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Welcome to Meta-Wiki, a website devoted to the coordination and documentation of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and their related affairs. Other venues for discussing the Foundation and these projects include the Wikimedia mailing lists (particularly foundation-l), the Wikimedia chapters, and the various IRC channels.

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Requests for...

Permissions (to request sysop, bureaucrat, oversight and checkuser status on any Wikimedia wiki)
CheckUser queries (not CheckUser access)
Deletion / Undeletion / Speedy deletion / Multilingual speedy deletions
Bot status
SQL queries
Translation
Logos
Spam blacklisting
Requests for new languages / Proposals for closing projects
More

Utilities

Sandbox
Babel templates (language skill)
Transbabel templates (translators by language combo)
Browse Meta-Wiki by category
Index

Form and content

Organize and prepare content, e.g. templates, language files, logos, formats; Copyright issues
See Wikimedia content

[watch] [edit] [read older news] Notifications

December 2008

	23:	A new proposal has been made for a Victims of Soviet Repressions Memorial, a project to enhance public understanding of Soviet repressions by illustrating in human terms their destructive impact.
	23:	A new proposal has been made for Wikimedia Help, an attempt to centralize and internationalize Wikimedia help pages.
	17:	A page has been started regarding discussion for and movement towards a licensing update.
	1:	The Wikibooks logo poll has ended! Participate in the discussion to make and suggest modifications to the final design.

November 2008

	17:	Participate in the Wikibooks logo poll for a new logo.
	4:	Version 1.3 of the GFDL is here, but will Wikimedia oblige to use Section 11 to make a big switch to CC-BY-SA?
	3:	WikiVoices, a collaborative Wikimedia podcast, has launched. All are welcome to participate.
	1:	Wikimedia global notifications may be requested.

Community and communication

About the community itself. Organisation of events; philosophical discussions; collaborated essays.

Wikimedia Forum (multi-lingual forum for Wikimedia projects)
Meta:Babel (discussion on Meta matters)
Wikimedian
Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
Requests for help for your troubles
Mailing lists and IRC
Meetups (meetings between participants)
User groups (various types of groups, e.g., sysop, bureaucrat, etc.)

Core issues and collaboration

Helping contribute and collaborate (i.e., what makes it easy, what makes it hard, how to do it well, why you have to, what conflicts typically arise, fixing them). Discussing and formulating project-wide (i.e. not language-specific) policies.

Wikimedia principles (wikiquette, consensus, NPOV, copyrights)
Growing Wikimedia (building the project and the community)
Wikimedia power structure
Interlingual coordination (various international issues)
Conflict resolution
Privacy policy

[edit] Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the over-arching nonprofit foundation that owns the Wikimedia servers along with the domain names, logos and trademarks of all Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki.

Wikimedia Meta-Wiki and its sister projects

Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:

Wikipedia Free encyclopedia	Wikiquote Collection of quotations	Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals	Wikisource Free source documents	Wikinews Free content news source
Commons Shared media repository	Wikispecies Directory of species	Wikiversity Free learning materials
MediaWiki MediaWiki software coordination	Bugzilla A bug tracker for MediaWiki	Incubator For potential new language versions
Wikimania The International Conferences	Test Wikipedia For testing software changes	Wikimedia Foundation Foundation public relations