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Locked sysop

Hi, could you remove sysop rights from User:MeganHernandez (WMF)? The account is globally locked. Thanks, --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:50, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done (and one other, too). Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:49, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Since the license for Wikinews has been updated to CC BY-SA 4.0

Can that information be updated on Legal:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License? Awesome Aasim (talk) 20:04, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Awesome Aasim: Thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the language to reflect that at least English Wikinews is now utilizing 4.0. It appears that not all language editions of Wikinews are doing the same (German as an example), so we still need some caveat in place. Let me know if you think the new wording works. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 17:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

cannot translate the categories in FR

I tried to translate in french https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki.org containing 2 items: the title and message 1 but each of these 2 translations is rejected with message Publishing the translation failed: Cannot create translation unit for category Category:MediaWiki.org/fr which is empty. not allowing the publication.Can you have a look please, or extend my rights.Thanks. -- Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 17:48, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Wladek92: You should already have sufficient rights to provide a translation. That may have been a bug or system glitch. Have you tried again recently? Alternatively, if you want to provide me the translated text, I can see if I am able to replicate the problem. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 21:41, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Messages of:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&group=page-Category%3AMediaWiki.org&action=page&filter=&action_source=translate_page&language=fr

my stats here: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Wladek92 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 23:10, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

resolution:Draft_Movement_Charter_and_next_steps/Appendix (translate tags)

Hi, thank you making the page available for translation, at Resolution:Draft Movement Charter and next steps/Appendix. I am working on it into Japanese, and at the headnote (T:117), there is a phrase that exposes English original. I tried the "|" bar trick in Japanese output, but afaik failed to fix that way.

Would you care to fix the tvar please?

• tvar name="2">:m:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter/Appendix|your feedback</tvar.

Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 03:10, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Omotecho - should be fixed now - thank you for the ping! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 18:46, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Case closed, thank you for the swift support. It is in ja now (; -- Omotecho (talk) 18:16, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

CC BY-SA 4.0 header update suggestion (and other stuff)

I noticed a change to the header on Legal:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License and wanted to potentially recommend the deed be updated to match that on Creative Commons. Specifically, the area below "This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license below." and above "The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms." should read:

You are free to:

• Share—copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
• Adapt—remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

That should keep the deed in the header in sync with the authoritative copy on Creative Commons' website.

I would also suggest linking this page in Terms of Use#7._Licensing_of_Content (as right now the page is orphaned). Awesome Aasim (talk) 16:28, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

@Awesome Aasim: Thank you for this suggestion - I have gone ahead and made that revision. We will likely continue to link to the official Creative Commons' website in the Terms of Use. Having our own copy is something of a tradition and nod towards "just in case" preservation of the text for our purposes. It is technically orphaned in that it is not directly linked from the Wikimedia wikis directly. However, it is linked beyond the wikis and used in various documentation, filings, etc. It is arguably "archived content" - but I fear labeling and placing it in that namespace would cause confusion on the "active" status of the license being used. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 16:41, 31 March 2026 (UTC)