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Collaboration

Hello User:GVarnum-WMF I hope this message find you in good condition,I work as volunteering editor in local wiki here Nigeria, I found your role in promoting communication in Wikipedia foundation project very vital I want us to colloborate so that you can guide in some aspect in other to remove some bottleneck in my home wiki. Fulani215 (talk) 20:16, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Fulani215 - the best method of making this type of request to the Communications department at the Foundation is to email answerswikimedia.org - thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 20:16, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much Fulani215 (talk) 20:22, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

i will surely send my request to the foundation through email as you recommend. Fulani215 (talk) 20:25, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Files

Hello! I have been checking wikis for a long time to make sure they follow the Resolution:Licensing_policy and that the Resolution: Licensing update approval is implemented. So when you moved some files to Commons with the GFDL license they popped up in the categories I monitor :-) Are the moves of files a part of a project/task or did you just feel like moving some files? MGA73 (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: Essentially, the files were uploaded here to this wiki and are no longer utilized. Rather than just delete them, I figured I'd import them to Wikimedia Commons in case they could be of value there and salvaged by folks. However, if it's not worth saving any particular file, or perhaps not worth the effort overall, do not feel strongly about just deleting them. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 03:38, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes I agree. There is a bigger chance the files will be used if they are moved to Commons. Especially if they have a relevant description/category. So I’m not complaining - just happy to see someone else move files to Commons too! --MGA73 (talk) 04:20, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good - thank you for your efforts on this! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 15:24, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy to help. I just noticed that Template:GFDL has disclaimers and per w:en:Wikipedia:GFDL standardization that should be avoided. So the template should be renamed to avoid that any new uploads also have disclaimers. And GFDL is not a good license (why wiki changed to CC) so I think GFDL should be removed from MediaWiki:Licenses. Perhaps you can have a look some day? --MGA73 (talk) 17:31, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: Given the very limited scope of this wiki - I may leave it as an option as sometimes the Foundation is working with documents under licenses we did not pick. There is also some software in our software world which utilizes GFDL such that I could imagine a need for it. Additionally, anyone with upload rights and doing uploading today is on staff and in a role such they have most likely been trained on use of CC licenses. At one time, this wiki (long before we had evolved file policies) had much broader upload rights - hence how we wound up with so many unused files here. Files uploaded over the last decade, and particularly the last few years since its relaunch as Governance Wiki (vs. origins as wikimediafoundation.org) are far less likely to ever need to be exported to Commons as there was likely a more intentional reason for it to be uploaded here vs. Commons in the first place - whereas at one time that wasn't a technical option robust enough to prevent random uploading here.

That is, however, just my initial reaction - and I will indeed give it some further thought and discussion with others helping administer this wiki. I appreciate you bringing it up and welcome any feedback on my initial thinking - or any other ideas/topics you run across. Thank you!! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 17:40, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Aha, yeah you have a point about that GFDL may be needed in some cases and that uploads are restricted to a few users. So just leave GFDL on MediaWiki:Licenses.

It would look better without the disclaimers in the template. At least on my lists at m:User:MGA73/GFDL files because I just celebrated four days ago that disclaimers was finally eliminated in the main template on all wikis. It was four happy days in my wiki life ;-)

If you think any GFDL files will remain here after you finish moving files to Commons perhaps you could include finishing the license update in your future thoughts. --MGA73 (talk) 18:22, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: That makes a lot of sense - yes - I will look into that update once I am done moving files over and have a sense of where things are at with the rest of them. Good call - thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 18:27, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

@MGA73: Let me know if this is the updated wording you had in mind. Thanks! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 19:43, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes! And also adding a template like c:Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated to the files (as far as I can tell they are all eligible). But if they are moved to Commons it will happen there. --MGA73 (talk) 20:33, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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I think this contribution is by a spam or bot account. can you delete it ? TheDJ (talk) 15:49, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

 Done - thank you for pointing it out @TheDJ. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 16:06, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Bonjour peut tu supprimer définitivement.

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Je_m'en_fiche_si_Lola_est_morte_en_2022_je_m'appelle_Alexis_coco . ( Même si c'est supprimer ou changer de nom j'aimerais seulement qu'un admistrateur le retire carrément. Le faire disparaitre de wikipedia merci beaucoup. Jérémy 702992929 (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Importing a new version from external source

Hello. Kindly I wanted to request more information about the method you used to perform "Importing a new version from external source" some while ago. Examples include messages 19 and 26. Thanks a lot. Alfa80 (talk) 09:33, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Alfa80: That means it was imported from Meta-Wiki using Special:ImportTranslations. Since that time, a new method has been developed which we now utilize and which provides greater clarity. I hope that helps answer your question. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 04:53, 12 December 2024 (UTC)