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Current issues

Local issues
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Wikimedia wide issues

This is a rough digest of what's topical here in meta, on the & elsewhere.

Table of contents

1 Community 2 Wikimedia Corporate Structure 3 New project proposals 4 Multilingual coordination 5 Domains 6 Promotion 7 Quality 8 Legal aspects 9 Taxation/not-for-profit organization aspects 10 System enhancement 11 Troubles, Bugs 12 Misc

Community

• Wikipedia meetup
• Incivility
• Dispute resolution
• Mediation
• United Wikipedias Forum
• Steward policies
• Our responsability to the health of our fellow Wikipedia-friends

Wikimedia Corporate Structure

• Board of Trustees
• Wikimedia Project Governing Committees
• Advisory Opinion of the Chair
• Analysis of the Bylaws
• Elections
• Submissions to the Board of Trustees
• Governing Committee for the English language Wikipedia
• Wikimedia mission statement

Wikipedia Designated Agent

New project proposals

• Sister project for POV essays and debates
• Wikimorial
• Wikiversity
• Wiki Poetry Translation
• WholeEarthWiki
• Wikifiction

Multilingual coordination

• Renaming Wikisource and Wikibooks modules
• Interwiki link problem
• Wikipedia Embassy, rework of the embassies, to have a common one on meta
• Advice needed on LanguageXX.php files - help request!
• Linguistic merging

Domains

• What to do with www.wiktionary.org

Promotion

• Wikimedia promotion
• Wikipedia.org is more popular than
• Should we promote Wikimedia

Quality

• Mediation
• Past, current and projected breadth and depth of Wikipedia's coverage of all human knowledge
• Linguistic democracy in a multilingual project
• Quality of articles
• Referees
• Does Wikipedia need editors
• Inclusionism vs Deletionism

Legal aspects

• Editor legal rights
• Does Wikimedia have formal trademarks
• fair use
• Draft privacy policy - this is a draft, please help us setting a good privacy policy.
• permission grant extent - are we allowed to use all content under the GFDL? or just text?

Taxation/not-for-profit organization aspects

• IRS tax issues and information
• Wikipedia and UK charity law

System enhancement

• Footnotes
• Why Wikipedia runs slow
• user/editing interface
  • Skins
  • Configurable user interface
  • Proposal for dead links⁺
  • WYSIWYG editor (proposal)
  • Lorraine and Vocabulaire de l'islam : example of articles modified by a user whose browser is not supporting utf 8.
  • Link to create new article if not found
  • Create page after search not found and Search after link goes to create page
• Wikipedia software upgrade status - Lack of upgrading hinders the usage of many Wikis
• Link style vote - should links be underlined or not?
• deletion and vandalism
  • Anti-vandalism ideas - leveraging versions to get
  • Strengths and weaknesses of the current deletion system
  • Deletion management redesign
  • Pure wiki deletion system (proposal)
• Wikitext standard - including Wikipedia DTD
• centralisation
  • WikiImages.org (A new way to upload files "centrally")
  • Single login (drastically simplified)
• P2P
• Extension Syntax
• Page inclusion

Troubles, Bugs

• URL Linking Bug
• Cologne Blue skin problems
• Inline Linking
• Cache bugs
• Vandalbot
• Multiple titles

Misc

Following topics should be sorted and integrated above.

• - I really think this deserves furthor discussion.
• Redirected user pages considered harmful
• About attempts to get maps for Wikipedia
• SVG whiteboard Draw within an SVG file on WP?
• Persuasion technology anyone to help before it is properly put somewhere ?
• Wikipedia Weekly News -- a proposed weekly newsletter.
• interwiki bot
• IBM's Collaborative User Experience Research Group has created a tool analyzing history flow of Wikipedia articles. It's a really beautiful visualization of the history of articles.
• Pages from English Wikipedia with more than 1000 hits in Feb 2004
• Collaborative work of art