Bodhisattwa

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Hi Bodhi!

Very nice to meet you, and look forward to helping with the mountain projects. Here is my user account so we can talk more in the future! Great work with the project so far! The Interior (talk) 16:25, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

#100wikidays

Hello Bodhi.
I noticed you published your first article of your #100wikidays challenge : welcome on board.
You should add yourself to the list of the participants.
All the best. Trace (talk) 08:13, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Trace, actually this is my second attempt and I had already listed myself on my first attempt. As I don't like to create incomplete articles, it was very difficult for me to create a full article in one day and go on for 100 days. So I left the challenge previously. Lets see, for how many days, I can stick to the challenge this time. :-) Bodhisattwa (talk) 15:18, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Interface editors

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Interface editors পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 12:46, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Wikimedia Highlights, March 2016 পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the Wikimedia blog's most notable posts from March, covering Wikimedia Foundation activities and other important events from across the Wikimedia movement. Completed translations will be announced on social media, project village pumps and (for some languages) mailing lists.

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 19:21, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Talkback from CIS-A2K

Hello from CIS-A2K , we have replied to your comments here. Thanks and regards. -- Tito Dutta (talk) 17:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Wikimedia Highlights, April 2016 পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the Wikimedia blog's most notable posts from April, covering Wikimedia Foundation activities and other important events from across the Wikimedia movement. Completed translations will be announced on social media, project village pumps and (for some languages) mailing lists.

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 20:45, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

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WikiConference India 2016 updates

WikiConference India 2016 is here!

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অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Template:Usurpation requested

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Template:Usurpation requested পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 22:27, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Template:Usurpation requested

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Template:Usurpation requested পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 22:29, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Women for Wikipedia Asian Month

Hi Bodhisattwa. I see you are involved in the organization of WAM on the Bengali Wikipedia. I thought I should draw your attention to the focus on Asian women we are presenting on the EN Wiki. You might feel inspired to extend this to those participating in Bengali. We would also welcome your own participation.--Ipigott (talk) 12:02, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to "target countries" discussion

Hello, Bodhisattwa! Since you've been closely involved with the Indian community for a long time, we're inviting you to a discussion on "target countries". You can help the product team at the Wikimedia Foundation create a new list of countries and metrics to replace the "global south" concept in our process with something more relevant. Interested? Learn more about this discussion and share your perspective. (This message is available in more languages.) Joe Sutherland (WMF) (talk) 20:05, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Request to join the upcoming West Bengal TTT and MWT

Hello, Bodhisattwa, and other coordinators of West Bengal user group, as you know that we are going to conduct Mini TTT and MWT on 7th and 8th January 2017. This event is supported by CIS-A2K. We request West Bengal Wikipedia user group (which is being formed) to support and join us. Thank you Atudu (talk) 06:14, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

@Atudu:, Thanks for the formal request. West Bengal Wikimedians will be happy to support this initiative. I will confirm ASAP. Thanks in advance for your patience. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 06:39, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

@Atudu:, I have talked with @Jayantanth: and we agreed to support this project from our side. Best wishes. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 10:04, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

The Wikimaps User Group has now been officially recognized!

Let's start discussing the goals for our activities on the user group page. See you there! Cheers, Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) (talk) 10:19, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

@Susannaanas:, Sure, I will be there. Congrats for the recognition. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 14:01, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Likewise! Cheers, Susanna Ånäs (Susannaanas) (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion Coordinator Role

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion Coordinator Role পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 23:33, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Process/Briefing

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Process/Briefing পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 22:19, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform is online

Dear Bodhisattwa,

In the past you've expressed interest in the project Netherlands and the World. We would like to draw your attention to the launch of the Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform. Please find more details below:

Wikimedia Nederland launches the Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform. The platform aims to stimulate global re-use of Dutch collections on non-European cultural heritage. In particular, it aims to stimulate collections on countries with which the Netherlands have had historical ties. These countries include Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Ghana, Suriname, South Africa, and others.

The platform also aims to foster contacts between Dutch cultural heritage institutions and Wikimedia contributors across the globe. However, participation is not limited to Wikimedia contributors. Anyone can participate, making it relevant for education and research as well.

Key properties:

• Dutch heritage institutions can post offers on (parts of) their collections that are relevant to non-European countries
• Wikimedia contributors gain insight in the contents of Dutch collections and can make requests for digitalisation.
• Knowledge exchange and cooperation are key concepts.

The platform is easy to use. After registration, users can post offer/requests notices, depending on whether they are looking for material, or want to offer material for re-use. Statistics on re-use are also available.

The Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform is part of the program The Netherlands and the World. This program is supported by Wikimedia Nederland and aims to make available knowledge and content on non-European countries.

Regards, --AWossink (talk) 15:11, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

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Inspire Campaign survey on outreach to outside knowledge networks

Thanks for your participation during the Inspire Campaign focused on outreach to outside knowledge networks from February 2017. I'm interested in hearing your experience during the campaign, so if you're able, I invite you to complete this brief survey to describe how you contributed to the campaign and how you felt about participating. I want to improve how campaigns are run, so let me know if there's something that could be done better for next time.

Please feel free to let me know on my talk page if you have any questions about the campaign or the survey. Thanks! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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Survey link error fixed

Hi there, there was a error with the Inspire survey link that caused the survey to be shown as expired, but has now been fixed. The link in the above message should now bring you to the survey. Apologies, I JethroBT (WMF) 19:20, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Training modules: Can you help us with translation?

Hello Bodhisattwa, hope all is well! As you may know, we at the Wikimedia Foundation's Support and Safety team are developing new training materials to help contributors deal with online harassment situations, and with problems at real life events. The final English version is now finished!

I'm wondering if you would be willing to help us translate content for these Training Modules into your language. We are targeting a minimum of ten languages for these modules, including the English original.

If the answer is yes, please let me know with a ping, or just get stuck in - either way, we would really appreciate your support! Joe Sutherland (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 18:09, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Feedback Netherlands the World Exchange Platform requested

Dear Bodhisattwa,

In the past, you've expressed an interest in the project The Netherlands and the World. As part of the project, the Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform went online in April 2017. A few months later, we would now like to collect some feedback on the platform:

• If you’ve signed up on the platform but never got around to using it, or if you looked at the platform but didn’t sign up, we would like to hear about that.

• If you’ve never heard of the Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform before, we would like to hear about that too.

• In general, we are also interested to get feedback about the platform itself. So, whether you’ve already had a look at it, or just learned about it from this email, we would appreciate it if you would take a few minutes to browse the website and share with us your thoughts on its purpose, the available functionality, the layout, things that you’re missing that should be there, suggestions, etc.

Feel free to share your thoughts on my talk page, this mailing list or email me directly if you don’t want to share your thoughts in public. Your feedback will be invaluable to help us decide how to move forward with the Netherlands and the World Exchange Platform.

Thank you!

Regards, --AWossink (talk) 11:43, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Community engagement survey for the Iceland Conference 2018

Hello Bodhisattwa, As your username is indicated in the list of the members of the Commons Photographers User Group, you are kindely invited to answer this survey in the order to shape the upcoming Iceland Conference 2018 and help the organizing team. Thanks! --Dyolf77 User Group page | Leave a message to the user group

New community space for IdeaLab on Connect

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We are preparing some changes to IdeaLab and Inspire Campaigns. One of these changes is a new community space on Connect, where Wikimedians can find each other based on common activities or skills, and ask questions about the space. You are invited to join this community space for IdeaLab, especially if you would ever consider needing to find contributors with certain skills (like design or project management) or would like to offer your skills to others in our movement. To join, please proceed to Connect/IdeaLab and click on the "Add yourself" button on the right. Thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 19:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

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Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health

Do you have an idea about how to measure the health of your community? Do you want to review ideas that others have submitted? Through August 10th, we are inviting ideas on how to capture the well-being of Wikimedia communities, in terms of matters like conflict resolution, effective content creation, and being able to contribute in a collaborative environment. Ideas can be focused on either quantitative techniques, such as gathering raw data, or qualitative techniques, like surveying contributors. If you are submitting an idea, guidance is available for how to move your idea into implementation, such as through a grant or starting a Phabricator task to engage with developers.

If you're interested, consider joining the Inspire Campaign. I JethroBT (WMF) 17:13, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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Results from global Wikimedia survey 2018 are published

Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.

Read the report or watch the presentation, which is available only in English. Add your thoughts and comments to the report talk page. Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!
--EGalvez (WMF)

19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Elections for 5 seats on the board of WPMEDF & Annual Meeting

Dear WikiProject Medicine member, the election for 5 seats on the board is underway and voting is now open till March 24th. We encourage you to use your right to vote by supporting the candidates you prefer HERE. Please also note that on Monday, March 25, between 1900-2000 UTC we will be holding our open annual meeting online. A link will be sent via the mailing list / Facebook group so stay tuned. We hope you can join us! Best, James & Shani. 14:16, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

User Groups Affiliates Meeting

Hi, You may be interested in attending this meetup here. Please also spread the word. --Abhinav619 (talk) 00:27, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

@Abhinav619:, noted with thanks. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 08:01, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Any part. reason

as to declining to vote over the election for the Affiliate Seats to BoT? Regards, Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 16:07, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric:, WMF board election was not one of our priority concern as a user group. We had some other more important things to think about as a community than to elect someone in the WMF BoT which don't have any direct effect in our user group activities and strategy planning. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 16:22, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Hmm. Thanks, I asked you because I belong from WB :-) Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 16:52, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

The TWUG on space.wmflabs.org

Hello Bodhisattwa

A few months ago, WMF opened a new discussion space. Since our user group has some difficulties to communicate (not everyone sees the messages that are posted on Talk:Wiktionary/Tremendous_Wiktionary_User_Group), I asked for a dedicated forum for the TWUG to be opened. It's happening here (there is no topic so far).

From now on, I invite you to follow the category to be informed as soon as a new topic is created. Pamputt (talk) 18:59, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2020

Hello!

You are getting this message because you've previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey, in either the Wikisource or Wiktionary categories. I wanted to let you know that this year's survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until November 11. Unlike previous years, we are only accepting proposals for non-Wikipedia content projects with no dedicated teams (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). You can learn more on the survey page.

You can vote on proposals from November 20 to December 2. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won't send out a separate reminder to you about that. We look forward to your participation. Thank you! IFried (WMF) (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

What does Wikisource need most?

Hi Bodhi -

Your advocacy of Wikisource just about every time we've met has persuaded me that it's the project I'd most like to support in the community wishlist voting. I don't, however, have a good sense of which improvements would bring the greatest reward/be most appreciated by the Wikisource community. Could you give me some hints? Thanks very much! Risker (talk) 03:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Risker:, thanks for considering to support Wikisource in the community wishlist voting. Personally, I find the following proposals will have great impact, if approved.

• Improve export of electronic books
• New OCR tool
• Inter-language link support via Wikidata
• Improve workflow for uploading books to Wikisource
• Batch move API

Apart from the above points, I like the following proposals as if they get solved would ease our lives in Wikisource.

• XTools Edit Counter for Wikisource
• ProofreadPage extension in alternate namespaces
• Index creation wizard
• Transcluded book viewer with book pagination

Most of the other wishes are also important, but these are my personal choices. Thanks again. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 14:57, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for these suggestions, Bodhisattwa. I've supported them all. Let's hope that at least a few of them surface to the top of the list, fingers crossed! Risker (talk) 05:06, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@Risker:, Thank you for your kind support. That means a lot to the entire Wikisource community. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 07:10, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Community Tech Launches Wikisource Improvement Initiative

Hello,

We hope you are all healthy and safe in these difficult times.

The Community Tech team has just launched a new initiative to improve Wikisource. We have created the first project (Improve ebook exports), which came out of the 2020 Community Wishlist Survey. We now invite you to share your feedback on the project talk page. Please let us know what you think of our project analysis; we want to hear from you! Furthermore, we hope that you will participate in the other Wikisource improvement projects, which we’ll address in the future. Thank you in advance and we look forward to reading your feedback on the project talk page!

-- IFried (WMF) (Product Manager, Community Tech)

Sent by Satdeep Gill (WMF) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:51, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Feedback requested: August update for Wikisource ebook export project

Hello, Bodhisattwa! The Community Tech team has posted an August update to the Wikisource Ebook Export Improvement project, and we would love your feedback. The update includes findings from our community consultation, results from two technical analyses, and proposed next steps for the project. Your feedback is crucial, and it will help us understand how to approach our work. For this reason, we invite you to check out the latest update and share your feedback on the project talk page. Thank you in advance! --IFried (WMF) (talk) 02:20, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

News from the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group

Hello!

I let you this message because you are part of the (very dynamic) Tremendous Wiktionary User Group!

As the process of name change is ongoing for the Wikimedia Foundation, I invite you to participate to a collective opinion from the user group. There is also a proposal for a communique directed to the WMF. You are welcome to discuss it too. I imagine you may also express your opinion through other canals but your inputs are still welcome! Thank you in advance! Noé (talk) 15:48, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for helping to create the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations

		Wikimedia 2030
		Thank you very much for everything you did to help create the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations! I am especially grateful for the enormous amount of work you did in the Roles & Responsibilities working group and all the care and commitment you brought to the process. --Nicole Ebber (WMDE) (talk) 15:33, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July

হ্যালো Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Metaতে বাংলার জন্য অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/July পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ the end of this week।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 20:25, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to affiliate members to complete a survey about WMF wide Universal Code of Conduct

Hello; My name is Mervat, and I am helping the Trust and Safety team to reach out to affiliates in order to discuss the Universal Code of Conduct.  

There has been talks about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time, and finally, Wikimedia Foundation Board announced a Community Culture Statement, enacting new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.Since the universal code of conduct that will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe, and will impact our work as groups, individuals and projects, it’s of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC, its nature, what we think it should cover or include and what it shouldn’t include; how it may develop, drawback or help our groups.   This is the time to talk about it. As you are a valuable contributor to the Wikimedia movement, your voice counts. Before starting to draft the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you; We invite you to devote some minutes to take this survey; your answers will help us create a safer environment for all on Wikimedia:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5AE-xflkxtfRMnZtg/viewform?usp=pp_url  

It’s possible that you are a member of more than one affiliate; hence you may receive this survey more than once, and you may have participated previously in the discussions or filled out a previous survey during the first round of consultations about UCoC which targeted wikipedia/wikimedia communities. We apologize for this; it is really difficult to identify if a wikimedian belongs to multiple groups that work to spread free knowledge. Looking forward to your thoughts and opinions and hoping that you can respond within the next 2 weeks.  If you have any questions about the surveys or difficulties accessing the link, please contact me by email (msalman-ctr@wikimedia.org)Results will be considered during the drafting process for the UCoCThank you for your participation

Mervat Salman - Trust & Safety (Policy) Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation. --Mervat (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Tech/Server switch 2020

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta-এ বাংলা ভাষার একজন অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Tech/Server switch 2020 পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 13:02, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikisource Pagelist Widget - First Iteration Feedback

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that Wikisource Pagelist Widget is now available on Beta Wikisource. We need your help in testing the widget and providing feedback.

You can test the widget by editing the following Index page on Beta Wikisource:

https://en.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Index:War_and_Peace.djvu

There is a new ‘Preview pagelist’ button under the pagelist field. Click it to get a preview, and then click on any page number in the preview to open the widget.

You can also create a fresh Index Page for any other PDF or DjVu from Wikimedia Commons and test it.

We need your feedback on the following questions:

• What is your general opinion about the Pagelist Widget?
• Is it obvious how to use the widget? If not, what is difficult to understand?
• What other changes would you like to suggest in order to improve the widget further?

Please provide your feedback on the Project Talk Page on Meta-Wiki.

P.S. - The widget doesn’t work on Local Uploads in Beta Wikisource as of now (due to phab:T257807).

Regards

SGill (WMF) (talk)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:51, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Sunday September 20 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Birds of a feather flock together.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August SWAN meeting and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday September 20, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 02:04, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Sunday October 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Friendship is a movement value.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the September and August SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday October 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.--Pharos (talk) 16:41, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

West Bengal Wikimedians open for community request

Hi Bodhisattwa!

You are receiving this message because you have signed as a General member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group.

Like previous years, we are asking our members again to request for support if they wish to plan and execute Wikimedia projects or activities during next year, which require funding. We are open for such requests until November 30, 2020. Based on the fund requests from the community members, the user group will place Rapid grant proposal to Wikimedia Foundation. If the rapid grant request is approved, funds will be allocated to the community members accordingly.

We can only approve request for volunteers who are from West Bengal and is limited to activities where in some way, West Bengal is included. The decision to approve or disapprove your request will be handled by Representative members of the user group.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

Global Conversations registration reminder

Hi Bodhisattwa,

This is a reminder that if you have not yet registered for the Global Conversations on Nov. 21 and 22, please do so! Register here. Registration closes by Nov. 20. We will email you the login information for Zoom prior to the call. Thank you. Looking forward to welcoming you this weekend.

MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Sunday November 29 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Take flight with us.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, and October SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday November 29, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although a number of places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 01:27, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia CH

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta-এ বাংলা ভাষার একজন অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Wikimedia CH পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতার অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 07:42, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Sunday January 10 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Into the blue.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, and November SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including SWAN input on Interim Global Council and Movement Charter, this month we are meeting on Sunday January 10, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To start the exchange of ideas on the IGC early, and to help prepare before the SWAN calls, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this etherpad. If you like a more interactive way of discussing, we have also made a jamboard. Check here for more details.

--Pharos (talk) 14:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia 20/Events/Uttar Pradesh

Greeting of day,

commemorate Wikipedia 20 with Project UP

Wikipedia turns 20 on 15 January 2021. This Wikipedia 20 Meta-Wiki page is an initial framework the global Wikimedia community can use to coordinate around the 20th birthday of Wikipedia. We are celebrating how humans made Wikipedia what it is, and only humans can help sustain and grow it. We are celebrating 20 years human!

All you need to do is to sign in as the participant here and observe the celebrations of event Wikipedia 20th celebration the most innate way you feel. The decent stuff will receive a token of appreciation. Y'll are RSVP in the event Wikipedia 20th celebration the most innate way you feel and Wikipedia 20/Events/Uttar Pradesh

Profound Regards,

SHISHIR DUA (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2021 (UTC),

Organizer

MassMessage timestamp

Hi, I'm reaching out to you because you've used Special:MassMessage here in the last couple of months. In phab:T270435 there's a discussion about how to be able to use MassMessage when using the new "Page to be sent as a message" function, which would require an easier way of adding a timestamp. My suggestion is to add it automatically, since MassMassages are going out to discussion pages of different kinds, and should be timestamped. If you have a workflow where you don't want your message to be timestamped, please let me now on my talk page or in the Phabricator ticket. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 14:15, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Share your feedback on the OCR improvements!

Hello, everyone! We (the team responsible for the Community Wishlist Survey) have just launched the project for OCR improvements! With this project, we aim to improve the experience of using OCR tools on Wikisource. Please refer to our project page, which provides a full summary of the project and the main problem areas that we have identified.

We would then love if you could answer the questions below. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and it will directly impact the choices we make. Thank you in advance, and we look forward to reading your feedback!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello! We are still waiting for your opinion. Would you be able to post a comment (or a few) this week? SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Project wiki representatives

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta-এ বাংলা ভাষার একজন অনুবাদক হিসাবে স্বাক্ষর করেছিলেন। Project wiki representatives পাতাটি অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2021-02-14।

The five year old strategy process has resulted in recommendations. After Global Conversations the number one priority is to establish an Interim Global Council, who will draft a Movement Charter, which will lead to the formation of a Global Council. Please help in translating the concise page "Project wiki representatives" which asks contributor to select for each project wiki a representative, who will help in implementing the first strategic priority.

আপনার সাহায্য ব্যাপকভাবে প্রশংসাযোগ্য। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণ Metaকে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে কাজ করতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 12:09, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Sunday February 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

We are a mosiac.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, and January SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday February 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To help set priorities for the SWAN agenda, and also to help manage which global conversations should be a focus in general, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this SWAN priorities form. Possible topics include Community Board seats, Interim Global Council, Strategy prioritization follow-up events, Branding, Universal Code of Conduct, Grant strategy, and WMF CEO search. That is a lot of things, which are most important to cover in our upcoming SWAN meeting?

Following the regular call, in SWAN after hours: Wikimedia Meet Jitsi social event with brainstorming for possible Nano Charter ideas, plus any other topics.

--Pharos (talk) 17:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

[Small wiki toolkits - Reminder] Bots workshop: Saturday, Jan 27 at 3:30 pm!

Thanks for signing up to participate in the “Bots workshop” organized as a part of the Small wiki toolkits - South Asia 2021. In this session, we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues.

This is reminder for the workshop, which will take place from 3:30 pm to 5 pm IST on 27 February (Saturday). The meeting link is https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci

Please let us know if you have any questions. Regards, SWT South Asia Organizers, 05:59, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Sunday March 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Community as a hand-carved gem.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, and February SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Grants relaunch, Universal Code of Conduct/Discussions, Wikimedia Enterprise / OKAPI, Community Board seats, Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday March 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 19:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in Universal Code of Conduct survey - WikiWomen's User Group

(You are receiving this message as you signed your interest to participate as part of the WikiWomen's User Group)

Hello, my name is Mervat Salman, a UCoC Facilitator, Trust and Safety team.

As you know, the WMF Board of Trustees ratified the Universal Code of Conduct early in February. That's the beginning; the policy itself cannot be used if the enforcement pathways are not defined. The implementation and enforcement of the UCoC requires the continuous cooperation to define clear definitions of enforcement pathways and processes. This needs to be done in a way that does not contradict with the internal bylaws and codes of conduct currently in place, but rather to support them and complement their deficiencies, if any.

In this phase of the process, we would like to invite you to share your ideas, thoughts and concerns about the UCoC implementation, reporting and enforcement pathways using this survey:

• English
• French
• German

Notice: This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/UCoC_Affiliates_Survey_Privacy_Statement>.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact msalman-ctr@wikimedia.org.

Best regards,

Mervat (WMF) 17:00, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Sunday April 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swanlings grow up together.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, and March SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, WMF Resolution about the upcoming Board elections, Community Resilience and Sustainability role in Movement Strategy coordination, Grants Strategy Relaunch, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places may have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 04:13, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Invitation for Functionary consultation 2021

Greetings SWMT member,

I'm letting you know in advance about a meeting I'd like to invite you to regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and the community's ownership of its future enforcement. I'm still in the process of putting together the details, but I wanted to share the date with you: 10 July, 2021. I do not have a time on this date yet, but I will let you soon. We have created a meta page with basic information. Please take a look at the meta page and sign up your name under the appropriate section.

Thank you for your time.--BAnand (WMF) 03:21, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Sunday June 6 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan of healing.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, and April SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Movement Strategy/Events, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 6, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 20:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: VisualEditor/Newsletter/2021/June

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। VisualEditor/Newsletter/2021/June পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতাটির অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম। অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2021-06-20।

This short newsletter is good news about posting comments on wiki. You can try out the "Discussion tools" in the Beta Features here at Meta-Wiki, too: Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. Thank you!

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 00:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Sunday July 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

The swan or the egg?

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 15:00, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Voting

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Voting পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 10:20, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021 Election Results/Short

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021 Election Results/Short পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতাটির অগ্রাধিকার হল উচ্চ। অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2021-09-07।

This short text (125 words) is meant to announce the results of the board elections on September, 7 to as much communities and volunteers as possible on such short notice in their native tongue. Please help us to make that happen!

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 19:02, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Sunday September 26 SWANniversary Party and All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting

Celebrate our first anniversary with SWAN-shaped desserts!

Join the SWANniversary on September 26 as we mark the first year of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network!

We will have the regular All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting, to be followed by a SWANniversary Party in the after hours session, likely through spatialized chat on WorkAdventure.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, June, and July SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, we'll look together at strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday September 26, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC.)--Pharos (talk) 18:02, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/MCDC Voter Email short 12-10-2021

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/MCDC Voter Email short 12-10-2021 পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2021-10-11।

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee Election starts next Monday. We would like to send eligible voters an email, letting them know that now is the time to vote. Of course this should happen in the respective language of the voter. It is only 195 words, a few minutes of work with a great impact! Any language is highly appreciated, we appreciate your help a lot. Thank you and have a great weekend! :)

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 17:48, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday October 31 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

A swan reflects.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June, July, and September SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process, Next Steps for Brand Work, 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday October 31, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:30 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call a half-hour later in UTC time due to WikidataCon*.)--Pharos (talk) 01:23, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday November 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Chart a new course on the swan ferry.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Hubs Workshop, Movement Charter+Drafting Committee, WMDE's 'Future of Wikimedia Governance' proposal, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 15:46, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Board of Trustees elections

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Board of Trustees elections পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

অনুবাদ সম্পন্ন করার শেষ তারিখ 2022-01-10।

This year four seats of the WMF Board of Trustees are to be newly filled and there will be a Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees selection processes from 10 January to 7 February 2022.

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is supporting this Call for Feedback. For widest outreach across the Wikiverse we kindly ask you to support this by helping us out with additional translations.

Postscriptum: During the last year many of you have helped us a lot to reach out to many different communities by translating in dozens of languages. We are utterly grateful for this - thanks to all of you for your ongoing support! You are the best!

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 17:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

অনুবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তি: ContribuLing 2022

প্রিয় Bodhisattwa,

আপনাকে এই বিজ্ঞপ্তিটি দেওয়া হচ্ছে কারণ আপনি Meta ওয়েবসাইটটিতে বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করতে একজন অনুবাদকারী হিসেবে নাম লিখিয়েছিলেন। ContribuLing 2022 পাতাটি এখন অনুবাদের জন্য উপলব্ধ রয়েছে। আপনি এখানে এটি অনুবাদ করতে পারেন:

• বাংলা ভাষায় অনুবাদ করুন

এই পাতাটির অগ্রাধিকার হল মধ্যম।

আপনার সাহায্য অত্যন্ত প্রশংসার দাবিদার। আপনার মত অনুবাদকগণই Meta-কে একটি সত্যিকারের বহুভাষী সম্প্রদায় হিসেবে গড়ে তুলতে সাহায্য করছে।

আপনি এখানে আপনার বিজ্ঞপ্তির পছন্দসমূহ পরিবর্তন করতে পারবেন।

আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ!

Meta অনুবাদ সমন্বয়কারী‎, 12:04, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Sunday February 27 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

To dance is to fly.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Dialogue, Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct+Enforcement Voting, Brand, International Women's Day+Gender Gap and WikiForHumanRights campaigns, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday February 27, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).----Pharos (talk) 03:17, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Sunday April 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Bots in precious metals are part of our community too.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including UCoC Voting, Hubs Global Conversation held + CEE Hub update, Movement Charter + Leadership Development Working Group, Desktop Improvements, Celebrate Women in March + International Women's Day, Wikimania 2022 survey concluded + Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Sunday May 8 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swans are musical creatures.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including 2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates, Movement Charter/Content preliminary narrative, Human Rights Policy Community Conversations, Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan Feedback, IP blocking and Open Proxies discussion, Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday May 8, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 18:57, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Sunday June 5 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan impressions.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation this June, WMF Proposal for Movement Strategy Forum, New rounds of WMF Conference Funds including in-person events, WMF Proposal for Sound Logo Contest, WMF Elections Analysis Committee selection, wikimania:Program submissions due June 10 (scholarship and local event grants due June 3) and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 5, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Sunday July 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan celestial.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation last week, Affiliate voting period to shortlist WMF Board candidates (July 1-15), Wikimania updates, Desktop improvements, Wikimedia Enterprise first customers, Call for program submissions and updates for a global diversity of regional/linguistic Wiki-Conferences, Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for helping us with the workshop at the Celtic Knot Conference 2022!

Workshop speaker at the Celtic Knot Conference 2022

A huge thank you from the Celtic Knot organizing team (Richard, Daria and myself) for preparing the editing campaigns workshop at the conference! Even if you couldn't attend in the end, we truly appreciate the work and dedication you put in the preparation phase and we still want you to receive a little gift.

To show our appreciation, we would like to give you this barnstar - feel free to use it anywhere you want, for example on your userpage.

I’m looking forward to work with you on future events and projects! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 10:51, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Lea Lacroix (WMDE):, thanks for the kindness, but since I had to remove myself at the last moment, I think, I don't deserve any barnstar. :-) Anyways, we will definitely work together in future events and projects and I hope I can add more value then than this time. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 12:16, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

View it! September update

View it! Tool View it! Tool update Sept. 2022 Thank you for signing up for View it! updates! As a reminder, you can view details about how to install the View it! user script or use the Toolforge tool on our meta page. Please use the talk page there to contact the team! August happenings We held two community conversations, one in person at Wikimania 2022/Pittsburgh and one virtual during a Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network meeting. During both meetings we discussed final design of View it!, and results refinement and querying. Check the August updates for notes from both meetings. View it! is working across all Wikimedia projects, and we are currently working on multi-lingual functionality. Coming in September Currently plan to focus development on multilingialism, on-wiki/editor features for the user script, and extending the search functions on Toolforge. We are continuing to respond to user feedback and finalizing design. Action to take Install Beta script and see how it can used to add new images to articles. All editors are invited to share the tool with their local wiki communities, or incorporate it into relevant local templates, such as infoboxes. If you do so, please let us know about it, so we can ensure backwards compatibility for that use case as we continue development! Feel free to leave comments on our Discussion page

--JamieF (talk) 18:50, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I know you have shown interest in View it! and was wondering if you'd possibly be able to help us with localization for different language versions of Wikipedia you edit? We would really appreciate any help you can offer. We have directions on View it!'s Meta page. Thank you so much! Please let me know if you have any questions. JamieF (talk) 17:05, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

View it! Update

View it! Tool View it! Tool update Oct. 2022 Thank you for signing up for View it! updates! As a reminder, you can view details about how to install the View it! user script or use the Toolforge tool on our meta page. Please use the talk page there to contact the team! October Update September/October Happenings View it! is now multilingual! We are currently working on tool localization. Please consider helping us! View it! now has advanced search option on Toolforge, simply toggle on to enable searching with a different property constraint, free text, specific resolution, and quality assessment. Advanced search allows for searching by Commons Categories which have an associated P373. Commons Category search will also show sub-categories for more specific results. Coming Soon We are releasing a new version of View it! that will implement some of the Toolforge functionality into the on-Wiki experience. We are thinking about ways for View it! results to show up on page as an image grid, gallery or other form, without leaving the page. Please let us know what your idea/preference is. Integrating editor features such as the ability to add an image from View it! or remove a faulty statement. Action to take Share your thoughts with us about the interface! What would you like the final product to look like? Should it be on-wiki? Preference on location of the button/link? We are open to ideas - please share them with us. Install Beta script and see how it can used to add new images to articles. All editors are invited to share the tool with their local wiki communities, or incorporate it into relevant local templates, such as infoboxes. If you do so, please let us know about it, so we can ensure backwards compatibility for that use case as we continue development!

JamieF (talk) 16:50, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Sunday November 13 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

bestiary (Q830560)⊆compendium (Q1459574)⊆reference work (Q13136).

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimedia Research Fund, 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process, feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, various Wikimania topics: (ideas/suggestions for Wikimania 2023, expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond, expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee), and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 13, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
UTC times are different from before, and also note that some areas may have recently experienced daylight savings time changes.).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:59, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

View it! has been expanded and will have an official launch demo session Jan. 12th

Goat View it! results View it! Tool update Jan. 2023 Big news, View it! users! Over the last two months, View it! has been expanded to two versions. Our new full version shows images within the wiki content page, and the "View" tab displays a gallery of images without leaving the site you are on, as you can see at right. We have rebranded the original version, which utilizes the "View" tab to link to our Toolforge search results, to "Lite". We invite you to switch to full version and try it out! Major changes: The full version includes an image carousel on each content page (at the top, under the article navigation buttons) which can be expanded for pagination. You may notice the "View" button has moved to between the "Read" and "Edit" buttons - the View button is in the same place for both versions and we felt this was a better placement for editors. In full version, clicking the "View" tab will take you to a full-screen gallery. Action to take Follow the installation instructions and try out the full version! Consider helping us with language localization Attend our launch presentation Thursday, January 12th at 1700 UTC/1200 ET. Save it to you calendar or join us directly on Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) Thank you for being a part of the View it! journey and please join us for the launch on January 12th! As a reminder, you can view details about how to install the View it! user script or use the Toolforge tool on our meta page. Please use the talk page to contact us with comments or issues.

JamieF (talk) 03:34, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

We need your feedback on a tool from the Wikimedia Summit

Reminder: the guide to using Baserow, presented during the Wikimedia Summit.

Hi! I'm contacting you as one of the participants in the Wikimedia Summit 2022, to kindly ask for your feedback through a 5-10 minute survey to evaluate 'Baserow' (note: the survey is on a Google form).

Baserow was a tool through which participants in the Summit co-created a database of Movement Strategy activities. We hope to learn from you how useful it may be to keep using it in the future to help document and connect on Movement Strategy work.

You are welcome and encouraged to fill out the survey in any language. Your feedback would be very appreciated --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 14:24, 16 February 2023 (UTC).

Share Your Feedback: Leadership Development Plan

Hi Bodhisattwa,

I am reaching out to you specifically on behalf of the Leadership Development Working Group (LDWG) who recently published the Leadership Development Plan, a practical resource for emerging and existing leaders across the Wikimedia movement who want to develop themselves and others. Your perspectives will be really helpful in making this resource useful. Any opinions, feedback or ideas that you share would be appreciated. You can give feedback through the short survey, MS Forum, talk page or email at leadershipworkinggroup@wikimedia.org. The review period closes on Sunday May 28, 2023.

Thank you!

Best, Cassie Casares (talk) 02:42, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Sunday July 16 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Global Council focus, now available in ar, es, fr!)

SWAN: The Next Generation

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimania Singapore, Future of SWAN, Movement Charter/Content new sections (particularly Movement Charter/Content/Global Council), other activities you submit, and we will top it all off with a grand finale AI Happy Hour / Doom Hour!

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 16, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
Note that we are now meeting on Zoom, with interpretation in the 2nd session in (Arabic) (Spanish) (French)--Pharos (talk) 02:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Global message delivery/Targets/WLM India

Hi Bodhisattwa, I saw this edit [1] when patrolling recent changes. Why did you create a mass message list with 11000+ users who never agreed to receive your messages? I randomly checked some of the entries, most accounts appear to be inactive for many years and rarely ever edited. Example: This user [2] edit three times in 2017 and is for some reason on your mass message list [3], same as this user who edited twice in 2013 [4][5]. Johannnes89 (talk) 11:34, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Johannnes89:, thanks for sharing your concern. We have sent the message to all photographers who have ever uploaded at least one photograph for Wiki Loves Monuments in India since its inception. This message was meant to let them know about the start of the new iteration of the competition this year, so that they can join again if they want. This kind of mass message is a common practice for different photo-competition organizers from around the world to bring back some of the photographers who are not active anymore, but might find this kind of call as an opportunity to contribute again. I agree that the number of recipients for this particular message has been considerably high and from your message, I have realized that it is not wise to call participants from distant past. Please be assured, that, I will review the list again to target participants only from the recent years from now on. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 12:30, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Both examples which I provided never uploaded a picture for Wiki Loves Monuments in India?

@APatro (WMF) is it possible to use your script from phab:T323192 to mass unsubscribe inactive users from global message delivery lists as well? Johannnes89 (talk) 13:13, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Johannnes89:, Hmm, no...but we could create something similar for the MassMessage extension. Functionally they would be similar and a some of the code could be reused. Feel free to create a task, and we can take it from there.

Regards, APatro (WMF) (talk) 10:01, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to have a conversation as West Bengal Wikimedians User Group General Member

Hello Bodhisattwa!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. As we are nearing our next annual general meeting in a few days, we wanted to have a conversation with the general members of the group regarding our past projects and events and future initiatives, ways of engagement with the group and our bylaws, so that we can take your valuable feedback and plan for next year.

We will arrange for the online meeting on 23rd December, 2023 Saturday at 7 pm Indian Standard Time. You can join the meeting from this link. The conversation will happen mostly in Bangla language and notes will be taken on Etherpad. You can also spend some of your time to fill up this this short survey available in both Bangla and English texts and share your feedback there.

Looking forward to see you soon and have a great conversation!

Regards,
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
(on behalf of the Representative Members of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group held its 2024 Annual General Meeting yesterday

Hello Bodhisattwa!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. We would like to inform you that the user group has organized its 2024 Annual General Meeting of Representative Members yesterday at the Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata. In this meeting, we have adopted revised bylaws based on the feedback and suggestions coming from our members (see changes) and selected 10 new Representative Members based on the objective criteria set in the bylaws with regards to their recent or overall online and offline contributions. A new Representative Committee has also been formed while replacing 3 out of 5 members, who have completed their full term tenure for this responsibility. The participants have also shared learning from the projects taken from previous year and shared plans about new projects which they are willing to take during this year on behalf of the user group. We are also introducing a mentorship program from this year, where willing general members can work together with our program leads in user group programs and learn from each other. So, stay tuned for more excitements!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:37, 8 January 2024 (UTC))
(on behalf of the Representative Members of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

2023-24 Annual Activity Report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

Hello Bodhisattwa!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. We are pleased to inform you that the user group has submitted its annual activity report for 2023-24. We will be very happy to receive your feedback about our activities from the last year on the talk page of the report.

Thanks and regards,
Bodhisattwa
(sent through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC))
(on behalf of the Representative Members of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

Enquiry

Why is West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, of which you are the contact person, collaborating with one "Nirmalya Sengupta" to offer a "Wikipedia-certified content-writing workshop" for his for-profit company? Mr. Sengupta claims that having such a "certificate from Wikipedia" will be a mark-of-distinction in their students' CVs and aid them in their content-writing careers.

It is my belief that such commercial collaborations violate Affcom rules and I will be reporting this unless you withdraw. 2405:201:8011:9828:F101:876D:2E8B:E6AF 06:49, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Workshop NewTown Vidyastu 2024 is the event in question. 2405:201:8011:9828:F101:876D:2E8B:E6AF 06:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello anonymous user, It is not clear to me why you have sent this message to me. I am a contact person to WMF for the user group related matters and not to others. I am also not the organizer of this workshop as you have mentioned in my personal capacity or on behalf of the user group. You might need to contact the organizers of the event for your clarification like Pinakpani, Tarunsamanta and Rangan Datta Wiki. I hope that helps. -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 07:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Being an organiser I am to inform you, this workshop is intended to promote Wikipedia for students completely free of charge, with no financial transaction or remuneration related to it. Already an anonymous user tried to vandalise the event page to malign the initiative but that was reverted with a clear message. I again repeat that there is no such monitory involvement in the training program. Social media rumors and completely anonymous as well as baseless allegation may be ignored. Pinakpani (talk) 07:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Sunday June 23 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (WMF BoT statement on Movement Charter ratification)

A group of SWANs heading to the meeting

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the recent statement by the WMF Board of Trustees liaisons statement on the Movement Charter in which the liaisons stated that they will be recommending the Board of Trustees not to ratify the final draft of the Movement Charter. The community and affiliate votes on the ratification are supposed to start on Tuesday, 25 June. This meeting offers a venue to discuss the situation and formulate the "next steps".

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, June 23, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Sunday July 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Results of Movement Charter ratification)

SWANs gathering for a conversation

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the results of the Movement Charter ratification. We will also discuss the aftermath of the Board of Trustees' decision to veto the Movement Charter, including their recent proposals. We will also cover updates about upcoming Wikimania 2024.

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, July 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)