of: username (talk); time, currently only valid date format yyyy-mm-dd for English because days and years are ordinal and months uncapitalized in truth). Semi-colon is for larger stop, date format already explained. --5.43.66.110 (talk); 23:24, 2025-05-07 (UTC) [e]
Велики поздрав за легенду Обсусера. --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 23:54, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- + Претходна, односно она стара тема: sr:Википедија:Трг/Помоћ#Дугмад на Главној страни при мобилном приказу. --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 00:06, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Урађено @Obsuser: Поздрав, Обсусере, завршено све (ваљда, то јест). --نوفاك اتشمان (talk) 13:47, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
I just returned to working on this project on Wikispore, and I would like more feedback on it since it was hard to distinguish from vandalism when I tried to clean it up on Wikipedia. Faster than Thunder (talk) 19:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Magick and Science
[edit]Hi Metawikipedians.
I’m here to gauge interest on a Wikipedia article idea of mine, or to see if it has already been created under a different name. I think an article that talks about scientific exploration of magick and occultism could be useful; there are pages about magick but they don’t really contain scientific exploration of the subjects.
so im curious if anyone else would like to see this article. Polkol777 (talk) 14:21, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- This may be better asked at a particular edition of Wikipedia. Since it seems like you are a native English speaker, you may want to ask at that project, such as at w:en:WP:TEAHOUSE. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:32, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- thank you! Polkol777 (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- And just to be clear, I'm not a member of that community, so I can't speak to what the reception would be like there, etc. Let me know if there's anything I can do for you in other Wikimedia Foundation wikis than that one. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:55, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- thank you! Polkol777 (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
[edit]The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is available on Meta-wiki.
You may now submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on the discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
Keegan (WMF) (talk) 22:06, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
[edit]Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
- May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
- June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
- July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
- August 2025: Campaign period
- August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
- October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
- Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page [link].
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related. [link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page [link].
Thank you!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_Membership,_December_2024
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/FAQ
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Questions_for_candidates
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:07, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Start a new WikiRoutes Wiki?
[edit]On a conservative estimate, there's probably been more than 1000+ articles related to airlines routes, train-lines, roads and so forth as well as their associated stations/airports deleted from EN Wikipedia for essentially being unencyclopaedic. In almost all cases these were at least verifiable, they just lacked notability.
I've been told multiple times that people actually find these articles useful. Having looked at WikiTravel, this is not travel information per se so it can't be interwikied there (or at least they don't want it). It seems like there's a corpus of useful content for which there are readers out there that could usefully be undeleted and hosted somewhere, just not on EN Wikipedia. For this reason a new Wikimedia wiki covering this kind of air/road/rail/sea transport link-and-hub information seems in order.
I've looked at Create a new Wikimedia wiki but it doesn't seem very helpful about what I'd need to do to set up something like this. Any words of advice would be welcome. FOARP (talk) 09:54, 30 May 2025 (UTC)