Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/February 2023

Last call to vote on revised UCoC enforcement guidelines!
Hi all,

A friendly and final reminder that the voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines closes tomorrow, Tuesday, 31 January at 23:59:59 UTC.

The UCoC supports Wikimedia’s equity objectives and commitment to ensuring a welcoming, diverse movement, and it applies to all members of our communities. Voting is an opportunity for you to be a part of deciding how we uphold this commitment to our community and each other!

To vote, visit the voter information page on Meta-wiki, which outlines how to participate using SecurePoll.

Many thanks for your interest and participation in the UCoC!

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 21:29, 30 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello all,
 * The vote on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now closed. The results will now be counted and scrutinized to ensure that only eligible votes are included. Results will be published on Meta and other movement forums as soon as they become available, as well as information on future steps. Thank you to all who participated in the voting process, and who have contributed to the drafting of Guidelines.
 * On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
 * JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 21:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
 * JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 21:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 21:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Desktop vs mobile figure numbering CCSS/HTML question
I'd previously got automatic figure numbering working on images via Template:WikiJournal/figure/styles.css.

However recent changes have altered image captions from  to. I've fixed the figure number incrementor working again (via changing  to.

However it doesn't seem to work on a mobile view. Mobile view on a mobile device simply omits the ::before pseudoeleement and the mobile view on a desktop (see number on this page in desktop vs mobile).

Anyone have ideas on fixes? T.Shafee(Evo&#65120;Evo)talk 03:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct revised enforcement guidelines vote results
The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.

After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. Statistics for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.

From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team, JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 19:27, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts
Hi everyone,

From February, 21 to April 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is hosting a feedback cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use (ToU). Detailed information has been published on Meta here.

The Terms of Use are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Feedback on the draft proposal will be gathered from February through April.

This update comes in response to several things:


 * 1) Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
 * 2) Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (CC 4.0)
 * 3) A proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
 * 4) Bringing the ToU in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation including the European Digital Services Act

Regarding the Universal Code of Conduct and its enforcement guidelines, we are instructed to ensure that the ToU include it in some form.

Regarding CC 4.0, the communities had determined as the result of a 2016 consultation that the projects should upgrade the main license for hosted text from the current CC BY-SA 3.0 to CC BY-SA 4.0. We’re excited to be able to put that into effect, which will open up the projects to receiving a great deal of already existing CC BY-SA 4.0 text and improve reuse and remixing of project content going forward.

Regarding the proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing, the Wikimedia Foundation intends to strengthen its tools to support existing community policies against marketing companies engaged in systematic, undisclosed paid editing campaigns.

Finally, regarding new laws, the last ToU update was in 2015, and that update was a single item regarding paid editing. The last thorough revision was in 2012. While the law affecting hosting providers has held steady for some time, with the recent passage of the EU’s Digital Services Act, we are seeing more significant changes in the legal obligations for companies like the Wikimedia Foundation that host large websites. So with a decade behind us and the laws affecting website hosts soon changing, we think it’s a good time to revisit the ToU and update them to bring them up to current legal precedents and standards.

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.

See the page on Meta to get all the information.

For further information, please consult:


 * The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
 * The page for your feedback
 * Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

JPBeland-WMF (discuss • contribs) 15:34, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon


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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on . The test will start at .

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.


 * You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on.
 * If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

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 * We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
 * GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. 

Trizek (WMF) (m:User talk:Trizek (WMF)) 21:21, 27 February 2023 (UTC)