This is a collection of e-learning projects at Wikiversity created by a variety of pioneers in the field of online education. The collection includes courses (both participatory and non-participatory), articles, papers, lesson collections, events, discussions and ideas in the making. Some of the materials are highly developed and large; others provide plenty of opportunity for enhancement.
We are excited to share our June newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Apologies for writing in English, please feel free to post this into your language.
Dear Wikimedians,
We are thrilled to announce the 9ninth iteration of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program, co-hosted by CIS-A2K and the Odia Wikimedians User Group. TTT 2024 will be held from October 18-20, 2024, in Odisha.
This event aims to enhance leadership and training skills among active Indian Wikimedians, with a focus on innovative approaches to foster deeper engagement and learning.
Key Details
Event Dates: October 18-20, 2024
Location: Odisha, India
Eligibility: Open to active Indian Wikimedians
Scholarship Application Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024
We encourage all interested community members to apply for scholarships. Please review the event details and application guidelines on the Meta page before submitting your application.
Apply Here: Scholarship Application Form
For any questions, please post on the Event talk page or email nitesh@cis-india.org.
We look forward to your participation and contributions!
"Thank you so much, @Hamid Hassani! We truly appreciate your kind words and support. Reaching 50,000 articles is a significant milestone for the Punjabi Wikipedia community, and we're proud of the collaborative efforts that made it possible. KuldeepBurjBhalaike(Talk)08:00, 4 ਅਗਸਤ 2024 (UTC)ਜਵਾਬ
Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.
We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:
Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.
Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.
Important Reminder: The scholarship application deadline has been extended till Thursday, August 22, 2024. We encourage active Wikimedians to submit their applications before the deadline.
Please ensure you review the essential details on Meta page regarding this event.
नमस्ते सभी को, संस्कृतविकिपीडिया के मुखपृष्ठ पर @Kuldeepburjbhalaike जी ने अत्यन्त शीघ्र और उत्तम कार्य किया है। संस्कृत विकि के प्रबन्धक के नाते मैं संस्कृत विकिपीडिया समुदाय की ओर से उनको अनेकशः धन्यवाद देता हूँ। 10 वर्ष से जो कार्य समुदाय नहीं कर पाया, वह कार्य कुलदीपजी ने पूर्ण निष्ठा और जोश से किया, अतः समुदाय की ओर से हम उनको बार्नस्टार् देना चाहते हैं। हम जानते है कि इतना पर्याप्त नही होगा, परन्तु यथाशक्ति हम अपना भाव प्रकट कर रहे है। अनेकशः धन्यवाद.... (कृपया बार्नस्टार देने मे सहायता करे।) NehalDaveND (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 00:07, 21 ਅਗਸਤ 2024 (UTC)ਜਵਾਬ
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is facilitating a community technical consultation process to understand the needs of the community members on various technical issues while contributing to Wikimedia projects. The goal is to better understand the challenges across communities, understand common problems, and streamline future technical development activities.
The first step is a survey where to report your common issues, ideas etc. Please fill the survey (in a language of your choice) at
google form link
The last date is 5 September 2024.
You can fill the survey more than once if you’d like to report multiple issues or ideas.
We are excited to share our July newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.
The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on 25 September. The switch will start at 15:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 25 September 2024.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
We are excited to present our August newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives led by CIS-A2K throughout the month. In this edition, you'll find a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, highlighting our collaborative efforts, community engagements, and a sneak peek into the exciting initiatives planned for the coming month.
In the Limelight- Doing good as a creative person
Monthly Recap
Wiki Women Collective - South Asia Call
Digitizing the Literary Legacy of Sane Guruji
A2K at Wikimania
Multilingual Wikisource
Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities
Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
Santali Wiki Conference
TTT 2024
You can access the newsletter here.
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Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The Wikidata itemsitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on the project page.
Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Apologies as this message is not written in your native language, ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤਰਜਮਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੋ.
We are happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Web team have deployed dark mode here on Punjabi Wikipedia! This was possible because pages on your wiki have passed our checks for accessibility and other quality checks. Congratulations!
This was only possible due to the diligent work of editors and other technical contributors in your community who have made sure that templates, gadgets, and other parts of pages can be accessible in dark mode. Thank you all for making dark mode available for everybody!
For context, we would like to add that the Web team's work on dark mode has concluded. If on some wikis, the option is not yet available for logged-out users, this is likely because many pages do not yet display well in dark mode. As communities make progress on this work, we enable this feature on additional wikis once per month.
If you notice any issues after enabling dark mode, you can report the issues on this page.
1. A virus writer sends out viruses, infecting ordinary users' PCs. 2. Infected PCs log into an IRC server or other communications medium, without their owners knowing, forming a network of infected systems known as a botnet. 3. A spammer purchases access to this botnet from virus writer or a dealer. 4. The spammer sends instructions to the botnet, instructing the infected PCs to send out spam. 5. The infected PCs send the spam messages to internet users' mail servers.
This is a diagram of the process by which spammers create and use zombie (virus-infected) computers to send spam. The diagram is for use when educating classes about the importance of keeping computers virus-free. It can also be used to explain to learners why it is that so much spam is received in their mailboxes and why unidentified attachments should not be opened. ਇੱਕ ਫੁੱਲ-ਸਾਈਜ਼ ਵਰਜ਼ਨ ਲਈ ਤਸਵੀਰ ਉੱਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ, ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਅਜ਼ਾਦੀ ਨਾਲ ਪੁਨਰ-ਵਰਤੋਂ ਕਰ ਸਕੋ ਅਤੇ ਸੁਧਾਰ ਸਕੋ. ਇਸਦੇ ਵਰਗੀਆਂ ਹੋਰ ਤਸਵੀਰਾਂ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਸਤੇ ਹੇਠਾਂ ਵਾਲੇ ਲਿੰਕ ਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ
