Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/February 2022

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

Hey all,

As you may know, I'm a facilitator with a team called Movement Strategy and Governance. We've recently re-designed the Universal Code of Conduct News, and it will now appear as the Movement Strategy and Governance News.

I've added some direct links in the shortened version below, if you want to skip right to the subjects for this issue. Please let me know if you have any questions. The Movement Strategy and Governance team is inviting input about the newsletter (past, present, future) at m:Talk:Movement Strategy and Governance/Newsletter. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 03:07, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant Movement Strategy and Governance topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Updates on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Review

Hi all, I have an update on the vote on the enforcement guidelines that was mentioned above. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the Universal Code of Conduct across the movement. Comments about the guidelines can be shared here or the Meta-wiki talk page.

There will be conversations on Zoom on 4 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 25 February 2022 at 12:00 UTC, and 4 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC. Join the UCoC project team and drafting committee members to discuss the guidelines and voting process.

The timeline is available on Meta-wiki. The voting period is March 7 to 21. See the voting information page for more details.

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far.

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance
Wikimedia Foundation

Community panel about the Universal Code of Conduct on 18 February 2022

There is a comprehensive update at m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voting/Announcement: in additional to the information shared above, a community panel on 18 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC will share perspectives from small- and medium-sized community participants. See also the Conversation Hour summaries for notes from 4 February 2022. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:26, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Two categories for the same topic?

I am just wondering why the categories:

both exist and which one should be chosen to house Optimal public health? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (discuss • contribs) 16:43, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nice find, O. Clearly, we should not have redundant categories like this. Looking at Wikiversity:Categories, Wikiversity:Course titles, Wikiversity:Network naming conventions, Wikiversity:Naming conventions, Wikiversity:Manual of Style, Wikiversity:Namespaces#Category:, and finally Wikiversity:FAQ/Categorization, the only guidance we have is at the final page which reads, "Capitalisation of category names should follow naming conventions for word casing." So all that is to say, it looks like what we've said in the past is: "Courses can be named with Title-Style Casing or Sentence-style casing, but just make sure that you are consistent within the subpages of a given course, also be consistent with categories and their subcategories for that course", but that results in things like "Category:Public health" for the general concept and "Category:Public Health" for a specific course. Which is a mess. We would need to have a systemic change here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think Justin's interpretation is correct. All of this content should be in Category:Public health. A specific course titled Public Health could use Category:Public Health if the course author desired. I'll move all of the current Category:Public Health into Category:Public health. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:40, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated

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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team is looking for feedback about the responsibilities of the Leadership Development Task Force. This Meta page shares the proposal for a Leadership Development Task Force and how you can help. Feedback on the proposal will be collected from 7 to 25 February 2022.

The team is also hosting Community Calls, including an introductory call on 23 February 2022 at 15:00 UTC.

Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 21:13, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Mode

There is now a gadget available to implement dark mode. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Dark mode (gadget) for details. If you want to see the gadget enabled at Wikiversity, indicate your preference below. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 00:35, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Vote

Weak support If someone wants to use it, go for it. I don't really see the value for myself, but I don't think that should impede anyone else, especially if it's low-cost to port it here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:03, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - it is optional. i use dark mode widget/gadget on wikipedia and i like it a lot. limitless peace. Michael Ten (discuss • contribs) 18:36, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - no reason to oppose. I would like for this to be implemented here. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 18:48, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Outcome

There is weak support and no opposition. @DannyS712, Evolution and evolvability, and Koavf: Would one of you be interested in interface administrator rights to add the gadget for us? -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:45, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dave Braunschweig sure, I can bring it over. Technically, as a GS I can already edit sitewide JS files, but since I'm a member of the community and helped draft the interface admin policy I don't feel comfortable using my GS access to do this. So if you want to grant me rights for a few days, I can add it as a gadget (not enabled by default). DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 02:17, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712 Granted. Thanks! -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:43, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Done - imported the relevant pages (using import for attribution) and confirmed that the gadget is working. If there are no issues in the next few days I'll remove the interface admin rights (or they'll just expire if I forget). Let me know if I missed anything. --DannyS712 (discuss • contribs) 03:01, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@DannyS712 I tested it. It works for me. Thanks!
Note to others, if you enable the gadget, you still need to select Dark Mode (or Light Mode) at the top of a page to switch back and forth. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:15, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

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Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

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Coming soon

Several improvements around templates

Hello, from March 9, several improvements around templates will become available on your wiki:

Fundamental improvements of the VisualEditor template dialog (1, 2),
Improvements to make it easier to put a template on a page (3) (for the template dialogs in VisualEditor, 2010 Wikitext and New Wikitext Mode),
and improvements in the syntax highlighting extension CodeMirror (4, 5) (which is available on wikis with writing direction left-to-right).

All these changes are part of the “Templates” project by WMDE Technical Wishes. We hope they will help you in your work, and we would love to hear your feedback on the talk pages of these projects.

- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 12:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]