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Extending the functionality of the search bar, and adding learning patterns about project management

Hi MCruz (WMF), I would like to make the following suggestions:

• Extend the functionality of the search bar in the WRC to include the Learning Patterns Library.
• Add learning patterns about project management. I have found some learning patterns about project management for specific kinds of projects, and some information about topics like project strategy and record-keeping which were not what I had in mind. I was able to find much more of the type information that I had in mind on English Wikipedia, and while that's good for ENWP, I think that this indicates an opportunity for improvement in the Learning Patterns Library.

Thanks, --Pine^✉ 06:26, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Good idea, @Pine:! I will add this to our workflows. Best, María (WMF) (talk) 21:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

I cannot create a new account

Hello,

"Deyu Zhou" is my legal name, but I cannot create a neew account by it.

The username "Deyu Zhou" is too similar to the following username:

DeyuZhou

Please choose another username.

However, when I go to User:Deyu_Zhou and User:DeyuZhou, I find both of them do not exist. Could you please help me? Thank you very much.

Best regards, Deyu Zhou

104.237.63.69 16:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi. That account does exist on the English Wikipedia already, per Special:CentralAuth/DeyuZhou. Sorry about that! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 07:44, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

dont have access

hacked account hacked face encrypted file and alli need to get this deleted immediately i do not have access to a telephone the number that caused this is <redacted> can you remove him from my account i do not have my password they were changed

You may be looking for Help:Compromised accounts. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:33, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Offtopic questions

Can we please remove offtopic questions from Ask a question/Recent questions (I think only one question over there might be in topic), or avoid transcluding that page here? It's misleading because it makes people believe that such questions should be asked here. Nemo 08:36, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the nudge. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:31, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, looks better. :-) It's hard to follow updates to transcluded pages, I know. --Nemo 08:05, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Do we internationalize this page?

Wondered for month if regional hub leaders/followers will benefit from how to walk through Metawiki, maybe starting from here? What will you remark, @Quiddity (WMF) @I JethroBT (WMF)?

Like hubs are learning via Let's Connect, a peer learning platform, and if we bridge meta ppl through a door of magic / どこでもドア^※ (dokodemo doa) to Knowledge_Sharing/Connect, and here we have this page to offer, or not? (NB:"※" = a magic door to anywhere you wish to land) -- Omotecho (talk) 05:14, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

どこでもドア ("Anywhere Door"), a gadget in the manga series as seen in the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum

@Omotecho: I always appreciate a good Doraemon metaphor! I think this is a good way to describe some of the learning resources, like Let's Connect, and that when more regional/thematic hubs forms, this can be a helpful space to direct leaders and members to. Are there specific changes you would like to see in this page to help internationalize it? I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Omotecho: I will also note that, to my knowledge, this page doesn't currently have an owner at the Wikimedia Foundation, and it may be better to consisder migrating some of the resources on this page to another, active space. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 17:06, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @I JethroBT (WMF) and @Quiddity (WMF) for crisp input. If it helps, translation source #104 at m:Grants/Knowledge_Sharing/Connect which I am translating, could be a hook to find a surrogate parent: Reading Grantee reports as well as its Applications is in a sense to see what your Meta-peers are hoping to advance for our Movement, big or small. Then, even if you are educated to read English documents, there is a wide and deep gap of terminology/wiki jargons as both of you might have witnessed for decades as myself.

Then, as you have pointed out, wher is what we will change? Or how do you identify the stepping stones leading you, being a very fresh editor on wiki projects, to read those documents filled with Wiki jargons? Is Let’s Connect, or Learning team able to maybe knit thesauri for those terminology? I can help, of course, and wish to break the barrier we fence off future users without apropriate word lists/keys to open the Anywhere door.

• How do you self-study reading Meta, when you are swimming the pool of editorial manuals under hen-pecking of “aged” editors? Walls are too high on four sides, don’t you recall?

I wonder if scheduling Connect meetings has not involved ESEAP region very much. Or are we missing to link:

• Translation: It is very unrealistic to rely on the smaller number of translating hands for the Connect/Learning newsletter, unfriendly to English-as-second/third language subscribers;
• Multiple Generation of audiences/editors: our invitation prints in invisible ink: “the Anywhere door at the moment is serving to those with unlocking language skill or deciphering wiki-terms”;
• Students and alumni: Cross-border links for college students are nurturing Turkey-Japan-Malaysia since 2023 with @Eugene Ormandy, a Wikimedian of the Year in Singapore. They joint presented at Kora Kinabalu ESEAP conference last week (See Diff for each collaboration);
• News: Wish those brilliant stories on Learning Newsletter trickle down to wider audiences, to those who mentor new editors on Wikipedias and Incubator entrants.
• For Newbies’ Tech News: four issues per year to bridge the Tech gap: Or will there be any Tech issue those Let’s Connect/Training for Trainers graduates will near their goal, which themselves are yet to discover? Do we supplement to Weekly Tech News?

How can we weave a web of busy ppl and Connect by Learning? Or is it a tempting fantasy only for manga stories ? Omotecho (talk) 22:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Omotecho. We're currently considering the future of the WRC pages, as part of the Meta-Wiki presence project. We're thinking about what could be merged elsewhere or deprecated or overhauled because, as you can see from the history of many of the pages, they haven't been maintained in quite a while and much of the information is out of date. In addition to I_JethroBT's question, I'd ask what you (and of course others watching this page) find most useful within these pages? We want to make sure we capture the most useful elements on active pages, and make them discoverable within the new page navigation we're working on and will be maintaining going forward (see, for example: Wikimedia Foundation/Movement Resources). I'll be going through the pages myself to see about these opportunities, but definitely welcome others' thoughts. Thanks for asking, and I hope that context helps. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:09, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@Quiddity (WMF), your input made me rev up my thinking, appreciate very much: have to get used that any Meta page be Reused-Upcycled anywhere... ? /: "Resource Center" is too brilliant a page title to lead ppl to a dead-end.

I agree the most practical place to focus on the matter is over at Meta-Wiki_presence under the Communications threshold. Kindly have a peep if your hours allows. Kindly, -- Omotecho (talk) 01:13, 20 May 2024 (UTC)