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Utilities

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

Other tools

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

Form and content

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

• Image
• Maps
• Copyright
• Statistics

Notifications

September 2008

	21:	An attempt to centralize the discussion about Interlanguage links conflicts is set up: Interwiki synchronization.
	20:	The recent proposal to disband Wikiquote finds no consensus, but a copyright clean-up effort on the English project has been launched.
	19:	Russian Wikipedia announce that on October 18 and 19, Moscow will play host to the second international Russian-language Wiki-conference.
	14:	A proposal for a new sysop function called the "flood flag", allowing admins to hide repetitive edits from recent changes gained consensus and was implemented.
	7:	A proposal has been started regarding the detachment of Wikiquote from Wikimedia.
	6:	The Meta-Wiki logo poll has ended, with the new logo being approved and implemented.
	1:	A draft Statement of Principles has been posted for the community. Please read, review and edit.

August 2008

	31:	Please participate in the Metawiki logo poll; a new logo for this wiki has been proposed.
	27:	A proposal has been made to have an Image use policy regarding which images may be hosted locally at meta.wikimedia.org.
	15:	Wikiversity celebrates two years of existence.

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.

Community and 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 and IRC channels
• Wikipedia meetup (meetings between participants)
• Status (various types of status, sysop, developer...)

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.

• 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