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Utilities

Requests for...

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

Other tools

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

Form & Content

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

• Image
• Maps
• Copyright
• Statistics

Notifications

July 2008

	8:	Three new staff members were appointed, Rebecca Handler as the Foundation's Major Gifts Officer, Rand Montoya as Head of Community Giving and Frank Schulenburg as the public outreach coordinator.
	6:	A poll regarding the arrangement of the Wikipedia.org portal has been started.
	2:	Contribute to discussion about the new community draft of the language policy. The policy deals with opening wikis for our current projects in new languages.

June 2008

	26:	The results of the 2008 Board Election have been announced. The winner is Ting Chen; he will be formally appointed on July 16. For detailed results please see here.
	22:	Voting for the 2008 Board Election ends. Votes are being counted and results to be announced on 26th June.
	14:	A new draft for the privacy policy is proposed at Draft Privacy Policy June 2008. Your input is welcome.
	10:	A newer look at the interwiki link, a proposal to introduce the Interlanguage Extension on Wikimedia projects was started by Nikola.
	1:	The 2008 Board election has started. Eligible editors can vote until 2008-06-21 23:59.

May 2008

	28:	SUL is now activated for all users, visit Special:MergeAccount to get started!
	23:	Questions to candidates in the 2008 Board Elections are now being submitted.
	8:	Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections ended on 22 May.
	6:	Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia.
	5:	Early registration for Wikimania 2008 is now open.
	5:	A brainstorm for a new project, Wikimedia Radio, has been started. Your input is welcomed!

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.

Code & technical issues

Coordination of the development process, maintenance of servers, and user guide for MediaWiki.

Community & Communication

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

• The Wikipedia Community
• Wikimedian
• Meta:Babel (central discussion place here)
• Wikimedia Embassy (local contacts by language)
• Requests for help to your trouble
• Mailing Lists & IRC channels
• Wikipedia meetup (meetings between participants)
• Status (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

Core issues & 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.

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