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Brand new to Wikiquote

Hi, I'm Sparkle & Fade, a Wikipedia editor. I'm completely new to Wikiquote, and digging through all of the instruction pages leave me confused. I'm trying to dip into other sister projects, and here I want to make a collection of quotes for a band I've been working on across several wikis. My question is: is there any sort of 'criteria for inclusion' or is the premise to just put a bunch of standout quotes into the compendium? I'm very much lost here because of the lack of guidance, and I would appreciate any help. Thanks! —Sparkle & Fade (talk) 00:17, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

If the band has a Wikipedia article, then it would be "notable" enough for an article here. In addition, a WQ article needs "quotable" quotes, i.e. "witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant" quotes that are less than 250 words long. HouseOfChange (talk) 19:04, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C --

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 03:41, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Question about two concepts

Hello ! "Wikiquote project" is a thing for which I'm not familiar yet.
I read "Wikiquote:Quotability".

I don't understand the concept : "Highly notable person".
Also , I don't understand the concept : "person of minor notability".

I'm a Wikipedian with more than 500 edits on "Wikipedia in English" if we take into account the total of edits in all w:Wikipedia:Namespace.

Therefore , I'm familiarised with the concept of "notability".
Nevertheless , I don't understand the concepts mentionned above.

How do we consider than someone is a "Highly notable person" ?
How do we consider than someone is a "person of minor notability" ? Anatole-berthe (talk) 20:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

(Apologies for posting in English)

Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:07, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Copied and pasted from Wikipedia

Hi, what is the copyright status if an intro or couple of sentences are copied and pasted from Wikipedia? I've come back here after a long break and noticed it on some articles almost immediately. Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 16:42, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

@Alextejthompson: it's completely fine to do, with attribution. You can give that in the edit summary with something like "Copied from URI of Wikipedia article". —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:08, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi thanks Koavf, nice to see you again! Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 13:52, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Audio feedback

Audio feedback seems to have a very long intro. Does it need cutting down or is that not an issue? Cheers, Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 17:07, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, you are right - this intro was quite long. I've added some links, but trimmed much of the content there. In general, we try to keep the intros fairly short, with just relevant or essential information in them. Thanks. ~ UDScott (talk) 19:14, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thank you UDScott. Alextejthompson (Ping me or leave a message on my talk page) 23:45, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Enabling global sysops on this wiki

I would like to propose that English Wikiquote opt-in to global sysops. I found the last discussion on this topic at Wikiquote:Village_pump_archive_58#Removing_Wikiquote_from_Global_Sysops_opt-out_list, from around 4 years ago from now, where there seems inclination towards opting in but with a bit of opposition. At present, there are 14 administrators here which is 5 more that the cutoff for automatic global sysop opt-in.

The motivation for putting forward this proposal again was that I noticed that fighting vandalism could be more effective if global sysops are allowed to use administrator tools here. There is often vandalism hanging around for quite some time before local administrators deal with it. Even in CAT:CSD there are clear-cut vandalistic pages sometimes hanging around for hours and days which could be dealt by global sysops. Sometimes, cross-wiki vandals also arrive here and are tracked down by cross-wiki patrollers including global sysops, who would be able to conveniently manage them if enabled.

GS-work is mostly restricted to uncontroversial and routine maintainance actions such as anti-vandalism and anti-spam, so this is unlikely to interfere with local community or content matters. If needed, a local policy (for example, see those listed at m:Global_sysops#Check_local_policies) defined the scope for global sysop works can be designed. Additionally, this is an English language project which most of the global sysops are comfortable in, so that makes this wiki even more GS-friendly.

(For some record, few examples of GS-opted-in wikis despite having 10 or more sysops: English Wikibooks, English Wikivoyage, Serbian Wikipedia, Outreach Wiki and MediaWiki-wiki.)

Thanks, --Svartava (talk) 04:32, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

As someone who is an active admin fighting vandalism and spam on this wiki, I support the proposal. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't think any current admins will object, and I think it's a great idea. We may have 14 nominal administrators but there are fewer than 8 who do admin work here daily. HouseOfChange (talk) 12:32, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

No objection from me. We can use all the help we can get. ~ UDScott (talk) 13:11, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)

The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is available on Meta-wiki.

You may now submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

If you have any questions, you can ask on the discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)

(Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language)

Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.

We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! -- Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:27, 22 May 2025 (UTC)