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Delete Policy:Terms_of_Use/ss

Please delete the translated page Policy:Terms of Use/ss. It's not a real translation, but machine-translation vandalism. The account was already globally locked. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, @Amire80, for reporting this. I have gone ahead and deleted that translation. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 18:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Is text from this wiki licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0?

I've been translating text on this wiki, and I'm wondering whether text from this wiki, both original and translated text, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 as well. 通界互聯 (talk) 17:34, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, you can find a notice about the license at the bottom of each page. --Ameisenigel (talk) 20:14, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Typo correction request

Please remove the opening parenthesis after the plus sign in the "Facsimile number" field on Legal:Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedowns. JJPMaster (talk) 04:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, done. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 00:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Please delete my user talk page on this site

A random new user just added some gibberish to my user talk page(User talk:通界互聯). Apart from that there's nothing else on my talk page. Is it alright to delete my talk page completely? If so, please delete it. Thank you! 通界互聯 (talk) 09:07, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Done, and thanks for all your edits here! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:30, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

GFDL

Hi! Wiki no longer use or encourage the use of the GFDL so I have made a suggestion at MediaWiki talk:Licenses to remove GFDL. I know it is not used very often but I think it would send a nice signal to remove it. I have been trying to "kill" GFDL across all wikis for many months now and as a part of that I have suggested that the few existing (files could be moved to Commons per this proposal. MGA73 (talk) 13:48, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Done. Thanks again. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 16:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a million! --MGA73 (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Chinese translations for sidebar interfaces

Please help create or update the following interfaces translation for the sidebar:

• MediaWiki:Officialwebsite-text/zh: 官方網站
• MediaWiki:Wikimedia-otherprojects-enterprise/zh: 維基媒體企業服務
• MediaWiki:Documentation-text/zh: 文件
• MediaWiki:Annualreport/zh: 年度報告
• MediaWiki:Security-text/zh: 安全
• MediaWiki:Transparencyreport-text/zh: 透明度報告
• MediaWiki:wikimedia-otherprojects-enterprise/zh: 維基媒體企業服務
• MediaWiki:wikimedia-babellink-label/zh: 巴別

Thanks in advance. Ericliu1912 (talk) 02:52, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

And if possible, please consider giving me translation administrator permission as well, to streamline the process for other Mandarin translations. Ericliu1912 (talk) 02:53, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

You can find the criteria for translation administrators at Wikimedia:Accounts policy#Translation administrator rights. --Ameisenigel (talk) 16:43, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

We need thesaurus for Wikimedia jargons

I feel the need to link jargons inline for Transparency, while fully aware that is bad-manner or is crossing the line as a translator. Could we either:

• wikify and link jargons inline to the first place it appears within basic instructions;
• and ideally, make a single thesaurus pages, or
• even guide readers to Legal / accounting page or anywhere appropriate.

One example will be as follows, which involves monetary handling of expenses, that could influence Grants / Funds.

• Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Service Provider Travel Guidance see translation segment T:27.
  • Service Provider;
  • Master Services Agreement;
  • Scope of Work.

This flag is for the benefit of internationalization/translators in fact, and maybe rooted excessively in the daily life of a wiki editor (: -- Omotecho (talk) 03:17, 13 June 2025 (UTC)