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Clarification requested at Legal:Visual identity guidelines

Help from someone who can assist with my edit request for clarification on Wikimedia Foundation icon used for less than the minimum sizes on Legal talk:Visual identity guidelines Waddie96 (talk) 22:54, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Waddie96. I passed along your question to the Brand team, just after you posted it on Friday last week. They should see it during this week's work.

I suggest: It might also be helpful if you could add (in the original thread) some details about the use-case(s) you have in mind. (Especially if you're trying to use the guidelines for something specific, as well as suggesting a clarification just for the sake of more accurate/detailed documentation). I.e. That might help to avoid an extra-step of them having to ask you for more context, and wait for a reply. (Examples and context almost always help!). Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:31, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much. Thanks for the suggestion, will do. Waddie96 (talk) 01:09, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Wrong Wikipedia link under Chinese variants (and probably other languages) on Template:Foundation description

{{Foundation description}}, which is used on the home page, is showing a wrong Wikipedia link on my browser under Chinese (Hong Kong) locale. It links me to :w:zh-hant:, which doesn't exist and should be :w:zh: instead. Other users using a language with variants may face the same problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:53, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

A switch may help, but would not be able to cover all cases; I wonder if we can or should somehow query the site matrix for fixing language links. 1F616EMO (talk) 01:56, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks again for the bug-report.

I believe you're right that a #switch would help, but I can't quickly find an easy copy&paste example to use...

I've tried testing it with this (adapted from m:Terms of use) after setting my own preferences to use zh-hant, but it doesn't work as I'd hoped/expected it to...

{{#switch:{{PAGELANGUAGE}} |zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw = [[:w:zh:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] |#default = [[:w:{{int:lang}}:|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]] }}

I've asked the devs about the best way to set this up, so that it works for all variant languages.

And if there's nothing that works for all languages, then I could just set it to use www.wikipedia.org instead. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:55, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

I don't think checking against {{PAGELANGUAGE}} is the correct choice. On Home, it is always en, and on Home/zh, it is always zh. I think it would be correct to check against {{int:lang}}, where it emits variants such as zh-hant based on user preferences. That is, the code should be:

[[:w:{{#switch:{{int:lang}}|en=|zh-hans|zh-hant|zh-cn|zh-hk|zh-mo|zh-my|zh-sg|zh-tw=zh:|#default={{int:lang}}:}}|{{int:Wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia}}]]}}

And it renders as:

Wikipedia

Which fixes my problem. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done Aha! Thank you. Now updated.

I'll try to find the additional variant-languages that need to be added, later. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:55, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, some Wikipedias are on the Incubator and some do not exist at all. We may have to deal with that and guide them to the Incubator or the English Wikipedia. 1F616EMO (talk) 02:49, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Space missing in Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Office Actions Policy

A space is mysteriously missing here in translatable string no. 19, Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Office Actions Policy:

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<translate><!--T:19--> Global bans are considered a last resort and are only enforced upon receipt of complaint, investigation, extensive review and explicit approval by several Foundation staff members. As they prohibit all involvement in the Wikimedia projects, websites, platforms and activities from the moment they are enacted, by definition they also prohibit potentially positive future involvement of the banned individual, regardless of the outcome of that involvement. Knowingly facilitating the contributions of a globally banned individual, acting as a proxy for such a person, or attempting to interfere with Foundation staff or volunteer administrators, bureaucrats or functionaries enforcing a global ban in line with local policies may result in sanctions, including loss of advanced user rights or suspension of contributing access to Wikimedia sites.Since global bans are reserved for severe cases, their duration should typically be expected to be indefinite.</translate>	<translate><!--T:19--> Global bans are considered a last resort and are only enforced upon receipt of complaint, investigation, extensive review and explicit approval by several Foundation staff members. As they prohibit all involvement in the Wikimedia projects, websites, platforms and activities from the moment they are enacted, by definition they also prohibit potentially positive future involvement of the banned individual, regardless of the outcome of that involvement. Knowingly facilitating the contributions of a globally banned individual, acting as a proxy for such a person, or attempting to interfere with Foundation staff or volunteer administrators, bureaucrats or functionaries enforcing a global ban in line with local policies may result in sanctions, including loss of advanced user rights or suspension of contributing access to Wikimedia sites. Since global bans are reserved for severe cases, their duration should typically be expected to be indefinite.</translate>
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1F616EMO (talk) 16:33, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done - Fixed, thanks for the note here. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:10, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy

Can someone make a redirect on main namespace with something really short shortcuts, like TAIV policy or TAIV (or something really shorter than current redirects) to there? I miss the time I could do this myself... :P — regards, Revi 12:48, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

@Revi C.: TAIV now exists :) RAdimer-WMF (talk) 14:26, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Message documentations in Burmese

Hi, I found a few translation documentation pages (qqq) written in Burmese. Added by ZYX2233 probably by mistake in 2024. I suggest deleting them.

1. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/59/qqq
2. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/61/qqq
3. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/62/qqq
4. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/87/qqq
5. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/64/qqq
6. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/65/qqq
7. Translations:Policy:Wikimedia Foundation Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy/66/qqq

Samoasambia (talk) 18:34, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

 Done - I've checked those and made sure they existed in the translated copy (one chunk transferred), and then deleted the mislocated duplicates. Thank you for mentioning. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:23, 13 November 2025 (UTC)