This is a global notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!
If it is necessary to inform many/all wikis about something important, a global notification can be requested at meta:Global notifications/requests. It is possible to have wiki and/or language dependent text within every message.
All Meta notifications are synchronized automatically, either on all wikis or just on specific, selected ones.
To have a common access point, the messages are updated at Участник:WikimediaNotifier/notifications(mirrored, any changes to this page will be overwritten; use a separate page for translation); you can include this page(s) like a template wherever you want, let's say your village pump, with a description in your language!
The Wikimedia Foundation will soon organize a community wide referendum to decide whether our GNU FDL licensed wikis should be made availabe under the terms of this free and common CC-BY-SA license too, see dual-licensing.
2009-03-17: The AbuseFilter has also been activated for the English Wikipedia (Meta/dewiki: 2009-02-25) – the tool allows to automatically detect and/or prevent plain vandalism, spam and other pattern based changes.
2009-01-27:Collections will soon be activated for all Wikimedia projects where they make sense, like currently for Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia(2009-02-19: fr, pl, nl, pt, es, simple; en) – the extension lets your readers create PDF books to possibly order printed books. Use www.pediapress.com/collection to create cross-wiki article collections of almost all wikis out there.
Wikimania 2009, this year's global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe, is accepting submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, posters, open spacediscussions, and even artistic works related to the Wikimedia projects or free content topics in general. The conference will be held from August 26 to 28 in Buenos Aires, Argentina! For more information, check the official Call for Participation.
Beside an elder project for the creation and improvement of illustrations, there is a new project to grow our encyclopedic image restoration community. It's to provide media restorers with the technical resources they need, and to reach out to all the archives in the world.
FlaggedRevs – being already enabled on several Wikimedia wikis – is a toolset for transparent and ensured article patrolling and/or for reliable quality assurance by specifying certain accurate article revisions that are shown to the public by default. Those stable article versions are identified in a release process by a trustable editorial staff and/or get approved by a reviewing expert staff. It is even possible to mark (tag) revisions of selected articles for different purposes, let's say for an article validation aiming on a print edition. Furthermore, there is the possibility to let your readers give you evaluative feedbacks.
FlaggedRevs will make your wiki more reliable and thus more reputable over the time!
Beside the ongoing discussion about introducing an interlanguage extension on Wikimedia projects to improve and centralize interwiki linking, an attempt to centralize the discussion about interlanguage link conflicts has been set up.
On Meta, a bot account now can get a bot flag for all wikis that allow global bots! To be able to run also on your Викиновости, the community has to explicitly permit global bots by local policy, see list.
To qualify for global bot access, the following requirements must be met by a bot:
it must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects
it must already be active on several wikis, with long-term contributions to back up its trustworthiness
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This is a global notification system for all Wikimedia wikis!
There is a proposal to share Wikimedia's help pages by centralizing and localizing them on Meta or a dedicated wiki.
