[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] New draft text of WMF legal policy regarding use of APIs

[Bryan Davis]

Cross-posting this announcement from the wikitech-l mailing list. As I
understand it, this policy change is intended to be clarifying rather
than introducing new limits or hurdles for the existing API consumer
community.

Discussion should happen on wiki please as folks will not be
monitoring the cloud mailing lists for feedback.

Bryan

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From: Luca Martinelli [Sannita@WMF] 
Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] New draft text of WMF legal policy regarding use of APIs
To: , 


Hello all,

We have published a new draft text of WMF legal policy discussing the
use of its APIs. The full page is available on Meta.[1]

We are currently looking for feedback on this draft text, and you're
welcome to express your considerations on the text's talk page.[2]

This new document would be published at "API usage guidelines" on the
Foundation wiki, unless community comments suggest the text should be
appended on an existing page (for example, the User-Agent policy
page),[3] or a different wiki.

This page is available for community comment for a period of at least
two weeks or until new comments, questions, and suggestions have
concluded.

Thank you in advance for your consideration!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_Policy_Update_2024
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:API_Policy_Update_2024
[3] 
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:User-Agent_policy

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[Cloud] Re: Language and Internationalization Newsletter, Community Meeting, and Support Track at Wikimania

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello all,

The Language Community Meeting will begin in less than 17 hours from now!
It is scheduled to take place on *Friday, August 30th* at *15:00 UTC*. In
the first half of the meeting, we will hear updates on the following
projects and activities:

   - Mapping language documentation activities, User:SPatnaik (WMF)
   - Update on the Language Diversity Hub, User:Shahadusadik
   - A Hackathon experience supporting South African languages,
   User:Bobbyshabangu

In the second half of the meeting, we will brainstorm solutions for
technical challenges that language communities face, such as improving the
Latin-Cyrillic converter in Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia.

Please join us, and if you have a topic to bring to the meeting, add it to
the agenda <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#30_August_2024>.
Looking forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 



On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM Srishti Sethi  wrote:

> Hi all!
>
>
> This is a friendly reminder that the language community meeting is coming
> up next week. It is scheduled for *Friday, August 30th*, from 15:00 to
> 16:00 UTC. There will be three presentations around language related
> technical topics, time for collaborative problem solving on technical
> challenges. If you have a topic in mind you would like to present or a
> technical discussion you want to bring to the meeting, add it to the agenda
> document and reach out to me. Learn more here: <
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#30_August_2024
> >
>
> Looking forward to your participation!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Srishti
>
> *Srishti Sethi*
> Senior Developer Advocate
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:35 PM Srishti Sethi 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share some updates
>> regarding the Language & Internationalization newsletter, the upcoming
>> community meeting, and the Language Support track at Wikimania.
>>
>>
>> *Language and Internationalization Newsletter*
>> The fourth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
>> (August 2024) is available at this link: <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2024/July
>> >.
>>
>> This newsletter provides updates from the April–June 2024 quarter on new
>> feature development, improvements in various language-related technical
>> projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and
>> contribution ideas for getting involved in projects.
>>
>> To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter
>> >.
>>
>>
>> *Language Community Meeting*
>> The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August
>> 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this
>> wiki page: <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#30_August_2024
>> >.
>>
>> This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific
>> updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to
>> language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For
>> example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the
>> state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and
>> technical challenges around external links not working with special
>> characters on Bengali sites.
>>
>> Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss
>> challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here: <
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-aug-2024>.
>>
>>
>> *Language Support Track at Wikimania*
>> Attending the Wikimania Hackathon in person next week? There will be a
>> dedicated Language Support track focusing on addressing small,
>> language-specific technical requests across various Wikimedia projects to
>> support new and existing language communities. Join us to collaborate with
>> interested volunteers on technical tasks, organize technical sessions, and
>> run a support help desk. There will also be a session for remote attendees
>> on using Translatewiki.net for translating Wikimedia interface messages! <
>> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program/Hackathon#Language_Support>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Srishti
>> *Srishti Sethi*
>> Senior Developer Advocate
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>>
>>
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